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[05:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─Seems China provided the ultimate way to bypass their own firewall: theoretically capable of instantly connecting any two (or more) points on Earth.
[05:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:23] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in America the most important issue is whether Google employees can even hint that they are not fully diversified and if Trumps cat likes Russky caviar or stressed out McPig. Got to have the priorities right!
[05:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:25] <exec> 08└─In the race for safer ciphers, China just quantum-leap frogged the rest of the world.
[05:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:27] <exec> 08└─Note that you may only call using a diversity certified phone through the diversity management engine! :-)
[05:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:29] <exec> 08└─I can't tell whether or not this post is committing workplace violence, it has a "you" but did not first ask if I, the reader, is okay with that. I am going to go ahead and file a report anyways and let managemnt deal with it.
[05:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:31] <exec> 08└─I encrypt all of my things with 1492 Qbits, I'm pretty sure I'm safe
[05:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:34] <exec> 08└─You'd have to physically exchange something (entangled photons) with the other party I'm assuming.
[05:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:45] <exec> 08└─Correction: :P 1) An autonomous vehicle may not injure the human driver or, through inaction or allow the driver to come to harm. Anyone outside can f--k themselves. 2) An autonomous vehicle must obey the orders given it by the driver except where such orders would conflict with the First Law or dri...
[05:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:46] <exec> 08└─That one is easy. The vehicle must let the instrument panel robotic arm out and grab the driver for intimate detection. And then choose left or right accordingly and step on it. Once completed, immediately brake and load your newly acquired harem. ;-)
[05:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:11] <exec> 08└─If the fish is non-fertile perhaps its possible to test the fish for this to find out as a consumer if it's a Frankenstein fish?
[05:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:12] <exec> 08└─The wiki link states that the salmon are sterile females that would be unable to reproduce.
[05:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:15] <exec> 08└─Because in one place fishing is done, then it's shipped to free slave labor country to be processed (on the cheap) and then shipped to wherever the lowest bidder got a deal. Business as usual..
[05:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:17] <exec> 08└─All right, let's see now. Reference to 2011 song "Boyfriend in the Drawer" modded Troll. Reference to 1978 song "Fish Heads" modded Funny. There's the proof. SoylentNews is Old People Links because fuck you Boyfriend in The Drawer (male vocals) [youtube.com] Boyfriend in My Drawer (female vocals) [y...
[05:26:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 335 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:41] <exec> 08└─The government has a ton of questionable initiatives. Musk is good at picking and choosing. Think of it as your taxes. Do you, or do you not maximize your deductions? Same thing. The problem is the government, not Musk. Not to mention, Elon is a hell of a lot more productive than the average governm...
[05:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:50] <exec> 08└─If you don't know the difference between a subsidy and a purchase, you need to get back to learning how to tie your shoe laces, not be posting here. Over the bunny hole retard.
[05:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:52] <exec> 08└─You're comparing a tiny car company to the oil industry? Skokie, IL has a population about 1OOk. When someone gets pulled over for speeding, by a pig-mobile, 2 more police cars show up in support of writing that 1Omph over the speed limit ticket. That's not a big deal though - I mean Chicago has twe...
[05:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:54] <exec> 08└─Why should those guys in Washington take my hard-earned tax dollars and use them to lower the price of an electric car for some movie star in Hollywood?
[05:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:20] <exec> 08└─I visit you in search of knowledge. I leave, wishing for ignorance.
[05:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:21] <exec> 08└─190 now, and growing. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[05:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:23] <exec> 08└─Meh, the ones who insist gender is entirely social and the ones who insist it's entirely biological are both equally wrong and both for the same reason: they don't seem to understand the idea of emergent properties. The intersection and interactions of a person's brain structure, prenatal environmen...
[05:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Kurenai is nuttier than squirrel diarrhea but she's E. O. Motherloving Wilson compared to the TERFs. I am still, several years later, a mixture of amused and bemused at being called "traitor to the lesbian race" by one of them, to my face, for daring to suggest that trans* people are humans to...
[05:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:28] <exec> 08└─Circum*scribed* surely...eek.
[05:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:30] <exec> 08└─At least you will have the Czar in your corner when you ask for a budget increase to pay for all this.
[05:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:32] <exec> 08└─Can we leave descriptions of scientific knowledge to bona-fide scientists? This PhD-dropout memo writer does not qualify.
[05:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:34] <exec> 08└─Not a problem at the moment since it appears taking on a Political Officer is quickly becoming a requirement to qualify for VC. The incumbents understand the danger are are ensuring everyone is Pozzed so everybody is "equal" in being ineffecient. This will work until the Impossibility of SJW Converg...
[05:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:36] <exec> 08└─A bit of extra sauce on the resume never hurts.
[05:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:38] <exec> 08└─Over 4 decades, I've seen the M/F ratio of competent, working engineers go from 1000/1 to 10/1. Having competent women around definitely improves the outcome for engineering projects. While that may be a significant improvement, my idea of competent probably wouldn't get you in the door at G. I can...
[05:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-X Line-up Finalized: 18-Core i9-7980XE Poised to Sell Well? - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:34] <exec> 08└─Hardware development is something that takes enough effort that you aren't going to be able to do it in your spare time with a small uncoordinated team. It's also not something that can be done for free. Prototyping hardware designs requires money. Prototyping software designs only requires time. Pe...
[05:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-X Line-up Finalized: 18-Core i9-7980XE Poised to Sell Well? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:35] <exec> 08└─In such a litigious environment, it's not possible to cultivate a culture that respects the idea of free and open source hardware.
[05:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Try Japan's Non-Melting Ice Cream to See if It's for Real - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:33] <exec> 08└─Well, I carry a quad microsingularity time displacement unit in my car. (Improvement over the first-gen General Electric models.) Arriving on time is not a problem, plus or minus divergence. And hopefully, I think humanity is headed for something that is not a dystopia. Civilization only needed to b...
[05:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Try Japan's Non-Melting Ice Cream to See if It's for Real - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:35] <exec> 08└─That sucks. Personally I love a big bowl of mixed berries, though I'm not a fan of blueberries. Grew up in blueberry country and had one too many as a kid. I could eat all the other kinds of berry for hours on end, though! (Gets to be an expensive indulgence!) Can you at least enjoy raspberries and...
[05:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Try Japan's Non-Melting Ice Cream to See if It's for Real - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:37] <exec> 08└─Well, I carry a quad microsingularity time displacement unit in my car. (Improvement over the first-gen General Electric models.)
[05:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Try Japan's Non-Melting Ice Cream to See if It's for Real - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:39] <exec> 08└─No, I like it, personally. Except the only kind you can get here is Marmite, which they place in the baking goods aisle next to the baker's yeast packets (that always makes me smile). Other people complain about it, though, and every time I offer it to my kids they run screaming. Then, I also like s...
[05:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Modern American Elites Have Come to Favour Inconspicuous Consumption - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:17] <exec> 08└─Le petit bourgeousie, ou nouveaux riches? Aut Masculum ultricies?
[05:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicle Legislation Soon to Appear in House - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:48] <exec> 08└─Original poster here. I just looked up the Ford comment, and here's a link to an article: http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] The executive was referring to their GPS systems, and thus it must have been an uplink, not just a stand al...
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[06:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:05] <exec> 08└─Wat floor massa?
[06:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:06] <exec> 08└─Build high rise pyramids. Such that the elevator area to usable space factor improves. It means super structure can be shared among projects. And that escape during a fire can be made horizontally as well as vertically. Wind sensitivity and earth quake instability improves as the building can't "go"...
[06:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:08] <exec> 08└─Going down? Regenerative braking is nice, when there is regenerative braking. If not, we call this "freefall". You'll be fine, until you reach the ground floor.
[06:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:10] <exec> 08└─That's right. Build pyramids to your billionaire gods. Who do you serve? Bezos? Musk? Zuck?
[06:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:13] <exec> 08└─Send only the poorest blackest kids to the bottom to break your fall.
[06:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:15] <exec> 08└─Penthouse full of dead bitches. Gonna fuck them while they're still fresh. Come back later to incinerate the bodies when they've lost their after death virginity.
[06:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:22] <exec> 08└─Is it just me or does it seem like the six million just seems to high to have a realistic expectation of being met? It's almost coming across like they don't really want it to be paid, so that they can just release all the stuff they got anyhow...
[06:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:40] <exec> 08└─Help! I lost track of who the bogyman is this week. Are we mad at China now or is it still Russia? I hear North Korea is evil but we're actively fighting in Syria. Some people say immigrants are all rapists and thieves. Arghhh! I can't be scared and obedient if I don't know who the bad guys are.
[06:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:54] <exec> 08└─There's be a addendum, requiring all data to be funneled through UK gov't computers and the keys to decrypt all the data must be provided.
[06:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:58] <exec> 08└─Just kicking stuff into the sun requires a much bigger kick than most people think.
[06:27:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 523 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:15] <exec> 08└─Google must not quit until it has complete gender parity! Furthermore, Google must achieve hiring parody/parity in all other areas without discrimination. Race. Religion. (height, weight, shoe size, etc) Because all people are equally capable of performing highly skilled technology jobs. I'm sure yo...
[06:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:36] <exec> 08└─So it's the FED (US central bank?) that keeps by proxy companies like SoundCloud up and running? what's in it for them? So you have uncovered a business opportunity in competing by not being burdened by political correctness? I'll guess China and Russia have no problem exploiting this or even Japan....
[06:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:37] <exec> 08└─Search used to be good. Now it's really so-so. Their recommendations are crap, and the hoops you have to jump through to use their vaunted search features are ridiculous. How many fucking times do I try to narrow down a search to show something I actually give a fuck about, before Google comes back...
[06:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:39] <exec> 08└─Anyone stranded on the Moon. What would they need. A) Diversity officer B) CEO C) Engineer that can fix the oxygen generator? And what happens to the groups that select the the wrong composition of merits? :-)
[06:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 1766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:41] <exec> 08└─But, American! Here is the end of Chapter 42 of Moby Dick: the original: Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it,...
[06:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:43] <exec> 08└─More like a side effect. The FED threw trillions out the helicopter over Wall Street with the bailouts and ZIRP, and now the problem is what to do with it? Interest rates are below inflation, most investments are still pretty risky so by default it is inflating a huge bubble in a few stocks. Especia...
[06:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, caught it. But it does raise the question of the memo author's bona fides, if you know what I mean.
[06:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-X Line-up Finalized: 18-Core i9-7980XE Poised to Sell Well? - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:44] <exec> 08└─Thats silly: my dev work flow has no use for that! I use Visual Studio, so waiting for the UI to respond takes longer than the builds, so 4 cores is easily enough. I have 12 cores so I can happily have 3 VS instances hung while doing a built in a 4th (and I won't run out of ram, since they are 32 bi...
[06:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-X Line-up Finalized: 18-Core i9-7980XE Poised to Sell Well? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:45] <exec> 08└─Ah, the guy who has never had a job speaks. Those 18 core machines aren't meant for your desktop moron. They're made to run on the huge server farms that run the world where you are a really dumb consumer, and most of those servers not only don't have a browser installed - they don't have a GUI inst...
[06:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Try Japan's Non-Melting Ice Cream to See if It's for Real - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:49] <exec> 08└─No berries are similar to strawberries, because botanically, strawberries are not berries, they are nuts. Which is also why strawberry allergy and (other) nut allergies often go together. With the exception of peanut allergy, because peanuts aren't nuts, they are beans.
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[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─ThyssenKrupp, together with Siemens, built the trains for the maglev line to the Shanghai airport.
[07:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:27] <exec> 08└─They have the money. Sure they can pay it. Do they want to.. *hmmm* ;) It could very well be. "We got you by your balls, pay or suffer. We don't care." And they don't care because they would be capable of another coup and then have the rumor that they mean business.
[07:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:29] <exec> 08└─if HBO is just faking this?
[07:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:47] <exec> 08└─We've always been at war with Eurasia.
[07:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, because deep space is full of dark energy....
[07:27:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:14] <exec> 08└─HR fires employee for commenting that HR's discrimination policy is discriminatory. In similar researchers declare fire as 'hot'. More at 11.
[07:27:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:24] <exec> 08└─Let the record show that I called his firing on Monday. I said he would either be locked out of the building and his crap in a box at the security desk or they would let him in so they could all point and shriek at him for a good cathartic release culminating in a very public firing. Option 2 it was...
[07:27:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 550 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:44] <exec> 08└─He did it as diplomatically and scientifically as possible, even if his work wasn't perfect, and anyone who ACTUALLY READ AND UNDERSTOOD IT, meaning nobody at google who was denigrating to him over it (since their very comments indicated they didn't understand either his terminology, nor his referen...
[07:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:49] <exec> 08└─To all you who have usurped the word conservative who are frothing at the mouth right now, wah wah go create your own company and hire only who you want and succeed where you feel Google is failing.
[07:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:50] <exec> 08└─AC, sorry to break it to you, but you are full of shit. The science proves no such thing. And yes, we understood it. Poor conservatives, the ground has shifted under their feet, and they cling to their guns and religion. But of course, you can't do either of those, and work for Google, now, could y...
[07:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:52] <exec> 08└─Have you heard of Bing!? Do you like to watch Gladiator movies, Jimmy?
[07:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:55] <exec> 08└─If you make something people will pay you for. Then you have succeeded? The catch is that any profit in US$, may not be worth anything.
[07:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:57] <exec> 08└─You are failing to see the full horror. Look and despair.
[07:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:59] <exec> 08└─Gee, I didn't realize I had to have a PhD in order to SCIENCE. Who are the true gatekeepers of this forbidden knowledge of SCIENCE?
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[08:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:28] <exec> 08└─I know some geeks think think daylight is overrated, but most of us do like to have windows in our homes. Pyramids are all volume, with very little surface for daylight access. High rises are on their way out anyway. They are an inefficient way to house people compared to more horizontal architectur...
[08:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:29] <exec> 08└─Green open spaces? Like gardens, parks and such... It's hard to find those in buildings with apartments higher than ground floor. Maybe it is better to start thinking about how to better to lay out and run our cities, instead of just going up/down to house more people on the same square meter of gro...
[08:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:40] <exec> 08└─The million dollar question is, can I get a link to the leaked script? Somewhere SFW please, I am in office.
[08:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:42] <exec> 08└─Certainly, people seem to be talking a lot about HBO at present. And mentioning their brand name (viz. HBO) frequently. And if all publicity is good publicity, then lots of people mentioning HBO, even in a context that superficially negative for HBO, would be good publicity for HBO. Note, I'm not sa...
[08:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:02] <exec> 08└─> Charlie, who uses the second mechanism to get the XOR. then he sends the clear-text result to Alice and/or Bob. Since the XOR data tells them which bits differ, they can use it to flip those bits in one of the boxes Which will be pointless, those boxes no longer containany thing but noise, and fli...
[08:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:03] <exec> 08└─If anything, Quantum mechanics gives less safe primitives than mathematics. With mathematics, you can send out an ever-repeating message that, no matter how long you continue it, within the expected life of the planet, will never be decypherable. Nor will it be detectable that you've changed the pay...
[08:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:18] <exec> 08└─That is already governed under the "Government wants backdoors in all software/encryption" laws they are trying to push through. They are doing it right, and making sure the law is as broad as possible, so it can apply to "smart" cars, "smart" phones, "smart" meters, or anything else that has "smart...
[08:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:20] <exec> 08└─This never struck me as all that hard. Just roll the (virtual) dice. Lottery voting [wikipedia.org] isn't popular in politics, but it seems fine to me to use it for this kind of decision making.
[08:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:48] <exec> 08└─but his body is very oddly proportioned
[08:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 3643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:27] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of the "subsidies" listed there don't even go to any of Musk's companies. Those that do, do not cost the taxpayer a dime. This [latimes.com] is the hit piece from the LA Times on Musk's companies. Let's look at some. - "$1.5 billion — Estimated value of 30% subsidy for solar...
[08:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:28] <exec> 08└─You're argument is imbalanced to say the least. Electrics save a substantial amount per year in maintenance. Moving parts are the number one reason things break down. Think about your computer - first thing to go is the hard disk, or was before the advent of SSDs. An internal combustion vehicle has...
[08:27:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:59] <exec> 08└─If you'd read his memo, you'd know that he was calling out Google's blatantly sexist policies such as offering training sessions only to members of favored groups.
[08:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Acquires Comic Book Publisher Millarworld - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:32] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows and few people ever will. It's too bad Netflix relies on word of mouth and publicity from obscure sites like this. They could attract millions of subscribers, if they would only advertise.
[08:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DebConf17 August 6-12 in Montreal - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:59] <exec> 08└─It's gone, let it go. Just another redhat derivative with little to recommend it over ubuntu any more now they have been brought back into line as well. Now all three are included in my 'only run in a vm' list alongside windows.
[08:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:27] <exec> 08└─Yes - obviously - because you aren't actually getting anything out of that data usage. A rational consumer would use whatever amount of data they wanted, just being careful to keep it below the cap. But you seem to want to burn all that data allowance out of some misplaced sense of spite. If a train...
[08:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:28] <exec> 08└─Look at the pricing model for mobile data. You essentially pay per megabyte, but they don't really charge you for the speed of the connection you want. Everyone gets essentially the best speed on offer from the provider. I see nothing wrong with this model, and I see no reason to feel outraged over...
[08:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:30] <exec> 08└─That may be true, yes.
[08:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:32] <exec> 08└─It's obviously not, but that's not what we're talking about. The question at hand is whether it's unfair to impose data caps. You are talking about the questions of false advertising and Windows' inefficiency.
[08:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:35] <exec> 08└─But network contention is a real thing. On top of that, it's not always unfair for a company to charge for something it can do 'for free', if that service depends on expensive infrastructure. It doesn't cost a telco any real resources to process an SMS, or connect a phone call, or route an IP packet...
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[09:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tissue Nanotransfection: A Regenerative Medicine Breakthrough - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:19] <exec> 08└─nanotech to kill any human with cancer without being suspected now available. Anyway this technique looks like a history book tier breakthrough, congratulations to the researchers.
[09:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:41] <exec> 08└─Apart from needing stairs and elevators, how are high-rises inefficient? Are you thinking of the steel framing? Building in a more horizontal fashion means more land will be used and horizontal journeys will be longer (urban sprawl). The framing can be lighter, but a greater area of roofing is neede...
[09:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:42] <exec> 08└─It would be strange for someone to design an elevator without taking into account the possibility of power failures. A conventional elevator has several types [washingtonpost.com] of brakes [howstuffworks.com]. The story doesn't say that these designs will have only one type. Also, the whole point o...
[09:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:54] <exec> 08└─Wow, 9 HBOs in 4 sentences, you work for them, do you? /s
[09:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:55] <exec> 08└─The $6 million seems unreasonable
[09:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:58] <exec> 08└─HBO has denied that its "e-mail system as a whole has been compromised"
[09:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:19] <exec> 08└─Which will be pointless, those boxes no longer containany thing but noise, and flipped noise is still noise.
[09:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:21] <exec> 08└─There's a lot more problems than just those. Since you can't observe the quantum-secured channel (without destroying the data on it), you can't make sure that it's working as required, which is a trivial operation for conventional crypto (pairwise consistency testing of the crypto is a standard requ...
[09:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:38] <exec> 08└─It is nearly always the case that management gives no priority (budget, development time, testing) to security. Breaches and other failures are just "a cost of doing business", often covered by some form of insurance, but never real consequences for them. If there is ever to be real security, anywhe...
[09:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:08] <exec> 08└─That makes no sense whatsoever. Arguably the whole point of GMOs is the bring patents into industries where intellectual property would not otherwise exist. His request could be met by simply showing any patented components in the food being purchased. Am I purchasing salmon from the ocean, or am I...
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[10:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Releases Solar Eclipse App - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:16] <exec> 08└─Was expecting zombie apocalypse, but this will do.
[10:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:48] <exec> 08└─All hacking is legal and is just. It is just communocating with computers. If they don't want to get hacked they should use better software and passwords.
[10:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:49] <exec> 08└─Indeed "they could fully access all existing email accounts, but they couldn't delete them or create new ones" would also fit that description.
[10:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:14] <exec> 08└─You are the bogeyman this week. Be afraid of yourself!
[10:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:15] <exec> 08└─Well, the word "you" is connected with "may", which means the poster implies himself to be in a position where he can decide to say what you may or may not do, that is, in a position of power over you. In other words, he's clearly oppressing you. A clear case of workplace violence. ;-)
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[11:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough To Run Its Whizzbang $180M 1,640Ft Radio Telescope - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:12] <exec> 08└─> "It is not a job for a scientist. It's for a superhero." That's a standard requirement for sysadmin. What about the midnight wake-up calls?
[11:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:00] <exec> 08└─they would be capable of another coup and then have the rumor that they mean business
[11:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─To have a whitespace line use & n b s p ; (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space) Line one, has fixed font and is enclosed within 'ecode' tags. Line three, has fixed font and is enclosed within the same 'ecode' tags.
[11:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:46] <exec> 08└─Should this not be for EVERY company? Security first, instead of security as an afterthought and just apologize when your customers info is stolen? Why only this one category?
[11:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:16] <exec> 08└─mod parent up! This is the main concern!
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[12:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough To Run Its Whizzbang $180M 1,640Ft Radio Telescope - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:33] <exec> 08└─I bet if the Chinese adopted a similar immigration program like the U.S. H1-B, they'd have qualified applicants practically swimming over there! At least get the U.S. nail salons to start putting up posters "WANTED: Star Man".
[12:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough To Run Its Whizzbang $180M 1,640Ft Radio Telescope - 1940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:34] <exec> 08└─Some things really are cross cultural. They want a guy with experience on a telescope invented recently. Only those with two decades of experience with Chinese made five hundred meter telescopes need apply. So they're only going to get liars as applicants. Then they offered pay of half a bag of rice...
[12:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough To Run Its Whizzbang $180M 1,640Ft Radio Telescope - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:36] <exec> 08└─Plenty of people can do a job without meeting the qualifications. But if you aren't qualified you get to die in the gutter instead.
[12:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Releases Solar Eclipse App - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:50] <exec> 08└─On the bright side, its rare that you can make a prediction "cross the United States like this in nearly 100 years" that on a specific date, Aug 21 2017, that it'll be rain all F-ing day. Even today with modern weather forecasting its still impressive that I know it'll rain twelve days from now.
[12:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:09] <exec> 08└─we see cableless boxes that can travel not just vertically but horizontally and even diagonally.
[12:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:54] <exec> 08└─While that's a less visible workaround, it's still a workaround. It shouldn't be needed.
[12:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:44] <exec> 08└─It's a fish growth protein. 1. You know what happens to protein when we eat it? It gets digested (acid bath and cut into pieces by proteases). 2. Even if the protein were avoid protease cleavage, spontaneously re-fold, and be absorbed into the bloodstream, it is very unlikely that human receptors wo...
[12:27:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:53] <exec> 08└─"... Musk's hands out of taxpayer wallets" Yeah! The taxpayers money should all go to Halliburton, GM, Boeing, Microsoft and all those companies. How dare he suckle at the teat of Uncle Sam (ok, that wasn't the visual I had in mind).
[12:28:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:04] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I look at these as smart investments in the economy and country as a whole. You want to make america great again? This is how you do it.
[12:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:25] <exec> 08└─I agree, also - sending stuff into the sun means it would be lost for the next few billion years - much easier and better to just set up a few waste-paths away from the sun instead.
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[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─This appears to be about some kind of Obama era political thing rather than safety concerns: Since December 2015, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been prohibited by Congress in provisions in annual federal Appropriations Acts from using funds to accept IND submissions for cl...
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[13:25:29] <exec> 08└─Watch the video, this seems like a pipe dream. There is also no mention of a control. After three weeks would a mouse with the same injury have recovered blood flow? If it is real, then congratulations, but I am not holding my breath
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[13:25:56] <exec> 08└─Tom Scott has a nice short video of it: https://youtu.be [youtu.be] I'm sure the Happy People Vertical Transporter will be delighted about the new possibilities.
[13:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:57] <exec> 08└─Pyramids are all volume, with very little surface for daylight access.
[13:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:59] <exec> 08└─Building up is still advantageous when land space is limited. It'll likely always remain popular in urban core areas.
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─horizontal journeys will be longer (urban sprawl)
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[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION Elevators: Modern elevators are strange and complex entities. The ancient electric winch and "maximum-capacity-eight-persons" jobs bear as much relation to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter as a packet of mixed nuts does to the entire w...
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[13:26:21] <exec> 08└─It looks like they may have an in-house mail system, but there's also references to Google mail exchangers in their records. It probably is not a monolithic configuration regardless. There's a couple of possible ways this could be configured. Some possibilities include: the in-house mail systems wer...
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[13:27:40] <exec> 08└─Well, I have some salmon of doubt about that.
[13:28:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 3643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:19] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of the "subsidies" listed there don't even go to any of Musk's companies. Those that do, do not cost the taxpayer a dime. This [latimes.com] is the hit piece from the LA Times on Musk's companies. Let's look at some. - "$1.5 billion — Estimated value of 30% subsidy for solar...
[13:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:22] <exec> 08└─Our moon and Mars both have less problematic gravity wells than we do; that means getting out of them is easier / less costly.
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[13:32:25] <exec> 08└─Speed would seem to be more directly related to their costs than data caps. If they've got a cable that can carry 1 gbps, it can do that all day and all night with no problem. It's not going to last any longer by running it at half speed. Today, most non-mobile ISPs claim to be selling you a particu...
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[14:25:33] <exec> 08└─Driverless cars have lots of advantages. 1) They are likely to be safer than humans (they shouldn't be given permission till they have proved themselves to be so.) And thus save lives. 2) They give mobility to those who don't currently have it. Partially sighted, blind, some other handicaps, the eld...
[14:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:35] <exec> 08└─I want Sully in the Captain's seat so we ditch safely in the Hudson River. https://www.wired.com [wired.com] It was no miracle, it was an experienced and skilled pilot.
[14:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:37] <exec> 08└─Would you fly on a pilotless plane?
[14:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:39] <exec> 08└─Instead of having them be truly pilotless you could have them remote controlled, like drone gunships. That'd be a lot more practical and reliable I think. The best part is you'd save tons of money on pilot support; they could work on a regular 3-shift arrangement at a local facility and have a home...
[14:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that a sufficiently advanced fully autonomous automatic piloting software would not be able to do a similar emergency landing as the mentioned experienced and skilled pilot, with added bonus of improved precision and safety?
[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: We want to control others' behavior. Every infant soon learns you can't have everything you want. We live in a sea of autonomous beings each with their own wants, but there must be a system of control so Jimmy doesn't keep taking Timmy's toys. As we get older, people control each other* throu...
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─... just using them for cargo shipping.
[14:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 1725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:47] <exec> 08└─Same here. They could even fly along protected airspace routes, isolated from everything else. So long as they have: No safety procedure nonsense or hard-sell en-route. No idiocy in terms of spacing and design (hey, gimme a little more legroom than I'd have in the most restricted of offices, right?)...
[14:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:50] <exec> 08└─you could have them remote controlled
[14:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:52] <exec> 08└─When I'm on a plane, I can't control it, but I know the pilot has as much skin in the game as I do. The pilot's fear of dying motivates him to at least make a sincere effort to keep me alive too.
[14:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:54] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that a sufficiently advanced fully autonomous automatic piloting software
[14:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 2484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:56] <exec> 08└─"The pilot's fear of dying motivates him to at least make a sincere effort to keep me alive too." Like the European co-pilot who locked his companion out of the cockpit when he used the loo, and then deliberately flew the entire plane into a mountain? Okay. Or the one where the pilot was trying to s...
[14:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─Being able to "do the job" without being qualified is how you get such "minor" oversights as occurred in my last apartment, where the handyman who installed the shower didn't put a trap in the drain (which means sewer gas constantly venting into the bathroom, and no chance of recovering dropped jewe...
[14:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:14] <exec> 08└─From your post: "They want a guy with experience on a telescope invented recently. Only those with two decades of experience with Chinese made five hundred meter telescopes need apply." From the article: "The Academy of Sciences is asking for a professor with at least 20 years' experience in radio a...
[14:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─Can we have a mod "Imagination run wild" please?
[14:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:19] <exec> 08└─> didn't put a trap in the drain Ugggh! Didn't know that this was even possible, do you live where there are no plumbing/building inspectors? Anyway, it sounds like you've already left that apartment... If you were still there, I'd suggest making an "inserted trap" which would be a simple 3D printer...
[14:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tissue Nanotransfection: A Regenerative Medicine Breakthrough - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:28] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, if true it might be just in time for me. In high school I dislocated a little toe, yanked it back and went on with my day. At 40 it started became arthritic, swollen and painful if used too much. At 60 it keeps me from walking very far. Tart Cherry Juice (really) has done a fairly good job of...
[14:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 2924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:59] <exec> 08└─The article makes a lot of wrong assumptions. Transportation issues are only a small part of the very tall buildings issues. The article present as _desirable_ a life where you are basically living in the heights & no longer go down (to street-level). Really? This is desirable? This is a perfect exa...
[14:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, because deep space is full of dark energy....
[14:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:20] <exec> 08└─set up a few waste-paths away from the sun
[14:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:22] <exec> 08└─Agree. And the sooner, the better.
[14:29:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:38] <exec> 08└─Hope they have fun dealing with the labor board and the lawsuit. What they did may have been in line with policy but it was not in line with the law [cnbc.com].
[14:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:27] <exec> 08└─it can do that all day and all night with no problem
[14:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─Unless of course the contention over the airwaves causes slowdown for other users.
[14:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:31] <exec> 08└─but the infrastructure must be paid for somehow.
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[15:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:08] <exec> 08└─The only reason NOT to decriminalize prostitution is, it's hard for the tax man to get his cut. The prostitute isn't especially likely to declare all of his/her earnings, and the customer probably isn't claiming a tax deduction. So, the tax man has a valid reason to object to decriminalization. What...
[15:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:10] <exec> 08└─How is that any different than relying on a waitress to claim her tips?
[15:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks for fleshing out the minimal submission, but the posted summary is largely editorializing preamble, leaving only the last few lines to describe the actual gist. It's like a book with 90 pages of "introduction" followed by 10 pages of actual text, and this in a summary no less.
[15:25:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:29] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that a sufficiently advanced fully autonomous automatic piloting software
[15:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:32] <exec> 08└─How about - they take my luggage, so if it blows up who cares except the insurance company? Meanwhile, I can fly in peace without the security rigmarole, in a plane with a lot more space available to it and minimal hand-luggage? Hell, they could send my luggage the day after, for all I care, so long...
[15:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:34] <exec> 08└─According to a study done by Boeing (http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_2_07/article_03_2.html) 80% of all commercial airplane accidents are caused by human error. There are already autopilots for modern aircraft that can take off, navigate to a destination, and land in most...
[15:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─The dog was there to bite the astronaut if he tried to touch any of the flight controls.
[15:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:38] <exec> 08└─Live Bugz: http://news.aviation-safety.net [aviation-safety.net]
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─Just what I was going to say only you said it better, so I'll just shut up and mod up.
[15:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─Boeing is not in a position to do such a study.
[15:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:45] <exec> 08└─Sadly, it's never going to happen and as time has gone by, I fly less and less (haven't flown in years now) because of stuff like this.
[15:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:47] <exec> 08└─People will board a ship that has a captain, but no pilot [penny-arcade.com].
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─Like the European co-pilot who locked his companion out of the cockpit when he used the loo, and then deliberately flew the entire plane into a mountain? Okay. Or the one where the pilot was trying to straighten up, but the co-pilot was pushing the plane further up into a stall, and they plunged int...
[15:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:51] <exec> 08└─Whoa! Why not run wire to the plane? (forgive the stupidly long URL) https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─+50 insightful People bitch and moan when their desktop/laptop/phone/whatever shits on them. But - they're willing to trust their lives to software? WTF?!?!?! There's no thinking process taking place here, at all!
[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:56] <exec> 08└─How many completely pilot-less flight have the made so far? Have they logged 200 hours? 1500? After they have successfully flown 1000 cargo missions, I might consider it, but I'm a risk taker by nature. Human pilots average a bit less than 1 crash per 400,000 flights. We won't even have good statist...
[15:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:58] <exec> 08└─"How's that self-imposed jail working out for you?" Were you going for funny, or are you fekkin' serious? You DO realize that there are still boats, ships, trains, automobiles, horses, and, the old worn out feet that your mama gave you at birth? Self-imposed jail? That's what normal people call thos...
[15:26:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 1940 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:14] <exec> 08└─Some things really are cross cultural. They want a guy with experience on a telescope invented recently. Only those with two decades of experience with Chinese made five hundred meter telescopes need apply. So they're only going to get liars as applicants. Then they offered pay of half a bag of rice...
[15:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:21] <exec> 08└─But...but...but...now the Chinese are stealing our jerbs!
[15:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:02] <exec> 08└─From the Wiki page for Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris inner suburb which matches your 18 239 density): > In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne, which was hitherto divided between the communes of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine, was annexed in its entirety by the city of Paris. On that occasion, Boul...
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─Sheesh, kids... how about STAR TREK decades earlier?
[15:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:50] <exec> 08└─Since you can't observe the quantum-secured channel (without destroying the data on it)
[15:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:26] <exec> 08└─You're argument is imbalanced to say the least.
[15:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:28] <exec> 08└─Protection from an Extinction-Level Event on Earth.
[15:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:30] <exec> 08└─Betterige proved his own "law" wrong more than once. Betterige is no Murphy and certainly no Clarke or Sturgeon.
[15:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:32] <exec> 08└─And what are in Trump's taxes, as long as we're talking about tax payers and the government teat?
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:39] <exec> 08└─they paid off the R&D costs of Epipens years ago. I'm sure the ISPs are making plenty of money.
[15:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─If you'll forgive a digression: I wonder how much of the 'peak times' problem comes from Netflix refusing to embrace offline viewing. Apparently [netflix.com] it's now possible on Windows 10. If they allowed it on the major games consoles, I imagine that would moves things forward considerably.
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Lice, and Later Amphipods, Blamed for Attack on Melbourne Teen's Legs - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─When Austrailia sends its organisms, they're not sending their best. They're fishy. They're pests. They're blood-sucking. And some, I assume, are cute (koala bears). (top that, realdonaldtrump [really, sometimes they are really funny])
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[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─It's sex outside of marriage you fool! Don't you understand what that can do to the moral fabric of society? I mean, women having sex with men for money! That's sinful! God forbid little johnny finds out men like his loser father in a dead end marriage pay her money to put their pee pee's in her hoo...
[16:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─Giggity Giggity
[16:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:26] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. Please point to a time - any time, any millenia, any epoch - in which sex only took place between married couples. Does "the world's oldest profession" mean ANYTHING to you?
[16:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:28] <exec> 08└─You sound sexist. You don't trust women?
[16:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not following you. You think it is easier for the tax man to get his grubbies on income from illegal activities? the customer probably isn't claiming a tax deduction
[16:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─Which is why the IRS no longer depends on wait staff to claim tips. Wait staff are presumed to make at least a certain amount in tips, and must show proof that they didn't. Meanwhile, for the most part, the business owner tracks the tips and if the wait staff isn't making enough in tips, the busines...
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─Pleasure is bad and of the devil, suffering is good and the end-times are coming, as heralded by the prophesies that told us that one of the indications would be bad laws being enacted. I see this going no-where in the US.
[16:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─I own my car. If I choose, I can sell it for whatever price I and the buyer find agreeable. Above all else, you should own your body. If the state says you can't sell your body, you must be owned by the state. You surely don't own yourself. Agreements between two consenting adults should be nobody e...
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:39] <exec> 08└─The only reason NOT to decriminalize prostitution is, it's hard for the tax man to get his cut.
[16:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─The reason to decriminalize is that it's an incredibly problematic practice to have legalized. People go into prostitution for various reasons, but the whole happy hooker trope that people imagine when talking about prostitution is hardly the status quo. There's plenty of sex slaves, drug addicts, l...
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:43] <exec> 08└─No, no, of course I don't think it's easy to collect taxes on illegal activities - that's the point I'm making. The tax man isn't collected ANY tax on prostitution when it's illegal - but he's unlikely to get a full accounting of a private prostitute's earnings. Now, if the prostitute works in an es...
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with pleasure, having sex out of wedlock hasn't been illegal in a very long time. This is keeping the exploitation of prostitutes illegal. If you want sex, there's no shortage of women giving it away for free if you can appear to have money and power. Which is much less morall...
[16:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─I leave a couple twenties on the bedside table before leaving her in the hotel room.
[16:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:50] <exec> 08└─Not really, there's numerous things that you're not allowed to do with your body because they cause problems. For example, you can't use your fist to beat somebody up and you can't expose yourself to children at the playground. Why is it that you people have so much trouble with the concept of exter...
[16:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:52] <exec> 08└─I don't see a need for the criminalization of sex work but don't see it as a social good. Harsher measures against solicitation would counteract the power dynamic which leads to most of the negative consequences of the trade.
[16:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:54] <exec> 08└─So maybe we should make slavery illegal. Because making things illegal works so well. If there were even one person voluntarily choosing sex work in exchange for money -- not because they are forced -- would that be OK with you? Or are you merely trotting out slavery as an excuse to control other pe...
[16:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─I mean, one of the first things done when a person is diagnosed with being "male" is to send him to the operating room for genital-reconstruction surgery to have a swath of "his" genital tissue stripped away and burnt in an incinerator (or sold for research; look it up). So, it's pretty clear that p...
[16:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:58] <exec> 08└─you can't use your fist to beat somebody up
[16:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:01] <exec> 08└─For one person to punch another person in the face involves the involuntary allocation of the punched person's resources (e.g., of the punched person's face). That is, you're still dealing with the question "Is this my body or not?" As for exposing oneself to children at the playground, that too can...
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─Slavery is an issue separate from prostitution. Slavery is illegal, already. People engaging in slavery can be, and are, sent to prison for long periods of time, when they are caught. The fact that slavery and sex work sometimes overlap into the same cases with the same people is pretty much irrelev...
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:05] <exec> 08└─You're an uninvited third party to the transaction; your opinion is completely meaningless. Just... just... GO AWAY!
[16:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:38] <exec> 08└─Citation bloody needed. Let's see an itinerary from the continental US to New Zealand without boarding an airplane. I don't know how long you've been under that rock, but somewhere around the 1970s commercial ocean travel was entirely replaced with "cruises" that spend a week poking around some sc...
[16:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:39] <exec> 08└─You didn't do the shutting up part of your promise.
[16:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:42] <exec> 08└─I can go literally anyplace on earth, without boarding an airplane, or dealing with the fascist sons of bitches at the airport.
[16:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:44] <exec> 08└─I can go literally anyplace on earth, without boarding an airplane, or dealing with the fascist sons of bitches at the airport.
[16:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:46] <exec> 08└─Self-imposed prisoner says self-imposed prison is not that bad, could leave anytime he wants, that he just doesn't want to leave and is there out of his own free will and for his own good. Prisoner also said that life has gotten much better since the beatings are only every half hour now instead of...
[16:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─Short url: https://amzn.com [amzn.com]
[16:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─What you don't realize, unless you're an actual pilot, is how often pilots need to intervene. Things break in flight, sensors die, entire subsystems spill their marbles on the floor and in many of those cases, the autopilot simply throws its hands up in the air and asks the crew to sort it out. Thos...
[16:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:52] <exec> 08└─Try checking commercial aircraft maintenance logs for how often pilots have to intervene and override autopilots due to trivial component failures. It happens quite a lot. AI needs to get a lot smarter at anomaly reaction before I'm getting on one.
[16:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:55] <exec> 08└─http://www.tourism.net.nz/new-zealand/tours/boat-and-sailing-tours/international/freighter-travel [tourism.net.nz]
[16:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but those are sub-fascist sons of bitches.
[16:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:59] <exec> 08└─Up until last October, I hadn't flown commercially since 2004. I volunteer with the Redcross and got deployed to Baton Rouge to help the flood cleanup effort. Everybody told me, be SURE to be at the airport at LEAST two hours early. Boy, were they NOT kidding.. The fucking TSA line at McCarran airpo...
[16:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:01] <exec> 08└─So less than 15 cases in 45 years with less than 1500 victims To put it in perspective, care to count the pownage campaigns and the victims of ransomware caused by vulns in 2017?
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─Whizzbang
[16:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I'll bet whoever wrote that never read the book "Contact" or even watched the movie. Still one of my all-time favorites.
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─They are asking for a "prestigious" degree, "prestigious" teaching background, experience managing radio scopes, and proven technical aptitude. The better managers tend not to hang around universities too long, and there are not that many radio telescope compounds in the world.
[16:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:29] <exec> 08└─I find myself likewise confused. It seems strange. Perhaps it can be explained by dick waving. They want to show the world how big their dicks are. The <dr-evil>six million dollars!</dr-evil> may be secondary.
[16:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:31] <exec> 08└─I feel the problem is that we don't have a universally recognized baseline in the world of cyber-this cyber-that (had some good cyber a couple days ago! I was a 19/f/Iowa!) that's the equivalent of the bog standard entry door lock and deadbolt. I mean, sure, who here can't pick or bump key one of th...
[16:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:33] <exec> 08└─I get two billions every time I say HBO! Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
[16:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I didn't know about entanglement swapping. I'll have to digest that some.
[16:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 3138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:42] <exec> 08└─I take issue with the assertion that "investment decisions [are] better made by private stewards of finance...whose only fiduciary responsibility is to those whose funds they manage". This is just a fancy-pants way of saying that the stock market is the best way to distribute funds. That is false. T...
[16:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:44] <exec> 08└─The reason [to negotiate with various states looking to make the best deal] is that it's mutually beneficial.
[16:31:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:07] <exec> 08└─"At will" state ? People finding him unpleasant to work with is enough for a dismissal. I'm pretty sure Google's highly paid lawyers worked overtime to greenlight such a high profile firing before it happened.
[16:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 200 ISPs Imposing Data Limits in the US - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:54] <exec> 08└─If you'll forgive a digression: I wonder how much of the 'peak times' problem comes from Netflix refusing to embrace offline viewing.
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[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:24] <exec> 08└─Anonymnous Coward
[17:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:56] <exec> 08└─This. Years ago when I worked in a big chain restaurant servers were expected to be earning, and were taxed on, a minimum of 10% of their sales. You were still required to report tips, of course, but as you can imagine virtually everyone reported 10% of their receipts at the end of the night. With t...
[17:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─This is the country where an argument "It will encourage them to be promiscuous!" against the HPV vaccine is within the Overton window.
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─For example, you can't use your fist to beat somebody up
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─If neither the customer nor the victim get in trouble for it, it's more likely that they will report pimps. The person being pimped is usually trapped by the pimp, but the customer is only trapped by the illegality of his/her actions. The more legal customers, the harder it [out there] is for the pi...
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:03] <exec> 08└─I think there is an easy solution for prevention of human trafficking that does not require forbidding sex work: Simply require registration of prostitutes. Make sure the prostitute has to come to the office personally for this, so it can be ensured they do it out of free will. Police can then just...
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─This is an important issue but you guys didn't mention the tech angle. There is one here - there's a bill around in the US and/or the UK to enable various forms of litigation aimed at social web sites that can be used for sex trafficking. Supposedly among its mechanisms is requiring ISPs to block ac...
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─Mmmmmm . . . maybe. I've read a couple articles about prostitution in Europe that seemed to refute that idea. Of course, online articles are just that - some person's ideas about this or that. But, yes, you're basically saying something similar to my own post. The law tends to KEEP people trapped in...
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─What is our excuse? How is it any of our business? Joe thinks Angela can get his rocks off, he offers her fifty bucks or a hundred and fifty, who gives a damn?
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─There's no hope for sensible solutions for this in America. Feminists, Christians, and law enforcement alike all prefer the status quo.
[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─Does "humor and mockery" mean ANYTHING to you?
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:16] <exec> 08└─This is just the nosy busybodies trying to make sure nobody ever enjoys a second of their lives.
[17:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:02] <exec> 08└─Victims of ransomware? Zero! [theiet.org]
[17:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:03] <exec> 08└─I hate McCarran. I always arrange to fly first class in and out of Vegas so I don't have to deal with the cluster-fuck that is the regular TSA "line" there. I've seen the queue hundreds of people deep there at times. It's downright dangerous if you consider how easy it would be to walk a big ass bom...
[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─I suspect this is how they will start out, flying overnight long-haul international cargo routes across the pacific between China and Alaska. It would be a good proving ground since the risk of human life would be pretty small in the event of a failure.
[17:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:07] <exec> 08└─This (annoyance with airlines/airports/security) is a problem that can be solved with money. But you need quite a bit to fly by private plane. We used to make a 250 mile flight to our customer with 3 people in a small prop plane (Beach Baron) and it was cheaper than the commercial fares...because th...
[17:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:09] <exec> 08└─This is currently modded as 'Touche' but I call bullshit on that! Unless you actually use this as your mode of transport for your yearly vacation, then don't come knocking on my door with these "but but... I *could* do X". That makes about as much sense as "I can overthrow a tyrannical government wi...
[17:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:11] <exec> 08└─It would be a good proving ground since the risk of human life would be pretty small in the event of a failure.
[17:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Doctor Against Marketing Three-Person IVF Technique - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:20] <exec> 08└─Yep, he can't advertise the procedure without clinical trials, but he can't get approval for clinical trails due to rules. It's a catch 22. The law that created these rules needs to be repealed, or at least heavily modified to allow for cases like this. This isn't creating some sort of mutant, and i...
[17:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:57] <exec> 08└─Except only rich people can afford to move to "regions with large subsidies." Moving and finding a job costs money, and the cost of living tends to be higher in EV quota states.
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[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─You could drive all the way to Rhode Island and bang a decriminalized prostitute in the back of one of these beauties!
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─Be a tight fit.
[18:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─My parents have one, and it's pretty nice. Their goal wasn't to help the environment, but to reduce the maintenance tasks required. Dad's not getting any younger!
[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─235 is atypically low for the Tesla, 250 is atypically high for the Bolt. The reason for this relies on exactly how they were testing them.
[18:25:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 412 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─I own my car. If I choose, I can sell it for whatever price I and the buyer find agreeable. Above all else, you should own your body. If the state says you can't sell your body, you must be owned by the state. You surely don't own yourself. Agreements between two consenting adults should be nobody e...
[18:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─Yep, we agree. Also, having other prostitutes be legal means that they can help the cops find the illegal ones. There isn't an easy abuse-free system, but the ideal is to license and regulate the market such that prostitutes get the same protections as Jane-welder and Joe-hairdresser. As long as the...
[18:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:16] <exec> 08└─That's not a problem for the virgin basement dwellers. And a lot less of a problem for the couples who are really not having sex outside of marriage. They are more likely to be killed by a deadly flu or other plague than by an STD.
[18:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─what we're saying is that the consequences of paying for it aren't what we as a society want to be dealing with.
[18:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, and I forgot: Who is "we".
[18:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:23] <exec> 08└─What if the cure to the problems is worse than the problems to begin with? That is the case with prohibition of drugs and it is also the case with prohibition of prostitution. Prohibition creates new externalities that are worse than the original problem.
[18:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:25] <exec> 08└─With legalized prostitution, it is easy to add a regulation that each prostitute must have a regular test for STDs. Also, when prostitution is legal, it is much easier for the prostitute to actually enforce using a condom.
[18:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:27] <exec> 08└─At first I read it as "Prostitution Discriminated" and the recent Google Diversity Manifesto came to my mind, and I was immediately thinking "oh no, that's one place we don't want 50% males!" :)
[18:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:29] <exec> 08└─This is a VERY BAD solution. Prostitutes are extremely stigmatized already in most (if not all) countries. Registration would open a HUGE can of worm and create plenty of abuse/blackmail. Also, brothels are a serious cause of problems (though they also have a few positives). It also does not take in...
[18:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:31] <exec> 08└─This is the worst argument ever. Pretty much everyone "sells their body." It's called manual labor. Do you think miners are down there for the fun of it? No, they are there because they like getting paid. If this counts as exploitation in your book, then I guess we should ban it also. Free the wage...
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:33] <exec> 08└─haughty criticism from someone who shills for pharmaceutical companies.
[18:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:36] <exec> 08└─You're joking, but it would in fact be a good thing. There are already many men in prostitution, and not just for the gay/bisexual population, women also pay for sex! But not as frequently as men (mostly because of social stigmata). If there were as many women as men who would pay for sex, this woul...
[18:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:38] <exec> 08└─You can spot a collectivist a country-mile away. A collectivist confuses himself with everybody else, and the consequences of this confusion are dire.
[18:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:40] <exec> 08└─Above all else, you should own your body. If the state says you can't sell your body, you must be owned by the state. You surely don't own yourself.
[18:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:32] <exec> 08└─Watch the movie - if Sully had been a machine, they could have landed at an airport instead of in the river.
[18:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─How do you punish a computer?
[18:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:35] <exec> 08└─For added fun, try an international connecting flight. We flew from St. Maarten through Miami with a connecting flight out. Pass a moderate level of TSA in SXM, then arrive Miami - walk a mile, make a long line to get a chit from a "Customs Bot" then make another LOOOOONG line to hand your chit to a...
[18:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:37] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, people in the Middle East and Southwest Asia will tell you that remote controlled planes don't crash often enough... Lost comms, GPS or telemetry? Keep going on your route, or abort landing, per internal inertial guidance and programmed flight path. Someone will be on the line to...
[18:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:39] <exec> 08└─what kind of dumb slave shills for a "government" of unelected bureaucrats masquerading as public servants, while they systematically destroy your country/people right before your brainwashed eyes. what a stupid whore.
[18:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:41] <exec> 08└─You don't know much about these cargo flights do you AC? ANC is located out on a peninsula with both runways positioned minimize the time air traffic spends flying over land at that end. Shenzhen Bao'an airport is similarly located on the coast, with minimal land fly-over for takeoff and landing. Bo...
[18:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:44] <exec> 08└─True, and some day there will be people who put their actual wealth and freedom on the line by putting products into the marketplace that may jeopardize others (see: the Chinese industrialist who committed suicide after realizing what he had done by putting lead into children's toy paint) However, u...
[18:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:46] <exec> 08└─they let the TSA grope and/or backscatter their children! you think they won't fly because there's not a pilot? just couch it as sucking up to the establishment somehow(they'll probably do that themselves anyways) and they'll fight over tickets.
[18:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:48] <exec> 08└─https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/1802/why-do-we-still-use-pilots-to-fly-airplanes [stackexchange.com] http://www.askthepilot.com [askthepilot.com]
[18:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:50] <exec> 08└─Er... I live in the UK. Europe is literally a 30 minute car journey through the Channel Tunnel. I don't even have to get out of the car (drive on train, drive off over end). Or on the multitude of ferries (drive onto ferry, drive out the other end). And on both I can take what I want in the car (I t...
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[18:28:17] <exec> 08└─Send them some spinners to practice with.
[18:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:18] <exec> 08└─It displaced an American as the biggest in the world, so it shall be treated accordingly.
[18:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:52] <exec> 08└─I was recently at a talk on the use of personal pronouns in Japanese. The speaker told of a Japanese family who found the proper use of "you" so socially difficult that for their entire existence as a family they never used any form of that pronoun tp refer to each other. They wanted to avoid being...
[18:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:45] <exec> 08└─Jurassic Carp
[18:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:39] <exec> 08└─It's sinecure, by the way. It means without office, literally, or basically it means a position without any work attached.
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[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─How does Elon's cock taste?
[19:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:41] <exec> 08└─Puritanism: the nagging fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun.
[19:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:42] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think it should be legalized. While taxation is one reason a better reason is for public health. Legal prostitutes can be forced to get regular health checkups to be licensed and that can make a huge difference in stopping the spread of stds and aids. But I do not know why all the exci...
[19:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:45] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of another job that need not be filled by humans is a monumental achievement in and of itself. While I could offer some positives, I think the above alone is more than enough reason to work towards automating anything and everything we possibly can. I don't see a reason anybody should ha...
[19:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe spend more time researching before you reply instead of being an asshole.
[19:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 3817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:49] <exec> 08└─I think your crazy. You're depending on systems that, quite frankly, haven't been tested in today's cybersecurity atmosphere. Somewhat related question; Do you trust SystemD? That Linux computer may hold up just fine, but are you absolutely sure that no bugs exist at all that could seriously comprom...
[19:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:01] <exec> 08└─it always takes less than 10 minutes from sitting at my desk to entering the locker room of my gym two miles away Ahh yes, the old "drive 2 miles to the gym, run 4 miles on the treadmill, drive 2 miles back" gig :D
[19:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:24] <exec> 08└─An engineered leak is not to be ruled out. Unless the leaks are very very embarassing, and who can tell if the leaked material is fake?
[19:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:48] <exec> 08└─I'm glad scientists are working on important matters, like how to make bastard fish nobody was asking for.
[19:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Genetically Engineered Salmon Sold - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:49] <exec> 08└─Brings to mind Monsanto's seed business model.
[19:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:43] <exec> 08└─Dumb meme for dumb people.
[19:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:45] <exec> 08└─Lazy cunts like you don't deserve free money.
[19:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:47] <exec> 08└─Think of it as your taxes. Do you, or do you not maximize your deductions? Same thing.
[19:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:49] <exec> 08└─Huh? Only rich people can afford to move? That's ridiculous. The biggest move I ever made, from one country to another, was made when I had no money and no job. But that's an anecdote, not data. What about, for example, the 13.6M people in Ontario who would have qualified for a $13k incentive [gov.o...
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[20:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:15] <exec> 08└─How many of you will laugh when the first pictures come back and it looks like truck nuts?
[20:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:17] <exec> 08└─Or boobies.
[20:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe in human terms, but that is an insignificant length of time when measuring Earths climate. How about you do that study for 10,000 years or more, graph it all out and show your work. Then we can determine if the event in 2002 is abnormal or not. If I've missed something obvious by not reading t...
[20:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, changes that last a decade are long compared to the few months of summer that started it.
[20:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:39] <exec> 08└─There's something about green cars that attracts a little different kind of sexual activity, or so rumor (fake news?) has it: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:40] <exec> 08└─> If you were to meander on country roads at 45 mph, you might get even more range. Spoken like someone who has no clue about hypermiling. Of course driving slower will get you more range! This has been known for decades. During the first gas price shock in the 1970s, they instituted the national 55...
[20:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:42] <exec> 08└─Bottom line is four hours of Interstate driving and you are done for the day. Which is OK since you will be starting out early and knocking off before it gets hot since the stated range is windows up and AC off. Assuming you have carefully planned things so there will be a charging station right wh...
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:44] <exec> 08└─Imagine the possibilities if you glued green M&Ms all over the thing! https://food.thefuntimesguide.com [thefuntimesguide.com]
[20:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:46] <exec> 08└─Enormously successful?
[20:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:49] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a true Exxon stockholder. I drive more that 25 miles a day MAYBE 4 times a year. Any electric vehicle would work well for me.
[20:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:51] <exec> 08└─Plus it takes almost double the energy to go from 55-70 than 0-55.
[20:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:53] <exec> 08└─Nuts and Bolts.
[20:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 2633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:51] <exec> 08└─...what to make of this. From a pure harm-reduction standpoint, legalizing it is better than the current model we have...BUT...what i want to see is the Nordic Model, which is basically "selling is legal, buying isn't." This was explained to me by a close friend a trafficking survivor early on in my...
[20:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:52] <exec> 08└─If a miner gets their lungs destroyed. It won't be contagious however.
[20:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:54] <exec> 08└─The point is, in RI it went from illegal to legal to illegal in a relatively short time frame, so it's relatively easy to see what the effects are.
[20:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:56] <exec> 08└─because of what her pimp did to her, at age 16, *after having been his sex slave for 4 years,* SINCE THE AGE OF GODDAMN 12.
[20:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:58] <exec> 08└─Runaway is a reactionary, just one layoff from extremist.
[20:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:01] <exec> 08└─But that's not because of any laws. It's just asshole or ignorant parents following societal (or religious) norms.
[20:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:03] <exec> 08└─True story - tax men have a problem collecting taxes. My babysitter almost certainly didn't declare her (cash) weekend income. Nor did my lawnmower (another neighborhood person, paid in cash). Nor did the outside-the-HomeDepot hotdog salesmen. It is dubious whether the jeweler paid taxes for adjusti...
[20:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:08] <exec> 08└─Not runWay to move the goal posts. An itinerary was asked for, he sort of gave you one. The simple fact that it was claimed impossible is proven false by the fact that route exists. However, if that doesn't count for some reason, below is one you can book today, but note that there are even more opt...
[20:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:37] <exec> 08└─All we have to do is turn Trump's hair into an antenna and we've gained the lead back.
[20:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:39] <exec> 08└─In many cities in the U.S., if no one pulls permits, no one complains, or construction isn't visible from the street, there are no inspections. That is why I always check homes I and my family buy for what is referred to as a "pick up permit" on the assessor's website. What that means is that some u...
[20:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Releases Solar Eclipse App - 1377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:57] <exec> 08└─With solar safety glasses available I've seen several advisories saying that there are numerous vendors who are selling junk that doesn't meet a reasonable spec for this. Indirect methods are typically advised. A cheap-and-easy method is a pinhole camera. A long cardboard box that's big enough for a...
[20:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Releases Solar Eclipse App - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:58] <exec> 08└─http://nationaleclipse.com/cities_partial.html#unitedstates [nationaleclipse.com] The table isn't especially well organized, but there's a bunch of cities listed. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─On our journey back to Earth, we have encountered many strange and bizarre things. Only last month, we came across a moon shaped exactly like Felicity Kendal's bottom. We flew around that one a couple of times.
[21:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:44] <exec> 08└─Bottom line is four hours of Interstate driving and you are done for the day.
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─Not many people need to regularly drive more than 4 hours at a time. The people who do shouldn't get this car (or any electric). Your complaint is like saying how cars suck at carrying bricks and 2x4s around. Get a truck if hauling is your use-case.
[21:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─Geez jmorris, give it a rest. Holy straw man arguments. So an electric car won't work ideally in for what is for most of us an edge case. Who cares? You also failed to mention the fast chargers that are available in locations convenient to most people driving > 4 hours per day. So maybe you stop for...
[21:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:52] <exec> 08└─social stigmata
[21:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:53] <exec> 08└─my poor friend tells me her worst "bad dates" would choke her out, hit her, threaten to break her bones, or even threaten to kill her. They got off on her fear and pain. And she says the worst of them were clergy, law enforcement, and even professors.
[21:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:55] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't making selling legal just encourage abusive pimps?
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:58] <exec> 08└─something has gone massively fucking wrong with people when they think they have a right to another person's sexuality, at *any* price.
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─> If there were no johns, there would be no pimps. And something has gone massively fucking wrong with people > when they think they have a right to another person's sexuality, at *any* price. Religion and society frown upon men getting laid easily or for free, yet they have a strong impulse to it....
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[21:27:02] <exec> 08└─Wait staff must still report their tips. They are assumed to make a minimum amount from tips, but that doesn't change the the fact they are legally required to report tip income. I don't know where you and the other idiot poster got that idea from.
[21:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:08] <exec> 08└─When booking flights between CA and the UK, I notice that AA frequently offers flights where the chance of making the connection is close to zero. They offer flight combinations where there isn't enough time to get through immigration and customs, deposit your bags back into the baggage system, then...
[21:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 4056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─That brings up the kind of interesting point that in the old days jetliners had bomber sized crews with a flight engineer and a navigator and radio operator and all that. Now we're downsized down to one pilot and a backup/trainee pilot. The point of this, is they shed all the jobs except stick and r...
[21:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:11] <exec> 08└─Instead, we put our faith and trust into the hands of a couple of aging, alcoholic philanderers
[21:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:14] <exec> 08└─Well, ok - if I could skip that travelling, security, and co-passanger parts.. But seriously - I trust the autopilot more than I trust a human pilot, and this holds even stronger in more modern airplanes. I worry more about the absence of engineers in the cabin (it's either that or hefty redudancy -...
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[21:28:16] <exec> 08└─I generally agree with the exception that I'm not aware of any "recent" jet engines that can operate without computer control and there's many post 1970 military aircraft that are essentially unflyable without aerodynamic computers. So automation can do quite a bit. You might be impressed with cruis...
[21:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:18] <exec> 08└─We're US citizens, traveling as a family with pitiful looking children, so we made the Customs-person line in almost no-time flat. Non-US citizens would NEVER have made that connection after waiting on the tarmac all that time, and probably not even if we had taxied straight up to the gate. You feel...
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[21:28:20] <exec> 08└─I (meaning, my prejudices) would say that airline pilots have more alcoholics and philanderers per-capita than all the other groups, far more than engineers, programmers, and by extension of those: soylent news posters. However, it's far more important for the role of airline pilot to be mentally sh...
[21:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:22] <exec> 08└─> Watch the movie - if Sully had been a machine, they could have landed at an airport instead of in the river. ...if Sully had been a machine, *and if the machine knew what the glide performance was with 2-engines out* they could have landed at an airport instead of in the river. But that particular...
[21:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:52] <exec> 08└─Its based on IT projects I've observed from a close-ish distance, there's no obvious reason why this management job would turn out different than IT management jobs I've seen crash and burn. I've managed to avoid being caught inside the fireball but after a couple of decades you can really see some...
[21:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:39] <exec> 08└─treadmills are like boats, lots of fun to use someone elses, but an expensive PITA to keep operating. I have one in front of my rarely watched TV. Hipsters like walking desks but I have a walking TV at home. A replacement belt is $150. Something I find a little weird is I have to replace the belt ev...
[21:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 2189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:51] <exec> 08└─1 ) No, they don't even know enough to know what they don't know. At most, one might say that the board will be held responsible for breaches - at which point corporate board memberships touching anything electronic will be a punishment duty. The documented details suggest that this may be delegated...
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[22:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:14] <exec> 08└─Larger rapidly accessible collections of pr0n. The motivation behind ZFS was to enable larger collections of pr0n.
[22:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─We'll quickly be creating enough disk capacity to keep most of Earth's women employed making porn 24/7. The problem is how few consumers are willing to pay them to provision those drives and fill them.
[22:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─Most estimates of human memory equivalent storage are under 100 TB. The highest estimate I have ever run into was 3PB, or 3,000 TB (and I think that's way overblown, various reasons.) So 3U... and you could reasonably have enough long-term storage to support a mind as we know it. Presuming, of cours...
[22:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─You've become a pirate!
[22:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:22] <exec> 08└─Would love to somehow put this in a workstation. I've seen my M.2 sticks throttle, so I'm left with my PCIe card Intel (working great!). U.2 is an option for now.
[22:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─How many more nails do we need in the coffin of the idea that comets are "dirty snowballs"?
[22:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:35] <exec> 08└─chocolate starfish. i win.
[22:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:37] <exec> 08└─You don't think contact binaries can be formed from dirty snowballs?
[22:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:08] <exec> 08└─That's why we're all big fans of Microsoft here, personal financial gain is the only success that truly matters. If you can throw some virtue signaling in the mix to justify it, then all the better.
[22:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:10] <exec> 08└─You miss the point. It isn't about needing to commute four hours, it isn't about driving four hours on a "regular" basis. It is about knowing you are on a short leash, you CAN'T take off on a day trip to a spot a hundred miles away without worrying about working charging into your schedule. You CAN'...
[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03beernutz [4365] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:12] <exec> 08└─Only if it could go back in time too. I think they ended that in 2009. 88mph!!!!!
[22:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─This is wrong.There is another reason,it gives people idea that this is a legitimate career choice. It is not. It has a a sharp and constant decrease in earning potential, unlike almost ANY other career path. It is a dead end and advocating for normalizing it is economic equivalence of fight for 15....
[22:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:25] <exec> 08└─Right, you think the hooker is having fun? Are you fucking retarded or something? Yeah this is 'fun', that is 'fun', then people who don't have 'fun' have to deal with long term effects of your 'fun', from drug epidemic, crime waves spawned from them, STDs galore, DWIs. But it's OK because it's just...
[22:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 2296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:27] <exec> 08└─"what i want to see is the Nordic Model, which is basically "selling is legal, buying isn't." This was explained to me by a close friend a trafficking survivor early on in my involvement with the movement, and her arguments made perfect sense." More like perfect nonsense. "The one problem I see her...
[22:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:29] <exec> 08└─Unlike, perhaps, professional sports? Modeling? After all, as we know, no people have EVER changed their jobs - no sir, that is simply impossible.. Oh, and your second 'point' is simply trying to push your personal belief system as fact, get over yourself. You do know there are plenty of places in t...
[22:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:31] <exec> 08└─the willingness to pay money for it is not immoral
[22:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:33] <exec> 08└─"Right, you think the hooker is having fun? Are you fucking retarded or something?" Most people, most of the time, probably are not having fun on their job. Hookers just get paid more for it. And yes, some really do enjoy it. http://thehappyhookerdocumentary.com [thehappyhookerdocumentary.com]
[22:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:35] <exec> 08└─"With the prevalence of credit cards today it's harder to get away with since tips left on cards are reported automatically with most restaurant accounting software. " Not at all. Just basic courtesy to have enough cash in your pocket for the tip, even if you're paying with a card.
[22:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:50] <exec> 08└─I have experienced waiting for 45 minutes and more to exit the customs hall. Not a wait for my bags to appear, but a wait in the line to go past the checkpoint. I don't know what was going on on those days, but I was glad to have a long layover. I have had layovers where I only made my connecting fl...
[22:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:51] <exec> 08└─Note to self: PROOFREAD!!!!
[22:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:53] <exec> 08└─If you take "victim" as "dead" then it's true. If you take "victim" as "paid the ransom or had their files gone" then it is no longer true. Why the second meaning is still relevant: because they are affected in a way the person who spread the ransomware intended. Now, translate this into the case of...
[22:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Releases Solar Eclipse App - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:43] <exec> 08└─Nah, use binoculars** They induce great comedy. The looks you get when you walk up with binoculars and the stern warnings and finger shaking you receive are priceless. ** Put the binoculars (or large magnifying glass) on a tripod, a convenient distance from a white sheet of paper, adjusted so that t...
[22:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Releases Solar Eclipse App - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:44] <exec> 08└─Figure this out ahead of time, Because the chance of this app actually WORKING on eclipse day is virtually Nil. The Servers will be swamped, the cell towers hammered. The app won't run without cell sevice (just tried it in airplane mode), and everybody and their brother will be beating the net to de...
[22:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:13] <exec> 08└─I make the same assumption. However, some athletes are able [dailymail.co.uk] to run 2 miles in under 10 minutes. It would be fair to compare that with travel via stairs. A study [springer.com] of people "with an average age of 23.4 years" (supposedly representative of the general population in Sout...
[22:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unbreakable: China Doubles Down On Quantum Internet - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:07] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that logic also preclude somebody from eavesdropping on it? Then the original recipient wouldn't receive the right data because it was observed?
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[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─> Is it jerky? no probs, install in SUV, it matches the owner.
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─smell my dirty underwear
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─> Is it jerky? No, but it is a bit tough...
[23:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─> A homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine ignites petrol through compression, eliminating spark plugs. I believe that one trick that makes this difficult is that the engine switches back and forth between spark or other assisted ignition and pure compression ignition. The other is th...
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─It is a hybrid HCCI / HCSI engine. Probably uses spark to start, and get the engine up to temperature. I imagine that running without spark would seriously foul the plugs longterm.
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─Mazda announces they made a diesel engine that runs on petrol as a "breakthrough". I see no breakthrough whatsoever unless there was some other major hurdle in getting petrol to properly ignite in a compression ignition engine. Mazda Motor Corp said it would become the world's first automaker to com...
[23:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:55] <exec> 08└─Between 1987 and 2000, the MDV region experienced a period of cooling, during which mean summer temperatures steadily declined while solar radiation gradually increased.
[23:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:56] <exec> 08└─Oh, wait, we aren't allowed to blame any warming on solar activity change. My bad. Well, when you're on the down-slope for solar activity (since 2014) [nasa.gov] but you're breaking global temperature records every year (2015 & 2016) it tends to rule it out.
[23:27:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 2633 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:20] <exec> 08└─...what to make of this. From a pure harm-reduction standpoint, legalizing it is better than the current model we have...BUT...what i want to see is the Nordic Model, which is basically "selling is legal, buying isn't." This was explained to me by a close friend a trafficking survivor early on in my...
[23:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:41] <exec> 08└─Why are those norms a thing? Obviously, because no one thinks you own your own body. It's not offtopic—it's answering the question; the answer is that American society does not think you own your own body, as evidenced by the history of norms and prohibitions.
[23:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:59] <exec> 08└─So why don't they try it out with cargo planes... give that a try for a few years, I'll end the debate between the supporters and detractors. Action speaks. Btw, if I had a vote, I'd say they should immediately replace the cab and bus drivers we have here with autonomous vehicles.... maybe the train...
[23:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:00] <exec> 08└─... just using them for cargo shipping.
[23:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:02] <exec> 08└─...and there's many post 1970 military aircraft that are essentially unflyable without aerodynamic computers...
[23:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:04] <exec> 08└─Is it possible to slip malware into the upgrade path? Could one of these planes be taken down by someone with sophistication and a moment or two of access to the datacenters responsible, or the plane itself?
[23:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:47] <exec> 08└─That and an attempt to make the evil, evil pirates look you know..evil.
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