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[00:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graham Nash to Auction Robert Crumb's Underground Comix Artworks - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:00] <exec> 08└─I'm 59, I remember Crumb's comix. Ya know, 10 years ago I would have spent some money on this stuff. Now I'm thinking "Um, I hope to be unemployed soon. How much money have I got, how much do I need, and what can I piss it away on?". I'm guessing he should have tried this 5 years ago to get maximum...
[00:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graham Nash to Auction Robert Crumb's Underground Comix Artworks - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:02] <exec> 08└─"What does it all mean?" "Don't mean sheeut."
[00:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graham Nash to Auction Robert Crumb's Underground Comix Artworks - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:04] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, but the markets are up now and rich people have a lot of money to invest (not a good time to buy more stocks). I think this is a pretty good time to sell comix. The other good time would have been 6 months before the "Great Recession" and the housing bubble crash ~10 years ago. I'm hoping that...
[00:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graham Nash to Auction Robert Crumb's Underground Comix Artworks - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:06] <exec> 08└─I'm lucky to have discovered Crumb comics when I discovered Playboy magazines, that is, by rummaging through my parents' sock drawer while they were not around. Now that, I felt, was an real and accurate representation of adults' lives with respect to how they behaved when their kids weren't around...
[00:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Valued at $21 Billion - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:15] <exec> 08└─"many of which operate capital intensive businesses such as Uber and Airbnb" AirBnB and Uber are 'capital intensive' ? SpaceX is capital intensive, what with the investment in rockets, rocket production, rocket testing capabilities, and related facilities... but uber and airbnb? Those are apps. A ki...
[00:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Valued at $21 Billion - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:17] <exec> 08└─Capital intensive is how you explain that your 8 year old 'start-up' company loses money and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. This helps to get a funding round, boost share prices or both. You can then talk about economies of scale and market disruption building the future to forec...
[00:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:03] <exec> 08└─> When cops lie and plant evidence, everything goes to shit. When cops lie and plant evidence, everything goes to _pot_. ftfy
[00:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:04] <exec> 08└─Our trash is a combination of packaging & junk, and meat/chicken/fish leftovers. Recycle is a separate stream for clean paper and bottles. All the vegetable matter (including loose tea leaves) is composted on our property, never goes in the trash. Would that have saved me from these cops? Or would t...
[00:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:06] <exec> 08└─If you want to murder your wife, your path is clear. Become a police officer: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Blue privilege can transform even a sloppy murder into sweet freedom. Beating your wife, swiping drugs for personal use, planting drug...
[00:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─Not sure if we have an argument here, or not.
[00:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry: by senior, i mean the execs who give themselves and their buddies big bonuses. Junior is the 'plebs' who actually NEED the money but won't be getting it.
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:11] <exec> 08└─too old to rock 'n roll, too young to die (i'm getting there myself, lol) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:18] <exec> 08└─I'm much less likely to want a professor who's publishing stupid crap on the internet.
[00:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:19] <exec> 08└─As opposed to being a SJFWSW? (Social Justice For White Supremacy Warrior?)
[00:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:50] <exec> 08└─You're giving them too much credit. They love to steer people as best they can, and boy is it well-known what their agenda is. Read the following timeline to see why Google really gave it up: 1. Google based their instant search on everybody else's searches. This lead to the infamous Michelle Obama...
[00:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:51] <exec> 08└─One I've been seeing a lot lately in the corporate world is principle vs. principal. You'd think people with business degrees would be able to write basic English.
[00:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:54] <exec> 08└─/ducks I just go up to the URL and start typing the website I want. It searches my browser cache and bookmarks and and usually within a few keystrokes, I have exactly what I was looking for even if I don't really remember the URL. The Unity lense thingy is nice like that once you disable the amazon...
[00:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Ordered to Pay $506 Million to the University of Wisconsin in Patent Case - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:40] <exec> 08└─Oddly, when the same patent troll claim is aimed at the Australian equivalent organization CSIRO, (famous for wifi patents), everyone comes rushing to their defense. But an American University, in a flyover state!? Money grubbing bastards. Why does it seem that patent fees always have to be dragged...
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[01:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Government Report Suggests North Koreans Hack for Cash, Not Secrets - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:59] <exec> 08└─The Devil Made Me Do It.
[01:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graham Nash to Auction Robert Crumb's Underground Comix Artworks - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:11] <exec> 08└─Well, that explains a lot. When I rummaged around in my parents' sock drawer when they were not around, I found: Masters, W.H.; Johnson, V.E. (1966). Human Sexual Response. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-20429-7. After reading through most of it, I paid little attention when my mi...
[01:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graham Nash to Auction Robert Crumb's Underground Comix Artworks - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:12] <exec> 08└─when I discovered Playboy magazines
[01:21:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:31] <exec> 08└─when a story about judges finding that a horrific law enforcement overreach is at least sufficient to warrant a civil trial is NEWS. When a ruling that the shield of "qualified immunity so nyah nyah!" isn't an absolute defense against any responsibility for wrongdoing is NEWS. What the gorram hell i...
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─they KNOW this house is a grow house because the dude has long hair and wears black T-shirts
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:13] <exec> 08└─Would that have saved me from these cops? Or would they have planted evidence anyway?
[01:22:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─Everything I ever read about bankruptcy law (IANAL) says employees have priority, bonds later, shareholders (if any) last.
[01:22:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 1373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure he's talking about executive management. They're the ones who make decisions after all, and also are personally liable for the company's actions. They should also make the law so that it's criminal not to pay people for their labor. The executives should have to sell their personal a...
[01:23:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 2090 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:08] <exec> 08└─Charter schools were not supposed to "fix" education (whatever that means). Charter schools serve approximately 4 purposes: 1. Provide yet another way for favored private individuals to feed at the trough of government, this time through the public education system. 2. Segregate students even more b...
[01:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:18] <exec> 08└─Or just go to regular school and end up a deranged angry transvestite like this troll poster. That's so much better.
[01:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:19] <exec> 08└─Employees are usually paid weekly or monthly. They could (and should) walk away if this does not happen. They are about the only people that can walk away (mostly whole) from a failed business.
[01:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:22] <exec> 08└─Without filing for bankruptcy, the school is legally obligated to pay wages within a certain time frame. It appears to be either on the 15th or the 1st of the next month depending on when the wages were earned. They don't just get to not pay the workers without also filing for bankruptcy. If they do...
[01:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─Michigan law requires that. I believe there is a loophole for independent contractors, but if you're a regular employee, you have to be paid within 15 days of the end of the pay period in Michigan. Personally, I'd be finding an attorney right now if I was one of those teachers because this is almost...
[01:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:26] <exec> 08└─Probably not. That money that they were supposed to be paid during the summer was most likely money that they would have been paid during the school year. My mother has a similar arrangement with the college she works at. They give her an option about the number of pay checks she receives. It's the...
[01:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:28] <exec> 08└─NB If the business going bankrupt is a bank the counterparties of credit default swaps come ahead of bondholders.
[01:23:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 995 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:59] <exec> 08└─Yes. If I had a company and one of my employees wrote something publicly like that, I'd fire their ass. Especially when their public profile clearly says they're an employee of my company: their public comments reflect publicly on my company. Any smart company will eliminate people who are PR disast...
[01:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:36] <exec> 08└─You may be right. But it's hard to make predictions, especially about the future. Biotechnology is moving at a rapid pace. The cost of human genome sequencing has dropped from hundreds of millions of dollars [genome.gov] to just over a thousand dollars per genome in about 15 years. CRISPR has lowere...
[01:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─That does put it in a different light. OTOH you also need to look at what else she said: Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women. Not so much in North Korea
[01:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:40] <exec> 08└─especially about the future.
[01:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:42] <exec> 08└─People are doing the same things today, that they did thousands of years ago,
[01:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LIDAR Sensors May Limit Self Driving Car Rollouts - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:07] <exec> 08└─I have said this before, because I have inside knowledge. Phased arrays of microwave and millimeter-wave transceivers will be used in the future for those purposes. In addition to having no troublesome moving parts, modern phased arrays degrade gracefully on an element-by-element basis and elements...
[01:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LIDAR Sensors May Limit Self Driving Car Rollouts - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:09] <exec> 08└─Calorie counts on booze are easily found online, and unless you're talking rum cake (fuck yes) or other actual food made with noticeable amounts of hard alcohol, having nutrition labels is pretty pointless. If you demand that information on the label of your booze, then you should give Michelob Ultr...
[01:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIDAR Sensors May Limit Self Driving Car Rollouts - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:11] <exec> 08└─Could you strap a couple of sharks to your roof and mount the lasers on them? You could arrange to have them pointed down so they wouldn't dazzle low-flying aircraft.
[01:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 3 Reviewed - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:48] <exec> 08└─Click the cooler link. "Wraith Stealth" is apparently a quiet fan. Not sure if it is quiet enough for your needs, but there are some decibel amounts listed in that article. They also test the two bigger ones but not the Wraith Stealth in that review.
[01:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:35] <exec> 08└─China has plenty of rural Chinese, yet the wages in the cities keep on rising. Why aren't they dragging down the cities into third world status?
[01:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:36] <exec> 08└─The cities aren't out of third world status yet. Don't worry, they'll rope in some more rural people as soon as that becomes the cheaper option.
[01:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:38] <exec> 08└─Sure, international trade has gone on for some time, and usually had the built-in brake that the journey was long and generally not without danger. But that wasn't global trade and it wasn't free trade (often tariffs were involved as well). That's why it worked so well. Worked so well? It worked bes...
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[02:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:10] <exec> 08└─Where did the other half come from?
[02:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Valued at $21 Billion - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:39] <exec> 08└─Uber is capital intensive because they are throwing that capital away at drivers to subsidize the customers and 'outcompete' the competition. The very second they stop doing that, the drivers peel off the Uber stickers and go slap a competitors sticker on their car for whoever is next in line offeri...
[02:21:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 916 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:53] <exec> 08└─This probably isn't even planting evidence. It's probably cutting corners. Somebody saw a leaf that looked kinda like a marijuana leaf. Or, at least, close enough for law enforcement work - botany isn't always taught at the police academy. Then someone in the police department got all excited about...
[02:22:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:15] <exec> 08└─They faked a field test (or, more likely, didn't do one and lied about it).
[02:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─That is a violation of habeas corpus. It is an overt criminal act on the part of the judge. A valid warrant must describe specifically what is to be searched before it is signed. That judge should not only be subject to impeachment, he should have been jailed. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─So now, knowing what you wrote is true, think about the kinds of people who want to become cops. Where are the supposed "checks and balances"?
[02:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:35] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump! Throw those marihuana grows in PMITA prison! Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up! After all, if they hadn't been guilty of something, the cops wouldn't have gone after them. Therefore, they are guilty of something. Trump! Trump! Trump!
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:37] <exec> 08└─ACLU are librul commies! Now I'm certain the police were in the right here! Trump! Trump! Trump!
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─Still the Circuit Judges should have arbitrarily doubled the 7 Million to 14 Million, plus two million from the judge that decided it was qualified immunity. Judges really have to start being held accountable for their failures. One wonders why this was being tried in Federal Court when it was a co...
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─since in most cases, cops who do bad things are still untouchable by the law, that makes them very bold and too power hungry. this is NOT a good formula for any kind of justice. and add to this that the cops cannot be personally sued (many authority figures cannot be sued, this is also a HUGE proble...
[02:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Red and Google Play Music to Merge - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:55] <exec> 08└─*Copies* are free. Technology giveth, and then it taketh. It is thanks to technology that it even became possible to record art for playback later. It was this delicate balance of copying of recordings being possible but not particularly easy or inexpensive to do well that made the 20th century ente...
[02:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Red and Google Play Music to Merge - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─The web is a house of cards. Unless an effective way can be found to charge money for online services, this house of cards will collapse.
[02:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:55] <exec> 08└─Was this actually called a charter school? It seems so far from my understanding of for-profit charters that it seems like your school (for home schooled kids) should have been in a different category.
[02:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:57] <exec> 08└─Charter schools serve approximately 4 purposes: 1. Provide yet another way for favored private individuals to feed at the trough of government, this time through the public education system. 2. Segregate students even more by race and class. 3. Bust the public school teachers' unions. 4. Allow favor...
[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:59] <exec> 08└─I live in a pretty crap state, but unemployment is handled all on the web now. At worst, you might have to call and number and wait on hold for a half hour to an hour. Put it on speakerphone, no problem. Somebody who's like family to me has been through the process a few times now. Yeah, it's still...
[02:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, Detroit was successful before White Flight to the suburbs. Those satellite communities benefited from the jobs in the central city but didn't pay taxes to the City of Detroit. Neoliberalism/Reagonomics, calling treaties "trade deals", the end of tariffs, and exported jobs played a part as...
[02:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:03] <exec> 08└─It's Michigan. Betsy DeVos' Michigan. There were state $$$ also going to the charter school because "school parity". The long-term goal and intent of DeVos' vision of their charter schools is to suck the money from the state to kill off public schools faster. Benefiting the main investors and player...
[02:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:15] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[02:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:17] <exec> 08└─I've yet to figure out what, when somebody assigned to the male gender caste does it, isn't rape to feminism (even merely existing).
[02:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:19] <exec> 08└─Wow! Me three! (Also different AC.) That's amazing! I'll bet all of us ACs own companies with HR departments!
[02:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Sensors May Limit Self Driving Car Rollouts - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:46] <exec> 08└─How well do phased arrays work when there are hundreds or thousands of them in close proximity? If there are several on every car, they add up quickly. My (limited) understanding is that military aircraft phased arrays operate at high power and long range. And extending to a guess-- it's not too har...
[02:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:14] <exec> 08└─Further behind in what? The race to the bottom? Pollution so thick that smoking might purify the air? But yes, China's standard of living is increasing. That's to be expected since they're on the developing side. I don't have a problem with that, as long as we don't regress the U.S. in the process (...
[02:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:16] <exec> 08└─Or you push to have trade agreements contingent on improving living conditions in the countries with low living standards.
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[03:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:58] <exec> 08└─Swallowed other galaxies. Have you ever seen Omega Centauri! A ball of a hundred million stars, now part of the Milky Way, but where did it come from? If you are far enough south, you can see it clearly with just binoculars. And there are One Hundred Fifty some other globular clusters floating abou...
[03:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─Still trying to figure out what those might be made of.
[03:21:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:58] <exec> 08└─The only time a cop should be held harmless for his actions is when the damage he causes is incidental to doing all the right things when carrying out his legitimate duties of protecting and serving. In every other case, he has become the criminal from whom he has sworn to protect us; the courts sho...
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so I thought I covered the leaves in the trash with the failed THC test, I'm sure there were other "unmentionable" profile points that factored into the decision to go ahead with the raid - cops aren't completely stupid, but they do trust their instincts way more than the law says they are all...
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─kansas. nuff said. (sad, but those who understand the backwardness of the flyover states like this, don't need more explanation) this happens in non-flyovers, but to MUCH less degree. the flyovers have a hard-on for 'fighting drugs' and they have not joined the modern age. they are still back in the...
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─Should... Wish in one hand...
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─Start suing the cops individually in civil court. It directly affects their wallet and not the taxpayers.
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─The government takes care of its own.
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see a court case where the defense breaks out several of these tests and swabs around the courtroom getting false positives.
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─if they hadn't been guilty of something, the cops wouldn't have gone after them. Therefore, they are guilty of something.
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─Here's one: http://abcnews.go.com [go.com]
[03:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tyrsal [5456] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Red and Google Play Music to Merge - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─This is literally a non-story. The services have given a "free subscription" to one another since day one, and have always been essentially "merged". In fact, if you were an early adopter of google play music, you -still- get to pay the discounted price for both.. so that's nice.
[03:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:00] <exec> 08└─That's pretty neat! Don't have anything to add other than factory-model schooling doesn't work. However, I doubt a majority of students could succeed with that method. Somehow we all decided that the only way to let women out of the kitchen was to keep everybody of any gender out of the kitchen. It'...
[03:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─So if my business is going bankrupt I can just choose to give all the money to my friends, I mean 'pay' all my 'workers'. Great, who wants to lend me a few million and where can I find a good bankruptcy lawyer?
[03:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:03] <exec> 08└─1. Bullshit. Charter schools don't make money magically appear,
[03:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─I identify as a company with an HR department.
[03:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Slug Slime" Inspires New Surgical Glue - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:06] <exec> 08└─It is super glue with a mild antibiotic. I wonder about the statement in the about super glue being toxic, since it has been used in medicine for about two decades. It's all cyano acrilate as I recall.
[03:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:00] <exec> 08└─I remember when their autocomplete first came along... was annoying as all hell and got JS promptly disabled for Google, and so it remains to this day. Or would be if I hadn't long since switched first to IXQuick/Startpage, and then to the Duck. And speaking of Fucking Google (which is now all one w...
[03:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:01] <exec> 08└─Y/o/u/r/ You're right. I tried trussing my coffee cup so it wouldn't spill, but that durn dew knot didn't hold...
[03:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sperm Count Drop 'May Lead to Human Extinction' - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:36] <exec> 08└─Forget xenoestrogen and phytoestrogen. Birth control pills are taken and peed out, and wastewater treatment plants were never intended to remove estrogen from the water supply.
[03:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sperm Count Drop 'May Lead to Human Extinction' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:38] <exec> 08└─As seen in frogs [newsweek.com] and otters. [huffingtonpost.com]
[03:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sperm Count Drop 'May Lead to Human Extinction' - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:40] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking of using this as the premise for a TV show about a dystopian near-future where male fertility has fallen such that only one-in-five is capable of producing offspring. Each fertile male becomes the property of a leading family and is used in an intricate mating ceremony to get the leadin...
[03:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Whether Stopping Antibiotics Early Encourages Antibiotic Resistance - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:12] <exec> 08└─I think that logic is flawed. You're not going to kill 100% of any bacteria in your body unless you vaporize every cell in your body too. Instead, what happens is that a long course of antibiotics are going to leave the 99% resistant bacteria to repopulate, vs a short course of antibiotics leaving ~...
[03:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:27] <exec> 08└─Germany is an example. They do a a lot of trade with China, but they do it sensibly [globaltrade.net].
[03:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:28] <exec> 08└─Citation needed single member cooperatives You'll need to specify how one cooperates with himself--or doesn't. Does this individual have Multiple Personality Disorder? Work in the word "collective" while you're at it. Meanwhile, I'll just go ahead and call what you do muddled "thinking". master elec...
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[04:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Panama Papers Lead to Resignation of Pakistan's Prime Minister - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:01] <exec> 08└─Most didn't grok, and didn't care to. Cut the BS and don't try to be cute - this isn't twatter.
[04:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:12] <exec> 08└─The turtle burps.
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:47] <exec> 08└─What's that they say about great minds thinking alike? The suggested dept line was [soylentnews.org] no-qualified-immunity-for-incompetent-cops -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Red and Google Play Music to Merge - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─Volunteer? You fool! Their business model is based on coercion, forced payments, "subscriptions" and the like. You'll not get far *offering* them money! Next you'll be claiming you *own* the music you *bought*
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[05:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:13] <exec> 08└─Particles, froj, particles! Of course, particles propelled by a super-nova could be travelling at near light-speed, certainly the light from the super-novae are, and they are particles, photons, so there is that. Nothing to slow them down or stop them, until they encounter our particular gravitation...
[05:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─I've mentioned Special Prosecutors several times before. I think that every state should have one of those offices set up and active. N.B. Current US Senator from California Kamala Harris was previously Attorney General for California. She opposed Special Prosecutors. For that reason, I am opposed t...
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[05:23:07] <exec> 08└─I'm with you, although I would emphasise that they specifically went out of their way to generate the mindset that is undermining them right now. If all you need for music is a thing, or a pipe, then as long as anyone can easily produce that thing or pipe, your middlemen and gatekeepers are on very,...
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[06:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:58] <exec> 08└─What's the point of testing a browser when not connected to the internet?
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[06:20:59] <exec> 08└─Shhhhhh. It's a mac user.
[06:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:01] <exec> 08└─The point is to test the speed of tab loading code, not internet connection speed or page rendering speed. There are various aspects of a browser, and sometimes you want to test one of them in (more-or-less) isolation. In the same venue, you wouldn't test page rendering on a profile with 1700 tabs,...
[06:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:04] <exec> 08└─An important point is that, of course, those tabs are all background tabs and none of the pages in them are actually loaded into memory. This behavior is the same in all of the tested versions. The thing being tested is the load time of the tabs themselves, in essence loading session data (including...
[06:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 2270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:06] <exec> 08└─HOWEVER, having said that, even initially loading all those tabs isn't the bad aspect to me. The worst aspects to me in order of importance: 1. MEMORY LEAKS - Seriously, Mozilla has so many memory leaks it isn't funny. They keep blaming it on addons, but the ONLY addons I run are NoScript or uBlock/...
[06:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously. A few dozen tabs are easy to get opened up during a project. Yea, that happens. A thousand? Somebody has confused tabs with bookmarks at that point, especially the ones who keep that stuff open for months / years across reboots, major version updates, etc. Pro tip: Bookmarks do not impact...
[06:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Panama Papers Lead to Resignation of Pakistan's Prime Minister - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:18] <exec> 08└─Calibri Font Plays Its Role: Pakistan Now Sans Sharif as Prime Minister is Disqualified [slashdot.com] BBC News story [bbc.co.uk] that explains the significance of the font (for those who look at articles, it's linked from the article in this topic)
[06:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panama Papers Lead to Resignation of Pakistan's Prime Minister - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:20] <exec> 08└─Well, don't leave us hanging, what's the headline? Parent post is currently +2, Informative, but it should be -1, Tease! I bet it's another riff on "sans Shariff". I read about this story on Techdirt, where it was titled From Sans Serif To Sans Sharif: #Fontgate Leads To Calls For Pakistan's Prime M...
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[06:21:22] <exec> 08└─Ah, ninja'd by an AC posting the headline :) Thanks AC, modded Informative :D
[06:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:34] <exec> 08└─Could alien civilizations in the southern galaxies be using wind power to send their people? Without a barrier to stop the aliens, how do we know they're not already here? Bringing crime, bringing drugs, killing our birds, interfering in our elections, and undermining our values. We must prevail. Fo...
[06:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Government Report Suggests North Koreans Hack for Cash, Not Secrets - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they're either on their hind legs or need more liquid capital to pull of something in the near future. I think the concentration camps and how they treat their own citizens is enough reason to change the government instead of worrying about any missiles they might launch but I bet countr...
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[06:21:44] <exec> 08└─Missiles are not that big of a worry, at least not yet. I also am not aware of any major Russian involvement in this. Maybe you've mixed up your evil world powers? The only reason that NK still exists is that the China is backing them.
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[06:25:51] <exec> 08└─Here I was worried that my rationalizations were twisted from time to time. I am in awe.
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[07:21:13] <exec> 08└─The browser suffers from memory fragmentation above all else, that is, they allocate too many small objects and do no custom pooling (I bet some of this code goes all the way back to netscape and was never changed). The memory might be released, but due to gaps forming in the continuous memory regio...
[07:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:15] <exec> 08└─Bookmarks in Firefox actually do impact performance, I know, I've had several 1000 of them and had to externalise them.
[07:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:17] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a lot of work. They should just create a new programming language from scratch.
[07:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panama Papers Lead to Resignation of Pakistan's Prime Minister - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:28] <exec> 08└─For what its worth, Sharif in Urdu means Gentle [hinkhoj.com]. So, in a way, now that Military rule is what's in line for Pakistan, they really are sans-Sharif.
[07:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah that one would get me too. It would be nice if the spell-checkers would prioritize common mistakes instead of just following alphabetical order. Like, you'd right click "princeple" and get: principle: n, fundamental truth or... principal: n, person with the highest... princeling: ... princely:...
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[08:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:54] <exec> 08└─Stick a capacitor in it and call it Organic Lighting and charge double for being a humanitarian lighting solution.
[08:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:56] <exec> 08└─Whether or not there is flicker depends on the quality of the bulb. Here are some of the circuits used in LED bulbs. [stackexchange.com] Note that all of them rectify the AC, and all of them include a capacitor for smoothing. A quote from one of the articles: "Depending on the individual observer, l...
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[08:20:58] <exec> 08└─Light.....bulb? My only source of light is the backlight of my screen.
[08:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:00] <exec> 08└─There are tricks you can use to make flicker more visible. In the simplest case, if there is no other source of light in the room, just wave a pencil back-and-forth in front of a flickering light. Fancier: cut equally spaced slots in a piece of paper, and then move it back and forth, or create a slo...
[08:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:02] <exec> 08└─I think they already do that. I had to change 2 ceiling LED lamps for the same reason: bad Chinese capacitors. Luckily they were on warranty, but it's still a pain in the ass to have to change the same lamp 3 times in a year.
[08:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:04] <exec> 08└─Even better is to have the capacitor on the primary side such that a switchmode powersupply will be able to compensate the unavoidable dips in the AC waveform. It might possible work to use a inductor (coil) as a energy storage on the primary side. This will keep the current constant. On the seconda...
[08:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:07] <exec> 08└─And years ago when I said that 24fps for movies was crap and even 60fps wasn't enough, people were insulting me and making up shit that my eyes can't see the difference. So why are so many people so accepting of 24 fps movies and supposedly LED bulbs aren't acceptable? When your eyes saccade across...
[08:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panama Papers Lead to Resignation of Pakistan's Prime Minister - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:34] <exec> 08└─Obviously Nawaz Sharif don't trust his countries own banking so why should anyone trust him to make the right decisions for banks in his country? Besides Nawaz Sharif tried to get Sharia (Islamic law) as official code of law. So no loss!
[08:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:25] <exec> 08└─Convenient they forgot to take a photo of the result and send the sample to the lab as they were required.
[08:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:47] <exec> 08└─Have you considered youtube-dl [github.com]?
[08:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Kills Off Search-As-You-Type - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:48] <exec> 08└─Mac OS X. Unlike every other OS I've used, they go out of their way to ensure that a lot of common UI components behave in exactly the same way in all applications, which is usually good but makes inconsistency more jarring (and makes Qt apps almost totally unusable, because they look almost like na...
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[09:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:10] <exec> 08└─And the moral of the story is: don't skimp and get cheap-ass LED lights. Like many others, I can absolutely see the flicker of unrectified LED lighting or signage running at the typical 50Hz or 60Hz or AC mains, and it's the most annoying aspect of the technology for me - even more so than the harsh...
[09:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:12] <exec> 08└─This seems to be all the evidence presented: https://www1.essex.ac.uk [essex.ac.uk] While I find those claims reasonable, it looks like it is just someones ideas.
[09:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:14] <exec> 08└─a switchmode powersupply
[09:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:29] <exec> 08└─It sounds like something the OS should be capable of resolving. Is there not a general purpose memory defrag that can automatically run during idle?
[09:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:55] <exec> 08└─Just like the Donald to think that the RA declension of a galaxy makes any difference at all. Tiny hands, tiny galaxy, tiny brain.
[09:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:34] <exec> 08└─Well there's this https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Small town lost a good sized chunk of it's police force to a well armed home owner defending his property against an illegal search and seizure.
[09:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:15] <exec> 08└─RL = Real-Life as in the coffee break? or official interviews? So don't do news interviews or online video blog? Or at least discuss NP hardness but never what you think about social issues etc. In a high tension climate the best move many times is to not play. And thus not communicate with your ass...
[09:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:16] <exec> 08└─as internet access grows you're left to constantly tip-toe around ever more groups seeking to destroy people who 'offend' them.
[09:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:19] <exec> 08└─It's up to you if you want to die. But others may wish to live on far beyond the current possible life span regardless of your wishes. Besides the present calculations is that people will live on average for 1000 years if natural causes would not make them die. After 1000 years fatal accidents tend...
[09:28:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Sperm Count Drop 'May Lead to Human Extinction' - 674 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:43] <exec> 08└─Face it, 90% of the problems we have are due to too many people. Get rid of 1/3 of the people on the planet and a lot of things will self correct soonish. My karma is gonna take a hit but fuck it. We need to stop basing our economies on population growth and realize too many people is kinda like an...
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[10:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:17] <exec> 08└─> And the moral of the story is: don't skimp and get cheap-ass LED lights. Not as simple as that, I've paid a lot for top (supposedly) brand LED bulbs which have flickered and failed in a month, and I've had cheap chinese no-name imports last for several times that (still failed in under a year thou...
[10:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:19] <exec> 08└─More important than the effect on human vision is the obnoxious effect of cheap LEDs on digital video sensors. It's my understanding that the latest professional LED "hot lights" for video work have frequencies around 20,000Hz so that no matter how high your filming shutter speed is the flicker won'...
[10:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:21] <exec> 08└─From admittedly limited evidence in my case, at least some people's dislike of LEDs is purely psychosomatic. I've got LED lighting in my house that looks like incandescent, and love asking people who say they can't stand LED lighting what they think of my lights. An hour or so later I'll casually me...
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[10:21:35] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a lot of work. They should just create a new programming language from scratch.
[10:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:37] <exec> 08└─The OS can only do so much when someone is aggressively allocating and freeing a lot of memory. But hey, what tools the OS offers they didn't even bother to use (at least on windows --- where despite its existence they don't enable the low-fragmentation heap, never checked this in *nix but the situa...
[10:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:44] <exec> 08└─Apparently those field "test" kits have upwards of 70% failure [techdirt.com] in practice.
[10:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:46] <exec> 08└─Them being ex-CIA actually counts as a big minus for me. If you work for the CIA I'd assume a high chance of you being evil and/or corrupt till there's proof otherwise. It's much harder to make a list of the good things the CIA has done for the USA, much less the world; than to make a list of the ba...
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[11:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the efforts of developers, the XML description of a new document written by LibreOffice is 50% smaller in the case of ODF (ODT), and around 90% smaller in the case of OOXML (DOCX), in comparison with the same document generated by the leading proprietary office suite.
[11:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:01] <exec> 08└─Stop faffing about and link to the only thing that matters with Libreoffice: The proper, full, examples-in-picture, best-ever changelogs: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org [documentfoundation.org]
[11:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:39] <exec> 08└─+1. I can make Firefox die (slow down to the point where it takes 15-30s to respond to a mouse click, then eventually go into "program is not responding mode" with 100% CPU used) with five tabs or less. Just go to a site with a few animated GIFs on each page, e.g. that Pokemon-image-cartoon site my...
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[11:21:40] <exec> 08└─They likely do, but as far as I can tell, not much. Checking just now, it seems I have ~23k bookmarks (15ish years of bookmarking and almost never removing them will do that). I use Pale Moon, which is codewise still mostly Firefox. Even with this ridiculous number and dozens of addons on top of tha...
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[12:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:54] <exec> 08└─They got to make the electricity somehow. A natural gas burning bus should be pretty good already. Even if the electricity is 100% solar, if they used the electricity to take something less good offline elsewhere, they might come out ahead. Or maybe this is about spending money to bring the technolo...
[12:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:23] <exec> 08└─"Isn't enough" for what? 24fps is clearly different to 60fps. But it's not inherently bad, it's just a certain style that we've become used to seeing as "film." There are all kinds of ways in which visual entertainment differs from real life. Frame rate is just one of them.
[12:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:25] <exec> 08└─Interesting point. I was referring more to the really crappy ones with poor quality - or even entirely lacking - smoothing capacitors and rectifiers, but I kind of gravitated to the supermarket ones automatically as it gave me a chance to try a few mid-range products from both manufacturers and stor...
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[12:21:27] <exec> 08└─It's something we subconciously learn, just same as we do for many other things we experience on a regular basis without any form of formal tuition as we grow up. Once developed, there's almost certainly a section of the optical cortex that recognizes a given frame rate being displayed on a screen a...
[12:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:47] <exec> 08└─Whats a third Mozilla language going to solve?
[12:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Government Report Suggests North Koreans Hack for Cash, Not Secrets - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:23] <exec> 08└─Makes about as much sense as the Chinese building quantum supercomputers just to mine bitcoins.
[12:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Government Report Suggests North Koreans Hack for Cash, Not Secrets - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:25] <exec> 08└─The only reason that NK still exists is that the China is backing them.
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[13:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:02] <exec> 08└─Users can choose between four female models
[13:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:03] <exec> 08└─there are a lot of Otakus who don't know how to communicate with girls," Margaret Ming, the app's communication officer, told AFP. "This game can teach them how to get to know girls,"
[13:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:05] <exec> 08└─Why not real girls (or boys?) ... and if they want to get any at 30 all they need is to be known to have money, so they need a "work simulator" or whatever not a "dating simulator"
[13:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:14] <exec> 08└─People tend to fixate on CO2 neutrality, but that is not the whole story. The great challenge is to build an infrastructure for electric vehicles. Short time gain will mean less local pollution (mostly noise and NOx) CO2 neutrality is a more long term benefit that will become easier as renewables ta...
[13:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:16] <exec> 08└─Strictly speaking, Metro isn't part of the Los Angeles city government. It's a regional agency. The city plans to phase out coal power by 2025 [ceert.org] (PDF); the coal-fired power plant it shares in Arizona will be changed over to burn gas. Depending on the route, buses sometimes have frequent st...
[13:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:48] <exec> 08└─The solution I chose when I designed the LED lighting for my place, is to not rely on the LED bulbs to provide flicker free output. Rather I made use of a DC-DC converter at 20khz to step down mains voltage from 240V to 12V. It is was a standard COTS model used for halogen bulbs, but I made sure it...
[13:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:49] <exec> 08└─Most bulbs use a constant current switching regulator to run them. Very efficient and the switching speed is usually in the khz.
[13:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:51] <exec> 08└─LEDs last an age when subjected to typical usage patterns and given a decent power supply
[13:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:54] <exec> 08└─It's my understanding that the latest professional LED "hot lights" for video work have frequencies around 20,000Hz so that no matter how high your filming shutter speed is the flicker won't show up visibly in the video.
[13:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:14] <exec> 08└─Which one of you has the HDD and which one of you has the SSD? That could play a big role. If tens of thousands of bookmarks is going to slow anything down, it would be the "awesomebar", right?
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's probably just the stellar wind and supernova residue collectively emitted by millions to billions of stars (I presume this would be from galaxies and globular clusters much smaller than the Milky Way's 100 billion or so stars). So steady state would be hydrogen and helium like the solar wind of...
[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─Who knew that a parody account would parody? Who knew? Join me on the ground as I speak to ACs live who think that parody Trump is a real dumbshit.
[13:23:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:36] <exec> 08└─Oh how cute you think the police bothered to do the science part. One loud asshole shot up and said "I busted enough hippies and gang bangers to recognize a pot leaf, you can wait for the results if you want but I'm going there right now to bust some heads! Go go go!!!" Police officers should be inc...
[13:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:27] <exec> 08└─It might be more interesting to go through the judge's trash with the test they used and show the judge the results. For bonus points, figure out a way to arrange for the same cop to use the test result to go before the same judge with a warrant request for his own house. Hopefully, educating the ju...
[13:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:51] <exec> 08└─Actually, Detroit was successful before White Flight to the suburbs.
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:53] <exec> 08└─ugggh you are correct, I messed that all up. Where I live the three charter schools are school district affiliated and "creationist charters" or whatever are a social media thing, although I'm sure they exist somewhere. Also I crossed the wires of this bankruptcy with the other Detroit bankruptcy. h...
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[14:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:57] <exec> 08└─TFA has a link on the word "girls" ! (just above the second picture). I followed this and it explains what a girl is : "any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood" So now we know.
[14:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:59] <exec> 08└─The guys who get off with girls are the ones to whom this comes naturally rather than having to learn it. Once I had learned, by my later 20s, I had plenty of GFs. As the meme goes, The things I wished I knew when I was 20.
[14:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:01] <exec> 08└─Real girlfriends are fickle gold diggers who leave as soon as you stop paying for it. Virtual reality is a fickle technology which stops working as soon as you stop paying for it. Why not just fuck the money?
[14:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:03] <exec> 08└─Gestra's virtual girlfriend didn't want him. Tall, adolescently gawky and awkward despite his two hundred years, Gestra felt he had been an outsider all his life. He'd tried physical alteration (he'd been quite handsome, for a while), he'd tried being female (she'd been quite pretty, she'd been told...
[14:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, advertising the fact that you have money may not be a good idea, because you'll increase the chances of running into gold diggers. One shouldn't want people that shallow anyway.
[14:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:08] <exec> 08└─Actually, there's a significant shortage of real girls in China. To the tune of something like 20-30 million extra young men. This has to do with the 1-child policy plus a cultural belief in the importance of carrying on the family name. Boys carry on the family, girls don't, so many Chinese familie...
[14:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's funny how you think real girls who are not gold diggers actually exist.
[14:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:12] <exec> 08└─I learned from her that girls are generally not the slightest bit interested in guy's issues/hobbies/whatever as long as you were "gentlemanly" towards them and were prepared to talk about their issues/hobbies/whatever. Be prepared to spend hours listening with interest to them assasinating the char...
[14:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:15] <exec> 08└─The acceptable solution for alienation is always more technology, spending money, more progressive acceptance of experimentation, more artificial experience, more distraction. Anything, to avoid asking why society is geared to always increase alienation and who's doing it and why.
[14:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:17] <exec> 08└─There are also a lot of Otakus who don't want anything to do with women and would rather have fantasies about anime characters. I'm not sure how some silly game could change someone's sexual preferences.
[14:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:28] <exec> 08└─People in LA ride the bus? That is not the image that comes to mind when you see the highways (or whatever they are called) in and around the city. Filled with cars in every lane and moving at about a snail's pace. I wonder if the fully electric zero emissions bus will manage to jump the gap in the...
[14:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:30] <exec> 08└─LA isn't going broke quick enough so they need new ideas to increase the pace of city bankruptsy, amirite? don't worry; the fed will bail them out
[14:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:32] <exec> 08└─Not on Trump's watch. The reason why LA is so broke is because it shelters a million illegal immigrant leeches. Actually L.A. needs nuking from orbit. It has no redeeming qualities, no decent architecture, just millions of shit people who need snuffing out. I pray to Jesus Christ that LA is the targ...
[14:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:42] <exec> 08└─File size is good accomplishment, but that's not the most important. What about about slowness? What about buggy import OOXML? What about little buggy things like unexpected tables behavior?
[14:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─I'm the AC with ~23k bookmarks. I have HDD, but I found "awesomebar" annoying when they first implemented it so it's turned off. I don't like my inputs mixed. For bookmark management I use the combination of: * All-in-One Sidebar - shows addons, bookmarks, history etc. in a sidebar * 2 Pane Bookmark...
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Government Report Suggests North Koreans Hack for Cash, Not Secrets - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─No worse than gold and diamonds.
[14:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:47] <exec> 08└─"Principle ingredient" doesn't mean the one that exist in the largest quantity. It's the one for which the item is used. Household bleach is mostly water, but it's principle ingredient is chlorine (which is only about 6-8% of the liquid).
[14:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─If it was successful, why were the whites fleeing?
[14:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:15] <exec> 08└─Because of racism.
[14:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LIDAR Sensors May Limit Self Driving Car Rollouts - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:04] <exec> 08└─That problem has been solved long ago.
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[15:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:54] <exec> 08└─Camp A (the haves): The economy is fine because I have money. Lower my taxes. Fuck you, got mine! Camp B (the have nots): The recession never ended. Where's my opportunity? Raise taxes and give me a New Deal. Camp C (the bums): SOCIALISM NOW! GIMME BASIC INCOME! PAY ME NOT TO WORK!
[15:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is that fractional reserve banking means, that those with more capital, get more, cheaper credit. Those without capital, need to spend a disproportionate portion of their income on just surviving. The poor who can't get credit, are competing with the rich who can get credit, to buy a hou...
[15:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:58] <exec> 08└─Someone from the strongest bastion of socialist ideals in the nation (higher ed institutes) is saying capitalism is bad? Say it ain't so!
[15:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:00] <exec> 08└─Today the trend to greater equality of incomes which characterized (sic) the postwar period has been reversed. Inequality is now rising rapidly.
[15:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:02] <exec> 08└─The point of the "trickle-down" idea was never to accurately describe how the economy actually worked, but to provide an academic-sounding excuse for Reagan and his successors to cut taxes for rich people for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with economics and everything to do with politics...
[15:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:04] <exec> 08└─Traditionally, triple parentheses. Although I'm sure the demographics are just a coincidence.
[15:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 2103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:07] <exec> 08└─The alternative interpretation is in an era of automation and world trade to route economically around environmentalism and labor laws, is that trickle down makes the permanent economic decline smoother and less deep, at least immediately. The argument isn't that trickle down will give you the 60s b...
[15:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:09] <exec> 08└─And someone who has theirs and cares not for anyone else points it out.
[15:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:29] <exec> 08└─That's because cynically everyone has been trained to believe that the only things in life that are real or valuable have a price tag. It's why billionaires are fawned over and paupers are despised. It's why riches are measured in dollars when real wealth is something any of us can have. It's a soci...
[15:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:42] <exec> 08└─Sorry, man, but I reserved first strike on Chicago, IL about 25 years ago. If L'il Kim has enough to vaporize Chicago and then Washington DC and Barstow, CA after that then LA can go. Besides, isn't LA already a horrible disease that kills its victims slowly and bloodily out every orifice?
[15:21:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─Stop faffing about and link to the only thing that matters with Libreoffice: The proper, full, examples-in-picture, best-ever changelogs: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org [documentfoundation.org]
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tadas [3635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when they add Outline mode to the word processor. It's the only reason I keep using Word.
[15:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:56] <exec> 08└─Just remember that the village idiot has 75% approval rating on desktop... thanks to people's ignorance and inertia.
[15:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:58] <exec> 08└─Slowness? Sure, on a 386 running off a rusty HDD. Buggy import OOXML? The problem with OOXML is the export (on other office suites), Micro$oft doesn't follow its own "standard". Care to elaborate on the tables thing?
[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:26] <exec> 08└─Most of my lights are on dimmer switches and, since I don't have the asian affliction for overly bright blue LED lights (or any other hue), they're generally not at the full setting very often which probably helps with the longevity of bulbs at least a little. Can't really do much about the built-in...
[15:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─There's another semi-related issue to this that can cause problems [dpreview.com] for digital cameras under certain conditions, and that's LED signage which tends to work by pulsing a matrix of RGB LEDs at a high rate - typically several kHz - to simulate different hues. Combine that with electronic...
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─1. MEMORY LEAKS - Seriously, Mozilla has so many memory leaks it isn't funny.
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graham Nash to Auction Robert Crumb's Underground Comix Artworks - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─I have a full set of the Fritz the Cat comics, bought new when new. I treasure them. :)
[15:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:37] <exec> 08└─There were and still are lots of forms of racism that have absolutely nothing to do with the Klan or threats of overt violence and terrorism practiced by the Klan. It's well-documented in cities like Boston that efforts to racially integrate schools led to widespread protest and even riots in the la...
[15:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:58] <exec> 08└─http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/australian-women-need-us-to-fertilise-them-halal-chief-slams-white-men-in-facebook-rant/news-story/ec80593236bd78ebdaeedfce2b1d65b6 [news.com.au]
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[16:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:03] <exec> 08└─I don't want to eat jellyfish. The way things used to be, vending machine snacks could be assumed to be acceptable for a vegetarian diet, when the only snacks available were such things as potato chips and chocolate bars. Then some wag got the bright idea to add pork rinds to the mix. Fine, pork rin...
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a lot of effort for something nasty. At least with the equally nasty shark fin soup the rest of the shark can be eaten as well (and shark is tasty, the meat of real men). They will, of course, make money off of jellyfish by touting it as the next big thing for hipster fucks and other pre...
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:07] <exec> 08└─What a load of horseshit. Every vending machine nowadays contains healthy options from baked veggie-crisps to sacks of nuts.
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. Jellyfish isn't just something Westerners aren't used to eating; it is simply worthless crap. No flavor, no nutrition. For a similar reason, Westerners don't eat insects. People say, but you eat shellfish like shrimp and crabs, aren't those basically just sea bugs? No, they aren't....
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:11] <exec> 08└─to sacks of nuts.
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:13] <exec> 08└─Dude. You're posting again. Haven't you figured it out yet? When people look at you like you just shit yourself, or they snicker at the things you write? Yeah, that's what happens when you open your mouth or put pen to paper or mash drivel on the keyboard. How many years and you haven't figured that...
[16:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:16] <exec> 08└─Actually, people who cook and eat tarantulas say they're a lot like soft-shell crab. Otherwise agreed though, eating bugs is for bushniggers and Mali scroungers. All that food aid going to Africa should be bug meal.
[16:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─My thick geoduck moistened your momma's jellyfish, you faggot.
[16:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:33] <exec> 08└─Look how successful Niggery Uzzard is. White crackers want to be him. You jealous bro?
[16:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:34] <exec> 08└─There should be free competition in currencies, and banking.
[16:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think the idea that increasing economic inequality reduces overall growth is a new idea. I remember reading studies that showed this years ago. I do think that the objective of the super-wealthy is increasing inequality rather than personal wealth. They would prefer to have 10% of a 1 pound...
[16:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:39] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you will be economically equalized with the select multiculturals and they will compensated for unearned income, with your income. It's a strength! ;^)
[16:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:41] <exec> 08└─I would like to see what life in a free market would be like. And, I mean "free". There is no free market today, you can be sure of that. In fact, many businesses are granted monopolies by the government. In essence, most large corporations enjoy near monopoly status. The richer the owners/boardmemb...
[16:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:43] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid in this case you can't dismiss a guy with the credentials he has with a zinger. It's like either one of us calling Stephen Hawking a moron; yeah, we could say that but it would have all the snap of a limp noodle. In fact it would rebound on us as the inadequate ones. So come up with a bet...
[16:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:45] <exec> 08└─Economists are pretty much practitioners of voodoo. You could argue the same about mathematicians, but at least mathematicians have a solid foundation based on repeatable, verifiable results. Economics is based on a foundation of pop psychology with some sociology, opinion, personal politics, and ad...
[16:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─To be expected. If you cant argue against the argument, go for the man. Why don't you explain to us how increasing inequality is actually a good thing after all. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the US economy, and that of most other advanced countries, has clearly not been performing. In...
[16:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:50] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't because I've yet to hear a reasonable plan for maintaining the conditions needed for a successful free market such as making sure externalities are paid for or that information isn't suppressed.
[16:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:52] <exec> 08└─PAY ME NOT TO WORK! We pay farmers not the grow, so, why not? The rich don't have to work, why should we have to? There's plenty for everybody to live like kings. It's time to spread it around a bit. If you can't wipe your own ass, build a machine instead of using a slave.
[16:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ed271 [6368] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:54] <exec> 08└─I don't think a free market is even possible. The trouble is that some people will be better at it than others, and they'll start to accumulate money. Money turns into power, and pretty soon people use that power to rewrite the rules and the market is no longer free. The funny thing is it's kind of...
[16:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:56] <exec> 08└─So what's your alternative? Actual voodoo? Just give up and not even think about economics? If it's too hard for you to understand you can just go back to your mathematics instead, leave the real thinking to the grown ups.
[16:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:58] <exec> 08└─I would like to see what life in a free market would be like.
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:19] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of pantywaist whingers. Get a hold of yourself, man. You *are* men, aren't you? Or are you some of those weak minded "red pill" types that are too stupid to make a go of it and get a girlfriend. I'm sorry Sally didn't kiss you in the closet in grade 1 but get over it and move on.
[16:23:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─From admittedly limited evidence in my case, at least some people's dislike of LEDs is purely psychosomatic. I've got LED lighting in my house that looks like incandescent, and love asking people who say they can't stand LED lighting what they think of my lights. An hour or so later I'll casually me...
[16:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─Its that kind of stuff that makes me think this was some kind of conspiracy. Ex-CIA lawyer makes trouble for the local legal system through some court case. Lets raid her house for drugs and aim guns at their children to keep her in line.
[16:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─Bond holders are not investors. Bond holders are lenders. Borrowing money is one dimension of raising capital -- borrowing money at a specified interest rate with a secured promise to repay the principle. Stock holders, on the other hand, are investors. Stock holders are entitled to a share of the p...
[16:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 3 Reviewed - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:56] <exec> 08└─I need a new computer sooner than later, I may check this out. The one I have currently is nice and quiet, but too goddamn big.
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[17:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:08] <exec> 08└─When i was a kid, i had turtle soup a couple times (no, don't know what kind of turtle). I remember it being fecking delicious! Wouldn't mind trying some again. Jellyfish? I'd hit that.... as in i'd try it if someone gave me a sample. I'd try calamari too, if i could get some for free: not going to...
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[17:21:09] <exec> 08└─Calamari itself is a lot like strips or rings of egg-white. It's pretty bland alone without sauce or seasoning, but fucking awesome when fried (what isn't?) and served with cocktail sauce. When eaten raw (as sashimi, for example) it is slightly more rubbery but has an interesting sticky mouthfeel, a...
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:11] <exec> 08└─Ship it all to feed the starving masses in the 3rd world. Moar BACON for me!
[17:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:14] <exec> 08└─Is that the best rebuttal you can troll, you tool? Retching from a mouthful of chicken meat is a psychosomatic condition and all you weak-stomached soft-headed overgrown insane hippie children should be shot in the head and buried under the parking lot of the Whole Foods when Amazon buys the place a...
[17:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:16] <exec> 08└─Awesome comeback. A real Pulitzer Prize winner there. No, wait, it was stupid like you. BTW - You sure do talk about gays and sex a lot. Do you think about that often? But then you also talk a lot about stupid things so maybe you don't think at all. That would be stupid.
[17:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:18] <exec> 08└─Everyone else commenting seems to be off-put. From the description they seem bland and ready for flavouring. Also, I would imagine the jellyfish are probably low in carbohydrates so this is probably acceptable for many modern diets, which is very difficult to find in a vegetarian palate. Interesting...
[17:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:20] <exec> 08└─Yes let's make the starving masses even hungrier by feeding them salty snacks. Sorry we're all out of cake, so Let Them Eat Crisps.
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:23] <exec> 08└─Exactly. So to reduce the surplus population. Moar BACON!
[17:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─Being stupid again. Just can't help yourself. Sad.
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:27] <exec> 08└─Interestingly enough, there seems to be a debate if jellyfish are vegetarian/vegan. Yes they are in the kingdom Animalia but they lack a central nervous system.
[17:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:29] <exec> 08└─"Yes they are in the kingdom Animalia but they lack a central nervous system. " So too politicians. Eat them as well.
[17:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:31] <exec> 08└─There is "too little" of species X, so lets make laws against hunting them. But there is "too much" of species Y so lets release robots to murder them. How are these optimal values determined? Is it really so stupid as "the population size when I was born/came of age is the best size"?
[17:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:34] <exec> 08└─Eat the surplus population. More longpig longpork longbacon.
[17:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:36] <exec> 08└─I thought politicians were fungus which feed on decay.
[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:04] <exec> 08└─All markets are 'free'. The government is just another cog, usually to serve at the pleasure of bankers and merchants, if not be them. Everybody else is chum (shark bait). It is true anarchy, they can do what they want and nobody can stop them. "Might makes right" is still as valid as it always was.
[17:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─No, it didn't, but that's about when the modern period of it getting obscene happened. We've always had gaps between the wealthiest and the poorest amongst us. To an extent that's healthy and necessary in order to spur innovation and production capabilities. One of the big problems the Soviets had w...
[17:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:08] <exec> 08└─You can see a free market in action in places such as Somalia.
[17:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:10] <exec> 08└─Non-productive, rent seeking parasites: The economy is fine, more H1B's and cut my taxes! Productive middle and working class: We're producing all the wealth and paying through the nose for everything! Welfare parasites: Socialism now, tax the rich! -- sent from my iPhone
[17:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─The reason economics is so bad is that models are always based on what will benefit some particular collection of people. Experimentation in this area is difficult, and generally requires lots of political support...so it needs to be designed to please the people who authorize it...and it results ar...
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─The post-WW2 economic leveling was an aberration. The world's economies are merely returning to the historic pattern of feudalism/slavery/peasantry. Get used to it. Old cemeteries are chockablock with revolutionaries, crusading egalitarians, and idealists.
[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, the role of the federal reserve system is always ignored in discussions like this. Trickle down theory is not only used to justify tax policies, has the federal reserve ever given you new money? No they give it to a select few rich organizations and hope they loan it to you. I'm not even commen...
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think this VR approach will be realistic enough to do the job, but I absolutely believe that some nerds need to be socialized to know how to communicate with women, how to handle them, and basically what to expect. Real instruction for nerds by other men would probably be most helpful so the...
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─LOL, real men won't have anything to do with women. Why on earth would we want to have to work hard to impress a shallow woman to be with us? Then have to deal with decades of emotional blackmail on the off chance that she decides that she no longer loves us and decides to have the courts bend us ov...
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─There's no evidence to support that belief. Those "missing" women aren't really missing so much as the local authorities turn a blind eye to girls that are never registered with the government. The gap between the number of men and women isn't anywhere near as large as you seem to think. This is jus...
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to renounce women as not worth the hassle, but if you are still bitter about it, then you can't enjoy your freedom. You need to get out of your own way. I mean that not in an accusatory manner, BTW.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─IMHO, the problem isn't usually talking to women, the problem is that women are picky as hell and unimaginably shallow. Why anybody would put that kind of effort into somebody that's going to spend the next few decades emotionally blackmailing you is beyond me. No longer being in love with somebody...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─So, you're gay, right? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Bros before hoes, amiright?!
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─A real man can hold down a high paying job, buy a house, hang with his friends, do hobbies and stuff by himself, get a girlfriend, and raise a family. If he wants to, that's what a real man can do. What can a bunch of whiny whiners do?
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─I don't care for those release notes. At all. The release notes focus mostly on shiny new features. I really don't care too much about new features - I care about compatibility fixes. These are hardly mentioned in these "proper" release notes. The only way to see those is to manually walk through th...
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:46] <exec> 08└─So why are so many people so accepting of 24 fps movies and supposedly LED bulbs aren't acceptable
[17:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:58] <exec> 08└─Trump actually appears to be making attempts to reduce the amount of regulation generated by the federal government. Yeah, so now you will have to fight against everybody to get paid.. He's only eliminating regulations that keep people honest. You guys really haven't figured out what you have done t...
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[18:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:25] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled giving advice on ethnic cuisine without racist profanities... Another troubling development following the legalization of marijuana.
[18:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:27] <exec> 08└─Jellyfish are so primitive they're basically plants. You'll be fine! If it makes you feel any better, it's just like swallowing a mouthful of semen. No biggie, right?
[18:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:29] <exec> 08└─I've only eaten the turtle's head. Tasted a lot like shit.
[18:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:31] <exec> 08└─Thje big thing with calamari is cooking it right. Cooked properly it is delicious, but it is really easy to screw it up.
[18:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:33] <exec> 08└─Oh lighten up - I took an opportunity to act like a 5 year old, insulting you was about 10% on my mind. Don't flatter yourself.
[18:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:36] <exec> 08└─Jellyfish are not plants. I can tell immediately when I bite into animal flesh. The consistency is all wrong on account of the cell walls [wikipedia.org] being missing. I find it disgusting because my own body is composed of animal flesh and I might as well be biting into my own hand. As far as I am...
[18:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:38] <exec> 08└─"Is that the best rebuttal you can troll" was in reply to Eth.
[18:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:40] <exec> 08└─I find it disgusting because my own body is composed of animal flesh and I might as well be biting into my own hand. As far as I am concerned eating any kind of animal meat is the equivalent of cannibalism.
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Thats it, no article necessary.
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:16] <exec> 08└─Cemeteries are full of everyone, really.
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─Paying farmers not to grow - not quite how it works. More to the point, we're sponsoring fallow land practices as an alternative to constantly driving every field as hard as we can, both for reasons of combating overproduction in response to incentives, and for reasons of conservation. For myself, I...
[18:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:21] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Democratic_Republic [wikipedia.org]
[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─Which clearly illustrates how all the egalitarian crusading, rebelling, and social justice warring in the world inevitably leads to the same result as simply making the best of ones lot without all the useless drama.
[18:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─OK, how about I dismiss him because he's not even giving an adequate reflection of the current understanding of neoclassical economics. I'm not even a neoclassicist, and I can tell he's building a strawman. Nary an investigation of friction in the market and the causes of those frictions - at best s...
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─You're missing the part where Reagan-era tax changes made astonishingly little difference to tax receipts because the rate cuts went along with a massive cut to tax dodges. Basically nobody was paying those top rates.
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─There's no evidence to support that belief.
[18:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─Particles, froj, particles! Of course, particles propelled by a super-nova could be travelling at near light-speed, certainly the light from the super-novae are, and they are particles, photons, so there is that.
[18:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of Milky Way's Matter May Come From Other Galaxies - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:46] <exec> 08└─From the stackexchange: sometimes we picture then as very tiny balls.
[18:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:37] <exec> 08└─There is a young black man in Detroit facing murder charges for shooting and killing two plainclothes cops who kicked in his family's door with no warning. Chances are, the thugs will win the legal battle and a man trying to protect his family will be imprisoned for decades.
[18:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter School Bond Holders Refuse to Allow Use of Funds for Payroll - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:08] <exec> 08└─Charter schools don't steal money. Well, maybe some do, who knows for sure, but the principle isn't theft. It's simply that the government is outsourcing that role, and some of their budget goes with it. If that's theft, maybe you and Mikey Moore can go arrest the executives of a few american machin...
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[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's Electric Super Highway to Power EVs Along 1,000 Miles of Coastline - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:59] <exec> 08└─My current car cost $15,000 new in 2011. No, it's not a great car, but it's fun to drive. It's a subcompact, so it's little cramped for anybody but small, tiny people like me. I can't afford a $35,000+ car, even if I lived in Australia and wanted to do nothing more with my spare time than drive on t...
[19:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:37] <exec> 08└─He's projecting his inner nigger again. What he calls a nigger is no different than he. He is just another untermensch.
[19:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:38] <exec> 08└─to get laid? Lots of effort just to eat something nasty?
[19:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:41] <exec> 08└─Vegans and vegetarians don't want to eat meat. Just respect that. There's no obligation for you to eat that way to. That some people with these food habits are insane, just as some meat eaters are doesn't all them insane.
[19:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:43] <exec> 08└─How about not overfishing and attacking the habitats of jellyfish predators?
[19:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:45] <exec> 08└─No, they are corruption feeding on money. Then we have the politicus sychopatus. Commonly found in position of power and feeds of putting others into misery for power.
[19:22:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid in this case you can't dismiss a guy with the credentials he has with a zinger. It's like either one of us calling Stephen Hawking a moron; yeah, we could say that but it would have all the snap of a limp noodle. In fact it would rebound on us as the inadequate ones. So come up with a bet...
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─Why, no, he doesn't! Amazing how many autodidacts don't actually read, but claim to know so much.
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─Life in a truly free market it would be dictatorial. In capitalism capital is power. Power without restraint is a dictatorship, even if benevolent. Relative equality would preclude this endgame, but I think it's clear that competition alone is insufficient to ensure this. And I think there's one ver...
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─...on top of that, the thing that the people with capital don't want you realizing: owning your own business does not mean you are a capitalist. Having a nest egg that feeds you and grows, owning your house, does not mean you are a capitalist. But they've spent decades and billions convincing that y...
[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─Yes we can. For example most of what Hawking babbles about these days has nothing to do with his specialty. This is a very common pattern where an expert in a narrow field gains fame and then begins attempting to transfer it to fields they have no more expertise in than most other knowledgeable laym...
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─Don't fall for this bullshit. "Earned" income is slavery.
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─Why read when you can get everything you need to be thinking and saying in an easy-to-digest, convenient package of "conservative" talk radio and Faux News? Books are for fags.
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:08] <exec> 08└─They just want you to have inordinate interaction with their families after you got caught having sex in their parents house.... Then keep bringing you into situations where their parents get ever lower opinions of you (mostly at their instigation) while talking about how important family is to thei...
[19:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─I don't know about you, but spending a couple weeks waiting for my dick to heal between sessions just isn't pleasant :)
[19:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:12] <exec> 08└─Not with the paper, with rolls of coins, idiot.
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─Pheonix666 wrote : Nuke wrote: The guys who get off with girls are the ones to whom this comes naturally rather than having to learn it. Once I had learned, by my later 20s, I had plenty of GFs.
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:27] <exec> 08└─I've been to LA twice. Lovely weather, and a couple of weekends ago I stayed in Hermosa Beach and read a book on the beach before a dip in the ocean. What's so bad about it? OK, it's not as good as NY, but no city is, but it knocks the socks off Washington DC, Toronto and Delhi, my other 3 foreign d...
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[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─What's that?
[19:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:37] <exec> 08└─Well, clearly the first two didn't get the job done. They could pull an Opera and throw out all their effort to become yet another chrome fork.
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[20:21:03] <exec> 08└─Is watching people mash buttons must-see TV?
[20:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:05] <exec> 08└─Twitch should only be used for streaming coding sessions. Let us watch the Niggery Uzzard typing code to ban trolls. And he has to type with his dick.
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:07] <exec> 08└─With 4k TV you can almost smell the 3 day-old bacon and Cheeto stink of a warehouse packed full of dick-kneading neckbeards!
[20:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:56] <exec> 08└─Or they could just stop over-fishing the jellyfish predators? :-) Lets hunt reckless fishers instead. Guaranteed meat and a boat as a bonus. Tastes like chicken supposedly. :P
[20:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:57] <exec> 08└─I bet that the comparison of tarantulas to softshell crabs is accurate because when I ate a softshell, it felt like eating an insect. All that damn shell. Jesus, might as well scarf a handful of roaches. I say this as someone who loves crabs prepared the normal way, i.e., steamed, cracked, and pick...
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─I think the point is when they are full of people that died early because of intentional death.
[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 3850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─Stop calling it fractional reserve banking for a start, nobody understands what it is or why it might be bad. That is why I like Moldbug's "Maturity Transformation" phrasing. One you explain what it is, it is easy for them to see it as an outright con and that banks depend on it for their living. Ba...
[20:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─Don't fall for this bullshit. "Earned" income is slavery.
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:53] <exec> 08└─Everything we've done is wrong, but we can't consider alternatives - we must keep doing what we know as a historical fact is wrong!
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─While we are banning fractional reserve banking, we should go back to the gold standard. Don't worry about the impact on the economy, though, I'm sure we will all get used to being poor quickly enough.
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─yeah we got it, your stance is only camp A can live without working
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─Oooh! African history is a subject I don't know a whole lot about. Can we start in ancient times and work our way forwards? These looks like some good starting material, though not "ancient:" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[20:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsangali_Sultanate [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org] (1200? - 1680? [late 17th century]) Whoops! lol
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─The gold standard sounds like a much better plan then the fed printing money and giving it to Goldman-Sacks. They have not figured out how to print gold...yet!
[20:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─Stephan Hawking is a moron. He's done some interesting work with that blackhole radiation business, but his field is cosmology, not all that different from economics - i.e., observational studies, experimental (and therefore verifiable) studies. More importantly, much of the recent BS he spews out p...
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:40] <exec> 08└─Golddiggers and whores? Are these alleged men so egotistical and self-centered that they only relate to women in terms of money? Hmm. No wonder they are so easily taken advantage of, and can't say they don't deserve it.
[20:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─I get girls by farting on my own face.
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:44] <exec> 08└─AC wrote : Nuke wrote : I learned from her that girls are generally not the slightest bit interested in guy's issues/hobbies/whatever as long as you were "gentlemanly" towards them and were prepared to talk about their issues/hobbies/whatever. Be prepared to spend hours listening with interest to...
[20:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─Male nerds sometimes hang out only with other male nerds their entire lives. How the hell are they supposed to learn about women? What others pick up thru experience in their youth, the nerd lacks. He essentially starts out as a child in these matters and needs to learn fast to make up for lost time...
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─You expect me to read the article? You know most of us came from the Green Site and brought our habits with us. :-) I still stand by my advice in general because I could imagine older teens and men in their early 20s turning to this technology.
[20:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─Hermosa Beach is more O.C. than L.A. It's nice and quiet but boring as fuck, the whole town (except for literally a quarter-block of bars) shuts down at 8 p.m. on Saturday nights, and there are no minorities there. If you really want to see the true face of L.A., then visit Santa Monica, Venice, Pac...
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─Outstanding feature request from about 2002, back in OO days: https://bz.apache.org [apache.org] Masses of discussion on it at that link, also most voted feature request at one point (think it might still be but it's been closed now), indicating a lot of interest in it. But...
[20:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:50] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Buy the ones that aren't billed as "daylight" or some such, and appear "warmer" and everybody forgets they are LEDs. I've never heard a complaint about LEDs that wasn't about the light "color". Seems pretty thin to go digging around for a use case (saccades, a term nobody ever knew prior to...
[20:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:52] <exec> 08└─Even better is to have the capacitor
[20:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:54] <exec> 08└─running at the typical 50Hz or 60Hz or AC mains
[20:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─One guy chooses a format that is rarely found. Is he a prophet and knows the world to come, or just a cranky guy with a screw you attitude? All this pontificating about non-conformist director's choices, which, in the long run, had zero effect on the industry, seems like elitists arguing the merits...
[20:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:58] <exec> 08└─Nolan's pretty open about it; he prefers film over digital. How a viewer watches it is up to them, but for some people seeing it as the director intended is the preferred format no matter what. Unless it's George Lucas, of course, in which case Han shot first and the original version rules. I doubt...
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[21:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:54] <exec> 08└─I regularly watch StarCraft 2 tournaments and there is a lot of excitement in a short time. Matches typically last between 5 to 15 minutes and can go back and forth. As soon as one player is in an unwinnable position, they concede, so matches don't drag on just to fill a fixed duration. Both tactics...
[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─And then the Terran builds a bunch of widow mines which are cheap, powerful enough to destroy a large group of units, don't die when they explode, are invisible, hit ground and air enemies, and automatically target and attack by themselves, incapable of missing. Fuck that game.
[21:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia's Electric Super Highway to Power EVs Along 1,000 Miles of Coastline - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:04] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a true Aussie.
[21:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's Electric Super Highway to Power EVs Along 1,000 Miles of Coastline - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:06] <exec> 08└─The energy supplied through the fast-charging stations will be clean, purchased through green energy offsets and credits.
[21:22:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─The point of the "trickle-down" idea was never to accurately describe how the economy actually worked, but to provide an academic-sounding excuse for Reagan and his successors to cut taxes for rich people for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with economics and everything to do with politics...
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─So where is the error in what I wrote? Do you support fraud? Or do you simply attack reflexively? Maturity Transformation is the primary driver of the boom, bust "business cycle" in that it creates a lot of phantom money that causes misallocation of resources leading to a "correction" in the form of...
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─Ah yeah, using a person's individual productivity and talents as the yard stick. It looks like the "ownership class" have been doing a lot of wealth appropriation lately.
[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zobeid Zuma [6636] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─What I disagree with is your language characterizing the system as a scam, a fraud, and claiming that there's some conspiracy to hide all of this from the public. The basic way that banks work (fractional reserve banking) is no secret to anyone who didn't sleep through their classes in school. The e...
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 2418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─You actually give a fairly accurate account here of how fractional reserve banking works. The only really incorrect detail is that the reserve ratio requirement is to limit the velocity of money, not to reduce bank failures. Your analysis of these facts, however, is deeply flawed. First, there's no...
[21:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:56] <exec> 08└─you know what? if i get my 3 square solid meals, a dry roof over my head, some oil based mobility and don't have to worry about getting sick then i really don't care that much if the 1% can buy the solar-system. my theory is that the economy generates wealth like a fountain. it would be a "waste" to...
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─keep up the good work!
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─Outlining does exist. Its just the Name and minor features that differs. Its not done quite as slickly as Old versions of Word, but it works similar. Perhaps it is as close as patents will let them get. Its called Navigator. Uses buttons to move paragraphs up/down/left-right rather than drag and dro...
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─I was being region agnostic, rather than implying you might see both in the same locale - I'm in the UK, so it's 50Hz all the way for me. The only individual countries I'm aware of with multiple AC formats are Japan (multiple frequencies) and Brazil (multiple voltages), although South America also h...
[21:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:09] <exec> 08└─" and admittedly simple-minded test scenario: a Macbook," nothing you have to say after that matters. you're a douche bag. Why do mac users always feel the need to reference the brand? stupid pretentious whores.
[21:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:31] <exec> 08└─as if people actually growing weed gives these stupid losers any legitimate right to raid. it's a plant just the same. go check your state laws and see how many plants these stupid fucking thieves are making illegal so they can prey on you. It's a war on your right to medicate yourself. what kind of...
[21:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas SWAT Raid Over Tea Leaves and Tomato Garden Outrages Federal Judges - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:32] <exec> 08└─i find it disappointing/disturbing that you use "automatic" when you more specifically mean "semi automatic" and you ostensibly know the connotation of "automatic" and should know it's used as dishonest propaganda. are you doing that on purpose or are you just ignorant of guns?
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[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:58] <exec> 08└─Come on, San Francisco, you can beat them and be #1! You wouldn't believe what those sanctuary illegal Guatemalans and El Salvadorians can tolerate! Sanctuary cities! Low-skilled workers paid decent minimum wages for liberalism! 15 bucks an hour! With tips!
[22:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:00] <exec> 08└─You might just be better off hanging a hammock in an alleyway at that point in time. At least then you will have enough space to stretch your legs. Maybe it wouldn't matter as much if people there were hovering around 5' or less, but with even asians averaging in the mid to upper 5' range, with a fe...
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─Hopefully some/most of them are making enough money with the rent they save that they can use it to get out to somewhere else in the future, but I doubt that is any more true in Hong Kong than for the lower class in the US.
[22:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:14] <exec> 08└─Ut, tut, tut. You're being stupid again! Dummy up or you'll be put back on the short bus.
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─With 4k TV you can almost smell the 3 day-old bacon and Cheeto stink of a warehouse packed full of dick-kneading neckbeards!
[22:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:17] <exec> 08└─That happens to me as well when I play. The pros will split off a few sacrificial zerglings or soak up the hits with an overseer before bringing in the main army. Watching SC2 is more enjoyable than playing it. I do play co-op missions every now and then. It's much more relaxed.
[22:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─I don't like lies. Loaning money you don't in fact have is a lie. There is no other word that applies, and if anyone who isn't part of the banking industry does it they lock you up for it. Those books you speak of take pains to gloss over that uncomfortable reality. If you loan money you actually ha...
[22:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─We can ignore Stiglitz because he is from a school of political economics that we know is a dead end.
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:17] <exec> 08└─Why don't you explain to us how increasing inequality is actually a good thing after all.
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid in this case you can't dismiss a guy with the credentials he has with a zinger.
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 2787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:21] <exec> 08└─It's A Wonderful Life is the perfect example. Because it is a movie it all worked out to a happy ending, but the history books are littered with examples where everyone didn't live happily ever after. But at least he was honest in that he wasn't claiming to be a bank. A Savings and Loan explicitly i...
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─Even though some people will always manage to find a feature that they don't like, I'm very happy with LibreOffice, using Calc and Writer on a daily basis for a lot of different tasks. That includes opening, editing, and returning a lot of routine MS Word documents. Are there some exotic things that...
[22:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:11] <exec> 08└─In addition to playing with electronics, other options are possible. Many LEDs I can buy around here are very similar to fluorescent tubes, as in: they use phosphor [rpi.edu]. Phosphor fluorescence has a decay time. And if it is slow enough, the flicker will not matter [sciencedirect.com] much. I am...
[22:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:12] <exec> 08└─if those 24 fps movies where showing a black frame every time between the content, people might object more....it is a different problem....
[22:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:14] <exec> 08└─Actually Japan uses both. 60 Hz in the south and 50 in the north IIRC. If you are close to the border between these areas, you might need both....
[22:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─Guys, why not let the big boys design light bulbs instead of all this pseudo EE chest thumping?
[22:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─There's simply no way that you are going to be able to watch any movies shot that way, Dunkirk only being one example, without either cropping the picture to widescreen, compressing the image vertically to widescreen, or letterboxing it to left and right.
[22:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Firefox (Version 56) and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─They could pull an Opera and throw out all their effort to become yet another chrome fork.
[22:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Delaware Fires Part-Time Professor over Facebook Post - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:00] <exec> 08└─Sometimes change is for the worse. For example, the planet is worse off now that your useless ass exists in it.
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[23:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:58] <exec> 08└─Plus you're a lot less likely to get murdered to death.
[23:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:00] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's just a fun phrase.
[23:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:02] <exec> 08└─You better watch what you say, or you'll wake up dead someday! ;)
[23:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─Hong Kong has hardly any rural places. Leaving the city means going to China or another country. Prior to the handover from Britain, about a million people emigrated. [wikipedia.org] In spite of having had possession of Hong Kong for over 150 years, Britain didn't grant full citizenship to Hong Kong...
[23:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─Interesting word choice! If you think USA has a Chinese immigrration problem, just wait til you hear about Hong Kong.
[23:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:21] <exec> 08└─HA ha. best joke ever.
[23:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC Three to Show Major E-sports Tournament - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:23] <exec> 08└─I was hoping that 'Desert Bus' would be on the schedule http://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com]
[23:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's Electric Super Highway to Power EVs Along 1,000 Miles of Coastline - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:33] <exec> 08└─I read this and.... at the end WTF? This has got to be dick-size subliminal astroturfing or.... WTF?
[23:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's Electric Super Highway to Power EVs Along 1,000 Miles of Coastline - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:34] <exec> 08└─Australia is basically one giant solar panel. Why would they exploit themselves like that. friend? Too obvious. They'll buy gasoline like true patriots. That's what makes Australians Great, that they aspire to be American and not British.
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─Oh man, thanks for the chuckle! XD
[23:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Potato Chips, Here Come Jellyfish Crisps - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─Nah, just start a rumour that jellyfish are an aphrodisiac, and the Japanese/Chinese/whomever will have it over-fished in no time!
[23:22:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ed271 [6368] 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─I don't think a free market is even possible. The trouble is that some people will be better at it than others, and they'll start to accumulate money. Money turns into power, and pretty soon people use that power to rewrite the rules and the market is no longer free. The funny thing is it's kind of...
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:31] <exec> 08└─Well that is how people with a 68 average IQ do it I guess. Look at Singapore or pre handover Hong Kong to see how slightly smarter people do it.
[23:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─What I disagree with is your language characterizing the system as a scam, a fraud, and claiming that there's some conspiracy to hide all of this from the public.
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─Here's Socialism: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. (Notice that that is an OWNERSHIP thing; it doesn't need to involve government.) Socialism now, tax the rich What you are describing is Liberal Democracy (combined with the concentrated wealth of Capitalist Oligarc...
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:37] <exec> 08└─one of them being that Humans are perfectly predictable and rational creatures
[23:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics is Wrong -- Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:39] <exec> 08└─The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers.
[23:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─write a book
[23:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:34] <exec> 08└─Metro isn't the city of L.A. It's a regional transportation district that has its headquarters in the city.
[23:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Have Fully Electric Bus Fleet by 2030 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:35] <exec> 08└─Did a pop culture reference go over my head? Fully electric buses won't have turbines.
[23:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:55] <exec> 08└─NOT just works: cross references.
[23:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibreOffice 5.4 Released with New Features for Writer, Calc and Impress - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:56] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, to add an alternative to LO. You can buy CrossOver for $20 and MS Office 20xx for $10 on eBay and it works OK. Not as good as vintage XP + office 2002 but as long as you remember to save every few minutes you won't get bit by the crashes.
[23:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Reason We Don't Like LED Bulbs - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:40] <exec> 08└─WRONG!
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