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[00:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:29] <exec> 08└─100k cars per year not meeting existing auto safety standards... I'll take the APC to work, for the next few years. How will they get insurance, exactly?
[00:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:30] <exec> 08└─As much as I love giving the "states-rights" representatives crap over this one I do actually think it's a good call. The mish-mash of state regulations really is a barrier to entry for anyone trying to do something new in this arena.
[00:00:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:58] <exec> 08└─Sounds like she's got the internalized misogyny. It's not her fault. Through her parents and friends, the patriarchy has trained her from birth to believe that her experiences are her own and that she can do whatever she wants without feeling oppressed even though she is. It's a shame really.
[00:00:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:59] <exec> 08└─All these programs start way too late. As long as parents are giving dolls to little girls and blocks to little boys, these problems will continue. My parents always tell me this story. I don't actually remember it, personally: Apparently I was wandering around the cul-de-sac pushing around a pink b...
[00:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:05] <exec> 08└─There are no jobs out there for anyone who is truly passionate about STEM. I went to an interview for a data networking job where the interviewer literally told me, "well it looks like you padded your resume with a lot of keywords" to which I was flabbergasted as I explained that I have hands-on exp...
[00:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 2209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:08] <exec> 08└─"So at the risk of contradicting my previous sentence, if I see someone wearing an expensive business suit and tie (or the female equivalent) I assume they are clueless about software development, systems administration, or any of the other nitty-gritty computer technical skills. Yes, it is a prejud...
[00:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:10] <exec> 08└─However, after working with someone for a short time those initial assumptions quickly fade away for the vast majority of people. That doesn't really help if you don't get the job in the first place...
[00:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:12] <exec> 08└─The big problem is management who cannot revise their judgment based on demonstration of knowledge and skill.
[00:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:14] <exec> 08└─Yes I've always found it odd that for almost every newborn the first data point announced is "boy" or "girl". Who cares? Nobody is going to be fucking that rugrat for well over a decade (we can hope) so why is it so important to know what stuff they got on day one? This preoccupation with categorizi...
[00:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:17] <exec> 08└─No one gives a shit that there aren't many male nurses.
[00:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:19] <exec> 08└─That isn't actually true. There are groups pushing for more male nurses and medical paraprofessionals. The reasons why include that the men tend to be physically stronger, mixed sex requirements for exams (i.e. male doctors working on women require female staff presence and female doctors working on...
[00:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:21] <exec> 08└─Silly nerd can code a network stack but your mistake was not blogging about yourself to emotionally manipulate everyone into liking you. You should pretend to be homeless like that liar Michael David Crawford. Then everyone will want to hire you.
[00:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:23] <exec> 08└─Good post man.
[00:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:26] <exec> 08└─That doesn't really help if you don't get the job in the first place...
[00:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:28] <exec> 08└─Insinuating?
[00:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:30] <exec> 08└─Imagine a shemale Richard Stallman with breast implants and a penis pump. Fucking hot!
[00:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:32] <exec> 08└─No fucking shit. Not that it'll stop the misogynerd narrative. The misogynerd narrative was never about encouraging young women to choose STEM careers.
[00:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:35] <exec> 08└─No one gives a shit that there aren't many male nurses. That's so trivially proved wrong I don't understand why people keep using it as a talking point. [google.com]
[00:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:37] <exec> 08└─There's probably a decent number of guys that would be more comfortable with male nurses in certain cases. Like when? If someone's going to be putting their hands on me in a medical setting, I'd much rather it be a woman than a man.
[00:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:39] <exec> 08└─with jews you lose
[00:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:41] <exec> 08└─everything-must-be-exactly-the-same-for-everyone-everywhere
[00:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:44] <exec> 08└─I hate to sound sexist, but at least 3 of these examples involve service jobs with public contact, and frequently physical contact (nurse and hygienist). As a man, I'd much rather have a woman putting her hands on me (or in my mouth, etc.) than a man. But ask most women, and they'll probably agree;...
[00:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:46] <exec> 08└─I think it's rough and not just on those individuals but on all of them. Sexuality is supposed to be something that grows from within you, and fills the world. In the beginning you're "innocent" in the strict sense of the word, you're without sexuality. Then your bodies change, you start to acquire...
[00:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:48] <exec> 08└─HR is easy to explain. Those companies that have done away with "personnel managers" in favor of HR, were actively seeking a token to fill the position. No white males need apply for an HR position. Not even if you should actually find a white male who wants the job.
[00:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah actually it did. And no, you have no obligations to me whatsoever. IIRC I foed you for making such an absurdly bad argument that I concluded I was being trolled. If you do it again my reaction might be the same *shrug* That's just my nature, don't let it stress you.
[00:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not one of them. I had a male nurse groping me last year in the ER. No, I was not more comfortable with a male nurse, than I would have been with a female nurse. Now, funny thing about female nurses is, they can be too damned attractive. I had no problems with mature women, who ranged from attra...
[00:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:55] <exec> 08└─"Exactly. The big problem is management who cannot revise their judgment based on demonstration of knowledge and skill, a problem with currently pervades western society. The best solution is to require that all managers are skilled in the job they are managing, which in the old timey days was a com...
[00:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:57] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm . . . My son's story might interest you. He graduated from Texas A&M at Commerce. His first job was a pretty good job, but he started looking around pretty soon for a better job. Found one that really interests him, and applied for it. He made it over the first couple hurdles, was scheduled fo...
[00:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:06] <exec> 08└─We've had politicians in charge of military engineering for decades; that's how we got the F-35 and Zumwalt.
[00:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:07] <exec> 08└─One can dislike both the Clintons and El Trumpo. After all, they both represent international capitalism more than anything else. I doubt a Clinton presidency would have been substantially different from what we have now... except people wouldn't be losing their minds, instead it would all be quiet...
[00:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, let's not forget lots and lots of voter registration / vote counting shenanigans by the GOP. Oh please! You won't make the sale by singling them out. They're no more fraudulent than the DNC. The analyists who actually analyze do convince those who will listen. Which amounts to what, about 1% at...
[00:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Combine your comment with the AC's comment, currently directly above yours, concerning XKCD (I remembered that one too) and you quickly see just how low-tech an exploit could be mounted against this crappy half-done "design". Add in the Little Bobby Tables comment. Now, add in the bandpass fil...
[00:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:28] <exec> 08└─Hock a lugi onto the machine and let it sequence your DNA. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:52] <exec> 08└─I watched the video. As it came down from its parabolic arc, it hit a max velocity of almost 5k/second. It's short re-entry burn dropped it to about 3k. Can you imagine the Gs in a 2k delta V in 10 seconds? The the landing. It is still going 100m/second just off the ground and the final burn stops i...
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[01:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:31] <exec> 08└─It won't matter 26 will just buy an insurance company if they have to at the same time the purchase of uber and amazon goes through
[01:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:32] <exec> 08└─As much as I love giving the "states-rights" representatives crap over this one
[01:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:34] <exec> 08└─// rant warning on Car industry needs it? no problem, pass a law Health care needs serious reform but medical industry likes things as they are? no problem, stall and worse, with ACA pour more money into the rathole Balance of power among 3 branches requires 2 adults Congress really n...
[01:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:37] <exec> 08└─Hack the GPS into thinking you're on a roundabout with a 70mph speed limit. A drifting self-driving car!
[01:00:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 2399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:53] <exec> 08└─I am female and I am a programmer, and went to a computer science program. All I ever want is for people to judge based on merit. People tend to take an initial impression and generate preliminary assumptions. This is as much about your appearance as it is about gender. For instance, if you are "too...
[01:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:35] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much the only thing that can be learned about the baby at birth that isn't a cause for concern. "The baby likes milk and poops a lot? How fascinating!" isn't a thing. And if the baby has the wrong number of fingers or isn't the expected color, nobody is celebrating. So it gives everyone...
[01:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:36] <exec> 08└─You're a guy. You maybe or maybe not have some interest in nursing. Not a driving need to care for people, just some interest. Hearsay has it that guys really suck as nurses though. A recruiter comes along, and tells you, "We need male nurses. Women are fine, but we really need guys doing the job."...
[01:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:38] <exec> 08└─No white males need apply for an HR position.
[01:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:40] <exec> 08└─STEM jobs are for social people. Nerds go to hell. Where did you interview for this job? Was it in the Valley? From what I've seen, there's a lot of diversity. The STEM jobs I see, and am usually involved in, are usually filled by more introverted people, but also usually older people. (This might b...
[01:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:43] <exec> 08└─I had a Muslim friend who felt very uncomfortable as he had never really had physical contact with a woman. He said it was really awkward because he was nervous and jumpy, while she kept laughing. Afterwards, he would always joke about how the first woman that saw him undress couldn't stop laughing.
[01:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:45] <exec> 08└─Not stressed at all. You remained on my friend list throughout, because you have the most technical common sense around here, personal quirks notwithstanding. But come on, if I was really trolling you... a troll wants to be noticed, to get a response. What response could be sweeter than getting some...
[01:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:47] <exec> 08└─You go, girl! Get the boys primed for the next round of the misogynerd narrative! I can't believe those saps still think that the misogynerd narrative is authentic or in any way reflective of reality! Can you hear those dumb boys breathing a sigh of relief, thinking this is somehow going to deter fe...
[01:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:50] <exec> 08└─"The baby likes milk and poops a lot? How fascinating!" Baby is healthy and normal. How is that not good news?
[01:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:52] <exec> 08└─It's probably an unwritten policy. Our HR woman teeters on that "morbidly obese" line. She also has huge hooters, and likes showing them off as much as possible. Interesting thing about the dress code. The company has several plants around the US. The dress policy was reasonable, I think, for the mo...
[01:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:54] <exec> 08└─That doesn't even make sense. Not to mention that it is highly disrespectful of women. Basically, you're saying that women don't have minds of their own, and that the patriarchy had to give them goals, personnas, and everything that makes them what they are. Does the liberal left ever even LISTEN to...
[01:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:56] <exec> 08└─Recalibrate your sarcasm detector ASAP.
[01:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:59] <exec> 08└─We have to convert Muslims with our loose Western wimminz.
[01:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:01] <exec> 08└─I suspect a case of Poe's law here.
[01:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:03] <exec> 08└─Stop it you sounds like a blue Meany ... Have a toke and stop caring about work place safety like a straight edge ...
[01:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:05] <exec> 08└─It's good, but it's not usually news. Doesn't tell you anything about them. If half of babies had two arms and the other half had four, we'd have number-of-arms reveal parties for them.
[01:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:08] <exec> 08└─Actually, I've been told by multiple people who should know that they do care, and that they actively try to recruit men into nursing programs. It wouldn't really make sense for them not to care, when you think about it. Some people aren't really comfortable with people of the opposite sex performin...
[01:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:10] <exec> 08└─True, but the point was not to change your behavior. I don't expect to be able to do that. It was simply to adjust your initial post score, as seen on my screen. For awhile you lost your +2, which meant that you only needed to be modded down twice to become invis to me. At least, I think it still wo...
[01:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:23] <exec> 08└─dogs most likely fail the mirror test because only the visual is duplicated... the mirror image can not be their own because it doesn't smell like them.
[01:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:41] <exec> 08└─"I think it's because people seriously think there's a cute girl in their phone responding to their every command. Some voice assistants are empowered women as well with authorization to report sexual harassment. If I'm doing my psychology correctly, the little woman in the phone responding to someb...
[01:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:26] <exec> 08└─Fat lazy ass fucks making excuses. Stop stuffing your faces and move your asses. Or don't. It's your life.
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[02:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:20] <exec> 08└─We all win this time! I'm very much of the opinion that there aren't enough disincentives for companies that house sensitive data. I say make an example out of them and shut them down, or better yet, that, and use this as a starting off point for getting rid of the whole "you know this secret number...
[02:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:22] <exec> 08└─Gas chamber is too good for these cretins.
[02:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:35] <exec> 08└─... when there are no more suicide bombers. Instead we will have guided land missiles without any drivers.
[02:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:36] <exec> 08└─It's even better: Some of the people who would normally criticize the courts' overly-broad interpretation of the commerce clause are now using that same interpretation to support this!
[02:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:38] <exec> 08└─No, because the commerce clause was never meant to be used this way. It's merely there so states can't interfere with interstate commerce between other states, not to give the federal government power over all interstate commerce. This proposal does not take into account whether an individual state'...
[02:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:40] <exec> 08└─t's merely there so states can't interfere with interstate commerce between other states, not to give the federal government power over all interstate commerce.
[02:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:56] <exec> 08└─But did you read this part? Does the liberal left ever even LISTEN to the crap they are spewing?
[02:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:58] <exec> 08└─'Tis Runaway. Just wait a while, and he will pass out from alt-right manipulated rage.
[02:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:00] <exec> 08└─A couple random support groups for male nurses? That's not much to shout about. May I suggest "The Gender Equality Paradox - Documentary NRK - 2011 - Feminism / Gender Studies": https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] where the question of why, in the world's most gender equal coun...
[02:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:02] <exec> 08└─STEM jobs are for social people. Nerds go to hell.
[02:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:05] <exec> 08└─"It's good, but it's not usually news." Well my point was that it *is* news, and in fact it's good news, although you probably wouldn't want to phrase it in exactly the way quoted. I suspect simply because of our personal pronoun system it would in fact be awkward (though certainly not impossible) t...
[02:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:21] <exec> 08└─Trump won while saying climate change is over-hyped. Obviously, he is going to de-emphasize the subject, and grants with that focus get cut. What science gets funded is a policy decision, not a scientific one. Scientists can be such infants if their toys (research grants) are taken away.
[02:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:23] <exec> 08└─I'm calling fanboy bullshit on that. ...or you can link to something that mentions Kris Kobach by name and a Donkey who has done something remotely similar. While you're at it, try to find a Donkey functionary whose election-related actions have been struck down by a judge. Lamestream Media internet...
[02:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:46] <exec> 08└─exactly yes. nonlinearity in the analog stuff makes a nice mixer... Most electronics are very linear until they aren't (at high levels or whatever)
[02:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:26] <exec> 08└─Let's see. Australia is still brown-nosing. The UK claims to distance themselves from a Trump-led USA while still implementing as much of 1984 as possible to show the US it's indeed possible and how to do it. Japan is getting cold feet due to things potentially falling out of the skies on their way...
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[03:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:12] <exec> 08└─At this point, hasn't the SSN for every American been compromised?
[03:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:13] <exec> 08└─Easy fix, just rename it to the "Social Insecurity Number".
[03:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:15] <exec> 08└─Tried their website, there is a place to enter last name and 6 digits from SSN. It said that I was not affected, but the search seemed really quick (like a Google search). I wonder if they just say "you are OK" to everyone?
[03:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:17] <exec> 08└─...Three high-level Equifax execs dumped their shares before it could get out. https://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnews.com]
[03:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:20] <exec> 08└─It is probably easy to do a search for people who haven't been pwned: In your SQLi query: /search.php?x%27%20union%20select%20%2A%20from%20subjects%20where%20pwned%3C%3E%27Y%27-- No results returned. Please refine your search.
[03:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:22] <exec> 08└─Doncha just love capitalism! The market has a solution to even a total disaster like this!
[03:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:24] <exec> 08└─Nope, mine didn't say specifically that I was affected, but it doesn't say that I'm not. It just gives me an enrollment date for identity protection. So I guess that's a yes. Shit.
[03:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:26] <exec> 08└─In response, they've offered one year of free monitoring. So if the criminals are smart they'll try to sit on some of that information for a year...says they may have gotten some credit card numbers, but that's the only thing on that list that *might* expire in that time. Drivers licenses are usuall...
[03:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:29] <exec> 08└─>Tried their website, there is a place to enter last name and 6 digits from SSN. Next week's headline: THAT database gets hacked, everyone else's SSN compromised.
[03:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:31] <exec> 08└─It's a poor secret, only protected by the slight inconvenience of having to be a "trusted agency" to get it. What really protects your CC#, check routing numbers, SSN, and every other "valuable" number in your life is the threat of prosecution to those who would misuse them. That's what's scary abou...
[03:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:33] <exec> 08└─Honestly we need to replace the SSN. However I have no good solution, and I'm not sure if anyone does. The number is designed to track people for Social Security, however it has expanded into a national ID number. Maybe we can do something involving a decentralized currency blockchain. Buzzwords rea...
[03:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:35] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is time to buy stocks in LifeLock and identity theft companies. They might be ineffective, but that won't stop people running to them scared.
[03:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:38] <exec> 08└─The company adds the standard adage about reporting the incident to law enforcement
[03:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:40] <exec> 08└─How can this not make things worse? To use it, you have to provide your info to yet another company with sketchy low-paid employees. What can they really do anyway? They can't undo the leak. They can't arrest people, and government won't cooperate. For example, the IRS might know a dozen people usin...
[03:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do. I've had a solution to this for decades: don't use credit. Do a quick, free credit check a couple times a year to make sure you still don't have any and everything is shiny.
[03:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:44] <exec> 08└─Lifelock is a waste of money. Most things they do can be done for free with little effort. Older, but they actually settled with the FTC back in 2010... [ftc.gov] The FTC’s complaint charged that the fraud alerts that LifeLock placed on customers’ credit files protected only against certain form...
[03:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:02] <exec> 08└─It's merely there so states can't interfere with interstate commerce between other states, not to give the federal government power over all interstate commerce.
[03:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:03] <exec> 08└─Yup. With anything similar to our current utterly unreliable computing tech, self driving cars in an invitation to a mass murder of thousands level event. Imagine thousands of cars suddenly accelerating to max and then swerving into the opposing lane to perfectly hit another car doing the same thing...
[03:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:05] <exec> 08└─I guess you don't see how state regulation can be used to interfere with interstate commerce
[03:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:26] <exec> 08└─You jest, but over the last few weeks something has taken a seriously concerning turn in his posts. It sounds like something broke inside honestly.
[03:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:27] <exec> 08└─"In accusing the post of being "the liberal left", it is obvious this response is by a right-wing nut-job, who, being a right-wing nut-job, does not have a sarcasm detector, or the capability to have one installed. There is this wall, you see. " I see a different possibility. The poster may well hav...
[03:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:43] <exec> 08└─I agree. It feels that this test was invented to allow the dogs to pass. Perhaps a different approach would be to raise dogs with inhibited sense of smell from birth (expensive way: genetic engineering, cheap way: surgery) and then retest those dogs with a mirror. Unfortunately, the mirror test has...
[03:04:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 869 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:19] <exec> 08└─A pound of cure is easier to get funded than an ounce of prevention. If a watershed is contaminated to dangerous levels with toxic waste, and it's impacting drinking water to 10 million people, you can get agreement from most politicians that we need to clean that up. If you want to put new regulati...
[03:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, Trump received 3 million fewer votes than someone else. In over 190 countries, that would make him a loser. USA is the only country to have ever had such a ridiculous method to choose a president. One could say it's archaic, but it never actually did make any sense. What science gets funde...
[03:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. One Spam mod and they have to change addresses to post again. Assuming their karma started at 0.
[03:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:19] <exec> 08└─There's no constitutional basis for a federal anti-SLAPP law.
[03:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:09] <exec> 08└─The phase transition waxes are an interesting form of passive thermal storage - set the phase transition at the target temp, say 72F, and they absorb any heat above 72F until they are fully melted, and give off heat when the air is below 72F until they are fully melted. For times of year when it's h...
[03:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:10] <exec> 08└─I've always worried about large water tanks freezing and not maintaining their structural integrity. Otherwise, water chiller heat transfer systems are pretty cool.
[03:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:49] <exec> 08└─40 minutes is too long because it puts too high a load on the electrical infrastructure? What happens when you put the same charge into a car in 15 minutes?
[03:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─Pokemon, the doom of humans
[03:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:10] <exec> 08└─My advice would be make the best freaking biscuits and gravy humanity has ever seen...
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[04:01:15] <exec> 08└─LOTS of Marxian academics have proved this over the past 2 centuries. There's more research than you can shake a stick it. This isn't "News." The only answer is to forcibly level the playing field. Capitalism is a SUCKER GAME. How do we know? A BILLIONAIRE is now the president of the US, and there's...
[04:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:42] <exec> 08└─In response, they've offered one year of free monitoring.
[04:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that did occur to me. I'm taking the 1 in a thousand chance (they asked for 6 of the 9 SSN digits) that any crooks will find it easier to get full matching numbers and names...instead of trying to guess the rest of my number.
[04:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:46] <exec> 08└─Hey dumbfuck! You, via the already listed identifying info, are already in these databases, even if you have never taken out credit, per se. Now, somebody else can take out credit for you. Looks like you still lost the game...albeit with insufferable smugness still intact.
[04:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:07] <exec> 08└─How long before you can send your self driving car home, empty, because you can't find a parking spot - then recall it when you're ready?
[04:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:08] <exec> 08└─As much as I love giving the "states-rights" representatives crap over this one I do actually think it's a good call.
[04:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on you can do better than that. The first hack induced head on crash corks the entire highway and the death toll is limited right there. You need to worry about bomb laden cars sent on delivery missions. Even if you make it so the cars can not travel without a human on board, (which seems u...
[04:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:37] <exec> 08└─I had round of IV antibiotics for a case of osteomyelitis that lasted several weeks, so I regularly visited the office for new IV placements, and got to know the 4 nurses there. They ranged from supermodel attractive to potato, and their IV placement skills were perfectly negatively correlated with...
[04:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:38] <exec> 08└─Although I may be skeptical of accepting the article 100%, I find myself looking at your comment and thinking "straw man".
[04:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:40] <exec> 08└─My prejudice runs to the extracurricular activities focus - if you're president of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, organizer of both annual charity fundraisers, community liason to the Elks, Rotarians and Food Bank, etc. etc. etc. - when exactly did you have time to learn and practice your engineering...
[04:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:42] <exec> 08└─You must live in my neighborhood (or one just like it.) The quickest way to be offered a free beer around here is to put an NRA bumpersticker on your truck.
[04:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:45] <exec> 08└─Kurenai, there is enough prevalence of rapey men out there that the Skittles thing becomes an unfortunately useful metaphor. This is reality for every woman. I *still* cross the street at night if I'm alone and see guys most of the time, and I'm taller than almost all of them and probably as heavy a...
[04:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:47] <exec> 08└─The nursing graduate program in my neck of the woods wants more male nurses. They have to be careful of federal regs but they promote males where they can. So, please retire the abolsute statement that no one cares about males in nursing.
[04:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:49] <exec> 08└─The common meme of "there are no women on the internet" can get quite tiring to always deal with
[04:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:51] <exec> 08└─Uuuuugh, tell me about it. I get the feeling like almost all jobs are 90% or more about making the right social noises and maybe 10% actual work. It's nice to meet another woman in the tech field, though you're *far* more technical than I am--I just build and fix the silly things and make them do se...
[04:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:53] <exec> 08└─The darkly hilarious part of this is when the men gas on about how they're the logical sex, and then if you truly examine how and why they do what they do, it's pure in-group politics and social signalling--as emotional as it gets!
[04:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:35] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the old "Calories in, calories out" trope. Know what convinced me it was bullshit? When I saw Coca-Cola using it in an ad.
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[05:00:26] <exec> 08└─Alas, we must endure living among the rest of you.
[05:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:27] <exec> 08└─Try to imagine a world without countries – you can't.
[05:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:29] <exec> 08└─But the change will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. We are still too primitive to live and let live. The brain stem still rules. The cortex serves. Reason is impotent when confronted with instinct. On the other hand, the physical universe might indeed preclude the whole concept. By nature, every...
[05:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:32] <exec> 08└─Multinationals have already "stepped in". They have no problem buying any laws they want, or overturning laws they don't like, they have language in multinational trade agreements putting them on a equal footing (or slightly above) as nation-states. And there is no going back.
[05:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:34] <exec> 08└─I came here to say basically this same thing. Nation states will be (and have been) supplanted by "The Corporation".
[05:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:43] <exec> 08└─I think we should raise property taxes. Something like a lot tax on the property each year on property you own more than X amount of acres.
[05:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:45] <exec> 08└─The Muslims will buy it all eventually then kick them out
[05:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:13] <exec> 08└─or better yet, that, and use this as a starting off point for getting rid of the whole "you know this secret number, so you must be this person" shtick.
[05:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:15] <exec> 08└─Equifax.com links to http://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com [equifaxsecurity2017.com] which OpenDNS claims is a phishing site... Mwaaahahaha... did I miss amateur hour or something or are they just having it in a place I'm not invited to?
[05:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:39] <exec> 08└─Or send it to clog any random street, regardless of how far away it its. Chances are before that happens you won't own the car but simply use it, and dismiss it. Want to go home, summon the rental again, have it show up with the seats full of feces.
[05:02:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:31] <exec> 08└─everything-must-be-exactly-the-same-for-everyone-everywhere
[05:02:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1702 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:42] <exec> 08└─STEM jobs are for social people. Nerds go to hell. Where did you interview for this job? Was it in the Valley? From what I've seen, there's a lot of diversity. The STEM jobs I see, and am usually involved in, are usually filled by more introverted people, but also usually older people. (This might b...
[05:03:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:20] <exec> 08└─Alternative interpretation: Any smell that's around all the time, you won't notice; this is especially true of your own smell. I don't see why this should be different for dogs. Now if the smell is modified, it is new, and therefore the dogs notice it. The very point of the mirror test is to react o...
[05:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:28] <exec> 08└─react to a newly introduced smell differently than they do to the change in their own smell...
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[05:04:32] <exec> 08└─I'm calling fanboy bullshit on that. Precisely what I am doing... I gotta a name for ya: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Media that changes its coverage of news based on keeping advertisers/sponsors/underwriters happy is LAME. Yeah, and? And Pacifica? Please. It's not a good idea to bring them up. Read up...
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[06:00:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:35] <exec> 08└─Multinationals have already "stepped in". They have no problem buying any laws they want, or overturning laws they don't like, they have language in multinational trade agreements putting them on a equal footing (or slightly above) as nation-states. And there is no going back.
[06:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:37] <exec> 08└─This desire for control has mislead a lot of people. Part of the reason Eurasians couldn't believe the US could possibly work was the lack of total control. They were deep in the delusions perpetrated by the propaganda of medieval monarchies, the whole King by the Grace of God type of stuff, further...
[06:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:39] <exec> 08└─Reason is impotent when confronted with instinct.
[06:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 2189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:41] <exec> 08└─Is defense. The whole purpose of a nation state is indeed control, but it's control that at least to some degree generally derives from those that reside within that nation. The American Revolution is an iconic illustration of this. A relatively rag tag group overthrew the most powerful empire at th...
[06:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:43] <exec> 08└─There are plenty that can imagine a totalitarian, one-world regime - one imposed by force and rules with an iron rod. Islam is dedicated to bringing it about. Christendom (still hasn't totally collapsed BTW) has been warning of it for near 2000 years.
[06:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:46] <exec> 08└─Multinationals have already "stepped in".
[06:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:48] <exec> 08└─And the Internet? It can bring down regimes, particularly weak regimes that rely on censorship and propaganda as well as raw force to stay in power.
[06:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:50] <exec> 08└─If you'd been born 1,500 years ago in southern Europe, you'd have been convinced that the Roman empire would last forever. [...] By 476 CE it was gone.
[06:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:52] <exec> 08└─I think you're putting the cart before the horse. Even though the US had many such freedoms, they were mostly token. There is freedom of religion, that de facto translated to you were free to practice ANY religion: Catholicism or Protestantism. And freedom of speech was much a charade. Yes you're fr...
[06:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:54] <exec> 08└─> to worlds without humans one can only dream...
[06:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:57] <exec> 08└─OTOH current political entities are letting corporations treat people like HR and have welfare, that is, people's tax money, pay for it.
[06:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:59] <exec> 08└─Oh the worlds are real enough. The problem is that since you're a human, the moment you arrive, it's already gone to hell.
[06:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:01] <exec> 08└─In the days of city-states, everything was local. Yes, there was trade, but it was nowhere near as important to the quality of life as it is now. Trade involved luxury goods to a much greater extent than today. Today, we trade staple products (food, etc. ) across thousands of miles. Globalism is her...
[06:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:04] <exec> 08└─I would read the situation differently. Most nations, seem originating from masonic meddling. It is true for france, urss, america (your beautiful statue of liberty), italy, and let's not go into the symbols in latin america's flags. Same meddling, though, is behind mondialism, the global financial...
[06:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:14] <exec> 08└─I think we should raise property taxes.
[06:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:16] <exec> 08└─Not property taxes, inheritance taxes, combined with laws to defeat the effects of family trusts.
[06:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:11] <exec> 08└─Nah, imagine it. A thousand cars in the northbound lane and a thousand in the southbound lane all go to max speed with a mile gap between the groups. They line up in a perfect spacing. Then at the optimal moment all two thousand jump into their opposite and create the mother of all pileups in the me...
[06:03:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1002 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:39] <exec> 08└─Kurenai, there is enough prevalence of rapey men out there that the Skittles thing becomes an unfortunately useful metaphor. This is reality for every woman. I *still* cross the street at night if I'm alone and see guys most of the time, and I'm taller than almost all of them and probably as heavy a...
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[06:04:00] <exec> 08└─nope, BTW the animal associated to the pussy in italy is "topa", which is female mouse, or the "passera", female bird.
[06:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:05] <exec> 08└─Supercharger stations aren't near gas stations because the land isn't cheap enough there. A lot of Supercharger stations are near -absolutely fucking nothing-. They list them as being 'near a Cracker Barrel' but it's a 20 minute walk and involves crossing a five lane highway.
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[07:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03noirmaru [6701] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:06] <exec> 08└─land rights reform is the most pressing issue in the world today and it dates back to the eradication of the commons. raising land tax on large holdings, and reforming inheritance tax is the way to go. just need a political party to gain public support - hard to do when voters are so easily swayed b...
[07:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:38] <exec> 08└─Honestly we need to replace eliminate the SSN.
[07:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:35] <exec> 08└─You're not alone in feeling that way...unfortunately, though, I don't think we're going to right course in time. I'm not a psychic, or at least not the kind that can read the future, but I do get precognitions and they've been...unpleasant...for the last several years. And especially the last severa...
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[07:03:36] <exec> 08└─Why?
[07:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:55] <exec> 08└─Have you seen two male cats during love season? they get at one inch from the other and meow, like the scene in a spaghetti western, it is a battle of egos. I know you can find some alt interpretation for this and it really does not matter to me, but had I to bet, I'd bet they are self aware.
[07:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 1) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:56] <exec> 08└─Its well known that a dogs sense of smell is far better than humans ever could be.
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[08:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:26] <exec> 08└─> Instead I received scorn from at least one of their (least-intelligent) members You don't need particularly low intelligence to feel scorn for Mr. Shkreli, so I'll have to assume this member has at least 3 PhDs. > the world at large failed to see my purpose of putting a serious value behind music...
[08:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:52] <exec> 08└─News traveled slower in those days.
[08:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:53] <exec> 08└─Nobody told the OP that there was going to be math. And this is very simplistic polysci, at best. Before the Alexandrian and Roman empires where the Hittites and the Egyptions, the Babylonians, Persians, Chinese, even the Tibetans at one point. But there were also city-states, and tribes. The questi...
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[08:02:02] <exec> 08└─Also, this will give a completely new means of abductions. Hack the car the victim is is, make it lock the doors and deliver you right at the spot. For murder, the same works, except that the spot is over the next cliff, or against the next tree.
[08:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:03] <exec> 08└─And they want to put autodrive in big rigs. Fuel tankers anyone? Hazardous cargo?
[08:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:38] <exec> 08└─How the heck did this get to +5 Insightful instead of +5 Funny?
[08:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is a prejudice
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[09:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:31] <exec> 08└─His attempt to prove that he isn't as big of a dick as everyone thought, has proven that he is as big of a dick as everyone thought.
[09:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:32] <exec> 08└─He isn't trying anything of the sort. The eBay item description is pretty much made to make people rage even more. In reality it's just the Goldstein du jour, I find it funny how easily people rage about him.
[09:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:00] <exec> 08└─Quality of life and luxury nowadays seems to involve cheap flights to tourist hotspots. In the old days it was fresh baked bread and a peach right off the tree. I could happily return to the old ways :)
[09:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:02] <exec> 08└─Chances are that 50% of your patriotic citizens / comrades hate you as much as they hate the enemy / foreigners. What exactly does it mean to be a citizen? Other than a stamp on a piece of paper. Some of us in the EU don't want nationalistic borders. The "hard right" in each country seems to want to...
[09:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:04] <exec> 08└─The rest of the sentence is no more correct. The Kingdom of Rome lasted from 753-509BC, when the monarchy was overthrown. The Roman Republic then lasted until 27BC. For most of that time, it didn't cover much more than modern Italy and, later, Greece / Macedonia. In the last century, it expanded int...
[09:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:06] <exec> 08└─Why? There are several examples just a few short light-seconds away.
[09:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:08] <exec> 08└─And the problem with a return to the city state is that today, we basically have the USA, the EU and the PRC with enough power to stand up to large multinational companies. Of these, the USA never does and the PRC only does to protect native industries. The biggest obstacle to this is that individua...
[09:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:11] <exec> 08└─Having read the comments on this thread, I think that short of a global nuclear war / pandemic / zombie apocalypse that sends the world back to pre-industrial society, nations and globalism, or at the very least corporations masquerading as nations, are here to stay on this planet. The genie will no...
[09:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:13] <exec> 08└─D'oh! Screwed up my hyperlinks. The last two paragraphs should be quoted and linked to the late great Iain M Banks.
[09:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.equifax.com/personal/ [equifax.com] links to it. That is hilarious though.
[09:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:59] <exec> 08└─"If half of babies had two arms and the other half had four, we'd have number-of-arms reveal parties for them. " Would we? Why? In my experience people with newborns have enough to do what with feeding and cleaning and dealing with teething and so forth, there will be plenty of time for parties late...
[09:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:00] <exec> 08└─Great, so it's not just infancy now, it starts even before birth. I knew that, thanks for reminding me. That's even creepier.
[09:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:02] <exec> 08└─Or maybe we should start even earlier than toys: baby clothes. I'm a father to two young children, one of each gender. For the first (daughter) we had a full set of hand-me-down clothes from family, for the second (son) we've had some passed on by a friend. For our daughter, the newborn clothes were...
[09:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:22] <exec> 08└─Exactly my tought. A dog doesn't care about mirror because... well, because he/she is more "advanced" than us with senses. A dog cannot be fooled by an image. It's lacking smell and sound. Simple as that. No need for research. My dog sleep in front of a mirror every night. The first night, she was i...
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[09:04:24] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add... My dog knows her smell, and she knows it's hers. When we travel we bring her pillow with us. When we get to the new place, she wait for the pillow, smell it properly, then settle down. Maybe it's just recognition of her "property" in a way... but, so why assume she can't recognize h...
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[09:06:51] <exec> 08└─Suffice to say, it works even if the attacker has no device access and the owner has taken the necessary security precautions.
[09:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 2259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:27] <exec> 08└─Colo: I bought two similar LiPO packs from Harbor Freight [harborfreight.com] which look like both in parallel ( one on each of the van's batteries ) might assist in case of a "barely won't start", but just looking at them, and the size of the cabling going to the batteries, I am rather dubious they...
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[10:00:22] <exec> 08└─I believe the whole driver behind BitCoin is we have no idea how responsibly our banking system will handle what gives all appearances of inevitably having a meltdown in the near future. A lot of people look like they are trying to diversify their wealth storage containers. Same with holding physic...
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[10:00:37] <exec> 08└─I know what he's going through. It happened to me. Terrible, horrible times. I went through them too. Times when I sold my prize possession, the Trump Princess. The yacht I bought from the Sultan of Brunei, a 282-footer (Blofeld's headquarters). When I saw a beggar on Fifth Avenue -- seriously downg...
[10:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:12] <exec> 08└─If two sides of the country hate each other, and have diametrically opposing views, the rational thing to do is to split the country into two countries, so each can live the way they want. If there is a clear majority, you can generally brownbeat or crush the minority into conforming (or leaving the...
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[10:01:13] <exec> 08└─"The hostile nature of the vacuum and the technological complexity of life support mechanisms will make such systems vulnerable to outright attack, but that, of course, would risk the total destruction of the ship/habitat, so denying its future economic contribution to whatever entity was attempting...
[10:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:27] <exec> 08└─I would think that significant tax on rent-seeking type income is in order, while giving even more tax breaks for job creation and wages. Have some formula such that all wages below the median are 100% tax deductible, however tax benefits drop off above median wage. And set the "homestead" propert...
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[10:05:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think he wants to make anyone email client illegal. (Although I hear he is, in actual fact, running for office.) I think he merely wants there to be enough free speech for everyone to know that he, and only he, invented email. But not so much free speech that anyone could refute his claim to...
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[11:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:29] <exec> 08└─Some years later, it's discovered that the new sugar substitute actually causes cancer! Everyone is shocked.
[11:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:38] <exec> 08└─Of course that test had a few parameters that might cause someone not to buy even if determining/believing the coin is not fake and knowing quite well its true value: The whole thing is done in front of a jewellery shop. So the first question is: Why doesn't he try to sell it there? This smells at s...
[11:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:55] <exec> 08└─No, not because of how he raised the money. That was not exactly cool, but perhaps not as bad as everyone seems to think. But almost immediately he turned around and tried to parlay the purchase into public favour (or at least attention) by playing it in the background during streams or whatever. Th...
[11:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:56] <exec> 08└─Oh I see, he's not really an asshole, it's everyone else's fault. Yeah I never thought about it thatWHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON MAN? Seriously.
[11:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:58] <exec> 08└─Always figured that guy for just another Joe Random arsehole/sociopath from the investment banker scene, dime a dozen. But looking at a retrospective of his complete works I now come to the conclusion that he can not be a real person. Literally every one of his publicity stunts is so grotesquely ove...
[11:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:35] <exec> 08└─> They were deep in the delusions perpetrated by the propaganda of medieval monarchies, the whole King by the Grace of God type of stuff The UK had been sort of democratic since 1688 (arguably since magna carta). The 1760s demonstrated quite strongly the limitations of the king's power - several gov...
[11:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the very vulnerability of the habitats will make the states/companies more powerful: If you control a hundred habitats, you will survive the loss of one of them. If you inhabit it, you won't survive the loss of it.
[11:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:39] <exec> 08└─That doesnt usually work due to physical/geographical issues, cf. Northern Ireland.
[11:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:25] <exec> 08└─Oi, dipshit, did you miss the part where I never use credit? That means A) ruined credit means nothing to me and B) I can check a couple times a year and get anything someone did in my name easily removed.
[11:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:53] <exec> 08└─Yep, just like Uber/Taxis today, just displacing the drivers with robots.
[11:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, we must keep the trickle down theory because that stimulates job creators.
[11:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:34] <exec> 08└─A lot of people forget that male nurses get all the shit lifting jobs. My brother was an RN and injured himself several times on the job - the female nurses all demanded he do the lifting, and he couldn't get out of it. Even when he had already been suffering lifting injuries.
[11:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 2367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:36] <exec> 08└─Yeh, I got into this because as a kid, I was insanely interested in what made things tick. But, you know, I sunk a helluva lotta time, energy, and money into doing this. It would have been a bad decision if I had gotten into this solely for money. Learning the skills to compel others to do stuff for...
[11:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:39] <exec> 08└─So at the risk of contradicting my previous sentence, if I see someone wearing an expensive business suit and tie (or the female equivalent) I assume they are clueless about software development, systems administration, or any of the other nitty-gritty computer technical skills. Yes, it is a prejudi...
[11:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:41] <exec> 08└─For what its worth, Azuma, I have been having this same intense foreboding for a couple of years now... watching how we are going yet further and further into debt and seeing how much debt the average family is in - and kids! Especially our kids! Neck deep in college debts - trying to pay off credi...
[11:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:03] <exec> 08└─but, so why assume she can't recognize herself and try to prove it, instead of assuming she CAN recognize herself and try to prove it false?
[11:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many humans would pass these tests...
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[12:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:36] <exec> 08└─What if we stop making everything sickly sweet? Are we all whiny toddlers?
[12:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:38] <exec> 08└─But if you did that, you would have to sell something with a taste. That might require actual food ingredients. Supersweet is good because it covers up and dominates all the other flavors... Sugar is cheap!
[12:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:40] <exec> 08└─It has been tried before: miracle fruit [wikipedia.org]
[12:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:42] <exec> 08└─What's the matter? Stevia not good enough for you? There's hardly any bitter, metallic aftertaste after you get used to it.
[12:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:44] <exec> 08└─i need it the sweets!
[12:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:46] <exec> 08└─unlimited supply spiders living in my rectum furious furry cradling my balls with a light squeeze then hard when I'm about to explode!
[12:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:56] <exec> 08└─I'm HODORing too. HODOR!
[12:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:16] <exec> 08└─He might break it in frustration, so what? it's his property and squandering does not affect anybody else. If this cultural artifact were so important, it should have been released in proper ways. Blame those who released it wrong (tm).
[12:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:56] <exec> 08└─Please read the relevant part of the linked text, your point is addressed there.
[12:03:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:23] <exec> 08└─She says she's never experienced any sexism, and that being one of the few women in her tech career makes her feel special. She thinks men have the same experience as women, but only women misinterpret the usual irritations of work as being somehow gender related. When most of the people are men, th...
[12:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:55] <exec> 08└─> I *still* cross the street at night if I'm alone and see guys most of the time, and I'm taller than almost all of them and probably as heavy as 1/4 or 1/3 of them at least. Likewise, but I'm male. Possibly has something to do with someone hitting me in the throat with their arm as I jogged past a...
[12:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:56] <exec> 08└─> Yes I've always found it odd that for almost every newborn the first data point announced is "boy" or "girl". Who cares? Nobody is going to be fucking that rugrat for well over a decade (we can hope) so why is it so important to know what stuff they got on day one? Because 5 year old boys can't ge...
[12:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:49] <exec> 08└─"3. Something you are. (eg, your fingerprint, your voice, your retina scan, your blood, semen, DNA" Plot-lines of so very many movies and TV shows, Salt, SNG, Minority Report, Ultraviolet, Two Broke Girls (Beth Behrs did a lot of semen testing), Alien Resurrection's breath analyzer or GATTACA to cov...
[12:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:28] <exec> 08└─Not only is this beast's engine three times the displacement of my Toyota, its also high compression, and has glow plug load on top of that. I believe those things would start the Toyota, no problem. They *might* start the beast.
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[13:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:24] <exec> 08└─Trump's wall retrocausally caused this earthquake. ;-)
[13:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:32] <exec> 08└─I used to commute by bicycle. I loved getting double duty -- exercise and transportation -- in the same hour. But in city traffic, I found myself dodging cars on the average of once every two blocks. (Multiply that by 13 miles each way, per day...) No, I wasn't ignoring traffic laws or in the wrong...
[13:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:34] <exec> 08└─Cities are getting better though. I'm in Ottawa, Canada, and we now even have physically separate bike lanes. I'm imagine European cities are way ahead, and cities with better weather sure should be.
[13:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:36] <exec> 08└─there are many demands on our time, many people find prioritising exercise difficult. One answer is to multi-task by cycling or walking to work.
[13:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:38] <exec> 08└─I loved getting double duty
[13:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:53] <exec> 08└─But if you did that, you would have to sell something with a taste.
[13:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:54] <exec> 08└─Sugar gets bad press, so rather than accept that they'll sell less Coca-Cola than they used to, they try to find a "substitute" that they can use to claim Coca-Cola is healthy. There's no way to make Coca-Cola healthy. They need to stop pretending. If you want to drink something healthy, just have w...
[13:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:56] <exec> 08└─Coke is made with high-fructose corn syrup in the U.S.A. I guess saying "sugar replacement" sounds better.
[13:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:58] <exec> 08└─Generally, you might be right. However carbonated drinks taste like crap unless they've been sweetened. They are horrible and bitter. That's why you can't just grab a juice and make it fizzy - it doesn't work. You have to counteract the taste. And though, generally, you could argue that's unnecessar...
[13:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:01] <exec> 08└─They said a NEW suger replacement. As in the old sugar replacement, HFCS, isn't good enough anymore.
[13:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:03] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I don't get that fuss either. High-fructose (fructose is a sugar). Corn. (Made with a natural ingredient). Syrup. (liquid sugar) Just because it has an acronym, a scary scientific-looking word, and it sounds "artificial" doesn't mean that it's not just "Liquid sugar made from cornflou...
[13:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:13] <exec> 08└─If the shit really hits the fan, you can expect to not have internet connectivity (indeed, you'll be lucky if you have electricity). Good luck paying with bitcoins in that situation. And yes, you can print your bitcoins; but how do you prove that what you have printed are real bitcoins without acces...
[13:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:35] <exec> 08└─I decided to purchase this album as a gift to the Wu-Tang Clan for their tremendous musical output. Instead I received scorn from at least one of their (least-intelligent) members, and the world at large failed to see my purpose of putting a serious value behind music.
[13:01:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1085 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:56] <exec> 08└─I think you're putting the cart before the horse. Even though the US had many such freedoms, they were mostly token. There is freedom of religion, that de facto translated to you were free to practice ANY religion: Catholicism or Protestantism. And freedom of speech was much a charade. Yes you're fr...
[13:02:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:06] <exec> 08└─The rest of the sentence is no more correct. The Kingdom of Rome lasted from 753-509BC, when the monarchy was overthrown. The Roman Republic then lasted until 27BC. For most of that time, it didn't cover much more than modern Italy and, later, Greece / Macedonia. In the last century, it expanded int...
[13:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:17] <exec> 08└─They tried that in Yugoslavia. The term "Ethnic Cleansing" was invented there. Turns out people don't like to be driven from their homes just because some politician says it's for the greater good.
[13:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:19] <exec> 08└─"the change will be evolutionary" Sadly, I disagree. That doesn't seem to be the way we humans do things. Instead, we run whatever model we have into the wall, creating a huge disaster usually involving warfare. After a period of chaos and poverty, we pick up the pieces and assemble something new. I...
[13:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:21] <exec> 08└─No need to wait. It's just about how one labels the New World Organizational Chart. Think of the MAGGAF corporations (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Goldman-Sachs, Amazon, Facebook) as the majority stake-holder board of directors, with a rotating co-chairmanship. The US Congress and SCOTUS are just a "ma...
[13:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:23] <exec> 08└─"USA, the EU and the PRC with enough power to stand up to large multinational companies" You made me spit my coffee. I don't need to laugh that hard in the morning.
[13:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:25] <exec> 08└─"And now, dual citizenship is no big deal." I suggest you look up what happened to Japanese-Americans during WWII.
[13:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:28] <exec> 08└─As much power the multinationals have, they are not interested in stepping over to take over all the governance. As yet - wait until Google's Alphabet or Apple or the like start "buying" and "managing" whole countries. Try looking up the history of the East India Company [wikipedia.org] sometime. Ge...
[13:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sce7mjm [809] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:42] <exec> 08└─"Answer: own all the land, pay no taxes, and get the system to give you massive hand-outs." Ha! Sounds like most of my Socialist supporting friends!
[13:02:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:55] <exec> 08└─...Three high-level Equifax execs dumped their shares before it could get out. https://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnews.com]
[13:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:29] <exec> 08└─A world where everyone just acted on their whims and "feelings" would be a world of children, and it would be unable to function. People would starve.
[13:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:28] <exec> 08└─But we all demand the right to say otherwise!!!!
[13:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:23] <exec> 08└─This particular hack is dependent on a lack of diversity to make it work. If different models of phone used slightly different front ends with different sampling rates and cutoff frequencies, then the hack would have to be tailored to each target. Instead, industry has settled on a homogeneous solut...
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[14:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:29] <exec> 08└─In the next days there will be another earthquake with equivalent magnitude in another part of the world.
[14:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:31] <exec> 08└─my love juice exploded in many a vagina. i wonder what grizzly bear penis tastes like/
[14:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:33] <exec> 08└─If I were living anywhere near the San Andreas fault, I would consider this an excellent time to take a 3-week holiday to Texa^H^H^H^HFlorid^H^H^H^H^H^HSouth Dakota.
[14:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:35] <exec> 08└─It's Trump's fault
[14:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:37] <exec> 08└─I would consider this an excellent time to take a 3-week holiday to Texa^H^H^H^HFlorid^H^H^H^H^H^HSouth Dakota.
[14:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 2261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:48] <exec> 08└─Protected bike lanes make a big difference. The way Montreal does it works well: the cars park next to a stand-alone curb, or with a painted margin, and the bike lanes are between that and the sidewalk's curb. That way the parked cars constitute a metal wall between car and bike traffic, and the bik...
[14:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:50] <exec> 08└─if they provide a driverless bicycle, sure.
[14:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:52] <exec> 08└─Multi-tasking has become an irritating catchphrase. I like to think of it as "killing two birds with one stone," because I like stones, birds, and killing. Cycling is a convenient way to get your exercise in, though, which is the point of TFA. I lost 25lbs doing it in about 3 months. Didn't do anyth...
[14:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:54] <exec> 08└─Protected bike lanes make a big difference.
[14:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:57] <exec> 08└─I had a motorcycle when I was young and invincible and it was great because I never suffered traffic, could always find a parking space, and it got me lots of girls. But now the only way I would ride one again, certainly a self-driving one, would be if it had the form of a Tron light cycle, enclosed...
[14:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:59] <exec> 08└─"the HVAC takes care of the whole "the weather is only good outdoors for cycling roughly two months per year"" Sahara or Alaska? Here in Denmark we always complain about the weather, and 2017 has been especially bad, so I'm up to maybe four times the weather has been so bad that I've preferred getti...
[14:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:01] <exec> 08└─50km is a fair piece to bike. Maybe an electric motor would help.
[14:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:03] <exec> 08└─Around here we have steep hills (one is a world record holder) and weather that can be below zero in the winter and hot and humid in the summer. What am I supposed to do after biking to work in the summer dripping with sweat? How does riding a bike in the snow work? No salary on earth could convince...
[14:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:05] <exec> 08└─For the few who can do so because conditions permit it--great, have at it biking to work. For the other 99%, this is a joke. I also have a family to support and if a car takes me out on my bike, there goes my family's life as well. Bike in places that were made for bikes.
[14:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:08] <exec> 08└─Staggering to work is 'cyclingly' good for you.
[14:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:10] <exec> 08└─It sounds like it would not work for you as a commuter option. In NYC they salt the roads so they're always passable even when it's cold; people throw on enough to keep the wind off, while the activity keeps them warm. Given your back issues it might be worth checking out recumbent bikes if you woul...
[14:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 2893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:12] <exec> 08└─Many drivers think cyclists are assholes because they're born that way. We must be assholes for reasons though. My experience basically mirrors yours and I'm in Europe (Germany, big city/metropol area). Round here we mostly have separate bike lanes, the closer to city center the better develoved. Bu...
[14:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:32] <exec> 08└─HFCS is basically a manmade equivalent of honey (about half fructose, half glucose, some water). It's the AMOUNT of sugar that kills. Processed foods have WAY, WAY too much sugar! Honey isn't good for you either, BTW.
[14:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:34] <exec> 08└─I suppose they could use nitrogen gas to make the bubbles instead of CO2. N2 is inert and wouldn't affect flavor. That said, I do like plain seltzer water.
[14:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:46] <exec> 08└─There is no point in planning for the zombie apocalypse; if things get that bad, it virtually doesn't matter what any of your previous investment decisions have been. I mean, you might as well just put a bullet in your head right now if you're going to plan your life around such scenarios. There's n...
[14:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Robotics Artist Makes Real-Life 'Transformers' - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:53] <exec> 08└─Any pictures anywhere? Even the article itself appears to have none. I could write a blog about me being twenty feet tall then include no pics too, of what value would that be?
[14:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Robotics Artist Makes Real-Life 'Transformers' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:55] <exec> 08└─This is the 21st century not the 24th! How would they magically get these pictures??
[14:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:11] <exec> 08└─Because your decision to raise the price of life-saving drugs killed people.
[14:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:59] <exec> 08└─A lot of great comments above. Another point re City vs nation states: geographic diversity. In the event of large disaster, city-states benefit from the assistance of others not in the immediate impacted area. For example, some say Houston / Texas would make a great stand-alone city state. But now,...
[14:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:00] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough that I remember when cyberpunk was new. There were quite a few novels exploring the concepts and effects of FOQNEs aka franchise operated quasi national entities. Its not that far fetched when you consider disneyland is kind of a childrens-FOQNE or cruise ships and tour packages and v...
[14:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:48] <exec> 08└─somebody else can take out credit for you. Looks like you still lost the game
[14:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:49] <exec> 08└─did I miss amateur hour
[14:05:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:49] <exec> 08└─The darkly hilarious part of this is when the men gas on about how they're the logical sex, and then if you truly examine how and why they do what they do, it's pure in-group politics and social signalling--as emotional as it gets!
[14:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:29] <exec> 08└─Alternative interpretation:
[14:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─If you must post links to search results, would you please at least post DuckDuckGo, IxQuick, or Ecosia? Ecosia would probably be best for this purpose.
[14:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:02] <exec> 08└─LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111
[14:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:27] <exec> 08└─As launch prices continue to fall, suborbital "joyrides" are likely to cease being notably cheaper than getting to LEO. At which point, why settle for a brief joyride when you can take a trip to an orbital "amusement park"?
[14:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:29] <exec> 08└─How is that sad? New heights are reached standing on the shoulders of the new normalcy. How many people realize what an accomplishment it is to be able to fly across the country in a couple hours? Or heck, even drive 20 miles in a few minutes? For the entire medieval period, and probably a fair time...
[14:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole Near the Center of the Milky Way - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:40] <exec> 08└─I suspect they're at least fairly sensitive to the mass involved to provide the observed distribution of velocities. Pack 100,000 solar masses into a region, with nothing visible... I suppose it could be a cluster of even lower mass black holes - but as you increase the number you increase the odds...
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[15:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:36] <exec> 08└─You know it! Dіck Niggers. So you know we never fuck no old pussy. And you know we fuck a whole lotta young pussy. You gonna be out of breath when Dіck Niggers gonna dip this nigger dіck in yo cunt.
[15:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:38] <exec> 08└─Help help me I'm out of breath because there's a black man with an erection and he's chasing me.
[15:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:51] <exec> 08└─In the next days there will be another earthquake with equivalent magnitude in another part of the world.
[15:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:15] <exec> 08└─You can also do books on tape, music, podcasts, or any other thing you would do in a car. I did Pimsleur language courses.
[15:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:16] <exec> 08└─Those conditions are all true of cycling in NYC, too. In the summer or winter, cyclists wear exercise clothes during their commute and change to nicer clothes at work in the bathroom or at a gym close to their office. In the winter they throw on a windbreaker or wear longer pants. The activity keeps...
[15:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:18] <exec> 08└─We think cyclists are assholes because so many can't be bothered to follow basic traffic rules: blowing through red lights and stop signs, crossing a road when the signal tells them "Don't cross", etc. But hey, in a competion of car vs. biker flesh, car wins every time, so there is that justice. Jus...
[15:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:21] <exec> 08└─Denmark is also flat. A combination of factors are what make biking practical or impractical.
[15:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jtmach [1481] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:23] <exec> 08└─The DARPA Grand Challenge had a couple of motorcycle contenders several years ago. So I'm sure somebody somewhere is working on it. I was just confirming, and discovered that one of the core people working on that project was Anthony Levandowski. He probably has some free time on his hands right now...
[15:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:45] <exec> 08└─Also, I find that sucralose (splenda) tastes a lot like sugar. Before I started using it, I looked up some of the studies on its safety, and it seemed fine.
[15:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:46] <exec> 08└─However carbonated drinks taste like crap unless they've been sweetened. They are horrible and bitter. That's why you can't just grab a juice and make it fizzy - it doesn't work. You have to counteract the taste.
[15:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 2472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:49] <exec> 08└─http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/28/diet-foods-will-cause-obesity-not-cure-it.aspx [mercola.com] Diet Foods Will Cause Obesity, Not Cure It August 28, 2007 • 85,138 views Previous Next Why Breastfeeding in the First Hour of Life is Important Could Too Many An...
[15:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:51] <exec> 08└─However carbonated drinks taste like crap unless they've been sweetened. They are horrible and bitter.
[15:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:53] <exec> 08└─This press release is weird on many levels appeal to consumers' changing tastes
[15:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:55] <exec> 08└─As someone with a serious coke addiction (~ 4 cans per day) -- DON'T FUCKING TOUCH MY COKE!
[15:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:57] <exec> 08└─Its an exact analogy, on many levels, to the phenomena of "harmless" "non-addictive" medically prescribed painkillers leading eventually to heroin deaths. Its almost not even an analogy, there's just some irrelevant differences in chemical structure of the chemicals involved. Same human reasoning an...
[15:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:10] <exec> 08└─You think you need a zombie apocalypse in order to lose electricity? A blown-up transformer and nobody available to fix it are more than sufficient for that scenario. If you think of a backup generator in your cellar, note that it is not sufficient that you have electricity. Every router between you...
[15:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:36] <exec> 08└─He might break it in frustration, so what?
[15:03:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:32] <exec> 08└─LOTS of Marxian academics have proved this over the past 2 centuries. There's more research than you can shake a stick it. This isn't "News." The only answer is to forcibly level the playing field. Capitalism is a SUCKER GAME. How do we know? A BILLIONAIRE is now the president of the US, and there's...
[15:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:16] <exec> 08└─Because Bank B will file on your credit, causing your legitimate creditors to review the conditions they provide you, your insurance providers to raise your rates, and credit to be denied to you should you suddenly need it.
[15:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:45] <exec> 08└─I guess you don't see how state regulation can be used to interfere with interstate commerce
[15:05:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:01] <exec> 08└─Equal opportunities not outcomes!!! Nobody had to recruit me into my career. I thought it would be interesting, and it was. Why shouldn't people -- all people -- be allowed to choose careers they find interesting instead of being pushed into something they clearly don't want? This is just more ridic...
[15:05:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:44] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm . . . My son's story might interest you. He graduated from Texas A&M at Commerce. His first job was a pretty good job, but he started looking around pretty soon for a better job. Found one that really interests him, and applied for it. He made it over the first couple hurdles, was scheduled fo...
[15:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:34] <exec> 08└─I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I've worked in a bunch of places, and the stereotype for HR that I've seen is 20s-50s white women in reasonably fit condition (the younger ones can be quite hot, the older ones are in reasonable shape, not usually very fat). The ones older than thei...
[15:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:35] <exec> 08└─Fires are far more survivable in natural fiber clothing, than any plastic crap. Surely this depends on the exact artificial fiber you're talking about; they vary wildly in their properties you know. Isn't Nomex an artificial fiber? Race car drivers are covered head-to-toe in that stuff. Maybe you sh...
[15:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:37] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the experience was good for him. People need to break out of their shells and shed their oppressive moral codes like this.
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[16:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Auroras Powered by Particles from Io - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:21] <exec> 08└─Far out! Dіck Niggers. That's right we never fuck no old pussy. But you know we fuck a whole lotta young pussy. You gonna have a powful aurora when Dіck Niggers stick this nigger dіck up yo cunt and shoot out black hot nigger particles.
[16:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:30] <exec> 08└─Atsushi Shimizu is the inventor of the world's first typhoon turbine—an extremely durable, eggbeater-shaped device that can not only withstand the awesome forces generated by a typhoon, it can convert all that power into useable energy. Shimizu's calculations show that a sufficiently large array o...
[16:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:44] <exec> 08└─Better get tested for STDs then.
[16:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:46] <exec> 08└─The San Andreas fault is being renamed the Kardashian fault because the crack was found to be larger than previously thought.
[16:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:15] <exec> 08└─Just saying its possible to put bikes on roads, but putting bikes on bike paths inside multi-use parks is even better.
[16:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:17] <exec> 08└─Western Europe has fantastic weather, if you average it over the year, compared to much of America; the climate in Europe is very mild, which is why civilization there has been so historically successful compared to other places. We have hotter summers and colder winters in North America.
[16:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:19] <exec> 08└─Then the same thing is true of those activities while driving or walking on the street in a city. Drivers distracted by smartphones crash and are injured or killed. Pedestrians absorbed in their smartphones get run down or fall into open sidewalk grates. Why is listening to music or a podcast while...
[16:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:21] <exec> 08└─How does riding a bike in the snow work? I used to bike to and from class in college. Granted, I didn't have to go far as my apartment was a little over a mile away, but I rode in ALL weather, including snow as it was a college town in the mountains. I can't speak for mountain bikes, but I had a roa...
[16:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:23] <exec> 08└─I used to live in Minnesota, and I rode to work for the 3 years I was there. It was about 4 miles each way. Although we didn't have the hills, we had proper winter (below zero for several months) and hot/muggy summers. I did have the advantage of being off the roads, because the city was ridiculousl...
[16:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:25] <exec> 08└─But you're OK with a heart attack or diabetes striking you down and leaving your family in the lurch because you haven't gotten enough exercise? You're OK with the risk of getting in a car and being killed in one of the, what, 50,000 fatal car accidents per year? Or in getting in a commuter train an...
[16:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:28] <exec> 08└─Bah! The only factor really at work here is the mental one. People are afraid to change, or go against their perception of how the people around them will judge them. On this subject as in so many other things humans can be so distressingly akin to cattle. Sure, if you live in a mountain monastery i...
[16:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:30] <exec> 08└─cyclists are assholes because so many can't be bothered to follow basic traffic rules
[16:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 1983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:32] <exec> 08└─You either haven't looked hard enough, or don't appreciate the difficulty of the problem. There's actually a number of attempts at such a thing. I believe that the problem is that such an enclosure adds considerable weight, much of it above the rider, which makes it far more difficult to steer and b...
[16:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:34] <exec> 08└─If you're factoring all the (time) costs of driving, you also shouldn't leave out the time spent earning money to pay for gas, insurance, parking (if necessary), etc. So many people forget that spending money is equivalent to spending the time it took to earn that money, which can lead to some reall...
[16:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:37] <exec> 08└─I had a close call this morning with a bicyclist. He was riding on the sidewalk in a direction against the flow of traffic, and had not intended to stop before he crossed the driveway. There enough ahole bicyclists out there as well.
[16:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:06] <exec> 08└─"However carbonated drinks taste like crap unless they've been sweetened. They are horrible and bitter. That's why you can't just grab a juice and make it fizzy - it doesn't work. You have to counteract the taste." Yeah that's just not true. Sparkling water doesn't taste "horrible and bitter." Spark...
[16:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:08] <exec> 08└─I know some people do carbonate juices with them, and AIUI the main issues don't involve taste, but the fact that any particles in the juice serve as nucleation sites, so anything not completely clear can end up rapidly (for something like pulpy orange juice, explosively) decarbonating when you let...
[16:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:10] <exec> 08└─Sugar is a food that is far and away easier to overconsume than any other. That's the danger of carbohydrates. You can't eat a full day's worth of kcal in fat in one sitting without feeling really sick. You...could eat a full day's worth of protein in whey powder or something, but it's not exactly p...
[16:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:12] <exec> 08└─Is it a coke addiction, a sugar addiction, or a caffeine addiction? It might be worth playing with those variables and seeing if you can chart a course to healthier alternatives. Black and green teas, for example, will deliver the caffeine without the sugar and confer the anti-oxidant benefits at th...
[16:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:14] <exec> 08└─It's true that diet foods are bad for you, but eating the full-sugar ones is no answer. The best thing is to eat those celery sticks, carrots, and what-not instead. It's tough to break out of the sugar cycle that America and some of the rest of the world are on, but once you manage it the cravings f...
[16:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:17] <exec> 08└─"enzyme" things ending in -ase and things ending in -saccharides are in no way indicative of a non-natural source or process.
[16:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:19] <exec> 08└─Why don't they use stevia? It already exists and after a short adjustment period of about a week nobody will be able to tell anymore. You can bake with it, you can use it in hot things and cold and it can perfectly substitute every place in processed food where sugar is now. I have a ketogenic cookb...
[16:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:32] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of survival on the wrong timescale. Gold and other precious metals are mostly useless in the immediate timeframe after somme sort of collapse or disaster, but they are hedge in the intermediate scale. The ifs whats and hows are going to be wildly different based on what sort of scen...
[16:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:34] <exec> 08└─The zombie apocalypse is the indefinite loss of electricity, etc.
[16:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:49] <exec> 08└─Yep - exactly. A number of science fiction stories have been written on the subject of multi-nationals. For one really dysfunctional version, read Jennifer Government, by Max Barry. Other authors have built a story around multinationals, without really addressing the corporate world directly. In add...
[16:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:50] <exec> 08└─Tyranny and debt... both the result of subservience and the quest for domination. The alpha rules the roost. Watch Animal Planet for a couple of hours to see the root cause. We aren't doing anything particularly different. Just apes flinging their highly explosive poo [wikimedia.org].
[16:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JavaDevGuy [5155] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:06] <exec> 08└─How is this news? This is simply the golden rule at work: Those who have the gold, make the rules.
[16:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:12] <exec> 08└─So much for local control. So much for states rights. States are the "laboratories of democracy", except when some business wants to "speed the deployment" of their product. Then the rights of state and local governments to control their own territory, their own public property, and the legal rights...
[16:05:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:36] <exec> 08└─All these programs start way too late. As long as parents are giving dolls to little girls and blocks to little boys, these problems will continue. You can't fix the problem in the workplace, college, or even highschool. You have to start as soon as the kid can walk. Provide a variety of options, an...
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[17:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:26] <exec> 08└─Bonjooor! Nous sommes les Dіck Niggers. On ne baise jamais la vieille chatte. On baise toujours une jeune chatte.
[17:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:27] <exec> 08└─Ok, that's actually pretty funny (not gonna mod it up though).
[17:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:30] <exec> 08└─A largely symbolic gesture, but sometimes symbols matter. They either stop issuing E&P permits or they don't. Nothing symbolic about it... (you need an E&P permit before you start drilling)
[17:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:45] <exec> 08└─Does it work with hurricanes? Because we're getting a lot, a lot of hurricanes. I loved what we did with Harvey. Really nice, a wonderful thing. It’s been a wonderful thing, I think, even for the country to watch it and for the world to watch. It’s been beautiful, a beautiful sight. Great TV! An...
[17:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:02] <exec> 08└─That is not insightful! Funny mod maybe, lay off the crack or at least wait till the evening.
[17:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:43] <exec> 08└─While I like bikes, I do think you're understating the risks - this page (https://bicycleuniverse.info/bicycle-safety-almanac/) discusses some of the difficulties in approximating actual risks, but comes to the conclusion that you're about 3.4x-11.5x as likely to die per mile on a bike than in a car...
[17:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:44] <exec> 08└─I approve of the headline.
[17:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:46] <exec> 08└─Cyclists have zero monopoly on breaking the rules of the road, and to be honest I've seen way more stories about cars mowing down pedestrians than cyclists. There's a reason, cyclists know they won't "win" any collision with a pedestrian. Good luck with yoru next lying post.
[17:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:48] <exec> 08└─No need to tire yourself accelerating from stops when you know traffic light timings. Timings are pretty systematic here, if you commute the same route for a while you'll figure them out. I'll admit to being an asshole to pedestrians in one specific case: them being in my lane and not giving way in...
[17:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:50] <exec> 08└─If a car taking you out on your bike takes away your family's support, get some fucking insurance dude. There's more hazards in this life than getting hit by a car. No place is "made" for bikes without government action. Amsterdam in 1950 was wall to wall cars, and you needed a car. The government d...
[17:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:53] <exec> 08└─Don't let reality hinder you there... There are valid reasons yo not bike, safety being #1.
[17:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:30] <exec> 08└─The thing about splenda is it affects your glycemic index, the same as nutrasweet and other "diet" sweeteners do. Your body responds to it the way it would to sugar. Stevia doesn't do that. Also, stevia is kind of self-limiting. There's only so much of it you can use before something reaches a maxim...
[17:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:31] <exec> 08└─They do use stevia. They use it in dozens of products. Coca-Cola Life is mostly sweetened with Stevia; It's on shelves locally and has been for months; I've tried it... I'm primary coca-cola drinker in the house, and I thought it was ok, but i preferred regular coca-cola. However my wife hated it......
[17:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:33] <exec> 08└─I think it's the bubbles. And the slightly metallic taste. And the delicious, delicious, tooth-rotting phosphoric acid. No one in my extended family is fat or has diabetes, so my risk is low. I do, however, have a lot of fillings. Thank god I have dental coverage. One day I'll have to cut it out. Pr...
[17:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:36] <exec> 08└─Is this the "new coke" and the return of "coke classic" we are seeing again? Didn't they learn not to fuck with the recipe last time? Sure it was 30ish years ago now so they probably replaced enough people to forget about it or think that this is an awesome idea again.
[17:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:51] <exec> 08└─No electricity is enough for the zombie apocalypse? Really? Because no electricity is certainly enough for the "bitcoin apocalypse".
[17:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:53] <exec> 08└─if things get that bad, it virtually doesn't matter what any of your previous investment decisions have been.
[17:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Robotics Artist Makes Real-Life 'Transformers' - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:03] <exec> 08└─Shitty movies. that is the only place to see them. Not video games, tv shows or comic books. Just shitty movies. Definitely not toys that the said movies, show, games and comics were designed to sell. Only shitty, shitty movies.
[17:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:21] <exec> 08└─His attempt to prove that he isn't as big of a dick as everyone thought...
[17:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:22] <exec> 08└─Neither. I'd say let him go free BUT take ALL his assets and money and make it so he can only ever take minimum-wage jobs. For his kind, and all white-collar criminals, that would be hell on earth.
[17:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:15] <exec> 08└─Debt. Nearly all national governments borrow more and more money, which either places a huge load on the national economy or drives inflation (or both), thus impoverishing the populace over the long-term.
[17:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:17] <exec> 08└─Man I hope this is all a precursor to spherical cows.
[17:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:19] <exec> 08└─No worries. Al Gore will invent indestructible tubes.
[17:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:21] <exec> 08└─This essay is ridiculous, haha... It's more likely that nation-states are simply not universal. There's lots of places where they haven't worked as well; Afghanistan and Somalia, for example. There isn't anywhere saying you have to use the same model for everywhere! You can have both!
[17:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:13] <exec> 08└─Because Bank B will file on your credit, causing your legitimate creditors to review the conditions they provide you, your insurance providers to raise your rates, and credit to be denied to you should you suddenly need it.
[17:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:44] <exec> 08└─I agree that the feds regulating intrastate commerce is an obvious over-reach.
[17:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:30] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna have to disagree. It not lack of diversity, in this particular case. It's about convenience. Voice authentication is hard, and very sensitive microphones picking up as much frequency as possible can help. If the customer has to repeat orders in the same exact voice and frequency as they di...
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[18:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:30] <exec> 08└─The point is that the current production is so low (1 or 2% of the country's usage), it doesn't really change much to stop drilling. Savings from insulation/solar/wind/electric cars will offset the loss of production by an least order of magnitude.
[18:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:31] <exec> 08└─As long as it is just France, it is probably fine. But civilization certainly still needs these fuels now, and setting an arbitrary date won't change whether they are needed in the future. So in 2040, France will be importing its petroleum products. Global warming drum-beaters should take note of th...
[18:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:34] <exec> 08└─It would have come off better if he said, pénis nègre
[18:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:36] <exec> 08└─Sequestering all that C02 into plastic would actually be a good thing from a global warming perspective.
[18:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:38] <exec> 08└─TFA says they produce 6 million barrels per year. So, yeah, it's not going to save the planet by itself but it's still progress.
[18:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:40] <exec> 08└─No, it's completely symbolic. It will have no real economic impact. It's not the same magnitude of decision of a country like, say Russia, saying they will stop oil and gas production. Although of course France will attempt to pass it off as similar, or even in the same galaxy of political economic...
[18:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:43] <exec> 08└─setting an arbitrary date won't change whether they are needed in the future
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:45] <exec> 08└─And squander our brand recognition? Hell no bitch. "dick" OK "nigger" OK "dick nigger" OK "dick nigger-s" BAD we bad and boujee
[18:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:47] <exec> 08└─Silly statement, the CO2 is already sequestered as oil so processing it dumps more into the atmosphere. Now if you can switch all plastic production to a renewable/nuclear powered plant that sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere then sure, sequestering it in plastic sounds good.
[18:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:04] <exec> 08└─> Shimizu's calculations show that a sufficiently large array of his turbines could capture enough energy from a single typhoon to power Japan for 50 years. Which is completely useless, unrealistic, and borderline stupid. Back on the topic, I'm not sure that battery storage at the turbine is a great...
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:21] <exec> 08└─Logical: You need a good trench to have solid foundations for the best wall. Not like those bad tunnels that bad hombres use to go under beautiful walls. If you make a good enough trench, you can turn it into a moat, optionally with crocodiles. Aren't we glad even Southern Mexico is now listening to...
[18:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:23] <exec> 08└─Make that a 2-week trip max, because winter is coming, and Yellowstone is overdue for blowing up.
[18:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:10] <exec> 08└─Your knees will likely go bad before you retire. Your back, feet, and hips might go too. One day you are athletic, and the next day you are in pain and facing the near-inevitability of putting on weight because you can't exercise well. You could fall while hiking, causing your knee to twist. (done i...
[18:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:12] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1 [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It has been done. Perhaps not to the level of Tron bikes, but as much as is feasibly possible while keeping the things affordable. As with almost everything you see around you, enginee...
[18:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:14] <exec> 08└─I should be fine. I don't have a wife, and I never leave my bed. I only drink weak tea and eat saltine crackers. I should live longer than Aristarchus!
[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:16] <exec> 08└─It's not just bike deaths that are a concern, but also non-fatal injuries. Those can take you out of work short term or long term or at least be a real "inconvenience" for a while. If you have dependents (small children and wife), this becomes disruptive to them too. I appreciate your fatality stati...
[18:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:18] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer to be alive with my family and contributing over them getting an insurance payout. Maybe you feel otherwise. Do you even have a family?
[18:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:21] <exec> 08└─Apologies if the accident stats are included in the link you provided; don't have time to go beyond your summary at the moment.
[18:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:23] <exec> 08└─"bicycling to work can theoretically be good exercise although in practice it isn't for most people" "good exercise leads to good shape" "good shape leads to long life" Looks like it's a correlation study. so it's more like: "People who bike to work die from cancer less." (insert required correlatio...
[18:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:25] <exec> 08└─Sahara or Alaska? H for Alaska, V for both, AC for Sahara.
[18:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:27] <exec> 08└─Steer-by-wire on a motorcycle is maybe a more challenging technical problem than you realize. It's much more about actively and precisely controlling distribution of rider weight on the bike and applying force downward on one side of the grips. It's a very active and integrated experience, human and...
[18:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:29] <exec> 08└─No, it's not possible to choose a happy medium. Bikers and drivers need to pay attention to what they are doing and not be distracted. Less of an issue for people walking. Not sure why you brought that up? This is a bad argument. Bad, distracted drivers running people over due to their arrogance and...
[18:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:32] <exec> 08└─Skinny tires work well in snow as you get more pressure on a smaller contact patch
[18:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:13] <exec> 08└─Trouble with N2 is that it is inert and doesn't affect flavor: https://www.thenakedscientists.com [thenakedscientists.com]
[18:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:14] <exec> 08└─The process, which uses biological agents derived from nature, is by definition artificial. "Natural" syrups and sugars only exist at far lower purities. Sugarcane goes through an artificial process to become refined white sugar, though this process is more primitive than the HFCS chemistry. Even ma...
[18:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:16] <exec> 08└─Stevia is awesome, yeah. I never touch HFCS now and make my own lemonade and sports drinks (same but add some salt and some KCl) with it. I'm in the weird position of being an American and hating almost all American foods, for the reasons most Europeans and Chinese point out: too sweet, too much fri...
[18:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:18] <exec> 08└─The more Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, etc. you drink, the more weight you gain? I've never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke. But trust me, it's not the worst thing. I have a little button on my desk. I press it, it buzzes the butler. And he brings me Coke. When Obama pressed that button, his imam cam...
[18:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:21] <exec> 08└─And Cynaide is just a perfectly natural part of a peach pit...
[18:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Robotics Artist Makes Real-Life 'Transformers' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:47] <exec> 08└─I drove enough miles today to know we're not in a real-life transformer movie. Nowhere near enough explosions.
[18:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:07] <exec> 08└─Cthulhu has had time to learn about recording studios, and can send his minions for the original masters, or more simply for the original authors...
[18:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:03] <exec> 08└─> They tried that in Yugoslavia. > The term "Ethnic Cleansing" was invented there. > Turns out people don't like to be driven from their homes just because some politician says it's for the greater good. Indeed they tried it there. It also worked perfectly. Take Croatia for example, after expelling...
[18:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:57] <exec> 08└─Yep. I probably have about 10-15 parasites on my credit right now, just as I did 20 years ago when I first looked into it. Checked the website, I "may have been affected", and I just laughed. 1) I don't use credit 2) If a company demands a credit report before doing business with me, I remind them t...
[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:59] <exec> 08└─And need I point out that, with the IRS, they don't need to prove you are guilty, you need to prove you are innocent?
[18:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:01] <exec> 08└─Ohhhh, I hope they fucking do. Please, please, please let this happen to me. Banks have what lawyers masturbate to at night; Deep Pockets. If Bank B fucked up that big, I can get Lawyer C to put the big D into Bank B. Afterwards, I get a tidy sum after splitting it with the lawyer. In a court of law...
[18:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, Stand your ground. I did it with a wireless carrier that claimed I racked up thousands of dollars in charges on an account opened in my name with my social. Of course... this was Sprint. Who I have never done business with in my life. I never signed any contract, and Sprint is notorious for shi...
[18:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:05] <exec> 08└─Some things to be aware of about that: 1. According to TechCrunch's article on this [techcrunch.com], accepting the identity protection offer waives your right to participate in the pending class-action lawsuit against Equifax. 2. According to ArsTechnica [arstechnica.com], the site https://www.equi...
[18:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:07] <exec> 08└─I mean, don't they all expect to go to jail over this?
[18:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:53] <exec> 08└─I think you've hit on the crucial point. There needs to be an agreed upon definition that is objectively testable, and the test has to be appropriate for the definition. People always us a lot of "you know what I mean" when the talk about self awareness. With an appropriate definition I could correc...
[18:09:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 609 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:20] <exec> 08└─The EPA needs to regulate grants so that enough grants are allowed to fund any science or technical activity that would result in more practical application, such as commerce, industry, manufacturing, coal mining, etc. The EPA wants to protect from too much science funding which could unintentionall...
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─You had me going up to that last line. Well played, sir!
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[19:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:36] <exec> 08└─Somos los Penes Erectos Negros. Nunca follamos coño viejo. Siempre follamos coño joven.
[19:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:38] <exec> 08└─¿¿Donde están los Dick Niggerѕ??
[19:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:57] <exec> 08└─*points and laughs at crafoo the soon-to-be-oilpatch* cause dinosaurs turn into oil :D
[19:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:59] <exec> 08└─setting an arbitrary date won't change whether they are needed in the future
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:01] <exec> 08└─Looks like you all got mod-bombed by the admins or a disgruntled reader. Whatever, they have no sense of humor at all. As usual the politically correct are too easily triggered. Such a shame, they have to ruin everything for all of us. Bunch of fascist pussies! So much negativism and hate!
[19:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:03] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your support, Mr President.
[19:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:06] <exec> 08└─I thought dinosaurs turn into museum exhibits.
[19:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:40] <exec> 08└─I prefer it when it is too cold for the city to salt the roads (-20C or around 0F). Bike lasts longer, and stays cleaner that way. Anything above freezing is good too.
[19:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:41] <exec> 08└─Short answer is that it is a challenge, and you will probably fall over on occasion. Skinny tires are only really good on fresh snow. I prefer knobby or even studded tires. They make (expensive) bikes with balloon tires that will ride on top of the snow as well. I find having a slightly heavier bike...
[19:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:43] <exec> 08└─If you check per hour traveled, motor vehicles are more dangerous due to the higher speeds involved.
[19:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:46] <exec> 08└─If your car is in a crash, you are more likely to die due to the higher speeds involved. I survived being hit by what was most likely a minivan. Still talking thanks to: luck, equipment (study rear wheel and helmet), and skill (made an emergency steering maneuver to get off the road -- did not fall...
[19:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:48] <exec> 08└─To compare apples to apples, you have to compare incidents per MILE. I have to commute X miles to work. I compare incidents per MILE in a car vs. a bike because those are my choices of how to travel the commuting distance. Per HOUR is meaningless.
[19:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:34] <exec> 08└─The Coke Cola Corp. wants to sell something made from the absolute least expensive ingredients and processing requirements possible. They would like to include the cheapest components that trigger a mild addictive, habit forming behavior. Then turn this product over to a multi-billion dollar marketi...
[19:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:36] <exec> 08└─Carbonated waters (San Pellegrino, La Croix, Perrier, Poland Spring, and many more [thrillist.com]) taste fine or good and are big sellers these days. No added sweeteners. Might not be your preference but many millions of people are buying them. Carbonated juice (like Orangina) contains sugar, added...
[19:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Bitcoins on the Balance Sheet - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:55] <exec> 08└─A decentralized monetary system ... blood will run freely in the streets before that is ever allowed to happen.
[19:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:27] <exec> 08└─The excerpts from jury selection for his case were pretty funny [complex.com], if you missed them. The relevant one: "Juror No. 59: Your Honor, totally he is guilty and in no way can I let him slide out of anything because— The Court: Okay. Is that your attitude toward anyone charged with a crime...
[19:05:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:34] <exec> 08└─Not property taxes, inheritance taxes, combined with laws to defeat the effects of family trusts.
[19:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:39] <exec> 08└─> land rights reform When Zimbabwe decided to do that, at the UK's settler's expense, the UK made them a world pariah, moved to destroy their economy, and blamed it all on the crusty dictator.
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[20:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:29] <exec> 08└─Earlier, state prosecutors said they would bring criminal charges against Catalan leaders for their endorsement of the referendum.
[20:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:31] <exec> 08└─Some articles are more equal than others...
[20:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Spain already knows what the answer of such a referendum would be.
[20:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a possible Constitutional crisis. Any good examples in history where a country had a Constitutional crisis?
[20:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:37] <exec> 08└─End of the nation state [soylentnews.org] No country can allow a small section to secede, otherwise they lose control and money. They'll do whatever they can to stop secession, but obviously it is becoming a rather popular movement around the world. Smaller areas are wondering why they should contin...
[20:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:39] <exec> 08└─Yugoslavia comes to mind. Constitutional crisis was resolved when one side said **** the constitution, took up arms, and the result was a civil war and disintegration of the country. The constitutional crisis was not so much resolved in that scenario as much as rendered irrelevant. Constitutions (an...
[20:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:42] <exec> 08└─That might be dicey for Spain vis-a-vis the EU. Maybe better informed people can chime in here, but I recall the EU constitution paying a lot of lip service to self-determination. If Catalonia secedes and succeeds, will Brittany and Scotland follow?
[20:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:44] <exec> 08└─If Catalonia manages to leave Spain, my guess is that the Basques (border with France, Pyrenees mountains) will be next. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The name in Basque is Euskal Herria. The name is difficult to accurately translate into other...
[20:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:08] <exec> 08└─Well every movement has its extreme members, let France pioneer the way forward and we can learn from their mistakes
[20:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:10] <exec> 08└─True, it's largely symbolic in that regard. On the other hand, it also means an end to fracking, etc., which I imagine is done there as well. And which will likely have a very real impact on water quality and geologic stability.
[20:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, fracking has seen so much opposition in Europe (which is no longer a vast empty place where money now trumps consequences) that many countries have banned it, including France I believe.
[20:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Auroras Powered by Particles from Io - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:21] <exec> 08└─ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS - EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
[20:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Auroras Powered by Particles from Io - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:23] <exec> 08└─up to 400,000 volts. That's an enormous amount of energy
[20:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Auroras Powered by Particles from Io - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:26] <exec> 08└─hmmm [userfriendly.org]
[20:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnitude 8+ Earthquake Hits Mexico - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:01] <exec> 08└─Mexico is literally shaking after hearing about DACA.
[20:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:05] <exec> 08└─Not sure what you are asserting. Car vs. car crash maybe? I can say definitively that in a car, I am protected in a collision by: 1) car body crumple zones 2) seat belt 3) airbags A bicyclist is protected by... Maybe a little piece of styrofoam on the top of his head. That's it. You don't have to di...
[20:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:07] <exec> 08└─See the Monotracer for one production example.
[20:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:09] <exec> 08└─Just for shits and giggles I looked up the % grade of the Brooklyn Bridge and its a 3.5% grade. Where I live we have streets that go over 30%.
[20:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:11] <exec> 08└─Snow is fine, it's ice that causes problems. You can get tyres with small metal spikes for icy conditions. Don't use them myself but a work colleague does for a 20 mile commute each way, every day in all conditions. I have just three miles on gritted roads, and also cycle every day in all conditions...
[20:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:13] <exec> 08└─Ease up on the booooze, staggering into a website should really concern you!
[20:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:16] <exec> 08└─In the summer, wear light clothing and cycle slower to avoid sweating, maybe take a shower at work or in the gym/pool before work if you can. My colleague who cycles 20 miles in has a shower after the morning standup. I don't cycle as far so don't need to, but sometimes I go to a nearby pool for an...
[20:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:18] <exec> 08└─If you have a sedentary job like I do sitting at a computer all day, that inactivity is far worse for your health that the chance of a cycling injury. You could drop dead of a heart attack, or you might have a fatal collision. Not cycling comes with its own risk factors. I've had a few cycling injur...
[20:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:06] <exec> 08└─You mean high fructose corn syrup is cheap. Your body processes HFCS differently than sugar.
[20:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:08] <exec> 08└─Sparkling water and seltzer taste rather unpleasant to me. The best description is salty but it's not.
[20:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:10] <exec> 08└─Username checks out...
[20:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:00] <exec> 08└─I believe that trope is called "murder, arson, and jaywalking".
[20:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─And need I point out that, with the IRS, they don't need to prove you are guilty, you need to prove you are innocent?
[20:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:58] <exec> 08└─Your quote doesn't match the question. The question was whether process in the tax court could be described as fair. That it may take longer to claim a tax refund in the case of identity theft is obvious.
[20:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:01] <exec> 08└─Months and $$$ later, yeah, you may receive justice. Depends if you can afford to front the $$$ and spend months fighting. Seems unlikely to me that a lawyer would take such a case purely on contingency.
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[21:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Brings Robotic Vehicles and UAVs Together in Combat Demonstration - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:30] <exec> 08└─Every country hesitates to start a war because so many of their young people would die. This removes that concern. When this is brought into the field, America will become an Empire.
[21:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:48] <exec> 08└─It looks like Spain wants to continue leeching off of Catalonia and will use force to keep it's host in line. i hope you have a plan, Catalonia!
[21:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Germans could lend a hand they have some experience in helping with constitutional crisis in Spain
[21:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:52] <exec> 08└─Earlier, state prosecutors said they would bring criminal charges against Catalan leaders for their endorsem of the referendum.
[21:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:54] <exec> 08└─Catalonia, California, Catalonia, California. Coincidence? I think NOT!
[21:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:56] <exec> 08└─Catalonia's debt with the Spanish state is about 200 Billions of euros, and they choose to borrow money from the Spanish state instead of the international market because Catalonia has trash BBB- rating and is much cheaper if they get it at the Spanish state international rate. Madrid put twice more...
[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:58] <exec> 08└─Darned Commies, the lot of them, Each and every human being should be a self-sustaining profit centre contributing to the business, Every man is an island. The Market will eliminate the deadwood.
[21:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:01] <exec> 08└─Offtopic or not, that is a funny response :) Some context might be nice, but that is in other posts....
[21:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:03] <exec> 08└─¡Son todas vacas! ¡Las vacas van moooooo! Moooo vacas moooo! ¡Mooo va las vacas! ¡VACAS CATALUÑAS!
[21:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:05] <exec> 08└─The EU Constitution may pay lip service to self-determination, but in reality the EU seems to poo-poo the idea. They weren't supportive of Scotland's independence referendum at all, threatening Scotland with not being part of the EU, though one of the main reasons Scotland wanted out of the UK was s...
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[21:01:32] <exec> 08└─> ...setting an arbitrary date won't change whether they are needed in the future. For many years I've been suggesting (and only "half-joking") that the high energy density of petroleum liquid fuels means that we should save them for extraordinary uses. All this mundane moving people and goods aroun...
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[21:01:33] <exec> 08└─Ah, but zink of ze toureests - ze sweet ring of ze bells on ze bicycles, ze men teepiing z'er 'ats at ze ladies passing by walkiing...
[21:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:56] <exec> 08└─How about pumped storage at the wind turbine? Here's a proposal to do pumped "in reverse", pump out a sphere under the off-shore turbine, the concrete sphere also is part of the support structure: http://news.mit.edu [mit.edu]
[21:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:57] <exec> 08└─But it's pinko-commie wind power and it puts coal miners and frackers out of a job. Think of the share price!
[21:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:00] <exec> 08└─What would be really useful would to be to have an array of turbines in the locations where the storms form to extract the energy as they form so that you would have less extreme engineering to do regarding the strength of the turbines and you'd get a weaker storm too. I haven't done the calculation...
[21:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:29] <exec> 08└─That's not bad. Thanks.
[21:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:30] <exec> 08└─That's good. 50km gets you four hours of exercise each day, that's a perfect amount to stave off cancer!
[21:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:33] <exec> 08└─So, presumably you militate against people listening to music while they drive or walk, because they need to "concentrate on the task at hand?" The most important sense in avoiding crashes is sight. If you're watching where you're going and checking your six before changing lanes or turning, you're...
[21:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:35] <exec> 08└─Why would a bicycle be expected to stop before crossing a driveway? Would you also expect a wheelchair or pedestrian to stop? And if a bicycle was going "the right way" in your opinion, then it would have been OK? Something is missing from your story. Where were you, and how did you get there, such...
[21:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:37] <exec> 08└─You just can't help some people. Like motorcyclists that ride without helmets... so with bicyclists that cut off one of their main senses. That makes no sense, man. You are in the most dangerous position of anyone on the road, so you need to be extra aware of your surroundings. Don't lull yourself;...
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[21:03:39] <exec> 08└─If you are on a sidewalk you stop and look both ways before crossing the street. Don't you? This was not an intersection with a pedestrian signal either. Yes, yes I would expect someone walking or in a wheelchair, or on a scooter, or hovering 6 inches off the ground to stop before they If you are on...
[21:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:31] <exec> 08└─There are glimmers of better options on the horizon as far as the larger culinary scene in America is concerned. I'm a DIY-kind of guy and am quite happy with the organic, heirloom seed banks, green markets and such to secure and make my own healthy meals, but regular consumers are starting to have...
[21:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:32] <exec> 08└─i love "coke" but i quit drinking it and "other cokes" years ago. You can quit wasting your time looking for a sugar substitute. Your whole antiquated product is being phased out by humanity. People are wising up to the fact that drinking ridiculous sugar water with added poisons, is bad for you. Yo...
[21:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:24] <exec> 08└─Let us pass the hat around, to collect a bit of money. $2 for Shrek to reduce the CD into dust - Will It Blend comes to mind. And another $2 for Shrek to shoot himself. For just $4 the world becomes a better place. Next up, Zuckieboy, offers $1 an up, dead or dead.
[21:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:24] <exec> 08└─> don't use credit Yes, the solution is to go off the grid. And pity the fools who have postpaid gas, water, electricity, telephone, cable/satellite TV, or Internet.
[21:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:26] <exec> 08└─About insurance: More specifically, the alternative data used in Insight Score for Insurance includes account payment data from the communications, utility and payTV industries to provide you with predictive FCRA consumer data on more than 187 million unique consumers, 27 million of which have no co...
[21:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:28] <exec> 08└─The standard, I think, is a preponderance of evidence. Had they managed to get criminal charges filed against you, the standard would be reasonable doubt.
[21:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:30] <exec> 08└─the cto of the opm says they're looking into this "bitchain stuff".
[21:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─Those aren't credit. Those are bills. The former is someone advancing you money and hoping you pay it back, the latter is simply charging you either before or after services have been rendered. In the case of my Internet and insurance bills, it's before because they know exactly what the charge will...
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─Now if you *define* self-awareness as being able to recognize yourself in a mirror, many people wouldn't pass.
[21:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:25] <exec> 08└─Here ya go: https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://www.ixquick.com [ixquick.com] The reason I don't use those steaming piles of shit is that they try to obfuscate everything behind scripts and don't give re-postable URLs. or Ecosia? Hey! I finally got the half-assed piece of...
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[22:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:32] <exec> 08└─I believe Tolkien never wanted LotR to be filmed. He thought the medium could never do the creatures and scenery of middle earth justice. While there are aspects of Peter Jackson's interpretation that I disagree with, on the whole I think it's excellent, and I really do think that Tolkien might have...
[22:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:34] <exec> 08└─Now, all they have to do is resist the no-doubt-considerable monetary lure of officially-licensed Terry Pratchett's Discworld (TM) novels. What do you mean by that? If you're referring to the three movies (The Hogfather, The Colour of Magic, and Going Postal) I think those adaptation were fine. Reas...
[22:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:36] <exec> 08└─Sure, let's celebrate the destruction of culture just because it was the guy's wishes. No, this should be the impetus to develop a scanner that can reconstruct the data from a few feet away and through a glass case.
[22:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Army Brings Robotic Vehicles and UAVs Together in Combat Demonstration - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:45] <exec> 08└─We have at most 5 years to establish the empire after this tech is fielded. Because that's all the farther behind any nation is. Some might actually be ahead in some aspects of autonomous vehicles. Will it spur an arms race? Probably, but not necessarily a hugely expensive one. The US (like other co...
[22:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Army Brings Robotic Vehicles and UAVs Together in Combat Demonstration - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:47] <exec> 08└─When it becomes drone vs. drone China will easily outproduce us.
[22:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Brings Robotic Vehicles and UAVs Together in Combat Demonstration - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:49] <exec> 08└─Like, come on... aren't the bees having a hard enough time without having to carry grenades for us? ;)
[22:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:15] <exec> 08└─It's only a coincidence in that many, many, many, many areas of the world have communities and peoples that are disenfranchised and exploited by their governments and elite classes. The problem with California is that those elite classes live here too. Most likely, it would be a succession of Califo...
[22:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:17] <exec> 08└─> but there aren't many examples of federal republics being successful with such large differences in cultures and languages between their member-states. Two come to mind for me. Russia (whose full name is the "Russian Federation"), and India, both of which have multiple cultures, religions and lang...
[22:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:19] <exec> 08└─Most likely, it would be a succession of California, Oregon, and Washington. I don't think any of those states have significant percentages of peoples that are not disenfranchised and exploited.
[22:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:21] <exec> 08└─Why would that be difficult to translate? I think it maps pretty directly to "Basquish Country". Like Herri, "country" also can mean anything from "region" to "nation" to "populace".
[22:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:24] <exec> 08└─...because the Basque were smarter...
[22:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:26] <exec> 08└─Now do it in Catalan.
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[22:01:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it has no real economic impact. The magnitude of the decision is more on the order of expanding the area protected as national parks a bit. Which is still considerably different from a converse move [soylentnews.org] of comparable magnitude. Point and laugh.
[22:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Turbine Manufacturers are Dipping Toes into Energy Storage Projects - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:20] <exec> 08└─You look at Japan, they shut down their coal mining. And their economy stopped growing. You've seen Skyfall? They filmed it on Hashima Island, which was a coal mine. They stopped mining the coal, it went to ruins. Went to ruin as fast as Mika Brzezinski's face. Terrific ruins, that's not what I want...
[22:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:50] <exec> 08└─At first you drink soda to feel good, but before long you'll drink it just to keep from feeling bad...
[22:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'll look for that. FWIW it takes me about a week to get used to stevia and stop noticing its aftertaste. That's if I only have stevia and no other kind of sweetener, because your tastebuds won't adapt otherwise. If you mix regular sugar or honey or even splenda into the mix, you'll hate ste...
[22:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Will Pay $1 Million for a New Sugar Substitute - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:53] <exec> 08└─Some sparkling mineral waters are objectively pretty salty, indeed (not necessarily purely NaCl). Doesn't mean it's to blame on the CO2, though.
[22:05:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:58] <exec> 08└─This desire for control has mislead a lot of people. Part of the reason Eurasians couldn't believe the US could possibly work was the lack of total control. They were deep in the delusions perpetrated by the propaganda of medieval monarchies, the whole King by the Grace of God type of stuff, further...
[22:06:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06End of the Nation-State; Return of the City-State - 1687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:22] <exec> 08└─> They were deep in the delusions perpetrated by the propaganda of medieval monarchies, the whole King by the Grace of God type of stuff The UK had been sort of democratic since 1688 (arguably since magna carta). The 1760s demonstrated quite strongly the limitations of the king's power - several gov...
[22:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 1947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:50] <exec> 08└─Then you have no imagination, and are largely ignorant of the processes involved. Sue them in small claims court. The top limit is $5k, but it will only cost you $75 max to initiate the lawsuit. By law, Equifax must appear and send an executive down with the lawyer. This is why when a large corporat...
[22:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:51] <exec> 08└─Your quote doesn't match the question. The question was whether process in the tax court could be described as fair.
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[23:00:29] <exec> 08└─Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books are better than Robert Jordan's. I like the Tolkien "lost tales" and other curated releases because they are presented as unfinished work, so you can appreciate them for what they are. My least favorite, coming from what would eventually be considered the YA g...
[23:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:30] <exec> 08└─Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time books are better than Robert Jordan's.
[23:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:33] <exec> 08└─It's not really culture if it's unpublished. (roll_safe.jpg)
[23:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:35] <exec> 08└─Lampooned in Achille Talon [wikipedia.org], ep38, where a whole page is dedicated to book critics, including one particular critic declaring none of the books as the best in the series.
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[23:00:37] <exec> 08└─> What do you mean by that? Licensing other authors to write "official" discworld novels, using same characters and settings - at least that is how I understood it. And yes it would probably be both lucrative and very likely to turn out badly.
[23:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:39] <exec> 08└─Considering Terry had minor roles in all of them he probably didn't mind. Nigel Planer had roles to in all but Postal as I recall it. Planer reads the uk audiobooks for Terry. It's to bad they have not made more after those 3. I really liked them, especially Hogfather.
[23:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:42] <exec> 08└─I believe he was rather reticent about Hogfather being filmed, but once he saw it he was won over and that's why it was followed up with The Colour of Magic and Going Postal. Long before that, there were animated versions of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters. There have also been audio adaptations of, if...
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[23:00:53] <exec> 08└─You don't want to see what happens when they replace the bees [wikipedia.org].
[23:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Army Brings Robotic Vehicles and UAVs Together in Combat Demonstration - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:54] <exec> 08└─> This removes that concern. When this is brought into the field, America will become an Empire. What do you mean "will become"? From the point of view of the rest of the world, The USA has been an empire for decades, at least since the end of WWII, where they basically became de-facto owners of Eur...
[23:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:27] <exec> 08└─Man, this makes me want to play Europa Universalis again as Spain (Castile). Invade France, Aragon, Portugal... then England. Damn, wish i wasn't working, lol.
[23:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:29] <exec> 08└─Do you have a linky, please?
[23:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:31] <exec> 08└─Kind of like the equalization payments in Canada: Ontario puts more into the 'fund' then it gets out, whereas Quebec gets more out than it puts in. But let's separate, eh Quebec? Glad that talks over (for now).
[23:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:33] <exec> 08└─What would Stephen Maturin do? Independence of course.
[23:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:35] <exec> 08└─Did they call it Quebexit?
[23:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:37] <exec> 08└─The issue is if the law is illegal. Then prosecution is lawful. And the current laws don't allow unilateral secession, so what they did put them under the hammer. But laws can be changed, and then splitting could happen. Even the Constitution can change. Just follow the process to do so. Or with les...
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[23:02:07] <exec> 08└─"mange de la marde christine beauchemin" I remember watching this film in french class: couldn't believe our teacher was letting us learn swear words, lol.
[23:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:09] <exec> 08└─Keep it up. It's really helping my regex-fu.
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[23:02:46] <exec> 08└─I would consider this an excellent time to take a 3-week holiday to Texa^H^H^H^HFlorid^H^H^H^H^H^HSouth Dakota.
[23:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cycling to Work is ‘Staggeringly’ Good For You - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:10] <exec> 08└─If you are on a sidewalk you stop and look both ways before crossing the street.
[23:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Martin Shkreli Lists Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:58] <exec> 08└─Somebody please do this. Just rub shit in his face.
[23:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:05] <exec> 08└─If we really need a national identifier to take the role of the SSN, it should be a public key, issued and signed at a government agency (perhaps your local post office?), able to be replaced in the event of a compromise (and perhaps on a schedule). The real trouble would come in ensuring that peopl...
[23:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Data Breach Could Affect 143 Million Americans [Updated] - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:07] <exec> 08└─Not using credit is usually easier said than done. Sure, you might avoid ever having a mortgage by staying in the rental cycle, but then, most landlords will do a credit check and refuse to rent to you if your credit is trashed. Living out of a trailer may be a solution, though isn't without its pit...
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