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[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Printable Medication Delivers Several Drugs in One Dose - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Have the researchers from Michigan considered how likely it would be to be viable in the US? Hospitals bill you $20 per aspirin pill. Manufacturers claim their stuff is expensive because it's hard to make and quality-control. You want to DIY print all-in-one pills from raw ingredients? [i...
[00:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Printable Medication Delivers Several Drugs in One Dose - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:29] <exec> 08└─Tell you what, you can print several milligrams of it per strip.
[00:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:50] <exec> 08└─Probably, but interfered in what way?
[00:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bornagainpenguin [3538] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:52] <exec> 08└─I've filed formal complaint about them having Fox News on, you know? Uh, at least, for God's sake, put Al Jazeera on
[00:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:54] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that is classified.
[00:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:56] <exec> 08└─They're in intelligence... Why would you want people who are interested in watching fox?
[00:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Scout Sub-Surface Settlement Sites on the Moon and Mars - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:54] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm....today's news....mmmmm.... XD Mmmmm...Space 1999..... Anyone remember Space 1999? Moonbase Alpha before it became a video game?
[00:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Scout Sub-Surface Settlement Sites on the Moon and Mars - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:55] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm...Space 1999..... Anyone remember Space 1999? Moonbase Alpha before it became a video game?
[00:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax or Equiphish? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:37] <exec> 08└─ESPECIALLY the brown people. Yes.
[00:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter to Consider Doubling Character Limit to 280 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:01] <exec> 08└─...and who didn't spend the last 8 years whining about those exact same things!
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[15:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06MIT's Tiny "Superhero" Robot Dresses for the Job at Hand - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─-Fuck-bot, which allows the Primer to get mauled by horny festival-goers.
[15:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Tiny "Superhero" Robot Dresses for the Job at Hand - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:33] <exec> 08└─And contradict itself: > When finished with its job, the Primer can then hop into a dish of water to dissolve the exoskeleton. > Boat-bot, which can float on water and carry a payload twice its weight
[15:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Tiny "Superhero" Robot Dresses for the Job at Hand - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:35] <exec> 08└─I realize this is like a demo of what could be in the future, but I'm fairly sure that the robot isn't self powered, and all the energy and control logic is coming from the special table under it. I've watched enough Penn and Teller to be suspicious of thick tables, and it kind of feels like they're...
[15:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Tiny "Superhero" Robot Dresses for the Job at Hand - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't you read the article? Not "mauled". But "heavily soiled". That's what TFA said.
[15:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Tiny "Superhero" Robot Dresses for the Job at Hand - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:40] <exec> 08└─Beyond just the contradiction you point out, there is another problem . . . When finished with its job, the Primer can then hop into a dish of water to dissolve the exoskeleton.
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─I dunno if you were around at the turn of the 1990s but this sounds eerily like the fad of Hypercolor. Hypercolor t-shirts changed colour based on mood (well, temperature). But they were good only for as long as you followed the laundering instructions to the letter. A gimmick for yuppies, as we use...
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─What kind of mindless consumertard would even buy something like that? The same kind of mindless consumertard who would wear a denim jacket. Seriously, you can't find a stupider fabric to use for a jacket; it won't keep you dry, and it won't keep you warm, so what's the point? Denim isn't an expensi...
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone could let them know that the above inventions have been made, and allow for temporary separation of different pieces of fabric? Then, one could simply remove these limited-washability parts, wash the jacket, and put the parts on after the remaining jacket has dried? For example, the cl...
[15:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─You're missing the "up to" marketing. Kind of like my phone battery could last "up to" 24 hours meaning no way in hell that thing will ever under any circumstances regardless of settings or use, last longer than 24 hours. So lasting "up to" ten washings means it probably won't survive even one washi...
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─It's targeted at people who commute by bike
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─The reason they exist is because they used to be abrasion resistant. Hence why you often times see them on farm workers and bikers. They're much less abrasion resistant now because the material is usually thinner, but you do get some abrasion resistance. Plus, for people in most of the US, they're p...
[15:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:13] <exec> 08└─"We" (my wife) have recently purchased ~12 pieces of Ikea furniture for the new house. It is pretty cheap and she likes the look. I have spent 8 hours assembling, mounting, etc. so far. I'm cheap and I'm handy, so I'm okay with assembling it myself. That said, I've got another ~16 hours of assembly/...
[15:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─Delivery to my location costs $80 for the most recent shipment (a few weeks ago). An Uber to the same location costs $50. A drive to the location took ~40 miles (1 gallon of gas for $4, wear and tear for $20) and 2 hours of time (picking out the stupid things from the store, mostly). I can't imagine...
[15:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:17] <exec> 08└─It's great to hear that the bunnies have a new owner. They landed on their feet! Some beautiful, beautiful girls there. I starred with them -- with some of them -- in Playboy Video Centerfold 2000. 🇺🇸
[15:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─Regardless of the politically entertaining details and traditions relating to that discussion, "the people" you're referring to are clearly not a constant, so the rate of change of a characteristic of a sample that is also changing is not going to be a meaningful measurement. Well there's meaning in...
[15:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─one of the main selling points of Ikea
[15:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:23] <exec> 08└─For your fixed dado, maybe you can have it re-sharpened to cut a slightly narrower groove? I'm used to adjustable dado sets -- either: + Two full saw blades with 2-tooth "chipper" blades sandwiched in between. Set overall width with very thin shims in the stack, sometimes as thin as a piece of p...
[15:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─Any power plant or AC system that uses open water from a river, lake, or sea as a heat sink, or which uses water evaporation to enhance an air-cooled system is already exploiting water evaporation at a level that this system can't match. There's going to be a huge loss in efficiency from convert the...
[15:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:44] <exec> 08└─Forgot advantages d) and e) - you get a river in your space-city, which is not only pretty to look at, fun for watersports etc, but is a handy place to store vast amounts of life-giving water.
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─Evaporation *requires* energy. If there is energy that could evaporate something, then just store that energy.
[15:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:48] <exec> 08└─Presumably the idea is to let the glass concentrate sunlight and trap heat to aid evaporation, then when the moisture hits the top of the structure it is cleverly designed to channel the drips so that they collect and "rain" upon the higher-altitude "collection" part of the landscape. That is likely...
[15:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:50] <exec> 08└─If I understand it correctly it is actually more like a steam engine driven by solar heat. Obviously the density of steam is rather low, but if you have a lot of water.... Cool pictures/videos here: http://newatlas.com [newatlas.com]
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, but this is DIRECT USAGE not use of previously-stored energy. Evaporated water hasn't been stored underground at the same energy level for millions of years, slowly building up on planetary scales, for millennia (and if it had, releasing it quickly for our temporary and brief but high-power use...
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─> store the energy by heating a large body of water, which is also coincidentally what you need for the evaporation... If the energy is heat energy as radiation from the sun, then storing it as heat energy in water is indeed a tried and trusted solution, this has been used in hot water systems world...
[15:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─Cool pictures indeed. The devices are very clever, and very cute, but have you done the maths to see whether there's anything practical in the technique? I did, and I reckon their current setup might be able to harvest something like 30-200 W/km^2, as they're only generating microwatts in their smal...
[15:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Roller Skates Fold Flat when Off the Feet - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:09] <exec> 08└─I would guess that the finger controls current-torgue-acceleration while the speed and position loops are in the wearer's head. Transferring weight to the inside leg would cause it to slow and the outer leg to speed up if both drive currents are the same.
[15:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server Migration: beryllium and magnesium Completed; Last Up: sodium - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:45] <exec> 08└─For an IT team perhaps this is commonplace, but in my experience even in industry migrations are painful, as many of the servers I depend on are covered by "Scott, that guy who knows computers". I was actually trying to do a failover solution based on Raspberry Pis the other day, as they provide an...
[15:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server Migration: beryllium and magnesium Completed; Last Up: sodium - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:47] <exec> 08└─My life is usually a one- or two-man IT team. It's been more, but rarely do you need that many, precisely because you have the tools nowadays to make it that simple. Snapshot is right-click snapshot. Move is right-click move. Turning off the network interface is Properties... Network interface... se...
[15:11:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 1446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:59] <exec> 08└─Looks more like optical/chemical detection rather than RF/microwave, possibly with some IMSI-catcher stuff in there. It smells all and can detect explosives, drugs, toxins, the smell of human fear, pirated software, and bootleg DVDs. I have a weird tale of my own regarding weird shit on light posts....
[15:12:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:00] <exec> 08└─If it is Z Backscatter designed to severely compromise the civil rights, and human rights, of American Citizens in a mass surveillance fashion, then bomb the fuck out them. Tire necklaces on steroids. Cut the fiber. Use our own lasers, whatever, to fuck them over from a distance. Mini drones with th...
[15:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:30] <exec> 08└─Could it be a photon-emitter array? (LEDs) With batteries and a charger in the ventilated cage? Kept "secret" to let everyone speculate, worry, and stew?
[15:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:32] <exec> 08└─In the video they showed a closeup of one of the "units" and it looked like behind the louvers it had a large square grid of round things, which reminded me of some kind of LED lighting array, I would assume not in the visible spectrum if that's what's it is. Does it look like a plausible component...
[15:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:34] <exec> 08└─Interesting pic. The bands look like material designed to be transparent to certain frequencies, so almost certainly emitters of some kind. The mesh is odd, because it looks like you should be able to see through it. Someone ought to be able to get close, shine a light in, and see what equipment is...
[15:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:36] <exec> 08└─Sure, there's a classic particle detector design where you shine light thru the air and have what amounts to a computer watching a microscope, with infinite patience, watch individual illuminated particles float by, then scale up the numbers to ug/cu meter or whatever. Then you have the computer vis...
[15:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:39] <exec> 08└─That tracks with a security contract that I was tangentially involved with the bidding on back in 2013 - sniffers to be placed on top of buildings and other places looking for traces of bioweapons, they (said that they) could PCR amplify and identify many common bioweapons from unique DNA sequences....
[15:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:11] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't Medicaid provide these as a medical benefit to poor people? (hides under desk. Now please excuse me while I go order a couple more boxes of polygons. Also a few additional dimensions because Amazon is having a special if you order eight or more.)
[15:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:12] <exec> 08└─But a disproportionate number of people who are intimate with them are. Either that or Welsh.
[15:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:14] <exec> 08└─Taboos are culturally relative, and thus as fluid as the underlying culture. Regarding the sex-doll taboo, I did find this to be a better-than-expected movie: http://www.imdb.com ; my girlfriend enjoyed it too. Believe it or not, it's a film for people who like films about people; i...
[15:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:16] <exec> 08└─What if the, um . . . how to put this nicely . . ., um, "critical parts" were easily and inexpensively 3D printed? Custom fit. The Burger King wouldn't have to wrap his whopper. Along with custom 3D printed boner drugs (see previous story [soylentnews.org]).
[15:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:18] <exec> 08└─Pay for it? VAT? Shouldn't it be covered by national health care? the future: those who become unable or too exhausted to work due to these dolls, would be issued more dolls as therapy, paid by national health care. Funded by the other people / countries who do work. Don't laugh. Don't mod funny. Ma...
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jtmach [1481] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─The Aussie's say the Kiwi's are shaggin the sheep. The Kiwi's say the Aussie's are shaggin the sheep. Frankly, I think the sheep are the whores.
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─Somewhat selfcleaning could be solved with a decent waterproofing of internals and an "overall" and that you just out it all in a bathtub, hook up hoses to overall and inlet in doll (with proper design you coukd make this like an enena and then just rinse for a while and let it drain. Bonus if you a...
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:25] <exec> 08└─A quick look in an english to english dictionary tells me "jumpsuit" would have been a bettee choice of word for overall/coverall/jumpsuit
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Printable Medication Delivers Several Drugs in One Dose - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─This is just a guess. So I could be wrong. But I suspect the outrageously high price is because a doctor had to say it is okay for you to have the aspirin.
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Printable Medication Delivers Several Drugs in One Dose - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't each type of drug be a different type of filament strip fed into the printer? Or would they be more like inkjet cartridges? Couldn't you simply order the filaments / cartridges you are interested in, even if you don't need to refuel your 3D printer? Now if only the printer could be programe...
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Printable Medication Delivers Several Drugs in One Dose - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─Since doses of LSD are measured in µg (micro grams), what would a few milligrams do? (and no, I don't it would *really* turn you into superman, able to fly and leap tall buildings.) I could see 3D printing of drugs like v1agra / c1alis, etc as pills that come in . . . um . . . certain shapes. Like...
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[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─After all the bitching about PC bullcrap can we finally admit that conservatives are just as bad? Instead of gender and race it is patriotism and religion.
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─"Take a knee"... "in the groin!" Got to love the news's new favorite phrase.
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─Pray to your American slavemasters, but not while kneeling!
[16:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and protest elsewhere (like in front of a courhouse), give media interviews, whatever you want, but when you are on the field, you're being paid to do a job: play ball. Don't inflict your politics on a captive audience who came for something else.
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─You really don't see the difference between demanding the government or a company censor speech you dislike and simply refusing to give that company your business, do you? That's just sad.
[16:09:44] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─I don't see why the big deal about the protests. They found a decent understated way to protest without being particularly annoying or overly preachy. It's not like their protests somehow make the football that then happens better or worse. The article also notes ESPN and CBS's viewership seems to b...
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─Don't let your quest for Justice interfere with our blood-lust for violence.
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─You confuse patriotism with nationalism.
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─Stop broadcasting the anthem; it's become too political. People want entertainment, not red/blue culture battles.
[16:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how kneeling (an act of servitude) or linking arms (an act of comradeship) is in any way disrespectful. Honestly, out of all the possible things they could have done, those two are possibly the least controversial things I could imagine. If a soldier, at a war memorial, chose - through...
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─The idea of a protest is to get people to hear your message and agree with you, yes? Their chosen method is turning out to be an epic fail. It's quite important when you go to convey a message that what you're meaning to say is what the people you're speaking to are hearing. That is not remotely hap...
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Same effect.
[16:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─Do the NFL players protesting the US national anthem fund the injustice they see by sending (or allowing to be taken) their money to the Internal Revenue Service? Fully 75%+ of the US federal budget comes from PERSONAL income taxes - NOT corporate or business taxes. Starve the beast. Don't fund inju...
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─The article also notes ESPN and CBS's viewership seems to be up.
[16:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:04] <exec> 08└─Nationalism is a subset of patriotism, isn't it?
[16:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─No, the onus of having your message well received by an audience is not on the audience; it is entirely on the speaker(s). If their current method of communication is failing, they need to change methods.
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─P.S. I equate this to a very overblown interpretation of a similar British "controversy". British football players wear black armbands on matches played near the 11th November (Remembrance Day, to remember those who have fallen in combat - from the World Wars to modern conflicts). The football assoc...
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─It's called "freedom of association". It's the way free people act when there is a disagreement or an impasse. You can whine about the optics, be it "white flight", enclaves, suburbanization, separatism, etc., but the fact remains that you either are a free person and can choose with whom you spend...
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─Only to people who irrationally hate their country in the same way teenagers hate their parents. Anyone else can see the difference between the two.
[16:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─I don't see why the big deal about the protests. They found a decent understated way to protest without being particularly annoying or overly preachy.
[16:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:18] <exec> 08└─Gosh, maybe if they said to news agencies why they were protesting, and calling attention to it, and being ignored, eh?
[16:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:20] <exec> 08└─Guess they will have to go back to staring at the dog licking its butt.
[16:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:22] <exec> 08└─refusing to give that company your business
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:24] <exec> 08└─Nope. The intentions of the speaker do not matter at all, only if the message was effectively conveyed. You don't win someone to your side by shitting on their windshield.
[16:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─Get your politics out of my amphitheatre!
[16:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─I recommend getting three or four kittens. They're way more entertaining than football.
[16:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─It requires your co-operation to be offended. If you think that seeing someone not stand during the national anthem being played is offensive, then don't watch that bit. Turn away, face the White House, or the flag on the wall of your house, while you're also standing. The message is generating medi...
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─What is actually at issue is that there are a lot of folks out there who think cops should be able to kill whenever they want without any kind of consequences.
[16:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and protest elsewhere (like in front of a courhouse), give media interviews, whatever you want, but when you are on the field, you're being paid to do a job: play ball.
[16:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, I'd fully support not singing the anthem at all before ball games. I mean, what exactly do the Chicago Cubs or Green Bay Packers have to do with the War of 1812? The whole thing is completely silly. Heck, the concept of a "national anthem" is pretty silly too: Really, one song is going to...
[16:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:40] <exec> 08└─Both start with "I love my country", but then nationalism adds "It's better than yours". So nationalism is like an extremist version of patriotism and while the distinction between the two is often clear, there isn't any hard line between them.
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:42] <exec> 08└─You're not terribly bright, are you? There's an old phrase that goes "the customer is always right". Anyone who ignores it better have a monopoly on a need rather than a desire, contract or no contract.
[16:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:44] <exec> 08└─Neither do you get listened to by standing on a corner saying "Excuse me, Erm.. Sorry... Can I just... I'd like to say..." Which is a MUCH closer analogy to what they're doing than yours.
[16:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:46] <exec> 08└─That's entirely besides the point that I think national anthems at sporting events are an almost-religious-like brain-washing of people into patriotism
[16:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:49] <exec> 08└─nope it's "buyer beware" try again buzzhead
[16:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:51] <exec> 08└─It's really irrelevant. Neither is any worse a thing than loving your family more than you love random Joe on the street. Degree of separation has always mattered and should always matter to people in regards to empathy. Those down on either patriotism or nationalism really need to go back to school...
[16:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT's Tiny "Superhero" Robot Dresses for the Job at Hand - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:02] <exec> 08└─The "robot" is a neodymium magnet cube. They even marked the polarity with a sharpie. It's moved by external electromagnets. Earlier work, looks pretty much the same: http://news.mit.edu [mit.edu] I guess they have fiddled with the candy wrappers, er, the "exo...
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:20] <exec> 08└─That's true, but for denim 10 washings is a matter of a few years. Denim can easily go months without being washed without issue. Especially if it's not meant to be worn next to the skin. Not particularly defending this, but chances are you wouldn't want to wash more than ten times anyways as by tha...
[16:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:22] <exec> 08└─its kind of a niche hat band, you've probably never heard of it
[16:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:24] <exec> 08└─Denim can easily go months without being washed without issue.
[16:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:26] <exec> 08└─How about a nice clip on tie?
[16:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:28] <exec> 08└─they reach a price region where you can easily consult with a local tailor to have yours custom made to fit instead
[16:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:46] <exec> 08└─"the people" you're referring to are clearly not a constant, so the rate of change of a characteristic of a sample that is also changing is not going to be a meaningful measurement.
[16:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:48] <exec> 08└─Now Ikea can manufacture and assemble "The Wall".
[16:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:16] <exec> 08└─Not so complicated to be Rube Goldberg, but certainly akin to Theo Jansen's Strandbeests (wind powered walking machines).
[16:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Harvesting Energy from Evaporating Water a Serious Renewable Energy Prospect? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:17] <exec> 08└─I'm no Shakespeare, but I can improve on poo: Pooh
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─But why only near bridges? And why so secret.
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─Just don't pick the ugly one. And for god's sake, use protection. Humans can impregnate sheep.
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─or from Idaho. Their state's welcome kit for new residents includes velcro gloves and a condom.
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─Taboos are culturally relative, and thus as fluid as the underlying culture.
[16:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:42] <exec> 08└─You think so? I dunno. The thing about using machines for sex is they are boring. What you get with them is always the same. Sex with real people is always a little bit different. A machine will only do what it's programmed to do, and do it over and over in the same way. A human being can go off-scr...
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:45] <exec> 08└─That's what's always puzzled me, I mean have you looked at Australian sheep? They're all bony and ragged and dirty, while NZ sheep are much better looking.
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:47] <exec> 08└─Do others not use Mr. Raspberry Jam [grandtheftwiki.com]?
[16:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:49] <exec> 08└─You pay double for that kind of action in Vegas.
[16:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:51] <exec> 08└─"NZ sheep are much better looking" They're called 'women,' not 'sheep,' you insensitive clod.
[16:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─You jest, but there was that article earlier this year about elderly people and their right to be provided with sex...
[16:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:56] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess if you swing that way you can always throw a fleece over her and have her make baa-ing noises. Just don't let anyone see you.
[16:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:58] <exec> 08└─+1, Prophetic. Until their economy collapses. Again.
[16:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Printable Medication Delivers Several Drugs in One Dose - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_death.shtml [erowid.org] For those concerned about immediate medical hazards in ingesting LSD [...] Abram Hoffer has estimated, on the basis of animal studies, that the half-lethal human dose--meaning half would die (a standard measure for drugs)--would be ab...
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:04] <exec> 08└─Took me a few times reading it to figure out what the hell was going on. Who names their kid "Reality"? :P
[16:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hugh Hefner - Playboy Magazine Founder - Dead at 91 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:50] <exec> 08└─What the hell does the origin of something self contained matter? That strikes me as wholly irrelevant, so much so that while I read it in your post I couldn't believe that was your point.
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[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:31] <exec> 08└─Black. Erect. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂. Never fuckin old pussy. Fuckin a lotta young pussy. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 gonna give ya dis monumental nigger dick up in yo cunt.
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─The list includes 5 dams and Mt Rushmore. Unless you have a giant >2m drone, you can't even scratch any of these. If it is to protect the experience (yes!) or the public from mishaps (safety from idiots), frame it that way. Let's not pretend any of those 6 giant chunks of rock and concrete can have...
[17:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:35] <exec> 08└─Great, so the FAA has some new regulations. What are they going to do, however, when someone flies their drone over these sites anyway? In short, what's the point of having regulations if you're not going to bother enforcing them? The FAA is already miserable at enforcing safety regulations on small...
[17:09:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1847 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how kneeling (an act of servitude) or linking arms (an act of comradeship) is in any way disrespectful. Honestly, out of all the possible things they could have done, those two are possibly the least controversial things I could imagine. If a soldier, at a war memorial, chose - through...
[17:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:03] <exec> 08└─I don't see why the big deal about the protests. They found a decent understated way to protest without being particularly annoying or overly preachy.
[17:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mth [2848] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─Both start with "I love my country", but then nationalism adds "It's better than yours". So nationalism is like an extremist version of patriotism and while the distinction between the two is often clear, there isn't any hard line between them.
[17:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─I support their right to have an anthem. And their right to not stand for the anthem. I wouldn't necessarily support their right to talk over the anthem, even though I think anthems are ridiculous hangovers of monarchy and patriotism. Because then one groups freedom is being ruined by another group'...
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─Except it's obviously not if they're giving out refunds, is it?
[17:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:25] <exec> 08└─Stupid analogy. This is really like someone protesting on the sidewalk, the other people ramming their car into said protestor and then complaining about the blood on their windshields.
[17:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─I support their right to kneel during the anthem as well. I also support the right of viewers to not spend their money to be pissed off.
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, I bet most people are like me and just assume its some anti-trump thing.
[17:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:31] <exec> 08└─From your perspective, yes. From that of the fans, no. And that of the fans is the one that matters unless you're trying to piss them off rather than convey a message. It's not the job of the fans or of myself to tell you how to speak effectively to an audience. Figuring that out is your job.
[17:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:33] <exec> 08└─I reread your comment several times, trying to find something worth responding rationally to. There just wasn't anything there. Your assertion was pure idiocy and we are all dumber for having read it.
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─Their chosen method is turning out to be an epic fail.
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─You're not getting it. It does not matter. If you failed to effectively communicate your message, the problem is entirely your own. You desired something, attempted to achieve it, and failed. The answer is not to piss and moan about why you failed but to try another way.
[17:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:40] <exec> 08└─People have the right to protest, and other people have the right to refuse to want to watch the protest. The question is whether or not players should be allowed to make any political statement. Before this event there was a player who was not allowed to wear pink in honor of his mother with breast...
[17:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:42] <exec> 08└─Fucking hell this is uncharitable bullshit. So they complained to the company and the company agreed to alter the contract. What exactly is the problem there? Seems like consumer demand won the day here, and that's a good thing. It's not "whining" to go up to a clerk and say "hey, this box of serial...
[17:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, so the protesters would actively prefer Republicans to be too pissed off to hear anything they're trying to say? Check. They're morons who don't really care about what they're saying then.
[17:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:47] <exec> 08└─But it wasn't, because they started a year before Trump was elected.
[17:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─Much in the same way that cancer is a subset of living tissue.
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:51] <exec> 08└─The anthem is kind of like your alcoholic great grandmother/father. You don't always want to deal with him, but because you wouldn't be here without him you still let him ramble on about inane stuff because it makes him happy
[17:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:53] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between not caring about Joe as much as about your family and arguing that Joe is objectively inferior because he's not family. The latter is what happens in nationalism. To me, it seems tribalism is doing more harm than good for our species. In particular, a democracy cannot f...
[17:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:55] <exec> 08└─I was listening to Bill OReilly froth at the mouth over this. Boomers and older are really mad because to them the anthem and flag = America, the anthem and flag =/ the president. What they saw from this event appears to be equivalent to pissing on graves at Arlington, not taking a stand against the...
[17:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:58] <exec> 08└─If this is the case then they can stop wasting my tax dollars and the NFL and can give the players a pay cut
[17:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:00] <exec> 08└─You're not terribly bright, are you?
[17:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─Like I said then, you need to speak with an anthropology professor or six. I can see where you'd think that. Most globalists do. They're all objectively wrong though.
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:04] <exec> 08└─You're not terribly bright, are you? There's an old phrase that goes "the customer is always right".
[17:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─Yup. It was an exceedingly poorly chosen method of communication.
[17:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:09] <exec> 08└─I never in a million years would have thought the riots next year would have been sparked by some sportsball drama. I'm forming a very, very strange sociological picture of the USA. The older women go to church, the older men go to sportsball, and the young folks go to wherever it is SJWs go to get...
[17:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:11] <exec> 08└─Can't help it if they're not following the rules
[17:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:13] <exec> 08└─Gaining attention in and of itself is completely meaningless. Something that I think has been increasingly lost on people is that the whole goal of protest is to sway people to your side. Many protesters today are arguably turning people against their cause. That is effectively the same as engaging...
[17:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:15] <exec> 08└─That stopped applying to businesses when...
[17:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:18] <exec> 08└─Thank you for providing a fine example of caring more about the virtue signaling of a protest than its message being well conveyed. Congratulations on being part of the reason nothing you say ever gets listened to outside of people who already agree with you.
[17:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Roller Skates Fold Flat when Off the Feet - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:53] <exec> 08└─Walk, you lazy fucker.
[17:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Roller Skates Fold Flat when Off the Feet - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:55] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they be red?
[17:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Throws US$2 Million Behind Contest to Build Personal Flying Machine - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:13] <exec> 08└─Idea: http://benjamin.lisan.free.fr [lisan.free.fr] Execution: http://afpbb.ismcdn.jp [ismcdn.jp]
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Server Migration: beryllium and magnesium Completed; Last Up: sodium - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─Which bugs me to no end. Our internal communication switched to Slack, this was after going from Messenger for Business, Lync, Skype for business, Office Communicator, something built into Outlook, and that's just the Microsoft stuff. We also hopped to other systems. The whole time our IT department...
[17:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:23] <exec> 08└─That usage is usually abbreviated "Nabisco."
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:25] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? He IS the shady shit ;P Poor sheep are ready to stage a coup to keep him from disrobing their females.
[17:15:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:52] <exec> 08└─Well I'm glad we didn't elect the person who accepted lots of money from shady Russian billionaires.
[17:15:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:53] <exec> 08└─Probably, but interfered in what way?
[17:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it doesn't look like one. Unless you've heard of her before, the headline borders on the nonsensical.
[17:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. There are two core tenets to access to classified information: (1) Having the security clearance and (2) having the need-to-know. The problem was that safeguards which were in place in other NSA facilities were not in place in Hawaii, where Snowden reportedly pilfered the documents usi...
[17:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:26] <exec> 08└─Oh no people have confessed to murders at their security "interviews"
[17:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Empyrean [5241] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drone Detects Heartbeat and Breathing Rates - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:03] <exec> 08└─Along with heart rate and temperature, blood pressure is considered one of the most important vital signs. It seems this drone isn't a complete solution, but it still might save time.
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[18:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:37] <exec> 08└─"The evil librul gubmint is restricting our freedoms!" "Don't worry, they defunded enforcement, like at the EPA and FTC." "But they're adding regulations? I thought that's why we voted R..." "Don't ask me, I voted against abortions"
[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─They matter because they're additional things they'll stick to you if they ever catch you. The way the us justice repression system works is that they'll leave you alone for a long time. But once you get in its cross-hairs, they will literally throw everything and anything at you to get you to squea...
[18:09:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─You really don't see the difference between demanding the government or a company censor speech you dislike and simply refusing to give that company your business, do you? That's just sad.
[18:10:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─The article also notes ESPN and CBS's viewership seems to be up.
[18:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1089 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:15] <exec> 08└─It requires your co-operation to be offended. If you think that seeing someone not stand during the national anthem being played is offensive, then don't watch that bit. Turn away, face the White House, or the flag on the wall of your house, while you're also standing. The message is generating medi...
[18:10:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─Neither do you get listened to by standing on a corner saying "Excuse me, Erm.. Sorry... Can I just... I'd like to say..." Which is a MUCH closer analogy to what they're doing than yours.
[18:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─Boomers and older are really mad They won't be round much longer. (Aren't boomers the woodstock generation?)
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 2226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:54] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't sign anything. They might have checked a box on a web form. But DirecTV knows something you don't. Any agreement can be rewritten to more accurately reflect reality as "You mist continue paying for Sunday Ticket for the whole season OR until you discontinue DirecTV service." DirecTV...
[18:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:56] <exec> 08└─Because it's a double-standard, that's why. Honestly, I'm not bothered that a bunch of conservative morons convinced their cableco, somehow, to give them a refund even though the contract they willingly signed didn't allow for it at this date. The company has every right to follow the contract to th...
[18:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:58] <exec> 08└─You have to consider imagery when you're protesting, and whom is watching your protest. Football players are blessed to have been born in a country where their athleticism and strength can be directly translated into millions of dollars just for playing a game many of us love. Their protest is now s...
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─As it turns out, the US Department of Defense pays the NFL for "patriotic" displays before football games. This worries me, because I can't tell if it is a 'Poe' [wikipedia.org] or not. As for brain-washing people into patriotism, is it true that American schoolchildren are required to stand and ple...
[18:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─Finally, a post by you in this thread that I can agree with! I've never understood why anyone would want to watch American football; it's a horribly boring sport. Kittens, however, are quite entertaining to watch. You don't need 3 or 4 either: just get one kitten and watch how it interacts with your...
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─They're not protesting the president, they're protesting the state of the nation (mainly racist cops shooting black people in the back and not being held accountable). They started this well before this president was elected.
[18:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:07] <exec> 08└─Amazingly my original post was equivocating the two groups, but conservatives still couldn't handle it. I think liberals just won the "who is a bigger snowflake" contest :D
[18:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:09] <exec> 08└─If they're mad about the way cops treat black people, not paying your federal taxes isn't going to help that much: the police are mostly funded by local taxes. You'll do better refusing to pay your property taxes (which is pretty hard to do actually, since if you have a mortgage the lender pays it f...
[18:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─And you're objectively stupid on a daily basis, sooo now its more of a chicken or egg problem. I love your little fanclub that upmods every single post you make. It is usually just a single upboop so either you made a shell account or someone really wants to jump yer bones :P
[18:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:13] <exec> 08└─I don't think those guys will stick around, and that's a critical share of the NFL's audience. And if the NFL viewership does shatter over this, then the entire cable TV industry will implode, too, because sports are the biggest reason for cable continuing to exist. Honestly, if that happened, I'd b...
[18:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:16] <exec> 08└─So much for free speech and conservatives "not fascist!" slogan.
[18:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:18] <exec> 08└─Generally yes, American children are expected to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" daily in the mornings for most of primary school. There are some variable issues with how to get out of it and the details about frequency and specific protocols that vary from place to place that I won't touch on here,...
[18:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:20] <exec> 08└─Off with their heads! Your analysis of their outrage does make a lot of sense. Some recent comments made me realize that football, cheap beer, and nationalism are all tied together in the modern US propaganda stereotype. Infringe on any of those and you draw emotional outrage from the brainwashed ma...
[18:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:22] <exec> 08└─The purpose, at least of the original protesters, is as you describe. The object of their protest gives their protest a different meaning in the eyes of their fans. Hell, I generally support any protest of police. I can probably never sit on a jury because I believe that most police are liars and (g...
[18:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:25] <exec> 08└─Congratulations on being part of the reason nothing you say ever gets listened to outside of people who already agree with you.
[18:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:27] <exec> 08└─Football was supposed to be non political entertainment, an escape from the problems of the real world.
[18:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─Simply put, what these players are doing is akin to going to a church and refusing to join in prayer. No, it's not that exactly. To use your strained analogy, it's like the churches have *hired* a bunch of extremely (world-class) talented young people to provide their music services (instrument play...
[18:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:31] <exec> 08└─No, you're a moron that just wants everyone to agree with your world view. Undoubtedly some Republicans will have their perspective shift once their emotional reactions settle down. Ugh you are just so slimy in your double speak and general hypocrisy.
[18:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:34] <exec> 08└─As it turns out, the US Department of Defense pays the NFL for "patriotic" displays before football games.
[18:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:36] <exec> 08└─Fine, no problem. No more national anthem or other nationalistic propaganda methods in any public event! Done. you're welcome :D
[18:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:38] <exec> 08└─Trump is just pissed because they're not kneeling to him.
[18:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:40] <exec> 08└─Then why are you complaining so goddamn much? Oh right, cause you're a HYPOCRITE! Seriously, you just can't see the conflicts between your very own statements. You are like the Orange Dictator, maybe we should have a new story category "TMBgret" where people search the archives for hypocritical TMB...
[18:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:42] <exec> 08└─Open your eyes dummy. Human tribalism now needs to be on a planetary scale since that is how impactful human activity is. We all share the planet and subdivided nationalism is the cancer threatening to kill us off.
[18:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:45] <exec> 08└─Going to agree with you on all of that.
[18:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 3439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─I think it's you that doesn't get it. He DID CHANGE HIS message. Do you have Facebook or Twitter? Try these which describe EXACTLY WHAT HE TRIED TO DO BEFORE KNEELING: https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com] The text: OK people it’s time to put the whole, “kn...
[18:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting.. Would love to see this cut from the budget to save some money.
[18:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:51] <exec> 08└─Excellent logic! An intellect if the highest order! Woops, wrong thread...
[18:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT's Tiny "Superhero" Robot Dresses for the Job at Hand - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:04] <exec> 08└─RTFA? YMBNH. (And what about two broken fingers? Yeah, maybe "mauled" is overstating it, but it's not just "heavily soiled".)
[18:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─The same kind of mindless consumertard who would wear a denim jacket.
[18:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─I am an IKEA fanboy. My apartment is full of their cheap, good-looking, easy-to-assemble crap. If there is a test which could separate the humans from the subhumans, it is assembling IKEA furniture. Paying others to assemble that furniture for you is sloth and ignorance of the most disgusting degree...
[18:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:48] <exec> 08└─Their shit is cheap, available, and looks good (enough). And the sturdy bed I bought from them doesn't rattle or shift during fucking. I have the headboard placed literally an inch away from the wall and it doesn't even bump during even the most intense fucking.
[18:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Roller Skates Fold Flat when Off the Feet - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the wheels worn by GoGo from "Big Hero 6"... hero-costume aside, one just needs to change the color to yellow-gold.
[18:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, and I'm glad they stopped the cannibalism.
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[19:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:31] <exec> 08└─Horny. Ebony. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂. Naw we never fuck old pussy. Hah yeah we fuck a hole lotta young pussy. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 gonna fill yo snatch wit black hot nigger love.
[19:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:32] <exec> 08└─The first amendment and section 230 are US rules. US companies remember that when they go to China, yet they seem to conveniently forget when they go to Europe.
[19:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:35] <exec> 08└─But they're also subject to unconstitutional garbage in the US, such as NSLs. I guess the US can perhaps still claim to be the country that respects free speech the most, but there really is no winning here. What country is not a hopeless authoritarian shithole?
[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─Hate is not maladaptive. You descend from uncountably many generations of haters. Hate is in your DNA. Those you failed to hate were driven to extinction. They failed to pass on their DNA. If you don't hate, you will be replaced by those who do.
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─This illustrates the nature of Fermi's paradox.
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─What country is not a hopeless authoritarian shithole? None of them. That is why only a technical solution can solve this social problem of the authoritarian populace that supports censorship.
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─The Vatican: an Authoritarian Shithole, but they export lots of Hope.
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─You fail to distinguish between different kinds of hatred; some forms are justified and others are not. I don't think hating someone because of the color of their skin is justifiable. Also, you can take action without succumbing to thought-inhibiting emotions. I don't support EU hate speech laws, bu...
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─Different national rules are already splitting the internet - it's a matter of time, rather than doubt, before this blossoms into full-blown balkanisation with carefully-controlled interconnects. We'll probably end up with a thoroughly castrated Overnet that contains only the most anodyne pap, givin...
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─They want to restrict drones flying over Mt. Rushmore? That's nonsense. It's a really large mass of hard stone. A little plastic drone is not going to hurt it. It would make much more sense to say, 'hey, no crashing 747s into Mt. Rushmore!' or, 'No firing your surplus M1 tank's main gun at Mt. Rushm...
[19:11:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mth [2848] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between not caring about Joe as much as about your family and arguing that Joe is objectively inferior because he's not family. The latter is what happens in nationalism. To me, it seems tribalism is doing more harm than good for our species. In particular, a democracy cannot f...
[19:11:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:11] <exec> 08└─That stopped applying to businesses when...
[19:11:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 979 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:15] <exec> 08└─Because it's a double-standard, that's why. Honestly, I'm not bothered that a bunch of conservative morons convinced their cableco, somehow, to give them a refund even though the contract they willingly signed didn't allow for it at this date. The company has every right to follow the contract to th...
[19:11:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 3439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:39] <exec> 08└─I think it's you that doesn't get it. He DID CHANGE HIS message. Do you have Facebook or Twitter? Try these which describe EXACTLY WHAT HE TRIED TO DO BEFORE KNEELING: https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com] The text: OK people it’s time to put the whole, “kn...
[19:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:42] <exec> 08└─Now you understand my problem with your posts.
[19:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:44] <exec> 08└─Football players are blessed to have been born in a country where their athleticism and strength can be directly translated into millions of dollars just for playing a game many of us love.
[19:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:46] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see the NFL lose much of its power and money, and I'd especially love to see the cable TV industry implode.
[19:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:49] <exec> 08└─You don't need to demand government censorship in order to be a snowflake. Many on 'The Left' do not demand government censorship and yet they are still snowflakes if they are oversensitive little whiners. Getting offended because someone was 'insufficiently patriotic' makes you a hypersensitive idi...
[19:11:50] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 725 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:51] <exec> 08└─The fans are the voters who vote for policies enabling the behavior of the police, or for politicians who refuse to do anything about the problem. The protest is the only thing they really can do; if you have an idea for something else they can do, I'd like to hear it. Pissing off the fans and gaini...
[19:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:53] <exec> 08└─I also support the right of viewers to not spend their money to be pissed off.
[19:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:55] <exec> 08└─“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”
[19:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:57] <exec> 08└─I see the difference. What I would remind the people complaining about the snowflakes is, they're complaining about people voting with their wallets. I think they're being a bit oversensitive asking for refunds, but then again, I think the people that seek authoritarianism and blind allegiance to th...
[19:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:00] <exec> 08└─The message is generating media attention, precisely because the audience ARE listening and the method IS effective. Wrong. The audience IS listening, not "are". Notice that "audience" is a singular noun, not plural (as in "audiences"). Singular nouns use the singular forms of verbs. Is this concept...
[19:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:36] <exec> 08└─You stop getting updates after 6 months anyway, and need a new shinier jacket with trendy small sleeves.
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea Buys "Gig Economy" Company TaskRabbit - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─> Paying others to assemble that furniture for you is sloth and ignorance of the most disgusting degree. Well, the one exception is that old people with low income and no good kids may need furniture too.
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Roller Skates Fold Flat when Off the Feet - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─The ground clearance of those tiny wheels is dreadful. US sidewalks are not good enough. The strapping mechanism doesn't protect the ankle, someone's already buying a pair so they can sue. The weight is too much (try carrying 13lbs for more than 5 minutes, if you're not a gym rat). This dream-of-me-...
[19:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:15] <exec> 08└─They're for Project Bluebeam or whatever the fuck it's called. For projecting holograms so we can have a fake second coming of god or some such garbage. That'd be my guess! :D
[19:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:17] <exec> 08└─Currently, her mother and stepfather are saying that this was her birth name. Should be believe that? Earlier articles disagree. I could see wanting to pretend either way due to embarrassment. In any case, she or a parent is really weird. That person's mental health might be questionable.
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[20:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06AirSwap Decentralized Currency Exchange Could Circumvent Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:28] <exec> 08└─Horny. Ebony. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂. Naw we never fuck old pussy. Hah yeah we fuck a hole lotta young pussy. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 gonna fill yo snatch wit black hot nigger love.
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:45] <exec> 08└─And Europeans complain about the U.S. imposing its rules on the rest of the world....the hypocrisy is thick with these ones. Or is this just a straight-up Catch-22 they're trying to use to get rid of F/T/M/G? Either spend basically an infinite amount of money on hiring employees to manually filter o...
[20:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─Hate is in all of our DNA. If you are blatantly inferior to the rest of us, then we hate you. Sorry. Nothing Personal. Just one of the wise things practiced since the dawn of time. Civilized peoples don't like savages. Deal with it.
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─decentralization The technical solution to all of this monkey business is not terribly difficult. The only reason I don't want to work on it is because, paradoxically, nobody desirable* will want to use it until its too late. People, somehow, do not seem well adapted to extrapolating the future from...
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─You're dead right. In fact, we need more than pure decentralisation. We need topology independence, and native encryption, encapsulation and forwarding capabilities. A good first approach may be a sort of automated store-and-forward, a la UUCP.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─So your chances of procreating are 1 in 10^37? Better luck next life.
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─EU: I refer you to the response given in the case of Arkhell v. Pressdram
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─The real solution is the same solution to historical English overreach: "Pilgrims." In this instance it is "space colonies of like-minded people."
[20:10:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─Pray to your American slavemasters, but not while kneeling!
[20:11:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 1520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:39] <exec> 08└─Simply put, what these players are doing is akin to going to a church and refusing to join in prayer. No, it's not that exactly. To use your strained analogy, it's like the churches have *hired* a bunch of extremely (world-class) talented young people to provide their music services (instrument play...
[20:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Throws US$2 Million Behind Contest to Build Personal Flying Machine - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:03] <exec> 08└─Because airplanes don't go down in fiery doom like this [google.com]? You're totally right. Everybody should hop right on board one of these [nydailynews.com].
[20:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Throws US$2 Million Behind Contest to Build Personal Flying Machine - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:05] <exec> 08└─Dirigibles don't pop. They're not rubber balloons. Their envelopes can be fashioned from rip-proof material that will slowly leak if punctured. Their envelopes can be fashioned from cells, such that a leak in one won't affect the others. They can be designed to accordion out or in as they inflate or...
[20:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:18] <exec> 08└─SCORPION STARE
[20:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:11] <exec> 08└─Not sure I could get a 3,000 pound robot up to my 3rd floor walk-up...
[20:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:12] <exec> 08└─There are also people who, through no fault of their own, will never have a sexual partner. Whether they are physically handicapped, suffer from psychological problems like depression or anxiety, or something else - short of visiting a prostitute (and why shouldn't they?), this may be the closest th...
[20:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:15] <exec> 08└─If you never have sex with anything but a machine or a prostitute, some part of you is going to feel depressed and empty.
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[21:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AirSwap Decentralized Currency Exchange Could Circumvent Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:03] <exec> 08└─People won't even know Chinese traders are on the system.
[21:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06AirSwap Decentralized Currency Exchange Could Circumvent Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:04] <exec> 08└─🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 🅂🅄🄲🄺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁 🅳🅸🅲🅺
[21:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AirSwap Decentralized Currency Exchange Could Circumvent Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:06] <exec> 08└─It isn't clear to me whether this is only coin-to-coin or not. But if they will allow trading coin-fiat, ACH transactions can be reversed months later if they come from a hacked account, etc...
[21:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, on *.onion we have an identifiably blockable subset of the current system that doesn't solve the primary problems at hand. Thanks anyway.
[21:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:32] <exec> 08└─We'll probably end up with a thoroughly castrated Overnet that contains only the most anodyne pap, giving us the illusion of a global internet, while country or regional nets operate according to the dictates of local chest-thumpers.
[21:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─And what did the Pilgrims do after they established themselves in Massachusetts? They made their religion the official one and if you didn't like it... well... you are free to leave... (Oh, the irony! Just ask Roger Williams who founded Rhode Island.)
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─We'll end up with authoritarian captains and space cults in space. Bonus if the female to male ratio is around 10:1. Extra bonus for the Musky Martian Mating Mission with hot South African cum.
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─Nah, the reasons are different in different countries. Some want to desperately defend us from nazi ideology, while others want to protect their totally pristine, and in no way already debased culture from evilnasty american thoughtgerms. Some want to make sure that the only profits go to their pet...
[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─Option 1: Full balkanization, a different Facebook, Twitter, etc. in each political subdivision subject to local rules. Option 2: A global system in theory with subviews for each political subdivision. This would require AI or massive manpower to manage. An ad model or even data mining isn't likely...
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Facebook is between a rock and a hard place. EU says: get rid of hate speech. Twitter says: it is the 1st amendment right of orange clowns to express hate speech. If Twitter were to apply uniform TOS to orange clowns as it does to the rest of their user base, then there could be a class action on be...
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─Before anyone thinks I am singling out any orange clown in particular, I am not. I referred to ALL orange clowns collectively and without discrimination. Further I was arguing that orange clowns be fairly treated with the same TOS as the rest of us. So I'm not hating on orange clowns in general or a...
[21:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─They could fly C4 into the nose!
[21:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─A DJI Maveric modded to carry a couple of cans of spray paint could indeed accomplish some heretofore impractical acts of vandalism/political speech. If your piloting skillz are weak, you might just use a repeating paintball gun instead of aerosol spray paint.
[21:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:02] <exec> 08└─And, yet, they couldn't keep the Lincoln Monument clean... vigilance in the Trump era, it's like a bad movie but this one is playing on CNN and FOX news.
[21:10:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:12] <exec> 08└─After all the bitching about PC bullcrap can we finally admit that conservatives are just as bad? Instead of gender and race it is patriotism and religion.
[21:10:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and protest elsewhere (like in front of a courhouse), give media interviews, whatever you want, but when you are on the field, you're being paid to do a job: play ball.
[21:10:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:45] <exec> 08└─That's entirely besides the point that I think national anthems at sporting events are an almost-religious-like brain-washing of people into patriotism
[21:10:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:55] <exec> 08└─Their chosen method is turning out to be an epic fail.
[21:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:01] <exec> 08└─But it wasn't, because they started a year before Trump was elected.
[21:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:29] <exec> 08└─Smart Wearables have been in development since the 1990s - and Levis was at the forefront back then. Is this useful? A more accessible, less clumsy interface is always a good thing, not sure if this qualifies, but if it frees up one hand to accomplish the same task, then it's useful to some extent....
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─… than whether your snot-nosed kid gets blown up. Also, who is "us"? Fuck off.
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:12] <exec> 08└─Said the jew to the natives of whatever land the jew parasite happens to be occupying and exploiting at the time.
[21:15:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:25] <exec> 08└─You must have been the source of the joke about the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scottish shepherd: One says "Hey, you, get offa my cloud." The other says "Hey, MacCleod, ..."
[21:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:09] <exec> 08└─Wow. So I guess when you get old, you don't have to go out looking for sex. It just comes to you without doing anything. Seems like it should be the other way around. You don't have to go looking for it when you're young.
[21:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:10] <exec> 08└─iirc, I thought that was in the Netherlands... I became really jealous.
[21:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:12] <exec> 08└─(obligatory reference) Fry: She's more than just a piece of software. Liubot: Would you like to take a moment to register me? Fry: Uh, not right now. Liubot: I'll remind you later, you hot stud, you! Fry: So, uh, what do you feel like doing? Liubot: Would you like to take a moment to register me? Fr...
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[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Will Lift Ban on Women Drivers Next Year - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─Thick. Stiff. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂. You know we never fuck no old pussy. But yeah we fuck lots of young pussy. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 gonna drive this black hot nigger dick all the way up in yo cunt.
[22:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Will Lift Ban on Women Drivers Next Year - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─After 16 years maybe it's time to invade the people that actually did it, but but but... bandar bush Eisenhower was right and no one has been paying attention, time to water the tree of libery
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Will Lift Ban on Women Drivers Next Year - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─16 years after their boys managed to crash transcontinental planes into skyscrapers, and seeing that they still have some of the deadliest roads around, the Saudi have decided that maybe there was value in women's safer driving habits. As long as they keep them from owning cellphones, at least.
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AirSwap Decentralized Currency Exchange Could Circumvent Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─I like how when you say "coin-fiat" it has no meaning anymore.
[22:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:22] <exec> 08└─Time to geofence hate speech, I guess. > Twitter says: it is the 1st amendment right of orange clowns to express hate speech. Twitter is technically correct, but misleading. Orange clowns cannot be prevented by the government from expressing hate speech ("shall make no laws..."). Twitter is not the...
[22:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:24] <exec> 08└─It's true, we don't, but I don't *hate* you. Mostly I just pity you...
[22:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:26] <exec> 08└─Option 1 sucks and gives you a "Great Firewall" situation. Option 2 would not work. The EU would not allow people in the US to post stuff to other people in the US unless they get to filter it for "hate speech" first. Options 3,4 are not possible. Someone needs to pay for this thing or it simply won...
[22:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:28] <exec> 08└─Dial-up and BBSs FTW
[22:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:30] <exec> 08└─Piss off. The Internet was pretty awesome before Al Gore opened it up to all you losers.
[22:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:32] <exec> 08└─And what did the Pilgrims do after they established themselves in Massachusetts? They made their religion the official one and if you didn't like it... well... you are free to leave...
[22:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:35] <exec> 08└─That is why only a technical solution can solve this social problem of the authoritarian populace that supports censorship.
[22:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe, the Pentagon needed a reminder that only its NSA branch should be accidentally targeting US Citizens, and the Reapers should stay near where the suspicious crowds are brown people's weddings, not tourists.
[22:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:19] <exec> 08└─Apple i-underwear. A new connected undie for iphone fanboys.
[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google/Levi's "Smart Jacket" Has a 10-Wash Limit - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─Before I had a car, I biked a lot, and I concur - 10 wash limit is a non-starter for someone is wearing it while cycling.
[22:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server Migration: beryllium and magnesium Completed; Last Up: sodium - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:13] <exec> 08└─Love the site and the community here; thanks for building it and all the blood sweat and tears in the process. :)) I miss my gentoo workstation, I had a hard disk failure and I needed to get it back up quick so I went with a popular turnkey distro instead of investing the time to get gentoo tuned ag...
[22:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Server Migration: beryllium and magnesium Completed; Last Up: sodium - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:14] <exec> 08└─Yep, super green. Easy on the eyes, I've been using it for SN since they made it available. Annnnd -- much better all around than one of those original VT100 terminals (we used Ann Arbors back then).
[22:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:09] <exec> 08└─The summary reads eerily like a script for the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. [welcometonightvale.com]
[22:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:11] <exec> 08└─The devices installed do their job very well. They are designed to siphon money out of every tax payer's meager earnings and send it to the pockets of whoever is selling those devices. The manufacturer must be jewish and from israel (occupied Palestine). As a side-note, the devices should be capable...
[22:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:13] <exec> 08└─aren't they testing the gunshot sensor/detectors? i thought they were going to put those all over, to add even more data to their cyber crime fighting patriot stuff. in addition to bluetooth, IMEI and wifi mac address collection as you drive pass, vin and license plate too. airplane mode for phones...
[22:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:12] <exec> 08└─Same AC disclosure. I love my wife. The issue is she can have one orgasm per week, rarely two. I on the other hand can't have sex once per week because my erection would be so weak she would not get her orgasm. I need daily sex - well, say 5 times per week - to have a reliable erection and no early...
[22:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:13] <exec> 08└─> Pardon me, if I post AC. Pardoned, Aristarchus, that is your right, and I will uphold it till my dying breath. > I can actually see using a sex doll, if the things weren't so awkward. [...] moving the damned doll around, cleaning it [...] They need to become true robots, capable of putting themsel...
[22:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Robot Display Model Molested So Much It Breaks Before Anyone Can Actually Use It - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:16] <exec> 08└─There is an old parable about this: The first year you are married, every time you and your spouse have sex, put a marble into a jar. After a year passes, every time you and your spouse have sex, remove a marble from that jar. No matter how long you are married, the jar will never become empty.
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[23:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Will Lift Ban on Women Drivers Next Year - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:31] <exec> 08└─I saw an article that hypothesized that this is an effort to distract from the abysmal abuse of human rights in Yemen e.g. bombing civilians--even hospitals (with the help of its ally, USA.gov.) ...kinda like Donnie Tiny Hands' bitching about the take-a-knee thing to distract from his shamefully awf...
[23:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Will Lift Ban on Women Drivers Next Year - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:33] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about the Jews. We gotta take those goddamn Jews out, too.
[23:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Will Lift Ban on Women Drivers Next Year - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:35] <exec> 08└─The NFL, while I am sad about the whole situation, has had a contingency plan ever since CTE became a thing. They had to dismantle it somehow, before some Jewish lawyer dismantles it for them.
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AirSwap Decentralized Currency Exchange Could Circumvent Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─Ethereum, backed and promoted by J.P. Morgan Chase and 30 other big corporate enterprises! So you know it's good. No worries.
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AirSwap Decentralized Currency Exchange Could Circumvent Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─Didn't you get the memo? The Republicans got rid of a lot of those accountants and tax collectors. Can't have too many rich people being audited. This won't help though, it's for poor people to avoid taxes.
[23:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:58] <exec> 08└─The first amendment and section 230 are US rules. US companies remember that when they go to China, yet they seem to conveniently forget when they go to Europe.
[23:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:29] <exec> 08└─All of the big tech companies are going with Option 5: fall in line with the most restrictive laws of every government and hire PR agencies to call their victims sexist trolls. This is the new global Internet.
[23:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─Option 2: A global system in theory with subviews for each political subdivision. This would require AI or massive manpower to manage. An ad model or even data mining isn't likely to support the labor needed.
[23:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:33] <exec> 08└─So? They built a place and set the rules for that place. If you didn't like 'em, you could mosey on off somewhere else. What's wrong with that?
[23:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:35] <exec> 08└─Any indicator of shared DNA matters. Genetically, your life is worth that of two siblings or eight cousins. The less DNA shared, the less somebody is worth. Any indicator will do. If somebody has the same eye color as you, they are more similar than otherwise. If they also have or lack milk toleranc...
[23:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:37] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with that is that the number of reasonably accessible locations is limited. Good luck finding a "somewhere else" that you can actually get to and inhabit that isn't already full of people enforcing their own set of stupid laws.
[23:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─Option 5: No facebook et al.
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─It applies to everyone, everywhere, the Lockean principles which state that when someone mixes their labor with an unclaimed resource, such a process is "ownership". Facebook and Twitter are private companies - if they want a presence in someone else's place, they need to follow the rules set forth...
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─A free, peer-to-peer social network could work in theory, but without a large corporation pushing it it would never attain critical mass.
[23:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:47] <exec> 08└─Or, it's an observation that the communication patterns among practitioners and advocaters of genocide is remarkably consistent just prior to actual genocide. . White supremacists: "Blood and Soil!" Reasonable people: "The Nazis promoted that slogan to make the notion of killing Jews palatable just...
[23:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:49] <exec> 08└─That's definitely a problem today. Arguably wasn't an unsolvable problem for the Pilgrims. My argument for today is: find a place that claims to be made and run by free people, and then hold them to that claim. The USA's Constitution claims to have authority by way of an enumerated list of powers de...
[23:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:51] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't work. Yes it DID work and a hub and spoke system like FIDO and the other FTNs would have some advantages. But note carefully that Usenet was also a similar design and was already becoming an unmanageable Hell of spammers and trolls before Eternal September happened. I think the differenc...
[23:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:53] <exec> 08└─Heh, living on the run, eh? I am interested to see how long you can hide from the IRS while making false statement on their forms. I hope you never get tired of looking over your shoulder and can afford a good lawyer. [soylentnews.org] -fustakrakich
[23:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:10] <exec> 08└─All true, but like any government program, this restriction will only grow. Drones will soon be like firearms, demonized by corp-gov media, talked about in hushed whispers in the hallways of government schools, looked at wistfully from afar by those who were born after that devil-technology was forb...
[23:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:12] <exec> 08└─If you lived in D.C. you would not be shocked that they couldn't keep graffiti off the Lincoln Memorial.
[23:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:30] <exec> 08└─Chicago Trump Tower [tripadvisor.com]. Compare to the pic near the end of this thread [amazonaws.com]...
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[23:17:33] <exec> 08└─Plenty of fluid in that underlying culture, it appears. (I avoided the "it must suck to be a boy in that tribe" joke, but that's certainly not because it was tasteless.) Briefly, I thought you might be trolling Ari with the ancient grooming that used to take place, until I hovered over your link.
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