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[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:27] <exec> 08└─The FCC should just force all new smartphones to include FM receiver functionality and allow apps to access it [cnet.com]. What's that going to add to the SoC size? 0.5mm2? But Ajit Pai is a corporate stooge so he will "urge" instead.
[00:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:29] <exec> 08└─The FCC could also urge all manufactures to provide the software necessary to access the FM radios in any phones that do have FM radios.
[00:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:31] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with this. I spent 20 years at Qualcomm, I went through the chip spins where they tried to get GPS to not interfere with the phone, and vice versa. I imagine getting FM working is the same issue. Myself, the FM band is a wasteland of Clearchannel crap. But if I were in Puerto...
[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─My guess is it's an FBI power grab where-by they're speculating sonic attacks to force the state department to deploy surveillance all over the embassy.
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─Typical of these leeches... one comes up with a novel unprovable excuse to stop working, next thing you know they all stop working for the same unprovable reason.
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:47] <exec> 08└─One has to wonder... Hawkwind rocked [youtube.com]
[00:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:19] <exec> 08└─To you (and the parent), I don't get how you can come to the conclusion that Trump is stupid.
[00:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:17] <exec> 08└─I disagree with this idea. This is actually an item where a free market style solution is better. Instead of outright banning sales of new internal combustion powered vehicles, tax them, and tax the fuel. Set your tax rate based on how bad the environmental problem is. Then the market takes care of...
[00:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:18] <exec> 08└─The article says "gasoline and diesel", not gas. Gas might be little used as car fuel in the US, but is very popular in Poland, Australia, Lithuania, Turkey, Italy -- around 18% of cars in Poland, 3% worldwide. Using some weird US slang that conflicts with both "gas" as a state of matter and with a...
[00:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:20] <exec> 08└─If you left it to a free market murder would still be a profitable business. Sometimes you need to use laws to make sure something does or does not happen. The Apollo and Manhattan projects were not done by the free market, they were funded by the US government with tax money.
[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Waives Jones Act to Get Aid Shipments to Puerto Rico - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─True. Definitely a job for the NG and/or Army. They have lots of Deuce and a halfs, which would be perfect for this job.
[00:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:43] <exec> 08└─Well, who actually argues that you have to tolerate everyone? Do you tolerate murderers? Because I don't. Do you tolerate racists? I don't like them. We all have our own standards, even if you would not like to admit it.
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[01:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:32] <exec> 08└─FM radio can eat a dick. I was an NPR listener for many years, but their behevior during the last election was so disgusting that I migrated my daily drive listen to AM 1360 (San Diego) and never looked back. It was a revelation. Who would have thought that hearing a few guys bullshit all day was mo...
[01:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:33] <exec> 08└─I used to live 1/2 mile from an AM radio station transmitter that had multiple giant antennas. One day my toaster was buzzing to a beat. I unplugged it and the heat coils were still buzzing a tune. Landlines and other AM radio stations were a problem too as all you could hear was 1970s KCBQ shows.
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─I went through the chip spins where they tried to get GPS to not interfere with the phone, and vice versa. I imagine getting FM working is the same issue.
[01:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─I'll update my comment: "The FCC should just force all new smartphones to include FM/AM receiver functionality..."
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/12/world-s-smallest-radio-receiver-has-building-blocks-size-of-two-atoms [harvard.edu] https://www.sciencedaily.com [sciencedaily.com] https://www.silabs.com [silabs....
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are interesting options for antennas. Fractal antennas are another one that can offer surprisingly good results. Still, the earphone cable is easy, and it's there. Well, when the manufacturer isn't busy screwing the customer out of their audio investment, of course.
[01:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─The Si4708/09 [silabs.com] takes up 6.25mm2. The Apple A10 [wikipedia.org] SoC has a die area of 125 mm2 and the Apple A11 [wikipedia.org] is 87.66 mm2. The Si4708/09 is from 2010 so I assume there is a smaller receiver by now that would soften the blow of bloating the ever-shrinking Apple SoCs.
[01:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:47] <exec> 08└─The thing is, even when Apple did have FM in the phone, they never admitted it. They never advertised it. The Tear-down people found it by looking at the chipsets installed. FM was built into the Murata wifi chiipset 339s0228, but unlike HTC and Samsung, Apple never wired the antenna pin to the head...
[01:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:49] <exec> 08└─These FM receivers (for those phones that had them) were never in the SOC, they were almost always embedded in the wifi chipset, which was (back then, at least) a separate chip.
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─Since it was AM 1170, 50,000 watts, on a tall steel tower your toaster was probably picking it up up 73.1, 146.5, 585,, 1170, 2340, 4680, and associated multiples and fractions. The tower itself re-radiated fractionals all up and down the spectrum. Its amazing the amount of power AM stations put out...
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─Many of the iPhones do have FM radio chips TFS last sentence says so.
[01:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:09] <exec> 08└─Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start
[01:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:10] <exec> 08└─Real sonic attacks are whenever Donald Trump opens his mouth and exercises his vocal chords. They are assaults to logic and reason, not to mention good English grammar. Someone turn off his mike for God's sake!
[01:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:43] <exec> 08└─Two words. Dark. Ages. European nations have no thousands-of-years continuity. Europe does little better than nations of "The Dark Continent".
[01:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:45] <exec> 08└─Note that no one said anything about "government". The country, the people, have existed for thousands of years.
[01:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's "Manhattan" to Compete With Amazon's Echo Show - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:01] <exec> 08└─right on. i thought it was amazing the guy thought you were going to send it to google, or as an alternative, send it to google or something more private? I was wondering if google can be even less private, really. i guess they really can be once they officially integrate cloud only ip cameras for t...
[01:11:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, at some point we need to put a line in the sand! Everyone needs to pay another $5000+ for transportation in the state with the worst metro transportation. And fuck everyone that lives outside a city. Everything is great here if they can't afford a car in a rural area why aren't they forced to m...
[01:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:47] <exec> 08└─You're exactly the kind of person I was making fun of in my post. I know it's difficult for you to imagine, but not everyone lives in a city or suburb. You feel entitled to make decisions for everyone based on your very narrow experience and environment and do not acknowledge how supremely arrogant...
[01:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:50] <exec> 08└─Original poster here. I wasn't thinking of an overall "free market" solution. I was thinking free market in regards to taxing new production of ICE powered vehicles, and associated fossil fuels. Synthetic fuel production and technology would be government funded. A combination of government funding...
[01:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:52] <exec> 08└─You raise very valid points. All subsidies need to be abolished immediately, along with the Nuclear Regulatory Committee. ICEV and EV can then fight it out in the marketplace when we have fail-safe nuclear molten salt reactors producing a wild surplus of zero-emission electric energy along with all...
[01:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, parts and supply lines for the same won't be affected by a ban on new ICE vehicles AT ALL. Now imagine me rolling my eyes at you.
[01:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:17] <exec> 08└─I'm only talking about morality here. I am not interested in the conflation of nature and evolution with morality, which are separate things. Humans have evolved with tendencies to do things that most would agree are bad, but that doesn't mean that people are wrong for thinking those particular acti...
[01:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:18] <exec> 08└─Apologists: "Maybe we shouldn't have let them rile each other up to premeditated wanton violence, but free speech!"
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[02:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06macOS High Sierra Available—And Vulnerable to Keychain Attack - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─So he gave them less than a month to patch this issue before going public, all the while knowing they were in the midst of an OS release. Why the rush? If this was Google’s itchy trigger-fingered security group releasing vulnerability info so quickly we’d lambast them.
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:00] <exec> 08└─Not so much. GPS is 1575.42 MHz and 1227.60 MHz; Cellular is 800-900 MHz-ish; FM broadcast is 88-108 (US... slightly different elsewhere.) Wifi and bluetooth are also up in the GHz range, well above FM broadcast. Only the GHz range stuff transmits, and interference is almost always harmonically rela...
[02:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─The "source" is John Gruber, of course he's going to lie to defend the Cult of Apple.
[02:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─Every single chipset with a qualcomm chip set in it has an FM radio. None of the ones sold in the US have the antenna pin soldered on. All of the US carriers deemed it to be that way. The OEMs want to sell phones through the carriers do what the carriers tell them to. Most of the ones sold in the re...
[02:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:56] <exec> 08└─> All he has to do is look south to see the enormous political and social success that comes from embracing the values he's so busily repressing in North Korea. To the south, the guy who was running Samsung is doing 5 years in prison. [soylentnews.org] Britannica says [britannica.com] Chaebol involv...
[02:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:03] <exec> 08└─This is a good point. It isn't the CO2 that is the problem, it is the open carbon cycle, where we are digging up locked in carbon and releasing it to the atmosphere. If we then locked up the carbon and burned it again in a closed cycle, there would be no net increase in CO2. The fuel would just be a...
[02:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:05] <exec> 08└─> Mass-market ICE vehicles had about a century of head start. How so? The first cars were EVs, there was a time when both ICE and EV vehicles new tech, and were competing for market share. ICE won because it was better and more convenient than EVs. The poorer engine efficiency of the prime mover was...
[02:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel by Rocket, Right Here On Earth - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:56] <exec> 08└─Wonder what the CO2 emissions would be per passenger... Carbon offset cost would be as much as the ticket.
[02:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drunk Canoeing No Longer Driving Offence in Canada - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─people could say, with a straight face, "drive the boat"
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[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06macOS High Sierra Available—And Vulnerable to Keychain Attack - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─Ha! Silly Apple. Everyone knows blockchain is better! Wait, is there a blockchain joke in there? I'll just show myself out...
[03:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:04] <exec> 08└─Every single chipset with a qualcomm chip set in it has an FM radio. None of the ones sold in the US have the antenna pin soldered on.
[03:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the threat of nuclear war is really something they consider realistic (I don't)
[03:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:00] <exec> 08└─This seems to be quite serious, not the lip service I would have expected from China. Basically China has zero interest in weakening NK, it's their buffer zone, it keeps USA in check etc. I wonder if the threat of nuclear war is really something they consider realistic (I don't) or if this is just a...
[03:12:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel by Rocket, Right Here On Earth - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:54] <exec> 08└─We have landed at London Rocket. Your luggage is in Rekjavic. Thank you for flying British Airways."
[03:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drunk Canoeing No Longer Driving Offence in Canada - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:30] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you are trying to toe the line on driving the boat by relating it to towing a line. Even ancient Greeks knew that the best muscle power for boats is human. Triremes! Like really big canoes.
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[04:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─I understand the importance of establishing a human presence - so we can "do our things" but, when I read the article title I was thinking more along the lines of making Life interplanetary - like: microbes, plants, animals, and everything that it's going to take to make a sustainable ecosystem. If...
[04:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:04] <exec> 08└─You probably don't want to lay there in a shallow Frozen grave forever with no eco system to recycle your body either. People will have no choice but to become cannibals on Mars.
[04:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:39] <exec> 08└─But, the "user experience" would be crappy - if you "held it wrong" even the emergency broadcast FM signals might not be received. Anyone living in the hurricane's path have any problem with NOT receiving enough notification that the storm was coming? We certainly got more notification than anyone s...
[04:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:41] <exec> 08└─The carriers couldn't care less about FM. Apple had iTunes and you need look no further for the reason why FM was not welcome on the iPhone. Android really didn't have a good paid music service at first so they just threw in the FM radio app.
[04:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:43] <exec> 08└─And all the android phones? Those have iTunes also right?
[04:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:47] <exec> 08└─The overwhelming majority of personal vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.) in the USA run on gasoline (or more accurately gasohol, which is gasoline adulterated with corn-based ethanol). Diesel cars are relatively rare in the USA, and diesel pickup-style trucks are common, but also likely in t...
[04:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drunk Canoeing No Longer Driving Offence in Canada - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:08] <exec> 08└─One horse. Eats grass found along the way. Pulls 20 tons. One DRIVER. Vs 20 guys Swinging oars. Eat lotsthan they can haul, feed them grass, then mutinies happen.
[04:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Will Lift Ban on Women Drivers Next Year - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:43] <exec> 08└─"daring to be raped" should take care of Poe's law, in a world where people read the posts they reply to.
[04:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:23] <exec> 08└─This isn't a case of intellectual debility. Runaway's state of mind has been steadily worsening over the last 6 weeks or so if his posts are any indication. He's said virtually nothing insightful, is committing fallacies he never used to, and is starting to attack people out of the blue, as you saw...
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[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the headline is dumb. A lot of people think life is already multi-planetary, if you consider all the planets around all the stars in all the galaxies.
[05:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:10] <exec> 08└─When I'm dead, I'm not going to be too concerned with how comfortable my grave is or what might happen to my body. I'll be too preoccupied with being dead to care.
[05:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:12] <exec> 08└─changed
[05:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:08] <exec> 08└─"How hard is it to detect an actual sonic attack? a few microphones and an osiloscope ?" I'm kinda thinking the same thing - but, which microphones? I suppose you need to monitor both ultrasonic and subsonic - would something like this be sufficient? http://www.earthworksaudio.com
[05:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:09] <exec> 08└─Damn Atreides. http://duneii.com [duneii.com]
[05:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's "Manhattan" to Compete With Amazon's Echo Show - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:05] <exec> 08└─Each to their own. Which incidentally was written on the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Fitting for a device of corporate totalitarian control. (And don't go whining about Godwin, Google started this WW2 thing by referring to the Manhattan project!)
[05:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:59] <exec> 08└─I have known that. The rectum of your's was turned into cum dump by them three. Fuh, you are rectum, it's dope. I couldn't get enough of it.
[05:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Spanks Mugshots.Com Hard for Charging for Photo Removal - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:14] <exec> 08└─These days you can get arrested simply because the cop doesn't like your choice of shoes.
[05:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel by Rocket, Right Here On Earth - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:54] <exec> 08└─The rocket that brings it there will then be called Mars International Space Transportation Enabling Rocket.
[05:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel by Rocket, Right Here On Earth - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:56] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand. It's about building an option for the rich to leave Earth when the poor revolt.
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[06:10:10] <exec> 08└─So like, what, he tells you to do code review on fanfold paper and then recycle your paper printouts in a compost heap with your own feces? Does he tell you to get a part time job as a zoo ranger so you can stick your erect penis into penguin cloaca after hours? Just what kind of "open source" "advo...
[06:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─Didn't EFF already resign from the W3C? Not to disparage this guy, but if the EFF couldn't make their voice heard, what chance does he have?
[06:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:01] <exec> 08└─"The thing is, even when Apple did have FM in the phone, they never admitted it. They never advertised it." Of course they didn't. If people could just pull stuff to listen to out of the air, that would cut into iTunes revenue.
[06:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drunk Canoeing No Longer Driving Offence in Canada - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:37] <exec> 08└─Well, it seems the language is generic to apply to all vessels - less exceptions are generally better. Probably generic due to the whole drinking and drowning is a thing and that vessels have been around longer then motor vehicles. I agree as you suggest, penalties have gone up with car carnage as o...
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[07:09:44] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[07:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:45] <exec> 08└─Get rid of the TPP and then renegotiate NAFTA such that it basically becomes the TPP. No one will ever notice...
[07:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:55] <exec> 08└─Chef, Puppet, Ansible are Open Source. Fun fact: DevOps morons have redefined Open Source to mean open source configuration management automation tools and nothing else. Linux is not Open Source anymore. Sorry. Better luck next buzzword.
[07:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03d(++)b (2755) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:57] <exec> 08└─Yes and none.
[07:10:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 1346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:32] <exec> 08└─The thing is, even when Apple did have FM in the phone, they never admitted it. They never advertised it. The Tear-down people found it by looking at the chipsets installed. FM was built into the Murata wifi chiipset 339s0228, but unlike HTC and Samsung, Apple never wired the antenna pin to the head...
[07:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:45] <exec> 08└─Tachyon: I certainly agree. When I was purchasing my first "smart" phone, one of the big selling points to me is the model I chose had both GPS and FM. The idea is I wanted to have ability to use the phone for things even if I was out of range. Say, out in the desert in the middle of nowhere, or th...
[07:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:44] <exec> 08└─"Get me! - Roger Stone" Roger Stone was the #1 political campaign adviser to Drumpf, and the one who got him elected. It's on Netflix. Check it out. You'll understand why Drumpf had nothing to do with his 'victory' over the popular vote. Also this bankrupt ass*ole had to go to Russia to find credito...
[07:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:45] <exec> 08└─So which of those 'ideas' examples you used are insane or stupid?
[07:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Gives Facebook, Twitter Final Warning on Hate Speech - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:29] <exec> 08└─That's nice. So when do you hang out your shingle and start taking patients, Doc?
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[08:10:01] <exec> 08└─Dear Congressmen: In view of the recent Equifax release of millions of people's private information, I expect you to pass Law that penalizes violation of release of copyrighted/private information equally as stated in the Pledge of Allegiance. The first three words are "I Pledge Allegiance", and th...
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[08:13:11] <exec> 08└─> [Hydrogen-fueled vehicles] don't even exist and are dead before they even exist. They exist. There are laughably few of them, but they exist. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[09:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:37] <exec> 08└─Complaint is about resources, AFAICT. The chief is complaining that FOIA costs them effort. At some point, there has to be a trusting relationship between the media and the police.
[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─1. They don't say that. 2. If you can't replicate the build, how do you know it's the same source?
[09:10:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:29] <exec> 08└─I went through the chip spins where they tried to get GPS to not interfere with the phone, and vice versa. I imagine getting FM working is the same issue.
[09:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drunk Canoeing No Longer Driving Offence in Canada - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:22] <exec> 08└─One DRIVER.
[09:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Tech is Helping Find Mexico Earthquake Victims Buried in Rubble - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:34] <exec> 08└─Reddit's commenting system is far superior; besides a more expressive markup, the ability to edit a comment is essential to creating high-quality content.
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[10:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:37] <exec> 08└─Journalism is more than stenography. It has devolved into profit-based infotainment and blatant propaganda. But you already know that.
[10:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:39] <exec> 08└─In other news Russian journalism is called hacking the election ;).
[10:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:49] <exec> 08└─I never "agreed" to that. My consent was taken for granted at birth, without consultation, and the penalty for denying consent is imprisonment or death. No, I didn't agree to that pledge, and I hold no allegiance.
[10:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:01] <exec> 08└─He's pulling a second Lunduke. It seems the [linuxfoundation.org] first [slashdot.org]** one is 404-forgotten [thepowerbase.com] --- ** greensite warning: apologies for it, this was where I got it the first time (Feb 2013), I couldn't find any other references. The linked message explains briefly wh...
[10:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:02] <exec> 08└─One of the things about the GPL is that it requires build scripts to accompany the source, so full GPL compliance allows someone else to produce the binary from the source. Not all projects make this easy, and I'm not sure what happens if your build environment depends on non-GPL software.
[10:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:51] <exec> 08└─and you are being a douche. I guess all the iphones before 7 have been destroyed? Especially in god damn Puerto Rico, where i bet all the people just junk their iphones immediately when a new crapapple is released.
[10:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:12] <exec> 08└─Having read some discussion about this between well qualified people (I'm not one of them), I'm leaning towards the idea that this might, possibly, be use of the "Microwave Auditory Effect" [wikipedia.org] In 2003–04, the WaveBand Corp. had a contract from the U.S. Navy for the design of a MAE sys...
[10:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:03] <exec> 08└─I know there are a bunch of you who want to hyperventilate over this imagined "tyranny" but the reality is that by 2040 you won't even notice the ban finally being enacted. By that time there will hardly be anyone left alive that won't think of using a fossil fuel vehicle for personal transportation...
[10:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Spanks Mugshots.Com Hard for Charging for Photo Removal - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:19] <exec> 08└─Yep, and if you get arrested again, the judge will look at that prior arrest, regardless of whether or not any conviction resulted, and take it as proof as guilt.
[10:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Proton 'Starter' for Optogenetics - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:32] <exec> 08└─If it's Star Trek, they use photon torpedoes. If it's Star Wars, they use proton torpedoes. If it's Playboy, they use protein torpedoes.
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[11:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:32] <exec> 08└─Let's hope that the station, if built, becomes a refueling station
[11:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:42] <exec> 08└─[quote]At some point, there has to be a trusting relationship between the media and the police.[/quote] First you have to win that trust, and I think that the police is doing very little to win that trust.
[11:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:44] <exec> 08└─Actually there does need to be a trusting relationship between police and media: The police must be able to trust that the media do their job, instead of simply making things up. The media must be able to trust that the police won't interfere with their work. Of course both have nothing to do with t...
[11:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:55] <exec> 08└─We came in with the internet. We came up with the internet. And I think Crooked Hillary and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS. We're losing a lot of people because of the internet and we have to do somethin...
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─all these lovely restrictions
[11:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:11] <exec> 08└─Some other oldies (some of them on about 10th page on Google search) Keeping the sources "hostage" [linuxquestions.org] once it was clear his "Open Source by subscription" is not working.A "torrent page" [casinokf.com] listing the GPL-ed source (between June July 2012) - seeding status unknownQuite...
[11:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:24] <exec> 08└─Instead of making more holywood moon landings and now Mars landings, try penetrating the Van Allen radiation belts. If you try going through them, they will fry you quickly. Only the fried body will leave the Earth. I believe these space thingies are only a distraction from the real harm we are bein...
[11:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:04] <exec> 08└─Its amazing the amount of power AM stations put out. And its amazing how far you could hear them on a cold winter night.
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel by Rocket, Right Here On Earth - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─Well if these rockets accidentally trigger nuclear war that might slow down global warming for a while. Given that "anywhere on earth in under an hour" thing these rockets are more likely to follow ballistic missile trajectories than airliner trajectories... p.s. I'd recommend most people to only tr...
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[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:38] <exec> 08└─What? Moon Nazis? I think I have seen this very bad movie once before. . .
[12:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─What? Moon Nazis?
[12:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─Actually, what seems relevant is this: "Russian components, American components ... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
[12:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:43] <exec> 08└─"Russian components, American components ... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
[12:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 2345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:55] <exec> 08└─The law [ilga.gov] has provisions for cost recovery: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) (a-5) If a voluminous request is for electronic records and those records are not in a portable document format (PDF), the public body may charge up to $20 for not more than 2 megabytes of data...
[12:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:09] <exec> 08└─Analogous to "voluntary income tax"?
[12:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:10] <exec> 08└─...and "military intelligence", yes.
[12:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:13] <exec> 08└─No, I didn't agree to that pledge, and I hold no allegiance.
[12:10:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:24] <exec> 08└─He's pulling a second Lunduke. It seems the [linuxfoundation.org] first [slashdot.org]** one is 404-forgotten [thepowerbase.com] --- ** greensite warning: apologies for it, this was where I got it the first time (Feb 2013), I couldn't find any other references. The linked message explains briefly wh...
[12:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:19] <exec> 08└─You don't quite get how mysterious this stuff can be.
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[12:11:41] <exec> 08└─deploy surveillance all over the embassy.
[12:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:32] <exec> 08└─reading "California wants"
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[13:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:26] <exec> 08└─You stick an animal into some little cage and sometimes feed it with whatever industrial commercial crap. Never gets any exercise or to do the things the species does in nature. Maybe its bred so far away from the original animal possibly for esthetical purposes that its sick from get go and will li...
[13:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:27] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid (1950s/1960s), my parents installed a cat door and we had a series of cats that could go in and out as they pleased. There was several acres of undeveloped property adjacent, so plenty of room to roam. Of course the easy access meant that every now and then the cat would bring in a...
[13:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:29] <exec> 08└─My current location doesn't have undeveloped property for a cat to roam, so I don't have any pets now.
[13:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:31] <exec> 08└─Every single home that involves pets is filthy. What's that? You have a dog and your house is perfectly clean? No, it is not; your house is filthy—you're just oblivious. Perhaps people who can maintain their health even in animal squalor are more likely to succeed in propagating their genes; hence...
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[13:10:09] <exec> 08└─"The U.S. and Russia will work together to develop a space station orbiting the Moon. Canada, Japan, and the ESA have also expressed interest in the project:" Bell can die in a fire, but the rest of the country seems to be doing alright.
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[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─Every single home that involves pets is filthy.
[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─Are you people blind?
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─Your opinion is your opinion. I might even agree somewhat, that pet owners homes are less clean than people who don't keep pets. You simply CANNOT get every last hair, dander, flea, muddy pawprint - pets are dirty. But then, you have all the same problesm with the human animal. But, pet owners are g...
[14:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─I believe we now have at least three different claims to do exciting things in space in the near future: this plan to build an orbital space station around the Moon (called currently "Deep Space Gateway"), the Chinese/ESA plan [soylentnews.org], and SpaceX's plan to go to Mars [slate.com] has been u...
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:11] <exec> 08└─One dark evening I heard gunfire outside. Had never heard that before. I peeped out a window (which may not have been the smartest move) and saw a police officer trotting down the alley with his gun drawn. What the heck was he doing, shooting at wildlife? As I don't like bullets flying past my home...
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:29] <exec> 08└─How did we get to the state where a closed treaty negotiation can be an end run around the supposedly public process for making laws? Which part of the Constitution supports this? If it is supported, then why do we need all the pesky Congressional meetings?
[14:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:56] <exec> 08└─Come on people. Come on!
[14:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:38] <exec> 08└─Kim, like his father and grandfather, shows no signs of being suicidal: he wants his virgins in the here and now, not hereafter. His principal concern, other than maintaining domestic control, is regime preservation against U.S. pressure. Nuclear weapons are the best means to ensure that he does not...
[14:13:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, at some point we need to put a line in the sand! Everyone needs to pay another $5000+ for transportation in the state with the worst metro transportation.
[14:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drunk Canoeing No Longer Driving Offence in Canada - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:23] <exec> 08└─The simple change to "motor vessels" rather then "vessels" would then also exclude sail boats, clipper ships, 20 person canoes, etc(where do you draw the line?).
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[15:09:29] <exec> 08└─The other day, I watched a period piece in which the youth of merry ol' England got together to party by dancing, trying to out-do each other's poetry, and engaging in choral singing. In the old days, entertainment was as much production as it was consumption, and it was a bonding experience. Ironic...
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[15:09:31] <exec> 08└─*cough* Rocksmith 2014 *cough*
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─I tolerate pets for the sake of my friendships, but I cannot really stand them for too long; yet, despite my antipathy, animals seem to cozy up to me much more quickly than they do most other people, or so I have been told again and again. So, your pet loves me, and would signal to you that I'm an a...
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─You simply CANNOT get every last hair, dander, flea, muddy pawprint - pets are dirty. But then, you have all the same problesm with the human animal.
[15:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─You've got your health argument backwards. People need filth, cleanliness is only a very recent thing. Growing up in a sterile environment is not as healthy as you might think.
[15:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─You haven't refuted anything that I said. Do you meet people with pets whom you intend to take advantage of? For instance, do you case the joint, so that you can return later to burglarize it? Have you gone to a single woman's house, with the intention of raping her? How likely are you to beat a per...
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─... it's just not acceptable to do so publicly, anymore. It's considered intolerant (and often "racist") to suggest that people should be living better, cleaner lives. Invalid form key: kMBpJDrwsH
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─Well, it most certainly is if you're a genuine sonofabitch :-)
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:57] <exec> 08└─You have no idea what these "strangers" have in mind—you are concocting the worst sort of intentions to make yourself feel like your pets give you some sort of advantage. They don't. They're just filthy animals.
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─I didn't restate their point. They said that pet owners are oblivious to filth. I disagreed by pointing out that "filth" is a subjective term. I will concede though that anyone claiming their home is "perfectly clean" is just as guilty of the same subjective relativism. The OP went on to suggest som...
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[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─Absolutely not. There is a *huge* difference between sterile and "clean". Keeping a pet might be good for the mind, but it is not very good for the body. Our immune system has evolved to be "good enough" not perfect. Millions still die from diseases that cannot be fought by the immune system , withi...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 1917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─You're so busy trying to make pet owners look foolish, that you're ignoring something so obvious that most pet owners simply take for granted. It is well known that the dog's fate, his health and well being, depends strongly on his ability to sense and understand his owner's feelings, thoughts, moti...
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─We keep pets because they are commercial objects under HUMAN laws. The insane attempts of giving animals "human" rights is quite amusing.
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─What you imagine to be the case is not necessarily reality.
[15:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:22] <exec> 08└─The world is in crisis - the old fashioned overproduction crisis - and in debt. We need serious growth no matter what. That's why everybody is looking for an acceptable pyramid project be it electric cars or space or whatever. Would it work? I sure hope so. Because if not, capacity would have to be...
[15:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:36] <exec> 08└─If you were talking to the police, you would want a lawyer. If you were arrested by the police, you wouldn't want them to tell everyone prior to conviction. There's a reason why you don't want the police to just answer questions about what happened in a way that avoids oversight. Think about the tru...
[15:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:05] <exec> 08└─Kim is surrounded by a circle of friends. Any resources the flow into NK go to this circle and then flow outward to the rest of the country. Lowering the quantity of resources flowing into NK hurts the folks at the outer edges first, not Kim. If China wants to get the attention of the center of the...
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[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─Given that it's about a photon friendly, proton starter, prototype protein I think the summary could have been worse.
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[16:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:29] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when you can stream all the amazon TV without paying for all the other crap that you don't need that comes with Amazon Prime. Or when you can purchase an individual show or episode as a single transaction.
[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:31] <exec> 08└─Snow Crash and Ring World could both be very good. How much SJW post-modernism screeching will be involved though? How much unracism will I have to stomach to enjoy what should be two very good sci-fi stories? I'm optimistic. I'd like to think Niven at least wouldn't allow rudderless relativism and...
[16:09:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 1117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─Your opinion is your opinion. I might even agree somewhat, that pet owners homes are less clean than people who don't keep pets. You simply CANNOT get every last hair, dander, flea, muddy pawprint - pets are dirty. But then, you have all the same problesm with the human animal. But, pet owners are g...
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[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should declare a jihad on them, Mohammed.
[16:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:59] <exec> 08└─Unconditional love, companionship, exercise buddy, pets are definitely amazing. But this is something that can't be explained, only experienced, just like not everyone wants to have kids and yet if they do they go "oh, I get it now!". Having a slightly dirtier or slightly smellier house is absolutel...
[16:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:01] <exec> 08└─Nope, the evidence is more for environmental. Look up toxoplasma gondii and known neurological effects on humans. Does pet ownership run in families? Of course it does, as does infection with toxoplasma most likely...
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─I completely agree with your post except for: But this is something that can't be explained, only experienced, just like not everyone wants to have kids and yet if they do they go "oh, I get it now!".
[16:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─Some people just aren't as interested in cleaning piss and shit after getting home from a hard day at work. Show me a pet owner, I'll show you a filthy disgusting smelly house. I dare you to take your shoes off in a dog owner's house. Enjoy your fecal diseases.
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─"many of the FOIA's this reporter files don't result in published articles. " none of your business, you stupid pig. "The hours the city has worked to fulfill her FOIA requests has cost taxpayers and resulted in police supervisors devoting their time on FOIA requests " why do you have supervisors re...
[16:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:51] <exec> 08└─the full force of the constitution itself. Yes it effectively gives the Senate alone power to amend the Constitution so long as they can find a third party nation that will go along. It is however well entrenched at this point. It is one of the places where the War on Drugs gains it's power: treatie...
[16:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:06] <exec> 08└─A free program with unavoidable non-free dependencies, be they build systems or platform libraries, is called Java-trapped [gnu.org]. Programs written in Java used to be Java-trapped until Sun released OpenJDK.
[16:12:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06China to Shut Down North Korean Companies - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:53] <exec> 08└─To you (and the parent), I don't get how you can come to the conclusion that Trump is stupid.
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[17:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:39] <exec> 08└─I found myself pining for those more "primitive" times That is selection bias. For every 'good' movie or bit of artwork there are 10k or more of total trash. You get to look backwards and see the good stuff because the crap usually does not survive. For every full metal jacket there is a least a se...
[17:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─I cannot fathom why you thought your comment would be a good fit as a reply to my point.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─SJW post-modernism screeching
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─because you are a ding-a-ling? You do not understand selection bias? http://bfy.tw [bfy.tw]
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:47] <exec> 08└─Unless you're living in the middle of nowhere and don't have a suitably large community with diverse interests then you will probably find that can still do all that; you just need to get involved with the right group of like-minded people for whatever appeals (or you think might appeal and want to...
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─I was afraid it will end up as a family rated Deadpool as they abuse the cheap CGI and larger budget they got nowadays. But the first episode turned out pretty great and it just kept getting better and better. Hope to see more to come.
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─From the trailer I watched it didn't look as good as the short-lived 2001 series [wikipedia.org].
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm just afraid that they are going to try and game-of-throes-the-fuck-out-of-it or how they are desperately trying to (re)create the next Netflix Marvel thing. They could all be great, Man in the High Castle turned out pretty good -- but that is also the only Amazon show I can even remember so the...
[17:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─Congratulations for being able to repeat what the OP was saying.
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:28] <exec> 08└─i took in a stray even though i didn't want to. wasn't going to let it starve, nor put it off on the shelter to "deal with". didn't want to shoot another puppy either. (it was suffering, but it still sucks pretty bad.) my house smells like a small zoo.
[17:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:29] <exec> 08└─>> But this is something that can't be explained, only experienced, just like not everyone wants to have kids and yet if they do they go "oh, I get it now!". True, my assertion doesn't apply to everyone. Not many assertions do. YMMV.
[17:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 1652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:31] <exec> 08└─I sure do love animals, pork chops and beef are delicious. Oh you didn't mean like that? I like all our cats and dogs, I have never tried to eat them. I would prefer not to but I recon I could if needed, after all they are animals. They are not some kind of human- or baby analogues as some people li...
[17:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─It is at least equally valid to point out that you may not be in touch with reality. Why would you waste time and energy denying that dogs and other animals have different sensory perception than humans?
[17:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─But that's the cost of transparency.
[17:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:37] <exec> 08└─Does this matter? Can one guy with a crowdfunded membership and no corporate donors to please actually bring about change in an organization like the W3C? Or is this just throwing money at the people causing all the problems in the first place?
[17:12:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with this. I spent 20 years at Qualcomm, I went through the chip spins where they tried to get GPS to not interfere with the phone, and vice versa. I imagine getting FM working is the same issue. Myself, the FM band is a wasteland of Clearchannel crap. But if I were in Puerto...
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Spanks Mugshots.Com Hard for Charging for Photo Removal - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:03] <exec> 08└─People in mugshots have not been convicted or even charged yet. Public shaming at this point is premature. After conviction is when to let the slings and arrows fly.
[17:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Spanks Mugshots.Com Hard for Charging for Photo Removal - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─Then we need some alterations to public records laws and recognition of the rights of the accused, possibly including keeping it secret when someone has been charged with a crime but found not guilty. I guarantee that level of reform won't be happening anytime soon. And it would sap the energy from...
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[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─How much SJW post-modernism screeching will be involved though?
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─Does "Man in a High Castle" ever turn non-depressing? I watched the first half-dozen episodes, read the wiki on the novel it's based on, and decided watching a story about dystopia is not worth my time because that's what real life already is.
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, No, Maybe. It's fairly depressing if you are looking for a show where "good" will triumph over "evil" in the standard format. There are more like little interesting moments of hope in the despair. It could all depend on where they want to go with the show next.
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─There's a few people that take AC postings and repost under their own id. That way they get upmods from people that only read at +1 and never saw the original post.
[18:10:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:10] <exec> 08└─Every single home that involves pets is filthy.
[18:10:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 1917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:22] <exec> 08└─You're so busy trying to make pet owners look foolish, that you're ignoring something so obvious that most pet owners simply take for granted. It is well known that the dog's fate, his health and well being, depends strongly on his ability to sense and understand his owner's feelings, thoughts, moti...
[18:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:34] <exec> 08└─I made no such denial.
[18:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:36] <exec> 08└─I can hardly disagree with parent. I have two cats and I love animals in general, and god damn do they trigger me all the time with their endless cycle. And before anyone says "but litter box," you fucking clean it man. It's been 10 years, so I have another 10 to go before they hit the bucket, after...
[18:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:38] <exec> 08└─You stick an animal into some little cage and sometimes feed it with whatever industrial commercial crap.
[18:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:40] <exec> 08└─Some people just aren't as interested in cleaning piss and shit after getting home from a hard day at work.
[18:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:54] <exec> 08└─Given the current headline, "NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station," one might wonder whether NASA and Roscosmos are "signing" a statement, or "joining" one. Should one of the words instead be "signers," or should one of the words instead be "joint," or i...
[18:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Join Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:56] <exec> 08└─I feel confident, however, that both NASA and Roscosmos personnel will be able to restore some malfunctioning components to proper functionality by solidly whacking them. This does not, as has been alleged, simply make the whackor feel better. Rather, it resets electrical and physical junctions betw...
[18:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:13] <exec> 08└─That's similar to the federal FOIA: If it's for media purposes or otherwise in the public interest, then the fees may be waived, otherwise it can cost you a bit. I learned all about that doing some investigation of something that seemed a bit off from the EPA - a friendly bureaucrat (and I mean that...
[18:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:48] <exec> 08└─Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C? Thank God!! Wait. Who's Bryan Lunduke?
[18:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:00] <exec> 08└─If you left it to a free market murder would still be a profitable business.
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[19:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:32] <exec> 08└─We need to produce edible microbes.
[19:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:34] <exec> 08└─This is the face of universal basic income.
[19:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─We need to produce edible microbes.
[19:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:38] <exec> 08└─Everything that humans have ever eaten has been covered in microbes (dead or alive).
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─This would be the right approach, if we were serious about solving the problem: 1. Find out the total cost for treating antibiotic-resistant diseases each year. Extrapolate from that trend the cost of treating antibiotic-resistant diseases next year. 2. Find out the total quantity of animal and huma...
[19:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─Ohhh I get it now, you're a bot! How do you do?
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how involved Niven would actually be -- it seems to be more the exception than the rule for the author to be closely involved in TV adaptations, though it's certainly not unheard of.
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a series based on Zelazny's Amber [wikipedia.org] books? Or maybe Fred Pohl's Heechee saga [wikipedia.org] (although it is apparently being done already [variety.com]? How about a series based on Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon [wikipedia.org] or The Diamond Age [wikipedia.org] instead of Sn...
[19:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:11] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand reading comprehension. At no point did the GP mention anything that had anything to do with your tangent about selection bias, unless your selective quote was a pathetic attempt at intentional trolling. (Different AC)
[19:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─No, dumbass. OP said the "good old days" were better because participation entertainment is better than spectator entertainment, and in the old days there was less spectator entertainment available, and thus people were forced to engage in participation entertainment. (Or walk the path of the bookwo...
[19:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest some PKD, but luckily that's being done already too, in the form of a British anthology series adapting short stories. It's called "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams", and so far (2 episodes in) it's well worth watching, whether piratically or whenever it becomes legally available in your...
[19:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─And at least the pilot had what's his name (the original tick) involved as a producer or executive producer or something. Might even have done some narrative work (I forget) Regardless, while it is a new and different cast, I've found the new one just as comedic although more as a comedic superhero...
[19:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:20] <exec> 08└─The OP never said anything about being forced to do anything. Invalid form key: r4t7lOEMSu
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:22] <exec> 08└─Somebody's testing their bot.
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:02] <exec> 08└─Letting them roam free is a cruelty. Indoor cats live significantly longer than outdoor cats do and they don't torture anywhere near as many animals as the outdoor ones do. If you're concerned about them getting exercise, you can always leash train them and take them on walks. But, cats don't need t...
[19:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:03] <exec> 08└─That's a load of crap, those are the exception to the rule. We wouldn't be having the issues with ever increasing allergies and immune deficiencies if we weren't sterilizing the crap out of every surface we can find. Humans have a strong enough immune system to survive through some pretty nasty cond...
[19:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:05] <exec> 08└─You're right! If you own a pet, it must live in the house. Nobody has ever had a pet they keep outside.
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Joint Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─It took many hours for anyone to catch it. Guess my headline error slipped through the programmer mind's defenses.
[19:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:58] <exec> 08└─We all hate bell Canada here in Canada. It is truly universals: the French Canadian abhors them as much as the English Canada. The two solitudes are united in there hatred of our most profitable in the world telecommunications companies.
[19:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bryan Lunduke Joins the W3C - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:17] <exec> 08└─The EFF was better positioned in every way to effect change, and they threw in the towel. Mr Lunduke is a powerless individual who can't even afford the $2250 application fee and appears to have only the most minimal grasp on the internal processes at the W3C. However, being able to list this on his...
[19:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary - 1938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:32] <exec> 08└─The problems with any space habitat are: 1) a closed ecosystem 2) radiation hardening Everything else has answers that are known, though they may need engineering development. As for 1), it's really impossible, as even the Earth doesn't have a closed ecosystem, so you need to include predictable inf...
[19:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:31] <exec> 08└─Hey, AC. I haven't forgotten you. I'm thinking. Or, at least putting my thoughts in order. Maybe I'll have a good answer for you, maybe I won't, but I haven't forgotten you.
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[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:15] <exec> 08└─Never liked Stephenson, except for The Baroque Cycle. From Amazon's point of view, Snow Crash makes sense—everyone in the demographic has heard of it. IT'S 2017 AND STILL NO NEUROMANCER THOUGH. By the time that gets adapted to anything, the people who read it will be long dead. (But if I was going...
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─But if humans deserve rights then logically other animals do too.
[20:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:00] <exec> 08└─yet, despite my antipathy, animals seem to cozy up to me much more quickly than they do most other people, or so I have been told again and again.
[20:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:02] <exec> 08└─I personally believe that humans deserve rights because humans are thinking and feeling entities that are capable of experiencing pleasure and suffering and are capable of decision making which requires a certain amount of freedom to exercise. There's a substantial amount of evidence to support the...
[20:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:04] <exec> 08└─An added benefit of having pets is, the pet is often an early indicator of how friendly a stranger might be.
[20:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:07] <exec> 08└─You just have to toilet train the cats. [vetstreet.com]
[20:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─As for a definition of "deserve", well it's an ethical concept. Other people have already written far more on the philosophy of ethics than I ever could. To state my point more clearly: If someone accepts that humans deserve a particular right then they should also accept that another species deserv...
[20:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─Why not call 911 right then and there and report it as a crime? Sure, it was (probably) a cop, but now it's logged in a particular way and they *might* give you more information in order to keep the peace.
[20:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:35] <exec> 08└─I am a NEET on UBI and I already live in a closed ecosystem.
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[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─They should do this kind of thing with veggies, etc: tax the hell out of crap processed food and use those tax revenues to make veggies/organic foods cheaper. And tax the hell out of pop and crap foods to subsidize the Canadian healthcare system: bugs me to no end when you see heavily obese people l...
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─To reduce antimicrobial use, silly!
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─...but my favorite Amazon product is the asparagus water.
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with the grandparent about selection bias. You don't want the good old days, you want the romanticized version of the good old days. I suggest checking out your local Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) for period nostalgia without the grim brutality of the era.
[21:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:08] <exec> 08└─Every single home that involves pets is filthy. What's that? You have a dog and your house is perfectly clean? No, it is not; your house is filthy - you're just oblivious.
[21:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─I don't sniff butts to learn how good, or how poor, an associate's health might be. I don't sniff butts to see which women might be inclined to breed. That butt sniffind tells me nothing at all,
[21:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:12] <exec> 08└─Parent said: "Are you aware that dogs can be trained not to piss and shit inside a house?" You're right, that's what the neighbors' yards are for. Come on Fluffy, let's go for a walk.
[21:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Joint Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:29] <exec> 08└─What overproduction crisis? The developing world is growing fast and they need a lot of stuff. I think we're still in a phase of underproduction rather than overproduction. But even if we do get to true overproduction on a global scale, we always have recessions, the non-violent way to cut back.
[21:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Joint Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:30] <exec> 08└─Or maybe people in these glass houses don't chuck a lot of rocks.
[21:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA and Roscosmos Sign Joint Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:32] <exec> 08└─Unless you're Aristarchus. Then you chuck monoliths.
[21:11:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:43] <exec> 08└─Actually there does need to be a trusting relationship between police and media: The police must be able to trust that the media do their job, instead of simply making things up. The media must be able to trust that the police won't interfere with their work. Of course both have nothing to do with t...
[21:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:51] <exec> 08└─If those punk police ever happen to want my help, they can write me a letter. Maybe I'll get around to answering it.
[21:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:53] <exec> 08└─Work in a police office for a year Identify workflow for satisfying FOIA requests Write support software for receiving/communicating/organizing/fulfilling FOIA requests Point out how this software will help the media and them trust each other more Sell to police offices around the country ... Profit...
[21:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:13] <exec> 08└─That part does not exist. It is a myth that treaties override the Constitution or are equal to it. The Constitution is the highest law of the land. It is one of the places where the War on Drugs gains it's power: treaties.
[21:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai isn't doing shit on this issue, just making noise: FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turned on, but won’t do anything about it [theverge.com] (February 16, 2017)
[21:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Gas Car Sales After 2040 - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:47] <exec> 08└─Because scientists and futurists have been so successful in the past at predicting the course of technology, why not double down! Make laws based on it! After all, it is inevitable that these predictions will be correct! It's nice that your crystal ball is so perfectly accurate that you are happy to...
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[22:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06VW Takes Another $3 Billion Hit Due to Diesel Scandal - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─With the amount of costs continually increasing, I am wondering if it would have been cheaper to exchange new cars to customers at the outset.
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Takes Another $3 Billion Hit Due to Diesel Scandal - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─And what about all the other car makers who have diesels out there. I bet they're all "dirty diesels" - BMW, Mercedes, Citroen, Toyota, Ford, ... just about everyone.
[22:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:31] <exec> 08└─I love what Hitler does to Washington. Sometimes I feel like doing the same thing!
[22:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Increases Production Spending for 2018, Developing 3 New Sci-Fi Series - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:33] <exec> 08└─The new series is scripted better. Arthur's charterer is especially well developed and gives the whole show actual dramatic tension for the jokes to crack and for the plot to develop from. And when the protagonists and villains get actual depth, the humor gets darker, more surreal and absurd in a sa...
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[22:11:26] <exec> 08└─If humans deserve rights but animals don't then that implies there's some crucial difference that separates humans from animals. Certainly that was a widely held view historically, but I don't think many scientists hold it now. It smacks of the same kind of self absorption that led people to believe...
[22:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:27] <exec> 08└─Will it ever see the sun light? Will it ever feel the rain and the wind? Make any decisions for itself? Tough love.
[22:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks aristarchus. I had a feeling the ability to experience pleasure or suffering was key here and the reduction of suffering does seem to be the goal of most rights. According to utilitarianism, a right should apply to all species that benefit from it via reduced suffering or increased pleasure,...
[22:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:31] <exec> 08└─I know, I know, anecdotes aren't data, much less one single anecdote. But at my first of two jobs, there are two cats, and the older female and I bonded in early 2015 after both coming close to death--her from an abusive former owner, me from a pulmonary embolism the radiologists didn't catch until...
[22:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:31] <exec> 08└─Greed. It Makes 'murika Great.
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[23:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Takes Another $3 Billion Hit Due to Diesel Scandal - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:38] <exec> 08└─At 30 billion euros, you'd have to think it would have been cheaper just to build better cars in the first place rather than do a cheap test rigging to cheat on environmental tests. But hey, that's what you get for thinking short term profits instead of long term growth.
[23:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Takes Another $3 Billion Hit Due to Diesel Scandal - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─We already know BMW and Mercedes [soylentnews.org] did the same fraud as VW.
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:55] <exec> 08└─We need to produce edible microbes.
[23:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─I like your reasoned solution. But what it looks like we are getting instead is a stupid switcheroo -- for years we've heard about antibiotics (in animal feed and other excessive uses) and all of a sudden, now it's antimicrobials? Is there any difference or is this just a new word to distract the di...
[23:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─Antibiotics/antimicrobials in feed are not being used to treat diseases per se. For some reason (that I think is still not known) it makes the animals grow more quickly. Unless farmers can get a higher price for using no-antibiotic feed, they are at a competitive disadvantage to do so. Find a soluti...
[23:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:33] <exec> 08└─The principle you raise that all suffering is to be minimized renders that irrelevant, except when weighing the suffering of one or more individuals against those of another.
[23:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:35] <exec> 08└─Everything in your bathroom has fecal bacteria on it. Be afraid, be very afraid! You do realize there's tiny bugs which crap all over your stuff? There's lots of little bugs living around your eyes right now.
[23:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science Behind Why Some People Love Animals and Others Couldn't Care Less - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:37] <exec> 08└─people who admit to feeling horribly trapped and filled with hopeless despair
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[23:12:39] <exec> 08└─Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA
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[23:12:40] <exec> 08└─Section 35 says "The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed."
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