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[00:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:03] <exec> 08└─The reason for going slow isn't just to allow the manatee to move out of the way. It gives the boat time to see the manatee and steer out of the way.
[00:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:55] <exec> 08└─I would have thought this was the level of philosophical navel gazing in average intellect level younger 20 somethings that wish to appear smart, but in order to pull it off in front of insecure friends, had to first read the musings of something akin to what we'd find in the friend making section o...
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─The way you guys stroke your dicks for Trump makes me think a different Trump besides the one I know got elected. This [pinimg.com] is the Trump I know. Real non-status quo and brave. But keep strokin'
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:53] <exec> 08└─My god I'm tired of this site. I really don't know who's worse now. The cocksuckers who I can practically hear the slurping from, or the ones who think it's less shameful than the people begging for Obama to come back or the ones that call Clinton "madame president" on twitter.. You're all pathetic....
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:55] <exec> 08└─Humans are stupid, retarded scum. Now that we've established that, I'm afraid there's nowhere better for you to go other than the underground.
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[01:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the folks with the money know how to hide the money so they don't show up as superrich.
[01:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─If salaries for pseudonyms were published in the USA, we would probably find out the Ethanol-fueled has a minimum-wage job at Walmart or somewhere similar.
[01:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah sure you can afford to advertise everyone's income in a country where the Gini coefficient [wikipedia.org] is low like Norway (0.633) but try pulling that stunt in the USA (0.801) and you'll have riots in the streets.
[01:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:00] <exec> 08└─A) This has been going on since the 1800s. B) All the nordics do this in one way or another.
[01:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:02] <exec> 08└─Eth earns a metric asston designing racist lawnmower robots which have taken all the mexican landscaping jerbs.
[01:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:04] <exec> 08└─The lowest Gini coefficients belong to Japan where everyone is equally rich and China where everyone is equally poor.
[01:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:06] <exec> 08└─MDC is secretly a billionaire.
[01:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:19] <exec> 08└─So often we are told that wherever there is a problem the government must 'do something.' And so often we find out years later that doing something actually aggravated the problem. How long before we start to notice the underlying pattern?
[01:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:20] <exec> 08└─Not just government. Most of healthcare is like this. If you have an only rudimentary understanding of something (eg the human body) trying to fix it is likely not going to work out just because there are so many more ways for things to break.
[01:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:13] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you need a hug. AKA an "arm wall".
[01:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Lyft to Offer Autonomous Car Rides by the End of the Year - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:31] <exec> 08└─today's cars probably have some spy electronics in them as well. news from 2015: Car calls 911 after alleged hit-and-run, driver arrested [zdnet.com]
[01:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that report doesn't cover tsunamis. The Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission publishes a report dated 11 June 1993, (Heisei 5) whose title literally translates to The event of entire alternating current station blackout on the nuclear power plant (原子力発電所における全交流電源...
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[02:21:02] <exec> 08└─Moths.
[02:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:16] <exec> 08└─Back in 90 or so I worked on the Seawolf submarine. I was strictly prohibited, under dire Bad Things Will Happen To You warnings, from discussing salary. Turned out job classifications had a range of some 4k top to bottom. Those job classifications were on every bulletin board, right next to minimum...
[02:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:18] <exec> 08└─Government work. If you haven't done it, you don't know what you're missing.
[02:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:20] <exec> 08└─Mostly he wrote electrical test plans. One day he said to me, "Aboard submarines there are some black boxes. And there are some quiet men who tend to those black boxes." Some guy later published a book that detailed the Seawolf's mission of tapping Soviet fiber optic cables.
[02:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:58] <exec> 08└─Human is the center of this problem
[02:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:00] <exec> 08└─Different Spaniard here, no we don't. We may go out for dinner with friends and it may go on and on, but that's more like a special event. Monday to Friday, most people are done with dinner by 9, or close to 10.
[02:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:02] <exec> 08└─Or just being salaried. I've worked through lunch (or should I say, "worked" through lunch...) for many, many years, and left work after 8 hours, unless I was making up time or in a schedule crunch or something. When you're salaried, management doesn't usually pay that much attention to when you com...
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─Στην υγειά μας!
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─Bingo. Give that giu a cupiedoll. It actually wasn't that one, there seem to be quite a few of them. And many are using the same technique and the same code base. There are other such generators where you can feed in a paragraph and get a masked paragraph back. http://archive.boston.com
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─Wow, Greek has a lot of letters that look like butts.
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─As an introvert I shouldn't post this, but then you wouldn't know I keep to myself.
[02:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:22] <exec> 08└─In Winter Harbor, Main, there is a road built out to the point. It goes through the park, past the gates to the Navy installation, and out onto the point. The point has no "beach", as most people think of it. Instead, the shore is littered with huge rocks, ranging from some small enough to fit into...
[02:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:23] <exec> 08└─All your regulations just kill jobs. You don't want to kill jobs do you? Who cares if we introduced a new form of orange radioactive metal into the sea. Think of it as TEPCO's glowing coral reef. Charge admission for snorkling.
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[03:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day In August - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:51] <exec> 08└─I never liked bears, but with this news, i will plaster a sticker on the garbage buckets: "moth ----> that way"
[03:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 3280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:08] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. When I came onto the project I guessed 6 months start to finish. We spent a year just doing paperwork. No code, just pseudocode. They actually sent a room full of people from Alexandria to San Diego for a week to review our docs. There was not a single technical comment. It was all "sec...
[03:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:10] <exec> 08└─Not so much... In Denmark they scale your speeding tickets as a percentage of annual income.
[03:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:12] <exec> 08└─Nice to see that Gini exists and that there is a formal way to look at pay inequality. On the other hand, I think the multiplier between average pay (in any given company) vs. CEO and other executive pay is more dramatic. I can see that a boss might be worth ten or twenty times "average", but not hu...
[03:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:27] <exec> 08└─Any laws based on what is obvious ought be reviewed. These heuristics are too often wrong in a time when they're optional. It's worth remembering how obvious it is to many that god exists, blacks are stupid, and injecting mercury is a bad idea.
[03:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:54] <exec> 08└─You can shade the side of a building - it's not common, but works quite well when done. The solar cells can be angled to catch the sun and still provide a view of the ground below.
[03:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:55] <exec> 08└─Not off topic, just early for the next fine article, apparently.
[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─I've never been impressed by navel gazing. People come up to me. Women, and some men. And they tell me I'm extroverted. Always, always they say I'm extroverted. The biggest extrovert there is. Which according to navel gazers is a good thing. Very good for getting ahead in life. So I take the complim...
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─Why the scare quotes?
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─Yo daughter is pretty hot, did you bang her (yet)?
[03:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:20] <exec> 08└─San Onofre is shut down. The operator (SoCal Edison) was caught being lying cheating incompetent crooks. **OK, so we didn't do the repairs correctly. Just allow us to run at full power and let's see if it blows up.** (Company officers of power utilities should be required to live right next to the p...
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[04:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:52] <exec> 08└─Had to hit the link to figure out what you were talking about lol. Ligatures are fine with me, but he's talking about something rather different from that, apparently the fonts(!) can now be programmed to blur the distinctions between non-ligatured letters. Lovely. Go integrate that into systemd, th...
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[04:21:01] <exec> 08└─... popcorn.
[04:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day In August - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:03] <exec> 08└─Do they shit in the woods afterwards?
[04:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day In August - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:05] <exec> 08└─No, they shit in the airport bathroom.
[04:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:45] <exec> 08└─Some people just want to watch the world burn intro/or extro?
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, Greek has a lot of letters that look like butts.
[04:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 3134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:38] <exec> 08└─These are the same people who wiretapped every American. You call your mistress, they're listening. Call your bookie, they listen. Call for hookers, listening. They listen, I'm told, through the TV. That's right, folks, the CIA is in TV sets, in the TV cyber. Listening. But they keep screwing up, bi...
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[05:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:50] <exec> 08└─Posting AC because this will vaporize my karma. I would like to program in a serif font, with ligatures. Elastic tabstops [nickgravgaard.com] would keep everything aligned. The only reason I don't do this is because as far as I can tell, there are no elastic tabstops for Vim or Netbeans.
[05:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:52] <exec> 08└─Do not want. Re-mapping compound punctuation, commonly found in programming, to distinct Unicode code-points would be about as helpful as multi-tonal Morse code. I'm sure there will be fans of this proposal but we've got enough problems with seven bit clean ASCII source code displayed as seven bit c...
[05:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:54] <exec> 08└─tl;dr: Problem: Sometimes the ligature isn't ideal. Solution: Ignore those rare situations. Problem: This isn't the historical use of ligatures. Solution: Stop caring about the creators intent, and focus on whether it's useful or not. Problem: The ligatures look like other unicode characters Solutio...
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[05:20:56] <exec> 08└─You should really use that with proportional fonts and python language.
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[05:21:26] <exec> 08└─Mondragon Cooperative Corporation [...] today has over 100,000 worker-owners in some 260 enterprises in 40 countries. Annual sales are pegged at more than 16 billion Euros [...] MCC also maintains its own banks, health clinics, welfare system, schools, and the 4000 student Mondragon University--all...
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[06:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 2147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:05] <exec> 08└─Since Unicode is already heading down the Egyptian road, just propose a new block of "programming symbols", put all these new glyphs into Unicode and evaporate the primary objection based on a lack of official standards blessing. And just for good measure add three times as many, whatever crazy cra...
[06:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:07] <exec> 08└─we've got enough problems with seven bit clean ASCII source code displayed as seven bit clean ASCII source code.
[06:22:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 1009 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:02] <exec> 08└─Most people working office jobs don't have a 3 hour lunch break in Spain. You can find that on some (smaller) public facing shops (groceries, press stands, bars, etc.), and maybe that's what most tourists see in smaller, touristic places, but most people work either 9-to-6 (bear in mind Spain is on...
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[06:24:01] <exec> 08└─Here [dni.gov] is the only relevant nonleaked report. The only assessment it makes is that Putin likely ordered an "influence campaign." The alleged goal was described as, "Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electab...
[06:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft to Offer Autonomous Car Rides by the End of the Year - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:20] <exec> 08└─The reason for my suspicion is because multiple organizations are reporting on this and WaPo is the only one that is suggesting this timeline. Their evidence for such is also extremely ambiguous. As an aside, I don't think it's a secret that Washington Post's credibility has been going down the drai...
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[07:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:02] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll take your post seriously. Interesting, but I don't see any advantage of elastic tabstops over HTML table cells. It's a very bad idea to redefine an ASCII control character that is still commonly used. Leave CR, LF, and Tab alone. And for good measure don't mess with Null, Esc, or backspac...
[07:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:34] <exec> 08└─If the money don't show well then there's nothing to scale to.
[07:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:36] <exec> 08└─Richest people have like $1 salaries while making millions in capital gains. Also there is the wealth vs. income issue.
[07:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:20] <exec> 08└─I beg to differ on management. They definitely seem to care.. Which again put emphasis on making sure that you rule your own workday.
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[07:23:00] <exec> 08└─The common belief that Introversion / Extroversion is about how people talk and behave is misleading. That behaviour masks the cause. Extroverts gain energy being in a crowd, they say "I'm bored, let's go out!". Introverts gain energy being alone, they say "I can't stand the sight of people anymore,...
[07:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nine Lifestyle Changes Can Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Says - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:29] <exec> 08└─This. If the hearing test is, raise your hand when you hear the beep. And you forget to raise your hand, or what a beep is, or what your hand is. You fail the "hearing test".
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[07:23:30] <exec> 08└─$50 of electronics? Even the cheapest cell phone on the market contains all the components need to build a hearing aid. And it can literally be built with vacuum tube technology. It is only the cartel-isation of the medical devices, and more generally medical profession that keeps prices high. Someo...
[07:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, and there's the proxy oil war in Syria...
[07:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:54] <exec> 08└─If this is a problem. Then anchor any protection as far deep down into the ground as needed. Or simply bury the facility such that a flat plane is presented horizontally towards the sea. Besides this application is mainly about tsunami and not so much wave hammering. Btw, regarding Winter Harbor, Ma...
[07:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:56] <exec> 08└─There was another plant where they spent more and built it right: http://www.oregonlive.com [oregonlive.com] Hirai said the plant should be built almost 50 feet above sea level. He called for a unique cooling system that would provide wat...
[07:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:58] <exec> 08└─Why were the backup emergency diesel generators and DC batteries still located in the turbine buildings’ basements?
[07:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:00] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:02] <exec> 08└─Tsunamis are part of cascading seismic events. The 1993 report (which deals with Station Blackouts) asses everything should be fine as long as grid power is restored within a few hours since the on-site batteries are good for 4 hours which is enough time to start the emergency diesel generator. Howe...
[07:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:04] <exec> 08└─Rough translation from Japanese. Progress of internal PCV survey of Unit 3 ~ Disaster survey on 2017-07-21: * (1) Unit 3 Reactor inside the pedestal inside: CRD housing lower part 1 [tepco.co.jp] * (2) Unit 3 Reactor Containment Pedestal Inside Pedestal: CRD Housing Lower Part 2 [tepco.co.jp]...
[07:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:00] <exec> 08└─Don't Asian Americans live in similar areas too? They seem to be doing better than the blacks. Google, Facebook etc hire disproportionately more Asians than whites (who are underrepresented when compared to the USA demographics).
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[08:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:56] <exec> 08└─Why are we still discussing CAs in 2017? Might as well ask people to show you their drivers license...
[08:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:12] <exec> 08└─This sounds just like one of those other hipster thought it looked nice but forgot function because their brain don't support function only "design".. If some people want their editor to LIE. Then fine. Just don't pester the rest of us with this shit.
[08:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:47] <exec> 08└─No riots so far in CA over this issue. Here is the salary of everyone funded even partly by State money. http://www.sacbee.com [sacbee.com] Includes all the UC campuses, police, etc. You'll find football coaches at the top of the list, obviously....
[08:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:48] <exec> 08└─Were there any black men that tended quiet boxes? Or was it just quiet men and black boxes?
[08:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:05] <exec> 08└─Not just government. Most of healthcare is like this.
[08:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:35] <exec> 08└─I moved to South France 3 years ago. For a while I did the long lunch thing with co-workers but little by little it drove me insane. Just sitting there and social talking with the same people for about an hour every single day. Then going back to work and sitting with the same people. The days we ha...
[08:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, well, that's some of what was said in one particular book. I found I had characteristics of both types, and I also go through times when I'm a bit extroverted, and other times introverted and I suspect I'm far from unique. The terms are unhelpful.
[08:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:17] <exec> 08└─Neither. They are jews.
[08:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:23] <exec> 08└─Russia is one of the very few countries that isn't under the thumb of the world bank and imf. (ie... tptb) And russia is the ONLY one of them that isn't a complete shithole.
[08:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:18] <exec> 08└─Humans. fillertextforthefilter
[08:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 2160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:19] <exec> 08└─The highest waves I ever saw coming in to the point were about 15 feet high. There was evidence of higher waves than that. Wind? I can't even guess, but local wind conditions have little effect on the sea conditions. I sat here for a minute, trying to figure how to convey how it feels to stand on th...
[08:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Parliament Committee: No, You Can't Enjoy the Music You Paid For - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:32] <exec> 08└─I guess Facebook already has ones name, address, and banking credentials anyway. So many people out there seem so naive about guarding information which is easily used to benefit the shyster at the expense of the happy-go-lucky naive Facebook user. These are the very same people who go off all in a...
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[09:20:53] <exec> 08└─ISIS used cheap drones [google.com.au] to drop small explosives. Now, imagine a small fleet of cheap blimps, each one carrying 1-2 kilo of explosively pumped EMP generator [wikipedia.org] (e.g. type 2 is still doable low tech style), launched whenever your expensive Battlefield thingies enter a zone...
[09:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:55] <exec> 08└─For instance, Russia has invested heavily in anti-access / area denial technologies meant to keep SoylentNews out of certain areas. "There are regions in Donbass where no electromagnetic communications—including radio, cell phone, and television—work," says the CSIS report.
[09:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:18] <exec> 08└─Smalltalk editors since the '70s have used an up-arrow symbol for return, but stored it as a caret so that the parser sees ASCII, but the user sees something a bit more human-friendly. The idea that the compiler and the human see the same thing is pretty misleading anyway: the compiler sees code poi...
[09:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jesus_666 [3044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:19] <exec> 08└─And that's fine when there is a language-wide convention for it. But if ≠ starts showing up in someone's C++ IDE and is read by someone who isn't aware of the peculiarities of that programmer's font that other person sees a Unicode math glyph in C++ source code. Even if you implement the fot organ...
[09:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:11] <exec> 08└─Manatees can't dodge fast boats, but they don't even notice slow boats. So what does it take to shoo them away? What if the boats were equipped with underwater strobe lights and speakers that played Rick Astley?
[09:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:24] <exec> 08└─Do these tools make aristarchus less of of a stalker?
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[10:20:59] <exec> 08└─You may want to tune the EMP pulse to the receiver frequency for optimal result. A generic magnetic pulse has too much energy at too low frequencies. You may want to combine this with a magnetron tuned to the the right frequency. You need just enough energy to either blow the input capacitor of the...
[10:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:00] <exec> 08└─Normal microwave oven use 4.4 kV DC magnetrons. Would such device withstand say several hundreds of kV during a short pulse without the magnetic field being inadequate or arcing before emitting the output pulse? The whistle idea is interesting but there would be a high peak power that may overload t...
[10:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:25] <exec> 08└─Precisely, hipster "thinking". Must be the same guys that work on Gnome3 "apps" and mess up programs that worked just fine before. Ah, and of course: "systemd" as exhibit A (though its technically exhibit B as pulseaudio is exhibit A, predating the systemd abortion).
[10:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:35] <exec> 08└─Almost believable, but Putin has been trolling the West since long before Hilary was a candidate. Putin only cares about Putin. Trump only cares about Trump but Putin is Trump's intellectual superior by a mile and he's playing him like a fiddle.
[10:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:32] <exec> 08└─Ok, I don't see that as relevant to my prior concern. The above was a known flaw of that generation of nuclear plants from its inception. Instead, the sentence I quoted claims a specific knowledge of larger tsunami risk than originally planned at the Fukushima site from research 18 years ago. So yes...
[10:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:34] <exec> 08└─To continue my point here, I've been googling for stories on what was known prior to the 2011 earthquake about the tsunami risk of the Fukushima site. I have yet to see a reference to anything before 2002 when a Japan Society of Civil Engineers paper [telegraph.co.uk] was released (I can't find the...
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[11:20:58] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that you want to re-use your emission device for another try? How about "it will fry not only enemy drone(s), but the carrier drone as well"?
[11:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:06] <exec> 08└─Why are we still discussing blockchains in 2017? Blockchains are chains, blockhead!
[11:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:25] <exec> 08└─Good Lord!!! As if we weren't already having enough problems with alphabetic capital "O" looking a helluva lot like a numeric "0", and lower case alphabetic "l" looking like a numeric "1", we haven't had enough of this look-alike confusion? The only thing this looks good to me for is to enable one t...
[11:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:27] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what he's complaining about. How can you get ligatures in a programming font? All the letters are a fixed distance apart.
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nine Lifestyle Changes Can Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Says - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─Change your lifestyle and diet so you are more likely to die before you get dementia or cancer.
[11:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nine Lifestyle Changes Can Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Says - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/this-is-your-brain-on-fish/ [theatlantic.com] More scientific evidence against veganism...
[11:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, imagine ... Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, LOL!
[11:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:40] <exec> 08└─15 feet high = 4.6 m Assuming a sine wave 0..pi and a attack surface at half height that would mean something like 39 kPa on the half ballpark with a fighter jet engine running full throttle. Surely a structure can be built to handle that? A 1 meter width wave would have the mass of circa 9200 kg, t...
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[11:25:42] <exec> 08└─And if the emergency generators where built as dry reservoir of a mini hydro-plant with turbines and generators, tsunami flooding would had provided instant emergency energy to it. The backup mini hydro could had been even used in constant operation, letting the nuclear plant supply the energy for p...
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[12:20:56] <exec> 08└─I think, technically, he's right. There are no limits on the presidential power of pardon I've ever heard of. It was discussed extensively recently around the possibility that Obama might pardon Hillary for crimes she committed with her email server, even if they had not yet been determined in a cou...
[12:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:58] <exec> 08└─It's also somewhat moot. Illegality only matters if you're prosecuted (something that seems to be skipped for politicians on a depressingly frequent basis). If they are prosecuted, then it's up to the court to decide whether a pardon was legal or not. Such a case will eventually make it to the supre...
[12:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:00] <exec> 08└─An argument against self-pardon authority is that the Constitution also creates a process for impeachment, which self-pardon would render meaningless: 13. “In determining the ordinary meaning of a statute effect must be given to all the words of the statute if possible, so that none will be void,...
[12:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:17] <exec> 08└─After nearly two decades of war against technologically unsophisticated foes profitable weapons sales by military contractors, the Army Research Lab is reorienting to counter China and Russia in order to boost sales thanks to the contributions of said military contractors to congressional pockets.
[12:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:26] <exec> 08└─While I understand the need to make WWW surfing easy for the unwashed masses, I would like for the browsers to include an option that by default distrusts all certificates until I can verify them and add them to a white list. This is similar to SSH's known_hosts list. The first time I surf to a site...
[12:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:28] <exec> 08└─First thing I would get rid of are all CAs from China, Russia, Middle East and Africa. If I encounter a WWW site signed by one of these CAs, give me the scary warning and I will decide to click through or not.
[12:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:49] <exec> 08└─Newfags are getting revenge on us oldfags by newfagging our curmudgeonly ways.
[12:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:50] <exec> 08└─Sweet Zombie Jesus that looks horrible. I must be living in my own little protected programming bubble cause I didn't even know this was a thing. I'd never enable or use that. If I type == I expect that and not for it to turn into some giant line segment, there should be a little space between them...
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[12:22:19] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. When I came onto the project I guessed 6 months start to finish. We spent a year just doing paperwork. No code, just pseudocode. They actually sent a room full of people from Alexandria to San Diego for a week to review our docs. There was not a single technical comment. It was all "sec...
[12:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:27] <exec> 08└─Some guy later published a book that detailed the Seawolf's mission of tapping Soviet fiber optic cables.
[12:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:16] <exec> 08└─Did you just get office spaced?
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[12:26:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe the structure can handle it. But, something that needs to be factored in, is the entire front will be hit. If you have half a mile of bulwarks, all of that half mile will come under the same pressure, and probably all at the same time. If there is any difference in timing, it will be slight. A...
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[13:20:55] <exec> 08└─An argument against self-pardon authority is that the Constitution also creates a process for impeachment, which self-pardon would render meaningless: 13. “In determining the ordinary meaning of a statute effect must be given to all the words of the statute if possible, so that none will be void,...
[13:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:56] <exec> 08└─A interesting situation can show up if any of Trumps proteges is sued then Trump can sue Hillary for various crimes. Something akin to a Mexican standoff. There's something wrong when he didn't follow through with suing Hillary despite clearly saying he would on election. Impeachment will probably s...
[13:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:59] <exec> 08└─"to impeach someone, they must have committed a criminal act" High crimes and misdemeanors The charge of high crimes and misdemeanors covers allegations of misconduct peculiar to officials, such as perjury of oath, abuse of authority, bribery, intimidation, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, de...
[13:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:01] <exec> 08└─From what I've read on presidential pardons, the president is able to pardon for offenses that have not even been charged. In other words, could pardon a priori. What I am wondering is this: Assuming president Trump pardons himself, what would the follow-on effect be to all his properties and holdi...
[13:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:03] <exec> 08└─..to make a complete ass of himself
[13:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:05] <exec> 08└─So, I think he can pardon himself of the criminal act, but impeachment can still find him guilty of the act sufficient to remove him from office. The interesting angle to me is: if he pardons himself for something, is that a tacit admission of guilt leaving him open to impeachment? Actually, the who...
[13:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:08] <exec> 08└─There are no limits on the presidential power of pardon I've ever heard of.
[13:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:10] <exec> 08└─"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS." - Donald Trump
[13:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:12] <exec> 08└─Conversely, there's no need for someone to actually be convicted of something - or even prosecuted - for them to be granted a pardon. There's also a question of semantics; the etymology of "pardon" is from the medieval Latin "perdonare" via old French, which shares a common root and meaning with "to...
[13:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:14] <exec> 08└─I guess self-pardon would count as abuse of authority and/or unbecoming conduct and therefore would by itself be sufficient for impeachment.
[13:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:33] <exec> 08└─You may want to tune the EMP pulse to the receiver frequency for optimal result.
[13:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:34] <exec> 08└─The major problem is that it is predominantly a "magnetic pulse". That means there is quite a lot of energy that goes lost because the EM fields are not coupled nicely at the right frequencies. It is true that, ahem, quite a bit of energy will be released, and, many receivers will be fried. However,...
[13:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:46] <exec> 08└─They are apparently too big to fail (or be detrusted).
[13:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if this "shows up" in someone's IDE, it's because they set it up that way, so they'll be well aware of it. Unless you're in the habit of collaborating through emailed screenshots of IDEs, I don't see why someone else would be looking at code in your IDE, but you aren't right there to expla...
[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─Sweet Zombie Jesus that looks horrible. I must be living in my own little protected programming bubble cause I didn't even know this was a thing.
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that Scandinavia has just as many tax evaders as everywhere else in the world, but the big fish will find it hard to hide in those little economies - and tax evasion is just as, if not more, serious in the land of high tax for high social benefits. If you're running an internet porn site an...
[13:24:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:58] <exec> 08└─Its the country thats the problem, not politics or collaboration in general. See for example: http://www.jta.org [jta.org] "This must include a collaborative approach that allows us to work with our le...
[13:25:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 1084 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:00] <exec> 08└─Reuters generally stays out of overt partisanship, but this reporting is clearly partisan and hopefully not an indicator of things to come. The simple addition of "U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by hacking Democrats' emails and dis...
[13:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:31] <exec> 08└─Also, scroll down to the links supplied by requerdanos. Elevation and distance played a role at Fukishima, in that the generators were placed in the basements.
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[14:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:04] <exec> 08└─We don't get invited to those sorts of parties...
[14:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:05] <exec> 08└─You're not to talk about not being invited to those parties. You read the agreement.
[14:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:07] <exec> 08└─This is why Anonymous Coward exists. It's so easy to whisper into someones ear..
[14:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:09] <exec> 08└─They have a nondisparagement agreement, between the victims and the legal entity, the corporation. Now, what's to stop the victims from filing a sexual harassment suit against any of the INDIVIDUALS involved? That could make for a very interesting situation. I'm only half serious with that question,...
[14:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03azrael [2855] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:12] <exec> 08└─I assume they signed the agreement after getting a payout. There's a question there about the morality of lining your own pocket versus going public to help others.
[14:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:31] <exec> 08└─Impeachment is explicitly excluded... Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution says the president "shall have the Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."
[14:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:32] <exec> 08└─Tell that to Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini.
[14:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:34] <exec> 08└─Um, no. The framers of the Constitution were smart enough to preclude circular firing squads.
[14:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:37] <exec> 08└─... because he has no faith in the judicial process ...
[14:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:39] <exec> 08└─House and Senate are controlled by the president's own party, BUT it can be suspected there's a crack between Trump and the Republican party. How much it would take to break it publicly is the question.
[14:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:41] <exec> 08└─It was talked about and settled during the tail end of the Bush administration when there was speculation that he might pardon himself for all those crimes against humanity that he was committed that the President can pardon himself for anything he likes. The only real limitation on it is that it on...
[14:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the point you're missing here is that impeachment is the step before being removed from office. Clinton pardoned many people after being impeached. So, Trump could easily be impeached, then pardon himself,and not do any jail time for anything criminal he's done. Then they could vote to remo...
[14:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:45] <exec> 08└─Everyone expected him to make an ass out of himself since he announced he was running for POTUS. Now he's the biggest ass in the country and yet journalists still have to use half truths to take jabs at him rather than being honest with the people and letting them see him as he is. If he's a truly t...
[14:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:06] <exec> 08└─How about "it will fry not only enemy drone(s), but the carrier drone as well"?
[14:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:08] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with dipoles oscillating at high currents for tuning the frequency post initial raise pulse? Segment the single turn coil at the "exit" of the exploding tube in lengths of appropriate values. Yes, further tuning will increase the efficiency, but will drive the "solution" outside low-tec...
[14:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Only trust 'merican authorities. Can't trust the damn ruskies or chiners...
[14:22:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 2147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─Since Unicode is already heading down the Egyptian road, just propose a new block of "programming symbols", put all these new glyphs into Unicode and evaporate the primary objection based on a lack of official standards blessing. And just for good measure add three times as many, whatever crazy cra...
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─Since Unicode is already heading down the Egyptian road
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─It's the natural mutated form of MS proportional fonts. Kill Bill.
[14:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─Sounds like X-Symbol in Emacs. Except that it is not used on programming languages, but on typesetting languages like LaTeX and HTML, to show the real symbol (say, ä) on screen where the encoding (like \"a in LaTeX or ä in HTML) occurs in text. It also can translate letters into their encodings, a...
[14:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─predating the systemd abortion
[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─More intellectual than collecting home shopping TV episodes, less drain on natural resources than competition endurance showering. Wha'cha complaining about, guys?!
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─One simple rule lets an editor draw 4-space indentation (as is traditional for Python and Java) sanely in a proportional font: Draw line-initial space characters the same width as the characters immediately above them. This way, a 4-space indentation below for or def or while is as wide as "for " or...
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─strewth mate how the bloody hell could you tell anything about a cobber just by the bloody words he's using? These poncy bastards are a right bunch of dickheads.
[14:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:05] <exec> 08└─Here, here!
[14:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:08] <exec> 08└─Psycho.
[14:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft to Offer Autonomous Car Rides by the End of the Year - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:36] <exec> 08└─> Autonomous vehicles will become safer than human-driven vehicles, if they aren't already. I'm waiting for self-driving cars to become safer than me (or more specifically, my demographic). I believe that as a 60 year old with a clean record, no health issues, my own car (no loan), who doesn't drive...
[14:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft to Offer Autonomous Car Rides by the End of the Year - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:38] <exec> 08└─You all must be amazing drivers with excellent vision and reflexes, who never get tired and never drink and never need to take a phone call. Well I'm not like you. My vision sucks, especially at night. And paying attention is such a drag. I would much prefer to pay a professional to drive me around...
[14:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:22] <exec> 08└─The question then becomes why were it designed to be there in the first place? Why didn't management do anything about it?
[14:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:24] <exec> 08└─To continue my point here, I've been googling for stories on what was known prior to the 2011 earthquake about the tsunami risk of the Fukushima site. I have yet to see a reference to anything before 2002
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[15:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:00] <exec> 08└─Does the criminal law not overrule such agreements? You might not be able to get paid for damages through civil law, but criminal law is a different beast and might be a way to get around the agreement.
[15:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what I think of President Trump, but this Russia stuff has been beyond silly for a long time. The latest: a member of Trump's campaign meets with someone who claims to have dirt on his political opponent. How many political campaigns have something like that happen? 100%, or only 99.9%?...
[15:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:30] <exec> 08└─He can't protect himself from removal from office, but he could (in theory) protect himself from any criminal charges for the acts that led to his removal. I'm sure if he tried it would end up going to the supreme court to rule on though. It would be an interesting situation to say the least.
[15:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 2649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:32] <exec> 08└─I agree with your analysis. I'm not ready to bail on the USA yet. Our republic is a democracy. I wish it were a bit more green and mindful of libertarian principles, but right now the system has derived something very different from the will of the people. I can say that I honestly believe that thin...
[15:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:34] <exec> 08└─Wondering: if you pardon someone (yourself?) do you have to state what the pardon is for? Do you have to say "I pardon myself for the crime of...."?
[15:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:36] <exec> 08└─I think the counter argument to this is that to impeach someone, they must have committed a criminal act
[15:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:38] <exec> 08└─BINGO! Everyone keeps on watching the Kardashian Trump family shit show. Great ratings, believe me!
[15:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:41] <exec> 08└─A interesting situation can show up if any of Trumps proteges is sued then Trump can sue Hillary for various crimes.
[15:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:43] <exec> 08└─The best outcome may well be to keep them on the throne the full 4 years and give them plenty of sunlight to show them off in all their swampy glory.
[15:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:45] <exec> 08└─What US politician has suggested actually securing the voting machines, etc after this supposed meddling? I don't think there is any sincere concern about the fidelity of the election results.
[15:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:47] <exec> 08└─"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
[15:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─this Russia stuff has been beyond silly for a long time [...] The fact that the person claiming to have dirt on Hillary was a Russian? Irrelevant.
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:52] <exec> 08└─I hope the Trump family's legal team gives them advice of this quality... Yes, keep watching Fox n Friends, Mr. Trump. Yes, you're innocent, keep talking. Yes you can fire Mueller. Yes, you can hire more family members. Yes, they can talk to Russian agents. Everything's fine, keep on at it.
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─I'll put it this way: The Democrats and their media mouthpieces at MSNBC have not done themselves any favors by making overblown claims about Trump's interactions with Russia. On the other hand, I'm reasonably certain at this point that there is something there. I don't think it's what the Democrats...
[15:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:56] <exec> 08└─You can pardon for all crimes if i'm not mistaken.
[15:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:58] <exec> 08└─The fact that the person claiming to have dirt on Hillary was a Russian? Irrelevant.
[15:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:21] <exec> 08└─Nothing is wrong with a dipole. But, it has a problem not being able to convert the wide-band energy to small-band efficiently. The "special" geometries are actually relatively easy to make. They basic idea is that you have a (virtual) cavity which gets pumped. It is all about using the right materi...
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─As if tab character had ever had a single agreed-upon definition.
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─How can you get ligatures in a programming font?
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─It's like the Silk Road, but in Africa. Or possibly hieroglyphics. Little budgie, dancing man, dog in a hat could mean not equal to.
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:11] <exec> 08└─Smalltalk editors since the '70s have used an up-arrow symbol for return, but stored it as a caret so that the parser sees ASCII
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─Hieroglyphs are in Unicode already. [wikipedia.org]
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─It's a pejorative. See meaning #6. [dictionary.com]
[15:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are ways to ensure that the majority of that money never enters those little economies. You were buying a Yacht in some Arab country? How would Denmark even learn about it? Especially if it was not you who showed up as buyer, but a straw person. Oh, you are using it? Well, you are "re...
[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:54] <exec> 08└─You get busted because you're at a party bragging about your yacht, and someone behind you overhears. He looks up your income and assets, and sees that there's no way someone with your reported assets owns a yacht. He then reports you, and you get audited and busted. According to the article, this d...
[15:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:30] <exec> 08└─Google Translate tells me In both of them the world is multiplied by the one of the learned. Supposedly gar The former vacant of stars and Aliona menein property, when you do not Agan periferesthai about its Aliona by circle circumference, number Estin in mesῳ tῷ dromῳ text when you are not of...
[15:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:31] <exec> 08└─This is the first post in here where I've seen "extravert" spelled "correctly". Granted I only took Psych 101 and stopped there, and it was a long time ago, but I didn't realize most people spell it with an o. I'll stick with Jung [scientificamerican.com] on this one.
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft to Offer Autonomous Car Rides by the End of the Year - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:04] <exec> 08└─> Autonomous vehicles will become safer than human-driven vehicles, if they aren't already. I hope you can enjoy your team without getting creamed. Don't worry, I will. Even if autonomous cars are proven safer than humans (which I find highly unlikely will ever happen) I would still want to be in co...
[15:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:50] <exec> 08└─It's not just California. Here in North Carolina, I live at the beach, near the Duke Energy Brunswick Nuclear [duke-energy.com] plant, and it's very close to the sea (map it here [google.com]); it's on the river, about 2 miles from the inland waterway and 5 miles from the ocean proper. Opened in 197...
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[16:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:51] <exec> 08└─Sprinkler + motion detector combo is currently available, we tried one ~10 years ago and it was mildly effective in keeping suburban deer out of a flower garden. One source, http://www.ebay.com [ebay.com] I'd recommend setting it up on a warm day, I got pretty wet in the cour...
[16:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:53] <exec> 08└─I find that M18 claymores are pretty good at permanently deterring all sorts of critters from the garden. Problem is you need to replant the damn garden AND explain yourself to the ATF after a deterrent incident. Maybe sprinklers are easier.
[16:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:55] <exec> 08└─> Maybe sprinklers are easier. They are, but nowhere near as satisfying. :-)
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:08] <exec> 08└─Stupid Americans and their complete lack of understanding of contract law or how it should be applied. Nothing affects your statutory rights, and you cannot sign away basic rights - including reporting harassment or crimes without fear of retribution. If your justice departments are really this thic...
[16:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─No, criminal law largely does not override contract law, unless the contract itself specifies an illegal act. It is not against the law for you and someone else agreeing to be silent about an already transpired event (one that neither party has any legal obligation to report) with or without the exc...
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:11] <exec> 08└─If your justice departments are really this thick to let such things stand, you are already toast.
[16:21:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─So, I think he can pardon himself of the criminal act, but impeachment can still find him guilty of the act sufficient to remove him from office. The interesting angle to me is: if he pardons himself for something, is that a tacit admission of guilt leaving him open to impeachment? Actually, the who...
[16:21:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:26] <exec> 08└─There are no limits on the presidential power of pardon I've ever heard of.
[16:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:54] <exec> 08└─The two times we've actually had a president impeached and put on trial in the Senate, the pretexts were extremely flimsy legally... Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about sex
[16:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:55] <exec> 08└─Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath to Congress.
[16:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:57] <exec> 08└─Where, exactly? Seems to me impeachment rests pretty much entirely on the whims of congress.
[16:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─This may be disclosing a state secret, but here goes. The R in RNC is for Russian.
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─Does a pardon save one from civil suits? In a purely hypothetical scenario, could the president pardon himself or others for "grabbing them by the covfefe"?
[16:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:04] <exec> 08└─Trump can, at times, seem to rise up an be (somewhat) better. I almost literally expected him to poop on the carpet during the state of the union. But he did not, and that was surprising and commendable of him.
[16:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what I think of President Trump, but this Russia stuff has been beyond silly for a long time. The latest: a member of Trump's campaign meets with someone who claims to have dirt on his political opponent. How many political campaigns have something like that happen? 100%, or only 99.9%?...
[16:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:08] <exec> 08└─Notice that this scenario doesn't need to involve Putin at all, just Trump trying to save his kneecaps.
[16:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's why I'm taking great pains to try and avoid being partisan or jumping to conclusions over what did or didn't happen. There's no reason why the maxim of "never trust the police" - and by implication the justice system - should only apply to the little people, and for US politicians it's...
[16:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:13] <exec> 08└─Only irrelevant to hard-line Trump supporters or people of such little imagination that they cannot see the problems this brings.
[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:15] <exec> 08└─"...would be allowed is that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly prohibit it." The 10th amendment says that the government only has powers explicitly listed in the Constitution. If there is nothing saying it is allowed then it is, by default, illegal until granted the explicit power to do so by th...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─This message brought to you by "The NSA". When you want national security you know who not to call.
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─˙ǝuᴉɟ ʇsnɾ sᴉ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔᴉun uᴉ ƃuᴉɯɯɐɹƃoɹԀ
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─In some programming languages, you can use unicode symbols. In Clojure (a lisp dialect) you can define things like, lambda, pi, tau, e, not-equal, and other unicode characters. For example . . . (defmacro λ [& rest] `(fn ~@rest)) (def π (. Math PI)) (def τ (* 2.0 π)) (def ℯ (. Math E)) (defmac...
[16:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day In August - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─My name is Corelli's A. I'll be your Grammar Nazi for today. Each Yellowstone Bear eats 40,000 Moths a Day in August
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─Could solve that by taxing capital gains just like all other income - doing otherwise is blatantly classist tax law.
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:30] <exec> 08└─Sadly, manatees are the only species known to enjoy listening to Astley.
[16:27:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, and there's the proxy oil war in Syria...
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[17:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:53] <exec> 08└─I'm looking forward to seeing this in a theater, it looks awesome. I've heard the plot is sketchy, used mainly to string the SFX together, but it looks like a great spectacle.
[17:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:55] <exec> 08└─Has anyone seen it? Luc Besson also directed the 5th Element. That did poorly in theaters and got pretty bad reviews at the time. It ended up being one of my favorite movies...
[17:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:57] <exec> 08└─Has anyone seen it? Luc Besson also directed the 5th Element.
[17:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:59] <exec> 08└─And he directed Lucy That wasn't too bad fritsd (not logged in)
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:01] <exec> 08└─See, now I'm torn. The only indie movie I ever thought wasn't pretentious bullshit was The Boondock Saints but I also dug The Fifth Element...
[17:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:04] <exec> 08└─It got good coverage at Comic con, and is just now starting to see TV ads. I think its just too soon, because not everyone was aware it was even coming out, nobody was waiting for the appearance of their favorite heart-throb, (lost in all the characters and makeup). This will be a sleeper, I predict...
[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─The 5th element had a pretty impressive cast. This one doesn't quite match. In the US market, the lack of big names does matter. I expect they'll make a decent but not fantastic profit on the international markets.
[17:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:08] <exec> 08└─So basically, it's a porn movie, only without any sex scenes and with special effects?
[17:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─They picked a really bad weekend to open. Up against Dunkirk's debut, and with Spider-Man and War of the Planet of the Apes only in their 3rd and 2nd weeks respectively. It's possible it will have a slow burn with minimal drop offs week to week as people go to see it after seeing the other big films...
[17:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:22] <exec> 08└─Stupid/soft-hearted neighbor feeds the deer in the winter. The herd back in the adjacent undeveloped area is at least a dozen, have seen that many at one time moving as a pack. In the summer they feed on gardens & plantings. All that is needed is a deterrent, so that the deer eat other gardens, not...
[17:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:24] <exec> 08└─You need a rifle and a big freezer not a deterrent.
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─The research team trained a computer vision model to detect squirrels, and then put it onto a Raspberry Pi 3 board.
[17:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:28] <exec> 08└─Got it, I searched for "squirrel socket" and got plenty of answers.
[17:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:44] <exec> 08└─Well I, for one, am glad that I do not get invited to these parties. His comments included a suggestion that the women, who were not employees, warm up the pool by jumping in and rubbing their bodies together.
[17:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:46] <exec> 08└─Holy excessive ranting, Batman! Kurenai is in top Monday form! > So for me personally hearing about this pool party and the expectations the employees have of these “non-employee” women does fill me with disgust, > (...) > Did that guy invite people who are not, in fact, being paid to sexually e...
[17:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:48] <exec> 08└─Yup, white collar crime gets a big pass because its wrapped around a bunch of semi-legal bullshit. Greedy humans are making this planet worse and worse. The problem is somehow getting worse with cynicism and greed spreading to every aspect of our lives.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Trump can, at times, seem to rise up an be (somewhat) better. I almost literally expected him to poop on the carpet during the state of the union. But he did not, and that was surprising and commendable of him.
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─it ignores evidence that state-level actors were involved
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─That evidence amounts to claims by a private security firm hired by the Democratic Party... Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security [soylentnews.org] "The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that th...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─fixed link: Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security [dhs.gov]
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atatsu [4251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Depends. Is impeachment an Instant or Sorcery?
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─The link in the chain that is by far the weakest is the link between whichever Russians have dealt with Trump's organization, and Vladimir Putin. If the Russian mob is anything like the mob elsewhere in the world, they don't work for the government as much as do their own thing with an understanding...
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Let's flip it a different way. Let's say that Trump and company are innocent, but the Russian government has staged a variety of things to create leads. They might have misdirected a couple of minor assets (Russian lawyer and Goldstone) with indirect Russia ties to set up a meeting that looks unusua...
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not ready to bail on the USA yet. Our republic is a democracy.
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Technically the pardoning power is intended as a check on the judicial and legislative branches and there is an established tradition of it being used to remedy a perceived injustice. If the president uses a pardon in a manner that goes outside of these norms and pardons someone particularly odious...
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drops the Boom on WoSign, StartCom Certs for Good - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:36] <exec> 08└─StartCom (based in Eliat, Israel)
[17:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:16] <exec> 08└─So are emoji, yet that is hardly justification for programming in this 💩
[17:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day In August - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:29] <exec> 08└─The linked article sure enough says 40,000 moths per day. If the bear forages for 12 hours, that is 40000/12 = 3333.- per hour; /60 = 55.55 per minute or nearly one per second. Somehow this seems unlikely. Anyone search for the field data?
[17:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─He finds that it's easier to sing for coffee money than to remember his bank account password.
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[18:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:09] <exec> 08└─Shocker! TMB operates on stereotypes instead of rational thinking. Whodathunk?
[18:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:11] <exec> 08└─No its basicallyFace Off (the SiFy tv show) [syfy.com] having pumped up the availability of wanna-be special effects makeup artists, to the point where the movie producers were able to get hundreds of them to work for next to nothing in the hopes of jump-starting their careers. The problem is there...
[18:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─I saw it at the drive in this weekend. It was a gorgeous movie but the plot sucked. And I'm not one that usually complained about a weak plot, but this one barely tied the scenes together. Dislike and distrust between the different alien races but they all peacefully coexist on the same space statio...
[18:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:15] <exec> 08└─Didn't he also do The Professional. Now that was a damn fine film.
[18:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:18] <exec> 08└─No mention that Valérian is originally a fairly popular French comic series? Even if it sucks I'll see it because that was my childhood.
[18:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:20] <exec> 08└─Your inference was incorrect; I was speaking of my experiences rather than suppositions.
[18:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:22] <exec> 08└─And the loverly AC was referring to "operating", not cogitating. Look to what people do, not at what they say. (Confucius)
[18:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:24] <exec> 08└─that's funny. i like a lot of indie films but thought boondock saints was highly pretentious and sucky in general.
[18:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this isn't a film destroyed by the editing. This is often the case, when good writer/director combos eject a plotless dud. Still, I don't think this film is bombing because of plot. Look at the last few "Furious".
[18:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:29] <exec> 08└─Who can afford to go to the movies (moneywise/timewise)?
[18:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:31] <exec> 08└─n the US market, the lack of big names does matter.
[18:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, Deer sprinklers and Rabbit Sprinklers are a thing. Even Amazon [amazon.com] carries them. Difference is these wet down anything that moves. You sort of don't want to chase the birds from the bird feeder, but everything else is fair game. Birds are not a particularly difficult thing to distingui...
[18:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─white collar crime gets a big pass because its wrapped around a bunch of semi-legal bullshit.
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:06] <exec> 08└─"the firm's mostly male staff mingled poolside with bikini-clad women who had been invited to the event." mostly male? death! mingled poolside? death! bikini clad? bastards! death! what are these women(escorts? street hookers?) supposed to wear? fucking burkinis? one nerd makes a fairly tame joke (u...
[18:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─The fact that the person claiming to have dirt on Hillary was a Russian? Irrelevant.
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─Impeachment is an old school interrupt. So treat as an instant.
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─You want him to poop on the drapes?
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─The one element of case law you're missing in those "a priori"(I don't think you're using that in the legal sense) cases is that the supreme court has established that accepting a pardon is admission of guilt, for the purposes of establishing fact. I'm not sure of the exact nuances that implies, but...
[18:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:16] <exec> 08└─"to impeach someone, they must have committed a criminal act" High crimes and misdemeanors
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─Elastic tab AC here. (Had a laugh my comment is at +2 funny, but I'd like to confirm I was being serious.) While ligatures really only make sense in a proportional font, I have a supposedly fixed-width font, cannot remember which one it is, Fantasque Sans Mono or Liberation Mono maybe?, that combine...
[18:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day In August - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:47] <exec> 08└─Great, so now we're gonna have 15 years of "bears with a flashlight on their headz!" jokes.
[18:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Sound' Research Shows Slower Boats May Cause Manatees More Harm Than Good - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:37] <exec> 08└─why not just put a large grate/guard across the bottom of the boats so that nothing big can hit a propeller? make it angled so that when you hit a manatee he gets a slight headache(maybe it could play a sound to make him remember. like boats emit the sound and then when he gets hit it makes a corres...
[18:27:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:56] <exec> 08└─The comments on this one are just bizarre. The heads of the security agencies have talked on camera about Russian involvement, yet everyone here seems to be buying this "there's nothing happening here but leaks" bullshit that Trump's feeding the pubic...especially today. WTF?
[18:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft to Offer Autonomous Car Rides by the End of the Year - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:28] <exec> 08└─It can be: 1) steal someone else's phone 2) call autonomous car for a ride 3) send it to discrete area. load it quickly into faraday-cage truck. 4) dismantle at your leisure 5) profit ! What do you mean by "it's more complicated than stealing a normal car"? Killjoys... By the way, how will people te...
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[19:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─Cancel the last 4 Ford-class carriers (leaving the US with only 6 or 7), shift some of the money to build all 4 telescopes, and still have enough cash left to buy navy ships which aren't expensive targets for advanced navies...
[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:59] <exec> 08└─It is odd isn't it? A rational people in our position would have declared victory at the end of the cold war, gone home and re-oriented ourselves to conquering space instead of Asia. It's not like there aren't ample opportunities for the big contractors to make the same sort of insane profits doing...
[19:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:01] <exec> 08└─No US aircraft carrier has ever been successfully attacked since the end of World War II. (The "Card" was nothing but an aircraft freighter with no air launch capabilities when it was sunk while docked in Saigon). They are extremely hard to find and harder to approach. The inexpensive navy ships you...
[19:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─re-oriented ourselves to conquering space
[19:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:05] <exec> 08└─Remind me which "advanced navy" the US has fought since WW2, and how many times the availability of 10 Nimitz carriers was proven necessary. The US is regularly using overwhelming force against gnats, while constantly preparing for a two-fronts world war that cannot happen. Regular exercises and est...
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─You would rather use matched forces, and take you chances with the luck of the draw? In one sentence you predict massive losses, and in the next you say we don't need 10. Go back to your bathtub toy boats Bob, and let the navy handle this.
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:10] <exec> 08└─That's why it's called a challenge, right? And honestly, the chances of doing that are probably better than the chances of militarily dominating China in their own back yard for much longer, no matter how much money we are willing to borrow from them in order to do it.
[19:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:37] <exec> 08└─All of those (except the first SW, 40 years ago) had giant marketing appeal and established names. Very few people in the US have ever heard of Valerian, and it releases in the middle of summer, when even Americans seem to be taking vacations. It looks like a generic blockbuster without anything I c...
[19:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:39] <exec> 08└─Luc Besson also recently directed Lucy, and that movie was crap. Also, the 5th element is Love. Who could have seen that coming now?
[19:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:41] <exec> 08└─$7 dollars a piece to see it and war for planet of the apes at the drive in. $14 for me and the GF, $5 for the giant bag of popcorn, and $5 dollars for our own smuggled in soda and candy. $24 dollars and we got to see two movies.
[19:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:43] <exec> 08└─Poorly in theaters? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:45] <exec> 08└─In the pretentious vein, "Birdman" was the worst I've seen in a while: Every single second of that movie screamed "Please, I deserve an oscar" to a disturbing point.
[19:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is there are only so many ways you can disguise a human form, and sooner or later it gets repetitive and self referential.
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:50] <exec> 08└─But that's just awful writing. "US Weekend total is $17 million, not even a multiple of Friday's $6 million." Yeah it is even a multiple. 17 well over twice and just a bit shy of three times 6. R U 2 STOOPID 2 MATHS?!?! Now get off my lawn.
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:52] <exec> 08└─I guess I don't get how or why people attempt to critique movies based on their revenue over a 72 hour period. I think it's valid to analyze their marketing strategy based on a 72 hour period, however. We can mostly rule out word-of-mouth, so we are looking at a clear view of the success of their ma...
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─"not even an even multiple of Friday's $6 million."
[19:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:56] <exec> 08└─Ok then, what were the pretentious indie films you did not like? As an aside, if you want your comments to be considered within the confines of your personal experience then you should add such a qualifier instead of The only indie movie I ever thought wasn't pretentious bullshit was . . .
[19:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:58] <exec> 08└─Has anyone seen it? Luc Besson also directed the 5th Element. That did poorly in theaters and got pretty bad reviews at the time. It ended up being one of my favorite movies...
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─At what point does a quarter BILLION dollar movie get to be called an "indie" movie with a straight face by the industry?
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─I was going to see it last weekend, but the theatre was doing the usual bullshit of only showing it in avx & 3d, so you have to pay $20 to see it. I'll pay the regular fee, but they are doing this for a lot of films now, to artificially boost revenue.
[19:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─At what point does a quarter BILLION dollar movie get to be called an "indie" movie with a straight face by the industry?
[19:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─When gun and automobile companies don't supply weapons cars for the production for some advertisement. When it's all blue-screen instead of greasing a councilman's pocket to close down the street for shooting. When the script isn't "reviewed and given feedback on" by an Army \ Navy \ Air-force funde...
[19:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:23] <exec> 08└─Not bad. Seems to work against pigeons too: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─Ummm, no. No firearms. I did mention that there are neighbors. The only shooting that happens around here is cops and robbers (and photography). The cops sometimes practice on deer, using the euphemism, "bait and shoot".
[19:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 992 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─I think, technically, he's right. There are no limits on the presidential power of pardon I've ever heard of. It was discussed extensively recently around the possibility that Obama might pardon Hillary for crimes she committed with her email server, even if they had not yet been determined in a cou...
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─Regardless of what the Democrats or Republicans might say on an individual basis, the whole system in Washington is faltering and it is not just because of Trump. The number one thing the Dems and Reps need is a person to point their finger to and say that they caused everything please keep sending...
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─STATEMENT OF JARED C. KUSHNER TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES July 24, 2017 [assets.bwbx.io]
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─Ceiling
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:58] <exec> 08└─Agreed. With how deep into DC culture Sessions is, this does not surprise me. Where crime exists, and I am sure it exists (Flynn), justice needs to be swift. But this constant "muh Russia" behind every damn blade of grass is insane. Hell even if Russia meddled, it is fair game. Lest we forget Iran,...
[19:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:00] <exec> 08└─Notice how Texalon doesnt respond? Hes purposefully ill informed. He will ignore ALL contrary evidence and continue to spew his lies in the hopes that he can help sway opinion. Cause repeating lies over and over again will get the sheeple lined up behind you.
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 1849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─Impeachment of the president is something more for clickbait than reality. Clinton was impeached under two counts - lying under oath and impeding an investigation. He undeniably and with 100% certainty was guilty of lying under oath - multiple times. Even he admitted as much in later testimony. Rega...
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─"There is also significant evidence that Trump's wealth has come from the Russian Mafia " [citation needed]
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea, but all that puts the Trump administration into a position where they would antagonize Russian interests to demonstrate that they weren't working together. entrist economic impulses are crippled if democrats are unwilling to cut deals
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─... because he has no faith in the judicial process ...
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─In other words, he's tired of the witch hunt, and wondering if it might be possible to just end it. Likely that would be a politically stupid move, but one can hardly blame him for asking.
[19:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The real danger of pardoning himself (or members of his family) is that we would be in danger that he really could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Ave and not be held accountable for it. Just pause to consider how that kind of unbridled power could be abused not just by Trump but by an...
[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─You want him to poop on the drapes?
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Level Up: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─Video games train Our Troops to pilot drones and kill The Enemy from a safe distance. Before 9/11, Stargate ran an often-forgotten episode which portrayed unmanned drone strikes against manned targets as war crimes, the kind of immoral tactic which would only be used by nazis. "The Other Side" [tvtr...
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:35] <exec> 08└─"(Had a laugh my comment is at +2 funny, but I'd like to confirm I was being serious.)" One day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets. "I have a supposedly fixed-width font, cannot remember which one it is, Fantasque Sans Mono or Liberation Mono maybe?, that combines for exampl...
[19:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:37] <exec> 08└─"As if tab character had ever had a single agreed-upon definition." TAB - Advance to the next tab stop. TABs had a single agreed-upon definition from the start, it was the implementation of the tab stop that, in retrospect, might have been more tightly specified.
[19:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:39] <exec> 08└─A tab character is like a dick, the size may vary but it's still a dick.
[19:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day In August - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:53] <exec> 08└─"1 moth per second" I cannot imagine the bears are eating the moths with chopsticks. Have you ever seen a bear's mouth? It could easily fit 30 moths inside of it. Two chomps a minute? A very reasonable figure for a bear chewing on food as delicate as moths.
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─Just to reinforce the point, I am the original poster and, as the parent mentioned, dinner at 11 PM can happen but is very uncommon. Dinner that stretches until after 11 PM is more frequent when you are with friends, especially on Fridays and Saturdays if you are eating out. However, most people hav...
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[19:28:04] <exec> 08└─can we point at this and say "Bazinga"?
[19:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:05] <exec> 08└─ἐν αἷς ἐκ τῶν ὑποκειμένων συμβαίνει
[19:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:30] <exec> 08└─You omitted the point that Southport and the rest of that region has lots of sunshine and rooftops and could meet its energy needs without a nuke. (I toured that facility when it was under construction and while I was still naive about nukes.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[20:21:18] <exec> 08└─The thing is it may sound inconsistent but it makes perfect sense. Ten isn't enough, long term, if you accept as untouchable the goal of militarily dominating China in the south China sea. That goal in itself is so ambitious that it can justify any and every military expenditure we could possibly ma...
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[20:21:19] <exec> 08└─I think that has more to do with the advent of the atomic bomb and America becoming the top dog superpower than the defense capabilities of the aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers are vulnerable to being spammed and sunk by relatively cheap missiles, which is why they are looking at adding laser wea...
[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:02] <exec> 08└─No wonder people think indie films are pretentious, can't have people applauding anything that doesn't fall under the big umbrella of propaganda. I sure will miss seeing [newest_car_model] zooming around with great shots of its front grill... I also would like to feel reassured that the main charact...
[20:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:04] <exec> 08└─Story was alright but the visuals were amazing. Bright colorful and not cartoon like at all. The movie wasn't shot in 3d and there were no "gimmick" shots but the effect really brought all the background details into focus. The chase scene early on with the hidden marketplace was pretty unique. This...
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:06] <exec> 08└─Yes its an old French comic, per wikipedia. When I read it, the plot sounded very ringworld-ish but google implies neither copied from each other. Initially I thought maybe the new movie copied the old ringworld, but it turns out the comic is half a century old so maybe ringworld copied aspects of t...
[20:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─Neck beards get their panties in a bunch of the tag line of Lucy. It's an absurd action film done by a director with a unique style. Are you upset that Jurassic World isn't scientifically accurate?
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean an integer multiple? The $17 million appears to be somewhere between twice and treble $6 million, but is closer to treble. However, I would accept that 2 is an even number and also the highest integer multiple less than $17 million.
[20:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:13] <exec> 08└─Awesome link, or I loved this part: The film debuted at number 1 in the US, earning $17 million on its opening weekend.
[20:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:15] <exec> 08└─Yep. Editing and music selections can make a movie dramatically different. Legend with Tom Cruise is a good example. The release in the U.S had different editing and music than the European release. I have a LaserDisc copy, and two different releases from torrents. The European release you can get t...
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:52] <exec> 08└─> ... in the real world, gender change always happens because of a courageous person exercising their free will and right of “my body, my choice.” Probably true now in most of the world, but my understanding is that historically eunuchs didn't have a lot of choice in the matter. For just one exa...
[20:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:12] <exec> 08└─Apparently, a working memory of a fortnight is discouraged when discussing American politics. Not being American, I'm breaking your silly customs. Junior was well aware that their contact was a Russian operative because Goldstone told him so [nytimes.com] as part of setting up the meeting. Matt Tait...
[20:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Level Up: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:20] <exec> 08└─How dare you throw a spear at me?! Have you no shame?! How can you call yourself a proud warrior if you're not engaging in melee?!
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─Similar was built into early typesetting software Scribe / Scribble (the DOS version), then into FinalWordII and Borland Sprint wordprocessing. To get the math symbols I wanted, I could combine characters to overprint. Also allowed substitution of printable characters for something that would displa...
[20:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nine Lifestyle Changes Can Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Says - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:36] <exec> 08└─To get nice boost/cutoff frequencies, you'll want a bunch of gain (numerous operational amplifiers). Heh. You're taking me back to the 1970s and a plug-in for Tektronix tube-based oscilloscopes. [google.com] (The gear was more than a decade old then.) It was loaded up with vacuum tubes (peanut tubes...
[20:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nine Lifestyle Changes Can Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Says - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:37] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. The only thing available in animal-based food that isn't available in plant-based food is Vitamin B12. That has been available in pill form for over half a century. The other good stuff in fish is available from e.g. nuts. Eat a varied plant-based diet and take a B12 pill and you'll ge...
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[21:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.K. to Require Registration and Safety Tests for Drone Owners - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:49] <exec> 08└─The Man is here to trample our fun. We were just trying to have a good time. Fuck it, let's go bowling.
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. to Require Registration and Safety Tests for Drone Owners - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:50] <exec> 08└─You could do much worse things with drones than just that... but it's a good idea to be careful with them. A couple of neighborhood kids once dropped a chunk of ice off a bridge onto a highway in a neighboring town. The ice was only about soccer ball sized, but their positioning was perfect - it hit...
[21:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:07] <exec> 08└─> In one sentence you predict massive losses, and in the next you say we don't need 10. My bathtub toys tell me that either 1) your weak opponents can't touch them, and you therefore only need a few (2 or 3 in operation, one rotating in/out, 1 in maintenance). 2) your strong opponents can spam-sink...
[21:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:57] <exec> 08└─In August, I'm probably going to see The Dark Tower, which also has shit marketing.
[21:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah that doesn't sound like a psychopath's rape defense or anything.
[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it isn't because the name of the movie and its premise is just a condescending little joke about LSD?
[21:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:03] <exec> 08└─Here's Howard Tayler's review: http://www.schlockmercenary.com [schlockmercenary.com] His tastes don't overlap 100% perfectly with mine, but they are close enough that if he didn't like this, I am certain I wouldn't like it either. He's a geek: he us...
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─Good point. I was being rhetorical rather than strictly accurate. Another real world situation where gender change is forced upon somebody is homosexuality. Alan Turing comes to mind. While as I understand it the UK government did not force him through an entire process that would qualitatively look...
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─I worked for a company which A) laid everybody off with zero notice and cancelled payment of the coming week's paid vacation, and B) circulated a non-compensated non-disparagement agreement a few weeks later, encouraging everyone to sign away their rights to say bad things about the company, and obl...
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─So, AT&T pulled this crap on me about 20 years ago, you would think that companies that do such things would get a business crippling reputation. Somehow, that doesn't happen.
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[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─I think the counter argument to this is that to impeach someone, they must have committed a criminal act
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea, but all that puts the Trump administration into a position where they would antagonize Russian interests to demonstrate that they weren't working together. Trump has tried to claim that his support of military expansion and domestic energy production are evidence he's not what the...
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─So...looks like he's tossing Don,jr under the bus. Please pass the popcorn.
[21:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─So spain should have always been less well off than, say, Italy, which has no such break. A quick glance at economic indicators says it is completely unrelated. A productive society is like a race car. It covers distance faster, it breaks easier, it never covers as much distance as a diesel taxi. >...
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[22:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:51] <exec> 08└─"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen" Fuck them with a cactus
[22:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:52] <exec> 08└─The microchip presumably provides unique identification, 1^6 - 2^6 + 3^6 is all too common a sum, can't use that to tell the minions apart. Besides, the phrase is "give the Devil his due" not "send the Devil the bill." Also, my understanding of the whole "number of the beast" thing is that there is...
[22:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:54] <exec> 08└─Can I get a chip reader installed in my hand instead? and then go shake hands with everyone...
[22:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─So now they rob you at machete point and take your hand instead of your wallet? Why do people keep on doing this stuff. We can't seem to stop ourselves from creating skynet.
[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─Good for them. It's about time the men and transgendred of WI own their micro problem and accept help from robotic transplants.
[22:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:01] <exec> 08└─No see, we'll embed in in their skull. Bet you feel like an idiot now!
[22:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:03] <exec> 08└─Also, my understanding of the whole "number of the beast" thing is that there is an 18 digit number (three sets of six numbers) that is the name of the beast
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:06] <exec> 08└─If it became mandatory, I'd go on welfare. If it became mandatory for welfare, I'd live in the woods with my mealworms. No. Way!
[22:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. to Require Registration and Safety Tests for Drone Owners - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─That's why there should be parenting classes in school, and any dicks who'd make shit parents should be sterilised. Too many shit parents raising kids to be shit parents You need a licence to own a drone, but any stupid fuck can have a kid.
[22:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:32] <exec> 08└─As an outsider, I live in New Zealand, I have never understood the American predilection with insanely huge military spending. The US spends many times more then any other nation on having the biggest military; but what for? Who are you so afraid of? Who is coming to attack you? What is the point of...
[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─Rookie (or, in this case Indie) mistake, there's a pretty big potential audience that won't go see it now because its opening weekend was so weak. It can pick up steam later, but for those high margin seats in the first run theaters, they've really hurt themselves by going head-to-head with bigger p...
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─I don't even own a TV and I saw the commercial a couple times at a bar over the last few months.
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─Valerian Root used for insomnia and anxiety. Pretty fitting for the comments. [yawn]
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Wow that is a poor selection. Bad lieutenant belongs on nobody's list.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─Opportunity cost: you could have been working/studying to make $400/hr so you effectively paid $1576 to watch that movie. If you ate dinner, shit or slept it also cost you many thousands of dollars. You're wasting your life away, just end it. END IT NOW!
[22:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Sort of Silicon Brain Do You Need for Artificial Intelligence? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─A squirrel is just a rat in a suit.
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─Babak Nivi ... included a suggestion that the women, who were not employees, warm up the pool by jumping in and rubbing their bodies together.
[22:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Friend, don't stress! Our friendly video cameras placed in every room, toilet and outdoor space captured any compromising scenes. These are just holiday photos for us to enjoy friend. We may delete them very soon. What a fun party it was! It's up to you friend.
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─Is it possible their bikinis would hinder the heat transfer? If so, isn't it fair to say these dancers deliberately ruined the party by wearing bikinis? Is it millions of dollars or billions of dollars owed in compensation to the executives?
[22:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─Well it is nice to see you crazies slowly making the transition to reality, but again the issue is not that Russia meddled but that the current POTUS was likely complicit and lied about such ties. It just blows my mind to see propaganda work so well against you party liners.
[22:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─Hes purposefully ill informed. He will ignore ALL contrary evidence and continue to spew his lies in the hopes that he can help sway opinion. Cause repeating lies over and over again will get the sheeple lined up behind you.
[22:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:10] <exec> 08└─And, for my home-tests, I'd rather not have to blow up my kitchen every time I test a device ;-)
[22:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q: Ligatures in Programming Fonts? A: Hell No - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:10] <exec> 08└─The Egyptian road? What exactly is that?
[22:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:57] <exec> 08└─The tax men are very happy with the productivity improvements provided by facebook. "So, Mr second-grade teacher, let's go over the 4 bikini-clad "friends" who were with you on that 60-footer which a "friend" was letting you use in Nassau"
[22:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:41] <exec> 08└─Both? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Director Mike Rogers Not Impressed With U.S.-Russia Cyber Collaboration Idea - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:53] <exec> 08└─Why is this rater Funny? Everything he said is true. Everything he said is TRUE. This is the little guy fighting back against the Man (liberal, gay black man) who's been repressing us.
[22:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utility's Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:05] <exec> 08└─You omitted the point that Southport and the rest of that region has lots of sunshine and rooftops and could meet its energy needs without a nuke.
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[23:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida School District Replaces Homework ... With Books! - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for the wailing and gnashing of teeth at the first school board meeting of the year, when parents demand that classic homework be reinstated, because that's how things were always done.
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida School District Replaces Homework ... With Books! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:48] <exec> 08└─How can children be expected to learn anything without worksheets?
[23:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida School District Replaces Homework ... With Books! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:50] <exec> 08└─How about replacing books with sports instead. Can I get a YEHAWW!
[23:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida School District Replaces Homework ... With Books! - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:53] <exec> 08└─They were never supposed to learn anything from worksheets. The worksheets are simply to verify that they completed their reading assignments. Which leaves me reading the blurb in utter bafflement.
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:07] <exec> 08└─> Fuck them with a cactus Unlike them, you actually seem to be trying to answer an existing problem.
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:09] <exec> 08└─Fuck them with a cactus
[23:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:11] <exec> 08└─"Hey, nice to meet ya." beep "What was that?" "...nothing."
[23:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:37] <exec> 08└─Exactly. More aircraft carriers.
[23:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah but who would waste a $10M nuke to sink a $2B aircraft carrier, if their national security depended on it? Burn's on you bro.
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[23:21:41] <exec> 08└─As a New Zealander also, what happens when someone unfriendly knocks on our door? There is definitely a conversation to be had about this.
[23:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:43] <exec> 08└─You spend your money right, and your NASA funding can help the military and vice versa. That WFIRST telescope in the summary? A declassified NRO satellite donated to NASA. It's considered obsolete, but part of the agreement is that NASA does not point it at Earth. And don't forget the X-37B [wikiped...
[23:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Considering Flagship Space Telescope Options for the 2030s - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:45] <exec> 08└─It really depends on what they want; if someone is trying to invade; then we are SOL since we effectively have no military power. However in todays world an invasion is extremely unlikely; economic invasion is much more likely and is in fact an ongoing process. But in the theoretical case that someo...
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds a lot like Jupiter Ascending [uproxx.com]: And Jupiter Ascending is an extremely pretty movie (someday it will be projected on a brick wall with no sound during a hip party that you attend).
[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself. When I consume media products my experience is enhanced by 3D viewing of shoe-branding and related consumer items. These products add value and cultural legitimacy to my film experience. I have particularly enjoyed watching William Smith and his pleasure when wearing Converse(TM)...
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─And I imagine these top your list, eh? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(film) [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [...
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:50] <exec> 08└─I don't know about Bad Lieutenant, but Breaker Morant is a great film
[23:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abuses Hide in the Silence of Non-Disparagement Agreements - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:35] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be faster to just pee in the pool?
[23:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:00] <exec> 08└─House and Senate are controlled by the president's own party, BUT it can be suspected there's a crack between Trump and the Republican party. How much it would take to break it publicly is the question.
[23:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the constitution doesn't explicitly allow to pardon anyone with name "John" either. So, bad luck if you are named "John" and hope for a presidential pardon. ;-)
[23:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─He learnt from Capone that you have to keep your taxes secret, but he hasn't learnt from Clinton that you shouldn't lie about silly investigations.
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Level Up: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─After all you need another unsatisfied customer if you want your kids to have something worth fighting against :)
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:32] <exec> 08└─> And, for my home-tests, I'd rather not have to blow up my kitchen every time I test a device ;-) An anonymous tipster only known as Kim J recommends building various self-propelled aerial devices so that you can safely discard experiments into the nearest sea.
[23:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Say Goodbye to Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:10] <exec> 08└─For small shops, the long midday break is also a time to get some administrative stuff done, especially if your job serves customers and thus has to finish a bit late. You close the shop at peak heat around 13:00 or 14:00, after the lunch break customers, go to the bank, shopping, or to fight the ad...
[23:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Ways Your Language Betrays Your Character - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:02] <exec> 08└─I don't think I know anybody who talks like the 'introvert' examples, and I know a great many introverts, including myself.
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