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[00:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:28] <exec> 08└─As a general rule, bikes cost about 1/10th what a car does. I am sure that applies to tire and brake dust as well.
[00:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:30] <exec> 08└─Surely widespread telecommuting is the only sensible long term answer. Physical attendance is overrated. There are always telepresence robots if someone insists on maintaining an astronomically expensive London office. Either that or a drastic reduction in the world population. Yes, people would be...
[00:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:32] <exec> 08└─1/10th? You can get an e-bike for that much [cnn.com] (compare used car to dumped Chinese e-bike).
[00:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:34] <exec> 08└─> As a general rule, bikes cost about 1/10th what a car does. That's a terrible "general rule". While only poor people want to use my heavy $70 bike, you can get a decent one for $200, and a good one for under $500. That's not anywhere near a tenth of a new car. > I am sure that applies to tire and...
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[00:09:36] <exec> 08└─Right now the incentives are all wrong. Transaction costs eat up value in every home sale. Between the buyer and seller, it might be 10% or so. This discourages people from moving closer to work. You pay title insurance, absurd sales agent fees, title fee, probably lawyers, etc. Then there is the ma...
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:39] <exec> 08└─When is London going to kick taxis out of the Bus and Taxi lanes? Taxis don't help anything. They add to congestion, in many cases, they do twice the miles that someone driving their own car would do for a journey (for example, out to Heathrow with a passenger and return empty). This preference for...
[00:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:41] <exec> 08└─I was being conservative. I was also including maintenance costs. A Bike may be more likely to break due to small parts (but a car will have more parts to break). Biking also saves on fuel costs, but raises your food budget.
[00:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:43] <exec> 08└─Transaction costs eat up value in every home sale. Between the buyer and seller, it might be 10% or so.
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─Electric vehicles ordinarily have regenerative braking. That ought to lessen the amount of dust from braking.
[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─But that only lessons it. If you want to get rid of all of it then London should install huge AC pipes under all the roads. Cover the roads with water and soon you'll have excellent ice skating possibilities all across the city. It may even help with global warming. Truly this proposal is a win-win...
[00:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:50] <exec> 08└─> I was also including maintenance costs. A Bike may be more likely to break due to small parts You're talking about a bicycle, right? The thing with 2 pedals and a chain, and about 4 cables, being more likely to break than a car? Really?
[00:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken [5985] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Super-Elastic Surgical Glue That Sticks and Seals in Vivo, Even When Tissues Are Moving - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else think of the infomercial possibilites? Not just any seal can seal a burst aorta but flexseal does the job everytime! Heart got an extra hole patch it with flexseal! No messy sutures that leak, just an instant seal!
[00:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:28] <exec> 08└─You give yourself away you triggered little misogynist.
[00:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:29] <exec> 08└─As I've said many times, go get a real education you mangy bird. Philosophy is way more than the art of bullshitting, it is actually quite the reverse. You're just too ignorant to comprehend so you apply your personal flawed world view to reality.
[00:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:31] <exec> 08└─Do try and keep up with the pop culture references, please. I don't want to waste a key on a *whoosh* macro.
[00:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:51] <exec> 08└─I think you may be referring to the below link, however some commentators mention that the problem goes away when you use sparsely linked matrixes which are more accurate representations of production capacity and requirements (Apparently. I am sufficiently ignorant of the topic to have no opinion o...
[00:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but screwing over little people is a far different thing than screwing over multinationals. If they had kept it at the worker-and-gambler level, they'd have been able to continue as long as they wanted. Now they've probably found a way to get their sovereign immunity reduced or outright revoke...
[00:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:54] <exec> 08└─Atlantean Association Against the Abuse of Acronyms. Just stop it.
[00:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:32] <exec> 08└─I don't care about big or small government, which is not strictly correlated to the amount of control you retain over your life as a private citizen. But I don't get your comment, as it implies you need a federal entity to check bugs in kitchens. Could it be done at smaller scale without experiencin...
[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 3633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─If we're talking about busses, have a look at RapidIO. Been around for a long time, supported in Linux, and heavily used in telecom, aerospace, and military systems. It's open and can handle the same tasks as PCIe and USB3 as it is a switched packet based protocol. It allows for chip-chip, board-boa...
[00:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:48] <exec> 08└─Nothing is synced with Google's cloud at all...
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[01:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:31] <exec> 08└─Someone logs into an official SoylentNews account and then uses that account to make a comment. When I reply to that comment, does that person get notified of my reply?
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─Eh, bikes are very cheap on maintenance, doubly so if you can do a few simple bits yourself. The calorie requirement is much cheaper than the fuel requirement. Your conservative estimate is ridiculously too high! But all points are well taken.
[01:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─Why bother? Just close the Thames Barrier [wikipedia.org] and kayak to work. No more dust issues. No more cars.
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─Because I bike in the winter, I need a new chain every year. How often do you replace the timing chain on your car? But yes, new chain is like $12.
[01:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─And cars have engine braking, which has the same effect. So i suspect, evs and ice cars will generate around the same level of brake dust (either emergency stops, or the final stop after slowing down) If london wanted to reduce the level of brake dust, they would get rid of the speed bumps and other...
[01:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:58] <exec> 08└─Biking also saves on fuel costs, but raises your food budget.
[01:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─The article is about London, which makes your point about moving closer to work even more correct, as it is an incredibly expensive city to live in. However it also has really good public transport. I can't understand why anyone who can avoid it would even bother driving in London, the Tube is awes...
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gertlex [3966] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:02] <exec> 08└─Regen seems to let cars slow down as they coast a lot faster than just taking foot off the pedal in an ICE. I've also heard from a few Prius owners about how their original brake pads are like new.
[01:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─If you are a healthy young unmarried male, you might not worry about your risks and you might not have any trouble carrying all your stuff. (note: public transport requires walking) Well OK, that works for maybe 10% of the population.
[01:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:07] <exec> 08└─That $70 bike I have (cheapest at Target) is 13 years old, spends a few miles on the dirt/gravel/rocks paths more weekends than it doesn't, and still has every single original part on it, despite a few spectacular flights over the handlebars. How many miles a year do you bike to have maintenance cos...
[01:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah the Tube can be extremely overcrowded especially at peak times and the problem is probably getting worse. It reaches absurd levels sometimes.
[01:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:49] <exec> 08└─I think you're gonna need to upgrade to a steam cleaner for all the irony you're dishing out today.
[01:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:51] <exec> 08└─but the Career Opportunities are Murky
[01:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:53] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting my Philosophy of The Simpsons class doesn't have good career prospects? Hmmm... Actually, now that I think about it, the question probably applies to the entire Philosophy department.
[01:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:55] <exec> 08└─Why not just go down to the enlistment office and apply for a job in the Air Force? Instead of paying for a class they'll pay you to learn it, and you might also get to blow some shit up one day. After X years you can if there is one transition back to civilian drone flight. One just have to remembe...
[01:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:18] <exec> 08└─Gone are the day where you could just grab a knob to adjust volume and the heat. The menus are deep too. (under which menu did they put the defrost fan on. I can't see a thing! BOOM!) Wrong. The new Mazdas have a dedicated volume knob (and it mutes if you push it). And the HVAC controls are complete...
[01:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:19] <exec> 08└─You can do buttons, knobs, AND touch screens. What do people fumble for when driving? Answer: volume, temperature, fan speed, etc. Make those most used adjustable variables such as climate control, radio, cameras, and other "devices" quick access buttons lined up under the screen. This is basically...
[01:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:59] <exec> 08└─These guys took it the other direction 5 decades ago. Vintage TV Commercial for Welch's Jelly and Jam [youtube.com] This vintage TV commercial is from the late 1960s and is for Welch's jellies and jams. The advertisement shows us a mother in earlier times shopping at the market for the freshest frui...
[01:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:00] <exec> 08└─TMB hates government getting involved As filthy as the place was, I'm guessing there was some flour dust about. Dust in the air has a nasty habit of causing explosions, so they had dodged the bullet there. ...unlike other manufacturing sites that, due to Libertarians|Reactionaries|Neoliberals cuttin...
[01:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─Yes. It can't fuck things up as badly if it's neutered. See the pre-Civil-War United States if you want a successful example of a limited federal government.
[01:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:03] <exec> 08└─Social security is going bankrupt very soon, fool. It's a goddamned ponzi scheme by design and it's a miracle it's lasted as long as it has. Obamacare is an improvement over what had existed in USA.
[01:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:20] <exec> 08└─Took 24 hours but someone finally got it.
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[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─By default they should. But the settings can be changed here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] You can choose no message, "Web" messages, or email. For "Web" messages you check the "You have 0 new messages waiting for you, and X old messages" text on pages with a sidebar.
[02:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─yes... And while I'm here, how many million years is a "tick"?
[02:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:52] <exec> 08└─I was about to say. The previous metric was how long it took to be off by one second. 300 million up to the "age of the universe". Then it switches to a different metric of out-of-sync-ticks with no context or explanation. We need a Time Lord to come here and explain :)
[02:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:55] <exec> 08└─There is also a setting that could be used to filter ACs or any other group of users based on custom moderation bonuses. You may select a message threshold for when messages for comments (replies to journal entries, replies to comments) are sent to you.
[02:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:57] <exec> 08└─NIST says: The experimental data show the 3-D quantum gas clock achieved a precision of just 3.5 parts error in 10 quintillion (1 followed by 19 zeros) in about 2 hours, making it the first atomic clock to ever reach that threshold (19 zeros). “This represents a significant improvement over any pr...
[02:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:26] <exec> 08└─> one wealthy person set up his own, fully licensed taxi company, with one taxi, You seem to think this is a problem? Seems like a win-win-win to me, this rich person is contributing significantly extra for the privilege, which slightly reduces the taxes for everyone else in the city. And the additi...
[02:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:27] <exec> 08└─Regen seems to let cars slow down as they coast a lot faster than just taking foot off the pedal in an ICE. I've also heard from a few Prius owners about how their original brake pads are like new.
[02:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:29] <exec> 08└─> they would get rid of the speed bumps and other man made obstacles on the road Road furniture is for traffic calming. If idiots would drive their cars at a reasonable speed in residential and pedestrian areas the need for calming devices would never have been necessary. I'm a car driver and I some...
[02:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:32] <exec> 08└─What is a "reasonable speed"? To me, it is whatever I can manage without adding substantial risk of hitting something. So here is what I did with the speed bumps on my route to work: The road is marked as 20 MPH (32 KPH) maximum, 15 MPH (24 KPH) advisory, with 7 speed bumps. I approach a speed bump...
[02:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:17] <exec> 08└─Machine AI will end up doing it better. It will be something that doesn't sleep, cannot get tired, and will be as functional in minute 100,000 as minute 1. I'm not worried about it screwing up since it seems that the nature of Machine AI is that each is just a little bit unique. It depends on its tr...
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[02:13:22] <exec> 08└─The Authority-on-everything-in-Chief says paper towels. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─OK now, everybody point at the consumer of Faux Noise and Breitbart. The most pessimistic numbers for Social Security (among responsible reporters) have it 100.00 percent solvent for at least another decade. ...and that's if no adjustments are made. Note here that, currently (because of ridiculous c...
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:42] <exec> 08└─They can't detect the gravitational waves emitted by these sorts of supermassive black hole binaries yet. Those produce gravitational waves in the nanohertz frequencies: the corresponding wavelengths are more than thirty light-years long! Now if there were a merger though it would probably be hella...
[02:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:07] <exec> 08└─Rouge, as in Baton Rouge, which is French for Red Stick. Republicans are red, right? Democrats are blue, right? You're going rouge? Come on, you made a spelling mistake when you typed rogue.
[02:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:08] <exec> 08└─Red is for Commie! A relic of the Cold War such as yourself should know this! And you did not catch the double-Palin? "Refudiate" and "Rouge" in the same sentence? Republicans want to break teacher unions and un-fund education, because they cannot spell, and resent people who can. Darn liberal sno...
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[03:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─It has a toothless parliament elected by the people, but actual power is held in the hands of the member countries' governments via the European Commission. The European Commission is where all kinds of stupidity is thought up, forcing national parliaments to turn its effluent into national law. Pol...
[03:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe if the EU leadership had left things as a trade union with a common market and not tried to make a fourth reich. EU pushing one leader (junkers), an EU joint military, required military actions based on simple majority (instead of unanimous), refugee quotas, and leaders suggesting individual n...
[03:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─Germany sees Lebensraum!
[03:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:38] <exec> 08└─... at least not without pouring tons of resources into forcing people to submit. Even if you can get people to submit, the solution you achieve will only be transient, because our universe demands that environmental conditions change, often in unforeseen ways. As with any complex system, a stable s...
[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 2501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─Poland and Turkey can't really be called democracies at the moment, and to a lesser extent Hungary as well. Both are suffering from a nasty semi-legal takeover. In Poland for example, the ruling party does tricks like: the Constitutional Tribunal would be able to stop them. So... they make an obviou...
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[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─would you kindly innovate up a 4th box on the left hand side that lists the tags used in stories on the frontpage. by clicking that tag, one could remove stories with that tag from what's listed on the page. if logged-in users could permanently block getting exposed to stories by tag also, that woul...
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─Companies are moving their legal bases out of Catalonia, including big ones, like a couple of banks, laCaixa and Sabadell. Other companies are selecting different places for operations, Citroen is going to use Valencia as exportation harbour for their Zaragoza made car (Opel plant, GM sold the Germa...
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─Catalonia moves to declare independence from Spain on Monday [reuters.com] Spanish court blocks Catalan parliament from declaring independence [theguardian.com] Thursday’s court ruling raises the question of how the Spanish state will respond if Catalans decide to push ahead with Monday’s sessio...
[03:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─"The EU has brought great benefits to Europeans" What benefits, specifically? Most if not everything it's done that's beneficial was already done or could have been done in the old Common Market system without creating a superfluous bureaucracy to invent work for themselves, and without the surrende...
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[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─Thank you, my lord :)
[03:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:35] <exec> 08└─How about improving the road system so that less braking is needed? More interchanges is one way. Another no-brainer that I am astonished gets so little attention is smarter traffic lights. Far too often, cars are forced to wait, or worse, stop, for nothing because the traffic light cannot tell that...
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[03:10:37] <exec> 08└─Details? Are you riding in snow-salt slush? Do you not keep the thing greased? How many thousands of miles do you put on the thing a year? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:39] <exec> 08└─First, it was the cruel unfairness [soylentnews.org] of buying in bulk. Now, it's particulate pollution down to the point that tire and brake dust are major components (with "no safe level!" hurr hurr). Why do environmentalists tolerate this parody site?
[03:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:41] <exec> 08└─But that only lessons it.
[03:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:44] <exec> 08└─Since then, I ditched that fuel-efficient little car for a giant van. Now I can take the speed bumps at full speed, yeah! Either way, the noise pollution is pretty serious.
[03:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:29] <exec> 08└─Local colleges are great for dabbling in stuff. They'll teach you about welding, hiking, 3d design (and 3d printing), carpentry and so on. Weekend after this i start a series of classes at the fire station to learn amateur radio. Only 10$ for five saturday mornings of training. My wife has taken a s...
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[03:13:01] <exec> 08└─At one point, an FDA inspector noticed a one-inch-long, unidentified crawling insect directly underneath a batch of pastries.
[03:13:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:10] <exec> 08└─Nashoba Chief Executive Officer John Gates said the FDA's take on love as an ingredient "just felt so George Orwell."
[03:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:35] <exec> 08└─Well I hear Billy C. says use a blue dress! ;)
[03:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─See Somalia for a modern-day example of a limited government.
[03:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:42] <exec> 08└─It's important to realize that the world has changed since the Civil War. What worked then doesn't work today. What's so hard to understand about that? What you are asking for is something like Brazil is heading into. A country that's great to live in if you are in the very few wealthy elite, and cr...
[03:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:44] <exec> 08└─Even granting you everything you say as true, entirely for the sake of argument, yes, I would still rather have liberty than security. As would every American worth the name.
[03:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:46] <exec> 08└─Right, so you're wanting it to be getting back your money that you paid in... unless you're rich then it's everybody else's money. How do you look in a mirror and see anything but a blatant thief?
[03:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:48] <exec> 08└─Paying reasonable taxes does not reduce your liberty. Living in poverty does. Living in a country where the government stands aside while powerful people take your liberty away is the end result of what you want.
[03:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:50] <exec> 08└─When will people wake up and realize these are all connected by a single cancerous ideology??
[03:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 2232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:09] <exec> 08└─It happened over and over again, the 'historical saints' were adapted or even invented to fit the pagan deities they needed to replace. Of course that doesn't explain ALL the saints but many of them. And it seems to be MORE about the festivals than the personality itself, for instance there is no 'S...
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[04:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:31] <exec> 08└─Everyone understands supply and demand of every resource except for labor, or more generally, people. It's something that has to be factored into the calculus of society. Your kids? We don't need 'em.
[04:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:33] <exec> 08└─is in a coma or unfurnished cave?
[04:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:35] <exec> 08└─I want the robots to do manual labor for me... let them work so I don't have to. I fear the mega-corporations taking over our lives. Just look at congress, it has already begun.
[04:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:37] <exec> 08└─"Ordinary Americans are very wary and concerned about the growing trend in automation and place a lot of value in human decision-making," Human decision-making causes tens of thousands of deaths on US roads every year (and many, many more worldwide). Human decision-making has given us an utterly bro...
[04:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:54] <exec> 08└─Nexus preferences are here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] You can either collapse or entirely remove stories based on nexus (Breaking News, Community Reviews, Meta, Politics). No such options for the anti-login crowd AFAIK.
[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:55] <exec> 08└─A country can recover from all the bad things you listed. A country can not recover from taking in hordes of people who despise western civilization. The ruling party is at least blocking mass immigration, so there is still hope for the future. The ruling party thus deserves to rule, at least until...
[04:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:57] <exec> 08└─Splitting off from Spain should not mean splitting off from the EU. If the EU is to really succeed, many of the existing parts need to split. The parts ought to be similar in size. The USA has long had similar troubles, though without some of the extra legacy tension that the EU has. For example, Ca...
[04:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:59] <exec> 08└─I think we'll see Puerto Rican AND D.C. statehood before we see Calexit or California split into 3-10 pieces.
[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─The rumor is separatists were trolling for a martyr. All they got was some "batoning", same thing than UK miners or French farmers got in the past. No more no less that what takes place in Western countries, so nobody gaves any credit to "holier than you" claims. Mossos loved "batonning" their own w...
[04:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:52] <exec> 08└─Even traffic lights with a timing visual indication (how long 'til the light changes) is better.
[04:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:53] <exec> 08└─Why do environmentalists tolerate this parody site?
[04:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:34] <exec> 08└─It's more deeply rooted than that. I doubt there is any specific legal exemption in the statute itself, they're basing this on the general principle of sovereign immunity. Since it's the same "principle" that says you can't sue the state (without they give you permission to do so) the state loves it...
[04:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:58] <exec> 08└─One of these days you'll grok that I believe protection of your liberties is one of the very few legitimate functions of government. Well, no, probably not. That would interfere with the narrative you have to keep spinning in your head to justify using 1984 as an instruction manual rather than a cau...
[04:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:00] <exec> 08└─And to provide that protection, the government will need money and best that collection be done competently or it cannot be collected fairly. So you're an idiot for wanting the IRS to be incompetent.
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[05:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:31] <exec> 08└─I am ready to become a (robot) slave owner. Or is it a human owner of robot slaves?
[05:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:33] <exec> 08└─They are building EMP guns and itching to say "I told you so!".
[05:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:35] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com
[05:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:37] <exec> 08└─My reaction exactly. Have they not seen /Humans Need Not Apply/? http://www.cgpgrey.com
[05:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─...focus on making art and music, and coming up with innovative ideas. Those are the only things a relatively small group of humans are good at.
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─> For transportation alone, taking humans out of the loop promises to save countless human lives. Wait a sec - you want there to be *more* stupid humans around? I thought you'd just admitted that humans are the problem?
[05:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:44] <exec> 08└─Standing next to me where you used to be...
[05:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:46] <exec> 08└─It used to be shameful to produce pregnancy outside of the confines of a well-defined, official social structure (e.g., family). Indeed, because people had to pay for themselves (e.g., look to friends and family) instead of the State to pay the costs of producing new human beings, they took reproduc...
[05:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:48] <exec> 08└─Spain gave some extra leash to Catalonia. Which they used it for brain washing, separatism went from less than 10% at start of democracy to over 40% now. Spain ended with a noisy dog, so any kind of discipline restitution is going to look oppresive. And some politicians like Aznar, which was friends...
[05:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:51] <exec> 08└─And robots have the potential to be extremely powerful. How long and deeply have we feared robots? Even Gilligan's Island got on that bandwagon, in 1981: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The 1967 I, Mudd episode of Star Trek has androids p...
[05:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:53] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Spare in the robot uprising. I love robots.
[05:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─The old Common Market system didn't have a unified currency, and free trade and movement of labor between member states. That's probably done a lot of quantifiable good for the EU states' economies overall, though some nations have surely benefited more than others. They should probably move to a tw...
[05:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:17] <exec> 08└─out of UK = out of EU, thus remain won This policy by the EU is stupid. Now the UK is probably going to leave the union, and that means the entire UK will be out of the EU. If the EU didn't have this idiotic policy, Scotland might have seceded, but it'd now be a stalwart member of the EU, and Brexit...
[05:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:19] <exec> 08└─DC has no business being a state. It's way too small. It's not even a true city: it's only a tiny portion of the overall metro area. DC should simply retrocede (?) back to Maryland, just like Alexandria did with Virginia years ago, if they really want proper Congressional representation so bad. It'd...
[05:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:21] <exec> 08└─Your mentality has lead to this lose-lose situation. Now, even if Catalonia remains within Spain, they would be even more of a fifth column. Nice going, Spain, simply brilliant.
[05:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:23] <exec> 08└─Banks moving their HQ is a way for them to stay in the EU which Catalonia would no longer be in if it declared independence.
[05:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:15] <exec> 08└─Biking also saves on fuel costs, but raises your food budget. It might increase your food costs a bit, but it'll save you a fortune on your health bills, long term.
[05:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:17] <exec> 08└─Snow-salt slush for probably 4 months of the year. about 2400km/year. I do try to keep it clean/oiled. Have been thinking of installing a chain guard (I have heard a totally enclosed drive-train helps).
[05:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:19] <exec> 08└─Continuing with the joke...as long as your suspension has enough travel, it's not a big deal to hit the speed bumps at high speed. Suspensions are designed to be high pass filters. Watch motocross motorcycles sometime, with about 300mm (1 foot) of suspension travel the wheels move up and down while...
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[05:11:21] <exec> 08└─Because this is NOTHING to do with health, environment, practicality, live quality, etc. Its all about oneupmanship. These people NEED to feel superior to others, and work hard to outdo each other in their particular flavour of virtue signaling. Now, in the real world, why the HELL are cyclists not...
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[05:11:32] <exec> 08└─You might go blind, seriously. It's not as funny as you might think.
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[05:13:27] <exec> 08└─That sounds more like an argument to avoid living in New York or other similarly dense urban environment rather than an argument against honking.
[05:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:33] <exec> 08└─While I have to fight down the urge to perform my civic duty and hose down the honker with a minigun. No offense. Here in NYC the guy that lays on his horn for such a reason is a complete cocksucker who just woke up 100 people on the block who work nightshifts, and 70 infants that their parents just...
[05:14:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:58] <exec> 08└─There is nothing, nothing, the government controls that is not intentionally made worse for a buck, screwed up through incompetence, or maliciously and deliberately used against the American people.
[05:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:28] <exec> 08└─If you have a huge pile of money--and you actually EARNED that--then you got it using the public infrastructure: roads; bridges; waterways; water; sewers; rights of way for communications, the electricity grid, natural gas; etc. You owe The System. ...especially if you're not even equitably sharing...
[05:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:51] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, that's strikingly similar to the Cherokee mythology I grew up with.
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[06:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:33] <exec> 08└─No karoshi for me. I get plenty of sleep. I have no job. I have no friends. I live in my mother's house but I haven't spoken to her in ten years. I only ever go out at night to buy nutrition bars and energy drinks. Tonight I saw a rabbit.
[06:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:35] <exec> 08└─You're not a NEET because you are currently undergoing astronaut training. Felon Musky has a special job for you on Mars.
[06:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:37] <exec> 08└─Happend in July - a 31 days month. 2 days off - 29 days. An average of 5h28m/day of extra hours. On top of 8h/day => 13.5 h/day. Not a walk in the park, but... at around 30yo, I had such months (even slightly higher load - around 15h/day, no free weekends. Fortunately, the compensation included paid...
[06:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:39] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the trend of bringing your work home. The streak of 13+ hour days could have come in the days leading up to the elections, plus the aftermath.
[06:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:01] <exec> 08└─My job is to manage a manufacturing robot (5 axis CNC mill). I'm also saving up to buy my own.
[06:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:29] <exec> 08└─well yes, fuck the European Comission but they push a corporate/banker agenda into laws so that's where the stupidity really comes from
[06:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:31] <exec> 08└─Brexit isn't bad. Parts are, but the good outweighs the bad. The UK is non-Euro, Five Eyes, and Commonwealth. Having that in the EU was a huge conflict of interest that blocked the EU from becoming a proper nation. Scotland belongs with the UK. The truly tragic part of Brexit is that Ireland also be...
[06:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─DC doesn't have Senate seats so its absorption can't be traded for a new Democrat state like Puerto Rico. Dissolution of California just seem impossible. A vocal minority want it, and it has a high chance of creating more Dem Senate seats. It's a non-starter. Wyoming is Republican. If it was absorbe...
[06:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:35] <exec> 08└─A country can not recover from taking in hordes of people who despise western civilization.
[06:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:49] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter, as Trump is working hard at doing what he can to return a decent portion of the work back to the stone age.
[06:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:34] <exec> 08└─You're a clueless driver, and a jerk to boot. You're slamming on your brakes for speed bumps on a route you take regularly? No wonder your car got damaged. You won't convince anyone you weren't pulling that shit everywhere else you drove.
[06:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:35] <exec> 08└─That's quite an achievement, but as an advanced shade-tree mechanic, I'd rather replace brake pads than clutches. I know you said "double-clutch" but it's still got to wear the clutch more than just leaving it in gear, right? Disclaimer: I'm writing this from the frame of reference of: a good friend...
[06:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, in my backward area and state many lights turn red when they sense you coming! I'm not kidding. There are many that do this, especially after 11 PM or so. I've tested my theory by driving around the sensor loops and the light stays green. But hit the loops, and it goes yellow every time. I once...
[06:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, regen should do most of the work. I have a good friend who has had a Chevy Bolt for about 6 months. Amazingly, to me anyway, the default behavior is that the friction brakes do much (most?) of the braking. He showed me he has 3 levels of regen, but it's all based on the accelerator pedal. I wou...
[06:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:42] <exec> 08└─My suspension couldn't quite manage. I had a 2001 VW Passat with the USA ride height. (the 2001 Passat rides lower in the EU, via different springs) So I would often get a weird THUMP from not having enough travel. The trick with the brakes would avoid the problem if I got the timing right. Briefly...
[06:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gertlex [3966] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:44] <exec> 08└─Obviously I am your average automatic-driving American. So I expected I'd encounter a blind spot of mine... and too, manuals are more common in Britain, the location of discussion, which I forgot to consider.
[06:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:46] <exec> 08└─The car wash charges me extra when a cyclist fouls the grille of my car.
[06:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:42] <exec> 08└─Depleted uranium has been heavily processed. It's unhealthy. Natural uranium is much better.
[06:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:11] <exec> 08└─Some people completely miss the metaphor. Here's some help for the clueless: Get a powerful magnifying glass, a straight pin with the smallest head you can find, and a salt shaker. Try to dispense ONE grain of salt onto a dark surface. Failing that, separate out ONE grain of salt from what you spill...
[06:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:12] <exec> 08└─If people who feed into the grid and get paid for that are not paying for access to the grid, then the market is broken. However, the market is broken anyway because of subsidies that artificially distort it.
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[07:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:39] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the trend of bringing your work home.
[07:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:40] <exec> 08└─I think the problem was probably that this was not an unusual month for her. As you point out, it's possible to handle this for short bursts at a time, but if you are doing these sorts of hours for months on end (with no end in sight) then it quickly gets nasty. The tragedy is that, beyond short bur...
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[07:09:42] <exec> 08└─At the end of the article they had links for people in the UK who may feel themselves at risk of such things.. No, really..
[07:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:44] <exec> 08└─The tragedy is that, beyond short bursts, people working these sorts of hours are no more effective per-day than those who work a regular 8 hour day.
[07:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:47] <exec> 08└─Dont kid yourself. There are many Japanese who are super productive at much more than 40 hours/week. How? They dont go home, and family time, watch some tv, relax over dinner, etc. The 'sensible' ones still get 8 hours of sleep - however they live next to their work, and do very VERY little else. 24...
[07:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:10] <exec> 08└─I have couple robots in my house. They are fucking great. Save me ton of hassle with dumb things like lifting the garbage can lid, dispensing soap, etc. The last robot vacuum did not work out. I'll reevaluate when they get a bit better (more suction, and a bit better navigation). Looking forward to...
[07:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:41] <exec> 08└─I got another rumor for you, Hillary Clinton has a 98% chance of winning the Presidency.
[07:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:43] <exec> 08└─That is consistent with what happened. Without sufficiently many repetitions of the election, we cannot say whether it is true or false.
[07:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:58] <exec> 08└─And yet a stopped clock will still be right more often!
[07:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:00] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that at the time of posting, comments have not yet been moderated. Therefore IIUC the reason modifiers should not affect whether you get notified about a reply. OTOH I think the relationship and Karma/AC/new user modifiers should affect it, as that is already determined at the time o...
[07:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:02] <exec> 08└─I was just explaining literally everything on that page since I think nobody knows of it.
[07:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:53] <exec> 08└─How else could I get the timing right and be sure that there weren't any hidden dangers? With a previous commute elsewhere, I got good enough that I could drift a tiny bit. I've gone 17 or 18 years without hitting anything. I might reject the yoke of the nanny state, but that doesn't make me clueles...
[07:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:55] <exec> 08└─The tube is not for married people? Who knew!
[07:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:57] <exec> 08└─facepalm. You know you were modded funny because we thought you were joking, right? You even included little "hints": like driving at an unsafe speed in a residential area (45 MPH (72 KPH)), and continuing to do so after you broke your car "In the process I have broken two oil pans (underinflated ti...
[07:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:59] <exec> 08└─Taxis are better than private cars, because they don't require city centre parking space. And they reduce the traffic of people hunting for rare parking spaces. BTW if you want to be taken seriously, don't use the Daily Mail as a source. If it's real news, there will be other more credible sources o...
[07:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:19] <exec> 08└─Wouldn´t it be better to use vector instructions for this?
[07:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:22] <exec> 08└─How many panels do you run
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[08:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:32] <exec> 08└─> Scientists have long assumed that all the planets in our solar system look the same beneath the surface [...] Have they? Why? Given that they look wildly different on the surface, wouldn't Ockham dictate that being different below the surface was more likely? Weren't things like reports of methane...
[08:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:34] <exec> 08└─Journalists have long assumed that scientists have long assumed that all the planets in our solar system look the same beneath the surface [...]
[08:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:51] <exec> 08└─Dont kid yourself.
[08:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:53] <exec> 08└─The constitutional right to vote should stop when people get killed. No elections, no death. Ban elections now.
[08:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:55] <exec> 08└─Nani?!!!>>!>!???!?1
[08:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:57] <exec> 08└─I can see no reason to subject yourself to anything like this, whatever your age and health, other than immediate danger to life. I.e. you're stuck in the mountains and winter is coming, you have to chop down as much fire wood as possible etc. Or you're in a war. Or something similar. Otherwise, I w...
[08:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is that I don't think all this technology is actually going to increase our privacy; it will sharply decrease it, by design. Current technology is bad enough, but imagine all the spying and data collection that will be built into this new abomination of a system. Also, will all this soft...
[08:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:23] <exec> 08└─Everyone understands supply and demand of every resource except for labor, or more generally, people.
[08:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:25] <exec> 08└─...doesn't understand the threat.
[08:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:59] <exec> 08└─Take the UK as the extra 3-4, then you'll have room for more. They already bend in whatever position the US masters ask them to anyway. Keep Assange in check? Not a problem, we just need to waste 4-6 policemen-worth of salary for as long as needed. Spare change, sir, spare change. More surveillance?...
[08:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:00] <exec> 08└─They should probably move to a two-tier currency system, with HighEuros being the stronger and LowEuros being the weaker, so that countries like Greece can adopt the weaker currency and avoid some of the problems they've been having with sharing the same currency as Germany. But that would complicat...
[08:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:18] <exec> 08└─If I'd seen this yesterday, I might have said "Why?" Then I watched a video online with the Nobel Prize winners for the measuring of gravitational waves. Where they describe creating an interference pattern along a 4km-long-and-then-reflected path, measured down to a scale below that of the size of...
[08:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strontium Atoms Used in New "Quantum Gas" Atomic Clock - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:20] <exec> 08└─What makes you think so? I guess the typical AC doesn't, but I'd expect that most logged-in users do. Note that not using it is not the same as not knowing about it. For example, I browse at -1/0, therefore there's little value to me for those controls. In addition, assuming it wasn't changed from h...
[08:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:16] <exec> 08└─I dont know. With all the cars i had, you could drive in normal traffic without needing the brakes at all. I use my brakes so little i get rust on the disks from lack of friction, and have to actually go for a fast drive to clean them up from time to time. Once when my main brakes failed, i managed...
[08:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:18] <exec> 08└─Engine braking is an accidental feature of ICE. It can be useful for maintaining reasonable speed down long hills without burning out the brakes. But it doesn't compare to regen, which is designed in specifically at useful rates. And in the case of the latest EV designs such as the new Nissan Leaf,...
[08:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:20] <exec> 08└─If the road is marked at speed X, you should be able to go over the speed bumb at speed X, not X/3. The way the speed bumbs are build almost everywhere i've seen is to make them so big, that you need to slow down a lot to get over the bumb without breaking the car. That does not calm the traffic. Al...
[08:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:27] <exec> 08└─What about, "Playing Doctor"? I show her mine, she gives me a fine for being sick. (Works even without an MD)
[08:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:29] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem with Nash's Equilibrium is that Time Exists. Right NOW the best immediate strategy that floats all boats might not actually be best. I could be playing to lose in the short term, and for the duration of the entire game. Because AFTER I've thrown the game I get a payout from the M...
[08:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:31] <exec> 08└─maybe I cut a deal with the other players to completely fuck the game up into some absurd end condition, but that will have us all on top in the long run after we split the pay-offs.
[08:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 1865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:21] <exec> 08└─Here's the truth: Love is a measurable and the corporate hucksters aren't even putting it in when they say they are. Tell some rice you love it, ignore some rice, and tell some you hate it. The loved rice stay fresh longer. Lot's of people [youtube.com] Have repeated the experiment [youtube.com] It'...
[08:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:49] <exec> 08└─Is there a fundamental reason why it should not be possible to interpret one and the same register as a single 128 bit value for normal instructions, and as eight 16-bit values for vector instructions? Note that for some instructions (like bitwise operations) the difference is nonexistent, and for o...
[08:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:55] <exec> 08└─Interesting, thanks. Did you get your components retail, or were you able to hook into a wholesaler (that you'd be able to mention)?
[08:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:56] <exec> 08└─Electricity bills are broken down into the kwh's you use, and the fees for distribution (paying for the grid). Generally the kwh's you use constitute the greater share of the bill. If the utilities rebalance that such that they can keep charging you a net positive for them when you produce more elec...
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[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─What? I assume it's some kind of keyboard slippage but I can't really figure out what it is actually supposed to say -- unless it's actually supposed to say National Diet elections in which case I wonder what that is. Do they get together every 5th year and decide that it's going to be Rice and Tuna...
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:59] <exec> 08└─The National Diet is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under parallel voting systems.
[09:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4fj9Efl4s [youtube.com]
[09:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:03] <exec> 08└─The Japanese don't work harder than anyone else. They stay at the office longer. Meaningful work stops around 5:30-6pm. Then they shuffle papers for another 5 hours until the boss decides to go home to make the boss and everyone else think they're working hard "for the team." The boss only stays tha...
[09:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:32] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of all the tedious killing. Ammunition is heavy, aiming heavy guns is finicky, people are constantly complaining about the results. I want kill-bots. Rocket launcher and chain gun as primary weapons, a circular saw for close-in work. That'll do it.
[09:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:33] <exec> 08└─Not across the world. Only in those countries where there's a good social system. Which actually strengthens your point.
[09:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:35] <exec> 08└─I have couple robots in my house. They are fucking great.
[09:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:11] <exec> 08└─Suppose you put California's coastal counties in one state, and then made separate states out of all the non-coastal counties. That would be a huge number of republican senators. Most of California is actually republican. The coast controls everything due to population density. The non-coast is piss...
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[09:11:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe they need a compromise where each new state has to come in with another on the other side of the political divide, as in, one red and one blue. Dividing California in half would do that, with the red half balancing the blue Puerto Rico.
[09:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:31] <exec> 08└─"I've gone 17 or 18 years without hitting anything. " Luck does not equal skill. If you truly drive like you say, it is only luck keeping you semi-safe. (I was a professional truck driver trainer and amateur circle track and drag racer at my local tracks. Your driving stories sound like a 17 year ol...
[09:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:32] <exec> 08└─Part of the street has houses with lawns. There is seldom much near the road. Cars are not parked along the road. There are no bushes near the road. Visibility is great. Part of the street has fenced backyards on one side, with 20 feet of flat sand and grass between that and the road. On the other s...
[09:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:34] <exec> 08└─It sounds more like an odd defect or misprogramming of some kind than a conspiracy, especially since they fixed it when you pointed it out.
[09:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:37] <exec> 08└─If you are married, you have a person who would hopefully miss you if you didn't come home. This changes how much risk you are willing to take. If you are married, you probably have a need for more groceries and other stuff. Carrying it becomes infeasible. If you are married, you are probably older....
[09:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:47] <exec> 08└─Yes that means it is better if we don't make laws against profiteering, gouging, scalping, etc.
[09:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:54] <exec> 08└─Well, I really didn't mean to direct it at you. It's frustration at drivers in NYC who honk when the person in front of them doesn't floor it when the light turns green, or who honk at drivers who have the audacity to not run down pedestrians in a cross walk when trying to turn, etc. I, like you, am...
[09:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:10] <exec> 08└─If the gravitational waves from stellar black hole mergers could cause a detector a billion light years away to stretch and shrink by a fraction of an atom's length, what sort of stretching and shrinking do you suppose an observer very close to the merger would experience?
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[10:10:10] <exec> 08└─R.I.P. Miwa Sado. Me は sad よ!
[10:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:25] <exec> 08└─...focus on making art and music, and coming up with innovative ideas. Those are the only things a relatively small group of humans are good at.
[10:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:42] <exec> 08└─It was a prophecy.
[10:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:43] <exec> 08└─... but where there has been strong property rights and capitalism on which the parasite known as government has been able to grow in correlation—it is not the case that a well nourished parasite is the cause of its host's improvement.
[10:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bolek_b [1460] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder why the parent was modded "Troll" when all it does is state the facts. Phrase "democratic deficit" is being mentioned even in official circles. In recent years we could witness a lot of examples where rules and laws were violated (or their violation had been overlooked) by EU. To name one,...
[10:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:23] <exec> 08└─The trade union thing is a very english view of Europe. For the (at least the western) continentals, the EU is foremost a political union designed to prevent any more wars, based on the experiences of the world wars which saw widespread destruction and death all across the continent (and islands). P...
[10:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:25] <exec> 08└─Jeremy Corbyn is not a "near-Marxist". This is hyperbole and scaremongering used by an establishment that are desperate to discredit him because they can't bare to accept anything that might impact their bottom line. He has some moderately left wing policies that are all carefully costed and to fund...
[10:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:47] <exec> 08└─I swear every time I visit S/N I'm seeing red.
[10:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:49] <exec> 08└─Oh c'mon, it's so over the top how can you not have fun with it? I'm an environmentalist. I've been a member of the Sierra Club since college. I know renewable is the future. Climate change is occurring and we're causing it. I'm even a fan of cycling and think we should do far more of that than we d...
[10:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:51] <exec> 08└─At least in the UK a lot of cyclists are also car users so they do actually pay for the road infrastructure and cycling causes virtually no wear on roads whatsoever. A lot of London's problems are due to a road layout occurring before the advent of mass motorised transport. There is no big multi-lan...
[10:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:53] <exec> 08└─It's familiarity with the road, familiarity with the car, and paranoid alertness for anything out of the ordinary. I only drive my commute like that. Elsewhere, the worst is much more mundane speeding. I'm not out there cutting off truck drivers or street racing. It took a couple years before I unde...
[10:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 1571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:55] <exec> 08└─We can only guess how many traffic lights are "political lights", purposefully mistimed, to delay traffic, but it's probably more than you think. The blatant one is the traffic light that instantly turns green for the entrance to the highly exclusive golf course where only the wealthiest people play...
[10:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:43] <exec> 08└─Do they also offer diplomas in how to make and throw paper airplanes or tying your own shoelaces?
[10:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:45] <exec> 08└─Outsourced, automated, falling out of fashion, all 3, etc.
[10:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:11] <exec> 08└─and that is a mathematical certainty.
[10:15:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:37] <exec> 08└─There seems to be some confusion resulting from a Bloomberg false & clickbait headline: False: TFHeadline: FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient
[10:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:38] <exec> 08└─Shaka, when the walls fell. Mirab, with sails unfurled...
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[11:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:34] <exec> 08└─The part about the NSA contractor's unauthorized (and patently stupid) actions is one thing. There are facts to be scrutinized here. OTOH, blaming Kaspersky because, you know, Russians are Teh Evilz, is just pushing a worn-out narrative with no more evidence than back-fence gossip without proof. TFA...
[11:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:35] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Kaspersky has offered to provide their source code to .gov for analysis.
[11:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:38] <exec> 08└─Um...there's this checksum thing ya know.
[11:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases 8th-Generation "Coffee Lake" CPUs, Including Quad-Core i3 Chips - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:45] <exec> 08└─As much as I like being spied on...
[11:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:31] <exec> 08└─For the (at least the western) continentals, the EU is foremost a political union designed to prevent any more wars, based on the experiences of the world wars which saw widespread destruction and death all across the continent (and islands).
[11:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 2152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:32] <exec> 08└─The problems with the EU go deeper than that. But they are simply the well-known problems of any large government: larger governments are more remote governments, and are no longer responsive to the actual needs and wishes of their citizens. Sure, the EU Commission regularly makes pretty horrible pr...
[11:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:34] <exec> 08└─The old Common Market system didn't have a unified currency, and free trade and movement of labor between member states.
[11:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:37] <exec> 08└─The reality is that over the past 30 years Britain has been dragged further and further to the right to the extent that social benefits, health care and public transport are pretty much broken and getting progressively worse.
[11:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:03] <exec> 08└─Oh c'mon
[11:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:04] <exec> 08└─+1 that's so unfair.
[11:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:06] <exec> 08└─But my cycling budget is my exercise budget!
[11:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:08] <exec> 08└─Title insurance?
[11:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─And that "transparency in the market", how would it work? Should the government make laws for it? Would that be interfering in the market? Will the market reach any equilibrium in the amount of transparency by being "more free and open"? You seem like a reasonable guy. I'm sure you can infer my gene...
[11:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:58] <exec> 08└─Corporations are the best known example of quantum superposition observable at macro scale.
[11:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:43] <exec> 08└─Several things are wrong with this argument: Unless you want to memory-map the Internet, your address size doesn't really matter for this kind of computation. Routing decisions don't care about the size of the address, they care about the size of the network part of the address, which in IPv6 is usu...
[11:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:45] <exec> 08└─The only people I've worked with who are even starting to think about 64 bits not being enough, in a practical sense, are the HP guys working on The Machine. They're looking at a single address space OS, with all persistent storage directly addressable. 64 bits gives you 'only' 16EiB. That's far mor...
[11:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:47] <exec> 08└─Even with The Machine, a single machine with 16 exabytes of storage is quite a few years off. Maybe not 16, but at least 5-10. The HP folk are the only people I work with who are serious about 56 bits not being enough, most people are fine with 48 (and most JavaScript implementations, for example, a...
[11:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:35] <exec> 08└─You really don't grok snark, do you? I'm not going to explain it completely but let me put your feet on the path of wisdom at least: it's less important that it be utterly logical than it is that it convey your displeasure with the target.
[11:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:36] <exec> 08└─You mean the public infrastructure that you paid taxes to create and use, thus owe nothing either fiscally or morally for?
[11:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:38] <exec> 08└─Infrastructure requires maintenance. ...and a Capitalist that doesn't believe in growth and expansion and upgrades?? Sounds like some kind of commie. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─I remember Slashdot fondly as it was the go-to source for technology news. However, I also remember the acquisition by Dice... Cheers SoylentNews!
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─From near the end: Today I don’t know a single person who has anything to do with the thing that was at the center of my life for 15 years.
[12:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:47] <exec> 08└─Yep. Next thing, they'll be saying don't use Kaspersky: use MS anti virus. And Windows. Always windows. Isn't that right, God....errrr, Mr Gates. I. Don't. Trust. The. Governments. Anymore!
[12:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:48] <exec> 08└─I. Don't. Trust. The. Governments. Anymore!
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:50] <exec> 08└─And?
[12:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:06] <exec> 08└─A journalist who needed an engaging lead in assumed...
[12:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:33] <exec> 08└─I really liked what I did, I was well paid and it was a challenge - what more do you need at 30-ies. It wasn't like it was going to keep forever.
[12:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:34] <exec> 08└─So will working yourself to death now be known as Sado masochism?
[12:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:37] <exec> 08└─Old saying, Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Bony fingers.
[12:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:39] <exec> 08└─The answer is more staplers!
[12:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:12] <exec> 08└─> Human decision-making causes tens of thousands of deaths on US roads every year You have this upside down. Human decision making works extremely well for driving. While any deaths are very unfortunate, the system is really, really huge -- roughly 3 trillion miles driven per year in USA. And nearly...
[12:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:13] <exec> 08└─What happens when the get a robot to manage your robot. And a robot to manage IT. And a robot to manage IT. And a robot to.......
[12:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:16] <exec> 08└─And THEY'VE got milk! Man milk. :-/
[12:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:01] <exec> 08└─UK is similar - back in the days of the common market we used to be able to travel through most of europe (this side of iron curtain obviously) with only a British Visitors Passport, which you could pick up while-you-wait at any local post office for a fiver. Now, post Schengen, we have to have a fu...
[12:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:02] <exec> 08└─Last I checked welfare is capped around the national average wage while many people with dependants earn below this.
[12:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:04] <exec> 08└─UK citizens don't need passports to travel to EU countries. Any member of an EU country may travel through any other EU country using only their national ID (which is indeed required).
[12:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:26] <exec> 08└─i=Cynical++;
[12:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:01] <exec> 08└─Oblig. Ted, the lever! The lever just came off. We're still at worp. Try another lever. There are no more levers, just switches. - No buttons? - Just switches, lights and knobs. Cut the bleeding-heart crap. We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. Down here, there are hun...
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[12:17:17] <exec> 08└─You might want to look at Sun's MAJC architecture, which had a single register file that could be used for different types (integer, floating point, vector) depending on the instructions. More practically, architectural registers are a fiction on modern CPUs. The hardware has a lot more physical reg...
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[12:18:09] <exec> 08└─Infrastructure requires maintenance.
[12:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:27] <exec> 08└─Ah, but it isn't just a single displacement. It's running at 35 to 250 Hz, and over a somewhat extended period of time. If every cell in your body was vibrating with an amplitude of 0.1 µm at a frequency of 250 Hz over several hours or days, I can imagine that it could eventually cause more than a...
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[13:09:28] <exec> 08└─They're doing both, but with scaling factors: 1) Economic prudence: 90%. 2) Putting their money where their mouth is: 10%. We have to remember that Churches are, first and foremost, businesses in a never ending search for more political power. The notion of Faith is simply the oil that keep the reve...
[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:29] <exec> 08└─An alternative title: Catholic Church loses faith in fossil fuel and votes with its wallet.
[13:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:39] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that slashdot and indeed all of human life was nothing without cowboyneal.
[13:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HyperQuantum [2673] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:41] <exec> 08└─...and the site still doesn't support Unicode. They could learn a few things from SoylentNews. Meanwhile, I visit both Slashdot and SoylentNews regularly, but still prefer Slashdot (sorry guys). The reason? Slashdot has lots of comments in most stories. Most of the time when I see an interesting sto...
[13:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─It's always painful to see your children grow up. They never quite go the way you think they should. And yet, if they didn't grow beyond your control they wouldn't be worth creating in the first place.
[13:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:46] <exec> 08└─Naked and petrified. With hot grits down her pants.
[13:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, comment count. A start would be that you comment more too? That will add to the count. The site is made by its users, so get commenting ;-)
[13:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:50] <exec> 08└─I don't blame you there. They have a much larger pool of people visiting the site to draw different kinds of comments from, so they're much more likely to have a good discussion on a very technical physics story, for example. I console myself with the fact that we have a much more engaged community....
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─I think it's just the times, back in '97 things where exciting you could still do things without millions of dollars run from a server under you desk, hardware was cooler and more interesting and things felt like they were going forward not backwards, most IT where not jocko engineering types and wh...
[13:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty Yesterday (October 5th) - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:55] <exec> 08└─I was on /. early enough, 1999-ish probably. The term "slashdotting" was a thing, essentially an online flashmob overwhelming most websites that were linked by a /. article. Unlike /. itself, most sites weren't really built for scale. This showed especially on 9/11, when pretty much every news site...
[13:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:08] <exec> 08└─Um...there's this collision thing ya know.
[13:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the styling suggestion, sounds better indeed. But... If we'd be speaking of a single journalist, I wouldn't mind. Trouble is I'm seeing it frequently enough lately to make a blanket generalization and apologize in the rare cases I'm wrong.
[13:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:26] <exec> 08└─Well, according to the summary, one of them is Jay Melosh, a professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at Purdue University, who led the study.
[13:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:56] <exec> 08└─If that's what you get, it shows you didn't work enough. So: "Long live the American Dream" (aka dust in your eyes, otherwise business as usual) vs MAGA [vice.com] The linked - a fair YMMV warning is in order [Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and...
[13:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:34] <exec> 08└─what you wrote: > I have a couple what you meant? I have a pair
[13:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:35] <exec> 08└─My job is to manage a manufacturing robot (5 axis CNC mill). I'm also saving up to buy my own.
[13:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:37] <exec> 08└─And for each of those Pluto round trips, you could have gone to the moon 13458 times. http://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha.com]
[13:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:25] <exec> 08└─There are many severely disabled people also being denied benefits due to unrealistic assessments of their ability to do useful work.
[13:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:27] <exec> 08└─> No such options for the anti-login crowd AFAIK. I know. tastes bad,right? A little innovation like a '-politics' in the url would fix that. that'd be a technical matter which could be understood as having inherent merit, i'd render it so that you '[+-=]section' would work so as to be 'fair to the...
[13:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:29] <exec> 08└─So the dirt gets to vote? I thought it was people who voted. Such nonsense! You think that largely uninhabited areas should have MORE say than the ones where the people live? Your argument is typical Republican claptrap, a loser's argument to find some way to be in the right. California is OVERWHELM...
[13:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:31] <exec> 08└─Sacrificing one of the largest states and probably the one with the biggest economy to allow in a tiny speck of a ruined island as a state makes NO SENSE AT ALL.
[13:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:33] <exec> 08└─You can go too small. I would explain why (defense, natural resources, foreign policy), but it would be wasted on you.
[13:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:04] <exec> 08└─That's quite an achievement, but as an advanced shade-tree mechanic, I'd rather replace brake pads than clutches. I know you said "double-clutch" but it's still got to wear the clutch more than just leaving it in gear, right?
[13:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:06] <exec> 08└─Get the WRX and some life insurance. The kid will be fine.
[13:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:01] <exec> 08└─I got the panels and cabling for them off of EBay on an as-needed basis, and I had the most of the components for the power conversion and so forth here already. I picked up the ultracaps surplus. Lots of that on EBay as well. I built all the mounts and other physical infrastructure (in fact, I buil...
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[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:40] <exec> 08└─As Christians, we believe that "good is good, and bad is bad". Anything else is the sophistry of the devil. So, if you invest ethically, you will get a better return. Maybe not now, maybe not in the next quarter, but, from the point of view of an organisation almost 2,000 years old, next quarter is...
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─I'm just waiting for the US right-wingers to start complaining about those Vatican liberals. Again.
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right. Good is good and bad is bad. Uh, but hey. One of those thing you say is good, which by the first rule of tautology club is good, is definitely bad, which, again, by the first rule of tautology club is bad. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's not just bad but downright evil. If I h...
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─I don't think you'll need to wait for long. It should be fairly quick. Protestants don't believe Catholics are Christian. Of course they're going to say that the Vatican is doing this at the devil's command.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─...whose abusers the Catholic church protects and allows to walk free.
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─Will the church be moving away from sodomizing choir boys with petroleum based lubricants as well?
[14:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DBCubix [553] 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:59] <exec> 08└─I remember Slashdot fondly as it was the go-to source for technology news. However, I also remember the acquisition by Dice... Cheers SoylentNews!
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─I remember where I was working when I found it. I fondly remember the slashdotting effect, it was amazing how many sites couldn't handle extra traffic without crashing.
[14:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder what happened to all those people leaving Slashdot because of the beta thing. Where did they go?
[14:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─Part of the saving grace of The Great Exodus is that we attracted a lot of the passionate and engaged people who resented what /. had become. Many of us were core posters. I, for one, continue to boycott Slashdot, even after Beta was quietly shelved (notice how none of their stories ever mentioned t...
[14:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:17] <exec> 08└─That human-looking animal is a jewess!
[14:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:19] <exec> 08└─I can't figure out if I should mod this up or down. Nor can I think of a bad car analogy. Something something series of tubes for carrying CowboyNeal.
[14:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:21] <exec> 08└─SN has very bad moderating. Try mentioning the jews (without accusing them of anything whatsoever, even though they are very guilty of every crime that could possible exist)... Here come the troll mods, and they all come from JIDF. Amazingly, very few non-jews try to fix the JIDF issues.
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
[14:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:26] <exec> 08└─Actually, while I came to SN due to Beta, I appreciate that the amount of comments here is still manageable, while on Slashdot there are simply too many for my taste. Especially given the average quality of comment there; if removing all low-quality comments from both sites, I'd not be surprised if...
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:28] <exec> 08└─On SN I get 10 mod points every day. Nuff said.
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─That explains it. I knew I had a low-UID Slashdot account, but I had stopped reading it for a while. When I came back, much later, I could never find my account, so wound up creating a new one. I never heard about the lost user data, so TFS resolves a long-standing mystery... Ah, the days of the /.-...
[14:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:33] <exec> 08└─Here's a bullet I'll dodge for sure!
[14:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:06] <exec> 08└─There is an EU regulation concerning cucumbers
[14:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─So your argument against the EU is based on a former regulation that was introduced before the EU existed, and that was removed by the EU. Great argument.
[14:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:18] <exec> 08└─As much as people like to beat up on Libertarians and small government people by using Somalia as an example it turns out that in fact no government was better [peterleeson.com] than what they had. When a number of metrics used to judge how a country is doing improve when a government collapses mayb...
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[15:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─Question is: will they shelf "Aristarchus" next? You know? It wouldn't be [soylentnews.org] the first time [soylentnews.org]
[15:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─Will the church be moving away from sodomizing choir boys with petroleum based lubricants as well?
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─Will the church be moving away from sodomizing choir boys with petroleum based lubricants as well?
[15:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─I'm a protestant, in theory anyway, and this has to be the first pope in my memory that I actually approve of. I always wondered how traditional right wing conservatives could gut the EPA and cry foul about environmenal protections while claiming to be part of a religion that states we are the stewa...
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─Conservatives and true liberals will simply point out the the Vatican are spouting UN Agenda 2030 [un.org] buzzwords. Global socialism, coming soon to a mass grave near you!
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─You're shilling for an organization worth billions of dollars, responsible for the covering up the worst crimes against children of the last two centuries, and I'm the one on the payroll? How many trees does the Pope have to talk about planting for you to give the church a pass for each abuse? Two?...
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─what was wrong with JP-II?
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─He didn't talk about the environment enough while helping pedophiles get away with their crimes. This pope does.
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─I'm Protestant, professing Presbyterian but attended many services at Lutheran, Episcopalian, Baptist, Assemblies of God, and Methodist churches. I've never heard pastors or deacons or lay people in any of those places claim or hint that Catholics aren't Christians. In fact all of them say the Apost...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─I like this current Pope. I do believe he is a servant of Christ. His comportment, his actions, have been consistent with somebody who's trying to walk humbly before the Lord. I hope he lives to 150. There is a lot to make up for. The child sexual abuse is a horrid episode, but it's only the latest...
[15:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:32] <exec> 08└─I remember when the Slashdot web site was usable on many different browsers on many different platforms, including much older and obscure ones (Amiga, BeOS, OS/2, and so on). And being a site for nerds, that was cool and even supported. But looking at the site now it seems to require a fairly recent...
[15:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:33] <exec> 08└─I'd been a longtime Slashdot user; I think I started following the site in early '98 and waited a good while before finally registering for a UID (over there, I was in the high 5-digit range). Beta was my main impetus for coming here - it just looked like complete crap on whatever browser I tried. I...
[15:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:35] <exec> 08└─I'm sure some servers are still traumatized today.
[15:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:37] <exec> 08└─I remember trying to read /.'s mobile version on my Android phone and saw a bunch of porn adverts, not cool for a father of 3 daughters. Also the goatse links that kept showing up moved me away.
[15:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:39] <exec> 08└─I guess the best word is "petrified."
[15:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:54] <exec> 08└─Lax contractor? Lax?! He put classified "cyber weapons" on his personal internet connected (24/7) windows machine. That wasn't lax. That was criminal.
[15:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:14] <exec> 08└─Now it should be. "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's orthopyroxene?" With apologies to Warren and Brooks [wikipedia.org].
[15:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:15] <exec> 08└─I thought it was. Isn't it why the US moon rocks have the same composition as Earth rocks? Just asking...
[15:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:48] <exec> 08└─Not every work is the same. Some work can be much more stressful than other. Personally I find things more stressful when there are many uncertainties that determine if all the work will be successful (and get judged by my boss based on the success, not the amount of work performed). That's differen...
[15:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:29] <exec> 08└─I believe your ideas for ideal human society were spelled out in a novel called The Time Machine, but replacing the cannibalistic Morlocks with robots. The question then is: is becoming Eloi really all we ultimately want for ourselves as a species?
[15:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:30] <exec> 08└─Humans are the problem when they're in a position to cause significant destruction, such as when behind the wheel in a 2-ton high-speed vehicle. Humans aren't a big problem when they're just walking around, riding a train, sitting down somewhere, etc.
[15:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:32] <exec> 08└─This is hardly surprising. Automation benefits exactly one class of people: The ones doing the automating. Yes, it results in less errors when performing boring repetitive tasks, and for a lot of work it totally makes sense. But the average consumer doesn't see that. What DOES the average consumer s...
[15:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:35] <exec> 08└─I can only assume that you are already wealthy then, and can survive on what you have for the rest of your life without doing any work.
[15:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:37] <exec> 08└─Sure, why not? Besides, if you replace the cannibalistic Morlocks with robots, then you eliminate the cannibalism problem, and the Eloi are free to live lives of bliss without any worry at all. I really don't see the problem here. Seriously: why would you want a life where you still have to spend yo...
[15:13:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 1131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:16] <exec> 08└─The trade union thing is a very english view of Europe. For the (at least the western) continentals, the EU is foremost a political union designed to prevent any more wars, based on the experiences of the world wars which saw widespread destruction and death all across the continent (and islands). P...
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─Pretty much everything e.g. Jean-Claude Juncker says or does stems from that premise, it's most important to stay in discussions than to utterly alienate people that don't share the fundamental values
[15:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─I am glad that in trying to keep the EU from acting like occupation Germany he is supporting the Spanish police beating people for doing something "illegal".
[15:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:36] <exec> 08└─The countries you mentioned have only recently threw off the shackles of oppression and are expressing sovereignty, why would they want to immediately jump back into a pool with people far away from them telling them what to do?
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:38] <exec> 08└─Most of those people, if they despised western civilization, they would have just stayed at home. It would have been much easier. If you'd rather risk your and your family's life than stay in an islamo-fascist warzone, then there are (in general) reasons for that; i.e. maybe the risks for your famil...
[15:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:12] <exec> 08└─"since cloth diapers." Well that's your problem right there. A little diaper cream will set you right. As for the rest, it's good to laugh at goofiness. That's been one good thing about living in Brooklyn: people don't hold back. Where I grew up in the West, where people say they hate PC, they were...
[15:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:29] <exec> 08└─No, it was an information theory proof that no single leader, central committee or even hyperintelligent AI governing an entity the size of a modern nation state could possibly have enough up to date information to adequately plan if it is operating within the constraints of this universe and dealin...
[15:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. I'm not an anarchist. There are things government is the best solution to at our current social tech level. Maintaining Rule of Law and maintaining a monopoly on the legitimate use of force are the primary domestic duties. That encompasses promoting standards to simplify trade, from basic weigh...
[15:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:08] <exec> 08└─Red is commonly used only for corporate losses.
[15:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:09] <exec> 08└─It's a little too late for that now. An investigation isn't going to result in anything more than the media storm that's already happening (and potentially find other violations like the FDA found with the "how cute, love on the ingredients list" company). Clearly there are other, better-funded prio...
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[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─oh don't goad the troll into being trollish. it just makes you look like a troll.
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─it would read them bedtime stories, soothe them if they cried in the night, and even teach them their ABCs.
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─It's not literally shitty, until that first time it doesn't stop with the f--ing ABCs while you're trying to calm baby after changing a bad diaper and getting soaked in semi-digested milk. Hey Mattel, free idea for you: intelligent punching bag, or intelligent soft projectile, for colicky children's...
[16:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:43] <exec> 08└─Who's more trollish, the troll or the troll who trolls the trolling troll?
[16:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─What an idiotic list of priorities.
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─I kind of expect a lot of large groups that are currently invested into fossil fuels to invest in other forms of energy now that the whole "if you don't you are the devil" thing is dying down a bit. As humans we tend to dig in when someone says we are the devil even if it is in our worst interest. H...
[16:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─From what I understand (and please prove me wrong if you can, as I would welcome the news), RCC does not actually disclose how it invests its money, nor does it disclose how it spends the money. So they can't really substantiate these kinds of claims, they are pure PR, and most likely just lies. It...
[16:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─It took me a minute to figure out why this story was actually even news. But an organization that is so large and so powerful and influential that it has some affect on everyone's lives, even those that don't subscribe to their nonsense, that makes such large changes where it makes investments or ot...
[16:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:16] <exec> 08└─Ah ok. Christian Reformed, Reformed Church of America, and Christian Identity here. Latter one says that even Protestants aren't Christian. Christian Identity filled me with so much disgust that my personal opinion is that Yahweh is a being of unfathomable evil. Fortunately, such horrors probably do...
[16:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:48] <exec> 08└─Speaking for myself as an AC, I still view both. However, I only really post to SN now. It seems like my comments to /. just strangely vanish all the time (maybe because of modding?), whereas occasionally I'll have comments here drift to +3 to +5. I've even had some submitted articles posted. If I h...
[16:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:50] <exec> 08└─Most of them migrated to Reddit or twitter or other sites. If you look at slashdot comment counts, there used to be a period where you'd get thousands of comments on really popular articles, but they've been hovering around 300 for the majority for a number of years now. I think the Slashdot peak wa...
[16:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:52] <exec> 08└─Politics is pretty much always going to be Flamebait nowadays since everyone seems to be utterly against rational discourse and compromise. At least the bits particularly relevant to us as a community still need to be covered though.
[16:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:54] <exec> 08└─Like many others I spent a lot of time on Slashdot back in the day but when BETA came along and revealed the staggering disregard Dice had for the community they had bought I'd had enough. So pleased that Soylent is working out so well. It still has the feel of a smaller community but I still think...
[16:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:56] <exec> 08└─Wait, was it the Jewish Internet Defense Force or the Internet Defense Force of Judea?
[16:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 2859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:59] <exec> 08└─I found Slashdot very early as well. I think it had been around less than a year at that time. I had a 4-digit UID. That site played an important role in my life then. It was a community of fellow geeks who were a grab-bag of crazy weird but really smart. The college I attended had a lot of really s...
[16:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:01] <exec> 08└─"Petrified" may be a good word for it. After the Beta revolt, how much did the owners think they could change the code? They don't understand that geeks aren't looking for the shiny, new video support and stupid, lots-of-blank-space JS/CSS3 trends. We value functionality improvements like Unicode su...
[16:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:03] <exec> 08└─Slashdot/Soylent are good news aggregation sites with discussions, but really most people today prefer their 'safe spaces' whether politically right, or left, or just subculture elitist pricks who don't want to deal with people outside it.
[16:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:05] <exec> 08└─By now the Slashdot effect is an old legend passed down to servers from generations past. Most of them have never seen it themselves. Only intentional DDOS attacks can do that now.
[16:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:08] <exec> 08└─> Kick out everyone. Drive them to quit with constantly shitty behavior instead. You save on layoff packages, and the soul-sucking result is the same.
[16:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:23] <exec> 08└─I. Don't. Trust. The. Governments. Anymore!
[16:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:24] <exec> 08└─It's beyond doubt that the NSA, CIA and all the other 5 eyes crap spy on everyone's communication and data without any discretion or oversight whatsoever. Even if Kaspersky software would upload to the Russian government, I don't see any reason not to use it to protect your computer from malware. Ma...
[16:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:26] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. They're sitting here trying to blame Kaspersky for the fact that one of their own damn contractors stole these documents. That laptop could have been stolen by a gang breaking into his car; it could have been leaked by any old malware; he could have emailed them to the press him...
[16:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases 8th-Generation "Coffee Lake" CPUs, Including Quad-Core i3 Chips - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:36] <exec> 08└─As Kaspersky has of not letting the Russians know when they detect malware and sending them a sample :)
[16:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases 8th-Generation "Coffee Lake" CPUs, Including Quad-Core i3 Chips - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:38] <exec> 08└─I would not expect that ME option rom (that is required) to disappear any time soon. The new stuff will always have it. The more invasive stuff is in the best chips; vpro and other such features. In many cases, prior to installation of one of the mainstream OSes that support it, you can sometimes di...
[16:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:51] <exec> 08└─That's one of the prevalent theories, yes. Proto-Earth and Theia collide to make Earth and Luna. http://nautil.us [nautil.us]
[16:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:26] <exec> 08└─It's an old word, named after the Diet of Worms.
[16:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:27] <exec> 08└─Speaking of "House of Representatives", I read something weird the other day on the Guardian: That Puerto Rico has a person in the US House of Representatives, but that person is not allowed to represent them (i.e. I mean has no power to vote). Is'nt that odd?
[16:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:29] <exec> 08└─My boss must be an undercover Japanese spy disguised as a tall Irish-descent Californian...
[16:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nekomata [5432] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:14] <exec> 08└─Having a lot of robots managing IT seems about right ... Not so much different from now!
[16:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:16] <exec> 08└─My father-in-law got something like this: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] - Seems to have worked pretty good for him.
[16:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:18] <exec> 08└─I gave up on trying to have one clean the litter box though, that is impossible in this universe. No, it's not. You're looking at crappy litter boxes. You need to get a "Litter-Robot" (v3). It's expensive as hell, but it really does work well. For shits and giggles, there's a shitty automated litter...
[16:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:51] <exec> 08└─Especially if you do it on US roads. You may never had time to get a health bill, before your family goes casket-shopping.
[16:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 2532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:09] <exec> 08└─What do you value? For example if we allowed "gouging" before and after a hurricane, and everyone KNEW it would be the normal situation, prices would go up but so would availability of goods. Do you think this is better or worse? Example: Hotels are forbidden from raising their prices. What happens?...
[16:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:10] <exec> 08└─You think the only possible alternatives are central planning socialism as totally unregulated markets? Think again. The claim I responded to wasn't that markets work better than socialism; the claim was that a completely unregulated free market (something different from the free markets we currentl...
[16:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─Some comedian in the past proposed suction-cup darts to mark assholes. If you have enough darts on your car, the cops can stop you and write a ticket. With modern tech, darts could work because you could tag them with the time and location. (yes, I know about the physics. I keep my car dirty just to...
[16:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks; learned something new today.
[16:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:54] <exec> 08└─Ah, but it isn't just a single displacement. It's running at 35 to 250 Hz, and over a somewhat extended period of time. If every cell in your body was vibrating with an amplitude of 0.1 µm
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[17:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, more or less expensive than copper... assuming it works.
[17:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─Or wood? A few years ago there were headlines about research on bacteria growth on wooden cutting boards. There wasn't any. The bugs died almost immediately.
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:51] <exec> 08└─Mattel will not sell an all-in-one voice-controlled smart hub / baby monitor, setting back the state of parenting by decades or even millennia:
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─This Mattel thing would have made raising my kidnapped babies much easier. Shame on you Mattel for bowing to the pressure!
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─You need to learn how to detect and process humor and sarcasm.
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─The more important thing here is, someone had enough sense to protest the stupid idea. Amazing - someone, somewhere, understands that grabbing the latest, greatest shiny bauble might put your family at risk. We need more protestors to speak up against the craze "internet of things".
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─I get the distinct feeling that the committee that designed this product included absolutely nobody who raised a baby before. Guess what? There's no machine in existence that successfully mimics a parent holding a baby close to their chest. Even another human holding the baby close to their chest do...
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:28] <exec> 08└─Haha no this is not a troll, the bible was heavily influenced by politics and money. For fuck's sake there is a King James Bible that people reference!! Oh right, the true and rightful King chosen by God himself *ahem* Sorry if you're just finding out that religions are just big cults with tons of u...
[17:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:30] <exec> 08└─You can have "Rightful King Chosen by God" or you can have "libertarian dystopia", choose wisely!
[17:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─"It's a very different animal from what the church was when the gnostics were still running around." Nope, it's the very same monster that exterminated the early Christians while appropriating their identity.
[17:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─Would I be right in guess Baptist? Funny thing is the most sanctimonious Baptists I knew were an ex-girlfriends parents, who even did classes at the church. They'd both been divorced, and probably had premarital sex if not adultery, given when a sibling was born. Yet somehow they had the gall to jud...
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─I'm Protestant, professing Presbyterian but attended many services at Lutheran, Episcopalian, Baptist, Assemblies of God, and Methodist churches. I've never heard pastors or deacons or lay people in any of those places claim or hint that Catholics aren't Christians.
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─Green = good indeed. It has been over used by marketing departments for decades now, but the underlying truth it the same. Nice strawman with the solar panel resource cost, "it takes burning oil to create solar panels, so lets just burn oil forever!" Make a solar powered solar panel factory, maybe a...
[17:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:41] <exec> 08└─The opposite of "sustainable" is "not sustainable". There's no other way to put this. The Roman Catholic Church is a very conservative institute, i.e. they'd like things to stay as they are. The expression "as they are" depends on the time stretch that you use to define it. The 100-150 years of the...
[17:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's a regional predilection, then, or characteristic of sects I don't have experience with. There are lots of flavors of Protestants. Individual churches can vary quite a bit within the same denomination. So it's not really possible to say "Protestants are this, or that." Catholic churches se...
[17:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:27] <exec> 08└─> everyone seems to be utterly against rational discourse and compromise You're so fucking wrong about this that I won't even start explaining how retarded you are!
[17:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:28] <exec> 08└─I don't remember if he was there in the early days or more the mid '00s, but he provided lots of insight into cases that Perens didn't really get into. Don't remember all the other nicks, but there were a number of people in the tech or gaming industry, a few even higher up, who would occasionally p...
[17:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:30] <exec> 08└─I had kind of remember him having written it off before that point. Dice was the 3rd owner in however many years at that point. I remember not a whole lot of communication from him at that point. I think RobLimo or somebody was the main contact at that point, plus all the shitty staff that kept post...
[17:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:32] <exec> 08└─If there were still links to goatse then you left during the best years.
[17:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:35] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia, Beowulf clusters imagine YOU … naked and petrified ;-)
[17:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:37] <exec> 08└─The basic problem is that as the net went commercial, politics came along for the ride (have to protect those monied interests after all) and things turned crap afterwards. On top of that the 90s ended and with it the ISA zoo, with its Sparcs and Alphas and whatsnot. Now there is x86 on the desktop...
[17:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:39] <exec> 08└─Effectively the web became a new terminal. One that chews JS and spits out pretty pictures. HTML, once the bedrock of the web, has been relegated to a bunch of div tags that JS and CSS can latch on to. Just watch the likes of Google and Mozilla go back and forth about who has the best performing JS...
[17:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─yeah, just like the opm hack wasn't even a hack. it was our own government who outsourced the shit to the chinese then claimed "hack" when they copy pasted. the opm person who hired the chinese company probably did it on purpose. now these disgustingly stupid (or treasonous) pieces of shit put sensi...
[17:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:59] <exec> 08└─I'm astonished that the most elite hackers at the NSA run windows on their home work machines.
[17:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases 8th-Generation "Coffee Lake" CPUs, Including Quad-Core i3 Chips - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:10] <exec> 08└─Looking at buying more high-performance PCs for work. The 8700K thread performance looks nice (missing the quad-channel DDR), but the friggin' TIM-instead-of-solder just aggravates me. The die runs hot, because Intel saves pennies on a $350 bucks part advertised for overclocking and (reasonable) ent...
[17:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases 8th-Generation "Coffee Lake" CPUs, Including Quad-Core i3 Chips - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:11] <exec> 08└─yeah, i'm not buying any new stuff from either of these whores of the surveillance state. eventually i may buy used from ebay. if everyone would just boycott their current lines they would instantly remove it. you don't have to swear off all modern CPUs, just don't buy when they want you to. unfortu...
[17:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases 8th-Generation "Coffee Lake" CPUs, Including Quad-Core i3 Chips - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:13] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't have an intentional backdoor it probably has an unintentional one: https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[17:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:04] <exec> 08└─it also depends on whether you sit on your ass all day or not. your cardio goes to hell in a hand basket pretty quick so if you add stress to that, it could get bad.
[17:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:06] <exec> 08└─D.C. has the same. Their rep is Eleanor Holmes Norton.
[17:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:08] <exec> 08└─No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re lazy, you won’t have to.
[17:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:11] <exec> 08└─Irish... [youtube.com]
[17:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:13] <exec> 08└─It's amusing (in a wry, bitter, wrist-slitting sort of way) that Obama sold his candidacy on Hope! and Change! And a healthy helping of Si, se puede! but the actual sum of what he achieved had basically nothing to do with his electoral platform. Granted, his electoral platform was fuzzy, and when it...
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:02] <exec> 08└─Is that a reference to the story about the village idiot saving to buy his own cannon?
[17:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:04] <exec> 08└─Your assertion needs proof. It has been asserted that MOST humans are decent at creating music, if taught and inspired to do so. The fact that a only a few are "needed" at any one time given technological reproduction of their works is not evidence against this argument. And quite clearly some of th...
[17:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─If you let Puerto Rico get too ruined, the 3.4 million AMERICAN CITIZENS within will flood into the mainland, maybe change a couple states to Democrat. No amount of chucked paper towels can stop it.
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:05] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a better solution than JavaScript + a cookie. I'll make a feature request for it later.
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:07] <exec> 08└─If we're granting statehood to incompetently managed, corrupt islands, Puerto Rico should be inducted with Guam as the 51st and 52nd states.
[17:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─they are NWO scum. that is what is going on. only the stupidest of fucks would believe a bunch of un-elected leeches could save them.
[17:15:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:41] <exec> 08└─> As a general rule, bikes cost about 1/10th what a car does. That's a terrible "general rule". While only poor people want to use my heavy $70 bike, you can get a decent one for $200, and a good one for under $500. That's not anywhere near a tenth of a new car. > I am sure that applies to tire and...
[17:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:45] <exec> 08└─How else do you get the timing right? Uhh you go slow over the speed bumps. I hope you break your van too.
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[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─Teaching to the test, doesn't teach problem solving. You're pretty bad off, if you have no idea how to wash the dishes.
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─Considering that is a skill most people learn from their parents. I would say the parents are failing there....
[18:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─- There are lots of ways to wash dishes perfectly well that don't conform to what Good Housekeeping says is the requirement. Heck, in my time as a commercial culinary cleanliness specialist (a.k.a. restaurant dishwasher) what I did barely resembles their instructions because modern health-department...
[18:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I'm not surprised. It's a cultural norm now to be semi-helpless even living inside an urban environment. Let's not even consider rural or wilderness skills. How many people have a plan or equipment to deal with running water issues? Composting toilets, sand & carbon water filtration, and o...
[18:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:46] <exec> 08└─I've never had a radiator. Of course I don't know how to bleed one. I don't even know that that means, I assume it's either getting all the air out (aka brake lines), or draining water that isn't supposed to be there.
[18:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─Ahh more old people whining about young people not knowing how to do things. When I moved out of the house I had no clue how to setup util in my new place. I knew I needed electricity though so I call them and said I want to set up service. They took care of it. Rinse and repeat for each util. Washi...
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─You're pretty bad off, if you have no idea how to wash the dishes.
[18:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─I remember getting some advice from a plumber about "... getting the system up to pressure" and "... make sure it's nice and hot" before bleeding the system, starting at the topmost radiator in the house. Unfortunately for me, on one of the radiators when I opened the bleeding valve it disintegrated...
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:04] <exec> 08└─You risk infection from hospital doors, not the homeless guy spewing in the bay next to you. This fabric will help.
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─No: https://commonsensehome.com [commonsensehome.com]
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:08] <exec> 08└─Someone's trying to sell the copper solution: https://cuverro.com [cuverro.com]
[18:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:10] <exec> 08└─"Google fight" may be even less sophisticated than it looks. 💉💉💉💉💉💊💊💊💩💩💩💀
[18:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:29] <exec> 08└─Raising babies to WHAT, one might ask? If the only love and comfort came from blinking blue lights and soothing voices, what's to keep baby from growing up into family annihilators because their voices always intruding on soothing mechanical mama's bedtime stories? B.F. Skinner was already excoriate...
[18:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:30] <exec> 08└─Aaaahahahahahahaha.... If you can call yourself that with straight face, pull your head out of your ass and look around, there's much more to computing than ms.,,
[18:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:32] <exec> 08└─I included it because it was the first one I saw in Google News and I liked the headline.
[18:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:10] <exec> 08└─This is a joke, right...?
[18:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─As Christians, you believe that good and bad are whatever your God arbitrarily says they are at any given point in time, and this sophistry is called Divine Command Theory. I know; I used to be one of you.
[18:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:13] <exec> 08└─The Catholic position--ask me how I know, i was one of them--is that ONLY Catholics are "saved," and everyone else, even other Christians, gets to spend eternity in hellfire. Lovely. Do remember, though, that Catholicism is *not* the original form of Christianity; we'd need to ask the Ebionim about...
[18:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:16] <exec> 08└─Will you please take off the stained-glass goggles and look at what your religion and your God are trying to do with clear, neutral vision? The guy sounds like quite literally Infinite Hitler. This is not a Godwin; he intends to rule the earth forever, and runs an eternal, inescapable concentration...
[18:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:18] <exec> 08└─You forgot the massive MASSIVE amounts of money dumped into lobbying and shitty science. Your post irks me, it was always an "us vs. extinction" plan and the sheer amount of negativity and derision for "hippy environmentalists" can only be explained by corporate propaganda conveniently intertwined w...
[18:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:20] <exec> 08└─I think you're right. There are just two sects of Catholicism (that I'm aware of, anyway): - Old Catholics [wikipedia.org] (some kind of version of Catholicism from the 1870s. A family in my village were Old Catholics and they were very strict.) - Opus Dei [wikipedia.org]: Catholics who studied L. R...
[18:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:22] <exec> 08└─That is kind of what it looks like from the outside. Visiting the Middle East is a useful exercise for people who want to get a flavor of what Christianity was before the Catholic church. The cave churches in Capadocia where Christianity gained its first toehold and really took off, exude a raw kind...
[18:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:24] <exec> 08└─This is a real problem. Priests, despite any claims to the contrary, average neither better nor worse than other people. Catholic priests are required to be celibate, which most humans find a real problem. So they naturally look for accessible outlets. And people of any organized group tend to prote...
[18:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:27] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting, the economical reason wasn't there for the longest time and now only is because real environmentalists and ideological dreamers supported sustainable energy sources.
[18:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 2137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─Everyone's journey is different, Azuma. I am a rationalist who came to my faith through a very long journey as a dyed-in-the-wool doubting Thomas. I know God exists because events lined up at a very difficult period in my life in such a way that they could not have done so as random chance. I was tr...
[18:12:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:13] <exec> 08└─> everyone seems to be utterly against rational discourse and compromise You're so fucking wrong about this that I won't even start explaining how retarded you are!
[18:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:20] <exec> 08└─I'm only half-naked, you insensitive clod!
[18:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:22] <exec> 08└─Splitters.
[18:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:25] <exec> 08└─notice how none of their stories ever mentioned the Beta revolt
[18:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:27] <exec> 08└─Memes upon memes! It's memes all the way down!
[18:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah he was an excellent member of that community. It was the Napster days, or shortly thereafter, and he gave a lot of legal perspective on that, the DMCA, and the other early moments when legal bullshit started bumming our ride in tech.
[18:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:31] <exec> 08└─All Your Memes Are Belong to Us. I still remember near the end of the great run of that meme seeing it carved in a restroom in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Funny how all that stuff can become part of your lingua franca.
[18:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:34] <exec> 08└─Honestly Slashdot has kept going because every company that tried to replace its niche... all did a worse job, and were all bigger corporate assholes.
[18:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:36] <exec> 08└─> everyone seems to be utterly against rational discourse and compromise Well, hey, at least you're getting a little self-awareness. Even if it was an accident, keep it up!
[18:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, while I came to SN due to Beta, I appreciate that the amount of comments here is still manageable
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 2837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:40] <exec> 08└─Fundraise off of Slashdot's 20 year anniversary! Braaaghghghghgh! The current fundraising goal doesn't look reachable to me. We ought to trim a server or three. But if SN eventually can't raise enough funds and has to be put down, where would I go next? Slashdot: I have the account ready to go. With...
[18:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─We need more Gwyneth Paltrow memes: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[18:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:45] <exec> 08└─I can see the conversation now between grampa server and little junior. Jr: Is it true, grandpa, that back in your day a few thousand meatbags could DDOS a site by just visiting a website?
[18:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─The current fundraising goal doesn't look reachable to me.
[18:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:49] <exec> 08└─I liked the older Emacs vs Vi war or even the KDE vs Gnome war more than the new JS engine war. I might as well be watching sportsball.
[18:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:51] <exec> 08└─Scratch the faith :- microwaves bouncing around a copper can cannot and do not provide any meaningful thrust.
[18:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─Collisions with working code on both ends are quite difficult to manage without LOTS of blatant garbage included in the more recent version. So that argument essentially fails.
[18:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:13] <exec> 08└─Even if Kaspersky software would upload to the Russian government, I don't see any reason not to use it to protect your computer from malware Well, I see 1 reason: it failed to protect this guy's data.
[18:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:41] <exec> 08└─I thought that in that theory the Moon was largely built out of Theia bouncing off the Earth after the non-elastic collision. So while much of the surface of the Moon would be from Earth, the interior would be nearly pure Theia.
[18:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:23] <exec> 08└─I hear you about the not really working but rather just pretending in order to look good. At one of my first tech jobs, long ago, there was a dedicated group of people who were widely admired as go-getters by the powers that be. I later found out all they did was clean the aquariums in their offices...
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─The problem that you point out is that naive ideas of robots have them thinking and emoting exactly the way some human does. There's little reason to expect this to actually happen. Please note that this doesn't mean your job is safe. That's a legitimate worry. And it's also true that a robot acting...
[18:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─Two year old Has VF-3SS with a TR160Y trunnion and all the bells and whistles. Came to around $150k. Plus about $30k in software and $30k in tooling.
[18:15:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:34] <exec> 08└─"The EU has brought great benefits to Europeans" What benefits, specifically? Most if not everything it's done that's beneficial was already done or could have been done in the old Common Market system without creating a superfluous bureaucracy to invent work for themselves, and without the surrende...
[18:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:21] <exec> 08└─Everybody sometimes goes to a city, but many city people never leave. City people seldom have much empathy for the non-city people. Without "the dirt" getting a vote, power snowballs. City cost-of-living and other misery rises as the entire population crams into the cities. Cities already have netwo...
[18:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:23] <exec> 08└─This is not something for a doctor to do. Some cases can be handled by anybody with a checklist. Missing limbs and eyes would count. Most cases need investigators to watch the person. If they go rock climbing, they are not disabled.
[18:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:25] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? North/south, there's no "red half" of California, they're both blue, with LA/SanDiego in the south and SanFran/BayArea in the north. You'd have to do some kind of east-west divide, but that would look ridiculous; the two states would be impossibly long and narrow, and the...
[18:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:27] <exec> 08└─Break Texas in half, split up New York state, and split up Illinois and Wisconsin (merge Chicago and Milwaukee together too). Merge Rhode Island with Mass.
[18:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:29] <exec> 08└─There is no UK ID card (thankfully). That's why you need a passport to travel out of the UK.
[18:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:31] <exec> 08└─The Bay Area is the middle. The northern half would start north of there. People have proposed it as the "State of Jefferson [wikipedia.org]." Culturally, though, it would work better to separate the coast from San Diego to the Bay Area from the rest of the state. The Central Valley, north, and east...
[18:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:08] <exec> 08└─Why is this modded troll? In many parts of the US, it's absolutely true: many US drivers will intentionally run cyclists off the road and try to kill them.
[18:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:10] <exec> 08└─And they reduce the traffic of people hunting for rare parking spaces.
[18:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:12] <exec> 08└─That's what I mean. No exercise other than cycling, and certainly no paying for a gym membership like millions of Americans do.
[18:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:02] <exec> 08└─The regulations and liability ramifications of paper airplanes and self-shoelace tying are much less than in the drone space. Now, if you wanted to start a business tying other peoples' shoelaces, that might warrant a training course or perhaps even a state license....
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─I assume this is different from robot gardening: https://www.kickstarter.com [kickstarter.com]
[18:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:14] <exec> 08└─Sovereign immunity works both ways. The US government can also invalidate a patent that is owned by another sovereign state. But this really isn't a case of sovereign immunity. This is a case of the powers that the patent office has. If a sovereign state owns a patent, it should be required to defen...
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[19:09:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─- There are lots of ways to wash dishes perfectly well that don't conform to what Good Housekeeping says is the requirement. Heck, in my time as a commercial culinary cleanliness specialist (a.k.a. restaurant dishwasher) what I did barely resembles their instructions because modern health-department...
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:52] <exec> 08└─Most people will never need to know how to bleed a radiator. As long as overflow jugs are kept to the minimum level and you don't spring a leak you should be fine. The only time you would need to do that is if you work on cars and need to drain the radiator or it has sprung a leak and all leaked out...
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm in that age range and I can do all of that just fine, except only knowing theory for bleeding radiators and fuse replacement as I live in Canada with central heating and breakers. Radiators exist here but I've not had them yet. It's sad to not have an inkling of how to do any single one of those...
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─After getting us to fix their computers / phones, and explain "modern" science questions.
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:58] <exec> 08└─Or they are just seriously sheltered and their parents literally do everything. I met a guy once, 40ish and just separate from his wife. He asked me about bills and such since she'd always done that stuff and he really had no idea where to start. Just saying "look up power and garbage, call them up"...
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─So yes. as a fairly young person I know next-to-nothing of the housekeeping dogma of the 1950's. That's because I live in 2017.
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─You can't acquire practical housekeeping and maintenance skills if you can't afford the damned things to begin with. You can't maintain what you don't own. Really, this study only serves to highlight how far the younger generation's purchasing power has deteriorated.
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─There was no shame because sometimes there should be no shame. If someone has simply never had occasion to learn something so what? Did they ask you to do it for them? Cause that's when I would find it annoying and let them know how easily they can do it themselves. Urban centers have a completely d...
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─Not sure he was talking about CAR Radiators. (Unless you drive a Tesla or similar, everyone has one of those). You see, son, a long time ago, buildings were heated by radiators. And they "knocked" and got air-locked, and you had to bleed the air out of them.
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─In the late 90s, when I lived in England, both houses used a central heating system that was NOT forced air. One was a steam radiator system and the other was a hot water radiator system. Only the hot water radiators would need to be bled, because the way steam heat works is steam fills the pipes an...
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─It also has a weird definition of "knowing". The headline implies that they have no clue how to do the basic scrubbing and stuff, but it seems like they included the order there, which I've never heard of. It's also worth pointing out that these "young people", myself included, have pretty much alwa...
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─I've never had a radiator. Of course I don't know how to bleed one.
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─After he explained what it would be like to cut my thumb off he left it up to me to decide when I was ready to use his Powerade. I didn't use it for several years.
[19:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:18] <exec> 08└─I guess I got lucky and had parents who taught me skills and made me use them, though several of the things on the list I learned on my own because I felt like I was missing something not knowing them, and some things are just obvious. Parents need to teach their kids these skills, or all they're te...
[19:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─Fuses in plugs is a British thing, they have "ring mains [wikipedia.org]" that feed all the outlets on a floor from one big ~30 amp breaker, then they have a lower rated fuse in each plug to protect appliances from the full 30A current available in a fault.
[19:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:23] <exec> 08└─No worries. You're only obliged to be tolerant of other urbanites. Seriously though, our major divide in the US isn't so much Red vs. Blue as it is Urban vs. Rural. Having different cultures, economies, and points of view wouldn't be a problem but the urbanites genuinely can't get it through their h...
[19:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:25] <exec> 08└─Usually you learned by standing with mom after dinner by the sink drying the dishes with a towel. Once old enough to reach the sink, it's your turn to do the dishes with occasional help from mom or even dad. Then dishwashers came along...
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:27] <exec> 08└─I prefer to call them "hydro-ceramic technician"
[19:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:30] <exec> 08└─- As for replacing plug fuses, the simple fact of the matter is that these days (a) a lot of plugs don't have user-replaceable fuses, and (b) it's often faster and cheaper to replace the thing entirely.
[19:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:32] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between TFA's list and yours in that virtually no one has or uses horses, carts, classic wells, or computers that use floppies anymore. However, everyone uses dishes, beds, bathrooms and lightbulbs every day. If cars didn't exist and everyone still rode horses, I'd find it bad i...
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:34] <exec> 08└─"The farther you get from the city the fewer helpless people you come across." I'm afraid that statement is growing less true, as time goes on. Here, in Outback, Nowhere, I can find plenty of people who are clueless about just about everything. The ratio of clueless people keeps going up. It's proba...
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─Keeping in mind what site I'm on, yes, I'm sure lots of people here still have and use computers with floppy drives. The fact is the majority of people don't anymore and certainly don't use them day to day. If they did, I'd find it bad if they didn't know which way to put the disk in the drive, for...
[19:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:38] <exec> 08└─I think the point was more that no one has fuse boxes or fused plugs nowadays, nor do our freezers need manual defrosting. The submission seems to think it's still 1950. Dan Aris
[19:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:41] <exec> 08└─Tell ya what, we'll "get it though our heads" that most of the world's land lies outside cities, if you'll all "get it through your heads" that most of the world's people live in them. 55% of humanity (and 81% of Americans!) live in urban areas.
[19:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:43] <exec> 08└─Solved that issue with The Roomie's boy two weeks ago. I made him not only change the oil on my car but figure out and explain to me how and why he was doing each bit. I did of course break the plug and filter loose for him and make sure they were properly tightened when he was done. He didn't parti...
[19:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:45] <exec> 08└─And then there are cars where there is a high point the the coolant path, which your method won't solve. There may be bleeder valves that need to be opened. http://www.radiatorrepair.com [radiatorrepair.com] When you are filling the cooling system and warming up the vehicle, yo...
[19:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:47] <exec> 08└─In North America, sure, but from what I can tell fuse boxes, fused plugs, and radiators are still common in Britain. Fair point about the freezers.
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:49] <exec> 08└─And we certainly don't sort the dishes into 9 different categories before washing. That sounds like something a 1950s housekeeping magazine writer on a deadline would make up.
[19:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:14] <exec> 08└─Religion piggy backs on top of our mammalian social habits. I would say for most believers the real draw is a community to belong to, and besides there are decent lessons from all major religions. Picking the right ones is the tricky part though, and you're right Buddhism in general is better but st...
[19:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 3085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:15] <exec> 08└─I feel sorry for the people that modded this informative. The King James Bible is named after the king who sponsored its translation [wikipedia.org]. You will find idiot fundamentalists who believe it is the only true source, but people who know shit about their own religion know that the originals...
[19:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe what humanity has interpreted as God is like Carl Sagan's story [youtube.com] about how beings in a two-dimensional universe would interpret a visit from a three-dimensional universe
[19:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:20] <exec> 08└─Recently I received a flier in the mail to attend some doomsday preacher down the street. Prominently displayed was five world leaders photoshopped into a sinister phalanx, from left to right: Kim Jong-un, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and Vladimir Putin. I did not attend.
[19:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:22] <exec> 08└─I agree with you; individual churches vary a lot. But a lot of the small churches pool together into the big protestant organizations such as world vision etc. And it is these BIG missionary / evangelical organizations that are actively targetting catholics for conversion. Even if the individual chu...
[19:12:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:32] <exec> 08└─From near the end: Today I don’t know a single person who has anything to do with the thing that was at the center of my life for 15 years.
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:30] <exec> 08└─Quantity breeds quality if you have a moderation system in place to sort out the garbage.
[19:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:31] <exec> 08└─At least it's not a GNAA post.
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─"By now the Slashdot effect is an old legend passed down to servers from generations past. Most of them have never seen it themselves. Only intentional DDOS attacks can do that now." It still happens occasionally, at least with other sites. E.g., when a personal website with no CDN gets to HN frontp...
[19:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─I used to think that Huxley was closer to the current state of affairs, but when you really look at it all they were both right. https://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[19:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─That's Wensleydale, you Philistine!
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─They throw that number around like it's nothing. That's very big assumption they're making.
[19:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:28] <exec> 08└─It's indeed not absurd that planets which just randomly agglomerated nearby portions of the same primordial disk of matter would have a related composition. The disk itself didn't have to be homogeneous, but it's quite likely that it was locally consistent in its composition.
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHK Employee Logged 159 Hours of Overtime in One Month Before Dying of Heart Failure at Age 31 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─They never did a lick of work but they sure received the praise and, I presume, the money :)
[19:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:05] <exec> 08└─Indeed, because people had to pay for themselves (e.g., look to friends and family) instead of the State to pay the costs of producing new human beings, they took reproduction much more seriously. Now, not only is the shame of reproduction in a poor social structure gone, but the State ultimately pr...
[19:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:06] <exec> 08└─Your assertion needs proof. It has been asserted that MOST humans are decent at creating music, if taught and inspired to do so. The fact that a only a few are "needed" at any one time given technological reproduction of their works is not evidence against this argument. And quite clearly some of th...
[19:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:17] <exec> 08└─Most Puerto Ricans already live in the mainland U.S. Leaving Puerto Rico is nothing new.
[19:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:18] <exec> 08└─Get up to speed, my right wing brainwashed friend. CFLs *were* the incandescent replacement technology, but they were replaced years ago by *LED* which has no mercury.
[19:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:34] <exec> 08└─Oh I get it. I'm just trying to figure out a compromise. If it were up to me I'd stick with plain old knobs buttons and switches to the HVAC, volume, etc. My temporary vehicle is an older chevy van from 2002 with no electronic anything save for the engine ECU. Manual windows and locks too. Not much...
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─one of its guiding design principles is that you shouldn't have to pay for a feature you don't use
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[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─What about the oxalates [nih.gov] and fluoride [fluoridealert.org] in black tea? I switched to green. 0.25 to 1.0 gallon per day.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─I want to come back as a mouse. Mouse health has been researched so much more thoroughly than that of humans. With all the knowledge of mouse health, I should be able to live forever!!
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─But it's a catch-22: no mouse can live forever, since they're the ones always being experimented upon.
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─What is the significance of the leaves being decaffeinated?
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─Too bad they kill the mice at the end of the experiments.
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─...and if you survive their experiments, you'd be put out to stud? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─Oh and obviously I don't drink decaffeinated tea because WTF. If I want decaf tea I'll drink some rose tea.
[20:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─It's heavily processed and hella gay *pops caffeine pill*
[20:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─Oolong tea [google.com] ...which is in between the 2. [google.com] Get the best of both? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─As long as you are not concerned with the Purity of your Life Essence (in your precious bodily fluids), then the Communist (tea is Chinese, after all) fluoridation plot shouldn't bother you. - Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, at your service.
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─It's not to protect the appliance, but rather to protect the power cable (specifically, to protect the things near the cable that will otherwise catch on fire, such as your house) in the event of a short that could vastly exceed the rating of the cable but not necessarily trip the mains breaker/fuse...
[20:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:00] <exec> 08└─Ah, yeah, I meant to mention that in my original comment. That bit of it is stupid and is certainly influenced by the "Good Housekeeping Institute", which is very likely from the 50s or earlier and keeping its mindset today. Hot water, soap, brush with a scraper, go wild.
[20:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry, LED lights don't last 20 years. We installed LED throughout the plant, two years ago. We are already replacing LED strips in the fixtures. The lights start burning a dingy yellow color. You inspect them, and realize that some of the individual LED's just aren't glowing, and the remainder are...
[20:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, washing dishes in a certain order makes sense. You should just shut up now. You are really showing your ignorance.
[20:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:07] <exec> 08└─Sure, go ahead and wash your dirty plates and greasy pans before your glasses. Fucking idiot.
[20:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─To add to pbnjoe's response - fuses are safer than breakers anyway. You might visit Youtube, and search for videos of fuses and breakers failing. As breakers age, they can fail pretty damned dramatically. Fuses are only ever "tripped" one time, and replaced. I thought that I liked breakers better th...
[20:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:12] <exec> 08└─If you live in a town / small city you're still urban. You may interact with more rural dwellers, but that is a shade of gray. I hope you realize that my comment about no shame was not trying to cast judgment against rural folks, but it was pushing back against a judgment against urban types. Per us...
[20:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:14] <exec> 08└─This seems like a good place to point out the value of diversity. The improvements described accrue because the additional youths are assumed to have independent odds of being in the 89% enlightened light-bulb-capable group. If they all come from the same (clueless) family, the assumptions supportin...
[20:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:16] <exec> 08└─And the further you go from the city the more people you find that are helpless in the city. Can't figure out the bus and subway system. Don't know how to order a starbucks. Don't know how to drive in gridlock. Don't know what to do when their dog shits. Can't figure out how paid parking works. Or h...
[20:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─- draw water from a well
[20:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:21] <exec> 08└─Lol, one day you'll get older and have more understanding for people whose lives are different from your own. That guy's wife took care of the bills and they got married pretty young as I recall. Separation of duties/chores is pretty common in marriages, so why would he bother learning about the bil...
[20:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:23] <exec> 08└─Or he'll buy an EV and it won't need an oil change. OR it'll be 20 years before he's in a position to do it and he'll completely have forgotten. Hell, I spent an hour last year trying to remember how to lower the jack after swapping my winter tires off. I'd bought the jack to put them on six months...
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:25] <exec> 08└─And I bet the standardization on those fuses to fit inside the plug at the end of the cord is as haphazard as the rest of the system. Fuses do serve one purpose better than a breaker: Fuse blows, you have to get/buy another fuse. Coats $£€. That slows you down, gives you time to think. Second one...
[20:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:27] <exec> 08└─And that outlook right there is why there is a problem. You think people living in a town of 3-4K, half an hour from the nearest town with a fast food restaurant consider themselves urban or have anything at all in common with the residents of Chicago? No. But city dwellers demand legislation that d...
[20:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:30] <exec> 08└─UK wiring standards are daft. Join the rest of the world. Ring wiring is being phased out in new construction, no? Too bad you'll still be stuck with those ridiculous preschool-sized plugs though.
[20:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:32] <exec> 08└─We certainly do, dishes should generally be done from least dirty/least greasy to most greasy. And while i don't sit around organizing dishes into 9 categories I certainly would end up following a very similiar list when doing the dishes after a big family meal using the 'good dishes'... we always...
[20:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:34] <exec> 08└─LOL, I meant the ones that heat places on TV. I've bled plenty of car radiators in my youth, as well as brake lines.
[20:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:36] <exec> 08└─You think that's fun, I replaced a crumbling lightswitch only to find the previous homeowner had used the green wires for power return instead of ground. In the whole house. All the metal electrical boxes and conduits are hot.
[20:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:39] <exec> 08└─I was motivated to look up the definition of practical skills. I donno if any of those skills are practical in the modern world using a normal definition of practical 1) non-theoretical skills. WTF is moving somewhere and setting up utilities if its not theoretical? No I have no frigging idea what n...
[20:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:41] <exec> 08└─What do you mean folks from the country? You just described how most people in the city behave!
[20:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:57] <exec> 08└─💉💉💉💉💉💊💊💊💩💩💩💀
[20:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:59] <exec> 08└─A few months ago, a friend of mine passed away at 48 years old from an infection contracted while in the hospital. Went in the hospital for treatment for one thing, came out two weeks later dead from another.
[20:13:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 3085 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─I feel sorry for the people that modded this informative. The King James Bible is named after the king who sponsored its translation [wikipedia.org]. You will find idiot fundamentalists who believe it is the only true source, but people who know shit about their own religion know that the originals...
[20:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:14] <exec> 08└─Well we're testing out the former and the world hasn't ended. I think I'd be up for trying "libertarian dystopia" because here in Cali I think it would evolve pretty quickly into a more standard socialism (workers own means of production) with voluntary participation in single payer healthcare and i...
[20:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─Well that is a nice clarification, but the general point that parts of the bible are written / "updated" by old rich men is still true. The entire concept that a country's ruler was the messenger of god was pretty popular. Christianity seems to be coming out of the dark ages these days, but not befo...
[20:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:19] <exec> 08└─Phoenix, you are not a Christian then. You're some kind of vaguely Bible-flavored Deist. And you're giving Yahweh far too much credit. You're also giving the Bible too much credit; OF COURSE it has good stuff in it, it was written over centuries and centuries and something full of entirely bad advic...
[20:13:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─It's always painful to see your children grow up. They never quite go the way you think they should. And yet, if they didn't grow beyond your control they wouldn't be worth creating in the first place.
[20:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:31] <exec> 08└─What about systemd? I really thought that one would have legs.
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:33] <exec> 08└─Hacker News: Haven't commented there before IIRC. Might be amusing to try and troll a VC, assuming any are left there.
[20:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:35] <exec> 08└─VC = venture capitalist
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─I've heard it all before and have no plans to invest in it or anything. But as long as NASA and other groups are measuring thrust they can't explain instead of disproving it, I'm engaged.
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─Ah, of course. My brain was stuck on Visual C *shudders and scrubs self* Get it off! Get it off!
[20:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:41] <exec> 08└─But true, SN is definitely not a safe space :)
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─Fuck Beta.
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 1928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:46] <exec> 08└─I wanted to reply something about this being applicable to the US. Then I remembered Brexit. And Cataluni-exit. And the French Presidential elections. And the German elections. And what's happening politically in Poland, and Hungary. And how there have been a steady stream of politicians since about...
[20:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:48] <exec> 08└─And I think that probably, aside from a few one-liners, some of the articles (especially the scientific discovery types) don't really merit a whole lot of comments. I generally read the article, think to myself, "huh, that was neat," and move on to the next with no real commentary required.
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:50] <exec> 08└─And a sufficient amount of moderators with a sufficient amount of dedication to wade through all the trash to discover the gems. With 20 comments in a thread, that's easy. With 300 comments in a thread, you'd need a lot of seriously dedicated folks to even read the last 200 comments (before they are...
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we routinely keep you from airing dissenting viewpoints. We're bastards like that.
[20:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:25] <exec> 08└─This will happen when there is strong general AI. At that point we all have the same problems. Or when 3D printers can quickly and reliably hold a ten-thousandth of an inch tolerance in steel and titanuum.
[20:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:26] <exec> 08└─Not familiar with that one. For me it's about wanting to own and control the means of production, and not being reliant on an employer but being able to have customers instead. Consider it like a programmer wanting his own computer, except that a decent "computer" in this case costs at least $50k, a...
[20:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:28] <exec> 08└─We could use more machining related stories here on SN! I'll try to keep an eye out myself. I'm not the OP, but I am a hobby machinist. My father's one-man shop recently purchased a Southwest Industries 2OP, which works really well in the confined space of the basement. Having a tool changer and ful...
[20:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-04/eu-defends-spain-s-right-to-use-proportionate-force [bloomberg.com] “It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force,” European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmerman...
[20:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:42] <exec> 08└─Yet the Republic of Texas approached the United States asking to be admitted into the Union. THEY didn't want to remain independent. Ponder why the Texans might have wanted this.
[20:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:44] <exec> 08└─Get up to speed, my right wing brainwashed friend. CFLs *were* the incandescent replacement technology, but they were replaced years ago by *LED* which has no mercury.
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─I wanted to get the quote without consulting audio, as I'm in an office without my headphones, so I cut and pasted the first believable text I found. I'll add the movie to my Netflix queue (or whatever the kids are calling it now) to refresh my firsthand knowledge.
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[21:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dust the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─We all know the truth. It's a vastly more advanced civilization with a Dyson structure around that star. But the violent, authoritarian left doesn't want you to know about it because the only way to achieve such heights as a civilization is through Capitalism and the Free Market™! In fact, I have...
[21:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:56] <exec> 08└─Come back as one of those poor mice in the mouse universe experiments....
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:57] <exec> 08└─The black tea is not decaffeinated. The article linked to in TFA mentions decaffeinated green tea and black tea (not decaffinated green and black teas). TFA doesn't mention decaffeinated at all. The headline of TFS is incorrect.
[21:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:59] <exec> 08└─Oddly, this study was done only with male mice. And its not clear if ALL tea was decaffeinated, or only the green tea. Mention of "decaffeinated" occurred exactly in one place, and may be read to apply only to the green tea.
[21:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:02] <exec> 08└─The "decaffinated" in the headline of TFS appears to come directly from the headline of the study, not the linked TFA.
[21:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:13] <exec> 08└─If you make a habit of ignoring or pacifying your kids whom are they going to learn this shit from?
[21:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─Firstly, there should be no such thing as a "decorative chair" that is not meant to support a human sitting in it. I've never met a lightbulb or fuse or anything like that which took more than a moment to figure out, but then I grew up with a machine shop in the basement. If a part on the lawnmower...
[21:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:17] <exec> 08└─- Days since the dawn of humanity. I don't know where to find it again, but I once read 3000 year old writing in which the elders were complaining that the youth would destroy civilization.
[21:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─"The problem is that jobs which used to be simple and everyone did have become more difficult." This is partly an unintended side effect of value engineering, but to a significant degree it's intentional. The manufacturer does not want you to be able to maintain and repair what you bought from them;...
[21:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:21] <exec> 08└─If you live in a town / small city you're still urban. You may interact with more rural dwellers,
[21:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:23] <exec> 08└─You mean the computers and phones boomers fucking INVENTED? Go polish your java apps.
[21:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:26] <exec> 08└─Yup. The first house that I owned had screw-in fuses. The first time one blew, I replaced the lot with screw-in (thermal) circuit breakers. One morning soon after, I found that the water was cold because the electric water heater had popped its breaker. Reset it and it popped again in short order. A...
[21:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:28] <exec> 08└─So you're saying you don't know jack?
[21:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:30] <exec> 08└─No not really, cause I wash dishes in a dishwasher. You rinse in the sink and then place in the dishwasher. No order needed slugger.
[21:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:32] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I understand separation of duties and practice it, but I personally wouldn't be comfortable being reliant on someone else for basic maintenance of something I use every day. I totally get that not everyone's like me in that regard. I feel bad for kids like your nephew's friend. That's a...
[21:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:34] <exec> 08└─Change the spark plugs on a car? Used to be easy, now, one of the cars I own needs to have the engine partially dropped in order to change the spark plugs.
[21:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:37] <exec> 08└─Fuse Replacement Guide [9gag.com] My personal favorite is the "350 amp Audiovisual Auto-Alert" type. The 2000A slow-blow is pretty entertaining too.
[21:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:39] <exec> 08└─...with a bunch of them being former city dwellers who wanted the wide open spaces and fresh air? Didn't they do a documentary series on this? Green Acres [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:12:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:55] <exec> 08└─The opposite of "sustainable" is "not sustainable". There's no other way to put this. The Roman Catholic Church is a very conservative institute, i.e. they'd like things to stay as they are. The expression "as they are" depends on the time stretch that you use to define it. The 100-150 years of the...
[21:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─in such a way that they could not have done so as random chance. I was trained in quantitative methods as a social scientist
[21:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah? Lemme throw some cold water on that for you: the Christians were just another shrieking hysterical largely-illiterate backwoods doomsday cult. If it hadn't been for the Romans the religion would have all but died out in the early fifth century. As it is, their numbers were far lower--and the p...
[21:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:20] <exec> 08└─In a sense, Roman Catholic Church is one of the biggest investors worldwide. If they put their money and influence into "something", you can be sure the "something" will go a long way. So their bet is pretty much self-fulfilling (they are used in doing that not only with money and not with money alo...
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, and Captain (hopefully) Obvious to the rescue: There no such thing as "God", sorry about that. :-/ These organizations should not even exist.
[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─Because of this [dumbonyc.com]. Read God's word the holy bible daily. Or burn in hell forever. When the Witnesses go to ground, you know the end is nigh! Praise Jesus! The non-believers need to be saved!
[21:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:48] <exec> 08└─We know, Buzz, we know.
[21:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:49] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/loganabbott [twitter.com]
[21:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─Taking this comment seriously for a second... it dismisses the "herd immunity" of individual actions.
[21:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon's Interior - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:44] <exec> 08└─Could be a variation on that theory. In the link I posted it says around 10-40% of the moon's mass is from Pre-Earth and the rest is from Theia. This link explains further. The collision basically disintegrated/vaporized/liquified Theia and ejected it. It then coalesced/formed into the moon. There's...
[21:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:27] <exec> 08└─People produced many children, but that was a family affair. Indeed, that's the whole point: People took responsibility for reproduction; they had practical reasons for producing people, and they took responsibility for rearing them, so there wasn't an issue with trying to figure out what to do with...
[21:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:42] <exec> 08└─To have a bigger stick to keep Mexico out. The joke is now on them... Federal regulations now encourages Mexicans to live in Texas and Texas is helpless to stop it.
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─Some comedian in the past proposed
[21:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─No compromise is necessary other than what I mentioned about current Mazdas. Their cheapest model has this setup, as does the even cheaper Scion iA which is really a rebadged Mazda 2. If a sub-$20k (or even close to $15k) economy car can do it right with sufficient knobs, there's no excuse for anyon...
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[22:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─Caffeine - being a powerful stimulant - would be suspected of skewing the study results.
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:10] <exec> 08└─It's heavily processed and hella gay *pops caffeine pill into rectum after inhaling a popper* FTFY.
[22:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:36] <exec> 08└─Fused plugs and radiators yes, fuse boxes not so much (they are largely replaced by MCBs/RCDs nowadays).
[22:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:37] <exec> 08└─s/melnac/Melmac (Brand name for molded melamine resin dinnerware.) ...also the planet where Alf (Alien Life Form) started out. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:39] <exec> 08└─Green wires? The colors in normal house wiring [netdna-cdn.com] are white black and (brown-paper wrapped) copper. Greens are only used inside devices and metal wiring enclosures, and are never long enough to "return" power. Further, Ground and Neutral [iaeimagazine.org] are both tied together at the...
[22:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:42] <exec> 08└─I had to look up "Ring Wiring" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:44] <exec> 08└─We installed LED throughout the plant, two years ago. We are already replacing LED strips in the fixtures [...] about 160 fixtures [...] 18 strips laying on the shop table yesterday Hmmm. All 1 brand for the 160? A major brand? All devices from the same manufacturing run/batch? the failure rate is a...
[22:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:46] <exec> 08└─Here in Australia, house prices in the major cities are really high, as are rents. So the kids are staying home until 25 a lot of the time now. As such they don't do half the things on that list because mum and dad do it all. Don't mean to make this into a blame game but I think parents are to blame...
[22:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:48] <exec> 08└─Bad news for you, electric cars have cooling. At least those that care about not cooking the electronics & batts, which seem to be everyone except (old?) Nissans.
[22:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:50] <exec> 08└─I worked on an Ampeg amplifier that had a fuse on the circuit board. It was blown. The fuse in the fuseholder on the user-accessible panel (in series with the inner fuse) did, in fact, have aluminum foil wrapped around it. Smart designer, fully aware of human nature. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.o...
[22:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:53] <exec> 08└─i interpreted as he was suggesting that the previous owner also had no clue, and as such people that did don't know what the hell the original guy was doing, because it sure wasn't the right way to do it.
[22:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Novel Textile Material That Keeps Itself Germ-Free - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:13] <exec> 08└─You say this like it is "oh well, shit happens"... Aren't you pissed at the hospital?
[22:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah! That guy.
[22:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Could See Another Brexit-Like Rupture—Beyond Spain - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:55] <exec> 08└─The far north area I don't think has enough population to be a viable state. It's too rural. There's not even any real cities up there. If they're unhappy, what they should be lobbying for is seceding from California and joining Oregon. That's sorta what the "Jefferson" proposed state in your link d...
[22:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Announces Another Bike Superhighway - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:36] <exec> 08└─It does make it much less of a resource hog. A private car just transports one person, then may be parked for the entire day. A taxi will be transporting people all day long.
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[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dust the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:41] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. This is actually a nanobot swarm functioning as a dyson sphere.
[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:43] <exec> 08└─isn't UV the ideal spectrum range for solar cells? High energy, readily knocks electrons loose from atoms and is abundant in the light output of most main sequence stars. And even the article mentions that dust doesn't explain all the other weird stuff they have observed.
[23:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dust the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:45] <exec> 08└─Are we now? What if they determined they wanted to limit the information leakage of their civilization, as they determined it would be best to see the other races first and not second? It may just be tactical deception
[23:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe - They had major time constraints?
[23:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─I'm told it is traditional to have green tea for the morning only. After that, it's the other various teas that are consumed. Of course, I also smoke a pint of 'tea' a day!!! (obscure reference - 'Subterranean homesick blues' by Simon/Garfunkel)
[23:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decaffeinated Black Tea Found to Shrink Guts by Working Inside Them - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:13] <exec> 08└─"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is by Bob Dylan!
[23:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:46] <exec> 08└─hey bzipitidoo was i the only one that heard the whoosh over the other heads (considering their replies to you) or is that a whoosh over mine
[23:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:48] <exec> 08└─Why are you even using the same water for more than one dish? Just turn on the faucet to pre-wet and then rinse the dish. Showers are more sanitary than baths. And why don't they explain some reasoning behind the order rather than just recite a list. Wash glasses/etc first because they are easily br...
[23:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:50] <exec> 08└─utilities [...]? No I have no frigging idea what number to call Seems like it would be good to know that you can go over to the neighbor's place and ask him if he has a bill with the phone number of the business office on it. ...or that a phone book contains that information. ...or that it the phone...
[23:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:52] <exec> 08└─“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, pr...
[23:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:54] <exec> 08└─with his grandparents who swear
[23:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:56] <exec> 08└─Major cities are garbage anyway. Why would anyone want to live in a place with a lot of people and where the houses are most likely close together (or, even worse, in apartments!)? Because they are subhuman trash. Extreme introverts are far superior and would not tolerate such squalid conditions. Ma...
[23:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:59] <exec> 08└─I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
[23:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mattel Shelves "Aristotle" AI Baby Monitor After Privacy Outcry - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:41] <exec> 08└─Who's more trollish, the troll or the troll who trolls the trolling troll?
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:45] <exec> 08└─But, Hold on, Pascal! I know God exists because events lined up at a very difficult period in my life in such a way that they could not have done so as random chance. I was trained in quantitative methods as a social scientist, and when you run through the data and pass the statistical tests, you k...
[23:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment from Fossil Fuels - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:46] <exec> 08└─I think the GP is very informative, even though xe conflated religion with mainstream organized religion. You are right, of course, that religion, very broadly speaking, is not inherently responsible for corruption, even though most religions were designed from the ground up by corrupt priests for c...
[23:13:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HyperQuantum [2673] 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 552 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:59] <exec> 08└─...and the site still doesn't support Unicode. They could learn a few things from SoylentNews. Meanwhile, I visit both Slashdot and SoylentNews regularly, but still prefer Slashdot (sorry guys). The reason? Slashdot has lots of comments in most stories. Most of the time when I see an interesting sto...
[23:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─I was on /. early enough, 1999-ish probably. The term "slashdotting" was a thing, essentially an online flashmob overwhelming most websites that were linked by a /. article. Unlike /. itself, most sites weren't really built for scale. This showed especially on 9/11, when pretty much every news site...
[23:14:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Slashdot Turned Twenty on October 5th [Updated] - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder what happened to all those people leaving Slashdot because of the beta thing. Where did they go?
[23:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:51] <exec> 08└─For the assertion I was repeating to be correct the people need to grow up with the appropriate social support systems in place. I will definitely grant that by the time most children are in kindergarden, it's already past the appropriate time to start conditioning. My wife taught music quite effect...
[23:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70% of US Fears Robots Taking Over Our Lives, Survey Finds - 1725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─OK, it goes this way: There was this village in which there lived an idiot who was incapable of supporting himself. The town council wanted to support him, but objected to the idea of welfare, so they hired him to polish the cannon in front of the town hall. Years went by, when suddenly the idiot ga...
[23:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:11] <exec> 08└─For PR reasons tickets are sold at below their market value. Essentially a lottery system preferring people who can stand in line. [...] Knowing and capturing the true market demand would allow additional play dates to be funded, bigger stadiums built, etc.
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