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[00:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─No. It's over the road, for driving power. Tramway on wheels, like in many cities, but able to switch to diesel when the electrified section ends (or to pass). 10km at 90km/h clocks in at under 7 minutes. Good luck charging a truck battery in that time. THe sparks would be wonderful at night. The in...
[00:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:33] <exec> 08└─Yup that's how I read it. A ten km demonstration project which will do nothing but ugly up a highway, and not be of sufficient length to charge anything. They will probably have to fund the addition of trolley-arms, because no trucker is going to want to shell out for that when it can only be used o...
[00:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:48] <exec> 08└─And Howard the Duck.
[00:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:33] <exec> 08└─Tell that to all the people who were illegally foreclosed on.
[00:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:02] <exec> 08└─Mondragon: Originally in the Basque country of Spain. Started by 6 worker-owners in 1956. Currently has over 100,000 worker-owners. Now in 40 countries spanning 5 continents. 100 percent worker-owned. Doing just fine, thank you very much. Italy's government allows workers who have been laid off by b...
[00:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:03] <exec> 08└─Workers owning the means of production is not necessarily antagonistic to the ideals of Capitalism You clearly don't understand what Capitalism is. You've indicated that you believe it to be an ideology. Capitalism is an ownership model. It consists of people with excess wealth investing money into...
[00:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:06] <exec> 08└─You're back to mistaking gov't-run insurance systems for an ownership model. You are referring to Liberal Democracy. Sometimes, this is called Social Democracy. People who are easily confused then call that "socialism". That's not what it is. Again: Socialism is the collective ownership of the means...
[00:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:08] <exec> 08└─Careful what you wish for. Also, that's just crazy enough to work. Hint: If whites are so damn evil and oppressive then why does everyone want to live in the countries they build?
[00:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:10] <exec> 08└─After 5-6 of them said "fuck you trump", they had a conference call and decided to all quit. Trump tried to get ahead of the news by dissolving the council. / was on the fence about Trump // didn't vote for him /// supporting Nazis put me firmly in the "fuck you asshole" camp. //// he will never get...
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[01:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:11] <exec> 08└─Mono Cultures worked so well on land - lets poison the ocean too. A very small portion of fish stock is already raised this way, and it causes a fair bit of trouble with wild stocks just about everywhere it is tried. Diseases sweep through concentrated populations and spread into the wild stocks. En...
[01:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:13] <exec> 08└─The fish eat the shit other fish excrete, and eat the bodies of those not able to keep up. Now I'm not alt-right, but that don't seem like a viable feeding alternative.
[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─What cleans the bays and estuaries full penned or fenced rearing areas?
[01:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:17] <exec> 08└─My understanding of this is ... The fish eat the shit other fish excrete, and eat the bodies of those not able to keep up.
[01:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:31] <exec> 08└─Long distance trucking is a grossly inefficient way to move goods from one place to another.
[01:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:37] <exec> 08└─Huh? The mainstream conservatives are constantly spouting "free market" rhetoric, and Republicans have been pushing deregulation for decades; it isn't just a libertarian theme. As for the neo-Nazis, I doubt they think too much about economic issues like that; they're too busy screaming racist crap.
[01:27:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, funny how absolutely none of his policies did shit but hemorrhage well paying jobs that then got replaced by not nearly as many minimum wage jobs while he was in office but less than a year after he's unemployed everyone else gets back to work. Nobody's going to be able to prove causation but...
[01:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:11] <exec> 08└─Nonsense! Are you saying that a company as big as Google or Facebook would be overrun by SJWs? Assinine! Someone would have written a memo about it, or at least started an anonymous forum to discuss it. [cnbc.com] We've seen nothing of the sort so take your vast right wing conspiracy back to your mo...
[01:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:12] <exec> 08└─::slowly waves hand:: These are not the shillbots you are looking for. ::waves again:: Get off my Astroturf.
[01:28:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 755 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:22] <exec> 08└─I've seen this thinking and it usually leads back to someone with an MBA and no critical thinking skills. Reconsider if this is a fight you want to fight - you may do better by finding a better company to work for as it sounds like this one is headed in a downward spiral. Once they weed out people f...
[01:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:36] <exec> 08└─sales people and developers can have useful interaction, if sales actually takes note of what developers say.
[01:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:37] <exec> 08└─Your boss might have had a good Idea. When tech support has to deal with a bunch of disinterested engineers to get past a customer's problem it seldom speaks well of the product or the company. Perhaps you boss wanted to keep YOU from distracting those engineers. (How do you know it wasn't them who...
[01:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:39] <exec> 08└─Kind of like that Spoiler tag. Probably developed by Sales types, and just about nobody ever uses it in real life. But boy did it feature in the sales blurbs a few months ago.
[01:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Agile... That's it. NO. Agile is the tool the Sales type beat you over the head with to make it clear you work for them - even if it means you turn out shit all day long.
[01:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:43] <exec> 08└─The B-Ark is downtown. Space is Limited. Here's your hat, what's your hurry?
[01:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCLA Scientists Identify a new way to Activate Stem Cells to Make Hair Grow - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:18] <exec> 08└─maybe you like shaved genitals. regular people don't.
[01:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Swept Nearly Every Category at the 2017 Hugo Awards - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:33] <exec> 08└─Except it's not skewed and it doesn't need correcting. All you are going to do is make everything shit and everyone unhappy. But keep cutting your nose to spite your face, I do not really care. I can pretty much just read old Sci-Fi instead of the turds being stamped out by the PC crowd.
[01:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Swept Nearly Every Category at the 2017 Hugo Awards - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:35] <exec> 08└─I've read The Expanse books and greatly enjoyed them. It's not clear from the TV show yet, but basically it turns into galactic Stargate with three half-waring half-peaceful factions of humans (Earthers, Martians, Belters) and three 'baddies' (aliens who tried to 'kill' Earth millions of years ago,...
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[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─This was all the rage after the Independence Day movie, then again after District 9. Anyone capable of getting here after finding a map has far less challenging planets free for the taking. Why come and fight a war when there are probably thousands of pristine planets along the way hosting nothing b...
[02:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:26] <exec> 08└─Lets whip up hate and fear. Cuz we haven't got enough of that around.
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─Only one of two possible outcomes. 1. We Kaboom! ourselves into extinction in the next hundred years. This problem is one for the next sentient species to arise, hope enough survives they even know about the problem but probably not, anything that nasty probably wipes any record of something so insi...
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─Are we just assuming the alien overlords will know and understand our map? Sure we think it makes sense since we know the context but for them it might just be some lines and dots and odd shaped figures, they might not even be humanoid looking after all.
[02:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:32] <exec> 08└─Don't even worry about pristine maps, if they're close enough to find a V'ger, they're close enough to see the water spectrum coming off the third rock from the yellow star. For that matter, Voyagers are travelling inside our EM emissions bubble, so if they can decode that disc, they also are very l...
[02:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't discount the fact that E.T. is out there, but... perhaps they will never come our way. If they do come our way, odds of them running into a probe (and not vaporizing it as they would any other space-dust in their way) before spotting our planet outright are infinitesimally small, kind of l...
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:36] <exec> 08└─A lot of thought was put into that disc and its encoding, but it was 100% speculative. Maybe another race could figure it out, if they even cared. Then again, another race could also probably figure out more about us by examining the craft itself, even without the disc. I think of the disc as a sort...
[02:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I'm not saying that there wasn't a bunch of really smart people that in essence tried to communicate with something or someone very alien. This was the best they could come up with, and it might be really good or it might also be completely crap. The aliens might not understand binary, they...
[02:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:49] <exec> 08└─Your understanding is limited - nothing in ecology is that simplistic.
[02:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:50] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid the (venture) capital world isn't a good analogy for aquaculture. For the simple reason that nobody in his own mind will take the cost of growing fish spawn** to have only 1%-ers for the harvest and 99% of the rest improper for consumption and incurring costs to dispose of them. --- ** qu...
[02:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:06] <exec> 08└─From wikipedia: Within the U.S. railroads carry 39.9% of freight by ton-mile, followed by trucks (33.4%), oil pipelines (14.3%), barges (12%) and air (0.3%). Railways carried 17.1% of EU freight in terms of tonne-km,[12] compared to road transport (76.4%) and inland waterways (6.5%). (From "Rail Fre...
[02:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:08] <exec> 08└─So, trucks are 20% less efficient than trains for carrying bulk goods long distances. Howzabout you build a train spur to my local Walmart, which is 20 miles away from the nearest train spur? Keep in mind that 20 miles away is covered in suburbia, apartments, and freeways trucks can run on.
[02:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:10] <exec> 08└─Bulk frieght should go by rail to "local" dsitribution centres local can mean 20, 30, or. In regional areas, even larger distances. Double and triple trailer trucks should not need to be on the road. Smaller trucks, doing fewer miles, using trains for big distances would be the most efficient way, b...
[02:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:11] <exec> 08└─+1 Truth. There's a lot of people who are fed up with Nazis AND the PC Police. Extremism is the refuge of a weak mind.
[02:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:12] <exec> 08└─No, the right only wants to prevent meddling they don't like. See, for example, their reaction towards preventing creationism being taught in public schools vs municipal broadband.
[02:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:14] <exec> 08└─I too find it odd that the republicans here do not see that for what it is.
[02:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:49] <exec> 08└─If you are the only employee and you have no investors, your business is Socialist. If you have a payroll with non-owner laborers on it, your business is Capitalist.
[02:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:50] <exec> 08└─If they hate big business with a passion, they sure aren't showing it at the voting booth. "Voting is as voting does" as Forrest Gump might say... or "you get what you vote for".
[02:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:53] <exec> 08└─There are real, 100% nazis in the US, but that doesn't seem to bother an entire political specturm.
[02:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:55] <exec> 08└─I thought you didn't loke losers like Lee. He surrendered to Grant.
[02:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:57] <exec> 08└─So, you just believe the MSM who claims those protesting the statue's removal were nazis? You are aware that trump denounced the violence from extremists on both the alt-right and alt-left? Did you swear not to vote for dems when they refused to denounce BLM, even as one of their own shot up cops in...
[02:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:24] <exec> 08└─Actually I think this idea is brilliant. If your techies are within striking, or at least walking, distance of the salesweasels they can reach over and club them to death with clue bats whenever they sell customers products that don't exist, can't be built, or violate the laws of physics. Then after...
[02:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exotic Quantum States Made From Light: Physicists Create Optical “Wells” for a Super-Photon - 3120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:42] <exec> 08└─Generally speaking, it is fair to say that it is better to find a better algorithm to solve a problem than to speed up the machine, but we absolutely could purposefully and effectively use machines several order of magnitude faster than the ones we have in many fields. I'm not saying all progress sh...
[02:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exotic Quantum States Made From Light: Physicists Create Optical “Wells” for a Super-Photon - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:43] <exec> 08└─We need other inventions besides faster computers, such as tractor beams, artificial gravity, better propulsion systems in space, asteroid capture/mining technology so we can get better access to mineral resources, better batteries for EVs and mobile devices so we can wean ourselves off nasty fossil...
[02:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Swept Nearly Every Category at the 2017 Hugo Awards - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:19] <exec> 08└─And that's the problem with this one: If you won a Hugo this year, you now no longer know whether you got it was because (a) you've created a story that's genuinely better than anyone else's or (b) you created a so-so story and have tits. Friend of mine actually declined an award some years ago beca...
[02:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Swept Nearly Every Category at the 2017 Hugo Awards - 1918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:20] <exec> 08└─I apologize if I sounded condemnatory--that was not my intention. At least you read the summaries, (though I'm not sure the the summarizer did a good job if your descriptions are true to the summaries, to wit: Obelisk Gate, inspired by a paper at an astronomical conference, is a fantasy exploring th...
[02:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels: Nanotechnology Gives Green Energy a Green Color - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:07] <exec> 08└─Asking the oracle: what about users who are engineers (perhaps in unrelated fields)?
[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels: Nanotechnology Gives Green Energy a Green Color - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:08] <exec> 08└─Given there was no charging equipment there, I kind of wonder if it wasn't a photoshop job.
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[03:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:22] <exec> 08└─This is odd, because afternoons are when energy plummets, when creativity and efficiency are drained, and many workers crave a second wind. It makes sense to focus on how to improve this[...]
[03:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:23] <exec> 08└─Then you won't go into an insulin coma. It really is that simple, folks.
[03:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:25] <exec> 08└─Why can't you have a plain old nap, why does it have to be a "power" nap? Wish that cliche would die. They call them siestas in Mexico.
[03:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:27] <exec> 08└─On man's solutions are another man's waste of time.
[03:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:29] <exec> 08└─Why can't you have a plain old nap, why does it have to be a "power" nap?
[03:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:32] <exec> 08└─Fika, sometimes a short nap. Afternoon delight is normally out of the question.
[03:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:34] <exec> 08└─Wake at 2pm. Troll SN. Wank. Shower. Dress. Go to coffee shop. Buy energy drink. Eat big salad. Troll SN. Wander home at 10pm when coffee shop closes. Undress. Wank. Troll SN. Watch eight hours of pirated TV streams. Troll SN. Pass out at 6am. Do it all again.
[03:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─You'd think for all the trolling practice you get in that you'd be good at it. I guess some people got it and some just never will.
[03:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:51] <exec> 08└─‘This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council,’ the voice continued. ‘As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your...
[03:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:52] <exec> 08└─1. We Kaboom! ourselves into extinction in the next hundred years. This problem is one for the next sentient species to arise, hope enough survives they even know about the problem but probably not, anything that nasty probably wipes any record of something so insignificant as a picture on a probe.
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:54] <exec> 08└─YouTube: the citation of choice for crazies.
[03:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Berky [5657] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:56] <exec> 08└─In all fairness, it is written by Nadia Drake, the daughter of Frank Drake who designed the pulsar map, and there lies the only interesting aspect of this article. She does mention Kathryn Denning, an anthropologist who apparently "studies the ethics of sending messages to extraterrestrials". As if...
[03:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:59] <exec> 08└─"There is a growing body of evidence [vimeo.com] that prior relatively technically advanced [youtube.com] civilizations existed on earth in our past, and we are only the latest iteration." "I think it's retarding to imagine alien life while ignoring evidence that's right under our noses. Even if the...
[03:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 2618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:01] <exec> 08└─Or aliens could just scoop it up, curse the Earthers for littering the space-way, and fine earth for being reckless with their orbital detritus. Mayhaps the "Virgo" Cluster Council of Cultural Oversight will simply charge you a fee payable once you escape your planet's gravity well and officially be...
[03:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:03] <exec> 08└─When we saw ourselves as on the cusp of really civilizing, back about the time this went out, we assumed that more advanced civilizations had already completed the process and would naturally be non-threatening, either actively helpful to us or non-interventionist at least. It was a more innocent ti...
[03:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:34] <exec> 08└─> Bulk frieght should go by rail.. For many years I've been proposing that some trains should be dedicated to drive-on flat bed rolling stock. Truckers can just drive on, be locked in place (with standardized clamps) and then go to sleep in their sleeper cab...while they travel the long distance par...
[03:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:49] <exec> 08└─I don't watch Game of Thrones (I tried once; it was briefly interesting but not fascinating such as would have invited a second viewing)... That said, I kind of understand about the watching online and wanting to watch early, because, I think it was season 6 of Stargate SG-1 that had about half the...
[03:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:40] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your sentiments on the whole cake thing (*) but I modded you up. In the sphere of free speech, I'm hardcore pro because once we allow those we hate to be silenced, it is inevitable that our own haters will silence us. (*) When you use public services to run a business, you serve the...
[03:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not a libertarian but I know some -- in your second paragraph you seem to be conflating Republican with Libertarian -- the two are very far apart. As for the first point, Libertarians would support freedom of speech for all people, even communists. If you don't get that, you don't get libertaria...
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[03:27:43] <exec> 08└─It's more the leftist views are being deplatformed to some degree by the Center-Right. It's right in TFA. In an article titled “Google Censors Block Access to CounterPunch and Other Progressive Sites,” CounterPunch reports that lefty outlets like itself and World Socialist Website have seen imme...
[03:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:45] <exec> 08└─Of course they will confiscate your home -- they just pay local governments to condemn your property so they can build whatever. Illegal foreclosures have already been mentioned, but we could throw in price gouge medicines to such a degree, that people die. Of course, when corporate officers kill yo...
[03:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:48] <exec> 08└─Foreclosure is a legal act, done by the state, on behalf of the lender. Just as I said, the violence comes from the state.
[03:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:28] <exec> 08└─Usually if someone can't find a job for awhile they stop counting him as unemployed
[03:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, it actually is. (The 2nd thought was predicated on the 1st, BTW.) If you have investors who produce nothing within the company, yours is a Capitalist operation. If you have employees who have no ownership in the company, yours is a Capitalist operation. If your employees have ownership in the c...
[03:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:31] <exec> 08└─The Nazis *did* have some characteristics that would allow them to be called socialist You speak in generalities and give no specifics to back your arguments. I've seen you do this before. If you want to be taken seriously and not be called a fool repeatedly, you will stop this. The Nazis were Capit...
[03:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Swept Nearly Every Category at the 2017 Hugo Awards - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:55] <exec> 08└─it's amazing what the marketers have done to childhood. At one time, kids were kids, usually dressed in white and not marketed to. This started to change in the latter part of the 19th century, accelerated with department stores which segregated boy from girl and really took off when Reagan vetoed a...
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[04:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:27] <exec> 08└─Dick niggers, with jews you lose, etc etc. Good trolls put on an act to get a reaction from some and to entertain others. Bad trolls just hate your fucking guts. Shut up it's time for TV. Ohhhh loook Andrea Savage is on tonight. She reminds me of a female Seinfeld. Big salads and jews, natch. Fuck y...
[04:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:29] <exec> 08└─...when at all possible, I come home, eat lunch, jerk off, take a nap.
[04:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:31] <exec> 08└─Afternoon masturbation is seconded, bitches.
[04:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:33] <exec> 08└─> 5. Establish a fun afternoon ritual. I've been trying to get my partner to go for sex and a nap in the afternoon, but they are busy most afternoons (we both work from home).
[04:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:55] <exec> 08└─I read the tittle and thought "WTF!?!?!" Since both the voyager craft, and everything else we've ever sent heading towards interstellar space, are all crawling along at a tiny fraction of light speed any race that did find them in any time frame where we would have to worry about it would have alrea...
[04:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:56] <exec> 08└─Aliens capable of coming here could probably calculate the trajectory of the craft and guess as to where to look for us with reasonable certainty. The map might just make the process more efficient. But even if they can't come here, being able to intercept would require the telemetry necessary to fi...
[04:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:09] <exec> 08└─Had to double-check the username. When did you become an environmentalist? Are you also interested in wolf conservation? I hope so! I've always loved wolves! ♥ Nobody in my family has been a farmer since my grandparents, though, and we've never had wolves around here anyway.
[04:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:30] <exec> 08└─So haul the mass of the freight and the inert mass of the fueled tractor? And a driver with no way to stretch her legs every few hours? I'll bet we could construct large buildings in a spoke and hub system that trucks could unload and pick up from. These hubs could then load the freight into box car...
[04:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:31] <exec> 08└─> So haul the mass of the freight and the inert mass of the fueled tractor? Yes. As long as the trailer is fairly full, my guess (no data) is that this will still improve the total system efficiency. In part because road damage is so expensive to repair (but not normally accounted for in the system...
[04:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7GUvttfe0k [youtube.com] Not sure what's more unsettling, for road engineers to be Super Mario film fans or for them to be bumper cars aficionados... Now if we could only just find a few Jetsons fans in the mix...
[04:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:44] <exec> 08└─Talking about screaming and spouting, I see LOTS of US folk railing against Big Government. Quality of Government matters more than Quantity. What they don't seem to understand is whenever Big Government gets smaller, they get their favorite Corporations to do more and more of the stuff for them. A...
[04:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:28] <exec> 08└─Only because the rabid right kept saying those employment numbers were wrong! Unemployment was REALLY 20+%, until the Creamsicle Charlton got elected, then they were miraculous, bigly correct! Trumps still running under the Obama administrations fiscal budget and policies coattails. When they actual...
[04:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:29] <exec> 08└─"E.g. their belief in magic affiliates them more with the current left than the right." Uh, the right is the magic man in the sky promoters, far more so than the left. What 'magic' is it that the left promotes?
[04:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:31] <exec> 08└─You didn't just torture logic, you waterboarded it while stretching it on the rack during an evisceration.
[04:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:33] <exec> 08└─In a very dark-humor sort of way I am really loving this administration. Baltimore just removed all of their Confederate statues in the dead of night last night after they've been up for 70 years. They've been up since Jim Crow times, put up by Jim Crow racists who engaged in revisionist history to...
[04:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UCLA Scientists Identify a new way to Activate Stem Cells to Make Hair Grow - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:40] <exec> 08└─Not a biochemist, but I thought lactate was what built up in muscle cells after hard exercise...and caused muscle aches for a day or two afterwords? Also, the ability to metabolize lactate may have something to do with recovery after hard exercise. If so, taking something that increases lactate in c...
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[05:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:11] <exec> 08└─See title
[05:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:12] <exec> 08└─No one actually cares about whether elections could be hacked it seems, if they did you would see discussion of securing the voting machines. That has been my takeaway...
[05:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:15] <exec> 08└─Nonsense! All we're getting is still hearsay. American intelligence agencies publicly identified a program he had written as one tool used in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee More lies. The DNC was not hacked! The democrats lost because they suck.
[05:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:33] <exec> 08└─I find, that if my energy is low in the afternoons, and I need a break from coding, going down to a park where there is a Confederate Cretin Statue and punching a Nazi in the face; gets the juices flowing again, so I can write great code. If there are no Nazis, Punching KKK in the face is a fair sub...
[05:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:35] <exec> 08└─Somehow, your daily schedule seems incomplete. Ah, I know what it is! The "coffee shop" and "watching pirated streams" periods, there are no wank in them. You really aren't yet ready to fulfill your purpose in life, are you?
[05:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:37] <exec> 08└─Never nap, because I'm useless afterwards. But I save my afternoons for mind numbing tasks that don't require a bunch of thought. Or maybe Bugging the guys in the other offices who also don't get anything done in the afternoon.
[05:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:39] <exec> 08└─My body "plummets" at about 3:30am, why am I such an insect - Jesus kill me. Also, Colton's mom ate the antimatter in the universe so scientists can't find it. Yes, it has been said before but this is the version for my neighborhood, sorry Colton's mom. You aren't that fat but you are mean to basica...
[05:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:03] <exec> 08└─Not Star Trek? No one remembers V'ger? Aww...
[05:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 1547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:04] <exec> 08└─There is this thing in intelligence, mostly in analysis as opposed to collection, where the number one thing to beware of is mirroring. Now, the very nice philosopher, Immanuel Kant, put forth theory of ethics that is very interesting, maybe I will need to do a journal on this, but the basic idea is...
[05:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:18] <exec> 08└─This resembles what I wanted to do 50 years ago as a nerdy high school graduate. It is about damned time somebody noticed that while we have limited arable land and limited fresh water, we (Earthlings) have a LOT of sun-drenched salty water. All the various complaints that it will not be fast, easy,...
[05:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:56] <exec> 08└─The video was stored on a server and only 4 people had access to its password. That is all it takes to arrest all 4 of them in India and then send them to central jail for upwards 15 days and possible 2-3 months. The technology company has claimed that it was not hacked, but it is unlikely that all...
[05:27:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:06] <exec> 08└─"I don't want to be associated with your ideas and therefore you cannot use my company to broadcast your hate" is very different from "You are hereby to cease talking under penalty of jail and fines". Being shunned from popular platforms has always happened. People would boo you in the square or ref...
[05:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:32] <exec> 08└─"Fascist" is not one of the protected classes in the US, but that ruins your entire narrative and you would collapse on the couch and not know what to do with yourself. So instead you double down and play the victim card. Very brave.
[05:27:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not the one that put the fascist card in play. The traitorous Americans carrying around swastikas did that.
[05:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:54] <exec> 08└─Most nations are not morally advanced enough to use it to full effect,
[05:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ends the American Manufacturing Council as Strategic and Policy Forum Disbands - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:42] <exec> 08└─Ok, so suppose the following cases: 1. I opened the fully automated enterprise with capital obtained from another business using seriously underpaid labor. When the current (automated) business got up and running well, I sold the previous one. 2. I took a loan form the bank to buy the robots and, lu...
[05:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exotic Quantum States Made From Light: Physicists Create Optical “Wells” for a Super-Photon - 5909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:29] <exec> 08└─Negative. I've been using quantum proof crypto since I first heard of quantum computation in the 90's; It's dead simple to create, but the foolish "don't roll your own" mantra keeps the sheeple from adopting better crypto so fuck them. Anyone who wants quantum proof crypto already has it. Some quant...
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[05:30:31] <exec> 08└─Please, please take some physics classes or try reading before ever saying "artificial gravity" again.
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[06:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:23] <exec> 08└─They should read all of our email, but we should read none of thier's? Good one. I for one enjoy the view of this rotting carcase.
[06:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:25] <exec> 08└─It was the New York Times. You seem to have mistaken it for a reliable source. http://canadafreepress.com [canadafreepress.com]
[06:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:27] <exec> 08└─What is going on? First we were attacked by neo-nazis, neo-confederates, and neo-libertariantards, but now this? What are we supposed to infer from this, other than the election was hacked, Donald Trump is the Anti-Clinton, and that the FBI now has in its hands enough evidence to prove that Donald T...
[06:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:29] <exec> 08└─Please try to keep up: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
[06:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:31] <exec> 08└─frojack, reading all the email, even his own. Kind of an Steve Bannon fan. Sucking your own email. No outside proof required. So far inside the bubble that the deep state makes sense, and they are coming for you. Run, frojack! Run! Get the hell out while there is still time! Don't you see that event...
[06:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:33] <exec> 08└─You know, just fuck you, frojack! You are supposed to be my friend! You are supposed to stand up for real journalism! But now this. Man, are you so far gone that you cannot see that Trump is a deep plant Nazi from before you were even born, and you are playing right into it? Frojack! Frrrooojack! G...
[06:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:35] <exec> 08└─A whole article based on a single weak premise. Those timestamps could be created by copying the files at a later point at a different location. That said, I see little evidence that what was leaked was not true. So I find it amusing if the Russians are actually behind this and were attempting to in...
[06:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:38] <exec> 08└─What are we supposed to infer from this, other than the election was hacked
[06:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:00] <exec> 08└─I find it impossible to "power nap", the only times I can nap is when I have no agenda for the rest of the day, then napping for a couple hours might be feasible. But it's not really necessary then. It amazes me how people can nap for 20 minutes, if they have 25 to spare.
[06:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:02] <exec> 08└─> not wanking at the coffee shoppe Can't tell if noob or lamer.
[06:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:28] <exec> 08└─It will be easier to have the voyager returned with a "insufficient postage" note.
[06:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:29] <exec> 08└─*lactation
[06:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:31] <exec> 08└─Why come and fight a war when there are probably thousands of pristine planets along the way
[06:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe this daily stormer stuff is like a reverse "think of the children" by getting a nasty group to suffer the initial precedent. Then they can censor whatever and at worst say "woops, how'd that get on the list,just an oversight."
[06:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:21] <exec> 08└─Extremism is the refuge of a weak mind.
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[07:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Google Lunar XPrize Deadline Revised; New Prizes Available - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─A googol nuggers will blot out the moons!
[07:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Lunar XPrize Deadline Revised; New Prizes Available - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:19] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Dark Side of the Moon! As you can see, the Dark Side isn't totally dark. ____________________________________ | Meet Hot Singles In ORBIT, LUNAR | |_________|> Ad Choices ___________| This is because of lunar phases and ambient stellar illumination. [Disable Ad Blocker to Continue] [...
[07:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:38] <exec> 08└─Well, someone should read my email, because I don't. I just read the subject title, then reply with preconceived abortions of logic. It's a skill I learned on the other site.
[07:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 1160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:24] <exec> 08└─I read the tittle and thought "WTF!?!?!" Since both the voyager craft, and everything else we've ever sent heading towards interstellar space, are all crawling along at a tiny fraction of light speed any race that did find them in any time frame where we would have to worry about it would have alrea...
[07:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is called the "Milky Way" because the infant Heracles was brought to suckle at the breast of Hera, the Wife of Zeus and the greatest cuck of them all. Once she realized that Heracles was the bastard son of her husband (kind of like Richard Spencer's mom), she tore him from her breast, spilli...
[07:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:34] <exec> 08└─That is true, however an alien civilization could also believe that another technological civilization could be a potential future threat to them, especially if they had undergone through at least one period of exponential growth like we have. But hey, that doesn't sell well. Lets whip up hate and f...
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[07:26:36] <exec> 08└─A planet like Earth will show indications of it's potential life bearing state long before sapient life emerges. Any sufficiently advanced alien civilization could have predicted our emergence and sent autonomous killer drones here from the other side of the galaxy at slower than light speed, and th...
[07:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe this daily stormer stuff is like a reverse "think of the children" by getting a nasty group to suffer the initial precedent. Then they can censor whatever and at worst say "woops, how'd that get on the list,just an oversight."
[07:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Ice Lake Architecture Will be "10nm+" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:34] <exec> 08└─The article mentions that the pluses signify unspecified "enhancements" as compared to the 10 nm process. So I guess that the line width is 10 nm, or perhaps slightly less for certain features.
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[08:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:12] <exec> 08└─But if you have to put the carbon nano-tubes up their butts, not really Aryan superior spiders, ya? Lets get right to the issue: Trump is a fucking Nazi, and with great power comes great responsibility, but this fucking yahoo asshole has neither! So who is going to take him out? America cannot surv...
[08:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:13] <exec> 08└─So now we just need to bio-engineer Really Large spiders so the production can be scaled up better. If you're arachnophobic, this is Not A Good Thing... (Is that Shelob I see lurking in the background there?)
[08:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:40] <exec> 08└─So your stance is, we should assume everyone is guilty and run around lynch mobbing anyone we decide is guilty in advance? HELL YEAH. Sign me up! So progressive and enlightened the future is!
[08:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:06] <exec> 08└─I, on the other hand, prefer my Nazi punching in the morning. Does have the downside of there not being so many of them, since they tend to be laggards who sleep in too much. But they are also easier to punch in the face, since not all that awake. But I agree, Nazi punching is fun for the whole fami...
[08:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:07] <exec> 08└─And you really really need one because night is obviously when people are most tired. 1. Fuck the prom queen like a champ 2. Sleep like a baby 3. Morning blowjob
[08:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:30] <exec> 08└─Did you watch the full season 1?
[08:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:31] <exec> 08└─Not quite what you're looking for, but CPAC deplatformed Milo. I found that quite funny, because many of these people rightly complain when SJW morons get people deplatformed at universities, yet CPAC decides to do this to Milo because they found something he said offensive.
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[09:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:17] <exec> 08└─Another Shelob! Well, what are you waiting for? Throw another shrimp on the barbie! Aussies ain't afeared o' no creepy crawlies, mate!
[09:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:18] <exec> 08└─No large spiders are needed. Just one regular sized radioactive spider, and a mouthy teenage kid.
[09:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 2948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:20] <exec> 08└─Off topic, but I'll bite because I'm non partisan and I seriously hope you're just trolling (but I've seen too much of this shit lately for it to bee just trolling). I've debated against a few alt-righters recently. You REALLY need to regroup and listen to your enemies, because they can quickly gain...
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[09:25:48] <exec> 08└─Well, the public also reacted to fake news presented as truth by Trump and his associates. [theguardian.com]
[09:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 2574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:15] <exec> 08└─Hahahahahaha. Yeah, okay, Mr Scientist. Because if this were true, the same would hit morning routines (breakfast) and evening (supper) would make you sleepy about 7pm too. In fact, much better idea: Eat when you're hungry. Your body has millions of years of evolution of knowing when it needs more....
[09:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:17] <exec> 08└─I'm never hungry in the morning. About 3 hours after wake up I get hungry.
[09:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:43] <exec> 08└─What is the argument to moderation fallacy?
[09:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:00] <exec> 08└─There seem to be two issues here. One is open-plan offices. Go and grab a copy of Peopleware[1] - the first edition was published in the '70s, as I recall, and it already had a bunch of citations for why open plan is less productive. The second is whether engineering and sales should be in the same...
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[10:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:17] <exec> 08└─I can't wait!
[10:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:18] <exec> 08└─I'd be very interested in what kind of product placement we can expect to see in the shows produced.
[10:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:30] <exec> 08└─Shelob? You want Ungoliant the Unlight [wikipedia.org]! Tolkien it seems was bitten by a tarantula as a child and this experience may have influenced him to create such delightfully horrid villains.
[10:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 2690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:32] <exec> 08└─That is really where the issue lies. Violence against white males has been done for comedic and non-comedic effect in movies and other media for at least 20 years I can remember. At the same time it has marginalized blacks, especially males by having them die first in 'mostly white' movies, and it h...
[10:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:01] <exec> 08└─All the gnashing of teeth over the Russian "hacking" (despite no evidence) and still... totally ignoring the vile crap aiming at Bernie that was exposed in the DNC...
[10:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:30] <exec> 08└─You snooze, you win!
[10:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 2391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:03] <exec> 08└─There is certain periodicity to that change of mind. Let's hope that Voyager arrives to its intended audience when they are in more civilized phase of their cycle. Personally, I hope they will be intrigued to study our line of thinking and cooperate with us in their studies because they understand t...
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[10:27:04] <exec> 08└─Hey xenophobia is all the rage these days. The Sun also has a long tradition of scaring their readers with Johnny Foreigner. One day the perceived threat comes from the other side of the Channel, the next day it comes from outer space.
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[10:29:01] <exec> 08└─I agree. I think that a lot of people are forgetting that unlike conservatives, the fragmentation of "our" (American liberals) side means that it rarely manages to rally together enough to effectively pressure companies into things, and Big Business of any type tends to lean liberal for very long......
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[11:25:37] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21825¬e=&title=Nanotube+spider+silk+article+is+a+dupe+from+2015. [soylentnews.org] Really really now - isn't a good time to implement a "pre-editing comments section"? Not the greensite's Firehose with modding the stories, but something to crowd-so...
[11:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:39] <exec> 08└─Disregard the above (delete it if you can), wrong story!!!
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[11:25:53] <exec> 08└─(checking once again - spiders, yeap, nanotubes yeap. Ok, this time is not the wrong story) https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Nanotube+spider+silk+article+is+a+dupe+from+2015. [soylentnews.org] [soylentnews.org] Really really now - isn't a good time to implement a "p...
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[11:25:54] <exec> 08└─LETTER Spider silk reinforced by graphene or carbon nanotubes Emiliano Lepore1, Federico Bosia2, Francesco Bonaccorso3,4, Matteo Bruna3, Simone Taioli5,6, Giovanni Garberoglio5, Andrea C Ferrari3 and Nicola Maria Pugno1,7,8 Published 14 August 2017 • © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd 2D Materials, Volume...
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[11:25:56] <exec> 08└─Possibly a genuine poster but smells too much like an attempt at subtlety by some breitbart sockpuppet. Kindly worded and professes to be both non-partisan and dem-leaning, but nonetheless carries an implicit assumption that politics are and should be divided along racial lines, while gently pushing...
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:26] <exec> 08└─That said, I see little evidence that what was leaked was not true. So I find it amusing if the Russians are actually behind this and were attempting to influence the voters with the _truth_ (albeit obtained illegally). And that's somehow "hacking the election".
[11:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming the immediate teeth-gnashing priority is on the one in the White House (well, at least occasionally), not on the one wandering the forest.
[11:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:58] <exec> 08└─"Carbs" is just a short and somewhat inaccurate way of saying pasta, rice, grain, bread, potatoes, etc... You know, the foods containing high amounts of carbohydrates that are incredibly easy to overindulge on and end up swollen up and ready for a nap. What they really mean are starches rather than...
[11:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:59] <exec> 08└─See, that's funny. You were trying to troll around here, which is to say make someone upset enough to respond to you, but what happened was you got trolled your own self. Son, the first rule of trolling is you never let anyone make you give a shit about what they say. Trolling is always a competitiv...
[11:27:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 1012 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:21] <exec> 08└─When we saw ourselves as on the cusp of really civilizing, back about the time this went out, we assumed that more advanced civilizations had already completed the process and would naturally be non-threatening, either actively helpful to us or non-interventionist at least. It was a more innocent ti...
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[11:27:34] <exec> 08└─There is a growing body of evidence [vimeo.com] that prior relatively technically advanced [youtube.com] civilizations existed on earth in our past, and we are only the latest iteration.
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[12:25:21] <exec> 08└─Nooooo, that means no more AC posters.
[12:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:22] <exec> 08└─Is there a test to determine the probability a newborn will become a politician?
[12:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:25] <exec> 08└─Well, you could wipe out the attractive social butterflies, sociopaths, schemers, and rich kids. But you'd just have basement-dwelling Morlocks and other freaks stepping up to become politicians. Nature abhors a vacuum.
[12:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:27] <exec> 08└─Nature abhors a vacuum
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[12:25:29] <exec> 08└─Tney didn't eradicate down syndrome, if they had eradicated it there would be no need for continued efforts to keep prevalence down. Can't people involved in healthcare do anything without adding a little weaselly twist anymore?
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[12:25:31] <exec> 08└─Haven't gene therapies come around to help reduce the symptoms in individuals with the conditions? Just going off my own experiences, there are plenty of functional (if not the 'smartest') Down syndrome people out there, and I wonder if destruction of them in this fashion (abortions vs modified ivf/...
[12:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:33] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they learn that Down Syndrome people are the only ones who won't be eaten by invaders from Omicron Persei 8.
[12:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:35] <exec> 08└─That's why space is abhorrent. After all, we haven't sent humans past LEO since 1972.
[12:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:38] <exec> 08└─Like most miracle therapies, it's a long way from being a routine thing: https://www.nature.com [nature.com] https://geneticliteracyproject.org [geneticliteracyproject.or...
[12:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:48] <exec> 08└─Apple has $250 billion in cash. They could buy the entire content industry, music included, and barely feel it. If they really wanted to they could blow everyone else out of the water by snapping up all the talent.
[12:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:50] <exec> 08└─Not what you'd think. It's all PCs and Androids with everyone bitching about how they don't work.
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[12:26:07] <exec> 08└─Original paper [arxiv.org] referenced in the 2015 article. The new paper [iop.org] from 2017. Discuss.
[12:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:08] <exec> 08└─They boosted the toughness modulus by 3!!!111!
[12:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:41] <exec> 08└─He's gonna get clintoned. Two shots in the back with a barbell, stuffed in a sack and dumped on the beach. It will be ruled a "suicide". Because anyone willing to testify against the democrats clearly must be suicidal...
[12:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:48] <exec> 08└─very relevant to this discussion: https://what-if.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[12:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─* Worlds that look a lot like Earth from the other side of the galaxy are so damned common that's uneconomical to exterminate all of them. * Due to technical difficulties beyond our control and/ or sabotage efforts by the Intergalactic League of Warriors for Social Justice, your scheduled global ext...
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[12:27:51] <exec> 08└─* Despite all the indications and reasoning we have to suggest otherwise, wet/oxygen-rich worlds are NOT the galactic norm for life-bearing planets, and so we have been overlooked. Jupiter's Red Spot is actually the aftermath of a planet-killer weapon that wiped out the burgeoning sapient blimp [wik...
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[13:25:13] <exec> 08└─for the body is dead.
[13:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─Did anyone look at the date of the article before this was approved? Everyone already had a go at being outraged by this three weeks ago when it first came up.
[13:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─"no good deed goes unpunished" is not an Anglo-Saxon monopoly.
[13:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:19] <exec> 08└─We need to let the dust settle and facts to be known, otherwise we risk serious fights over fake news.
[13:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:21] <exec> 08└─In any case the story seems to have disappeared, the guy was released not long afterwards and no more was made of the matter.
[13:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:37] <exec> 08└─It's early morning No one is awake I'm back at my cliff Still throwing things off I listen to the sounds they make On their way down I follow with my eyes till they crash I imagine what my body would sound like Slamming against those rocks And when it lands Will my eyes be closed or open?
[13:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:38] <exec> 08└─I thought Lrrr mostly watched his diet of smelly hippies and not snacks that had down syndrome.
[13:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:40] <exec> 08└─Finally! If this doesn't swing the pro-life crowd as the millennials take it over, what will? "Want kids? Don't want a burdened, non-productive member of the human race that needs constant in-home care for the duration of it's natural life? Do what your parents couldn't! Get your prenatal screening...
[13:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:42] <exec> 08└─We can never have that level of sanity in the United States.
[13:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─By getting the abortion, the women are preventing not just the "baby" from being born, but from becoming a baby at all. You terminate at a very early stage of development if at all possible. Modern medicine has made great strides in keeping alive for a long time people with all sorts of conditions w...
[13:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─What can be said about Down patients is that they are happy persons (well, almost all of them). That cannot be said about the rest of the population. OTOH there is also the burden they impose on their family/wardens so I am feeling a lot of ambiguity there and we have to leave the decision to abort...
[13:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:49] <exec> 08└─They can get the abortion pretty late: The law in Iceland permits abortion after 16 weeks if the fetus has a deformity -- and Down syndrome is included in this category.
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─And here I thought one of Apples shows was going to involve giant spider-demons that shot graphene bullets and caught planes in carbon nanotube webs... /me closes apple.com tab Whew, that was close!
[13:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:02] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Disney would stop them. Hopefully the matter would be decided peacefully with giant robots [soylentnews.org] fighting [imdb.com] in a remote location [gps-latitude-longitude.com]
[13:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─I can't even imagine what shape that battle would take, Micky Mouse and Goofy taking on the Teletubbies?
[13:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:07] <exec> 08└─And here I thought one of Apples shows was going to involve giant spider-demons that shot graphene bullets and caught planes in carbon nanotube webs...
[13:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know why they'd go to the effort, here. There aren't huge crowds, many of whom are clamoring for white power. There are a couple, but we all know who they are. Your caution is justified, though. 70 years of Hollywood and the media have so distorted and mischaracterized and demonized white su...
[13:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:27] <exec> 08└─Think very carefully of the implications: All that it took to embed strong artificial material into a natural secretion of an animal's gland was to feed it to it! Could it be that, contrary to what we all feared, ingesting carbon nano-particles could be reinforcing, rather then damaging, to living...
[13:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:00] <exec> 08└─So your stance is, we should assume everyone is guilty and run around lynch mobbing anyone we decide is guilty in advance?
[13:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mapping the Global Potential for Marine Aquaculture - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:24] <exec> 08└─I understand that is an ecology that can't last long.
[13:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:04] <exec> 08└─That's what I was wondering.. One doesn't really get a sense of what GoT is really going to be like until that last episode of Season 1. That's when things get real. I also believe it's hard to comprehend how nuanced the whole GoT universe is without having read the books (which I would highly recom...
[13:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:08] <exec> 08└─A smaller weaker corrupt US government working with more powerful corrupt corporations will screw US residents even more.
[13:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not the one that put the fascist card in play. The traitorous Americans carrying around swastikas did that.
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[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─El Reg has a more complete story [theregister.co.uk] As the outcry against the company's actions grew, Dabóczi [BKK CEO] was forced to defend himself Monday morning on the radio. He doubled-down, claiming that the boy has sent his emails to accounts that he knew the company would not read – one o...
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[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─the guy was released not long afterwards and no more was made of the matter.
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 3178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─I realized I left some big ones off my last attempt to enumerate the facets of (cis)female privilege [soylentnews.org]. I have the privilege of being presumed innocent until proven guilty.I have the privilege of my motivations and intentions being presumed to be innocent and good even in the face of...
[14:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:28] <exec> 08└─But if you're a man, holy shit!
[14:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:51] <exec> 08└─Is the obvious reply: "Good riddance!"?
[14:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:52] <exec> 08└─Various people here using the word "burden" to describe Down's Syndrome. Yes, there are a lot of medical complications. Yes, they often need more care (sometimes a LOT more care). Yes, there may be many jobs that they simply won't ever be able to gain the skills to do. However the idea that DS folk...
[14:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 3247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:54] <exec> 08└─In an innumerate population, doing math is a revolutionary act. For fun I tried to give some numbers. Some google indicates that 4.4% of women in america get pregnant per year. Assuming 50:50 gender ratio thats 2.2% of the population as a whole gets pregnant per year. Iceland has 334252 people as of...
[14:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:56] <exec> 08└─Sure we can, we just have to make them retroactive.
[14:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:58] <exec> 08└─163rd trimester. Just to make sure.
[14:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:00] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine killing two of my kids just to make sure someone elses kid is dead
[14:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─Yup, they're generally extremely good at doing the work that's largely been or soon will be automated. If you don't mind putting a little extra effort in though they can do the simple, repetitive, non-automatible jobs like QA at the local Wrangler factory. They're also champs at pushing a broom and...
[14:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:05] <exec> 08└─Well, you could wipe out the attractive social butterflies, sociopaths, schemers, and rich kids. But you'd just have basement-dwelling Morlocks and other freaks stepping up to become politicians. Nature abhors a vacuum.
[14:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:07] <exec> 08└─That's why space is abhorrent. After all, we haven't sent humans past LEO since 1972.
[14:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:09] <exec> 08└─Most of those terminations happen before 12th week. But in rare cases a special permission is given (in case of danger for the mother) up to 20th week.
[14:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:11] <exec> 08└─"better or worse as a species" Well, it's still a step up from abortion on demand, no reason required. Just think of all the perfectly healthy babies put to death, and compare that to genetically defective babies. I'm not arguing that either one is right, just that eliminating genetically defective...
[14:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 3079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─Its politically sensitive discussion because the average IQ of the entire African country of Equatorial Guinea is 59. Fifty Nine. Average for an entire country. And their economy and politics and history reflect about what you'd expect to result from an average IQ 59 country. Meanwhile some google a...
[14:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:16] <exec> 08└─Nobody said they had eradicated down syndrome, the headline says they've eradicated down syndrome births, which is different. However, as the test and abortion are optional, claiming eradication is indeed a bit strong. It can be brought back simply by some person saying "no".
[14:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scottingham [5593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:18] <exec> 08└─The fuck are you going on about? An abortionist conspiracy to kill white babies? Do even hear yourself? Anyway, highly entertaining, keep up the good work.
[14:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:20] <exec> 08└─Came here to say this. This is as much "eradicated" as the yearly flu is "eradicated": we take measures and get to a point where the symptom isn't present in society any more. Having said that, as long as these families are making their own decisions, not pressured by the government, I don't see a p...
[14:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:22] <exec> 08└─simple, repetitive, non-automatable(sic) jobs
[14:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:39] <exec> 08└─I hope Apple adequately represents the African-American community in its TV shows. At the present, African-Americans are grossly under-represented in the American media.
[14:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:00] <exec> 08└─Just think what might have been if it were a radioactive tarantula...
[14:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:34] <exec> 08└─Flamebait? The discussion was whether or not releasing the DNC emails qualifies as "election hacking." I countered with a slightly different (but related) and equally controversial strategy that fed into Trump's victory. If the email release is "hacking" then this almost certainly is. I included a l...
[14:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:35] <exec> 08└─Way too easy and one-sided. Are you willing to bet money on it?
[14:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:37] <exec> 08└─The Washington Post has devolved into nothing but a contractor for printing Establishment-DNC press releases. I have it /etc/hosts.
[14:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:39] <exec> 08└─You proceed from an unproven assumption then. Unless you have indications that the persons responsible for infiltrating the DNC email server ALSO infiltrated the RNC, there is no "telling of half of the truth" then. You cannot tell what you do not know. The only provable knowledge you have is that t...
[14:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:11] <exec> 08└─Go to the bar at 2:00.
[14:28:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:23] <exec> 08└─Don't even worry about pristine maps, if they're close enough to find a V'ger, they're close enough to see the water spectrum coming off the third rock from the yellow star. For that matter, Voyagers are travelling inside our EM emissions bubble, so if they can decode that disc, they also are very l...
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[14:28:50] <exec> 08└─The chances of an alien intelligence, if one is actually out there, finding Voyager in the first place are laughably tiny, even discounting all the reasons not to worry outlined above.
[14:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:52] <exec> 08└─There's an interesting take on the Fermi Paradox in the book series The Three Body Problem. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) The idea is that there's abundant life throughout the cosmos. The problem is, due to the time frames involved with slower than light travel, it's impossible...
[14:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:49] <exec> 08└─That is all that's stopping me from reading the books. It is sad, but I don't think he is going to finish that universe ever. I would not be surprised if he died tomorrow due to a heart attack.
[14:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:50] <exec> 08└─Did you watch the full season 1?
[14:30:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:17] <exec> 08└─Discriminating against people because of race, religion, etc, is illegal. Discriminating against someone because they're a racist is not.
[14:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:57] <exec> 08└─Indeed. If a baker wishes to not bake gay wedding cakes, he should stop selling wedding cakes. Simple. If you don't like your boss' censorship, well, unemployment is pretty low right now. Changing jobs is a lot easier than moving to a different country.
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exotic Quantum States Made From Light: Physicists Create Optical “Wells” for a Super-Photon - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─I don't see many areas of endeavor now where we're sitting around for days or weeks waiting for computations to complete
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[15:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:17] <exec> 08└─sometimes i spit on it too
[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─I love you. Seriously. Let's hook up!
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:21] <exec> 08└─We just have to retrain those 7.5m workers, at their expense, as automated checkout repair technicians. Then they can earn a decent living wage instead of whining about a government $15 minimum wage. What's that you say? We don't need 7.5m robocashier techs? Well I guess they can go find other jobs...
[15:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 2195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:23] <exec> 08└─I never understood why I can't just push a trolley out the store past a scanner. It scans the trolley for RFID tags, grabs all the prices from those. Maybe it takes an image of some kind / weight reading and any discrepancy of what tags / what weight/products show up is flagged. Push trolley to exit...
[15:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:25] <exec> 08└─What?! I've been assured they will all find new jobs in new fields opened up by the replacement of the old ones! It goes "something... something... buggy whips.... something... jobs!"
[15:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:27] <exec> 08└─They could be truck drivers. Oh wait... Seriously though, something will need to change. Maybe a 20 hour work week? We will need to somehow figure out a way for society to gain value from automation instead of just the business owner. Perhaps robots need to be 'paid' some amount. That money would th...
[15:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:29] <exec> 08└─One the one hand I loathe things like self-checkout. The store is literally getting me to do work they would normally pay someone for, and not paying me or giving me a discount for doing it. Plus it takes me longer to checkout. On the other hand, I LOVE things like the Sam's Club scan-and-go app, th...
[15:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:31] <exec> 08└─Don't pay robots. Tax them. Taxes will be complicated. So Robots will seek help of professional bean countants. That tax revenue would then to go welfare programs for wealthy children unable to find people who will voluntarily date them.
[15:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:33] <exec> 08└─So, will the savings from not having to pay Cashiers go to lower prices (customer benefit), or to higher profits (corporation/shareholder benefit). I'd like to not be cynical, but I have a strong feeling it will be higher profits, while the customer does all the work.
[15:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─The more the stores move to self check out, the more I will move to Amazon.
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:38] <exec> 08└─Then when you go home, the RFID tags still work. They could use them to track people VERY easily. If you pay with plastic, they know everything about you and link it to the tag. Even when you donate the stuff to goodwill, they could tell that John Smith bought the item. You'll see some people just t...
[15:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─Stores can enjoy the savings of not paying cashiers while I move my retail shopping to Amazon.
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:42] <exec> 08└─Rent-A-Cop: Hey Thief! You're under arrest for shoplifting! Shopper: I didn't steal anything. Rent-A-Cop: The scanner reported that you stole the jacket you're wearing. The RFID tag didn't go through the check out scanner. Shopper: I bought this jacket last year. Rent-A-Cop: A likely story. Shopper:...
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:44] <exec> 08└─How would you like to pay? With cash? Good luck... And watch that line build up behind you while you try to get the machine to take those wrinkled old bills.
[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:00] <exec> 08└─https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/epicrapbattlesofhistory/images/8/84/What-the-fuck-am-i-reading.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20140209113839 [nocookie.net]
[15:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─The guy should have known better than to use a browser that has the View Source command. Oh, wait . . .
[15:26:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:10] <exec> 08└─Nooooo, that means no more AC posters.
[15:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, I realize they say "eradicated births", that is not an appropriate use of the word eradicated (I am ignoring that they also say "nearly"). "Eradicate" means that no more effort needs to be expended towards that problem. This is just a little hype that was needlessly added in order to mislead pe...
[15:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a poster you would see in some background shot on Man in the High Castle.
[15:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 1924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah you're right, the dominant political progressive establishment loves white people, LOL. Regardless, if I have to make the point painfully explicitly without surrounding it by great pile of data and math, there was a lot of wonder at why the abortion rate for downs syndrome children isn't 100%,...
[15:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was swapping bodily fluids with a chick sitting at around 85 a couple years back. It was kinda refreshing. She was horribly wrong all the time but you never had to go through any mental gymnastics to figure out why she thought that way; it was always for the most obvious reason, without any...
[15:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:50] <exec> 08└─IQ is a crappy measure of intelligence, which pretty much invalidates everything you've just written. Sorry to knock down your lovely wall of text.
[15:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:52] <exec> 08└─You made a critical mistake, mainly relying on a NBC news article for scientific information. The false positive rates increase greatly with age. For example: At 15 years of age the detection rate was 77% at a 1.9% false positive rate, 84% at a 4% false positive rate at age 30, rising to 100% at a 6...
[15:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:54] <exec> 08└─With a copper shortage looming** [reuters.com], the price of a full-metal jacket is going to be expensive. Fall back to Zyklon B then? --- ** in 10 years, the price of copper is expected to increase nine times over.
[15:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:57] <exec> 08└─Have you been to reddit or 4chan?
[15:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the "current crop"?
[15:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:01] <exec> 08└─Replace "Down Syndrome" with "Jew" and you have a holocaust.
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─The other people might make decent politicians, but the sociopaths are the real danger. We need to seek them out and eliminate them (at least from eligibility to be elected). Eliminating them from the ability to hold high corporate positions would also improve our society greatly.
[15:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:06] <exec> 08└─OTOH there is also the burden they impose on their family/wardens And this part is never discussed by the anti-abortion folks. It's one thing to volunteer to raise a perfectly healthy baby to adulthood (and how much of the anti-abortion crowd volunteers for this, especially for black babies?), but i...
[15:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:23] <exec> 08└─I hear they are beta testing blipverts.
[15:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:25] <exec> 08└─Black programming matters!
[15:28:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:10] <exec> 08└─A whole article based on a single weak premise. Those timestamps could be created by copying the files at a later point at a different location. That said, I see little evidence that what was leaked was not true. So I find it amusing if the Russians are actually behind this and were attempting to in...
[15:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:24] <exec> 08└─Unless you have indications that the persons responsible for infiltrating the DNC email server ALSO infiltrated the RNC, there is no "telling of half of the truth" then.
[15:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:37] <exec> 08└─Not Star Trek? No one remembers V'ger? Aww...
[15:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:39] <exec> 08└─Since a weapon that can destroy a planet or more is relatively easy to deploy.
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─Agile is a loaded term that was invented by developers but became a management sensation. I'm sorry you are somewhere that heard it as a buzzword and cargo-culted it. Look into Extreme Programming [extremeprogramming.org]. Development does not need to be adversarial.
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[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─I fucking hate self-checkouts. I'll happily go to another store a few miles further away rather than use one.
[16:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:36] <exec> 08└─For one thing, an RFID tag adds 15 cents to a product's price, which can add up for (say) a $1 protein bar. For another, how would this work for fresh produce that needs to be weighed?
[16:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─Where are the SN trolls going to work? Aristarchus and Ethanol won't be able to afford their energy drinks!
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─Both. Wal-Mart's business model, for example, demands they make their money primarily on volume rather than profit margins. If they can save a dime, at least half of it will go to lowering prices rather than profit.
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─Should have voted for Ross Perot
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─Only Luddite shoppers shop with cash! Hip appy appers app their purchases with apps! Apps!
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Dude, you're behind the times. I dunno about aristarchus but EF has a pretty fair job last I heard. As do most of our named trolls.
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─American here. Personally I think that everyone having their own trolley is quite wasteful and probably dangerous. Maybe it is just an American thing but for how much Europe bitches about us having our giant trucks everywhere, a 25 ton trolley rolling down the isle is sure to kill the planet faster....
[16:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:51] <exec> 08└─Nope. Wherever Walmart has created a monopoly by driving out all competitors, save a few niche boutique retailers, it's all Pr0fit!!!
[16:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zal42 [5435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─Me too. I avoid them like the plague. But the reason that I hate self-checkouts is that they're a serious pain in the ass. I'm not against the concept of them. I confess, however, that I can't see how they could be made any better -- particularly when you're buying things that have to be weighed. If...
[16:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:55] <exec> 08└─Why?
[16:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:57] <exec> 08└─Taxes will be complicated. You know who excels at solving complicated problems which involve numbers? Computers.
[16:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:59] <exec> 08└─I can see the idea of a store becoming nothing to but a giant vending machine (GVM) with a better UI. It would probably have to give you the option of looking at an item without buying it first, though. Some may resist the idea, but I for one would welcome the vending machine overlords if they make...
[16:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:01] <exec> 08└─They beat you to it. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:04] <exec> 08└─This will go on until laws are enacted to stop this.
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─EF is a carny at a fair?
[16:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:14] <exec> 08└─I agree with you that this is exactly the challenge. In the past I have worked in genetic counseling and it is heartbreaking to see what a kid with a syndrome (or occasionally an adult, e.g. Huntingtons) can do to a family. Most families break apart, few can stand it, it is always a lifelong challen...
[16:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:15] <exec> 08└─Good to see the left pushing Eugenics at the same time the right is talking about the merits of Hitler. I guess regardless of the how you fall on the political spectrum, everyone loves the things Germany did wrong. "Because you know the Germans always make good stuff" - Vince from Shamwow
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─Let's go retro, the wooden club hasn't gone out of style more than briefly for millions of years. *eyes his baseball bat* Plus it's Green.
[16:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─No, I prefer to keep from prematurely killing brain cells.
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─Not really. It is "vacuum" as in exrtemely low density (lower than any "vacuum" we can produce on earth), but it is not vacuum as in nothing at all. You even have a speed of sound in space! [stackexchange.com]
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─everyone loves the things Germany did right but are politically incorrect.
[16:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:43] <exec> 08└─Screw that, I think they first need to fix the under-representation of African-Americans among Apple owners. I never see black people with Macbooks, only Millennial hipsters. To fix this, Apple needs to give away free Macbooks to all African-Americans in the country, plus free service and support at...
[16:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:43] <exec> 08└─I think it is a shame that both weren't hacked so that we could see that, but as it were we were unfortunately only provided the truth about one of our two corrupt parties. What would you prefer us to do, ignore the criminal things included in the emails because "the other side does it too" instead...
[16:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:45] <exec> 08└─Mods have turned to absolute garbage. Pay no mind.
[16:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:47] <exec> 08└─the worst-case scenario is that Russia leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks, And how did they get those emails? That's right, HACKING. It's not a difficult concept.
[16:31:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:41] <exec> 08└─Local Bully Calls for End of Recess Supervision, Your Lunch Money
[16:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:05] <exec> 08└─I think protected classes should be limited to those that you have no/limited ability to change. Sex, race, age, etc.
[16:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:06] <exec> 08└─The subtlety in what platforms do lies in not editorializing content, but rather TOS-excluding people who create such content, then removing posts deemed inappropriate by other users. QED: Got my DMCA safe harbor, but not the negative aspects of free speech.
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[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Detection with Sugar Molecules - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:22] <exec> 08└─It's dosage dependent but has 100% true positive detection rate.
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─Bull milker, I would guess. Or test subject for various radioisotopes.
[17:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─I can also see other major issues appearing: anti-immigration (they took his jerb!) Luddites (robots took his jerb!) "class warfare" (they have a jerb and he don't!) The old horse buggy/whip/horseshoe maker analogy doesn't apply anymore as they had a near 1:1 replacements. buggy driver-> truck drive...
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─In Georgia we called them buggies. I'm sure that helps too :)
[17:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─So when will that job be automated as well? I mean, apparently you don't need too much intelligence for it, so I'm sure AI research will catch up soon.
[17:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─Who still drives to a brick and mortar store for stuff they can buy on Amazon? Who buys meat and produce from Amazon?
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─Surprise! A popular named nigger like the Niggery Uzzard hates self checkout. He wanna be keepin it real, chat up the cashier, keepin an eye on that sweet ass. If all the cashiers lose their jobs, where will a nigger like Uzzard find poor young white women to fuck with his big black cock?
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─It a good thing we have Trump at the helm. He'll make some great deal to fix this mess.
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─95% of my grocery purchases are routine. There is no reason I need to go into the store, find it on the shelf, physically inspect it by hand, check it, and bag it. For these items I should have a one-click shopping list on a web page or phone app, followed by my picking up the bagged items at a driv...
[17:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:33] <exec> 08└─a lesbian marriage between a cis and a trans woman
[17:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:31] <exec> 08└─By "babies" do you mean the bags of undifferentiated cells or undeveloped fetuses? What size or composition of cells do you consider a baby?
[17:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:33] <exec> 08└─Have you considered that a blastula is not a baby? I'm actually against abortion after the point of viability--which, IIRC, is now 24 weeks?--but let's not be dumb here.Most abortions take place long before anything even remotely resembling a human being appears.
[17:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:35] <exec> 08└─it's Green.
[17:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:37] <exec> 08└─Hey, mine's 145 according to that chart that matches up your GRE and SAT scores with IQ (and note I studied for neither of those) and one of my jobs entails plenty of mopping, sweeping, etc. No one is "too intelligent" for that kind of work. You take what you can get in this economy.
[17:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:39] <exec> 08└─The amazing thing about guys like him is they try to keep their complete sociopathy under wraps, but when they say shit like this, it becomes so clear how completely psycho they are in part because they *don't* realize how psycho it is to say shit like that in print on a public forum. It's not so mu...
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─God will provide, but those with moral authority generally will not.
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:44] <exec> 08└─They are happy, and cute kids. When they are adults they have a significantly higher suicide rate, so no--they are only happy when they are cute to look at and an adult is in charge of their welfare. When it comes time to look for a mate and forge your own path in life they discover that unfortunate...
[17:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:46] <exec> 08└─Especially since the anti-abortion crowd always tells people that adoption is a great solution ... but there an infinitesimal fraction of people willing to adopt Down Syndrome kids.
[17:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:48] <exec> 08└─Democrats founded the KKK...
[17:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:50] <exec> 08└─You cray cray dood
[17:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:52] <exec> 08└─I thought he was going to propose that the US should fund for and raise down syndrome babies until maturity, and then let them take over that country and replace those people that aren't very good at westernized cultural IQ tests due to not having much more than their own culture to go by.
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─A bit less retro: the guillotine is highly reliable and requires little training.
[17:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─Google Southern Realignment or Southern Strategy, idiot.
[17:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:59] <exec> 08└─For an idiot I'm surprised at your poignant username, are you aware of the rate at which your brain is succumbing to entropy? Clue meter: democrat / republican is just a name, both parties have their share of negative and positive history. Trying to make a point without proper historical context is...
[17:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:01] <exec> 08└─163/3=54.3 Are you by any chance 55 or older?
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─The big ole titties made up for that though
[17:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:05] <exec> 08└─You do realize Iceland is not a part of the US right? right? omg I don't think he does
[17:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─More false equivalence, murdering fully developed human beings is a wildly different scenario than killing a group of cells that hasn't even developed a brain. We could argue about the timeframe and when it is OK and when it is not, but until then you should probably start here: http://i0.kym-cdn.co...
[17:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:09] <exec> 08└─I've found those that routinely proclaim their high level of intelligence are really just middling performers. Smart enough to know some stuff, too dumb to realize their own limitations. Good luck with your shitty worldviews and obnoxious personality.
[17:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─The high rate of abortions among positive results is not surprising in the least. Depending on the type of test (amniocentesis - taking a sample of fluid from the amniotic sac for genetic testing, being the most definitive) the tests carry a nonzero risk to the developing fetus (0.6% risk for amnioc...
[17:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:32] <exec> 08└─Best i've seen recently is Insecure on HBO and Netflix has Bubblegum and Dear White People. It's still amazing to me how big movies and shows focus so much on white people. We use to at least have the token black person. Seems like most shows don't even do that anymore. Probably reflects changes in...
[17:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:34] <exec> 08└─Netflix is available on your "smart" TV, Nintendo, Playstation, XBox, PC (windows, linux, and mac), Phone (android and apple), and other dedicated devices like Roku and Firestick. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] iTunes is available on Apple products a...
[17:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:56] <exec> 08└─Either that, or you need new sewer pipes and extra-strength condoms.
[17:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:58] <exec> 08└─Violence against white males has been done for comedic and non-comedic effect in movies and other media for at least 20 years I can remember.
[17:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:40] <exec> 08└─None of that has been proven, or even cross examined. Show yer evidence or shut the fuck up! It's not a difficult concept
[17:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:42] <exec> 08└─Why? After the shit fit you guys have show for the past 9 months because you lost? Don't think so. I *MIGHT* apologize if the Clintons were right there with him. If what she did is 'who cares' then why do you care what Trump 'might have done'. Every single hack/russian/nazi/recall hope the media has...
[17:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:44] <exec> 08└─That seemed to be the 'lefts' idea of it. See BLM and Antifa and Resist. With their pre-cut out and pre-printed signs and bused in groups of agitators.
[17:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:46] <exec> 08└─Evidence... We'll see it at the trial. The FBI is not in the habit of disclosing it's methods and findings while an investigation is ongoing.
[17:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:48] <exec> 08└─http://i.magaimg.net/img/16m6.jpg [magaimg.net]
[17:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:03] <exec> 08└─Oh good. Seeing how I'm not even a Star Trek fan and can't even remember the last time I saw an episode or a film of the franchise aside from the new shinny ones, when the discussion turned into film trivia but no one mentioned the obvious Star Trek reference I started feeling oddly out of place.
[17:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While Everyone Frets About State Censorship, Corporate Censorship Tightens The Noose - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:10] <exec> 08└─All wedding cakes are gay.
[17:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:30] <exec> 08└─I think the ship has sailed on making this company into your perfect career for life. Do investigate other options, and move when a good one presents. Meanwhile, "take one for the team," let them know you prefer to stay in the suburbs, that you will be more productive with an insulated work environm...
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Colocating Sales and Development Departments: Good Idea? - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─The finance department here makes me laugh. There are two departments that deal with two subsidiaries I've been employed by. The first went with the standard finance year like you described. They would come in late, leave early and all of that was obviously led from the top. They send us reports to...
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[18:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─We gotta keep out all these druggies and potential terrorists. I say we subject everyone trying to enter the US to a very long border search which includes searching through their phone, computer, and all online accounts (including bank accounts). This will make sure these undesirables won't even wa...
[18:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:21] <exec> 08└─So what? This is something that all countries do. Every country has what seems like unfair rules. Canada, for example, will bar you for a prior DUI. [seattletimes.com]
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:23] <exec> 08└─Yep, for any felony or crime for which you were charged. All countries do that and happily exchange those records. In this situation, we are talking about somebody's emails to her doctor. This is not after looking up some government database. The next step could be to have government agencies have r...
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─Only way to be sure.
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─Your name, so apropos
[18:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:22] <exec> 08└─I like them. Regular cashiers are so slow and wasteful, outside of a couple of outliers in either direction. I'm typically through the line much faster. Also, many places like Wal-Mart employ a better strategy for the queue leading to them (one queue for 4 to 8 stations) than for other lines (one qu...
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:23] <exec> 08└─Most automated checkouts I have visited don't take cash/make change.
[18:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:25] <exec> 08└─Alcohol. In California we passed a law that you can't buy alcohol through an automated system or self-checkout. Since I almost always buy beer when I make my weekly trip to the grocery store, I can never use self-checkout.
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:27] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how everyone on the internet has a great job! Must be all those 'leet skills used to post crap on websites they didn't build.
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─My sister pulls up to the supermarket, some guy(s) load her trunk with the items she ordered and paid for online, and she's on her way home. 5 minutes total. Why is that not available everywhere?
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─I like self checkout. I frequently feel like I'm getting the bum's rush when I use a cashier. If I'm doing it myself I can make sure the prices are right and I'm getting all the discounts I'm entitled to. With all the weird pricing going on in the major chains now, like mix and match five items for...
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─aristarchus strikes me as an ivory tower dweller, but that's just inference and assumption. I believe I've seen him argue that academia is a nobler pursuit than industry. My memory, as always, may be flawed.
[18:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:36] <exec> 08└─A beautiful carny.
[18:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:38] <exec> 08└─As someone said, there may have been new jobs for all the buggy whip makers. But there were no new jobs for all the horses. Those who don't understand the above are probably horses ;).
[18:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:40] <exec> 08└─Who buys meat and produce from Amazon?
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:43] <exec> 08└─I like self checkout. I frequently feel like I'm getting the bum's rush when I use a cashier.
[18:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:45] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, how else are we going to afford our private jets and second homes in the Bahamas?
[18:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:21] <exec> 08└─The part where you were doing math mostly made sense (may need to double check actual numbers), but when you start talking about pregnant mothers having to make the heart-wrenching decision to abort a positive-test fetus (typically, a desired pregnancy, otherwise the abortion would predate that test...
[18:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:22] <exec> 08└─How long until the first professionally umbraged complains that majority culture is exterminating Trisomy culture?
[18:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:24] <exec> 08└─According to some quick Google research that claim is an estimate because there's no actual IQ data on Guinea. On top of that, the methodology used to make that estimate isn't even disclosed. So, I'd put a big [CITATION NEEDED] tag on the claim that "the average IQ of the entire African country of E...
[18:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:27] <exec> 08└─Pssh, this is VLM we're talking about. The only reason he isn't going around goose-stepping and Sieg-Heil-ing is because he knows he'd get fired, beaten up, and jailed in not necessarily that order if he did. Look at the guy's post history; he'd be out there marching with the neo-Nazis if he weren't...
[18:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:29] <exec> 08└─Is Ethanol-fueled your sock-puppet account?
[18:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, and? The Democrats and Republicans more or less switched sides on the social spectrum during the Civil Rights era. I'd have been a proud Republican in the 1860s, for the same reason I'd have been a proud Democrat in the 1970s and am now a pissed off Independent here in the 2010s. You really do...
[18:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:54] <exec> 08└─They want to push the Apple TV, their answer to Roku, Amazon Fire TV stick, fully loaded Kodi, etc. What can they offer that Amazon can't offer? Siri? Alexa. 4K? Already done. Original content? Amazon and Netflix are on that. They could sign deals with ESPN and other valuable content churners but Di...
[18:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:05] <exec> 08└─What I find fun is they brought Trump upon themselves. They HYPED the hell out of him right until it was clear he had the RNC nomination. Then turned on him. I watched it in real time. Pied piper spectacularly blew up in their face. Now They are playing the 'nazi' card to the hilt. Both of these ter...
[18:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:39] <exec> 08└─You are correct sir! I try to have a salad or something else that is low-carb at lunch. Around 2 PM I have a bulletproof coffee (coffee + 2 tbsp organic butter + MTC Oil + misc other yummy ingredients) and I am good to go the rest of the day.
[18:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:23] <exec> 08└─Lots of knowledge and tech gets destroyed over time. The Romans were more advanced in many ways than the European peoples in the Dark Ages. And certain types of Roman concrete are better than modern concrete in some scenarios: https://www.theguardian.com
[18:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:22] <exec> 08└─The reason it is so popular is because it is lot more human and nuanced than normal fantasy. It is, to me, one of the rare stories that fall under the category of fantasy but don't follow LOTR in absolutely all of the departments. That itself is a very big feat. Having said that, if you get a day of...
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[19:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:27] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I forgot about that one. Cavity searches for all incoming travelers, by random TSA agents! It'll be great!
[19:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the emails (which she handed over) showed that she committed a crime. If you don't want your phone searched at the border, go buy a burner flip phone for your trip. Or FedEx your phone to your destination. This isn't new, it's been going on for a while now. People should know better.
[19:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:31] <exec> 08└─Or, how about use a fucking lock screen...
[19:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 3247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:33] <exec> 08└─Because the government powns her medical records, email service, phone manufacturer, phone OS devs, and app devs, that "We, uh, looked at your email app" is just polite conversation version of they looked in fifteen databases that they'd prefer not to discuss in public. This is why I'm not very conc...
[19:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:35] <exec> 08└─I'll go out on a limb here and guess this was an at least somewhat attractive woman ... the brownshirts were looking for naked selfies and found this. There was no reason to search her phone. What a terrified, authoritarian little world we're becoming.
[19:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:37] <exec> 08└─And a quarantine. The real one, 40 days. You get wifi if you were traveling on business class, but other than that it's prison food and cavity searches every day. How badly did you want to come enjoy freedom, punk?
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:39] <exec> 08└─Comprehensive search for everyone: trains, planes, automobiles, bicycles, and office turnstiles. Will create so many jobs, the unemployment rate will go negative. Shit, then we'll have to import more immigrants. But that's tremendous - that means more search and more jobs for everyone.
[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─As long as they also search the cavity between the ears.
[19:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:44] <exec> 08└─I believe privacy should be respected everywhere, even at the border, that our laws should be changed, etc. etc. But I also understand how the government views all this based on multiple reports over the years of the searches people have been subject to at the border and so I don't really feel a ton...
[19:26:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─We just have to retrain those 7.5m workers, at their expense, as automated checkout repair technicians. Then they can earn a decent living wage instead of whining about a government $15 minimum wage. What's that you say? We don't need 7.5m robocashier techs? Well I guess they can go find other jobs...
[19:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:51] <exec> 08└─Citation, please. http://www.nano-di.com [nano-di.com]
[19:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:52] <exec> 08└─Automated checkout will not get rid of all the cashiers. My local Kroger has 4 automated lanes and there's always at least one "cashier" close by monitoring what's going on. If you want to purchase tobacco or alcohol, they need to check your ID. If you have a problem, price is wrong, item won't scan...
[19:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:54] <exec> 08└─Amazon may not be an absolute solution. But I can still use it to the maximum extent against stores that try to force me into self check out. It may be necessary to make infrequent trips to larger stores to buy meat and grocery items in bulk to the extent that it can be stored in freezers in the gar...
[19:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:56] <exec> 08└─Hey, I actually do have a pretty decent job and a pretty good life. Maybe not all trolls do, but I do. And I"m sure there are other trolls who do okay. I don't build a "web site", but a "web application", which is not of the "social media" variety. I don't care to go through a self check out line. I...
[19:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:58] <exec> 08└─It is, but the future not being distributed evenly means its not in people heads like the proverbial 80 year old grannie. My local employee owned coop does this and it works pretty well. They need 24 hours warning and its "free" over $100 total (which is pretty easy to achieve, and its free only in...
[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:01] <exec> 08└─I do all my grocery shopping at Target where the self checkout takes $50 bills and makes change.
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:03] <exec> 08└─All this modern tech and it still relies on a 16-year-old going... beep... beep... beep...
[19:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:05] <exec> 08└─It's faster for me in the self checkout. Usually no one is in front of me, while there is a line at the regular checkout. Plus I can pack things better than the checker or bagger - less chance of damage.
[19:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:07] <exec> 08└─Trolls get good jobs by trolling their way into jobs. The name of the game is emotional manipulation. Shitposting is practice for the kind of persuasive shitspeak they use to scam their way into the good life.
[19:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:09] <exec> 08└─I'll happily go to another store a few miles further away rather than use one.
[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:11] <exec> 08└─Google's zero-click result for rfid tag cost states: RFID tags can cost as little as 10 cents or as much as $50 depending on the type of tag, the application and the volume of the order. Generally speaking, finished smart labels that can be applied to cases and pallets typically cost 15 cents or mor...
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:13] <exec> 08└─I extract wages for this surprise forced labor on my part by accidentally failing to scan the bar code on the aged whiskey, smoked salmon, and imported cheese.
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:32] <exec> 08└─What the ever-loving shit...for the record, were I single, I would date a transwoman post-surgery/post-transition. They were always women on the inside, and if they go through the effort to bring their body in line with their mind, I have no problem with it. The rest of that is batshit insane. I am...
[19:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─Addendum: I will definitely agree that good sex between women is an expression of the divine :D ...but, really, good sex between ANY people who love one another deeply is. It lets you lose your ego and melt into your lover, and in that state you become something better than your base self. It's a gl...
[19:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, we have discussed this. I simply think you and others are mistaken about whether or not there is such a thing as a “TERF.” I've run into plenty more feminists who think you're full of it. Batshit insane or no, that is what all kinds of feminists I have encountered, some who have even held p...
[19:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:59] <exec> 08└─There was no such thing: The Southern Strategy Myth And The Lost Majority [redstate.com]
[19:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:01] <exec> 08└─i agree, except that the abortions are probably tax funded. i don't agree that i should pitch in on your abortion. your choice and your responsibility. no free school for your dumb little bastard (not referring to down syndrome babies, just in general) either. you breed em, you feed em.
[19:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:03] <exec> 08└─Would not be surprised, but uzzy maintains he only uses the one account and never posts as AC. Then again he's been caught spinning half-truths, outright lies, and generally can't be trusted as a self-described troll so YMMV.
[19:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:27] <exec> 08└─Or maybe because a large portion of American TV is now produced in Canada, the availability of black actors in a country with only a 2.9% black population [wikipedia.org] is harder to find.
[19:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:39] <exec> 08└─I can think of two possibilities: 1) It was just a coincidence, the hacker stumbled upon some info that enabled the hack, and they released the info out of the goodness of their hearts. 2) The hacker wanted to bring the Democrats down to help Trump and/or Republicans, so they explicitly targeted the...
[19:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:40] <exec> 08└─You can tell the crazies by their use of radio show talking points. Bonus points for mixing them up. Burn in flames nazi apologist.
[19:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:42] <exec> 08└─Paranoid schizophrenia, you got diagnosed here first.
[19:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Have an Afternoon Routine - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:16] <exec> 08└─A bad troll admitted "I'm gonna troll you so badly like I don't give a shit" and you fucking responded with a old man lecture. You got trolled, moron. Hey nigger. Here's an idea for your comedy act. Go up on stage and lynch yourself.
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UCLA Scientists Identify a new way to Activate Stem Cells to Make Hair Grow - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─I did wonder for a while (during a household head lice infestation) if we could destroy lice by having everyone shave their head for a month (at the same time). This seems to confirm that we could do that.
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[20:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:42] <exec> 08└─That is far from the definition of "fine" in my books. That people stand for this is mind-boggling.
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:43] <exec> 08└─Also known as hockey hooligans.
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:45] <exec> 08└─"These evil-doer Canadians are bad hombres that must be kept out of the USA, believe me! Their weird bacon and their French hockey are a bigly attack on American values and traditions. It's not even bacon, I don't know what the hell it is, Obama's belt? Sadly stuff. We should build a big beautiful w...
[20:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:48] <exec> 08└─realDonaldTrump, why did you post as AC?
[20:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:50] <exec> 08└─Chelsea, 28, whose last name is being withheld due to fears that it could affect future employment
[20:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:52] <exec> 08└─Be sure to take off your tinfoil hat before entering border control.
[20:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:54] <exec> 08└─But I also understand how the government views all this based on multiple reports over the years of the searches people have been subject to at the border and so I don't really feel a ton of sympathy for anyone who is shocked by being super-violated at a border crossing. All she had to do was bring...
[20:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:13] <exec> 08└─On skid row we call it a moving van.
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:14] <exec> 08└─My local Kroger has 4 automated lanes and there's always at least one "cashier" close by
[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:16] <exec> 08└─Zuck thanks you for the FB links. And yes, it's insane to bribe a cop in public.
[20:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:19] <exec> 08└─FYI: Taxing robots will be problematic. The definition of "robot" is flexible. Is it one robot per job? No, it works multiple shifts. So 3 jobs for a robot cashier. But what if 1 robot has 2 sensors, and so covers 2 checkout lines? Or if '1 robot' handles 30 checkout lines? Or if you have an entire...
[20:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:21] <exec> 08└─Not bad AC, but there's more to it. Better jobs usually means more time and ability for corporate bullshit. Some of my best shitposting is inspired by corporate bullshit I've heard at work. I could fill binders full of shitposts inspired from the comedy show that was diversity training class. I've h...
[20:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting, So you live in a world where white people don't commit crimes? Different reality from the rest of this planet.
[20:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─So above you claim "Self-check ... only happens in racially and ethnically homogeneous areas, aka whiteopias, mostly the wealthy ones at that." Because non-white people steal from the stores with self-checkout. And then you admit you steal from the store using self-checkout. From your various posts...
[20:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─What we really need are consumer robots. I imagine an iphone buying itself a new skin using ether it mined, but I am just a stupid meatball. A per humans, who cares? Perhaps one can enjoy a new gladiator exercise say the US vs. Russia nuclear war.
[20:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:29] <exec> 08└─Exactly the same burden of proof as is they say the same to you in a normal store now.
[20:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:31] <exec> 08└─The best deal.
[20:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:34] <exec> 08└─Who still drives to a brick and mortar store for stuff they can buy on Amazon?
[20:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenage Security Researcher Reports Flaw in Budapest Transport Authority Site, Is Arrested - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:55] <exec> 08└─Teenage Security Researcher
[20:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:23] <exec> 08└─If history is so unimportant, why is everyone whining to tear down statues?
[20:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:25] <exec> 08└─A lot of places get into the "overqualified" thing to refuse hiring, so you're lucky, in a weird situation perhaps.
[20:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:27] <exec> 08└─Ohh interesting. I suppose it possible to continually refine the analysis but it doesn't seem to be changing major conclusions.
[20:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:29] <exec> 08└─My spin on it is far more mathematically correct while being equally over the top, yet more fun to read. I outwrote the original journalist, and it wasn't even that hard. If the journalism marketplace were not completely moribund, I would probably have a lot of fun teaching journalists how to do the...
[20:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:31] <exec> 08└─Ohh interesting. I suppose it possible to continually refine the analysis but it doesn't seem to be changing major conclusions.
[20:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:33] <exec> 08└─there's no actual IQ data on Guinea
[20:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:35] <exec> 08└─IQ is a crappy measure of intelligence
[20:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:38] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an obvious rebuttal to me!
[20:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pioneer and Voyager Maps to Earth: How Much of a Mistake? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:35] <exec> 08└─All the human conquistas always started with "hey brothers we came in peace" and then execution of as much of new "bothers" as possible. The voyagers are just continuing the tradition on interstellar scale.
[20:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:14] <exec> 08└─You want to really make this a fucking disaster? Start a campaign to merge this project with solar freakin roadways. The end result will be so disastrous that you could use it to convince people that burning coal and building 1960's nuke plants is green.
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[21:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06First Atomic Clock Receives an IEEE Milestone - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:22] <exec> 08└─So, one could say it is a matter of precise timing? 555555 [soylentnews.org], 500000 [soylentnews.org], 333333 [soylentnews.org], 250000 [soylentnews.org]. ;)
[21:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Atomic Clock Receives an IEEE Milestone - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:24] <exec> 08└─How long have you been plotting that one, asks the guy who hadn't even noticed he crossed the 5000-comment mark today?
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Atomic Clock Receives an IEEE Milestone - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:26] <exec> 08└─How long have you been plotting that one, asks the guy who hadn't even noticed he crossed the 5000-comment mark today?
[21:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Atomic Clock Receives an IEEE Milestone - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:28] <exec> 08└─A quick inventory of usual suspects shows that Jmorris just crossed 2500, and Grishnakh 3000. The big boys are north of 7000. What's the percentage of non-AC comments by the top 20 non-AC commenters?
[21:25:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─That is far from the definition of "fine" in my books. That people stand for this is mind-boggling.
[21:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:56] <exec> 08└─"All she had to do was bring a burner and memorize some important numbers and everything would have been fine." So what you are saying is that this is all security theatre, sufficient to inconvenience travellers but not to pose any problem to genuine terrorist attackers? Yeah, I think you're right.
[21:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:58] <exec> 08└─That was hilarious. Sheer unadulterated fiction, spun from nothing, with what passes around here for a 'straight face.'
[21:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:00] <exec> 08└─To be fair, anyone called Chelsea is likely to be a few sandwiches short of the full picnic and was probably conceived in Essex by half-siblings unaware of their close genetic relationship after several pints of wife-beater. I'd go out on a limb and further wager that they are from the Dengie and dr...
[21:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:02] <exec> 08└─In this situation, we are talking about somebody's emails to her doctor. This is not after looking up some government database. The next step could be to have government agencies have real time access to your online medical record when you cross the border, now that would be neat and not violate peo...
[21:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:04] <exec> 08└─I have the soundtrack to that right here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:07] <exec> 08└─Oh, and what I find most offensive about this whole scenario is that we apparently have border officials who waste 2 hours on a "fishing expedition" on someone's phone for no apparent reason. (Yes, I know this happens all the time. No, it doesn't make me feel any safer. Don't we have something bette...
[21:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:36] <exec> 08└─Amazon does suck for some grocery shopping. Was trying to buy dark brown sugar last night (just finished the last box on some cookies). The prices are double/triple what a grocery store should sell it for. It should be like 2$.
[21:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:35] <exec> 08└─I'm actually against abortion after the point of viability
[21:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:36] <exec> 08└─That happened years ago: https://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] You can probably find something a lot more militant than that with a little searching. Perhaps more puzzling are deaf advocates who don't want a cure, since deafness doesn't affect pe...
[21:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:38] <exec> 08└─pay for a few cells to be removed now, or pay increase premiums, and more, for ever. (Note to anti-"socialist" Americans: large companies, especially insurance companies, distribute costs across all people paying premiums. "Socialism" in action! (Yes, they also add enough to make huge profits)
[21:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:40] <exec> 08└─What's even more wrong is that people even take IQ seriously in the first place, and especially so for people who are otherwise really dismissive (rightly, I think) of the social sciences.
[21:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:42] <exec> 08└─What data set did they use? How many Guineans were actually tested? If they didn't test actual Guineans, what methodology did they use for the estimate? You answered none of those questions.
[21:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:44] <exec> 08└─Brilliant response. We don't even understand intelligence, yet you think we have a way to accurately measure it? IQ can be correlated with several things (like school performance), but we have no idea how much those things relate to one's intellect because we don't even have close to a full understa...
[21:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Investing $1 Billion in Acquiring and Producing TV Shows - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:09] <exec> 08└─The film and TV industry has expanded greatly outside of California and New York. The third largest state for film and TV? Georgia [wikipedia.org]. More production money was spent there than in Ontario in 2013, with about 79% as much spent in Georgia as in British Columbia. Aggressive tax incentives...
[21:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:33] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to find some of these new, enhanced, five-times-stronger spiderwebs with my face.
[21:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:25] <exec> 08└─That is still not "election hacking".
[21:33:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06 German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks - 541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:14] <exec> 08└─From wikipedia: Within the U.S. railroads carry 39.9% of freight by ton-mile, followed by trucks (33.4%), oil pipelines (14.3%), barges (12%) and air (0.3%). Railways carried 17.1% of EU freight in terms of tonne-km,[12] compared to road transport (76.4%) and inland waterways (6.5%). (From "Rail Fre...
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[22:25:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06First Atomic Clock Receives an IEEE Milestone - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:25] <exec> 08└─So, one could say it is a matter of precise timing? 555555 [soylentnews.org], 500000 [soylentnews.org], 333333 [soylentnews.org], 250000 [soylentnews.org]. ;)
[22:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:03] <exec> 08└─Or it could be Chelsea Clinton...
[22:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:04] <exec> 08└─When you leave out the "@" I don't see it in my messages. But I saw your tweet. That wasn't me. But imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven't heard it. I mean, I just, I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. I...
[22:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:06] <exec> 08└─Right, and if women don't want to be raped, they shouldn't dress so slutty. Maybe wear a burka?
[22:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:09] <exec> 08└─You certainly posted a yuuuge wall of text.
[22:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:39] <exec> 08└─Seriously though, something will need to change. Maybe a 20 hour work week? We will need to somehow figure out a way for society to gain value from automation instead of just the business owner. Perhaps robots need to be 'paid' some amount. That money would then go to welfare programs (universal bas...
[22:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:41] <exec> 08└─Catch up? I doubt anyone would notice if the job was given to a slightly tweaked version of Eliza.
[22:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:43] <exec> 08└─I wish more people gave a crap about this! Guess we'll have to wait for violations to become common enough, for the drunken MBAs to try and impress a date with how much power he has over people, basically for humanity to realize just how easily this data can be abused. Between blackhats selling the...
[22:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:45] <exec> 08└─Surplus horses --> reduced price of glue. Surplus cashiers --> reduced price of soylent ??
[22:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:47] <exec> 08└─Sure, Hallow, the problem with the economy is *too much regulation protecting workers.* Not fractional-reserve banking or shady loans programs or skeezy multinational corporate contracts or money laundering. Nope, it's those fucking OSHA laws that are causing problems. Ye gods. Do you even HAVE a jo...
[22:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:49] <exec> 08└─> "the store is closing in ten minutes" You must not be from USA...where most grocery stores are 24/7 (except a very few holiday times).
[22:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:51] <exec> 08└─The worst part about that post is, I don't think he's using "whiteopia" ironically...ye gods.
[22:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:54] <exec> 08└─In Georgia we called them buggies. I'm sure that helps too :)
[22:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 1680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:56] <exec> 08└─Self-checkout works well until you have more than a dozen items or so and/or actually buy produce (or dry goods or whatever) that needs to be weighed with codes entered and/or buy things with coupons that never seem to scan right (the in-store coupons for a "manager's special" or "quick sale" for a...
[22:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:58] <exec> 08└─Mostly because they're making me be a checker and I resent that. I don't want to do it, I'm not nearly as quick at it as someone who does it for a living, and they're not paying me or giving me a discount to use the machines. Besides, I'm a people person.
[22:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:02] <exec> 08└─Because, you complete fucking JAQoff, removing monuments glorifying a dark time period in history is not the same thing, not even CLOSE, to "destroying history." ...okay, maybe to assholes like you who don't/can't read, but to anyone with a fourth-grade education or above, there are available these...
[22:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:04] <exec> 08└─.. according to a partisan website. Yet more denial of what most of the country can see: the Republican party is in power due to its support of racism.
[22:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:06] <exec> 08└─Here's Socialism: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. Now, it's good that you at least put "socialist" in quotes. Maybe a smilie or a /sarc tag would have been appropriate as well. You are talking, however, about an insurance pool administered by a company whose main...
[22:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:47] <exec> 08└─Don't be an idiot. Even though hacking was required to get the DNC emails, describing this as "election hacking" is extremely misleading since it makes many people believe that the vote counts themselves were altered. There was a poll a while back that apparently showed that many democrats believed...
[22:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Indians Arrested for Game of Thrones Leak, Meanwhile HBO Spain Leaks the Next Episode - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─And he insists that no one else should ever be allowed to finish the series if he were to die first.
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[23:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Supplement Maker on FDA Blacklist After Deadly Bacteria Found in Water System - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:24] <exec> 08└─Good. There are too many poor-as-shit people and not enough no-skill jobs [soylentnews.org] for them. Fortunately rich-as-fuck highly-skilled in-demand Soylentils shall be exempt from the culling, because we here on SN are the fucking elite of the entire universe.
[23:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Supplement Maker on FDA Blacklist After Deadly Bacteria Found in Water System - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:25] <exec> 08└─Isn't it time we took off the training wheels and let the capitalist free market run riot in our country? I'm so tired of the nanny state "detecting lethal bacteria in the water" and boring crap like that. Take the chains off and let's see how fast this thing can fly!
[23:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Supplement Maker on FDA Blacklist After Deadly Bacteria Found in Water System - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:27] <exec> 08└─Offtopic really? Apparently one is obliged to be explicit with this crowd of mouth breathing idiots. "Good! Cull the poor by poisoning their vitamin supplements!!" Jesus L Christ you rich fuckers aren't worth your pay. Elite scum of SN.
[23:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supplement Maker on FDA Blacklist After Deadly Bacteria Found in Water System - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:29] <exec> 08└─Caveat asspoor. Buyer be dead.
[23:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supplement Maker on FDA Blacklist After Deadly Bacteria Found in Water System - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:32] <exec> 08└─Isn't it time we took off the training wheels and let the capitalist free market run riot in our country?
[23:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supplement Maker on FDA Blacklist After Deadly Bacteria Found in Water System - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:34] <exec> 08└─Trigger warning! Editors using color-associated term in headline! I call racism and demand reparations!
[23:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supplement Maker on FDA Blacklist After Deadly Bacteria Found in Water System - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:36] <exec> 08└─Bacterial Lives Matter
[23:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Atomic Clock Receives an IEEE Milestone - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:46] <exec> 08└─1. Is this the same IEEE that established .docx as a real format? 2. Can we celebrate this atomic achievement by nuking North Korea?
[23:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:25] <exec> 08└─> // Victim blaming is NEVER OK. Never. On the other hand "it was so humiliating to have law officers learn about my Fentanyl overdose" is pretty hilarious.
[23:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:27] <exec> 08└─border control control trololol
[23:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like extreme petting.
[23:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Canadian Banned From the U.S. for Past Drug Use - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I find that to be the most unrealistic part of "our" Trump impersonator. I seriously doubt that the actual Trumpster can focus long enough to write an entire paragraph. Every week or two he puts the entire military on edge because he needs a 10 minute break between two tweets...
[23:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cancer Detection with Sugar Molecules - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks - this is an interesting article. The research below shows that lactulose [wikipedia.org], a common laxative-medicine, inhibits Galectin-1 - at least, enough to alleviate obesity in rats. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Pharmacological inhibition of galectin-1 by lactul...
[23:27:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:07] <exec> 08└─I fucking hate self-checkouts. I'll happily go to another store a few miles further away rather than use one.
[23:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:18] <exec> 08└─He lives in a reality where he is a racist shitbag and is too stupid to realize it. Ramblings of a madman.
[23:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Checkout Line: the Looming Crisis for American Cashiers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:20] <exec> 08└─a machine that throws a fit if you don't deliver the item into the bagging area in under 0.5 seconds...
[23:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:28] <exec> 08└─Deities are fiction. ...and not particularly good fiction. If you analyze the scripture of various religions, you will find numerous contradictory items within their own book. Unlike Science, which tends to converge on the mechanisms of how stuff works, religions just get wackier and wackier and in...
[23:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:30] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to hear your opinion of those who are opposed to abortion AND who want to restrict/eliminate access to birth control. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:32] <exec> 08└─How about "crappy in some cases, therefore not great"? http://www.apa.org [apa.org]
[23:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:22] <exec> 08└─The alt-left has nothing to say. They don't want to talk. We saw it in Charlottesville, last weekend. They show up with hairspray and a lighter. And they use that as a flame thrower. Which is absolutely devastating to the ozone. I hear where they don't want me to use hairspray. They want me to use t...
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