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[00:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:34] <exec> 08└─Your lack of faith in Musk is disturbing.
[00:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:36] <exec> 08└─Some people like that personalized stuff, no need to go on the attack. Makes you definitely worse than that guy.
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:38] <exec> 08└─Suppose you accelerate for half the distance, and decelerate for the other half. If I've done the math correctly, to reach 220m/s (500 mph) in the middle of a 1,250m track, you'd need to accelerate at 38.7 m/sec2 4 G's won't kill (most) people, but it is the point at which you start graying out.
[00:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:40] <exec> 08└─You should find a hobby, the math you just did to prove they need a bigger track was perhaps the most useless exercise I've yet seen.
[00:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:53] <exec> 08└─You don't need to watch that show; alter your passions.
[00:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:40] <exec> 08└─No, it's bad parenting. If a child does not respond, ignores you, and then claims ignorance you take the phone away.
[00:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:42] <exec> 08└─Even then if the phone is on silent, it would be just as easy to miss phone calls.
[00:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:44] <exec> 08└─No, it's bad parenting. If a child does not respond, ignores you, and then claims ignorance you take the phone away.
[00:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:46] <exec> 08└─~"If you put a dog's nose in its mess it will learn, but if you put a human's nose in its mess you'll end up with a hefty bill for therapy and a new fetischist" -- Davan (R.K Milholland) (Paraphrasing from memory)
[00:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:48] <exec> 08└─Was just thinking, so? Then I remembered some US carriers charge both parties on a mobile call for some ridiculous reason. I suppose that means you can't actually call someone who is out of credit.
[00:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:18] <exec> 08└─"the ugliest, but strongest, race in most RPGs and MMORPGs" [urbandictionary.com]
[00:27:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:36] <exec> 08└─I just saw this comment [palemoon.org] which states that the forum discussion thread has been locked! It closes with this: Moonchild has clarified the decision, in extreme detail at that. Kindly move along.
[00:27:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:45] <exec> 08└─Some of us would turn that argument around. We pay for our internet access, only to be exposed to a continuous DOS attack by the advertising companies. The stuff I really want to see is mostly measured in kb. The ad companies try to shove megabytes, and even tens of megabytes at me, with each few ki...
[00:27:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 788 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:51] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't that Moonchild has an opinion. The problem isn't that Moonchild's opinion differs from the opinions held by many Pale Moon users. The problem is that Moonchild is using Moonchild's position of authority to impose Moonchild's opinion on Pale Moon users who don't share Moonchild's op...
[00:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I'm getting my money's worth. I demand a refund!
[00:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:49] <exec> 08└─Note thar weev's conviction was not reversed, the case was vacated. The legality of him doing exactly what you say 2as not finally decided upon. Of course, the EFF has stated that the case against weev was fundamentally flawed, but didn't stop them from convicting him. Courts do stupid things when t...
[00:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:51] <exec> 08└─But you're wrong. It's not. It's not illegal with respect to any written law. It has been ruled illegal in cases where global corporations have demanded it. In those particular cases it was a citizen "circumventing" a corporation's website. I think the URL case in particular was someone pulling a cu...
[00:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:53] <exec> 08└─The UK's been just as stupid: https://www.scl.org
[00:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's restrict the freedom to be rebels against corporate ad media to only those intelligent enough to figure out how to properly configure their browser. That is fucking stupid. First they came for the disabled, then they came for the idiots, then they came for the intelligent but uninformed.
[00:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:58] <exec> 08└─I seldom argue even the most obvious legalities. But, that's so stupid, it sounds right. Bottom line, if you run a publicly facing server, and you put stuff on that server, you KNOW people are going to use it however they want. Drop the directory off the end of a URL? I started doing stuff like that...
[00:29:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:22] <exec> 08└─This just in: teens not actually inherently stupid, just inexperienced and prone to making decisions that will gain them experience! I'm pretty sure the Ancient Greeks and others had already figured this out guys. meta-analyses
[00:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:57] <exec> 08└─I'll note that definitions 1 through 4 on Wiktionary make no mention of gender bias, through granted 3 and 4 are scientific rather than social definitions. But considering that Wikipedia mentions that out of 1045 societies noted to practice polygamy in the 1998 Ethnographic Atlas, only 4 practice po...
[00:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:25] <exec> 08└─You call that a troll? Man, my asshole makes more worthwhile noises than your weak-ass shit.
[00:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Mills Loses Bid to Trademark Yellow Color on Cheerios Box - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:49] <exec> 08└─If your "roll your own" temperature controlled 3D printer solution is only used in-house, that should be protectable as a trade secret (aka not legally discoverable) - or, do your lawyers lack balls?
[00:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Mills Loses Bid to Trademark Yellow Color on Cheerios Box - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:50] <exec> 08└─Nobody said that the French were Nice people (well, there is that town on the med coast, but they're almost as stuck up there as the Parisians.)
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Engineer Sentenced to 40 Month Prison Term in Diesel Case - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─And how many of those did you document and report?
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[01:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:52] <exec> 08└─When I was growing up, all the textbooks and amateur science coffee-table books were saying "no star apart from our own sun has a discernable extent" or suchlike - i.e. that they were all just pointlike. More recently I've seen splats that were wider than a pixel, but there was never any detail. Fin...
[01:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:13] <exec> 08└─> You should find a hobby, Making "back of the envelope" rough calculations is one of the very best hobbies ever. If you can't do this for yourself, you are at the mercy of whatever numbers you hear or read, with no way to sanity check them. Since there are no people in these half-sized pods, 4+ g's...
[01:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:14] <exec> 08└─The point is, there were plenty of naysayers for them, too. It will be fun to see what things look like in 20 years. Perhaps you are right, and the idea will go nowhere, but I am happy to see them trying.
[01:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:52] <exec> 08└─Our system is supposed to protect people from being victimized by the government, even though that oftentimes results in criminals getting away. Catching every criminal or anything close to that simply isn't our main priority, and nor should it be. I would also point out that many criminals aren't e...
[01:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:54] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand fascism. The US is a fascist government, and has been since before the term was invented (by Mussolini) to codify some existing governmental practices. Fascist states are not, inherently, vile. They usually are, but there's no requirement baked into the idea. And democra...
[01:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:31] <exec> 08└─what the courts decide, until overturned, no matter how stupid, not only define the law as it is at a point in time, but also set a precedent for the future. That's why you have supreme courts, to bring lower courts in line. Has a supreme court presided over the issues raided in weev's case yet?
[01:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:32] <exec> 08└─If leave my car unlocked and the keys in the ashtray, it does not make it legal to take my car. If I don't have a lock on my front door, it does not make it legal to enter my house, even if a 6 year old could easily walk in. If my luggage has 1-2-3-4 as the combination and even if I forget to random...
[01:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:34] <exec> 08└─That's no longer true with some of the newer platforms. It's not about delivering pages through a hierarchy of files and directories, but more of an API used in some sort of MVC. One of the projects I worked on the url was literally turned into functions. /ping /grep /ls or /ping?ip=127.0.0.1 (I don...
[01:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:37] <exec> 08└─That's a lot easier if you get disgusted enough to start looking for something else ahead of time.
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[02:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:35] <exec> 08└─Very fluffy.
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:37] <exec> 08└─Think like a black hat, get fired. It's a perfect ruse to weed out the naive fools who would have become liabilities eventually. Loyalty is success!
[02:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─Don't make me hack SoylentNews! I'm crazy enough to do it!! I'll delete you all!!!
[02:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:07] <exec> 08└─Right, so the idea isn’t new. Wouldn’t be the first time a technology had to wait for the right circumstances to succeeed.
[02:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:09] <exec> 08└─braking's always quicker than accellerating, so the peak g force will indeed be higher even than that unless they significantly lengthen the tube. (doubling the speed requires quadrupling the length, as v^2 = 2.a.s)
[02:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 4505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:11] <exec> 08└─That's the real trick ain't it? Scaling with at least no negative ROI. I always remember hearing about the "water engine", and then hearing out the rare earth metals it requires. None of it ever scaled beyond one single very expensive demo unit, that could indeed, run on water. Since the industry wa...
[02:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:13] <exec> 08└─Drill a hole into the hyperloop tunnel Connect a hose, connected to a cement/glue (or just very runny cement) mix. Allow vaccuum to suck goop into tunnel. Wait for bang.
[02:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─How did I make it to adulthood without miracle phone apps like this?
[02:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:29] <exec> 08└─Idiotic analogies are idiotic.
[02:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:30] <exec> 08└─I think the real answer is for advertising companies to stop being malicious by conducting mass surveillance on the populace. Others, as well, since advertising companies are hardly the only ones we have to worry about. We need more of this kind of extension for other things.
[02:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:00] <exec> 08└─You don't know many Spaniards, do you?
[02:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clowns-Only Showing of Stephen King's 'It' is Worst Idea Ever - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:38] <exec> 08└─White supremacists think they're sooo macho. Apparently, there's nothing more effective than dressing like clowns and mocking them. [commondreams.org] "White power!" "White flour??" (Throws white powder into the air) "White power!" "Wife power??" (Women clowns pick up a male clown and carry him arou...
[02:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Passes Law Expressly Violating the 4th Amendment, Only 1% Vote Against - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:20] <exec> 08└─Well yes, there will be all kinds of people supporting the government shooting those evil liberals, I mean they're not even really Americans.
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[03:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:28] <exec> 08└─All the whining and shit comments aside, I think we have a pretty nice site here. Thanks to all the volunteers, etc. You're doing a good job.
[03:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:30] <exec> 08└─Dunno what ever gave you that idea... I just poke things with a stick until they break, sharpen the stick, and poke them some more until they start working again.
[03:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:40] <exec> 08└─GM is ahead of the pack in always on Big Brother technology, has been since the late 90s early 00s, and has been standard on all cars since.. just after they got bailed out by the Feds? And keep in mind the shit they have in their cars is always on cellular with remote-kill capabilities, remote upda...
[03:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:43] <exec> 08└─You could always retrofit carburetors, or even DIY EFI control (ala MegaSquirt) onto your new 2018 vehicle. Replace the in-dash system, etc. After about $5K worth of mods, you can "own" the intelligence of your new vehicle again.
[03:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:45] <exec> 08└─So what if you delete us all? It might be a little (or a lot) harder than the "kill system" command on MIT ITS, but hardly any more satisfying, http://web.mit.edu [mit.edu] They built the Incompatible Timesharing System for the PDP-6. It had a command "...
[03:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, you could make all these mods, but if you are in a state that requires passing emissions you will be off the road at your next inspection. In at least some cases, the OBDII port is used to confirm that the emission control system is working as designed... I suppose your system could be extended...
[03:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:49] <exec> 08└─Yep, On-Star does more than advertised. On the other hand, older folks who got it first in luxury cars were often pretty happy when they locked their keys in the car...and an On-Star operator was able to remotely open the doors for them. Or if the airbags went off and rescue was called to the crash...
[03:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:58] <exec> 08└─I won't start to be satisfied until the JWST comes online and starts making headlines in 2019. We'll also have images from 2014 MU69 at the beginning of that year and hopefully discovery images of Planet Nine followed by JWST's images of it. Sometime between now and later, expect gravitational wave...
[03:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:23] <exec> 08└─> braking's always quicker than accellerating, normal friction braking's usually quicker than accelerating, Ftfy. In recent 0-100-0 mph tests by MotorTrend of an awd Tesla car, the accel and decel were about the same below about 50 mph, where the performance is limited by tire traction. Above 50 mph...
[03:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:39] <exec> 08└─Hey, don't you diss my man Trump: he's doing a great jobhahahahaha... Sorry, couldn't hold it together.....Snrk, buwhahaha cough.
[03:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:40] <exec> 08└─Isn't Cablecard that thing that in theory all cablecos support, and which lets you use 3rd-party equipment with your cable subscription, but in reality it doesn't actually work because that would conflict with the cableco's interest in having you rent equipment from them instead? As for TiVo, it's d...
[03:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:42] <exec> 08└─I know someone who actually believes this too. The "liberal media" is making him out to be a buffoon, but he's really sticking it to a lot of people, etc. etc. It's really shocking how far detached from reality a large fraction of our country is.
[03:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:35] <exec> 08└─You're hallucinating, or desperately desperately blinkered. Or trolling. It's perfectly fine for children to have small amounts of alcohol. Nothing wrong with a home-fermented kvas or mjod shared with the family over a meal table, or a taffelbier, if that's your local thing. Or a diluted glass of wi...
[03:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:08] <exec> 08└─Interesting approach, normalize fascism as being the way it has always been? I guess you're correct, only the WW2 aftermath and the ideological fight against communism kept the US from devolving into horror as it is doing now. The US had to defend capitalism, show it to be the superior economic meth...
[03:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Pale Moon developers.
[03:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:52] <exec> 08└─People should keep in mind that advertisers don't just violate user privacy, spread malware, and waste your bandwidth; they also often boycott content they find offensive to try to force censorship. The sooner websites stop relying so much on advertising (or at all), the better.
[03:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Moral Reasoning Associated With Increased Activity in the Human Brain's Reward System - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:06] <exec> 08└─I was just thinking: they've identified the CEO lobotomy area - just resect that lobe associated with higher moral reasoning and you're better qualified to turn a profit for the shareholders next quarter.
[03:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:55] <exec> 08└─That's one reason I'm willing to listen: I can usually suss out the best way to do something just by stopping and thinking about it, but will definitely crow about someone coming up with a better way. Anytime i can have someone point out a better way to do something, I will thank them. Just makes my...
[03:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:56] <exec> 08└─How does it not imply the same level of commitment? Because the term doesn't specify marriage (the "gam" part of polygamy)? How would that help? It's illegal in all places where polyamory is practiced to legally marry more than one person, so the whole thing is moot. It's kinda hard to have a 6-pers...
[03:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Pledges Endless Love for btrfs; Says Red Hat's Dumping Irrelevant - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:48] <exec> 08└─Why do you even need fsck on a CoW file system? In personal experience, 99% of the use case for fsck is replaying the journal and finding orphaned inodes. CoW doesn't need the former, and the latter can be done online.
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[04:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:37] <exec> 08└─All the whining and shit comments aside, I think we have a pretty nice site here. Thanks to all the volunteers, etc. You're doing a good job.
[04:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like my honeymoon. XD
[04:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:41] <exec> 08└─Dunno what ever gave you that idea... I just poke things with a stick until they break, sharpen the stick, and poke them some more until they start working again.
[04:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:44] <exec> 08└─I still maintain that the new datacenter is in Houston not Dallas. It's certainly dropping packets like it's under several feet of water.
[04:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:46] <exec> 08└─See subject
[04:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─Yep, one of the reasons why I hang out here a lot during my downtime is not only because of the free speech but clean and quick operation that isn't shitted-up by all kinds of crap, as well as due to the aggressive actions of the staff to fix problems as they happen. Hell, I can even excuse the fact...
[04:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:50] <exec> 08└─always amazed by how well you guys pull off major system changes and updates (and migrations!) with barely noticeable effects on us ornery users.
[04:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:52] <exec> 08└─...including the sharpening??
[04:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:15] <exec> 08└─None of our really close neighbors are contenders, because they're all small -- no more than two or three solar radii (R☉). R Doradus is biggest at 57 mas, with a radius of 370 R☉ and a distance of only 180 ly. Second place is a tie: Betelgeuse is 50 mas, with a radius of perhaps 1000 R☉ and a...
[04:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:00] <exec> 08└─Cablecards do actually work. Maybe not everywhere, but they definitely work in my area.
[04:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:01] <exec> 08└─Also, go look at the source material for the claim in the Wikipedia article that TiVo plans to discontinue selling hardware: it doesn't say that. One can infer that it's a likely outcome, but there is no publicly disclosed plan for this. Still, if my TiVo quits working and cannot be replaced, that's...
[04:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:03] <exec> 08└─GPL v3 was a response to TiVo.
[04:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:56] <exec> 08└─VOIP and equivalents don't accomplish anything if the phone is on silent and the 'call' goes unanswered/unacknowledged. They also require data, which with the kids is hit and miss as they don't have a data plan... my kids and most of their friends just wifi hop because its cheaper. I'd rather a solu...
[04:33:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Clowns-Only Showing of Stephen King's 'It' is Worst Idea Ever - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:10] <exec> 08└─For this special clown screening of IT
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[05:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 597 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:44] <exec> 08└─Frankly I hadn't heard about suits Tivo won against others, but it's sort of painfully ironic considering that much of Tivos success can be credited to them exploiting [wikipedia.org] a hole in the GPL where they were able to "share" their changes to GPL code even though nobody could actually "use"...
[05:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:53] <exec> 08└─When will you fools quit begging for scraps, and start building your own world instead?
[05:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:55] <exec> 08└─Before you go off half cocked about Tivoization, let us not forget that Linus Torvalds is fine with it and explicitly did not license the Linux Kernel with the option to apply later versions of the GPL. Tivo is able to distribute Linux trapped in a box because Linus Torvalds wanted such a thing to b...
[05:27:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 1510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:11] <exec> 08└─Ohh, fucking bullshit. Sounds like a shill. You have no pubes right? ;) That sounds great... and like somebody who isn't a parent. There is a reason why kids don't have rights, and are indeed, a parents possession till 18. Which really should be till like 22 or 23 given the state of our youth today...
[05:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:49] <exec> 08└─I was told frequently, "You'll understand when you're older." Had I pried them for more information I would have simply disagreed with it and disregarded it because I was the center of the universe back then and my knowledge and wisdom were absolute. Yeah, of course the line "You'll understand when...
[05:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:06] <exec> 08└─The UK's been just as stupid: https://www.scl.org [scl.org]
[05:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Mills Loses Bid to Trademark Yellow Color on Cheerios Box - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─This is a very intuitive and logical view but once again completely inaccurate. Intuition and logic have no place when it comes to trademarks and trade agreements. The story of how France managed to make it illegal for the vast majority of the world to use the world champagne to describe champagne s...
[05:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Mills Loses Bid to Trademark Yellow Color on Cheerios Box - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:08] <exec> 08└─I definitely would not mind seeing this. In the digital age it could even be reasonable to simply have a regulated derivative of qr codes to enable users to quickly access the exact information they're looking for without having to look through a novel, or have said novel printed on each and every l...
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[06:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:41] <exec> 08└─My comment, is no comment. Until I can mod comments, comments mean nothing to me. It is not even grinding to post "no comment" if I cannot mod the comments that my comment spawns! Oh, the huge manatee, and the little buzzard bird. Aristarchus out.
[06:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:42] <exec> 08└─The best one is no longer made, they call it discontinued. I'm talking about Trump: The Game. In which it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you win! It came in two editions, both of which are fantastic. Thinking about a third edition. In which the winner becomes President! #WINNING #PROTRU...
[06:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:44] <exec> 08└─I can think of no better comment to follow my no comment, than a comment by the realDonaldTrump. The vacuity of SoylentNews is approaching the density of an event horizon. Pull back, eds, before it is too late an we all are spagettified.
[06:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:23] <exec> 08└─I saw pics of Betelgeuse from roughly early 80's showing a disk. But, Betelgeuse is a swollen star near the end of life.
[06:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:25] <exec> 08└─My gut-reaction to seeing the image was a disappointed "that's really low-res". Then the brain overrode that reaction - that's a "low-res" image of an object 550 frickin' lightyears away! Pluto, while positively tiny and poorly lit, is a "mere" 0.000624 lightyears off. That's a difference of six ord...
[06:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─> The "liberal media" is making him out to be a buffoon, but he's really sticking it to a lot of people, etc. etc. Well, Trump *is* sticking it to a lot of people. Predominantly to voters, including those that voted for him...
[06:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:01] <exec> 08└─The well educated in the east used Ionic while the later westerners used Latin.
[06:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:02] <exec> 08└─Now this is an AC comment that I would mod up, if I had not been banned from modding because I spam modded The Mighty Buzzard! Good comment, AC, I salute you! If only the eds could admit they made a mistake, I could actually mod you up. But don't count on it, they seem to be a vindictive lot.
[06:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:04] <exec> 08└─"I give you my word as a Spaniard." Man in Black: "No good, I've known too many Spaniards." We are men of action, spam mods do not become us.
[06:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:07] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to believe that anyone is sane in Swedish, since they would be, you know, Swedish. But, ja, the weird in English is true, not your fault.
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[07:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:28] <exec> 08└─The system detected a shot fired from North Korea, flying just past Japan's head. Witnesses say the target was actually those obstructing Lockheed Martin's pocket book.
[07:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─There are some really interesting things happening in the co-op space right now. My friends and I played a heap of Pandemic a while ago, and I've introduced the kids to Pandemic's younger sibling, Forbidden Island. Really keen to play The Thing (loved that movie and think that the traitor mechanic i...
[07:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:40] <exec> 08└─So, what will the aristarchus spot special feature be, on the Great Soylentnews Game? The Water Works (sorry, that's GP), the Luxury tax (nope, that's Gewg), simply the Mediterranean Avenue?
[07:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:56] <exec> 08└─Redundant webservers for the win. Our general rule is never let one server's load go over 50%, for cases when we blow one up, though this is a rare instance of blowing two up (web frontend + db backend).
[07:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:23] <exec> 08└─Betelgeuse got a similar high resolution image treatment earlier this year (paper [arxiv.org] was submitted in May): http://www.astronomy.com [astronomy.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:26] <exec> 08└─That's not actually how laws work. You know that, right?
[07:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:27] <exec> 08└─Possibly covered by Intent to Defraud. Possibly...
[07:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:29] <exec> 08└─Right, so get back to me on which browsers currently respect the user's freedom more than Pale Moon: Chrome? Firefox? Safari? Vivaldi? Brave? Hah!
[07:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:31] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon users are fearing that the same thing is now happening to their new browser of choice. They fear this cycle is starting again...
[07:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon Blocks AdNauseum Extension [Updated] - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:34] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon Doom has not begun. Should it begin, users can jump ship again, just like they have in the past. If there is no good ship to jump to, we'll just fork the software again. Much ado about nothing.
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[08:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:34] <exec> 08└─Why Wasn't an Official Evacuation Order Issued?
[08:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:52] <exec> 08└─While this may be off topic it's a serious allegation leveled at the people who run SN. Please do respond. Was aris really deprived of his modding privilege? Is there a policy? I believe SN was founded because we got tired of the BS at the old place. I don't expect to see arbitrary shit here.
[08:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:54] <exec> 08└─Policy: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Admission of guilt by aristarchus: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[08:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:56] <exec> 08└─> Was aris really deprived of his modding privilege? Is there a policy? Yes, and yes. The policy [soylentnews.org] is that abusing spam mods bans you from modding for one month. aristarchus admitted to abusing it in a reply to a post that he modded as spam, trolling for mod-ban. The only arbitrary s...
[08:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:58] <exec> 08└─Evidently someone does not understand civil disobedience. DeathMonkey went here before me. As did Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Henry Thoreau. We are in good company. And we point out the alt-right pseudo-libertarian bias of SoylentNews, and we will not be silenced!!! Or something like tha...
[08:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:00] <exec> 08└─Evidently someone does not understand civil disobedience.
[08:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:02] <exec> 08└─Oh poor aristarchus! He just cannot understand that no one on SN really is in favor of free speech. And he is a jerk. A troll. Someone who keeps questioning everything that everyone says, in such a way as to make them appear to be idiots. I blame khallow for this. And Socrates. It is about time.
[08:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:04] <exec> 08└─I think I would rather be eaten by a grue, than mod-banned by a buzzard. Just saying.
[08:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:21] <exec> 08└─Thank-you for doing such a good job. I very much appreciate the time and trouble you guys put into this place - you are in a very small and select group of websites I support with money and not just goodwill. Long may you continue to provide a shining example of doing things properly.
[08:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:48] <exec> 08└─Then the brain overrode that reaction - that's a "low-res" image of an object 550 frickin' lightyears away!
[08:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:49] <exec> 08└─Fully agree - there as much excitement possible in the future as there has been the past. I forgot to mention the Hubble by name, that was an amazing leap, or should I say hobble - it was far from a smooth journey, forwards.
[08:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:41] <exec> 08└─a hole in the GPL
[08:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:42] <exec> 08└─With Scott Pruitt dismantling the EPA, and Ben Carson slashing HUD, why can't Trump pick somebody to disintegrate patents...
[08:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:39] <exec> 08└─Your absolute definition of "gift" is legally naive. Of course there exist conditional gifts. Consider engagement rings - in many states, California for example, the ring will be surrendered to the wronged party if one party calls off the marriage, either deliberately, or through fault (e.g. cheatin...
[08:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:40] <exec> 08└─So, you're basically claiming that children are chattel property of some other human. You did bad things as a child, therefore all children must be treated as the slaves you claim them to be! Either humans have rights (such as the right to life, which demands they are the sole owner of the body they...
[08:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:42] <exec> 08└─I generally agree with the sanctioned "break DnD" approach. My take is: text (SMS) is FYI not requiring a response or confirmation. Phone call is for questions and guaranteed delivery. Think UDP and TCP. > if someone died, I'd just have them paged through the office. The apropriate approach would be...
[08:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:44] <exec> 08└─Is the parent/boss paying for the device and service used by the child/peon? If so, then what's your objection?
[08:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:46] <exec> 08└─> If a child does not respond, ignores you, and then claims ignorance you take the phone away. To make sure you cannot reach them anymore at all. Right. Doesn't work and doesn't even sounds good.
[08:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:49] <exec> 08└─You mean you didn't see your parent's texts?
[08:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:12] <exec> 08└─The 10/90 thing makes no sense at all. It assumes that 1) 90% of women will hold out for the top 10% of men (in whatever metric that women rank men: looks, personality, money, etc.), 2) those 90% of women would be OK with sharing a man with 9 other women, and 2) that these 10% of men have the time t...
[08:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:35] <exec> 08└─There are two solutions to that. One is to encourage people to have a policy that you never agree to something that you didn't read, so if something has a contract too long to read then you simply avoid that service. Facebook is a good example of this: I know people who have a Facebook account and I...
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[08:33:07] <exec> 08└─One of my colleagues did some work a few years ago on using single-bit flips to escape from a JVM sandbox. The basic idea is that you create a pattern in memory where there's a high probability that a memory error will allow you to make the JVM dereference a pointer that allows you to escape. You th...
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[08:33:08] <exec> 08└─The article's main point seems to be that SUSE is a much bigger contributor to BTRFS than Red Hat and that they will continue to support it in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the default file system. That may well be, but Red Hat is a bigger player in the server OS market, with Red Hat Enterprise Li...
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[08:33:10] <exec> 08└─There's a strange attachment to fsck, but it's a program that really shouldn't need to exist. There are three kinds of errors in a filesystem: those that can be detected automatically, those that can be detected and corrected automatically, and those that can't be detected automatically. The last se...
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[09:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:23] <exec> 08└─This morning on BBC radio, an interviewee from some official disaster relief agency in Texas (didn't catch his name) responded to this question by stating: "If a hurricane was forecast, we'd know where the winds were going to hit, and would have issued an evacuation warning. But for a rain storm, wh...
[09:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:25] <exec> 08└─Best thing is to have gun, so you can shoot at the boats that are trying to rescue people [wgno.com], if they are not rescuing you! NRA for self-defense against hurricanes, y'all!
[09:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:27] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, criminals gonna crim!? Thank you for revealing this insightful and useful information to us!
[09:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:29] <exec> 08└─The explanation I heard was simply this: the greater Houston area has more than 6 million people. An evacuation order would have caused huge amounts of chaos, and risked people being trapped in their cars. Anyway, as others have pointed out: Whoever was worried enough was entirely free to leave on t...
[09:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:31] <exec> 08└─No, fine upstanding citizens exercising their right to let liberty fly out the end of their piece, and demanding they be rescused before those anti-second amenderment scum!
[09:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:40] <exec> 08└─A system like this isn't that hard to build. The sensor integration algorithms that are needed for it were published in the '70s and the calibration isn't that hard. The only reason things like this weren't built in the '80s was that the processing was too expensive, but now even a cheap ARM SoC sho...
[09:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:42] <exec> 08└─This is a government project.
[09:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:00] <exec> 08└─I watched a few of them and a couple of them look quite interesting such as NMBR9 (puzzle tile laying game where you try and stack pieces higher and higher while building a solid base), Photosynthesis (growing trees while also trying to block other players from growing trees by blocking out their su...
[09:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:38] <exec> 08└─> If a child does not respond, ignores you, and then claims ignorance you take the phone away. And then they can't ignore you because you can't contact them! Genius! Do you solve all your problems by cutting off your nose?
[09:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:39] <exec> 08└─Pro tip: Before answering to a post, read it completely.
[09:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:14] <exec> 08└─It's not, actually. The courts often rejects cases because the person cannot show any harm. Where as this person can show that he was convicted of something through illegally obtained evidence, and thus he has a case.
[09:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:16] <exec> 08└─The US is a fascist government
[09:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Moral Reasoning Associated With Increased Activity in the Human Brain's Reward System - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:19] <exec> 08└─It's the reward system. It's the same system that gets activated when turning a profit. Or having an insight. Take that out, and you'll get a human without any motivation whatsoever. Not exactly what you need to turn a profit.
[09:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:48] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to believe that anyone is sane in Swedish, since they would be, you know, Swedish.
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[10:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:31] <exec> 08└─This should lead to an upliftment of home cooking skills. We have quite enough (far too much in fact) of tracking and being analyzed to bits. Now just to eat out? And, hey, wow - Alfredo sauce is so easy to make! For $10 you can feed 6 people, make it $20 to include all the little extras. That's the...
[10:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:33] <exec> 08└─I know a few local restaurants turning to the old and time-honored "improving the service and the food" tactics.
[10:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:46] <exec> 08└─If people are looting for supplies only, I'd have some sympathy for that tbh.
[10:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:56] <exec> 08└─So they are testing a system to detect gun fire at the White House. Guess the Secret Service is starting to get mighty worried that someone is going to try and take more then verbal shots at POTUS. They are always worried about that naturally but I guess more so now then before. Isn't it a bit weir...
[10:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:02] <exec> 08└─So they combine multiple images, to get the equivalent of a 200m telescope. That's cool. JWST will be at L2. If it can be combined with an earth-based telescope, that would give a potential aperture a...few times larger. Meanwhile, wasn't there a proposed project to put a telescope on the other side...
[10:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─This deserves a Touche! I would mod it, if I could, but I have been mod-banned, so I hope some other Soylentil will step up to do the honors. And, I like Swedes, almost as much as Julian, but not in a semi-conscious sexual way. So somebody please mod up the parent! Please! (I feel so, emasculated!...
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[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 2147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:25] <exec> 08└─I think it might have more to do with a general increase in a distrust of authority figures. It's the "backside" of the whole Internet that with free or available information now all of a sudden "everyone is an expert" (at least they think so in their own mind). Discussions tend to end with "I don't...
[11:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:27] <exec> 08└─You either trust experts and data or you take your chances with "common sense" and your own ignorance. Most of the time the experts and data are a better choice.
[11:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:29] <exec> 08└─pay them the same whether you like the answer or not, and they will have no bias for personal profit. whether a nuclear scientist works in industry or in academia, they should get the same salary. whether they are employed by the company owning the nuclear plant or not should again have no influence...
[11:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:38] <exec> 08└─and extract VC money with?
[11:28:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 3897 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but kids don't have any rights when they try to exercise them. I remember all the times I said it wasn't fair and that I had rights. Amazingly, none of the adults around agreed. The threat to call child services is often just funny, and I've heard of children calling the...
[11:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:30] <exec> 08└─> one of the Abrahamic cannibal death cults? funny, I thought cannibal -> Cahna Baal -> priest of baal -> not abraham's god also 2 tim. 1 "our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death" calling this a death cult is a bit of a stretch
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[12:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:38] <exec> 08└─pay them the same whether you like the answer or not, and they will have no bias for personal profit. ... therefore if the company goes bankrupt they should still be paid afterwards (by the state, obviously).
[12:25:39] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03caffeine [249] 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:39] <exec> 08└─That is, we were relying on people who made their living from nuclear power to tell us if nuclear power was safe.
[12:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:42] <exec> 08└─Whoever wrote that article has no understanding of science, nor of statistics. Regarding nuclear energy, there are 450 nuclear plants running right now world wide. The number of individual reactors tops 1000. There were reactors in use for more than 50 years and only a handful accidents. This techno...
[12:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:44] <exec> 08└─Never fear. The Great Orange One will tell us the Truth.
[12:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─I don't know, usually the association of "spin" and "nuclear" lead me into thinking about fermions and energy states. (a little while and those pseudo-journos will drown the meaning of another term - nuclear spin - that's gonna take the same way as "hacker" and "begs the question". A good think we h...
[12:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:48] <exec> 08└─Alternately, we could just recognize that conflicts of interest exist rather than persist in the delusion that we can somehow do away with conflict of interest though laws, funding, etc. None of your three points are realistic to implement. Consider this: 1) How do you prevent your laws to defend tr...
[12:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:50] <exec> 08└─If you don't like trusting experts, because sometimes they can be wrong, try trusting non-experts for a while, and see which has the better outcomes. Even better, do a randomised controlled trial, where you don't know if the person you are talking to is an expert or not and get someone independent t...
[12:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:52] <exec> 08└─Trust in institutions and expertise has taken a lot of knocks in the last decade. Can society recover it?
[12:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:03] <exec> 08└─Hopefully that stupidity won't last long. They need to get on to making REAL profit.
[12:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 3156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:18] <exec> 08└─For years I've read complaints that too many people have moved (flooded?) into coastal cities, and this is why. Houston is the 4th largest city in the US, and it shouldn't be so large. It's just not possible to evacuate everyone in a few days. Not least they've run out of gas from so many trying to...
[12:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:48] <exec> 08└─Can't think of anything creative, game developers? Just add zombies or Cthulhu. Now, with lack of effort!
[12:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:06] <exec> 08└─Yo! This could be fixed (permanently) https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] That's having open tags in an article causes the front page to go wonky. Maybe there could be a check. I've personally seen that happen twice. Cheers. Consid...
[12:29:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:50] <exec> 08└─If searching the backpack was legal, looking at the contents of the camera was also legal. It wasn't. So, it isn't.
[12:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:07] <exec> 08└─Another case in point: "Magic Lantern [magiclantern.fm] is a free software add-on that runs from the SD/CF card and adds a host of new features to Canon EOS cameras that weren't included from the factory by Canon."
[12:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:43] <exec> 08└─Now this is an AC comment that I would mod up,
[12:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Communicating in a Foreign Language Takes Emotion Out of Decision-Making - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:45] <exec> 08└─I just shortened Ionic-Attic to Ionic. Practically speaking, most textbooks teach Attic since it's easier to teach as the rule rather than the exception while making footnotes regarding the Ionic when Attic has a greater variety of reading material and diverges into Koine. Also a lot of people like...
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[13:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:33] <exec> 08└─Now that the Greatest Generation and their children are finished strip-mining the future it's time to put those good for nothing kids to work wiping elder assholes. They should be thankful for the job. Lazy whiner cowards. If they wanted something better they should have worked harder! After all, we...
[13:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:34] <exec> 08└─tbh Johnny 5 is the only bot I'd trust with my family.
[13:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:36] <exec> 08└─tbh Johnny 5 is the only bot I'd trust with my family.
[13:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:54] <exec> 08└─Ignorance and bigotry are not the sole province of America. SEE: Everywhere. It's also quite ahistorical to posit that Europe, the continent that gave us both world wars and every flavor of (Christian) religious persecution, has no experience with those qualities. Historically speaking, it's more li...
[13:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─Confidence has taken a hit? Really? I don't think so. Maybe among poorly-educated poly-sci majors. The rest of us, with even a tiny bit of critical reasoning skills are perfectly capable of checking the scoreboard. How does following quack pseudoscience, feel-good new-age bullshit, and making life d...
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[13:25:57] <exec> 08└─The only reason nuclear power is at all economically viable is because the costs are socialized: the costs to build, the costs to operate, and the costs to cleanup. It is the golden child of moral hazards, socializing losses and privatizing profits. Secondly, on a time scale of all of human history...
[13:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:59] <exec> 08└─and you'll end up paying court fees. And don't be too surprised when a carpenter ends up fixing your carburetor using his hammer, a couple of nails and some plywood. And just between you and me, next time you ask your priest for advice, be sure there isn't anything good on Sunday.
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─There is no need for it to be free market, a good, green base generation for a countries grid seems like something they should take into own hands. And, if you really feel 70 years is to short to judge on safety issues, I'm assuming you are very much against solar power and wind power and those thin...
[13:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─Ah yes: knowing the right question to ask, of whom, is half the battle. It is not for nothing there is a saying that for someone with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail - similarly, for every politician the false syllogism: Something must be done! This is something, therefore it must be done.
[13:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:06] <exec> 08└─look up opposition to vaccinations in romania, germany, italy (and possibly a couple of other countries) --- in particular the current epidemic that has killed few dozen children.
[13:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:08] <exec> 08└─Historically speaking, it's more like the place is taking a break rather than turning over a new leaf.
[13:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:19] <exec> 08└─There is a learning curve, but because it's an activity to engage in daily it's quickly surmounted. You're right--cooking your own food surpasses what you can get in most restaurants. You can cook it exactly how you like it, accounting for any dietary restrictions. YouTube videos and other online re...
[13:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 2651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:20] <exec> 08└─Don't keep me waiting to sit. Don't squish me into a horrible table that shouldn't even exist. Ask me about my drinks straight away, get me ordering a starter straight away, bring it straight away (the whole point of starters!). Now you have quite a while to take my mains order, cook it, and bring i...
[13:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, And have a website, with directions, details about parking, a copy of the up-to-date menu (WITH PRICES), opening hours and any "special events" (no I DO NOT want live music while I eat, thanks). If you padded it out with a bit of blurb about your historic premises / current staff, that might eve...
[13:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:24] <exec> 08└─Home cooking skills! Preposterous! Un-American! You a commie?! I've never seen one of you commies drinking a glass of water! These damned millennials are going to destroy so many jobs with their "home cooking!" What a bunch of pussies and faggots millennials are too. They waste all their money eatin...
[13:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:39] <exec> 08└─The answer is revising flood insurance so that premiums exceed payouts - say by privatizing it. Then there is a built in discouragement to building on the coast. Past that, I simply don't care if people build on the coast or not. It doesn't matter to me if your home gets wiped out five times in the...
[13:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:40] <exec> 08└─Not a cure all. https://theconversation.com [theconversation.com] [...] people who have experienced flooding on the coast migrate inland, but may not realize that they are still vulnerable if they relocate to an inland fl...
[13:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:43] <exec> 08└─Climate deniers ought to love rising sea levels instead of pooh-poohing it all the time. All things being equal, it will eventually eliminate the problem of Washington DC by itself. Their rallying cry, instead of "Drain the Swamp," ought to be "Flood the Swamp!" Also, in the long ago before time the...
[13:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:45] <exec> 08└─Let us recall that sea level rise is a teensy little problem with little sea level rise recorded since the start of the Industrial Age (something like eight inches) and that it is never expected to rise fast enough that someone's home will be flooded by sea level rise itself.
[13:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:55] <exec> 08└─This is a government project.
[13:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:56] <exec> 08└─"Isn't it a bit weird tho that the city of Washington DC already has the system but the White house for some reason isn't covered?" Maybe it finally got cheap enough to make it easy. The h/w should be simple, RasPi, microphone, gps module, and a way to phone home. The s/w might be more interesting....
[13:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:18] <exec> 08└─There has without a doubt in my mind been a few to many zombie games the last decade or so. So many that infact it has turned into a bit of a joke. That said one can never have to much Cthulhu.
[13:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a great business model. Tell us how it works out!
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[14:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─I'd be willing to trust a robot. However, I would _not_ trust that it's not collecting and sharing data on me. Imagine the privacy and health insurance implications, for starters.
[14:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:31] <exec> 08└─Mmmm... I'm quite afraid all you'll get is an ED-209 (of Robocop fame); extrapolating the way the things progress now, that's likely all your family will be able to afford when you'll be old enough. Even more, it will be on a shared lease, co-contributed by many families - don't worry, even if not c...
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:33] <exec> 08└─Imagine the privacy and health insurance implications, for starters.
[14:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentnewsfan1 [6684] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:35] <exec> 08└─This was fortold in the classic anime Roujin Z from 1991: Roujin Z is set in early 21st century Japan. A group of scientists and hospital administrators, under the direction of the Ministry of Public Welfare, have developed the Z-001: a computerized hospital bed with robotic features. The Z-001 take...
[14:25:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─You either trust experts and data or you take your chances with "common sense" and your own ignorance. Most of the time the experts and data are a better choice.
[14:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:02] <exec> 08└─It's easy enough for any news outlet to both sensationalize and put a narrative-friendly spin on any newsworthy event. Any any lawyer who doesn't trot out as many expert witnesses as his client can afford is guilty of malpractice. There's a whole industry of tabloid-grade brains for hire, who will,...
[14:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─Should have been "their perfectly understandable..." Need more coffee.
[14:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:06] <exec> 08└─A LOT more coffee.
[14:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:08] <exec> 08└─The rest of us, a tiny minority, with even a tiny bit of critical reasoning skills are perfectly capable of checking the scoreboard
[14:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is safe, but when something goes wrong, it can go real bad. It's like saying, yes we can provide you unlimited wealth, food, housing, peace over the world and even teleportation or whatnot, but once every millennium, the whole planet may blow up. Cool, no?
[14:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:43] <exec> 08└─The Governor suggested that people evacuate Houston, a couple days in advance. The Mayor of Houston poo-poohed the idea of evacuation. Funny how that works out. The Republican governor warns people that their lives may be at risk. The Democratic mayor says, "Stay put, nothing to worry about!" Think...
[14:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─According to my amateur audio engineering a gun shot should be extremely close to an impulse which is well known.
[14:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:37] <exec> 08└─"sharpening"..."fluffing": same same! :)
[14:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:37] <exec> 08└─[Splitting this reply up to see if I can get round the lameness filter.] Nice idea. Obviously it'd be complementary to any hyperloop infrastructure, which would be all about getting humans over medium distances as quickly as possible. (At least, that's how it was conceived.) Waterways also tend to b...
[14:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:38] <exec> 08└─Not some fake not-evil billionaire who dreams of a dynasty on Mars.
[14:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds about right. But I believe Musk was just suggesting they could do high speed tests even on their short test track. (Without humans) In a real life system, the acceleration and deceleration would be slow enough to be comfortable for humans, and yet still only a small part of the journey time....
[14:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:42] <exec> 08└─With proper scheduling a (conceptual) hyperloop system would use the power generated by decel on one pod to accel another nearby pod.
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[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he at least took the effort to follow our immigration laws and became naturalized.
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─You know, there's no better way to damage a valid argument than throwing in a bit of disproportionate antisemitism into the mix. I mean, if you're going to complain about selling out, shouldn't you have started off with Chinese sweatshops, Japanese automakers, Belgium & other Euro-trash tax evaders,...
[15:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:45] <exec> 08└─Here's how you correct a shortage of workers in a particular field: 1. Make it better-paying than other kinds of work. 2. Make it possible for people who haven't done it before to get into the field. 3. Make sure that the job is pleasant enough that those who have it stay in the field rather than bu...
[15:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:47] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think they'll have a more pleasant response than that, because it's better for public relations. Something along these lines [youtube.com].
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─How about the robot from Robot & Frank [imdb.com]?
[15:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:51] <exec> 08└─I agree with the other AC. You were going good until you worried only about Jewish corporations. I'm not sure what makes a corporation Jewish to be honest. Corporations are immortal, transnational, incorporeal (can't be jailed), sociopathic legal fictions. Don't just be concerned about the “Jewish...
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:22] <exec> 08└─> The only reason nuclear power is at all economically viable is because the costs are socialized: the costs to build, the costs to operate, and the costs to cleanup. It is the golden child of moral hazards, socializing losses and privatizing profits. The question is, is it worse on those points tha...
[15:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:23] <exec> 08└─Except then you get shite like this: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Sounds great: sounds official! Until you dig below the surface: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The problem...
[15:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─Because most restaurant goers eat at the same place
[15:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 2872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─What I really wish for people who say we needn't be concerned about sea level rise measured in fractions of inches per decade, is that the rest of us can collectively turn off our normal, instinctual sense of compassion for another human being in trouble when these people are in trouble due to storm...
[15:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:01] <exec> 08└─You don't need to know where it will rain, you only need to know where it will flood. And this is trivial with flood maps. What a bunch of dumbasses. Lot of officials do deserve lot of blame, Houston has been flooding for years and no action has taken place to remedy this in the slightest. Of course...
[15:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─I live in a coastal flood zone that is less than 25 feet above sea level. I have flood insurance and it costs me about $400 a year because my house is raised 7 feet. Of course the kicker is my beautifully large (1500 sq ft) basement cannot be finished into livable space because it can flood. Still i...
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:05] <exec> 08└─The mayor is Affirmative Hire, as are all Democratic Plantation Mayors. What you think he was elected by the people? Come on this is the DNC we are talking about, the fix was in. The main criteria is corruptibility, not ability. He should resign if he has an ounce of dignity.
[15:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─That account is about an attempt to steal an inoperable boat by people desperate to be rescued. There are other accounts of looters attempting to hijack boats by pretending to be in trouble to attract a boat. They want the boats to be able to loot more. Yea, the benefits of vibrant diversity are tru...
[15:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:09] <exec> 08└─Doubt flat screen TVs are vital survival supplies. Footwear and t-shirts probably aren't either since they aren't looting the sort of store that sells wading boots. And hair weave supplies are right out, anyone declaring that an emergency item is just messed up. And that is the stuff I saw being loo...
[15:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:12] <exec> 08└─Dignity? Where in the hell would a Democrat find an ounce of dignity? He would have to stab a real man in the back, and steal it.
[15:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:14] <exec> 08└─"Houston has been flooding for years and no action has taken place to remedy this in the slightest." The fact is, very nearly everything officials do, tends to make the problem worse. The permeable soil, which absorbs and filters water, is constantly being paved over. The pavement is pushed out furt...
[15:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:27] <exec> 08└─Ok, you take a standard box of matches. Cut the striker surface off one side, and fold it so it fits around the match-heads inside the tray. Put the tray back in whats left of the box. Get some cellotape. Start wrapping the box. You start at one edge, and wrap continuously so there is an overlap of...
[15:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With General Motors Cyber Security Boss - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:23] <exec> 08└─Or you could just find a mechanic you could bribe for an extra $50 to pass you on that point. My roommate used to do that.
[15:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:11] <exec> 08└─Exactly - because of the -gam. And what the state respects is irrelevant except when dealing with the state - marriage at its core is a pledge of long-term commitment between the people involved, everything else is politics. That's not to say that polyamorous relationships can't have the same level...
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[16:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─My reusable paper bag was so worn out and torn from overuse, the clerk took it away and gave me a new bag. If you're not reusing your bags until they literally tear apart, you're murdering the planet.
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─These stupid niggers are too worried about micromanaging shopping bags instead of worrying about eliminating nigger corruption or making their infrastructure reliable. Niggers need to learn about priorities.
[16:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:36] <exec> 08└─It would be helpful if someone could train dog-owners not to leave plastic bags of dog fæces lying about hidden in long grass or tied to trees and bushes. Throwing them in domestic waste disposal is also a bad idea - the most environmentally friendly thing you can do is flush the contents down the...
[16:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─In Denmark plastic bags with a capacity of at least 5 liters and with handles get taxed at $0.25 So I use my cotton bag or my rucksack. In the cases where I forget them and have to buy a plastic bag I reuse it for kitchen garbage.
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─Get lost, hippie. SN is news for millionaire boomers whose life goal is to rape and pillage and whoever dies with the most money wins.
[16:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─... than Kenya does all year.* Yet, the U.S. needs no such draconian law about plastic bags. This "law" of theirs is not fixing the fundamental problem in Kenya, which is a problem with people and their culture. * I'm not necessarily being literal.
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─However, the only reason the government taxes plastic bags is because it's yet another revenue stream; why should this one particular organization receive money just because you use a plastic bag? It makes no sense. I mean, why isn't the government giving people $0.25 for each plastic bag they bring...
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:47] <exec> 08└─TMB stop posting AC we know it is you.
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:49] <exec> 08└─Nobody tells American billionaires what to do! Say, those noggers look like they need something to do. Let's open a phone factory in Kenya and work them to death just like slaves.
[16:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:51] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if this is serious or joking. If serious, buy a $2 durable and reusable bag, then you can plea down from murder to planetslaughter.
[16:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─Where to begin? Plastic bags don't last 500 years unless buried deep. Especially the modern ones designed to decompose, perhaps Kenya should have simply 'encouraged' the use of what is now twenty year old unpatented tech? Then there is the ban on USING them. So you have all these plastic bag you don...
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[16:25:55] <exec> 08└─What we need is proper waste infrastructure. The simple fact is most people operate on convenience, so if they have to take a poop bag back home in their car and then separate the poop out you are just not going to have many people participate. Similarly, recycling has many problems. Some waste comp...
[16:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:58] <exec> 08└─Reusable paper bags are crap, for that very reason. They're not durable; paper cannot be. Paper falls apart as soon as it gets wet. That's why we have reusable plastic shopping bags now: they're made from recycled plastic, they're cheap, but they last a really long time because they're plastic, and...
[16:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:00] <exec> 08└─Basically, you're saying that before American billionaires showed up with their factories,* those people were living under conditions even worse than being worked to death like slaves—otherwise, the factories wouldn't be able to operate there, because nobody would want to be employed by them. So...
[16:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─I think attaching a potential 4 year prison term onto the "crime" of using a plastic bag says oooooh so much more about the state of civilization and culture in Kenya than it does about their desire to save the planet. Good way to signal your nation's complete failure to the world.
[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:04] <exec> 08└─In Arizona the state passed a law banning municipalities from passing ordinances banning plastic bags. So we're some way behind Kenya ... and getting further.
[16:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─This is how I picture you, "think about it!" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The reason they tax the bags is in order to reduce the waste stream. In case you never learned the three Rs of recycling, it goes Reduce Reuse Recycle in that order. Stop generating waste, reuse wh...
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─Even better is if people just didn't have dogs in cities. They're nasty animals: they smell bad, they shit everywhere, many of them are huge and consume an inordinate amount of food (and then generate a lot of shit), they shed, they scratch up your car seats and car paint, they can't be left alone a...
[16:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:11] <exec> 08└─Because governments don't work that way. Governments modify society with taxes; if you want to reduce something, you tax it. They wanted to reduce smoking (due to all the health problems it causes), so they slapped big taxes on it. Fast-forward a few decades and smokers are pariahs, having to stand...
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─If you change it from a disincentive to get plastic bags to an incentive to recycle them, then you have people trying to get as many plastic bags as they can for the maximum value; the incentive goes the wrong way (more plastic bags used).
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:15] <exec> 08└─You'll notice that my subject is "That tax is portrayed as a way to reduce waste." Telling me it's to reduce waste is a waste of time. You neglect to explain why this particular organization that calls itself "government" should be the one receiving revenue. Why can't a person be taxed $0.25 for u...
[16:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:17] <exec> 08└─Umm the US DOES need such a draconian law going by your logic. Hopefully you realize the US has the same problem, although more of our bags probably wind up in landfills since we have ubiquitous trash services. The bags are still an environmental problem when in a landfill. Quite a few places in the...
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Board Has a Surprise New CEO Pick: Expedia's Dara Khosrowshahi - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:25] <exec> 08└─Mostly because no one figured out how to pronounce it while the one guy who could at least spell it in Persian was busy driving his third Uber shift and missed the call on his brick feature-phone as the 80s pop music he had on his 8-track was just too loud and he couldn't read the call-log through t...
[16:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:44] <exec> 08└─Done right (if that's possible), an automated hospital bed could be a useful thing. Our 95 year old friend wound up in the hospital the other day with bronchitis. As expected, the hospital staff are overworked and can't really provide the timely care that would be hoped for. Prompt response to a cal...
[16:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:46] <exec> 08└─It depends specifically who in my family we are talking about... but GlaDOS comes to mind as a caretaker.
[16:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─This, exactly! It is "radical" in the sense of being simple, correct, and never to be heard in B-schools or boardrooms. There is really not a shortage of kind and trustworthy people who would do this job if they could make even a modest living at it.
[16:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe instead of dismissing it out of hand you should do a bit of research into who owns and controls the majority of investment banks and media corporations.
[16:26:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 2147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:59] <exec> 08└─I think it might have more to do with a general increase in a distrust of authority figures. It's the "backside" of the whole Internet that with free or available information now all of a sudden "everyone is an expert" (at least they think so in their own mind). Discussions tend to end with "I don't...
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─It seems that deciding whom to trust, while being willing over time to look at new information and always integrating/synthesizing, seems to be a very important part of developing personal maturity. Casting a wide net, corroboration among trusted sources, personal evaluation of competence and agreem...
[16:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:26] <exec> 08└─Allowed, hell! I've had no end of stupid, lying scumbags wanting to claim that I said what they want to hear, approved some terrible plan or design, because I have credentials they feel are impressive. They'll happily push a pen into my hand and move my arm to make me write a signature, if I let the...
[16:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:28] <exec> 08└─science works because scientists trust each other.
[16:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:11] <exec> 08└─It is the only decision possible. Think it through. You are a Democrat mayor in Houston. Calling for a limited evacuation of low lying areas that past history says will flood under any intense sustained rainfall would just cause those areas to be looted first and if they didn't flood you get the bla...
[16:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:12] <exec> 08└─Funny thing about survival essentials - many, many people will share what they have, if you ask. No need to steal. Further, there are volunteers from all over converging, bringing essentials with them, to share. Have you heard the term, "Cajun Navy"? Please, read about them - https://duckduckgo.com
[16:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:14] <exec> 08└─Niggers gonna nig FTFY
[16:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:16] <exec> 08└─Gee, is that true? Well then, we'd best lock everyone up naked inside coffin-sized individual cells for their own safety! What use is a little essential liberty anyway?
[16:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:18] <exec> 08└─khallow moved to Colorado.
[16:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:21] <exec> 08└─Have you heard the term, "Cajun Navy"?
[16:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:23] <exec> 08└─Including this Memorial Day [2015] flood, there have been at least 25 events that flooded homes in the Houston metro area since the mid 1970s [...]
[16:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:58] <exec> 08└─It is now pitch dark. If you proceed you will likely fall into a pit.
[16:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:00] <exec> 08└─Hey, buttwipe. It ain't all about you. Please, go find yourself a hideous, excruciatingly painful death.
[16:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:02] <exec> 08└─Ghandi - dead. MLK Junior - dead. Henry Thorequ - dead. Aristarchus - also dead. How about you STFU, lie down, and let us all have some peace?
[16:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:04] <exec> 08└─I plan on trying some of these on Table Top Simulator. As lame as it sounds, it is a first person board game video game. I can play with my friends remotely and try new games. I think the consensus is that it does drive sales as playing in person is so much more pleasurable, but TTS provides a metho...
[16:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:24] <exec> 08└─We actually do check for balanced tags in submissions, comments, and journal entries, then balance them if they aren't. What we don't do is check that our editors didn't leave one open when they monkey with a story. Guess we need to start.
[16:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, some of us editors ain't too bright... but we're strong as an ox!
[16:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:31] <exec> 08└─Now you're being pedantic, and quite wrong. The -gam is only useful for understanding the etymology of that word. But it does not define it. This is English: the definition of a word is defined solely by its popular usage, not its etymology. If everyone in America tomorrow decided that "monogamous"...
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[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─All my traffic is equal. Screw your neutrality.
[17:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:38] <exec> 08└─All my traffic is equal. Screw your neutrality. Until they throttle all VPNs that don't pay for the fast-lane...
[17:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─is the answer
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─That's just an incentive for beggars to pick up plastic bags blowing down the street. Also, why couldn't a person be taxed for a new bag, but then receive [almost all of] that tax money back when taking that bag (or some minimum number of bags) to a recycling center?
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─Dogs provide companionship and security, and many people grow up with dogs and enjoy having them around. I've never noticed any partisan trend with pet ownership, perhaps you're just running into the fact that most urban dwellers happen to be liberal.
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─No. Municipal governments should not be concerning themselves with the type of bags people are using. They should be concentrating 100% of effort and money into providing basic services of civilization: clean water, useable roads, useful education curriculum, youth centers, public health departments...
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─After all, if a government taxes something in order to reduce its presence in society, then I guess government is intent on reducing productivity—that's one of the most taxed aspects of society! Anyway, see here. [soylentnews.org]
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─1. I think explaining the purpose of a law is an admirable thing, but I'm just craaaazy 2. Who else? Seriously? 3. Because the point is to change people's habits so they buy reusable bags and stop filling the landfill with throw away plastic ones. You obviously have an axe to grind and could care le...
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─Even better is if people just didn't have dogs in cities. They're nasty animals: they smell bad, they shit everywhere, many of them are huge and consume an inordinate amount of food (and then generate a lot of shit), they shed, they scratch up your car seats and car paint, they can't be left alone a...
[17:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─Because that would not do a whole lot to REDUCE the number of bags, and most plastic grocery bags are not even recyclable since they are very low grade plastic. The obvious rebuttal to giving .25 for returned bags is that someone would buy plastic bags in bulk and get probably 5x the return by takin...
[17:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:24] <exec> 08└─Ok, jmorris too? Is this corporate astroturfing day or are you conservative types just triggered by any "hippy" ideal like reducing human waste production? The law seems a bit severe but hey, I don't live in Kenya. If you only ban using new bags how easily can you enforce the law? "I was just reusin...
[17:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:26] <exec> 08└─This comment should be recorded for posterity. "Idiots like this are why the Earth is a toxic nightmare, they couldn't see past their own noses so they didn't care about polluting the planet. Remember, ignorance is not an admirable trait. Have the courage to explore new ideas and put the good ones t...
[17:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:28] <exec> 08└─Carrying produce and animal products in a reusable bag means there will be a greater transfer of disease-causing organisms. It would be better to ensure that such items are carried in the kinds of bags that have a well-defined path from clean-to-recycling.
[17:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:30] <exec> 08└─YHBT
[17:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:33] <exec> 08└─Lol, tmb & co. got twiggahd.
[17:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:35] <exec> 08└─You can wash the bags, you can get separate small bags to put such items in, and besides I have yet to see any stores in the US ban produce bags.
[17:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:37] <exec> 08└─* I doubt many such tycoons are looking to Kenya to put their factories.
[17:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:39] <exec> 08└─. . . looking through online dating profiles, it seems like about 80% of white American women (generally liberal city-dwelling ones) have some giant dog."
[17:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:41] <exec> 08└─Burn the bag? If you burn the dog, the dog won't shit in your shopping bag again!!
[17:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:44] <exec> 08└─In that case, the bag manufacturer itself would have an incentive just to recycle its own bags immediately after making them, thereby proving once again the ineptitude of your government. Of course, if there's a "tax" on such bags (paid to the organization, possibly the government, that will return...
[17:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:46] <exec> 08└─Lol! AC got spammodded for Lol.
[17:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:48] <exec> 08└─Good point: Because that would not do a whole lot to REDUCE the number of bags, and most plastic grocery bags are not even recyclable since they are very low grade plastic. The obvious rebuttal to giving .25 for returned bags is that someone would buy plastic bags in bulk and get probably 5x the ret...
[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:50] <exec> 08└─Here [soylentnews.org] is a really good discussion of that issue.
[17:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:52] <exec> 08└─If serious, buy a $2 durable and reusable bag
[17:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:54] <exec> 08└─Ok it isn't TMB, he doesn't have the attention span for this sustained level of downmodding. It must be the kmorrollow faction. Teeny tiny snowflakes melting in the hot Kenyan sun, afraid for their lives as they get surrounded by dark skinned people.
[17:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:57] <exec> 08└─That is a terrible point. This is a good point [soylentnews.org]: You've certainly shut YOUR brain off today In that case, the bag manufacturer itself would have an incentive just to recycle its own bags immediately after making them, thereby proving once again the ineptitude of your government. Of...
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─Ugh single use paper bags are better for combating climate change as they sequester carbon, especially if they are dump in a landfill and covered over with garbage so they don't decompose. New trees are grown to make the next batch of bags. You are an idiot for thinking complex environmental things...
[17:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:01] <exec> 08└─Boycott Kenyan coffee! Until they repeal this unfair law. Kenya has a bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator. Radical environmentalism must be stopped by whatever means necessary. The United States will not stand by as Kenya crumbles. 🇺🇸
[17:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:03] <exec> 08└─Muslims to the rescue! They cannot stand dogs, and will gladly poison them. But then again you will replace one filthy, disgusting animal with another.
[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─Suck an olive-skinned Elon cock. Anythung darker is too darkie.
[17:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:08] <exec> 08└─Poop bags are a problem, I don't see an easy solution there. For grocery shopping, a decent reusable bag should last decades. If you are a responsible person and manage to use that bag the majority of the time then in a single year you will already have saved on the physical material side. Each reus...
[17:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:10] <exec> 08└─I understand the Germans have some very impressive and convenient waste-handling facilities - dump in unsorted garbage and it gets mechanically sorted for recycleables (metals, glass, and I think plastic), while organics gt incinerated for energy. Profitable enough that they're importing huge quanti...
[17:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:12] <exec> 08└─Too late, this one is a puddle. Looks like a piss snowflake too, all yellow and homophobic.
[17:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:14] <exec> 08└─Bags can be cleaned - and it's entirely up to the user whether they are or not. Besides which - the outsides of anything you buy at the store is going to be covered in germs anyway - and unlike the germs in your bag, they won't all be germs you've already been living alongside of.
[17:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─Why did you leave out important stuff like sewage treatment and waste disposal? Plastic bags are a big problem in landfills.
[17:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:18] <exec> 08└─No. Municipal governments should not be concerning themselves with the type of bags people are using. So when these bags destroy the municipal stormwater systems [patch.com] who should pay to fix them? I guess being anti-environment is better than being fiscally responsible, eh?
[17:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:21] <exec> 08└─> And if a dog owner can no longer reuse one-way carrier bags to dispose of dog waste, what should a dog owner use instead? I carry a 7-iron along with on walks.
[17:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:51] <exec> 08└─It's all relative. If care-giving is one of those areas where actual human touch makes a demonstrable difference then it should, logically, be one of the last occupations to be done by robots, in which case there won't _be_ any other kinds of work, so then (1) applies, (2) applies because there aren...
[17:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:52] <exec> 08└─More to the point, correcting the shortage of workers in this field is not something anyone cares about, really. Companies will go bankrupt and fold before they offer higher salaries. The entire industry will collapse and a new, more vile, even more cut-throat system will rise to take its place befo...
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─Generally speaking, the person making the claim is expected to provide evidence for it. I see that you've already moved the goalposts from "corporations" to "banks and media" but I bet you can't even prove that reduced scope.
[17:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:30] <exec> 08└─One factor never mentioned in media-reported discussions is the massive difference between "nuclear power could be safe" and "do we build NP plants that are safe". It is a small but significant side spur of a vastly larger issue with construction and manufacturing in general. Engineering team says "...
[17:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:47] <exec> 08└─All the benefits dangled here by Big Data are the very things that good restaurant managers do. Trying to claim that intrusive data mining and a steady cash stream out the door are necessary is an affront to the long history of good restaurants.
[17:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:48] <exec> 08└─I'd love my local restaurants to data mine my behaviour - so I can get more of the dishes I like. There are about 30 restaurants I regularly consider going to for weekday lunch specials, and which one I decide to go to is mostly based on the dish being cooked and how well I expect them to do it. Ven...
[17:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:55] <exec> 08└─They're not combining images. There's a maze of tubes and fiber optics under the telescopes. The captured light travels to a single instrument for analysis. What you're thinking of is possible only with radioastronomy as the longer wavelengths are easier to capture in details for offline interferome...
[17:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:57] <exec> 08└─Personally, I find JWST disappointing, just because of the timing. Sure, it's an amazing feat in lightweight materials and segmented mirrors to pack a whole 6.5m telescope in a 5m diameter, 7 ton package. But with SpaceX's ITS coming online just a few years later, and seemingly able to launch a comp...
[17:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo is Trump's Nomination as USPTO Chief - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:56] <exec> 08└─that second youtube link doesn't exist anymore
[17:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but kids don't have any rights when they try to exercise them.
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─So ... His file will permanently record the fact that he was clearly doing something illegal, but got away on a technicality. That will be nice and expensive for parties involved, and the next time anything happens in the vicinity, he'll be on the cop's radar. Hardly a smart career move.
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─No, Fascism ISN'T government and industry "working hand in hand". Fascism and Communism are exact opposites. In communism, government controls industry. In Fascism, industry controls the government. With that terrible SCOTUS opinion that said that money is speech, our country is headed towards Fasci...
[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─My old 35mm SLR has no computer, but every single digital device in existence does, including digital cameras. You simply CAN'T take a digital photo without a computer. I have no idea how your mistaken post got modded up.
[17:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:45] <exec> 08└─You are not completely incorrect - though the fact of the matter is that you'll never get such a decision overnight and so it's pretty much always a long slow decline while a growing body of people abuse a term to the confusion of all, while others push back in the name of consistency and sanity - e...
[17:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Teens Take Risks: It's Not a Deficit in Brain Development - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:46] <exec> 08└─"Cannibal" doesn't have that etymology, and shame on you for thinking you can go from a Semitic language to a Germanic one with no steps in between. Read: http://www.etymonline.com [etymonline.com] And no, the entire Christian milieu, all...what was it, 300+ feuding, mutually...
[17:37:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:00] <exec> 08└─How is it that if I digitally transfer a copy of a song or movie file, it's theft. But somehow it's not theft if the app steals my addressbook? Oh, I installed the app, it's OK because TOS? OK, so if someone invites me into their home, I'm allowed to eat and drink anything I want, because TOV (Terms...
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[18:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─All my traffic is equal. Screw your neutrality. Until they throttle all VPNs that don't pay for the fast-lane...
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─Non-neutral Internet: shit that hasn't paid the special fee is somewhat slower or throttled, or just less fast Mesh networking: everything is goddamn slow, packets dropped everywhere, and you'd be lucky to send one text message, much less access video which is what is really at stake I like mesh net...
[18:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:41] <exec> 08└─I am coming to believe that internet should be done as a utility, and I say this as a person who has a extreme dislike for the government. If corporations don't want net neutrality, they will find a way to get around it regardless of the laws put in place. The internet should be handled by local gov...
[18:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:43] <exec> 08└─Do your worst. I'll just mod my VPN to make it look like I'm shopping for a fast-lane package all day and then never buy one. Providers prioritize their own store site because suckers might buy something? I'm gonna do the online hobo move and eat all your free samples.
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:45] <exec> 08└─setCap(user, 2^30); if ( ! isInTheList(traffic_dest, AVL_paid) ) countAgainstCap(user); if (capExceeded(user)) throttle(user, 2^17);
[18:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:47] <exec> 08└─I love my mesh network, especially when my node loses its connection to its nearest neighbor for whatever reason and connects to the next one farther away. I can always tell when the route changes because packet loss suddenly skyrockets.
[18:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:49] <exec> 08└─if (!billPaid(user)) traffic_dest = billPaySite; if (traffic_dest == billPaySite) allowTraffic();
[18:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:52] <exec> 08└─I just squeal like a pig into the phone and i'm connected to a pig internet. it's not perfect, but it has pigs.
[18:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:54] <exec> 08└─"Okay, Clu, tonight we check everything in the right-hand column. We don't have much time to find that file. This is top priority. This isn't correcting my bank statement or phone bill problem...this is a must. Now, I wrote you. I taught you everything about the system. You're the best program that'...
[18:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:56] <exec> 08└─// you forgot one statement if (!billPaid(user)) { throttle(user); traffic_dest = billPaySite; } You can pay your bill at 128kb/s.
[18:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─The megacorps have successfully lobbied to make it illegal for the government to provide internet in many places.
[18:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─Not even wrong. If the government refuses to give us net-neutrality, then the answer is to allow anybody who wishes to compete in the telecommunications space to do so. It is government that limits you or I from providing a net-neutral internet service. The solution is not to force corporations to d...
[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:03] <exec> 08└─You're insane. Nobody will wait for the bill pay site to load at 128kbps. Bill pay needs to be fast and free or your customers will cancel. Every provider exempts billing and activation from traffic accounting. Hello, loophole.
[18:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:05] <exec> 08└─The pig internet has the best pig porn.
[18:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:09] <exec> 08└─How is my parent "Redundant", but my grandparent isn't? Biased jerks.
[18:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:10] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I wish I could believe that all the crap comments are trolls or astroturfing, but that is wishful thinking. Reminds me of a story an older coworker told me. This older guy was a retired pilot who was working to keep busy. A total conservative, but from traveling the world he gained an app...
[18:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:12] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, better thank those billionaires for providing the bare minimum opportunities for people in need. They saved a ridiculous amount of money on wages and could easily afford to pay those workers double, but being greedy fucking pigs they paid them as little as they could get away with. Sure it i...
[18:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:14] <exec> 08└─You're wrong about paper bags. I reuse them constantly when I forget to have the extremely durable reusable bags with me. For that matter, some are canvas and a lot tougher. Trader Joe's sells some pretty damn tough bags. The paper bags are useful in all kinds of ways, and are more reusable then you...
[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:17] <exec> 08└─Poop bags are a problem, I don't see an easy solution there.
[18:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:19] <exec> 08└─In the UK, the mandatory plastic bag charge is donated to charity by the retailer. They need to provide evidence that they have done so, but the money never goes through the government's hands.
[18:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:21] <exec> 08└─The people who scream the most about the alleged environmental impact of plastic bags are always the kind of people who own at least a couple of vanity dogs. These people are incapable of realizing that their dogs are far more harmful to the environment than a few plastic bags are.
[18:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─Who says the US needs no such draconian law? That it doesn't have one is not the same thing.
[18:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─Grocery stores and other shops used to use paper bags. Often they were made out of recycled paper, too. But then lefty environmentalist sorts threw a shit fit about this, so that's why plastic bags started to be used instead. "Save the trees!" and all that.
[18:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:28] <exec> 08└─Kenya's greatest resource is it's wildlife. It makes perfect sense for them to protect the wildlife and the savanna in which it lives.
[18:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:30] <exec> 08└─I use my grocery-store type plastic bags multiple times for various purposes around the house, then usually the final time for garbage. If people actually used them fully (and most of the ones from stores around here are actually quite durable) one way or another, like, perhaps, for the average pers...
[18:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the police will shoot your dog if they decide to enter your yard or house for any reason.
[18:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:35] <exec> 08└─The people who get hysterical and make fales accusations are always the kind of assholes you hope are living a few states away. Stereotypes, while often containing some validity, are bad mmkay? They encourage you to shut off your brain and make false equivalencies that make you feel good / righteous...
[18:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:37] <exec> 08└─Cleaning a reusable bag once is more harmful than using several disposable bags.
[18:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:39] <exec> 08└─I often take my bags back to the store to reuse. And I reuse them in the only small bin I have, in the bathroom. And yet still I have a big drawer full of the damn things. But I won't throw them away, unless they have a hole or are soiled.
[18:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:41] <exec> 08└─Pay your workers too much in a third world country and people will kill them to try to take their jobs.
[18:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:43] <exec> 08└─YMMV but reusable bags would probably cut down on your overall resource usage. If you are not purchasing trash bags because you cycle in the grocery bags then it might actually be preferable to use your method. Most trash bags are not fully utilized and the bags are thicker.
[18:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:17] <exec> 08└─Roujin Z: definite classic if you've never seen it! In fact, I might have to find a copy for a re-watch this weekend.
[18:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:19] <exec> 08└─Feels good living in a world with a decreasing standard of living. Thanks Boomers! I really wish millennials could pay into social security but not pull from it, end this scourge with our generation taking the largest hit. Rather do that then pass the buck to my kids.
[18:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:56] <exec> 08└─Depends, can we teleport to other planets?
[18:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:57] <exec> 08└─Some Nobels indicate that you were an expert in some stuff. Doesn't make you an expert in other stuff or make you immune from being wrong even in your field of expertise. That said I've seen the average person and many are even more likely to be wrong about stuff than most Nobel prize winners (excep...
[18:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:51] <exec> 08└─Folks, don't worry. I'm safe. Just landed in Corpus Christie. With Melania, who looks RAVISHING in her aviator glasses! So happy to get away from rainy Washington! pic.twitter.com/tpXmOK70ug [twitter.com] 🇺🇸
[18:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:52] <exec> 08└─Yep, Houston sucks. But, it beats unemployment. That's a bit a trickier problem to tackle.
[18:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:54] <exec> 08└─Did you know that the current flooding is caused by rain? I have it on the best of terms that rainfall isn't limited to coastal areas. Source: me, being inland, outside, getting rained on.
[18:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:56] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, read about it. Houston's highways act as spillover for when the bayous are full. Last time mass evacuation was tried, traffic was backed up. For days. On highways. People died in there, due to heat, exhaustion, an exploding bus, etc. Fights broke out. (more folks died in the exodus tha...
[18:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:59] <exec> 08└─We love yall anyway.
[18:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:36] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely correct...as long as the child is the one paying their own cellphone bill. Which I don't think they can, unless it's a tracphone or something, since kids can't generally enter into contracts of any kind. Even an adult has no right to demand unlimited usage of someone else's network...
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─Is this not what Facebook does (or did)? It was a long time ago, but I remember being shocked when I figured out that when I joined Facebook had slurped my email contacts. Probably another case of mumble, mumble, Read the EULA, mumble...
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[19:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:34] <exec> 08└─So his cunning plan is to send local police forces into North Korea. And where does the turnip come in? Pull my finger!
[19:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─Brought to you by the moronic people who've voted in a moronic executive branch lead by a moronic orangutan. Does it give you all special feelings to piss on everything Obama put in place? Do you have any identity outside of attacking opposing political figures and blaming straw men for the problems...
[19:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─Brought to you by the moronic people who've voted in a moronic executive branch lead by a moronic orangutan
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─And what a great idea that was! The corrupt, old billionaire with a long history of narcissism and screwing people over is making everything way better!
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─Kip: It's a time machine, Napoleon. We bought it online. Napoleon Dynamite: Yeah, right. Kip: It works, Napoleon. You don't even know. When you need a friend: http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─Please follow up with a statement of condemnation for how things have turned out. That does not imply you would have preferred HRC or voted differently given the two choices, but it would be nice to hear some supporters condemn Trump for his absolute betrayal of every silver lining you believed in.
[19:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:47] <exec> 08└─John Oliver covered it after the Brown incident: http://youtube.com No idea how long it's been going back, but given that the national guard has been called out for civil issues way back since at least the 60s, I doubt anyone remembers a time when the lines weren't blurred.
[19:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:49] <exec> 08└─It's OK. We're getting the government we deserve.
[19:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:51] <exec> 08└─They're not, they're backing him up at every step. Anything that makes him look bad is "lies" from the "liberal media".
[19:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:53] <exec> 08└─We had a neo-con candidate who essentially promised she'd start a war with Russia over Syria and a dickweed who might have done the same. Rationality would suggest you hope you get the dickweed because a bad possibility is better than a bad certainty. I personally wasn't able to actively vote for Tr...
[19:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:55] <exec> 08└─and crossed their fingers hoping for the best.
[19:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─Remember when Sarah Palin was the worst Candidate the US had? Those were the days...
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:00] <exec> 08└─I doubt anyone remembers a time when the lines weren't blurred.
[19:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:02] <exec> 08└─No, only most of it is lies from the liberal media. The rest they more or less expected but voted him in anyway because he was still a better alternative than Hillary.
[19:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:26] <exec> 08└─And...BACON!!!
[19:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:27] <exec> 08└─> Bill pay needs to be fast and free or your customers will cancel. You must not live in the US. Cancelling because paying is slow is a luxury that competition provides. No competition, no problem. On top of which, this statement was conditional on you being a scum who has not paid. You should be gr...
[19:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:29] <exec> 08└─We haven't forgotten, but please remember that our political system has been corrupted by corporate bri... *ahem* lobbying. The rare times that the people's will has won out have almost always been overridden by some judge / mayor / whatever that was bought off. Paired with a massive centrally contr...
[19:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:32] <exec> 08└─Privateers vs Pirates... The first carries a contract from the government allowing them to perform as the second.
[19:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:34] <exec> 08└─You must have drunk the kool-aid that brainwashes you into believing the only ISPs in the US are cable monopolies. There's plenty of competition among regional wireline ISPs and national mobile broadband providers.
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:36] <exec> 08└─much less access video which is what is really at stake I think this is a very important point here. Most likely, what we're really going to lose is streaming video, unless we're willing to pay a big premium for it. I'm OK with that. We don't really need video anyway. We don't need streaming audio e...
[19:27:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:01] <exec> 08└─Even better is if people just didn't have dogs in cities. They're nasty animals: they smell bad, they shit everywhere, many of them are huge and consume an inordinate amount of food (and then generate a lot of shit), they shed, they scratch up your car seats and car paint, they can't be left alone a...
[19:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:58] <exec> 08└─Especially the modern ones designed to decompose,
[19:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:00] <exec> 08└─I have no idea why Americans love them so much, especially women. Honestly, looking through online dating profiles, it seems like about 80% of white American women (generally liberal city-dwelling ones) have some giant dog.
[19:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:02] <exec> 08└─Wrong, the resource use in creating a single bag is much higher than you think. Start to finish it will use more water and other resources than washing will. SO MUCH FUD TODAY!!
[19:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:04] <exec> 08└─Oh I see, the megacorps are doing them a favor, uh huh riiiiight. You sound like a corporate shill.
[19:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:06] <exec> 08└─It seems like you have a couple [flushdoggy.com] choices [amazon.com] in degradable/flushable dog poop bags, with some caveats.
[19:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:08] <exec> 08└─laxer pollution regulations
[19:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:11] <exec> 08└─If you use the plastic bags for something good like suffocating enemies, the president will pardon you.
[19:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:13] <exec> 08└─To be fair, so is my pet cactus.
[19:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:15] <exec> 08└─Seattle has a similar law.
[19:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 1762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:17] <exec> 08└─For that matter, some are canvas and a lot tougher. Um, no. Canvas is not a type of paper, it's a type of cloth. It's not a paper bag at all. Canvas makes a pretty good bag I'll admit, but it's no more closely related to paper than reusable plastic bags are. The paper bags are useful in all kinds of...
[19:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:52] <exec> 08└─I'm within about 12 years of retirement age. I would actually prefer a robot for a lot of tasks, provided it is reliable. That's the only problem with tech. It seems like everything I encounter is broken or unreliable in some way. For instance, I just installed a couple of z-wave lights about three...
[19:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:54] <exec> 08└─That's reasonable, but the better question is what proportion of the labor force are we willing to allocate to elder care? There's a lot of boomers. If we give good care with humans to all of them, how many humans are leftover for everything else?
[19:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:33] <exec> 08└─When was the last time a windmill or solar panel contaminated regions large enough to require the permanent evacuation of entire cities?
[19:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:35] <exec> 08└─One wonders if the money spent lining GE's pocket for faulty designs such as Fukushima had been spent on solar/wind/geothermal research, how much farther along those other technologies would be. It seems there is a bit of elitism here where interesting technologies are discounted merely because hipp...
[19:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:37] <exec> 08└─I'll be back to mod you up when I my points recycle. This is undoubtedly an enormous problem -- to make nuclear safe requires so much money as to make it economically unfeasible so the solution is shortcuts and hoping for good luck. When the thing goes kaput (or we just need to store the waste safel...
[19:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:39] <exec> 08└─When was the last year that windmills or solar panels produced uninterrupted power? An occasional nuclear meltdown (once every few decades) seems sort of acceptable. The land can go back to nature, and people can settle somewhere else. If you believe the global warming projections, a lot more land w...
[19:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:41] <exec> 08└─But we (laypeople) don't usually hear directly from experts. We hear from the people who journalists say are experts. Among scientists, those are the ones who produce quotes that generate clicks and sell newspapers.
[19:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not against 'Big Data' as such. I am, however, against big data that is repackaged and sold to others, or worse: aggregated and stored with a third party. I'm ok with restaurant X knowing what I eat, when I eat it. But I am - for instance - not ok with this being stored over at Micros^WOracle an...
[19:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:39] <exec> 08└─Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax! And President Obama -- Barack Hussein Obama -- was fooled by it. To put it nicely, he was fooled. So he signed Executive Order 13690, Establishing a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and a Process for Further Soliciting and Considering Stakeh...
[19:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:41] <exec> 08└─UPDATE: Cajun Navy says no shots fired at rescuers; statements made by another rescue group http://wgno.com [wgno.com]
[19:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:56] <exec> 08└─Only the starting bit and if you only look at that then hand claps can produce similar spikes too. Even more similar would be firecrackers.
[19:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:17] <exec> 08└─When I went to university in the early nineties, there was a picture on the wall of one of the corridors of the surface of Betelgeuse. it was only about 8x8 pixels IIRC but there was a discernable feature on the surface. I believe that some of the researchers made it using some statistical analysis...
[19:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:50] <exec> 08└─No, it's not a joke. He may present himself as a "friendly" billionaire trying to make environmentally friendly products, and get us to space, but he's just your typical toxic rich piece of shit. I liked him a little bit before I found out that all the jobs he was bringing to the U.S were for the Ea...
[19:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:23] <exec> 08└─Part of guiding a child into adulthood is teaching them that when someone else is providing your meals, your shelter, and your utilities, that entity gets to tell you what to do with those things, and otherwise lay down terms for whether or not those things will continue to be provided. That there's...
[19:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:04] <exec> 08└─You may want to read my post again, realize that we're a tech site, and understand that mocking absurd statements takes many forms. Tone is hard in text, but others seem to have taken the screen saver hint.
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[20:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:33] <exec> 08└─I for one can't wait for this infernal contraption to send us Daguerrotypes from the surface of this mysterious world. Full steam ahead I say!
[20:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not good with optics. Any reason a corner reflector wouldn't work with radar? Maybe it would have to be very large?
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─It would be a function of the radar frequency used, which in turn would likely be determined by the least attenuation by the thick atmosphere. The lower frequencies tend toward less attenuation, but would also require larger corner reflectors.
[20:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:39] <exec> 08└─Surely this submission would have been a more amusing read if they intended to probe Uranus?
[20:25:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:53] <exec> 08└─It's OK. We're getting the government we deserve.
[20:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:57] <exec> 08└─Remember when Sarah Palin was the worst Candidate the US had? Those were the days...
[20:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:01] <exec> 08└─This face has been asking for some spite for quite a while. Until you're willing to show the establishment you're ready to burn the whole place to the ground if they keep fucking around, they're not going to give you a single inch.
[20:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:03] <exec> 08└─Brought to you by the moronic people who've voted in a moronic executive branch lead by a moronic orangutan.
[20:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:05] <exec> 08└─No, the plan is to bring North Korea-style law enforcement to the USA.
[20:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:08] <exec> 08└─BALDRICK!? There you are. Now bugger off! ;)
[20:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:10] <exec> 08└─Had she won, she would have solidified with certainty the surveillance state, endless war, Wall St/Bankster coddling, prison-state policies for a decade at minimum.
[20:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:12] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your assertion that Trump is unfit for the office. So far he has proven himself more than capable of handling everything, plus the kitchen sink the scum like yourself throw at him.
[20:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:14] <exec> 08└─It's more like they're backing him into a corner at every step.
[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:16] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. The craziness in his cabinet (e.g., Scaramucchi out after less than a week on the job) isn't lies. They don't make that stuff up.
[20:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:18] <exec> 08└─I salute our brave #MenInBlue who are doing a very, very dangerous job. Protecting us from an ALARMING wave of alt-left violence, I call it terrorism. I'm talking about the vicious attacks in Portland, in Alexandria at the Congressional Baseball Game on MY BIRTHDAY (egregious!), and in Charlottesvil...
[20:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:21] <exec> 08└─So far only two real differences. TTP is dead and we took a step back on Syria instead of diving in. So far so good.
[20:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:23] <exec> 08└─Did it occur to you that the Left actually drove moderates away to vote for Trump? Maybe it's because while the lower and middle classes continue to economically contract, the Left continues the rhetoric about how privileged white people are. No, not at all. The Democratic Party drove swing voters...
[20:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:25] <exec> 08└─That's so precious that you thought there was an ideological difference between the two. Same shit different asshole.
[20:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:27] <exec> 08└─Whoa! Like the lies that came from HRC? Like the theft of the leadership from Sanders? Like the sticky, slimy snail trail of corruption she left behind her everywhere she went? Like the lack of leadership she has shown since losing (and the leadership that Sanders picked up with her failure to come...
[20:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe what they should do is sell some field artillery to truck drivers and woodcutters. Or really, anyone else in the top 10 most dangerous jobs: https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] Just saying, I never heard about a logger getting killed while driving...
[20:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:32] <exec> 08└─Sadly, significant police force will probably be needed to bring parts of Chicago back under control. Areas of it are closer to a third-world war zone than they are to anything that could be considered civilized. I don't think we can really blame Trump for such harsh action being necessary, though....
[20:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─Again, put all the blame on HRC: she corrupted the leadership election process, stole funds etc from Sanders and stole the election from him. If she hadn't done that; if she hadn't been such a criminal, scum person, you'd probably NOT have Trump in power. The blame is entirely on HRC.
[20:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:36] <exec> 08└─> We had a neo-con candidate who essentially promised she'd start a war with Russia over Syria and a dickweed who might have done the same. Because you believe campaign promises? Especially the ones who imply going to war with a nuclear-armed dictator? I'm sure you would have called her a weak girl...
[20:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:38] <exec> 08└─... Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
[20:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:40] <exec> 08└─That was true during the past few elections, but there's an obvious difference between President Trump and other candidates in recent elections. It's pretty much impossible to consider him "Republican establishment" in any sense, and it's clear that his policies are very different from what the Demo...
[20:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:42] <exec> 08└─> We've seen decades of failed leftist rule and leftist policies absolutely destroy the social fabric, the economies, and the infrastructure of major cities like Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis. Yes, the war on drugs, tough-on-crime, and 2008 crisis were total lefty conspiracies against the South-Sid...
[20:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:45] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with that though. If someone is refusing to do, or incapable of doing, the work the way you want them to, you fire them and get someone who can and will. That's how you're supposed to boss.
[20:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:47] <exec> 08└─If a boss feels that an employee isn't a good fit for a particular job, why should this boss keep this employee in that position for longer than necessary? What lefties like you see as "craziness", people who have experience with business and running large-scale operations see as "being responsible"...
[20:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:49] <exec> 08└─> Just look at a major issue like border control as an example. Shall we? > Democrats and their supporters appear to want the borders to be wide open, allowing all sorts of third-worlders to flow into America unchecked. Total bullshit, thanks for spewing Fox rhetoric. Remember the part where Obama's...
[20:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:51] <exec> 08└─None of those external factors you listed cause thugs to violently attack and kill one another on a nightly basis. It's something they voluntarily choose to do on their own. Decades of leftist social, economic and political policies have created an environment where certain people don't need to take...
[20:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:53] <exec> 08└─I didn't even remember that they removed that. I thought that was still ongoing, the militarization of the police force. Vehicles, that could be ok I guess. Even tho a scarey looking military type vehicle isn't exactly inviting for the average citizen to come up and talk or ask questions from the po...
[20:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:56] <exec> 08└─Very well put, and please accept a virtual +1 from me. We were going to be screwed either way.
[20:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:58] <exec> 08└─Deportations, regardless of who's doing them, is a sure sign that there are significant border control issues. If somebody needs to be deported for being in a country illegally, that inherently means that they violated the border in some way. Ideally it would get to the point where no deportations a...
[20:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:00] <exec> 08└─When HRC promises war -- you're fucking right I believe it. Let us recall that HRC's only beef w/ GWB about the Iraq war, was that he was cutting taxes at the same time which would reduce the funds available for national security "at home and abroad" -- meaning she wanted MORE money for war and dome...
[20:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:02] <exec> 08└─It's not an awful start, but things should have been better. For instance, construction should already have started on the border wall, and healthcare should have been dealt with long ago. Of course, we can't blame President Trump for this slow start. Republicans, and to a lesser extent Democrats, a...
[20:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:32] <exec> 08└─That kool-aid tasted like homework. When I did mine, I had the choice between two equally bad providers for high-speed, which happens to be better than about half of the houses in the US, according to the FCC. Wireless broadband is for people whose horizon is more than a couple miles away. I also co...
[20:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:34] <exec> 08└─Yet another gross exaggeration that misrepresents the issue. Net neutrality didn't actually exist in law until 2015. YouTube and other video services thrived in that environment. Bandwidth [telegeography.com] and related networking technologies are continuing to get cheaper. H.265, VP9, and future c...
[20:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:07] <exec> 08└─Dogs provide companionship and security, and many people grow up with dogs and enjoy having them around Cats and other pets provide companionship too, and without being such a giant pain in the ass and needing constant 24x7 attention. Dogs need even more attention than kids (once the kids are past a...
[20:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:08] <exec> 08└─A good plastic bad is quite durable and reusable. Indeed, I'd say even more so than a paper bag. It's only after disposal that paper is better.
[20:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:11] <exec> 08└─I have actually seriously wondered at times how many of these big-dog-loving women actually do this. Also notice most of these peoples' dogs seem to be purebreds, which you get from breeders, and can be obtained un-neutered, unlike shelter dogs that only come neutered.
[20:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:13] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem is that people are astoundingly stupid, and that extends even to the supposed "nerds" on this site and ones like it. We're really just a bunch of overgrown apes with too-large brains, so we figured out written language and some technology, but we can't figure out how to get p...
[20:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:15] <exec> 08└─Would it be better if megacorps pulled out of the region, and closed down their factories? YOU'RE NOT MAKING SENSE!!!!1111
[20:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:17] <exec> 08└─she fucks her dog instead
[20:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:19] <exec> 08└─In the civilized US you can get a similar sentence for having the wrong plants in your garden.
[20:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:21] <exec> 08└─The parent comment isn't trolling. Paper bags were eliminated from supermarkets after protests from environmentalists who objected to the consumption of trees to produce these bags.
[20:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:23] <exec> 08└─You sound like you don't know history.
[20:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:01] <exec> 08└─I saw this the other day and enjoyed it. You beat me to the reference.
[20:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:46] <exec> 08└─Not solar panels, but here's a molten salt plant that can operate for 10 hours without sunlight: https://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] Or imagine if we had 70 years of refinement behind this: https://en.wi...
[20:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:47] <exec> 08└─ha! Nobel prizes are popularity contests among the liberal elite and their opportunity to virtue signal their politics. You should never trust "laureates" beyond their background and expertise in their particular field.
[20:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:49] <exec> 08└─Studies show that babies are more likely to die from SIDS when sleeping on their stomachs than their backs. So now, all of the pediatric expert advice says to make them sleep on their backs on a firm mattress. But other studies show that they don't sleep as deeply when on their backs, and may get a...
[20:31:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 2651 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:01] <exec> 08└─Don't keep me waiting to sit. Don't squish me into a horrible table that shouldn't even exist. Ask me about my drinks straight away, get me ordering a starter straight away, bring it straight away (the whole point of starters!). Now you have quite a while to take my mains order, cook it, and bring i...
[20:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't worry, it's not Microsoracle that's storing your dining out data. It's a startup that's tied into a dozen other ad-tech startups that are all feeding into Google and Facebook.
[20:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Ever Image of Another Star (Antares) - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:32] <exec> 08└─Well, SpaceX's possible 2022 ITS to Mars [wikipedia.org] mission seems like an incredibly aggressive timeline. The Red Dragon 2018 Mars mission will be delayed [soylentnews.org]. I wouldn't pin my hopes on SpaceX being able to deliver a bigger-than-Falcon-Heavy payload in the next few years. We have...
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperloop Pod Competition Winner Exceeds 200mph (324 km/h) - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I did not know the Britain's canals were once an industrial backbone, but it makes sense. I believe the new scheme would work for many uses cases and could replace freight lines. Overnight and passenger travel will obviously need to be much faster. Also, I plan on designing it so that g...
[20:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:40] <exec> 08└─Oh please. You're being hyperbolic with chattel property. As for me being bad as a child, I think you need to step back, look at children in general, and realize just what it is you are saying. Children have human rights because they're human. What they don't have is the experience, wisdom, strength...
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:42] <exec> 08└─No it didn't. The children's fathers filed suit in U.S. District Court, which upheld the decision of the Des Moines school board. A tie vote in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit meant that the U.S. District Court's decision continued to stand, and forced the Tinkers and Eckhardts to appe...
[20:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:44] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely correct...as long as the child is the one paying their own cellphone bill. Which I don't think they can, unless it's a tracphone or something, since kids can't generally enter into contracts of any kind.
[20:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:46] <exec> 08└─My definition is the well-established common English language definition of "gift". If your local laws disagree, that a problem with your laws and not with my usage of the word.
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[21:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:35] <exec> 08└─Pretty cool and interesting to see this proposed. I remember looking into mechanical computers used to calculate tides. Later the machines were "ported" to Fortran. It was all part of NOAA so you can get the source code and a nice book describing the algorithms and the data measurement stations in s...
[21:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:36] <exec> 08└─Solve poverty and homelessness here on Earth instead. Wait, what am I saying? Every poor homeless can escape poor homelessness by coding an app! Just like Michael David Crawford did! MDC is a bald egghead too! Well that's Earth fixed forever. Onward to Venus!!!!!
[21:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:38] <exec> 08└─President Trump wants to grab Venus by the pussy.
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─Without a receiver this thing would need to be totally autonomous. Ok, storing a fair amount of code as bumps on metal seems plausible enough but the computer is what bothers me. Mechanical implies fairly large metal bits moving around which implies energy being used. A wind turbine is going to prov...
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:43] <exec> 08└─Marine corner reflectors (positioned on buoys) tend to be around 30-50cm to a side (I think, guesstimating from looking at them while driving by) - size requirements to penetrate venusian atmosphere might be a bit larger. The lunar lander missions included optical corner reflectors used to measure t...
[21:25:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1047 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:59] <exec> 08└─We had a neo-con candidate who essentially promised she'd start a war with Russia over Syria and a dickweed who might have done the same. Rationality would suggest you hope you get the dickweed because a bad possibility is better than a bad certainty. I personally wasn't able to actively vote for Tr...
[21:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:34] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to believe that there would be a "President Sanders" in power today had he been President Trump's opponent. Sanders was only taken seriously by a small, fringe, far-left element within the Democratic Party. Pretty much everybody else rejected him.
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:36] <exec> 08└─If you were hoping to be a spoiler you should have voted for Johnson; he had about three times more support than Stein.
[21:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:38] <exec> 08└─Sure they do. You just have to have an IQ in positive territory to recognize it. You have to have hope that if you work hard in school and then work hard at a job that you'll get somewhere better than what you'd get for criminal activities. Idiots like you seem to think that there's an automatic lin...
[21:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:40] <exec> 08└─TTP is dead
[21:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:42] <exec> 08└─Things would have been better had the DNC not rigged the primaries in favor of that stupid bitch. The voters had a right to choose the better candidate and we've more than adequately established that the DNC did everything within their power to screw him over. Even then, he put on a shockingly stron...
[21:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:45] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! It can't happen here! It can't happen here! It can't happen here!
[21:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:47] <exec> 08└─Refinement: We're all getting the government that the majority deserves.
[21:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:49] <exec> 08└─Out of mod points.
[21:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:51] <exec> 08└─The parent comment is obviously not trolling. Chicago has had Democratic mayors since 1931. [wikipedia.org] Chicago City Council currently has 49 Democrats and 1 Republican. [wikipedia.org] Many of the Democrats have held their seat for a decade or longer. Detroit has had Democratic mayors since 196...
[21:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:53] <exec> 08└─Sanders would not have beaten President Trump. Even among the political left, Sanders had very little support. He had essentially no support among moderates and the political right. If Americans had to choose between him and President Trump, President Trump would probably have gotten over 460 electo...
[21:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─N. Kor saber rattling is a joke and a distraction. Any actual effective hostility will be dealt with is short order.
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:58] <exec> 08└─Nobody but a very small number of extreme leftists and an even smaller number of bureaucrats take any of those environmental agreements/protocols/accords/whatever seriously. That's why they all fail. They have no widespread support, and actually have widespread opposition.
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─No, brought to you by a bunch of people that didn't want a corrupt woman with bad judgement running things, and crossed their fingers hoping for the best.
[21:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:02] <exec> 08└─Democrats and their supporters appear to want the borders to be wide open, allowing all sorts of third-worlders to flow into America unchecked.
[21:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:04] <exec> 08└─But Johnson was a libertarian! And a former Republican! And he has been in TMB's sig! Eewwwww!
[21:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:06] <exec> 08└─If you're constantly hiring, and then and firing people after a very short time, that shows that you suck as a boss and aren't very good at picking competent people in the first place. Trump doesn't have any real experience running a real business, and has never turned any serious profit. He would h...
[21:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─But when DJT promises war, you jump for joy? Did HRC want war with the wrong people? What's wrong with you?
[21:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─No, it's not all on HRC. The rest of the DNC shares a portion of the blame, especially her buddy DWS. If it weren't for all her sycophants and helpers in the DNC, HRC wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─That's a load of crap right there. The polling was quite clear that Sanders would have trounced Trump in the general election. Even that terrible candidate HRC barely lost the election and she was specifically promising no change and to do nothing to help the struggling underclass. Sanders himself w...
[21:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:15] <exec> 08└─This will also require a good amount of patience for a chunk of years. Community problems such as gangs are not going to disappear overnight, so expect the GOP to crow about how initiatives don't work after the first year.
[21:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:17] <exec> 08└─Me, too! (Wait, no, this is not spam, it is a very informational post about the status of aristarchus mod points, seriously!)
[21:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─If you really think Sanders would have lost to Trump, you're an idiot. Sanders was polling significantly higher than both Hillary and Trump when the polls looked at the overall electorate (i.e., not looking at only Dem voters or party-affiliated voters). This election was lost by the DNC because of...
[21:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:22] <exec> 08└─So, besides proposing to deport 11 million people in 8 years (without funding, I'm sure), despite the opposition of Rep-loving employers who love to pay poverty wages, you also think that a 2000-mile wall through a huge variety of difficult landscapes could be build in under 8 years (also without ex...
[21:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:24] <exec> 08└─Deportations, regardless of who's doing them, is a sure sign that there are significant border control issues. If somebody needs to be deported for being in a country illegally, that inherently means that they violated the border in some way.
[21:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:26] <exec> 08└─Having a D in front of their name does not make them good, or pursue programs that would actually help. Stop with the tribalism please. The biggest issue has always been the War on Drugs. We now know that it was started with the express intention of cultural warfare, full stop. It has been wildly su...
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:28] <exec> 08└─If a boss feels that an employee isn't a good fit for a particular job, why should this boss keep this employee in that position for longer than necessary?
[21:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:31] <exec> 08└─Someone's been sucking on an orange cock just a weeee bit too much.
[21:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:33] <exec> 08└─But if the boss consistently hires people who can't or won't do the job right, and keeps having to fire them, then hires replacements who also can't or won't... none of that reflects badly on the boss?
[21:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─You fail to understand that business, including the business of running a country, is very dynamic. People who are the right employees today could very well be the wrong employees tomorrow. And it's not because they're bad employees, or because whoever hired them was bad at hiring. It's actually the...
[21:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─If you give them V1agra they won't need the bayonets.
[21:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:39] <exec> 08└─The chaos in the cabinet is just political circus intrigue. But there is a benefit. We're seeing some Clinton vs. Trump comparisons here, but let's switch to Cruz vs. Trump. Trump's cabinet is in disarray with competing factions jostling to push each other away from the President's ear. Trump can't...
[21:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:41] <exec> 08└─Having a D in front of their name does not make them good, or pursue programs that would actually help.
[21:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:44] <exec> 08└─Like the lies that came from HRC?
[21:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:46] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I vote Democrat so that the South Americans get to rip the Hearts out of the white men's chests, give them to the Chinese Organ traffickers, who will use an app coded by Indians to sell them to Muslims, while the Blacks burn the rest of the bodies on crosses to warm up the Natives.
[21:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:18] <exec> 08└─Not really, there's frequently two options that are terrible and wireless providers are expensive. Generally, the unlimited is only for one device and if you want to tether that'll cost you as well. Even T-Moble that's generally ahead of the curve, limits the tethering to 10gb per month when the lim...
[21:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:19] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of competition among regional wireline ISPs
[21:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:21] <exec> 08└─Some of these big ISPs agreed to keep net neutrality effectively in place as a condition in order to get their big mergers approved. So even if net neutrality disappears, they won't be able to do anything for years. Why not? Because of some agreements made with a prior administration? This one can n...
[21:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:02] <exec> 08└─Actually yes, it probably would have been better for many countries. They would have developed their own factories or alternative economic models instead of being sucked into the highly consumer based western lifestyles. The regions are still suffering from massive poverty and such factories increas...
[21:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:03] <exec> 08└─The "Redundant" mod should be removed. Any time I've seen it used, it has been totally misused.
[21:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:05] <exec> 08└─This coworker tells him not to do it and the guy responds with "What are you, some kind of tree hugging communist?"
[21:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:08] <exec> 08└─Unless it's a dog to assist the visually impaired or hearing impaired, it's fucking idiotic to have a dog in an urban or even a suburban setting. It's fucking idiotic in the same way that having a multi-stop subway system in a rural farming area would be fucking idiotic.
[21:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:10] <exec> 08└─You Have Been Taxed is a very good way of describing this situation.
[21:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:48] <exec> 08└─and when the robot apocalypse begins, some of you will still have the nerve to ask us WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
[21:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:37] <exec> 08└─Coal is obsolete. The number of jobs in coal, already small, continues to diminish. Trump's mentioning coal jobs shows what a complete fool he is. Anyone who mentions fossil fuels in this context is a fool or a shill for old-style energy. Mentioning burning crap to make electricity in the 21st Centu...
[21:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:38] <exec> 08└─The first awareness of Chernobyl by The West was IN SWEDEN (hundreds of miles away and hours afterward). They evacuated a big part of Fukushima Prefecture because of the contaminations due to the explosions. USA's corporate friendly "regulators" didn't do their actual fucking jobs and didn't clear o...
[21:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:39] <exec> 08└─The TS force wind field extended in a 400 mile circle around the storm. Disaster preparedness folks knew there would be flooding. Storm models showed 100 year storm plus forecasts. In advance. But - then there are politicians making political calculations. The Rita evacuation was a big political bla...
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[22:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twisted Carbon Nanotubes Can Harvest Energy From Temperature Changes and Ocean Waves - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:30] <exec> 08└─But can they harvest energy for the pumps from floodwaters?
[22:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twisted Carbon Nanotubes Can Harvest Energy From Temperature Changes and Ocean Waves - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:31] <exec> 08└─Not if you loot the nanotubes.
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─You're also forgetting the fun of designing the copper-clad space blimp which will take it from Earth, and deposit that thing on the Venusian surface without exceeding 0.1G at any time during the trip.
[22:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:49] <exec> 08└─Having trouble? I would suggest that this is a good example of someone with a cute hobby desperately looking for an application. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY you can build enough mechanical computation for ANYTHING useful in space exploration - it is not even distantly possible. Sure, you could build a...
[22:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─Needs more velvet and leather.
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:54] <exec> 08└─You don't need much navigation to be useful -- walking in an ever-expanding spiral is pretty good if you don't land near any obstacles, and a roomba-like algorithm (on obstacle detection: back up, rotate, and resume) is enough to get interesting coverage of an area with occasional obstacles. Not goo...
[22:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:56] <exec> 08└─There is a simple solution: have it do no computation. All computation is done by a real computer aboard an orbiter, which sends commands of the type of "move left wheel forward" or whatever. It would just need some way to convert incoming commands to a physical reaction, and a way to convert a phys...
[22:26:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:22] <exec> 08└─Had she won, she would have solidified with certainty the surveillance state, endless war, Wall St/Bankster coddling, prison-state policies for a decade at minimum.
[22:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─LG is opening a plant near Detroit. 292+ JOBS. Huge move toward making it so people can live there! They call it terraforming. Chicago murder rate is record setting -- 4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016. And nobody talks about it. Well, we're going to start talking about it. Old stompin...
[22:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:25] <exec> 08└─Hillary's loss could lead to the mainstream faction being replaced by something much more leftist in 2020. I do agree that if Cruz had been elected, things would probably be even worse, with him pushing through a lot of evangelical bullshit, and in fact that's why I hope nothing happens to Trump bec...
[22:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:27] <exec> 08└─You're currently as "out of mod points" as I'm "out of horny virgin top models".
[22:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:29] <exec> 08└─Wow, those are some serious mental gymnastics there. If you ran a company that way, hiring people and firing them a week later, you'd be out of business very quickly.
[22:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:31] <exec> 08└─Like was explained in another comment, as circumstances change the employee hired earlier may not be the best employee to have around today. Different skill sets work better in different situations. An organization needs to adapt to changing circumstances. Sometimes this involves people being replac...
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:33] <exec> 08└─According to a documentary I saw, you occasionally find that rednecks hiding in the frozen boonies are better dealt with using AT-AT.
[22:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:36] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with that though. If someone is refusing to do, or incapable of doing, the work the way you want them to, you fire them and get someone who can and will. That's how you're supposed to boss.
[22:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:38] <exec> 08└─You couldn't be any more wrong. My business success proves you wrong, and the success of the billionaire president of the most powerful nation on Earth proves you wrong, too. We'll take our flexible, dynamic, real-world business operating techniques over your inflexible and failed methods any day. W...
[22:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:40] <exec> 08└─LOL! You're actually putting faith in the findings of the same pollsters who repeatedly predicted (wrongly) that Clinton would win! LOL!
[22:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:42] <exec> 08└─Eh, the left and right both supported corrupt, unpopular, and uncharismatic candidates, tbh.
[22:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:44] <exec> 08└─whoa you have some to spare, you mean? I gotta start subscribing
[22:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:47] <exec> 08└─And it's not the left that's doing it, contrary to many opinions on this page.
[22:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:49] <exec> 08└─Republicans, and to a lesser extent Democrats, are responsible for the obstruction he's faced in accomplishing these important tasks.
[22:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:51] <exec> 08└─Sanders got within striking distance of Clinton despite opposition to him within the DNC and Clinton being considered the anointed one by the media. It was supposed to be a done deal that Clinton would get the nomination, and that the loony-looking Sanders would get a token 2-10% of the primary vote...
[22:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:53] <exec> 08└─And there is nothing wrong with you being a total moron. I wish I had a TMB app that could spew shitty wisdom, would make for a fun ice-breaker at parties. Maybe a gameshow jeopardy type thing, "I'll take 5th grade reasoning for $500."
[22:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:55] <exec> 08└─Uzzy if you're gonna post shitty trollcrap please do it with your own name.
[22:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:57] <exec> 08└─Oooh, an old-school adequacy-style troll. Great job, moving from a semi-plausible business statement to the conclusion that Trump is a true progressive. Maybe you should have thrown in there a claim that Scaramucci's short stint was a brilliant ploy to make Spicer's and Priebus' sad, but necessary,...
[22:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:00] <exec> 08└─This isn't true, but it makes for good optics for the fascists who want to (albeit less and less) gradually turn our country into a militarized police state.
[22:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:02] <exec> 08└─Now we're going into 2020 with a Presidential candidate vacuum in the Democratic Party. It's inconceivable that Clinton would run again. She failed against the candidate that was supposed to be easy to beat. Really? With the way the DNC has behaved all along, and also considering their historical re...
[22:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:04] <exec> 08└─If Obama had been serious about border control, then there would not be the current problem that President Trump is trying to deal with. Why is that? Because during his 8 years of power, Obama would have ensured that all illegal aliens would have already been deported, and a border wall would alread...
[22:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:39] <exec> 08└─Folks, don't waste your time. It's a done deal. A little birdie told me. Also Comcast, Verizon and AT&T. Who I love. 🇺🇸
[22:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:40] <exec> 08└─Screw the Netflix enabling rule, lets enforce equal access to core Internet functionality. As we speak domains are being deleted and service refused by every U.S. based registrar, videos with over a million views are suddenly going into the banishment list and Cisco is selectively removing results f...
[22:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:27] <exec> 08└─The environmentalists caused the whole plastic bag crisis by complaining about trees. Environmental Idiots.
[22:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:28] <exec> 08└─You can always tell an urban neighborhood is being gentrified when white folks bring their dogs. I live in a city and there are certain streets I just don't walk down anymore because the sidewalks are too narrow to accommodate foot traffic in two directions when there's a dog walker taking up the en...
[22:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:58] <exec> 08└─You didn't mention south Asia, where the CIA queered the "we're medicos and we're here to help" thing (using that as a pretense to find people to murder). The world was on the way to eliminating disease (polio, in particular) and these assholes had to fuck that up. I hope that the lot of those invol...
[22:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:18] <exec> 08└─You don't need a buzzer, the restaurants just need competent management. There is a very large restaurant near my house (it also has a large bar section), it is busy (the very large parking lot is always full) from 8AM to 2AM every day of the week. I never have to wait to be seated, never have to wa...
[22:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:01] <exec> 08└─Politically connected developers create extensive paved areas upstream of your home without corresponding flood control except on paper. Yep, that's the resident's fault alright. Realtors block expansion of Clear Creek's drainage because it would be unsightly and hurt property value (or, it appears...
[22:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─What infrastructure does Linode run on: VMware, Linux-KVM, XenServer...?
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─Great work! The main HTTPS site runs well both technically and participation-wise, as far as I am concerned. The onion site ( http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion [7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion] ) however seems to need some love. Via the onion site, the pages often take minutes to load and are usually locked int...
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[23:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:56] <exec> 08└─Very interesting idea. However, how would you analyze soil samples?
[23:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:57] <exec> 08└─For any kind of sensing you'd need the ability to translate an interesting sensed quantity into a physical movement. Imagine you had a chemical which was solid but decomposed under the presence of certain compounds in the sample. It could hold back a spring attached to a reflector tuned to a particu...
[23:26:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─No, the plan is to bring North Korea-style law enforcement to the USA.
[23:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe what they should do is sell some field artillery to truck drivers and woodcutters. Or really, anyone else in the top 10 most dangerous jobs: https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] Just saying, I never heard about a logger getting killed while driving...
[23:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:45] <exec> 08└─The only lesson learned by the establishment is that people are easily manipulated by social media and fake news. Expect worse in 2020.
[23:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 2197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:39] <exec> 08└─Here are three concepts for you "The Swedish Nuclear Tax", "Studsviksfonden" (Studsvik fund) and "Kärnavfallsfonden" (Nuclear Waste Fund). Those are three taxes in sweden, and together maxes up about 30% of the cost of nuclear in that country. Luckily the bigger one (the nuclear tax) is in the prog...
[23:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:40] <exec> 08└─Overall a great and insightful comment but I beg to differ on the labor union bit. Labor unions are typically strong on standards compliance from an employee safety perspective. If labor unions hindered safety at nuclear power plant in any way, it might be in reducing job flexibility, making it hard...
[23:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:42] <exec> 08└─Was Fukishima known to be faulty at the time it was built? (Yes, given the placement of the backup power supply it *should* have been, but was it?) I'm rather strongly in favor of continued development of nuclear power. Especially of reactors that can run on the wast produced by the current plants....
[23:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:44] <exec> 08└─Mod parent up!!! The people you hear on the news are rarely actual experts in the problem under discussion. And that may be putting too positive a spin on things, because when you do hear from a genuine expert, he's usually someone who is bought and paid for by an interested party. And it's a bit wo...
[23:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:48] <exec> 08└─I'm in Yellowstone at 500 meters higher and fully prepared for a "Waterworld scenario". Of course, so is anyone else living above sea level, but whatever.
[23:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:49] <exec> 08└─Climate deniers ought to love rising sea levels instead of pooh-poohing it all the time.
[23:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:51] <exec> 08└─More energy in the ocean, more frequent and more extreme weather events - that's the effects you'll have to deal on short term.
[23:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:07] <exec> 08└─(Also excellent if you like to ride a bike but don't like getting chased by dogs.)
[23:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─I'm scratching my head about that as well. Heck, I didn't even carry quarters for the payphone; it was "1-800-CALL-ATT" (for collect calls, to those too young to remember) and when it asked for my name the answer was "Mom, come get me". She'd deny the charges and show up 10-15 minutes later. I got m...
[23:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but the "Bill of Rights" is almost orthogonal to whether or not it's fascist. Fascist largely has to do with economic policy, and the degree to which wealthy interests control it.
[23:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without A Warrant - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─That's not what Mussolini thought when he defined the term. Mussolini thought it referred to a combination of government doing what powerful companies wanted and those powerful companies doing what the government wanted. That's why he chose the symbol of a bundle of sticks bound together with an axe...
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