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[00:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:19] <exec> 08└─War is the next step. Kim Jong-un has pushed his luck too far, and keeps on pushing. It sucks for South Korea. It sucks for Japan. It sucks for China. But North Korea under Kim Jong-un is not an outfit that is headed toward nuclear disarmament.
[00:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:20] <exec> 08└─Good question. I'm more worried about Trump than Kim. Normally, when the tiny dog barks at the giant dog, the giant dog doesn't bother to bite.
[00:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:22] <exec> 08└─And what evidence do you have to support these claims? After decades of nothing happening, it's far more likely that nothing will continue to happen.
[00:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:25] <exec> 08└─Seems Kim is worried Trump is actually willing to do something and wants to go down in history as the asshat that destroyed Seoul. 30 years of diplomacy hasn't worked, putting pressure on China hasn't worked, hate to say it's looking like we're gonna have to sacrifice Seoul to save Kim's random targ...
[00:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─Since the only way to tell whether a missile is a test or an attack is to wait for the Kaboom! at the end, especially if it a high altitude EMP attack, why aren't we shooting them down as soon as they exit Nork airspace? The U.N. can't object since they have forbidden what the Norks are doing and ar...
[00:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:29] <exec> 08└─I think the rules from the 50's are that territory stops/Space starts at 60,000 feet South Korea's defense ministry said the missile traveled about 3,700km and reached a maximum altitude of 770km - both higher and further than previous tests. 770km == 252625 feet Perhaps it only passed through inter...
[00:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:31] <exec> 08└─Because, it turns out, intercepting a missile on the way up is really hard. Like rocket science hard, but harder because the target is accelerating under power.
[00:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─Norks can hit Japan if it wanted to. This is a jesture against the new sanction.
[00:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:36] <exec> 08└─Sucks, but I've been saying for 20-30 years the Norks don't respond to diplomacy.
[00:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:38] <exec> 08└─> [Kim] wants to go down in history as the asshat that destroyed Seoul No. He wants to stay alive, which only happens if he keeps everyone else hesitating. > Let the chips fall where they may, I'm guessing the Pentagon is very very carefully counting how many communication systems and artillery posi...
[00:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:40] <exec> 08└─Russia just needs to re-aim their death laser at Kim Little-Penis and the rest of the succeeding males in line to take his place.
[00:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:43] <exec> 08└─The "Edge of space" is officially at 100km. At 770 km, the missile went almost twice as high as the ISS orbit. Hundreds of satellite orbits cross over Japan every day which are much lower. The Falcon 9 launches don't go a third of that height before coming back down. US Pacific-to/from-West-Coast te...
[00:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:01] <exec> 08└─It was leftists who controlled politics in the US for the last 8 years.
[00:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:02] <exec> 08└─It was leftists who controlled politics in the US for the last 8 years.
[00:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:04] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been to a Republican oriented political rally? They're actually a lot of fun. There's often somebody barbecuing ribs and burgers and hotdogs and sausages and corn. It's a really jovial and friendly atmosphere. It's a lot like a family reunion, but it's members of the whole American fam...
[00:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:07] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much leftists versus everybody else these days. It's leftists who divide people into groups based on traits like skin color and sexual preference. It's leftists who insist on flooding America with foreigners who hate American values and people. The rest of Americans are just content bein...
[00:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:09] <exec> 08└─Just because the last 8 years weren't full-blown Soviet-style or Chinese-style Communism doesn't mean they weren't leftist. They sure weren't 8 years of centrism or rightism!
[00:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:11] <exec> 08└─Well that is nothing new, the "leftist" bit is just your paranoia talking.
[00:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:13] <exec> 08└─It's a lot like a family reunion, but it's members of the whole American family, regardless of skin color and religion and sexual preference
[00:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:16] <exec> 08└─Lol, you cray cray and not like the fish. Like the mentally unstable type that is likely to be homeless and shit by slightly less crazy variations of themselves.
[00:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:18] <exec> 08└─Fun! (and occasionally smelly...) Actually, Bexley started life as an apartment building, when converted to a dorm the apartments became doubles, triples and quads. Each suite had it's own bathroom and kitchen. The triples had two separate rooms (double & single). Quads had a double and two singles....
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:20] <exec> 08└─You can tell the shills and/or crazies by the shrill way they merely repeat their points.
[00:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:22] <exec> 08└─That is so interesting! Did people openly defecate and urinate in the hallways and other common areas?
[00:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:25] <exec> 08└─Actually everyone outside the US sees democrat policies as a little RIGHT of center. I guess you're a rightwing butter which is why you think this new leftist term is synonymous with communism. Idiot :)
[00:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:27] <exec> 08└─Got expelled, did we? For thinking "different"? Very funny, you racist, sexist Nazi dude!
[00:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:29] <exec> 08└─Were hobos a problem? How did you keep them out?
[00:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:31] <exec> 08└─sometimes even wearing hats and costumes that resemble genitalia. Many of these people aren't even actually American, with them being illegal aliens.
[00:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:34] <exec> 08└─The rest of Americans are just content being Americans... so that they can succeed in their personal and business endeavors.
[00:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:49] <exec> 08└─Sure, AC, go ahead and pretend you are two different peoeple.
[00:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:51] <exec> 08└─Because Frankie Valli said so.
[00:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:53] <exec> 08└─Lol original ac here letting you know to tone down the paranoia. Other ac sounds like a troll trying to bait an argument.
[00:41:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 2625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:37] <exec> 08└─"unspeakable crimes against the physical and emotional being of others" Yes, that. Have you forgotten the dude who committed suicide, because the law enabled federal law enforcement to bully him into doing so? Do you have the remotest concept how many man-years people have wasted trying to clean up...
[00:41:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 2541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:51] <exec> 08└─The reverse is true as well. All public projects elsewhere are ours to use. That is the Public Domain, and it is available to everybody. I wouldn't worry so much about some code reuse in another country. Quite frankly, all the problematic code is going to be within AI, and *nobody* can read or write...
[00:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:03] <exec> 08└─That's not particularly difficult to answer. For starters, public servants should be using an entirely free software stack. So to get the ball rolling: goodbye Microsoft, goodbye Adobe. You're not wrong insofar there is no trove of free software waiting at the bottom of the proverbial rainbow to sol...
[00:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:26] <exec> 08└─And there are only a couple of approaches that can handle this problem: - Kill them. This has three major drawbacks: (A) it's morally repugnant, (B) they're likely to resist with everything they've got, and (C) you don't have anybody on hand to do the work when a new product line develops that does...
[00:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:27] <exec> 08└─My point with the previous post is that there's way too much false dilemma fallacies in this area. The choice isn't kill people or implement your particular flavor of utopia. Let us keep in mind that the majority of the world is doing quite well under the current scheme (even most of the developed w...
[00:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:29] <exec> 08└─Doing what? People know when they're doing something that's completely pointless. They may keep quiet because they need money for frivolous things like food and shelter, but they know. Most of the jobs that really need doing are so automated or efficient that we're going to have to start cutting bac...
[00:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:32] <exec> 08└─Doing what?
[00:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:34] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, you and your regressive buddies are working hard to turn the dream into a nightmare.
[00:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:36] <exec> 08└─Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
[00:43:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 1042 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:53] <exec> 08└─Grishnakh Maybe a petty point, but you're mixing STEM with IT. STEM includes *all* technical and scientific fields, *including* medicine. Anyway, for IT: There is still plenty of good work to be done, and good work happening. It's just not the sexy stuff that attracts Silicon Valley VCs. Helping com...
[00:43:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 652 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:58] <exec> 08└─I'd agree with most of your remark in general. I'd disagree slightly with "anything that's a positive" in that sophistry can game anything into being good or bad although on average in a realistic assessment is probably what you're aiming for. WRT to fields I've mostly worked in public utilities and...
[00:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:52] <exec> 08└─Quite a few people have complained about it, but at least TMB is a hypocritical bitch who hates censorship but will lash out when he's picked on. Big fucking baby is what he is, makes runaway look like a mature and responsible adult.
[00:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─American author William R. Forstchen has written (now) three novels detailing what could happen after America loses it's electronics to EMP. Although fictional, the series of consequences have been thoughtfully extrapolated. Things get bad pretty quick, and truly savage before long. One Second After...
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[01:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:18] <exec> 08└─40% of Americas refinery capacity was until recently in Texas
[01:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:38] <exec> 08└─Where else can you intercept it? Hitting a missile on the way up may be hard, but that is when it is slowest, easiest time to knock it down. Once past apogee knocking it down is less productive. It will still be coming down mostly on target.
[01:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:39] <exec> 08└─"After decades of nothing happening" Wow, we've got a poster who didn't even read TF*H*.
[01:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:41] <exec> 08└─"wants to go down in history as the asshat that destroyed Seoul" --> Were you speaking of Kim or Trump?
[01:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:44] <exec> 08└─Japan vs Best Korea [ii.yuki.la] (adult language)
[01:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:46] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because the technology to actually blow a ballistic missile out of the sky with any reliability actually doesn't exist yet?
[01:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:48] <exec> 08└─The various Kims are quite rational.
[01:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:50] <exec> 08└─Nothing funny about it.
[01:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:53] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the Pentagon is very very carefully counting how many communication systems and artillery positions they can take out at the exact time the stealth missiles hit the big guy's bedroom.
[01:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:55] <exec> 08└─> Do we fear the reliability of our tech? Two answers: Yes, and can we actually hit that trajectory given where the interceptor missiles are? If the US pushes the "intercept" button, it has to hit, or it becomes a much greater victory for Kim than yet another missile. Kim's got not much to lose. "ex...
[01:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:57] <exec> 08└─The point of the missiles is that you can't get people out of reach. All of Korea can get hit by a lot of stuff is minutes, Japan would get a few too (hard to miss Tokyo). NK also has quite a few subs. They may be basic, but it's hard to sink them all before they realize what's going on.
[01:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:59] <exec> 08└─Why would kim comply when all compliance will get him is a quicker death? He learned the lessons taught to Gadaffi and Sadam.
[01:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:33] <exec> 08└─> ever got any work done Learning to socialize is education. Not every MIT freshman has the social chops to match their whiz kiddiness. Don't undervalue non technical advancement. Similarly, making contacts is work.
[01:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:35] <exec> 08└─I heard rumours of tunnels, secret rooms and passages... a video through the most twisted routes would have been nice. A tour in person, even better. So it goes.
[01:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:37] <exec> 08└─Each of the four entry ways had a locked door that opened on a small "quad" in the middle of the horseshoe shaped plan. The quad (outside space) opened right on Mass Ave and I only remember a couple of problems with bums or other Cambridge residents. Sometime around 1990(?) there was a wall and gate...
[01:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's because vocal leftists actually threw their support to the Democrat party? Leftists right here defend Obama and Hillary, routinely. You're perfectly right, left and right are hopelessly confused in this country. Still, everything right of Marx is attacked on sight these days. And, it is w...
[01:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:41] <exec> 08└─We may have been poor students, but we weren't born in a barn. Back then children were toilet trained -- but what do I know, I'm an old guy with no kids, maybe that isn't required anymore? I did shit into the room below once, but that wasn't my fault. Let me 'splain--a partial renovation was done ov...
[01:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Satellites Used to Predict Malaria Outbreaks - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:09] <exec> 08└─Now, we can find those damned mosquitos, and NUKE THEM FROM ORBIT!! All we need to do now, is find a way to get the people out of the way. Some collateral damage is alright, but wholesale slaughter would be bad publicity.
[01:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Satellites Used to Predict Malaria Outbreaks - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:10] <exec> 08└─They were embarrassed by their 3% reliability, so they stopped predicting.
[01:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Cassini Mission Led a 'Paradigm Shift' in Search for Alien Life - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:30] <exec> 08└─You don't have to imagine anything. We've already been there [oceana.org]
[01:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 2066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:14] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I made a similar point here about the need for open source intelligence tools: http://web.archive.org [archive.org] "This suggestion is about how civilians could benefi...
[01:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:43] <exec> 08└─Which would be fine, except that if everybody does it, unemployment goes up, and people without income can't afford your products no matter how cheap you've made them.
[01:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:45] <exec> 08└─I and many others are well aware of the dynamics of the current system. That's why we see the need to change the system to one with better dynamics. After all, the economy is supposed to work for people, never the other way around. I didn't say you promised a pony, I'm just saying you need to get ou...
[01:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:02] <exec> 08└─We can just as easily conclude that the left-leaning members don't like having the truth pointed out to them. They find truth to be "offensive".
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[02:39:59] <exec> 08└─Really? It was?
[02:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:00] <exec> 08└─If cells are really this inexpensive, I may have to cut down that nice pine that shades my south-facing roof. It's the right place to put solar, but shaded all through the middle of the day.
[02:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:02] <exec> 08└─I don't have the time to find citations, but I suspect GP's statement is true. The refinery north of Amarillo is almost certainly still in full production. I wonder how many refineries are NOT located in either Texas, or Louisiana? Pretty much all of them are in Hurricane Alley.
[02:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:04] <exec> 08└─Those prices don't include an Investment Tax Credit (ITC), which makes solar panels even cheaper.
[02:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:07] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if you're joking or not. That's exactly the kind of thing an environmentalist would do, destroying trees just so that they can get more sun on their solar panels, not realizing that it's causing more harm than good. It's like when they drive their "zero emissions" vehicles that are powe...
[02:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:09] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if you're joking or not. That's exactly the kind of thing an environmentalist would do, destroying trees just so that they can get more sun on their solar panels, not realizing that it's causing more harm than good.
[02:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:11] <exec> 08└─That statement is pretty accurate, but you've left out any potential benefit to taxpayers from lower energy costs. At some point, when the monopolies control only small portions of generated electricity, prices will come down. TFA suggests that prices are already coming down, in infinitesimal increm...
[02:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:42] <exec> 08└─Missiles can actually be intercepted. Artillery cannot.
[02:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:44] <exec> 08└─Well, there is the fact to consider, that tiny dogs don't carry around nuclear weapons to threaten the big dog.
[02:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:46] <exec> 08└─^ This. I pisses me off, to no end, that we can't just assassinate a leader here and there. We, collectively, have been brainwashed to believe that a single assassination is somehow more wrong than sending tens or hundreds of thousands to their deaths in service to those leaders. We can fight wars i...
[02:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:48] <exec> 08└─Would we invade now that they have nukes? It's much less likely. Win for NK. Do they really know that we don't want to invade them? Is the war over? Does the US run military exercises near to them? Perhaps the USA has sent mixed messages for 30 years.
[02:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:50] <exec> 08└─It was merely a missile. They shot off one, what, a couple of weeks ago? And they've done it periodically numerous times for years before then. There are some angry words back and forth, and nothing really ever comes of it. The last time there was anything really happening in this conflict was 1953....
[02:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:53] <exec> 08└─Just the males? Why, exactly? You do realize that many dynasties have been preserved by the females of the family? If you're going to take out a family, you have to take out ALL of the family. We all remember that females have DNA too, right? Hell, the communists knew that when they took out the Tsa...
[02:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:55] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. In the past couple of decades NK did not have a possible hydrogen bomb an order of magnitude greater than the ones dropped on Japan. Pretty sure Japan has not forgotten, and NK will hit them with MORE power. Now they keep going on about missile tests and how they can place the nuclear weap...
[02:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:57] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Worrisome for Japan certainly, but let's be honest, NK doesn't need much more than a good strong catapult to hit Japan - these tests are to inform China, Russia, US, etc. that it's increasingly able to hit reach valuable targets.
[02:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:59] <exec> 08└─They know we don't want to invade them.
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:02] <exec> 08└─It was not compliance that took Gadaffi out, but his penchant for stuffing broken off broomsticks up people's asses killing them. Sadam was caught and prosecuted by the law. Gadaffi was caught by his people, and no amount of compliance/non-compliance was stopping that broomstick from being shoved up...
[02:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:04] <exec> 08└─I pisses me off, to no end, that we can't just assassinate a leader here and there. We, collectively, have been brainwashed to believe that a single assassination is somehow more wrong than sending tens or hundreds of thousands to their deaths in service to those leaders. We can fight wars involving...
[02:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:06] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking we make a fleet of stealth bombers capable of carrying MOABS. Carefully coordinated, a couple thousand MOABS dropped across the entire DMZ, even more missiles, and then MOPs anywhere we think military infrastructure exists and their suspected missile sites. Needless to say, anywhere we...
[02:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:46] <exec> 08└─The main campus buildings (not the dorms) are mostly connected...but not on ground level. Some connections are skywalks, others tunnels from (sub)basements, and some steam tunnels too. Midnight tours are given by a number of different student groups to pass this knowledge along to freshlings. Studen...
[02:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:47] <exec> 08└─I'm an old guy with no kids
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:49] <exec> 08└─We demonstrated against Nixon/Agnew and a war where the casualties weren't just drone strikes. Maybe the lines were easier to draw when the division was between straights and freaks?
[02:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:52] <exec> 08└─Actually everyone outside the US sees democrat policies as a little RIGHT of center.
[02:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:54] <exec> 08└─The Vietnam War was started by Democrats, escalated by Democrats, and eventually ended by a Republican.
[02:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:56] <exec> 08└─Who said anything about celibacy? We had plenty of sex (still do), just no kids...
[02:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:31] <exec> 08└─Many businesses make their obscene profits on "monetizing" public knowledge. It's an euphemism for locking up and monopolizing the research produced by publicly funded universities, and other public knowledge. Be nice if there was a shift in expectations so that no business would dare lock up public...
[02:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─Really, both of you missed it. It needs the Botnet of Things so that it can order laundry detergent for you from Amazon.com, automatically, no matter what Amazon is currently selling it for, at whatever price Amazon's software on the washing machine, that you can't edit, decides it wants to buy it f...
[02:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:08] <exec> 08└─Eat the looter bands. Problem solved!!
[02:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Watch Series 3 Hands-on: LTE Could Be the Watershed Moment - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:09] <exec> 08└─Can you still steal baseball signs with it?
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[03:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:44] <exec> 08└─> shift some of the cost onto people who will never benefit from these panels. Hmmm. Assuming that you believe in the "law" of supply and demand, then: If I'm a rich person that puts up solar, then I use less fossil fuel. The price of fossil fuel goes down in some relation to that reduction in...
[03:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:46] <exec> 08└─How about if AC cuts down that unwanted pine, and plants two apple trees, two cherry trees, two walnut trees, and an oak? Then, donates all the fruit and nuts to the poor people in his area? Would that be a suitable compromise? Oh yeah, the squirrels enjoying the acorns count as poor, whether they a...
[03:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's the magic fantasy version of economics. In reality, when giant multinational giant industries make less profit than they used to, they raise prices to cover the difference and bribe a few politicians on both sides of the aisle so neither one raises a fuss.
[03:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, now, and maybe I was just speaking in generalities. I would much rather see ten presidents of the United States killed, than to see ten thousand American troops killed in battle. Ditto for Kim, and any other country we might wish to consider. From mankind's earliest history, worthless shits hav...
[03:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:32] <exec> 08└─Can we try to aim for some minimal accuracy? Japan was attacked with two atomic bombs. Kim claims to have hydrogen bombs. The difference between the two is probably similar to the difference between a standard firecracker, and a stick of dynamite. Yes, I realize that I'm not being especially accurat...
[03:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Skwearl [4314] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:34] <exec> 08└─um, so this is the idea that started ww1...which led to ww2. You should read the history books.
[03:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:36] <exec> 08└─I think South Africa is the only one who had nukes and gave them up. There are a bunch of countries that have the technical expertise to design and build them but decided not to. Doesn't detract from the rest of your points.
[03:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:39] <exec> 08└─No, USA has no allies, only interests (well, any country, but USA is the big gorilla of our times). And compliance means dropping any resistance, being at the mercy of whoever call the shots. So, for example, you decide to handle petrol by other means than dollars, like Sadam and Gadaffi dared to su...
[03:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:24] <exec> 08└─It began before the Americans became involved: the Viet Minh were fighting from 1945, initially against the British and the Chinese Nationalists who were supporting France's colonial claim to Vietnam. Toward the end, Nixon escalated the war in Cambodia and Laos.
[03:41:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:33] <exec> 08└─Would you like to learn about my new silk-lined tinfoil ? It comes in Yellow and Brown hues. Lattice sells a particular line of chips, which are very popular with people building for extreme environments. The US military and its suppliers would prefer to ensure that those chips, and the missiles and...
[03:41:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 966 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:37] <exec> 08└─Next on the TODO list: When you outsource your IT to a foreign country, you open your entire network to a foreign government. The cost savings (maybe even subsidized by foreign intelligence services) are great for the CEO's short-term thinking, but may doom the American company. This needs to stop....
[03:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:45] <exec> 08└─Lesbians are terrific, I could look at them all day! And trust me, I have. Sometimes I have. The womanly ones and not so womanly, all very hot. And the gays are OK. They take a lot of care with their hair, their clothes, the way they smell. Always good hygiene, always well groomed. Which in a man ar...
[03:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:47] <exec> 08└─It's AC's allll the way down!
[03:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:32] <exec> 08└─Oh please, Khallow, have you ever had an actual job? I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that didn't employ useless people. The larger the company, the more there are. Managers are loathe to get rid of them as the number of people under them is a huge part of the influence they have in an organi...
[03:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:34] <exec> 08└─employ those people doing something productive
[03:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:36] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter where you get the steaks from, if you're searing them, you're drying them out. And if you sear before you actually cook them, then you're losing extra moisture. Most of the moisture in a cut of meat is water and the hotter you get the water the more of it evaporates off. If you've got...
[03:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:55] <exec> 08└─They'd like you to think so, yes.
[03:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:43] <exec> 08└─Thas it, Bobby-joeJobby-boe, he's again' us... Get out yer broom and yer anti-global warming lube and we'll show him "What happened". Hyuk!
[03:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the US Put Power Lines Underground? - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:19] <exec> 08└─I just call it regular capitalism. Capitalism ain't about making corporations wealthy. It's about you owning your effort and me owning mine. Competition is the mechanism that makes capitalism work. You're, on a very small scale, competing with the power company. Good for you. More people should. Mon...
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[04:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:28] <exec> 08└─NOTHING will be done to help or protect consumers. they HATE consumers. well, not quite, they LOVE our money but they truly hate US. the dems have lost their way, too, but their basic principles are not as hateful toward the common man as the R's are. with the orange idiot in office, nothing will ch...
[04:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:29] <exec> 08└─If the copyright cartel can get ruinous statutory awards for file sharing, even without showing harm, I should be able to also. $500 doesn't seem unreasonable, considering the number of hours and the money it would cost me to straighten out an issue caused by this breach. Require that a breached com...
[04:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:32] <exec> 08└─I've seen that movie already; it's cliché, and full of plot holes.
[04:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:34] <exec> 08└─Could we follow along with governments that have already solved this problem [techcrunch.com]?
[04:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:36] <exec> 08└─You're the brainless proles who drag the rest of us down to the lowest common denominator. You're the assholes who keep the rat wheel of society spinning faster and faster.
[04:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:38] <exec> 08└─You keep using that word.
[04:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:41] <exec> 08└─the dems have lost their way, too, but their basic principles are not as hateful toward the common man as the R's are.
[04:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks to complete and gross ineptitude and reckless disregard for personal information now a large chunk of the entire United States has just had all the information criminals need to engage in identity theft or break many 'prove you are you' systems. When people fall victim to this the costs, oppo...
[04:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:45] <exec> 08└─And who is going to write all these new rules, or even adequately enforce the old ones? I mean, it looks like nobody wants the job. The ones that do are woefully unqualified. What to do, what to do...
[04:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:47] <exec> 08└─the dems have lost their way, too, but their basic principles are not as hateful toward the common man as the R's are. Don't be silly, they're wrapped up in this just as tightly as anybody. They have to obscure the deception a a bit more to keep the "liberal" money from running off. The game they pl...
[04:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious.
[04:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:52] <exec> 08└─I expect this will end the use of Social Security Numbers as database keys.
[04:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:09] <exec> 08└─It's nice that solar is getting cheaper, but if you want a lot of solar, you have to include the cost of energy storage, too.
[04:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:11] <exec> 08└─No way dude, you just dump it onto the grid and get $paid$ for spinning your meter backwards. An actual PV system independent of the grid is impractical and insanely expensive, requires replacing all of your appliances with super efficient versions, living with severely limited climate control, ofte...
[04:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:13] <exec> 08└─Watch this video on market disruptions, a topic that has been the life work of researcher/author Tony Seba. In parts of Australia, solar + storage is cheaper than grid. It won't be more than a few years until rooftop solar (rural/suburban) is cheaper than the transmission portion of an electric util...
[04:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:00] <exec> 08└─Ukraine too.
[04:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:02] <exec> 08└─First, what's this "we" crap? Next, it's been done by the CIA in broad daylight with hundreds of witnesses. ...and insightful comedian Bill Hicks suggested that the first thing a new US president gets is a private viewing of a film of the assassination of JFK that was taken from an angle different f...
[04:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:49] <exec> 08└─> and eventually ended by a Republican. Yes, it was during a Republican administration, but I believe it was ended by popular opinion. The country was sick of all the kill counts on TV and the body bags coming home.
[04:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the US Put Power Lines Underground? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:40] <exec> 08└─I just call it regular capitalism. Capitalism ain't about making corporations wealthy
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[05:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:19] <exec> 08└─Where does its ability to purchase goods and services come from? I've got a new kind of cryptocurrency, the MikeCoin. Each unit of MikeCoin is backed by a very special number. Here have a 3, now give me a gallon of gasoline. At least with banknotes you can burn them on a cold night to stay warm.
[05:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:20] <exec> 08└─Or are they [sec.gov]...? And when are they bound to fail?
[05:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:23] <exec> 08└─First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
[05:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:25] <exec> 08└─You do seem to understand it. It is nerd religion that convinces somebody to give you a gallon of gasoline, combined with outright greed thinking that a number one generated by wasting power through his computer is going to be worth twice as much tomorrow, as long as he can continue to hype up anti-...
[05:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:27] <exec> 08└─JP Morgan has had numerous fines and penalties for it's activities leading up to and since the financial crisis in 2008, totally at least $30bn (2015) US bank JP Morgan Chase has agreed to a record $13bn (£8bn) settlement with US authorities for misleading investors during the housing crisis.
[05:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:29] <exec> 08└─when [is JP Morgan] bound to fail?
[05:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:32] <exec> 08└─First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
[05:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:34] <exec> 08└─By that measure banknotes in transactional terms are worth much more than their face value, since there is far less physical currency in circulation than there is M1 money supply. Also where does this leave us when banknotes are phased out, as is being attempted in most major economies by phasing ou...
[05:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:36] <exec> 08└─"The currency isn't going to work. You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart."
[05:39:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 1063 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:45] <exec> 08└─If the copyright cartel can get ruinous statutory awards for file sharing, even without showing harm, I should be able to also. $500 doesn't seem unreasonable, considering the number of hours and the money it would cost me to straighten out an issue caused by this breach. Require that a breached com...
[05:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:56] <exec> 08└─or even adequately enforce the old ones?
[05:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:57] <exec> 08└─You are the brainless proles who drag the rest of us down to the lowest common denominator. You're the assholes who keep the rat wheel of society spinning faster and faster.
[05:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:19] <exec> 08└─TFA suggests that prices are already coming down
[05:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:21] <exec> 08└─With the little caveat that it's "utility cost". No actual people can buy these supposed cheap solar panels, though. Every time I've run a cost benefit analysis the results are pretty sad.
[05:40:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:51] <exec> 08└─Why would kim comply when all compliance will get him is a quicker death? He learned the lessons taught to Gadaffi and Sadam.
[05:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:12] <exec> 08└─You know that crazy guy who lives next door? It seems last week, he somehow got his hands on a bunch of military hardware and now he's throwing practice grenades at your house. Do you assume it's all fine and tell the kids not to worry or do you call the cops?
[05:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:13] <exec> 08└─Invasion hasn't been on the table for a long time. When they kept to themselves, they weren't really even on the radar. The one and only reason anyone is talking about them or gives a rats ass about them now is the saber rattling. Invasion still isn't the preferred option. A single bullet coming out...
[05:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:15] <exec> 08└─What if he's holding another neighbor hostage?
[05:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 2436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:18] <exec> 08└─Here [youtube.com] is what happened to Gaddafi in Clinton's words. What you're saying is not really well supported. The historical record in Libya is not ambiguous. This [wikipedia.org] provides a reasonable synopsis while leaving out much of the detail. The people that killed Gaddafi were being arm...
[05:41:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:36] <exec> 08└─It was leftists who controlled politics in the US for the last 8 years.
[05:41:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:37] <exec> 08└─It was leftists who controlled politics in the US for the last 8 years.
[05:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:05] <exec> 08└─> and eventually ended by a Republican. Yes, it was during a Republican administration, but I believe it was ended by popular opinion. The country was sick of all the kill counts on TV and the body bags coming home.
[05:42:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:16] <exec> 08└─They would also prefer that Lattice's customers don't talk to a foreign company, and give away secrets through the requirements they place on new chips from Lattice.
[05:42:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:21] <exec> 08└─Why would your firewall protect your data? The CEO said "push it all to the cloud".
[05:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Cassini Mission Led a 'Paradigm Shift' in Search for Alien Life - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:58] <exec> 08└─To earth maybe, not necessarily to europa :)
[05:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03In hydraulis [386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:44] <exec> 08└─How about anything developed by Australia's CSIRO [csiro.au]? Our top 10 inventions [csiro.au]
[05:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:18] <exec> 08└─I and many others are well aware of the dynamics of the current system.
[05:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:39] <exec> 08└─No, no we may not conclude this, because in the time I've been sampling this forum, I've found the self-admitted lefties are far more amenable to the truth and to changing their views if necessary. They also tend to be less deluded about basic aspects of humanity than the right-wing members to begin...
[05:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:40] <exec> 08└─I've been wondering the exact same thing. These tech sites seem to attract a lot of hardcore authoritarian followers for some reason, and this baffles me, *especially* seeing how many of them there are in/around FOSS. Someone else here, I think it was Grishnakh, specifically said (assuming this is a...
[05:47:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Federal Government, Concerned About Cyberespionage, Bans Use of Kaspersky Labs Products - 421 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:17] <exec> 08└─I have used the Rescue Disk in the past. Its okay but its showing its age. It doesn't work on some newer stuff. Kaspersky's TDSSkiller has been a lifesaver but overall antivirus products are not as relevant as they used to be. If a system gets owned hard enough, its way too hard to fix it sometimes...
[05:47:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Federal Government, Concerned About Cyberespionage, Bans Use of Kaspersky Labs Products - 686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:23] <exec> 08└─So, I was having problems with a Windows installation. I used McAfee to check things out, and I still had problems, just different ones. So, I used Microsoft's defender stuff, and it killed McAfee, but started spying on me. I grabbed Avast, which warned me about both McAfee and Microsoft DLL's and c...
[05:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Government, Concerned About Cyberespionage, Bans Use of Kaspersky Labs Products - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply. Second that on TDSSkiller. As for myself, I now make a new disk image backup with Clonezilla whenever I do a significant change in the OS, otherwise I do simple incremental backups for my specific user directory. I started doing that when I saw these "cryptolocker" type pro...
[05:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Government, Concerned About Cyberespionage, Bans Use of Kaspersky Labs Products - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:34] <exec> 08└─I see Microsoft as the CIA stool pigeon. And its not only Governments which are probing up the rear end. Its beautiful to look at, a dream to run, but I have a hard time trusting it. I have the same feeling about going to bed with a prostitute. I know from the start she's working for someone else....
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[06:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:36] <exec> 08└─Money is used to keep track of resources, including who gets to decide how resources should be allocated. Cryptocurrencies are the most advanced such technology ever created; it's called programmable money. It's so advanced, it's nascent implementation (Bitcoin) enabled a know-nothing 20-something-y...
[06:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:38] <exec> 08└─Our "dollars" are backed by our guns.
[06:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:40] <exec> 08└─At least with banknotes you can burn them on a cold night to stay warm.
[06:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:42] <exec> 08└─"You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air"
[06:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 1658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:44] <exec> 08└─Mike: It was about 40 years ago for me. I got invited to a "pyramid" meeting. The person inviting me was all jizzed up about him going up another level if he could just get me to sign in. I sat there for several hours watching people shoveling cash into each others hands. Lots of squeals and shout...
[06:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:05] <exec> 08└─Kinda doubt it as its still your number, unique, and won't change like a phone number, and it is assigned to you. What I do see changing is businesses ability to collect debts, as debtors will find it easier than ever before to avoid payback by pointing to inconclusive evidence that it was he who in...
[06:40:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:18] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if you're joking or not. That's exactly the kind of thing an environmentalist would do, destroying trees just so that they can get more sun on their solar panels, not realizing that it's causing more harm than good.
[06:41:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:00] <exec> 08└─^ This. I pisses me off, to no end, that we can't just assassinate a leader here and there. We, collectively, have been brainwashed to believe that a single assassination is somehow more wrong than sending tens or hundreds of thousands to their deaths in service to those leaders. We can fight wars i...
[06:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:22] <exec> 08└─I think people overestimate our strike capability and underestimate North Korea's abilities. North Korea learned from the Korean war which would have been a complete victory (on their part) if not for the fact that they were obliterated from the air. North Korea is about 47k square miles large. Inst...
[06:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:23] <exec> 08└─Remind me how WW1 started.
[06:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:25] <exec> 08└─Good point, I forgot about SA.
[06:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:28] <exec> 08└─The world lost something, when the leader was no longer expected to be riding his horse out in front of the troops when they charged. Or maybe that was just in movies.
[06:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 2366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:30] <exec> 08└─Why exactly do you think we don't do this? What do you think drone strikes, or "targeted killings" are? This [wikispooks.com] is a nonexhaustive list of US assassinations, primarily by the CIA, just since 1945. The reality is that in war you are not really fighting people - you are fighting ideologi...
[06:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:32] <exec> 08└─Can we try to aim for some minimal accuracy?
[06:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:20] <exec> 08└─I hate to break it to you, but Australia has single-payer health care, strict gun laws and a generous safety net. The only way Australia really compares to the far right in the US (the Dems being Center-Right, not leftist at all) is their draconian and cruel immigration policies. You're talking out...
[06:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:22] <exec> 08└─They're only draconian and cruel if you are unfortunate enough to not immigrate from another Commonwealth nation. We have to keep out the riffraff from worse-off places (like the USA) coming over and sucking up all our healthcare subsidies.
[06:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Blocks Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:44] <exec> 08└─He's building a wall against the world, just like he promised. Only it's a metaphorical one. When he said the wall would be made out of concrete, I guess he meant metaphorical concrete.
[06:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:37] <exec> 08└─Oh please, Khallow, have you ever had an actual job? I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that didn't employ useless people. The larger the company, the more there are. Managers are loathe to get rid of them as the number of people under them is a huge part of the influence they have in an organi...
[06:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:38] <exec> 08└─It's called looking for a solution rather than sitting in a mound of runny shit with your thumbs up your butt. You should try it.
[06:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:40] <exec> 08└─Like what? And who pays for it?
[06:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:43] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with looking or improving society. I have a problem with changing things without an idea either of what's wrong or what works. We have an amazing civilization now because people worked hard for centuries to make it happen. Automation and capitalism, both slighted in this disc...
[06:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:54] <exec> 08└─My post was about the claim that the planes already in the air would not be able to land.
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[07:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:03] <exec> 08└─Serious question, what can the individual really do to protect their credit now? The TV is parroting that everyone should freeze their credit. Note that this involves locking credit at each of the three credit reporting companies, from then on getting loans or employer credit checks involves unlocki...
[07:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:27] <exec> 08└─If renewable energy is *really* this cheap, then it's time and past time to end all of the subsidy programs. Ha, sorry, bad joke. There's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.
[07:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:17] <exec> 08└─WARNING: the story is a wall of text
[07:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:19] <exec> 08└─"WTF is wrong with you people? You apparently don't even know your own history. Sigh." Which makes 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' a scary, very scary vision of the future...
[07:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:48] <exec> 08└─Was not my claim. I claim there wouldn't be a functioning system left. I am not sure of the percentage of fly-by-wire aircraft but those would just be totalled. I am pretty sure almost any aircraft except some Chinese and Russian military aircraft would drop out of the sky. Aircraft without much ele...
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[08:39:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:35] <exec> 08└─"The currency isn't going to work. You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart."
[08:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:41] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrencies, like BitCoin, are just a pyramid scheme hidden behind a math puzzle and buzzwords. And the pyramid is designed such that the first people are at the top, and then you fill the pyramid downward. Since the pyramid has limited number of steps, if you can fill most of it, then the peop...
[08:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:28] <exec> 08└─> Except that, an EV that is ultimately powered by 100% coal (which is almost never the case) still causes less CO2 emissions than an equivalent gas car. This is not true, unfortunately. I need to dig out the original paper, but they looked at the total cost of running an all electric car, and when...
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[08:45:37] <exec> 08└─First off, cost restraints have very little to do with hiring practices. Businesses fluctuated in size and when there's a cut back in the amount of work being done, that doesn't mean that there's necessarily a cut back in the number of employees. It also doesn't guarantee that when there are cutback...
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[09:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:18] <exec> 08└─And... to control of the poo emoji with your own face, you need to pay $1k? You nuts? If controlling poo with your face is your kink, you can do it for free in the real world.
[09:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:20] <exec> 08└─That said, the link to the YouTube video is impressive. Scary, but impressive. Essentially, this makes it easy to distort any video. Just as a minor-but-obvious example: imagine the potential for political campaigns. Facial expressions say more than we know. Add a frown, maybe a smirk, and alter the...
[09:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Builds Better Bugs? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:32] <exec> 08└─Will our lunar and martian colonies fail due to indigestion?
[09:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:54] <exec> 08└─They're trying to FUD Bitcoin as they own Ethereum. Not only do they own the first world's supply of money, they want to be the monopoly of a single digital currency globally as well.
[09:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:56] <exec> 08└─Each unit of MikeCoin is backed by a very special number.
[09:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:58] <exec> 08└─He arguably never even got to the first step. Ignoring something is different than having never heard of it. Most of everybody now knows what, at least in the general sense, Bitcoin is. And ignoring it is no longer working. Neither was mocking it. Now it's time to attack it.
[09:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:00] <exec> 08└─Fiat is backed by the promise of governments to pay you "something" (used to be gold... but now?)
[09:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:23] <exec> 08└─As long as an R or a D is in office would be more accurate. They don't really hate consumers, or even love their money. What they do love is themselves and staying in office. And that is bankrolled by corporations, like Equifax. [opensecrets.org] Remember when bankers crashed the entire US (and indi...
[09:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:48] <exec> 08└─Invasion hasn't been on the table for a long time.
[09:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:50] <exec> 08└─Seems Kim is worried Trump is actually willing to do something and wants to go down in history as the asshat that destroyed Seoul.
[09:41:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:59] <exec> 08└─Although they are often confused, this is good example of how leftism is very different from liberalism. Leftists are not liberals. Liberals support individuality and non-conformity. Leftists, on the other hand, abhor such shows of individuality and creativity. Liberalism is about freedom. Leftism i...
[09:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:43] <exec> 08└─And, it is well known that "political correctness" was a tool of the Communist party in Moscow.
[09:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:45] <exec> 08└─Harry Truman made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Vietnam. Obviously, the war in Vietnam was a big, fat mistake. All right? 🇺🇸
[09:44:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 2120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but bullshit. By moving large parts of the economy, you mean slave wages and the executives being vastly, vastly, vastly, overpaid for their anti-worker contributions. If we all had living wages and tremendously less one-sided duress when evaluating work offers, I might agree with you. We don...
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[10:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:23] <exec> 08└─the more meatbags lose time and CPU cycles on emoji the less they interfere with our... ...little pet project.
[10:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:24] <exec> 08└─dunno, I am gonna trademark the term "facetofeces" just in case.
[10:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:27] <exec> 08└─But will it automatically pick the emojis of color to match my skin tone [theatlantic.com]?
[10:39:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:52] <exec> 08└─First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
[10:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:05] <exec> 08└─BitCoin itself isn't a pyramid scheme, but the exchanges like Coinbase etc. are. The exchange rates are controlled by the pyramid scheme that is run by them, and you can buy into. At the bottom row, of course. But you could do that with anything. Pieces of metal, or just signed paper, anything. The...
[10:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:06] <exec> 08└─armed robbery. Someone rated this "insightful." Oh America, America, this is you.
[10:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:31] <exec> 08└─I checked into a hotel recently using an online booking service. They already know my name, that I paid for my room upfront, etc. Still the hotel demanded to photocopy my driver's licence and wrote down my credit card number. In this day and age this is stupidity at its worst. What can you do if you...
[10:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:32] <exec> 08└─With everyones personal data out there now, logically this seems like it will have to become the the new standard operating procedure?
[10:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:35] <exec> 08└─What can you do if you are standing at a desk in another city and they demand your private information to prove that you made the booking for the room.
[10:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Cassini Mission Led a 'Paradigm Shift' in Search for Alien Life - 2492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:48] <exec> 08└─Meh, just terraform it. Enceladus is only about 500km across. here's how it goes: 1 - Build a giant "Belt" around Enceladus, along the boundary between the "Saturn " and "dark" sides of the tidally-locked moon. This Belt is in effect a dam. It needs to be big, reaching all the way from the bottom of...
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[10:46:14] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, they're called "top-side cookers" or were when I worked there quite some years ago. The individual "lids" are/were sometimes referred to as "platens".
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[11:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:06] <exec> 08└─They can't force hotels to disclose their registry. Any information can obviously be volunteered if they so feel. In this case it looks like they were getting paid for each 'hit' so there was nothing remotely unlawful going on.
[11:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:07] <exec> 08└─so there was nothing remotely unlawful going on
[11:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:09] <exec> 08└─If you "volunteer" information that belongs to your employer, say, for $200, have you broken the law? Will you be fired when your employer finds out?
[11:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:11] <exec> 08└─It should be *very* illegal to share *any* customer information without their consent. Although, apparently, their policy indicates that they make share data with government agencies.
[11:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:14] <exec> 08└─What we need here is better recognition of a person's inherint right to privacy. The hotels are required by law to keep record of persons staying at the hotel, and so this should make them de facto agents of the State. As this information is also protected by law, as stated (requiring a warrant to b...
[11:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:16] <exec> 08└─In this case it looks like they were getting paid for each 'hit' so there was nothing remotely unlawful going on.
[11:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:18] <exec> 08└─So Joe Bogs, born and bred in Montanna, travels to Phoenix for work, stays in a Motel 6 with his floozy having an affair, and has his whereabouts is transmitted to the federal government, and that's somehow illegal immigration / invasion?
[11:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Builds Better Bugs? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:42] <exec> 08└─I think we know how this goes ... it's an ugly planet .. it's a bug planet ... a planet hostile to life ... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 2814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:11] <exec> 08└─You have to keep in mind that money inherently has no value. Why do you give a dollar value? You might say because the government says it has value, yet that doesn't answer the question so much as kick the can onto another group which is just a collection of individuals anyhow. The only reason money...
[11:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:13] <exec> 08└─The central-bank system may not be a pyramid, but those whose families got in early still enjoy all the wealth flowing upward.
[11:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:15] <exec> 08└─This closes the thread. The whole thing is a report of Pepsi reporting their opinion that Coke tastes bad. With a side dish of the Trump effect where everyone respectable hates Dimon so what he's opposing must be the greatest thing since sliced bread; the Trump analogy is the absolute dregs of socie...
[11:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:42] <exec> 08└─Using them as keys is a much smaller problem than using them as authentication.
[11:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:44] <exec> 08└─it pissed me off when Anthem wouldn't tell me what information got taken.
[11:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:46] <exec> 08└─I thought that would be a Chinese link; they have some good policies https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:41:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:08] <exec> 08└─With the little caveat that it's "utility cost". No actual people can buy these supposed cheap solar panels, though. Every time I've run a cost benefit analysis the results are pretty sad.
[11:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:11] <exec> 08└─More like tornado alley which happens to intersect with hurricane alley. Generally they're close-ish to wherever the oil is and a good distribution means. Amarillo and the ones in Oklahoma are well out of hurricane alley, for instance.
[11:42:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 2436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:05] <exec> 08└─Here [youtube.com] is what happened to Gaddafi in Clinton's words. What you're saying is not really well supported. The historical record in Libya is not ambiguous. This [wikipedia.org] provides a reasonable synopsis while leaving out much of the detail. The people that killed Gaddafi were being arm...
[11:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:14] <exec> 08└─NK's problem is we don't like them, so they shouldn't be capable of doing scary stuff.
[11:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:16] <exec> 08└─How crazy is he really? What happened is he noticed Mr World Cop going around shooting dead various people (based on lies or trumped up reasons) e.g Saddam, Gaddafi, etc and trying to kill others like Assad. And Mr World Cop has declared him a target. So he gets himself a nuclear suicide vest and no...
[11:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:19] <exec> 08└─Missiles can actually be intercepted. Artillery cannot.
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[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:18] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who expects the US government to ever deliver on this?
[12:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─"The currency isn't going to work. You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart." --Jamie Dimon
[12:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:34] <exec> 08└─> The hotels are required by law to keep record of persons staying at the hotel, Citation needed. I haven't gone looking, but aren't there still no-tell motels around in the USA? They might be as scarce as websites like SN where anonymity is protected...
[12:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:35] <exec> 08└─Motel 6 corp sells franchises to semi-independent operators (subject to franchise rules). Motel 6 corp feels this is a reputation problem and may have only learned about it when the story broke. The franchise holders at those specific locations may have done it, possibly one who owns all the affecte...
[12:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:37] <exec> 08└─The hotels are required by law to keep record of persons staying at the hotel
[12:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:40] <exec> 08└─Imagine: You run a hotel, and you have reason to believe that a wanted criminal just rented a room. So you rent him a room, and give a quiet call to the cops. That's actually how it ought to work, no? So: You run a hotel, and you have reason to believe that an illegal alien just rented a room. So yo...
[12:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:52] <exec> 08└─Matrox had a product about 10-15 years ago that used something like the Face2Face algorithm for video conferencing over a MODEM. The camera would track your face movements and then it would distort an image of your face at the remote end to mirror your movements. The actions were a much lower-bandwi...
[12:40:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:28] <exec> 08└─They're trying to FUD Bitcoin as they own Ethereum. Not only do they own the first world's supply of money, they want to be the monopoly of a single digital currency globally as well.
[12:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah I agree. I'm getting rid of all these worthless "dollars"!
[12:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 2862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:08] <exec> 08└─My guess is the hand of the markets will have strange effects. Some jackass steals my data on the other side of the country and gets credit and walks away, means the CC fee for retail cash and carry will become extremely high, like 5%, 10%, who knows how high. We may see the death of retail credit c...
[12:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:10] <exec> 08└─that this involves giving money to each of these credit reporting companies
[12:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:36] <exec> 08└─No one reads Santayana any more, so your point is lost friend. Hell, no one really reads any more. If it's more than a couple paragraphs, most will just tl;dr or whine about "walls of text." Forget about reading an actual book.
[12:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:57] <exec> 08└─The fact that people still get grushed by industrial robots.
[12:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:58] <exec> 08└─> Planck lengths away from mooing. Rare to medium-rare Why do you avoid the categorisation that matches your desires - blue? And certainly if you like it mostly uncooked, why waste time with the "to medium-rare" part of the above?!? If your restaurant understands "blue" (try a french or spanish rest...
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[13:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:16] <exec> 08└─Does building this straw man and burning him down make you feel better? If it does, by all means keep building and burning. If it doesn't, why not make any one of the hundreds of rational arguments as to why we should be balancing the budget and reducing our debt? Here, I will start - the United Sta...
[13:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:18] <exec> 08└─Burning straw ment is terrible for the environment. I propose that straw men become the new unit of currency. This way we will be incentivised to sequester atmospheric CO2 by growing more and more straw.
[13:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:20] <exec> 08└─Really, the government (which is the only source of all good things, like money) could just use helicopters to spray cash all over everywhere and we'd all be rich. You have no clue what would really happen, do you? The value of a dollar would plummet and you'd be hauling wheelbarrows of cash just to...
[13:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:22] <exec> 08└─Our country is falling apart. Our infrastructure is dying. We haven't had refineries built in decades, right? We're going to have refineries built, OK, folks? We will cancel the job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. We're goin...
[13:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:25] <exec> 08└─being served umbrella drinks by beautiful robots in skimpy bikinis
[13:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:27] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[13:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:29] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a thing that always has amazed me with USA. In most other parts of the rich world a catastrophe usually means a somewhat quick rebuild with buildings built to meet the strictest codes and highest standard they can build to - and taking advantage of the scale of the rebuild to lower cos...
[13:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:31] <exec> 08└─How about a "Burning Straw Man Festival"?
[13:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:49] <exec> 08└─A PR director from Motel 6's parent company confirmed that staff members at the locations were working with ICE without the approval of senior management
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─so how do the 200 dollars fit into your tale?
[13:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:53] <exec> 08└─"Motel Snitch".
[13:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:06] <exec> 08└─What a time to be alive...
[13:40:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 1658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:40] <exec> 08└─Mike: It was about 40 years ago for me. I got invited to a "pyramid" meeting. The person inviting me was all jizzed up about him going up another level if he could just get me to sign in. I sat there for several hours watching people shoveling cash into each others hands. Lots of squeals and shout...
[13:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:53] <exec> 08└─Jeb Bush may never be President, and his overall quality of life may be better because of it. I wouldn't call him obscure, or a loser. It is true, history forgets the obscure losers. Still, Bitcoin has passed out of the realm of the obscure - it's not too big to fail, but it has made a mark as "the...
[13:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:25] <exec> 08└─I am Jack's palm as it rapidly meets his forehead.
[13:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:53] <exec> 08└─Defend Obama and Hillary under what circumstances? If it's against ridiculous conspiracies, that's justified because they are just not true. Calling them lesser evils also isn't much of a defense. You didn't give me much of an idea as to what you're referring to exactly. Obama and Hillary are defini...
[13:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:16] <exec> 08└─And as we automated, the work day was reduced, and child labor and slavery were eliminated entirely, ushering in a new era of prosperity. FDR headed off an American Communist revolution by making significant concessions to the working class. Concessions that are being steadily walked back such that...
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[14:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─Don't tell the helicopter parents about this! Seriously, you accept the risk, you honor those who are bitten by the risk, and you move on. FFS, people are killed every day in automobiles, and we haven't decided to discard them.
[14:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:25] <exec> 08└─> I'm curious, though, how many millions of dollars does that video show going up in flames? ... with YOUR money.
[14:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:44] <exec> 08└─Woosh! As insane as it sounds, I have heard every one of these arguments advanced, most of them right here on our beloved SN. I have merely provided the service of compiling the ideas and removing the fluffy words so you can see what they are really saying.
[14:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:45] <exec> 08└─This is sexist against Straw Women.
[14:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:48] <exec> 08└─The only think I can guess is that people that live in hurricane alley simply don't care. The likelyhood that the storm will wipe out their home instead of one a few cities away is pretty low, so they just live with the risk. It is the same with infrastructure. After the bridge in Minneapolis collap...
[14:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:50] <exec> 08└─Last time I visited Canada, I was struck by the wealth disparity between even Canada and the US. Canada is a rich western nation, yet they make do with traffic lights at intersections that would be interchanges in the US. The cars were on average older and more worn. There were a lot of little thing...
[14:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:52] <exec> 08└─That will do a ton to lower our debt. Get rid of Haliburton, et. al. and make the military survive on its own again. Somehow, we fought world wars without Backwater and Haliburton. If the military cannot survive without them, then they were never prepared properly.
[14:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:54] <exec> 08└─Just put it on every citizens credit card, imagine all the extra credit points / free miles etc everyone will get. Nobody will mind much.
[14:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:57] <exec> 08└─https://howmuch.net/articles/per-capita-debt [howmuch.net] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:59] <exec> 08└─Like all debt... No-one. But the interest payments into perpetuity will mean even if they don't pay it off, the people who gave it will profit and have an enormous hold over the terms of repayment. Literally, Britain paid back DOUBLE the war-debt to America for WW2, and didn't pay it off until nearl...
[14:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:20] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the corp has abundant grounds for a lawsuit against the franchise operators for damaging its brand.
[14:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:21] <exec> 08└─So: You run a hotel, and you have reason to believe that an illegal alien just rented a room. So you rent him a room, and give a quiet call to the cops. Now what if the situation is different? What if it's: you work at a hotel at the front desk, and you have reason to believe an illegal alien just r...
[14:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:24] <exec> 08└─Even more, in the process, all the other guests' identity was "leaked" without any warrant and without the guests' consent. Does this sound lawful to you? IANAL, but this sounds like a firing offense at most, but probably not unlawful. Privacy protections here in the US are abysmal, so I'd be surpri...
[14:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:26] <exec> 08└─These are illegals we're talking about here. If I ran a motel I'd do it for free. Hell, if I taught at a school or college I'd do it for free. Just 5 minutes ago those illegal scum were all for La Raza and La Reconquista, now they're crying because they have to return to MEH-HEE-COE. Serves those ba...
[14:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:28] <exec> 08└─YES!!! Don't get pissed at America for enforcing the law. Get pissed at your parents, coyotes, and everyone else involved in BREAKING THE LAW!! Dreamers, my ass. Oh yeah, the dreamers are kinda special. They've been here five years, ten, twenty, maybe even thirty years. They've been educated in our...
[14:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:30] <exec> 08└─I would keep guessing. My guess is, there is no recourse against a franchise holder for helping to uphold the law. If there are any legitimate claims, those would be made by innocent people caught up in the dragnet.
[14:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─If they got paid by feds, they're federal agents and subject to the same need for a warrant as the Geek Squad snooping into hard drive contents for FBI cash. It's amazing how many "small government" posters are actually okay with this intrusion of privacy.
[14:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:46] <exec> 08└─$999 is cheap; just look at how much this phone costs in Europe. Apparently a bunch of Europeans have been looking into flying to the US to buy the thing because it's so much cheaper here; they can get "free" airfare for the difference. Of course, they could be smart and just buy an inexpensive Andr...
[14:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:48] <exec> 08└─Not so much the poo, but the Face2Face technology. Like any technology, it can be used for good or ill, and it doesn't take much imagination to think of some ills. (You could just watch the 1987 film The Running Man [imdb.com] for a fictional use of this technology, in which a good cop is framed in...
[14:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:56] <exec> 08└─Will Curiosity find petroglyphs left by Martian Anasazi? Hopefully it'll anger a slumbering alien population that will then declare war on us and wipe us out.
[14:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:37] <exec> 08└─Send 'em here, I still know a few people who will trade things I value for dollars. If they're worthless to you, I'll be doing you a favor by decluttering your life.
[14:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:39] <exec> 08└─There are 2 things backing up the US dollar: 1. If you're an American, you have to come up with a certain number of them to pay your taxes to the government. And if you don't do that, the government can send people with guns to explain things to you. 2. If you try to settle a debt in the US, the oth...
[14:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:41] <exec> 08└─These things can all be simultaneously true: 1. Bitcoin is a scam. There's good reasons to think that it's at least questionable. 2. Ethereum is a scam. If Bitcoin is a scam, Ethereum is a scam, for largely the same reasons. 3. JP Morgan Chase and Jamie Dimon are scam artists (this one we definitely...
[14:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:43] <exec> 08└─Where does its ability to purchase goods and services come from? From the same place any other currency's ability to purchase goods and services comes from: people agree the currency holds value, and are willing to trade based on that perception of value. It's a lot easier to trade currency than to...
[14:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:46] <exec> 08└─By that measure banknotes in transactional terms are worth much more than their face value, since there is far less physical currency in circulation than there is M1 money supply. Physical currency doesn't need to match the M1 money supply; most financial transactions are done electronically now. Ph...
[14:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:48] <exec> 08└─Which "dollars" are you talking about? US Dollars, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, or the Dollar of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Belize, New Zealand, Liberia, Jamaica or Namibia? Or are you talking about the Malaysian Dollar, Spanish Dollar, Rhodesian Dollar, or Zimbabwe Dollar, all of which...
[14:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:50] <exec> 08└─No current currencies are linked to any tangible thing except violence, USD. GBP etc all have the appearance of transaction by mutual agreement but the thing that actually gives them value is that they are the only method of payment accepted by the state, if you want to pay your taxes you must pay t...
[14:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:52] <exec> 08└─The first rule of not dying suddenly of natural causes is that you do not mention the Rothschilds.
[14:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:54] <exec> 08└─There's only one way that scans: armed robbery. Someone rated this "insightful." Oh America, America, this is you.
[14:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:53] <exec> 08└─Even better, cut taxes for the rich. Let the other stuff sort itself out.
[14:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:54] <exec> 08└─What State/Supplier? I'm getting a 12.1c Fit with Energy locals, paying 25.3c in Brisbane, Qld.
[14:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:57] <exec> 08└─The fact the grid often doesn't NEED your electricity at the moment your panels is pushing it onto it is just BS propaganda from the big power company, dude.
[14:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:02] <exec> 08└─The problem with assassinations is that they rarely address the root cause. It may temporarily forestall some bad events, but whatever conditions gave rise to a leader worthy of assassination are going to continue to give rise to similar problems until they are addressed.
[14:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:04] <exec> 08└─Saddam wasn't firing ICBMs over our allies. He wasn't testing nuclear weapons. He was a monster, but he wasn't actually threatening anyone, especially after we kicked his ass out of Kuwait in the 90's. Kim is firing ICBMs over our allies and testing nuclear weapons. He has made specific threats agai...
[14:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:06] <exec> 08└─The world war was triggered by a mesh of conflicting and self contradictory treaties that all those worthless shits had woven together to "protect" themselves, and their countries. The assassination meant almost nothing, in and of itself. It was all the idiot politicos who started WW1.
[14:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─I don't know that Carrottop doesn't want to invade them. So how would they know that? We never have signed a peace treaty with them, have we?
[14:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:11] <exec> 08└─Iraq had oil. Oilmen took over the US government. The US invaded to get the oil. North Korea has nothing anybody wants that they don't already get from South Korea. Nobody wants to invade North Korea.
[14:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:13] <exec> 08└─Fair enough - I'll give you that. An assassination seldom if ever addresses the root cause of a problem. But, then again, when has any politician ever done so? Look at our American politics. Every issue trotted out by the two parties is a distraction from real problems. "We don't want Americans to d...
[14:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:09] <exec> 08└─Can you supply any evidence that leftism has anything to do with this? Other than all colleges are left-wing, all gubmint is left-wing, and the left is always to blame, anyway? I skimmed TFA, and while the exact reasons for the closure remained somewhat vague, the relevant ones seemed to be a) much...
[14:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:11] <exec> 08└─Dude, there are a bunch of hot chicks on Faux Noise. Your liberal media? Butt-uglies. Think about it. Conservatives have always got the hot chicks. Unless, of course, you think Bradley Manning is hot!!
[14:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:57] <exec> 08└─Noting of course that this page has a variety of institutions that have a variety of viewpoints on the subject. I don't see how this is an argument that uniformity is a basis for mitigating function. The Activist Public License isn't a vanity license. It fulfills a defined role. Which is it enables...
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[15:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─I would rather my money wasted on cool shit and high science than killing arabs in asia. For the record and to piss off both sides I also prefer it to medicare spending.
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA," company founder Elon Musk has said in the past. "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
[15:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:24] <exec> 08└─NASA is run by (limited amounts) tax payers money. Launching rockets should be routine work, they have enough spots for failure when the actual mission starts and learn things from the mission. They are not in to it to learn on how many ways a rocket launch can fail.
[15:39:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:34] <exec> 08└─"The currency isn't going to work. You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart." --Jamie Dimon
[15:39:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 974 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:40] <exec> 08└─Our country is falling apart. Our infrastructure is dying. We haven't had refineries built in decades, right? We're going to have refineries built, OK, folks? We will cancel the job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. We're goin...
[15:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─Takes you from 5th to 3rd, though.
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:54] <exec> 08└─When it first became $500 billion, the austerity crowd started wringing their hands and warning that if it got any higher all of society would collapse. Then it got to $1 trillion, and the sky did not fall. Then it became $5 trillion, same thing. So who do U.S. taxpayers owe this $20 trillion to? Mo...
[15:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:56] <exec> 08└─You fucked us again Sincerely, The future
[15:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyV0OfU3-FU [youtube.com] The animations show how crazy the system actually is.
[15:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:01] <exec> 08└─Poe's Law strikes again! =)
[15:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:03] <exec> 08└─I like the part where we live at the expense of future children, who we obligate to pay our debts at gunpoint before they are even born.
[15:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:05] <exec> 08└─Canada is a big country and wealth disparity exists within. Some places are richer and you see lots of luxury cars and few shitboxes, while other places the reverse is true. I'm sure the USofA is the same.
[15:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:07] <exec> 08└─Time.... it will catch up... don't worry. (Banks are institutions that shift money from the future to the present, but have to repay at some point).
[15:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:10] <exec> 08└─Print extra money, let prices inflate, debt becomes cheaper as well... problem solved.
[15:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:12] <exec> 08└─it's not the right pocket owing money to the left pocket. it's future generations being supposed to pay for the retirement years of their parents and grandparents. if future generations don't pay (for whatever reasons), you get inflation and the retired lose all their savings.
[15:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:14] <exec> 08└─hen it became $5 trillion, same thing. So who do U.S. taxpayers owe this $20 trillion to? Mostly, other U.S. taxpayers, i.e. we owe the money in our right pocket to our left pocket. Don't panic over this.
[15:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:16] <exec> 08└─The absolute number of dollars owed is meaningless. Debt as a percentage of GDP is a more meaningful number. See this graph [wikimedia.org]. A bigger issue is that sovereign debt denominated in a country's fiat currency can not be looked at like debt held by individuals or companies. The US debt cur...
[15:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:19] <exec> 08└─Inherited wealth adds no value to society, we should have significant estate taxes for the reasons you allude to. I like the analogy of playing Monopoly. A game of monopoly is over when one individual accumulates all of the assets. Imagine if the next game played, started with the winner's daughter...
[15:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:21] <exec> 08└─In my ideal world the millennials would pay into the system but not receive benefits so that we end the cycle with us. But far easier to fuck the future and kick the can down the road.
[15:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:49] <exec> 08└─So: You run a hotel, and you have reason to believe that an illegal alien just rented a room. So you rent him a room, and give a quiet call to the cops and tell them about everyone who rented a room that day.
[15:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:50] <exec> 08└─There's almost no invasion of privacy or violation of rights some conservatives won't tolerate if it means catching illegal immigrants from South of the border. They have an unslakable lust for "rule of law" when it comes to brutalizing Hispanics. Strangely, they're not so concerned about the thousa...
[15:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─Translation for American PC Newspeak "It was also rumored that ICE paid out $200 for every undocumented immigrant" Illegal Alien = "Undocumented Immigrant" Shoplifter = "Undocumented Purchaser" Bank Robber ="Undocumented Account Holder" Rapist = "Undocumented Lover"
[15:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:55] <exec> 08└─They cant be naturalized because they are illegals. Thats the catch twenty two here. They are considered illegal, through the fault of their parents. Due to that they cannot become a citizen unless they go to their home country for ten years. Give them a path towards citizenship and we wont have thi...
[15:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:57] <exec> 08└─That's the reward, just a lot lower than any on a Ten Most Wanted List.
[15:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:13] <exec> 08└─FaceRig has been doing it for years. If you have the right camera, it can even do hand tracking for gestures. Granted, not with emoji specifically, but it wouldn't be hard to set up an emoji as an avatar. I bet someone already has, in the Steam Workshop. It's for Windows and Android, at least; I'm n...
[15:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─BitCoin itself isn't a pyramid scheme, but the exchanges like Coinbase etc. are.
[15:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:13] <exec> 08└─It has value because people believe it has value - much like securities and most national currencies. Even the "gold standard" - so, you can exchange your paper for gold - well, what, exactly, can an ordinary human being do with gold that might be considered valuable? Food, shelter, clothing, tools,...
[15:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─There's "rarely using cash" and then there's "cash free" - just survived 5 days without electricity post-hurricane, cash is a very good thing to have as an option when "the system" is down.
[15:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:17] <exec> 08└─They're only a scam to people who lost money (or value) to them. To everyone else, they're a legitimate enterprise. When legitimate enterprises get big enough, they get political power, military backing, etc.
[15:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:19] <exec> 08└─That's equally true of multi-level marketing: It's only a scam to the people who lose money.
[15:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:53] <exec> 08└─There is no computer-based system that will have adequate security for Important Stuff(tm). It doesn't matter what policies and procedures you follow, between officially-nonexistent back doors, constantly-refreshing zero-day lists, and deliberate insertion of not-really-vulnerabilities by government...
[15:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 4189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:54] <exec> 08└─If you are responsible for a few computers, then adding this to a locally managed DNS server can be quick and easy. This is just a general gist of what one can do; you will need to alter this to suit your DNS server. (the example below is an export from dns in windows server) Name Type Data hosted...
[15:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:35] <exec> 08└─The rational part is that the USA is not the only threat the Kim family is facing. It is actually a much smaller threat than the country collapsing into infighting. The evil USA mantra helps the Kim family control the populace and spend money on the army. I am unsure why we have so much testing of m...
[15:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:59] <exec> 08└─They're also subject to a variety of cost restraints which would create incentives counter to the above.
[15:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:00] <exec> 08└─The reason the message isn't getting through is that you're dodging the question: What if there's nothing productive for them to be doing? And since you brought the "global economy" into it, I should point out that the unemployment problem is far worse elsewhere in the world, and people die and othe...
[15:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning, Newly Freed from Military Prison, Speaks in San Francisco - 1962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:24] <exec> 08└─"Island two has the following law: do what you want as long as it does not prevent everybody else to do what they want." Depends on the basis the magistrate uses for defining "what I want" is. Freedom is a synonym for individual sovereignty. Which in the U.S. is, by precedent, subordinate to private...
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[16:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:16] <exec> 08└─Nice to say if your ass isn't sitting on top of that candle.
[16:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:18] <exec> 08└─LMAO - ask all of those volunteers for a one way trip to Mars. Each and every one of them, if informed that there is a 5% chance of failure, will probably tell you, "Light the damned fire, and let's SEE what happens!!" You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say...
[16:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─Failure was common at NASA too: does anyone really think they didn't test out rockets and delivery vehicles before sticking humans in them? That's just what SpaceX is doing. There's not much risk in trying to land a spent first-stage rocket: it's already done its primary job of boosting the vehicle...
[16:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:22] <exec> 08└─Essentially its a recycling program so in the old days every penny was merely buried at sea, mostly undocumented. Given the insane (well deserved?) PR that spacex gets, they're probably running a net positive. At the gym they show legacy media on TV, old fashioned TV channels of sportsball and finan...
[16:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:25] <exec> 08└─Aside from the expense related to the other traditional movie quote "Many go-pro-cams died to bring us this information."
[16:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:27] <exec> 08└─I'd be right there with them. People don't seem to have a good grasp of cost/benefit or risk/reward these days.
[16:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:29] <exec> 08└─How droll!
[16:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:10] <exec> 08└─Let's face it, this debt is largely due to Republicans who run around crying "... but Laffer curve" and sign up to the Grover Norquist pledge. Debt is related to two factors: spending and income. Republicans have limited income while spending trillions on pointless wars in the middle east (Iraq). Re...
[16:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:11] <exec> 08└─Up until you can't make those payments. How long until the US needs to ask Greece for financial advice?
[16:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:13] <exec> 08└─Invoking Poe's Law does not make the intent of the satire above reproach.
[16:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:16] <exec> 08└─That's what this endless horde of suckers never understands. Money is just an accounting technology; there are real resources being allocated and used up. That $20 trillion debt represents resources that have been used up, with no sign of that use having been productive enough to make society wealth...
[16:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:18] <exec> 08└─Butbutbutbutbut Saint Bush and Saint Reagan, bees pee upon them, told us all it's the DEMOCRATS who are tax-and-spend people!!!111eleventy-one! I saw it on Fox so it has to be true!
[16:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:20] <exec> 08└─Please see this comment. [soylentnews.org]
[16:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:22] <exec> 08└─Our debt holders have very little to say about the terms of repayment. I don't understand how there are so many financially illiterate fucks with opinions. Want to tell me where and how "things" like you get ideas? --Creimer __________________________________ Why buy an iPhone X for $1000 when softb...
[16:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─Monopoly is a zero-sum game. As you say, once one player gets all of the resources, then that player wins; yet, in the real world, taking everybody else's resources is not at all how it works—in the real world, wealth is created; the pie is grown, not stolen ever more from others. The real world i...
[16:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:27] <exec> 08└─The answer is - go back to the gold standard. Our currency should have something behind it - not just our good intentions.
[16:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:29] <exec> 08└─Please see this comment. [soylentnews.org] -------------------- No, this comment is not redundant; it's a reply to another person—it's the only way to let that person know that someone has read his comment and has a reply. Redundancy would be copying/pasting the text at the other end of the above...
[16:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:31] <exec> 08└─Democrats are tax and spend. Republicans are cut tax and spend. Maybe both are wrong? Could that be possible?????
[16:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:05] <exec> 08└─They want the government to stay out of their business but stick their noses anywhere there might be someone doing something non conservative.
[16:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:06] <exec> 08└─Odd - it's been like - ohhhh - hell, it's six years now. Cesar was one of those dreamers. He was brought here as a baby, and he determined to get his citizenship. Really cool guy, about 24, was married to an anchor baby named Christina. Chris is a really smart girl, and she was helping Cesar get all...
[16:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:09] <exec> 08└─If you "volunteer" information that belongs to your employer, say, for $200, have you broken the law? Will you be fired when your employer finds out?
[16:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:11] <exec> 08└─Lawful, or unlawful, I will never sleep at a Motel 6 again. They give away ENTIRE FUCKING REGISTRIES on the mere possibility they may contain information about unlawful individuals staying in the hotel with me. That does violate privacy. Maybe the law will not catch up with them, but many, many, man...
[16:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:13] <exec> 08└─That's because your blood lust for illegals is clouding your fucking vision dude. They gave away ENTIRE FUCKING REGISTRIES ON A GODDAMNED CRON JOB TO THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Checking APBs, FBI most wanted lists, etc. is just fine. Reporting somebody suspicious, or suspicious activity is just fine. R...
[16:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:30] <exec> 08└─And I don't blame them. Anyone who drops $1,000 on a phone is a bona-fide shithead, for a lot of reasons.
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─Just curious, are you ever going to get a job, or does mommy subsidize you with free basement lodging and cheesy poofs?
[16:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:35] <exec> 08└─Fiat money (at least in the US) is backed by one thing: It is against the law not to accept money to pay off a debt.
[16:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:37] <exec> 08└─Close. Money is used to barter power.
[16:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 1463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:41] <exec> 08└─excuse me, one number TODAY doesn't tell the whole story. i can probably give you a solarpanel for 1 cent...but, tomorrow, it will not work anymore and the one day electricity will NOT have paid for the panel. there's a real danger that (some) solar panel manufacturers know this and that overall, ev...
[16:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:42] <exec> 08└─The paper I looked at said that in the US, an E-car was about as fuel efficient as a decent IC-car, but this is because much of our grid is coal. In other countries with cleaner grids, the comparison was much more in favor of the E-car. The good news for E-cars is, that they get cleaner automaticall...
[16:44:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 388 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:25] <exec> 08└─I pisses me off, to no end, that we can't just assassinate a leader here and there. We, collectively, have been brainwashed to believe that a single assassination is somehow more wrong than sending tens or hundreds of thousands to their deaths in service to those leaders. We can fight wars involving...
[16:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─The little dog can always get the first bite in and draw blood. Then it gets torn into pieces. Both dogs know that, and none moves. I trust this little dog to keep it at barking more than I trust the big dog, who is actively training fleas to try to irritate the small dog until someone gets bit.
[16:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Cassini Mission Led a 'Paradigm Shift' in Search for Alien Life - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Fair point - I was imagining directly harvesting via gravitational tidal forces; which would mean a completely different biology (not necessarily carbon-based, for example)
[16:51:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Federal Government, Concerned About Cyberespionage, Bans Use of Kaspersky Labs Products - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:24] <exec> 08└─even US own citizens can no longer trust the US government.
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[17:39:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─I would rather my money wasted on cool shit and high science than killing arabs in asia. For the record and to piss off both sides I also prefer it to medicare spending.
[17:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─It's funny how everyone says the USSR's attempts at space exploration were fraught with failure and didn't care as much about astronaut safety as the good ole NASA did(which, to be fair, is totally true), but when SpaceX, a good ole American Capitalistic organization, does the same thing, they're la...
[17:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─What about those that support all three? I propose combining them in to one program: using rockets and high science to launch medicare patients upon the arabs.
[17:40:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ben_white [5531] 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:15] <exec> 08└─Inherited wealth adds no value to society, we should have significant estate taxes for the reasons you allude to. I like the analogy of playing Monopoly. A game of monopoly is over when one individual accumulates all of the assets. Imagine if the next game played, started with the winner's daughter...
[17:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:28] <exec> 08└─Gold is stupid. We need an energy standard. As a bonus, that's something that would encourage a metric shitton (or 1.15 imperial shittons if you prefer) of concentrating solar, "eggbeater" wind-turbine power, thorium, etc. Energy is king. Gold? Not a lot you can do with gold once you have it.
[17:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:30] <exec> 08└─This is how to fix our debt problem, but no one is brave enough to do it - We need to go back the "gold standard" where we had enough gold stashed away to back up our paper currency. Step 1 - Treasury is ordered to stop printing money until further notice Step 2 - We determine how much gold we have...
[17:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:32] <exec> 08└─Whoosh...that just went right over your head. Some people just don't get sarcasm.
[17:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I didn't read down to your "woosh" because I was sending the same response to the first post after your OP.
[17:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:36] <exec> 08└─The US has its debtors by the balls too. If the US defaults, their economies crash.
[17:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 2089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:38] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find they agreed them when you took out the loan. And they have to agree to any deferrals (UK made several for the WW2 debt). And they have to agree to the terms of those deferrals. And they have recourse when you don't pay (which still happens even for large countries), and can choos...
[17:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:41] <exec> 08└─Well, I might as well earn my "Redundant" label. ----------------- Please see this comment. [soylentnews.org] That's what this endless horde of suckers never understands. Money is just an accounting technology; there are real resources being allocated and used up. That $20 trillion debt represents...
[17:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:43] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that the world doesn't even need nukes anymore? Sounds like the whole world already one step away from a cataclysmic collapse without having to fire a single shot.
[17:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:45] <exec> 08└─Backing a fiat currency with gold is just saying that the issuer of the currency should be restrained with regard to the creation of currency units. Using gold (finding it, refining it, transporting it, storing it, etc.) to bring that restraint into reality is an unnecessary overhead; for instance,...
[17:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:47] <exec> 08└─But the government will not restrain themselves, so we have to do it for them. The gold standard will do that. Enshrine it in a law that can't change if that's what it takes. Without something backing up the paper, it will always be worthless.
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:50] <exec> 08└─Well something is really amiss in this country. The total revenue of the US Government is a bit over 6.5 trillion. The total expenditures are a bit over 4.5 trillion (including military and interest on the "debt"). Where the hell is the ~2 Trillion going? https://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:52] <exec> 08└─-1 Stupid. What makes gold worth anything? Nothing more than people generally agreeing it does. It's no different than BitCoin. Gold is not a genuinely useful material, except for a few specialized applications (e.g., corrosion protection on electrical connectors, which only requires a coating a few...
[17:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:54] <exec> 08└─Nah, you need nukes when the money-shuffling stops working and you need some other way to bully the world into submission.
[17:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:56] <exec> 08└─The highest the debt has ever been was about $250tn following WWII when adjusted for inflation. We paid it down largely by inflating our way out of it and screwing over the people without enough money to be invested in stocks. It wasn't a huge problem at the time because the US was one of the few ad...
[17:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:58] <exec> 08└─In an ideal world, we'd just go around shooting billionaires and taking back what they stole to pay off the debt. They've got enough money between them to pay off about a third of the debt and liquidating them would serve as a strong incentive to the rest of the ultra-wealthy to stop being greedy ba...
[17:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:01] <exec> 08└─What makes gold worth anything? ... It's no different than BitCoin.
[17:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:03] <exec> 08└─Nope, tax and spend is what we call being responsible. You spend money that you have coming in. Ideally the amount of money coming in is the same as the money going out as the government isn't supposed to run a profit over the long term. I'm really, really curious where people got the idea that tax...
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:05] <exec> 08└─Could you please explain why the size of a country's economy should be fixed to the amount of a specific precious metal they can acquire? Precious metals are not the only source of wealth (nor anywhere near a majority), so that would presumably result in nowhere near enough gold to actually represen...
[17:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:07] <exec> 08└─The problem would be even worse on a gold standard. The inflation somewhat eats away at the debt over time. The problem is that we're wasting too much money on tax cuts for the greedy and military spending while simultaneously investing insufficient resources in things like healthcare and education...
[17:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:09] <exec> 08└─In an ideal world, we'd just go around shooting billionaires
[17:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:12] <exec> 08└─A principle President Trump did business by, but goes back to at least the 1940's: When you owe the bank $100,000 and have trouble paying it back, you have a problem. When you owe the bank $100 million and have trouble paying it back, the bank has a problem. That said, right now there are a lot of p...
[17:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:14] <exec> 08└─The real world is not a zero-sum game. That's not true. Just like in Monopoly, where the resources that are zero-sum are the properties on the perimeter of the board, in the "real world", there's a finite amount of real estate. Everyone needs a place to live, so when all the real estate is bought up...
[17:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:16] <exec> 08└─One is worse than the other. If you're going to spend tons of money, it's more fiscally responsible to actually acquire that money (usually by taxation) than to keep spending yourself into more and more debt. If you insist on buying a fancier car and a big-screen TV, should you 1) work overtime at y...
[17:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:18] <exec> 08└─So, when the money- and power-drunk politicians go on yet another bender, they can further devalue the "not a genuinely useful material" paper dollars, but they can't touch Real Money.
[17:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:21] <exec> 08└─The gold standard is still enshrined in the constitution, as far as government money handling goes. Yet, here we are with no gold standard. That is to say, you're missing the point: It's not the gold that is important; it's the policy of restraint, and the ability to make that policy very difficult...
[17:41:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─There's almost no invasion of privacy or violation of rights some conservatives won't tolerate if it means catching illegal immigrants from South of the border. They have an unslakable lust for "rule of law" when it comes to brutalizing Hispanics. Strangely, they're not so concerned about the thousa...
[17:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:00] <exec> 08└─First, is an illegal alien a criminal? The answer to that is rather obvious, straight from the word "illegal". Of course they are.
[17:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:02] <exec> 08└─In this case it looks like they were getting paid for each 'hit' so there was nothing remotely unlawful going on.
[17:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:04] <exec> 08└─That's a good position to take. If more people did this, then we'd have some real change in this country. Sadly, it's only a tiny, tiny minority that stand by their principles and vote with their feet like that. Personally, I will not avoid a Motel 6 because of this. I never would stay at a Motel 6...
[17:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:06] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. Any officer of the law (or anybody for that matter) is free to ask any individual, group, or organization to offer up what ever sort of information they'd like. The 'entity' being asked is free to say no. That's where warrants come in. Warrants are not required for voluntarily submitt...
[17:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:08] <exec> 08└─It's 100% legal. Welcome to America. Your private information in the hands of private businesses has near 0 legal protections. If people only knew the sort of information companies were trading and selling about them. The 'receptionists' will likely be fired, but given they were probably making 20-3...
[17:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:11] <exec> 08└─That's one of the top reasons I abandoned the right wing years ago. I can actually remember a time when I could listen to right wing talk radio and it wasn't a bunch of racist anti-Mexican drek, but that was a very, very long time ago.
[17:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:13] <exec> 08└─Right wingers: we're for small government except when it comes to cracking down on immigration. Or warfare. Or socialized healthcare for old white people.
[17:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:31] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to be able to literally tell someone that they're a shithead.
[17:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, so this is one of those silly things that Millenials care about. When oh when will they ever grow up? Guess that's why we're all publishing articles about it, re-aggregating the story, and responding. To talk about how only those silly Millenials care about this trash.
[17:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:39] <exec> 08└─Well I mean So is all of capitalistic society.
[17:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:40] <exec> 08└─Show me a large corporate entity that doesn't have elements of MLM in it... how do you rise through the ranks to the VP level in an organization of 10,000+ people? Say there are 10 VPs and each VP holds the position for an average of 10 years. Answer is: most people cannot do it, even in a 50 year...
[17:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:17] <exec> 08└─Another benefit of spreading it out in the address space is that most browsers limit requests to the same host, which includes IP address. With the increased number of different "hosts," you end up with less waiting for timeouts or dummy payloads.
[17:45:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:28] <exec> 08└─They know we don't want to invade them.
[17:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:02] <exec> 08└─Pratchett/Gaiman, Good Omens: "You think wars get started because some old duke gets shot, or someone cuts off someone's ear, or someone's sited their missiles in the wrong place. It's not like that. That's just, well, just reasons, which haven't got anything to do with it. What really causes wars i...
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[18:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:38] <exec> 08└─Everyone seems to be missing the most important point: Landing the booster back in one piece isn't the primary mission. SpaceX was doing their experiments, which initially ended in pretty awesome failures, after delivering the payload to orbit (not all payload made it, but that's also new rocket des...
[18:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:39] <exec> 08└─What the hell are you talking about? Can you point to any examples where SpaceX has risked any astronaut's lives in a launch? I'm quite sure you won't find any, because SpaceX has not ever launched any humans into space. It's intellectually dishonest to claim that a company "doesn't care about astro...
[18:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:42] <exec> 08└─SpaceX released this not to prove it's unafraid of failure. Anyone paying attention knows as much. SpaceX released this from a PR perspective, to remind people that success follows failures. Most of these events are year(s) old now, while in the meantime the general populace has come to expect routi...
[18:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:44] <exec> 08└─Using fire and explosives for propulsion and energy just seems so primitive. We need a better horse.
[18:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:46] <exec> 08└─I'm much more worried about the number of "ran out of propellant", "not enough hydraulic fluid", etc. Surely shouldn't even be attempted if that's the case? It should know how much it's got left, yes (surely just thrust amounts tell you how much propellant you have left, from a simple weight calcula...
[18:40:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:28] <exec> 08└─Let's face it, this debt is largely due to Republicans who run around crying "... but Laffer curve" and sign up to the Grover Norquist pledge. Debt is related to two factors: spending and income. Republicans have limited income while spending trillions on pointless wars in the middle east (Iraq). Re...
[18:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:05] <exec> 08└─When the government prints money, it is transferring purchasing power from the holders of that money to the government. This is exactly the same as a tax; the difference is that people don't realize they are being taxed, because that kind of taxation is never discussed in open debate and passed with...
[18:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure. Isn't that dangerous, allowing the serfs their own way to generate wealth that's not bequeathed to them by their Owners? Before we implement something like that, we need rules in place to ensure that an Owner owns the rays of the sun and the movements of the wind, like Owners in certai...
[18:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:09] <exec> 08└─Besides the obvious fact that the military is a way to scoop up otherwise indigent lower-class people, and put them to work doing something that at least appears productive, the military is also a boondoggle for high-tech industry who gets to build very expensive devices and then blow them up. More...
[18:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:11] <exec> 08└─This may or may not be true of a family business. It's almost certainly untrue of massive bank accounts. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have limited their children's inheritance, probably so they don't turn out like Paris Hilton. Lineal succession has a long tradition, but its flaws are some of the mo...
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─You've said nothing new, and you therefore haven't countered your parent.
[18:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:16] <exec> 08└─It's ineffective anyway because a true whoosh has to "h".
[18:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─why the size of a country's economy should be fixed to the amount of a specific precious metal they can acquire?
[18:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:20] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. Seems to me it's a game of moving the decimal point in the figure of how many dollars buys me hamburger for lunch. If the total currency (gold, T-bills, Bitcoins, etc) available is fixed, then technology improves, moving the decimal point to the left. Let's say I make $5k per year...
[18:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:22] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot then. We've established that it's OK to steal from people who got their stuff by stealing from others and destroying the means by which others might become wealthy. We haven't established the idea that it's OK to steal from random people. As far as bullets go, those only make a diffe...
[18:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:24] <exec> 08└─You obviously don't understand how democracies function. We voted for the people that made those decisions. Just because we're not a direct democracy, doesn't make this taxation without representation. We are represented, those people making those decisions are our representatives. The issue here is...
[18:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:27] <exec> 08└─Canada doesn't have interchanges everywhere because they are a hideous blight on the landscape and a waste of good land.
[18:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:29] <exec> 08└─Why not something useful, like a potable water standard, or a Clean Air Standard? Can you imagine? "This Federal Reserve Note is exchangeable for the current market valuation of clean air." See? Gold buggish, and environmental, all roled into one! All bitcoin gives you is hot air coming off the co...
[18:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:31] <exec> 08└─The two are not necessarily conflicting. Also we're more honest about it. Some of the stuff in China is pure WTF, but put on a nice smile so as not to lose face. The Russians invented the Potemkin Village, the Chinese perfected it and produce it on an industrial scale. A third answer is most of the...
[18:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:17] <exec> 08└─The CC company knows. The Hotel megacorporation knows. The cops know because travel on the roads is a privilege not a right and they got cameras on the red lights etc so they know. The supermarket knows based on purchases. Amazon knows based on data mining and is suggesting gifts for the floozy. Isn...
[18:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:19] <exec> 08└─They could NSL them, regardless if they can legally NSL or not. Also beat cops will lay down the law about interfering with investigations and stuff like that. You also have to be realistic. Whats in it for me personally to help people break a law I agree with, vs helping the cops? "I luv illegals"...
[18:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:21] <exec> 08└─> It should be *very* illegal to share *any* customer information without their consent. Hey! I've got a mortgage to pay! Why are you trying to pop the tech bubble?
[18:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:23] <exec> 08└─The practice will be stopped. I doubt there is grounds for firing anyone. But the wording of Motel 6's corporate statement suggests that those involved may have been acting according to local management's directives. So no indication of theft of information. And the fact that Motel 6 stated they wil...
[18:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:25] <exec> 08└─Except that by paying, they made the clerk their agent and so attached the Constitutional limits to that agent's actions.
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─The franchise holders at those specific locations may have done it, possibly one who owns all the affected locations.
[18:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:30] <exec> 08└─I felt like I was in gang territory or something.
[18:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:32] <exec> 08└─Further, anybody is free to pay you for information. And baring any laws to the contrary you are free to exchange any information you might have in exchange for money. Accepting a hundred bucks to in exchange for telling a cop where to find a wanted fugitive makes you a snitch, but doesn't make you...
[18:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not aware of the details of hotel guest record retention laws. However, a nationwide requirement need not be in the U.S. Code or Code of Federal Regulations. It can be in the Model Penal Code, Uniform Vehicle Code, or any other model code on which the several states base their statutes and regul...
[18:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. You can't just handwaive these imaginary laws into existence sjames. Just because someone sees something and tells the police about it in exchange for a reward doesn't make them a sworn officer of the law. It just means that information is hearsay, and can't be used in court. You should ma...
[18:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:57] <exec> 08└─Did that journalist major in social justice military science?
[18:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─I watched a demo, a decade ago, of a program which could easily change the facial features of an actress moving around in a typical-looking video. Guy clicked a few buttons, and in five minutes she went from white to asian. Everything can be doctored. Doing it in real-time has been possible in HD fo...
[18:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:07] <exec> 08└─Is there a kickstarter or a gofundme to help entice aliens to wipe us out?
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Builds Better Bugs? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:17] <exec> 08└─There seem to be a few studies out that indicate "human biology needs gravity". Has the solution not already been established - spin spaceships to make artificial gravity? Why is this not a standard thing now?
[18:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beau Slim [6628] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─Scarcity of any individual cryptocurrency might hold, but anybody can create their own new currency. What will be the value of your wallet when there are thousands of competing currencies? If you can make real dollars now by mining, great. but don't hold your coins too long.
[18:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:48] <exec> 08└─One could imagine a future in which large data brokers like this are regulated by a large federal bureaucracy like the SEC. Lots of complicated reporting, tons of overhead, new partnerships between regulators and the regulated, and most importantly the codification into law of current shoddy busines...
[18:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─True, but the poor are still the ones who benefit from not being on the front lines of the obsoleted war for oil.
[18:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:21] <exec> 08└─I agree... I'll happily give up renewable subsidies just as soon as we stop the much larger and more harmful fossil fuel subsidies.
[18:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:23] <exec> 08└─> requires replacing all of your appliances with super efficient versions, living with severely limited climate control, often building the entire house around > the concept and making all sorts of compromises of convenience vs green virtue Too bad it takes going off the grid for people to realize t...
[18:46:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 2366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:22] <exec> 08└─Why exactly do you think we don't do this? What do you think drone strikes, or "targeted killings" are? This [wikispooks.com] is a nonexhaustive list of US assassinations, primarily by the CIA, just since 1945. The reality is that in war you are not really fighting people - you are fighting ideologi...
[18:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:38] <exec> 08└─Ergo, if they gave up the nuclear weapons and threatening war on everybody, the rest of the world would be content to let them continue their little prison experiment.
[18:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:40] <exec> 08└─In the past couple of decades NK did not have a possible hydrogen bomb
[18:47:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:28] <exec> 08└─> and eventually ended by a Republican. Yes, it was during a Republican administration, but I believe it was ended by popular opinion. The country was sick of all the kill counts on TV and the body bags coming home.
[18:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:39] <exec> 08└─I've never heard anyone call themselves a leftist. Usually the term is used to lump disparate groups together, much like "Asian" is a catch-all term that mainly refers to Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Thai, sometimes refers to groups with less presence in America, and isn't used for groups that...
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─[citation needed]
[18:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah right rDT. We've all seen your response to real crises in Syria and Afhanistan. You're even less sincere than Obama about ending our interventionist foreign policy. We all know you would have made the same mistakes in Vietnam and somehow managed to fuck it up even worse through the sheer incomp...
[18:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:10] <exec> 08└─And as we automated, the work day was reduced, and child labor and slavery were eliminated entirely, ushering in a new era of prosperity. FDR headed off an American Communist revolution by making significant concessions to the working class. Concessions that are being steadily walked back such that...
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[19:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:44] <exec> 08└─> Standing-up landing is just a show-off item. It serves no real purpose, you still have to ship it back somewhere to have it tested, > which inevitably means laying it down again unless your want it to fall over with a bunch of fuel still in it. You do realize the engines are at the not-pointy end,...
[19:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:45] <exec> 08└─Grandpa's story about how he used to wear an onion on his belt (as was the style at the time) bores them to death?
[19:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:18] <exec> 08└─That $20 trillion debt represents resources that have been used up, with no sign of that use having been productive enough to make society wealthier.
[19:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:20] <exec> 08└─Why? Why are we going to run a larger and larger debt? That makes no sense. At some point, the debt out paces your income and you will never recover. Why must the price of anything increase year after year when tech supposedly makes it easier/faster/cheaper to build those things? This is madness. Th...
[19:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:22] <exec> 08└─Me, I do. They expect me to pay personal debt - I expect them to pay ours as a nation. Stop spending, pay it down, and don't get in this shape again.
[19:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:24] <exec> 08└─Because nobody would be spending money. The government would be forced to spend money in order to keep things running and would have to have massive interest rates to compete against the deflating currency. There's a reason why fiat currencies are so common. Trying to back it with gold only works if...
[19:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─As very eloquently explained by your parent, you cannot know whether resources have been created until the debt has been paid back. The money is an accounting technology: So far, the accounting says that $20 trillion worth of resources have been allocated, but there's no proof that such an allocat...
[19:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:28] <exec> 08└─please post your physical address so we can come for you next https://thepiratebay.org [thepiratebay.org] https://thepiratebay.org [thepiratebay.org] https://thepiratebay.org
[19:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:31] <exec> 08└─Too bad Enron screwed the pooch on that one so badly. It's a good idea that will probably never happen now.
[19:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:33] <exec> 08└─"10 years behind on tech" seems a little excessive, and we're more advanced in some ways. For example we had chip+PIN and then NFC-capable terminals in Canada for years before US merchants finally upgraded (and only by force, as card fraud costs shifted from card issuers to the merchant, giving a hu...
[19:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:35] <exec> 08└─...anyone who saved becomes poorer.
[19:42:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:13] <exec> 08└─That's because your blood lust for illegals is clouding your fucking vision dude. They gave away ENTIRE FUCKING REGISTRIES ON A GODDAMNED CRON JOB TO THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Checking APBs, FBI most wanted lists, etc. is just fine. Reporting somebody suspicious, or suspicious activity is just fine. R...
[19:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─They won't succeed with that approach: most gang members and other criminals are citizens. The only way to avoid having riff-raff in your establishment is to have higher prices, and the only way to have higher prices and stay in business in a competitive environment is to offer better service (e.g.,...
[19:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:33] <exec> 08└─The folks manning the registration desk at a Motel 6 are barely above minimum wage. For them $200 is a lot of cash, the risk of being fired is small and another job at the same wage is easy enough, probably at the hotel across the intersection. The lede here is ICE has finally started doing somethin...
[19:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:35] <exec> 08└─Funny, the matter in question (agency, work for hire, etc) isn't in the Constitution. No amount of reading it will enlighten on this matter. Perhaps you should attempt to gain an understanding of the rest of the law and it's basis. I'll give you a hint, it's the same reason that hiring a hit man mak...
[19:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:37] <exec> 08└─So you're totally fine with your ISP voluntarily handing a copy of all your internet traffic to the NSA. After all, they're a private entity and they think you might be a terrorist.
[19:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:40] <exec> 08└─It's almost certainly a State Law and varies by state. Washington http://app.leg.wa.gov [wa.gov] Alaska http://www.touchngo.com [touchngo.com] Mass https://malegislature.gov
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:42] <exec> 08└─Yep, they've invented a whole new backdoor to the constitution.
[19:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:44] <exec> 08└─It's really not clear from TFS whether this is a case of some rogue employees acting against their managers' wishes, or a case of some franchisees acting against their corporate parent's wishes.
[19:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:46] <exec> 08└─What is a few thousand when there are millions of others? A mere 0.1% is but a rounding error. But yes, of course the illegals from Europe need to be deported. Heck, just shoot them. This has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It doesn't even really have anything to do with language -- we'd prefe...
[19:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:48] <exec> 08└─Also immigration, having things to do, has zero interest in Joe Bogs the millisecond he (and his floozy) comes up as a citizen.
[19:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:51] <exec> 08└─Fine with it, no. But that's a different question than "is it legal for them to do so?" We should push for better privacy laws.
[19:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:13] <exec> 08└─Of course, they could be smart and just buy an inexpensive Android phone at home instead and save their money, but apparently there's plenty of idiots
[19:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Builds Better Bugs? - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:31] <exec> 08└─Because the standard thing now is more about keeping the gravy train going and less about science and progress. Just look at the number of people (including NASA) talking about spending billions to put humans on Mars but somehow not wanting to spend money on testing to see if humans and popular live...
[19:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:26] <exec> 08└─The difference is that if you're working for a company, you are required by law to get paid, so you aren't losing money by doing so. If you're working for an MLM, you pay for the privilege of working.
[19:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 2001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:27] <exec> 08└─I completely agree, cash is extremely valuable to me as someone who travels internationally. I am not looking forward to cashfree society, but it does seem to be where we're headed, banks, governments and other institutions have it in their long game. They are not known for seeking public consent in...
[19:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:30] <exec> 08└─The comment i replied to was directly comparing fiat banknotes with bitcoin as if banknotes are the only form of fiat, and the physical manifestation is what gives it value. The central bank part is right, but bitcoin has the ledger/blockchain. Right now central banks (BoJ, ECB, SNB) are 'printing'...
[19:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:32] <exec> 08└─Of course I have Zimbabwe dollars. Right now that 100 trillion dollar bill is adorning the wall, but I am just biding my time. Someday it will be worth a lot! After all, it is 100 trillion dollars. Joking aside, I bought that bill for about $5 a few years ago. Looking at ebay sold listings, they are...
[19:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:34] <exec> 08└─Your use-case for money is subsumed by the OP's description of money; your comment is a subset of OP's.
[19:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:45] <exec> 08└─You omitted from your statement the largest subsidy in existence: USA's military, ostensibly kept in its ridiculously bloated form to keep the sea lanes open for "cheap" petroleum. ...as well as access to that stuff, which might be interrupted by "unstable" governments abroad. This and other, more d...
[19:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:47] <exec> 08└─Ok, now for the question that matters. You didn't get "shockingly low" rates merely by buying appliances that cost 10% more. You would have to have designed your home from scratch with a view to energy savings. So bottom line, is your monthly housing expense (mortgage + utilities) actually lower tha...
[19:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:49] <exec> 08└─I have the same house as a dozen neighbors (gladly, not side by side). Most have bills that are 3x higher. I bought the 4 decades-old house, added more insulation in the attics ($200), replaced the light bulbs with CFL/LED, bought a fridge that was big enough but pretty efficient at Best Buy (not hu...
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:06] <exec> 08└─We aren't necessarily the "bad guys", but we're certainly not the "good guys" we feign to be.
[19:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─And the big dog has a long track record of going around tearing little dogs to pieces...
[19:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:52] <exec> 08└─No, by moving large parts of the economy I mean that getting you to pay for an annual subscription to Office 365 instead of downloading LibreOffice 5 and using it for ten years has a net economic benefit to the country. I mean that Forbes (where I won't go but I'll quote headlines from Google) state...
[19:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:40] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting that you equate deliberate actions taken by humans with uncontrollable natural disasters. And there lies the difference. Yellowstone blowing it's top is a natural disaster, and it would tend to have consequences. It cannot be "held responsible" for it's actions nor punished for...
[19:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:41] <exec> 08└─First off, cost restraints have very little to do with hiring practices. Businesses fluctuated in size and when there's a cut back in the amount of work being done, that doesn't mean that there's necessarily a cut back in the number of employees. It also doesn't guarantee that when there are cutback...
[19:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:43] <exec> 08└─And one way of doing that is to take on essentially useless employees whose real job (regardless of job title) is to back whatever plan you have and talk up your accomplishments in meetings, email discussions, etc.
[19:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:59] <exec> 08└─Some days, I regret the absence of a "What?" mod.
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[20:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:51] <exec> 08└─SN ediots drunk as fuck, not queueing shit to Pending Stories. It's true. SN is dying.
[20:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:53] <exec> 08└─Using fire and explosives for propulsion and energy just seems so primitive
[20:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:55] <exec> 08└─"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA," company founder Elon Musk has said in the past. "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
[20:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:57] <exec> 08└─Hi, Netcraft! How ya been doing?
[20:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:59] <exec> 08└─and it doesn't seem to just safely abort rather than just explode.
[20:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:02] <exec> 08└─a need to evacuate Earth? HO HO HO! Thanks for that!! Tell you what, you go first. That should significantly reduce the need for the rest of us to go anywhere.
[20:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:04] <exec> 08└─I would prefer MY money to stay in MY pocket.
[20:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:06] <exec> 08└─Failure was common at NASA too: does anyone really think they didn't test out rockets and delivery vehicles before sticking humans in them?
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─Potable water will work, at least in the jurisdictions where there is an Owner to take ownership of the water that falls from the sky. We can't have the serfs collecting it in barrels and then thinking they may employ filtration, boiling, or other techniques to make it potable. As long as every serf...
[20:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─The derivatives market is a thousand times that.
[20:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:52] <exec> 08└─As very eloquently explained by your parent, you cannot know whether resources have been created until the debt has been paid back.
[20:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─The $20 trillion debt represents a lack of accounting for the return on investment. It cannot be clearer.
[20:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on. I know you want to denigrate and make these people out to be diseased bellicose thieves and rapists, but that is just stupid. Not all gang bangers are illegal aliens you know. Some of them may actually be black. I've even seen movies, music videos, etc. that all show U.S citizens as gan...
[20:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:02] <exec> 08└─Why are you focusing on Mexicans? Illegal aliens can be of many different nationalities, races, and whatever other attributes you want to fixate on. Those on the left, and especially the far left, like to portray this as a matter of "racism". That couldn't be any more wrong. "Mexican" isn't even a r...
[20:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:04] <exec> 08└─> > It should be *very* illegal to share *any* customer information without their consent. > These are illegals we're talking about here. You don't know that until you give the database to the cops.
[20:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:27] <exec> 08└─Ah, so this is one of those silly things that [people younger than me] care about. When oh when will they ever grow up?
[20:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:37] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't know about aliens in general, but follow in the footsteps of the people of the old 5th planet between Mars and Jupiter, and the Old Ones will take care of the rest.
[20:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:39] <exec> 08└─What happened to the first four planets between Mars and Jupiter?
[20:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:41] <exec> 08└─Shocking cock up. The mice were furious.
[20:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Builds Better Bugs? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─Will our lunar and martian colonies fail due to indigestion?
[20:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, paying for the privilege of working should not be considered employment at all. My wife does some "work from home" business, churns through about $15K of expenses per year against about $17K per year of 1099 income... she does it for the social aspect, meeting people, etc. (staying home with t...
[20:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:54] <exec> 08└─It is cool that BTC is an accessible option to escape some really bad monetary systems. People I know from unstable countries used to keep over half of their savings in gold jewelry.
[20:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Equifax Data Breach - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not affected by it (that I know of), but frankly, if I were (or am, because why should I trust their webpage), they can go fuck themselves. I'm not giving them money to "lock" or "unlock" anything. How the fuck do they even know it's me that's doing the locking and unlocking if the very informat...
[20:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:10] <exec> 08└─Even is we were to concede that coal-electricity powered vehicles are just as bad as gas-powered vehicles we're still only talking about 30% of the electricity in the US. [wikipedia.org] So it's still an improvement.
[20:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:12] <exec> 08└─Ok, there is lot of low hanging fruit in renovating a forty year old home. And notice that I totally called it in the original post when I mentioned "living with severely limited climate control" and generally reorganizing your lifestyle around energy reduction, since that does seem to be the primar...
[20:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:31] <exec> 08└─Saddam wasn't firing ICBMs over our allies. He wasn't testing nuclear weapons. He was a monster, but he wasn't actually threatening anyone,
[20:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:33] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/~TheLink/journal/1632 [soylentnews.org]
[20:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:36] <exec> 08└─> there are a bunch of hot chicks on Faux Noise. True. But they are carefully selected from a large population and not representative of the Republicans that I've seen (who are very well fed, to say the least).
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:37] <exec> 08└─It is leftists who are trying to suppress free speech on campuses and online. “We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people." - Donald J Trump
[20:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:39] <exec> 08└─"Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner.The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!" Donald J Trump
[20:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:22] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Having the government dependent upon large corporations to do their computing is a complete disaster and sets a bad example for everyone else that it is okay to be dependent on your abusers.
[20:55:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:18] <exec> 08└─I experienced the 2003 blackout in New York City. A giant triangle of outage covered the Northeast. It was summer. It took them days to restore power. Millions of people had to walk home at once. There were no riots or looting. People didn't panic. They handled it. Ice cream shops gave their ice cre...
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[21:39:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 377 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:31] <exec> 08└─What the hell are you talking about? Can you point to any examples where SpaceX has risked any astronaut's lives in a launch? I'm quite sure you won't find any, because SpaceX has not ever launched any humans into space. It's intellectually dishonest to claim that a company "doesn't care about astro...
[21:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:47] <exec> 08└─Over five hours without a new story, submission list filling up.
[21:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:48] <exec> 08└─Well, the door's thataway - don't let it hit you in the ass on your way out!
[21:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:50] <exec> 08└─Don't like Uncle Nigger's Club House? Get The Fuck Out. SN still dying, now circling drain.
[21:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry but then you'll have to recreate pretty much all modern technology. Rugged individualism requires extreme personal ability. You will also need to stockpile valuable goods since you are no longer allowed to use government issued currency. Good luck! Oh wait, you're a total hypocrite I forgot. Y...
[21:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:55] <exec> 08└─Well when all risk is passed on to the taxpayers I can see why they'd develop a bit of a mania about it!
[21:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:42] <exec> 08└─I think we just violated rule 34, couldn't find any industrial robots in bikini
[21:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:43] <exec> 08└─governments on gold standards have done to devalue the currency
[21:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Debt Hits Historic $20 Trillion Mark - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:46] <exec> 08└─Yup, money only has worth because of agreement: when the shit hits and you can't get online and won't for years and you find it hard to get to town for your weekly grocery shop, --bitcoin won't be worth anything (until things get 'fixed' anyways), i'm sure most people would agree. "I have 400 bitcoi...
[21:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─Except that by paying, they made the clerk their agent and so attached the Constitutional limits to that agent's actions.
[21:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:57] <exec> 08└─The part where there's a preset rate of payment per actionable intel point? That part throws your "argument" in the trash.
[21:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:22] <exec> 08└─European prices are higher because they already include VAT.
[21:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:35] <exec> 08└─That's definitely gonna ruin your insurance discount and your credit rating.
[21:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:47] <exec> 08└─Last time i was in the UK (last april) i always needed some cash on me. No cash? Then you can't use the bathroom! Train changes are pretty quick so i tried to always have a few pound coins and assorted change. That just lead to me paying for most things with cash. Fast food and convenience store stu...
[21:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:48] <exec> 08└─It can certainly be helpful if you're stopping by an independent shop to buy a can of drink, or use a public toilet. Most people I know still in the UK get most of their convenient shopping done in Tesco Express, use a self-service checkout and pay with contactless debit cards. Personally, even thou...
[21:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:51] <exec> 08└─Currencies ARE invented out of thin air. If enough people can agree to use something as a currency, then it's a currency. Being backed by a military/government (for debts only!) is a nice touch, but you can't really force all of your citizens to take cash if they decide to stop trusting it. See Zimb...
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:53] <exec> 08└─So instead of gold, dollars have been lead backed all this time. And also plutonium and uranium, but as last resort. So who said converting lead to gold was impossible? It was done in 1971! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:10] <exec> 08└─No, not really. I'm just focused on the fact that the real price of solar panels is quite a bit over $1/watt just for the panel. If you install it with an approved vendor and all that crapola that goes with that(required for the subsidies), that figure skyrockets to $4-$5/watt which makes the breake...
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 1788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─> generally reorganizing your lifestyle around energy reduction, since that does seem to be the primary drivers of savings in your case. That's a bit of an overstatement. Turning off stuff you don't need, and not rushing for the AC when the temps barely approach 30C (dry) isn't "reorganizing", it's...
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:33] <exec> 08└─I've been wondering if there isn't a radfem posting AC here. At first I thought it was satire, and now I'm not so sure. I'll never know one way or the other, so it's not like I give a damn which it is. All I know is that there seem to be a preponderance of people who assume, for reasons I cannot com...
[21:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:39] <exec> 08└─In the last days before the building was condemned, a student video documented the building, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] "We lived here, you didn't..." @ Bexley Hall, MIT
[21:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FSF Campaign : Public Money Should Mean Public Code - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:24] <exec> 08└─And unless you're prepared to pick up a gun and start shooting people who disagree with you the 1% and executive classes
[21:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If America Lost Its Electricity to an Electromagnetic Shock - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, just continuing with my "You either with us or again' us." theme from above. It all kinda got lost. Like me Where am i? (Looking for the 'vodka' mod)
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[22:39:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 1394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:30] <exec> 08└─Failure was common at NASA too: does anyone really think they didn't test out rockets and delivery vehicles before sticking humans in them? That's just what SpaceX is doing. There's not much risk in trying to land a spent first-stage rocket: it's already done its primary job of boosting the vehicle...
[22:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:59] <exec> 08└─1) Yes, but I'm sure they did that after testing components without humans around (i.e., they tested what they could before sticking a human in there), and 2) This was in the 60s, when safety protocols weren't quite as good, and technologies (for things like remote-control and autonomous piloting) j...
[22:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:00] <exec> 08└─8 hours! This is your WAKE UP call.
[22:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:26] <exec> 08└─US prices don't, but even when you apply sales tax to the US price it's still a lot cheaper, and it seems more than the difference between typical US sales tax rates (5-10%) and EU VAT rates (15%? I think). It's really not usual for a lot of consumer goods to cost significantly less in the US than i...
[22:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:27] <exec> 08└─> ...has been a refrain for decades, if not centuries. "o tempora, o mores", but the empire did collapse eventually. Ours will too. ("ours", hehehe)
[22:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:29] <exec> 08└─"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age." (Cicero)
[22:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Fires Another Missile Towards Japan - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:38] <exec> 08└─In my laptop, I used to use one of their WiFi cards.
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At MIT, Senior House is No More - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─Yes those dirty 'republicans'. The same ones who just closed this MIT dorm.
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[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seniors Shaping the Way We Live, Cities Grow - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─Old people are not useless. They can post stories just as well as ever; it just takes a few hours longer.
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seniors Shaping the Way We Live, Cities Grow - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:28] <exec> 08└─Yup. We editors pooched it. We went 10 hours with nothing in the queue. Our apologies for the delay. Please return to your regularly scheduled trolling. I'd love to hear from a few volunteers to help spread the workload...
[23:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seniors Shaping the Way We Live, Cities Grow - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:30] <exec> 08└─Soylent editors might have onions on their belts instead of phones up their noses or whatever the popular youth trend is these days but old soylent editors can queue stories just as well as (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)
[23:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seniors Shaping the Way We Live, Cities Grow - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:32] <exec> 08└─In fact, they are quite tasty when properly stewed and seasoned.
[23:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seniors Shaping the Way We Live, Cities Grow - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:35] <exec> 08└─But all I found was Curry and Kababs
[23:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seniors Shaping the Way We Live, Cities Grow - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:37] <exec> 08└─Those cities when they where 30 as for the greening things I might be willing,, I guess I'd have to open an account though mmm lemme think about it
[23:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry. The editors have lives and jobs that occasionally get in the way. Our (kinda) sincere apologies.
[23:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:23] <exec> 08└─Those damn jobs we have that keep getting in the way!
[23:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Proves It's not Afraid to Fail by Releasing a Landing Blooper Reel - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, because we can demand success without any failures and still be reasonable citizens. You're money, along with my money, was used to send Chuck Yeager up to break the sound barrier. How many millions went up in flames before he succeeded? We went to the moon.... but that also took millions of do...
[23:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:25] <exec> 08└─and do something to better our country like serving in the military or earning a four year degree
[23:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:27] <exec> 08└─Because you're an idiot? Good, we don't need you. We are against all illegal immigration. Since the vast majority of it is coming from Mexico, that puts most of the attention on Mexicans. You dipshits are so pro-immigration that you'll sue the President for not letting enough terrorists in. You fuck...
[23:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated] - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:29] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? Do you really think the government shouldn't just be able to hire thugs to do things that would be unconstitutional if it did them in order to bypass the Constitution? Are you insane!?
[23:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:25] <exec> 08└─Where does its ability to purchase goods and services come from?
[23:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Says Cryptocurrency a Fraud, Bound to Fail - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting. As a volunteer I receive international payments (worldwide to me in USA) from university student teams, $500 to join a consortium. I started out 10 years ago and accepted bank-2-bank transfers (wires, direct transfers using SWIFT numbers, etc) and they were mostly awful. Often an interm...
[23:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─I am sorry, I don't see the relevance? My point was about pollution in general and energy efficiency for electric cars not being what they seemed, and actually being worse than equivalent IC cars. The fact you may burn coal to generate electricity is a red herring, because you can always switch your...
[23:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Now Costs 6¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour, Beating Government Goal by 3 Years - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:48] <exec> 08└─That is because a lot of people fixate on CO2 like it is the be-all-end-all problem in the world. It isn't, ignoring the higher CO2 output just results in more greenery (as plants use CO2 a lot), and that fundamentally the entire earth is a closed carbon cycle (so all those fossil fuels were once CO...
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