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[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─Promises, promises, promises... First of "won't need replacements"? Michelin made a bio-degradable tire. This means that it /will/ degrade, and thus it will need replacement! Also: a "sensor-equipped tire"? Did the IoT just reach into tires as well? Do /I/ get access to the sensor data or do I just...
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:39] <exec> 08└─Won't need a replacement
[00:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 1528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:42] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, this Michelin concept won't be back to bother you, it's all for corporate image. They are developing a small, specialized market for the composite Tweel airless tire for things like outdoor fork lifts and lawn tractors. The rolling resistance is high, so don't bother dreaming about use...
[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─This reminded me of a similar story I saw a long time ago on another site (no not that one): http://pipedot.org [pipedot.org] Similar non-pneumatic tires, but for off-road construction vehicles.
[00:10:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─One foot is the optimal distance for most cases. PROS: -- allows for good slipstreaming. This reduces fuel consumption and engine wear. -- pressures the slow MFer in front of you to either speed up, or GTFO of the passing lane. -- optimal distance to communicate to driver in front (via finger signal...
[00:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:17] <exec> 08└─On average I don't think I disagree. Unfortunate fact is they tend to clump. No significant asshole delays for 4-5 trips doesn't stick in the mind, then on the next trip when it's nothing but asshole delays that REALLY sticks in ones mind.
[00:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:18] <exec> 08└─STAY IN THE RIGHTMOST LANE UNLESS YOU'RE PASSING SOMEONE! CHANGING LANES AS NEEDED IS NOT A DISEASE, IT'S THE RULE!
[00:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:20] <exec> 08└─Tailgating is stupid because your reflexes aren't fast enough to stop in time if that dumb old geezer hits the brakes suddenly. Personally, I wish I had a way of generating a hologram of another car in front of me so I could make it appear to the geezer in front of me that someone is riding his ass...
[00:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:22] <exec> 08└─You get the point... one certainly is responsible for one's own behaviour, but at some point, you just take out the cricket bat and go bananas on the guy
[00:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:25] <exec> 08└─Percentage of Driver and Passenger Fatalities and Serious Injuries by Age Group
[00:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:27] <exec> 08└─And how often are the driving at the speed limit, as indicated by an optimistic speedometer? Many speedometers read 3-5mph above actual speed at 50+ mph. Regulations appear to mostly allow -0% to +(10% + ~5kph), so at 55mph, the speedometer could read ~65mph. If they are in a jurisdiction where the...
[00:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:29] <exec> 08└─When the limit is 80, and a good percentage of traffic is in the right lane traveling at approximately 65, I'm virtually always passing someone. And I'm technically speeding, just by a very small amount. And If you really must do 90+, I'll happily move over and let you past - just as soon as I compl...
[00:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:31] <exec> 08└─The whole left-lane-is-for-passing thing falls apart on multi-lane highways where the lanes have specialized uses. If the left lane is an HOV lane, then sorry, if you're an HOV driver you have the right to stay there, and passers have to pass on the right. (Yeah, I know that's really not ideal, but...
[00:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:33] <exec> 08└─You only need enough distance to accommodate your reaction time plus any needed adjustment for bad brakes.
[00:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:36] <exec> 08└─Hit the windshield washer button. If you have one for the rear, use it. The spray will get on them, too.
[00:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:38] <exec> 08└─I have noticed that small boat trailers seem to encourage following cars to leave too small a gap. Perhaps they think you can't stop as fast, or perhaps they keep the same distance between the cars, ignoring the boat trailer. I can personally attest that the minuscule percentage of miles that I have...
[00:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:40] <exec> 08└─3 seconds. That gives you your one second to get your foot on the break and the other two to stop. Eh, better give yourself 4 seconds, just to be sure...
[00:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:42] <exec> 08└─Obviously the correct answer is to brake as hard as you can a the last minute. Bonus points if you can magnify any waves of stopped traffic. (Traffic jams move in waves. You win if you've made the crest of stopped traffic two or three cars longer than it was before.) This has the added advantage of...
[00:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:45] <exec> 08└─Someone may frustrate you, but you choose how you respond to that frustration, and you are responsible for your own behavior.
[00:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:47] <exec> 08└─I want that hologram projector!!
[00:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:49] <exec> 08└─You're right. We should get rid of the HOV lane. Seriously, it's a huge disruption. The people moving across all lanes as quickly as possible by braking and waiting for a gap slow down traffic for everyone else. Without that lane, traffic can be heavy but flow smoothly. I saw it happen when they add...
[00:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:11] <exec> 08└─And a phone design with replaceable batteries minimizes the damage when this happens: the back just pops off. Phones should be required to have user-replaceable batteries for this reason alone.
[00:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:12] <exec> 08└─I agree, why is why *I* required that when buying my phone. Fortunately, I am now out only the price of two batteries, not a whole phone plus the hassle of reinstalling everything. Why others don't do the same, I cannot understand. But then, it seems to me that millions of people do stupid self-dest...
[00:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:14] <exec> 08└─There's a fair number of counterfeit iPhones floating around. We can't rule out fake phones yet.
[00:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:17] <exec> 08└─Are they really counterfeit if they come out the back door of the iPhone plant in China? Maybe they are just seconds that didn't quite meet final quality inspection and were slated for re-work or to be crushed?
[00:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:19] <exec> 08└─Exactly.. walking around with a bulge in the crotch, bonus. Heat to warm your loins when it gets cold, extra bonus. Oh yea it can take calls too... without removing it for those bonus features, they're call AirPods.
[00:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:38] <exec> 08└─woah. lengthy reply : ] a small point was rather that some (me included) believe that there is a optimal "shape" for every "device" in the universe. in the same way, that nature has darwinified animals in water to a certain shape and land animals to another and flying animals, again to another. howe...
[00:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:31] <exec> 08└─So this is how the privilege folks practice "empathy"... followed shortly after by a nibble of the $500 wagyu and a dab of the lip with his Puerto-rican hand weaved napkin. It must be his feel good day.
[00:13:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 1869 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:55] <exec> 08└─I would argue that DS9 also fits this mould, but with a difference. TOS and TNG were set squarely in the federation, a quasi-utopia with occasional interaction with other species. DS9 sets the same people in a different context: a distant outpost in the aftermath of a war where people on both sides...
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[01:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─I think it's good, I reject gender stereotypes. I may have joined the scouts purely to meet girls if they'd been admitted when I was young. I also reject the notion of "transgender" [soylentnews.org] though, so what do I know?
[01:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─I gotta say I think they made the right choice keeping at least the Cub Scout dens single gender. The girls will learn a whole lot more without a bunch of knucklehead boys hoorahing around. I'm not dogging boys but I was one myself and I'm in no denial about the knuckleheadedness of us at that age....
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─As an Eagle Scout and father of a young girl, I fully support this, my daughter may never show interest in scouting, of any kind, and that's totally fine! I'm just happy that now she has more options open to her. I do think they could use a name change though...but that might be a harder battle to f...
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─If they could just come up with one that works reasonably well on a bicycle it would be huge.
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:52] <exec> 08└─If you don't go fast or far, there are several airless bicycle tires on the market. The rolling resistance is noticeably higher than a pneumatic tire (2-3x?), but if you are just tooling around and don't mind a little more exercise (and a slightly rougher ride), this could be an option. It could be...
[01:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:41] <exec> 08└─In a coffee shop I was overhearing some old folks reviewing the rules of the road for their driving re-tests. (Aside: God, I wish everyone was subject to random retesting...) Anyway, one of them was saying something like "...all it says in the guidebook is to leave 2 seconds, but how am I supposed t...
[01:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:43] <exec> 08└─I found the solution is to be just the fastest one on the road, and then I get a ticket for speeding...
[01:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:45] <exec> 08└─I was taught stay at least two car lengths behind the car in front of you.
[01:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:31] <exec> 08└─I guess another example would be that planets with lower surface gravity have a lower escape velocity and thus would need less powerful rocket fuels in order to send spacecraft into orbit or other destinations. So the aliens could get away with using a cheaper and less efficient rocket fuel. Once yo...
[01:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeffPaetkau [1465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:33] <exec> 08└─I agree. This is a fantastic book and well worth the read. The author takes what most would consider mundane and highly technical and tells an interesting story laced with more than its fair share of wit and insight.
[01:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:59] <exec> 08└─Kobo makes the best eReaders. Unfortunately, Amazon has the biggest eBook store by far. So, I purchase books on Amazon that I can't find on Kobo, download them to my PC, use Calibre to liberate them and convert the AZW3 file to ePUB, and then load it onto the Kobo. Works well.
[01:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:28] <exec> 08└─There have been 2 polling periods which showed that those who disapprove of Trump are a supermajority [talkingpointsmemo.com] (60 percent and 61 percent). ...with numerous other polling periods hovering close to that mark. ...and "Liberals and Conservatives" only covers the Right-hand side of the po...
[01:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:30] <exec> 08└─It's virtually empathy.
[01:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:32] <exec> 08└─If VR dumbs down the social tendencies of more males, eventually rapes and sexual assault will be replaced by virtual rapes where the victim can easily blog/log off.
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Confirmed Around Dwarf Planet Haumea - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─> I like the current definition that says it has to dominate its orbit and clear out any stuff there. Almost all major planets have moons and trojans. I don't know why they have a definition that needs extra clarification. Is it over 90% round, bigger than a breadbox, orbiting a star with an excentr...
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─I haven't watched Discovery, but it sounds like it is canon like LOST is canon with Gilligan's Island because... Island. How does it compare with Firefly for character development, fun and keeping you watching? Shows should be produced by people who have watched and understand Firefly. Wakari masu k...
[01:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:11] <exec> 08└─If you thought people don't own stuff in socialism, including land, then the problem is that you don't know what socialism is. You've confused it with communism. Socialism is about how we work, and what for and about making sure everyone is provided for. But it does not make everyone equal. It's not...
[01:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─What you say is all true. But it looks like there will be a series long, or even multi-series arc to get the culture to where it was at the start of TOS. It seems like they've knocked Michael down right at the start, in order to build her up. They have set up a story of redemption. And, it being sto...
[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─I probably would have watched it if they didn't get all greedy by making you sign up for some new shitty "monthly service" while still serving up a metric fuck ton of commercials.
[01:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:44] <exec> 08└─because they oppose the self-enriching agenda of profit driven
[01:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:21] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless, that's the current theory.
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[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─Really, it'd be a pretty good time for a merger. The BSA have better numbers but the GSA is way, way better at marketing. I mean, come on, popcorn vs. thin mints?
[02:09:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 979 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:46] <exec> 08└─My son is a boy scout, my daughter a girl scout. The Boy Scout experience, though heavily rooted in 1800's wilderness skills, is a positive one with growth of the boy's skills and self confidence. The Girl Scout experience is crap. They are so afraid of getting sued, that any activity that might inv...
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─That's going to make for some interesting camp outs.
[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─Too late for me. Now I am a lifelong virgin.
[02:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:53] <exec> 08└─You know that you are heterosexual and not mysoginist, but you don't know enough about human biology. Didn't read your link tho
[02:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:55] <exec> 08└─In my house and pack/troop, we always referred to cub/boy scouts as just "Scouts". I dont see what they cant drop the boy and just use the name "Scouts". I know "scouts" is pretty generic so maybe throw in America somewhere. Scouts of America? Or maybe "Boys and Girls Scouts" like the boys& girls cl...
[02:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:57] <exec> 08└─You're not the first person I've heard that from, that they deal with both and the Girl Scouts just make everything difficult and expensive. But will the BSA find themselves forced into the same behavior when they have Girls in their organization? Hopefully not. Personally, I was never a member of e...
[02:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─No way girls can keep the vow [cityonahillpress.com].
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─I think the Girl Scouts USA is in an unenviable position. On the one hand, they are telling girls that they can do anything that a boy can do. On the other, they are explicitly not offering the same experiences that are available through the Boy Scouts. Here in Australia we have "Scouting Australia"...
[02:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─Of course they will. The lawyers and feminists are the same evil force that made the Girl Scouts useless. And the segregated packs will last until the first girl wants to be in the boys' club. If they kept the segregation all the way up I'd have to problem with this idea, in theory, but in $current_...
[02:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:06] <exec> 08└─Was a cub-scout for like a month -- I didn't much like hanging out at my friend's apartment praying and tying knots all day. After a few weeks of not being taught how to whittle my own bow and use it to shoot flaming arrows, my parents reluctantly let me go back to jumping my bike and sitting on my...
[02:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:10] <exec> 08└─Why not 5, 6, or 10? Explain your reasoning.
[02:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:11] <exec> 08└─Your note about arriving at the same time is incorrect. Sudden braking sends waves of similar braking throughout everyone traveling in that area. It's the primary cause of most traffic jams. The only option if you want to keep traffic flowing smoothly for everyone and arrive at your destination the...
[02:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:14] <exec> 08└─Most people consider themselves above average drivers. So if you are trying to give advice to bad drivers, you can’t assume the bad drivers will think you are talking to them. Instead, tell people something that applies to everyone. Preferably something that is based on distance, not time. I saw a...
[02:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, great line to use to teach children. But it doesn't account for the practicalities of human nature.
[02:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:18] <exec> 08└─At 55mph you travel 80 ft/sec +/-. 2 Seconds then is 160 ft/sec. Even in metric, that's a large distance... The typical midsize car is maybe 15 ft long. A 2 second break is more than 10 car-lengths. Leave that much in rush-hour traffic and someone will try something stupid.
[02:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:20] <exec> 08└─Take my commute then. 5 miles long of people going slow. But everyone has to be RIGHT on your ass as they do not want to let you in front of them from the other lane. The sin of the dude in front? He is going the speed limit. Driving too close under almost all circumstance is dangerous. You just wan...
[02:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:22] <exec> 08└─"Leave that much in rush-hour traffic and someone will try something stupid." And if you don't, then you're the one that tried something stupid. Damned either way, that's the insanity of it.
[02:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:25] <exec> 08└─While kinda funny it is sometimes true. Basically enough time for you too look go "OH SHIT" and blast the hell out of the breaks to a dead stop. That is the optimal stopping/following distance. For me that is 2-3 seconds. As I get older that time is getting slightly longer every year. Now the scary...
[02:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:27] <exec> 08└─It's not that hard to check your speedometer, and get it calibrated if it's off.
[02:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:29] <exec> 08└─~1 large car length for every 10MPH is the rule. 2 car lengths at 80MPH is reckless. 2 car lengths at 10 MPH is probably too far back.
[02:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:31] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of situations where tailgating is appropriate, such as in slow-moving urban situations or the other odd occasion where not tailgating just results in more and more dickheads cutting in front of you to try to beat the light. There are a lot of wide highway-like 4-laner and 6-laner ro...
[02:11:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 323 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:43] <exec> 08└─I agree entirely. Hopefully, this problem will get a LOT worse. The Apple cultists were all laughing when this happened to Samsung, so it's only fair that it now happens to them. Apple is getting exactly what they deserve. And let this be a lesson to everyone who designs phones with sealed, non-user...
[02:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:58] <exec> 08└─No, the Apple cultists were laughing when the Samsung phones BURST INTO FLAMES.
[02:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:00] <exec> 08└─if it happens, you take the phone back to Apple and they'll replace the whole phone. Even out of warranty.
[02:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:02] <exec> 08└─Six faulty phones! Out of the hundreds of thousands they will have shipped already. It's a catastrophe!
[02:12:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 415 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:12] <exec> 08└─If more books were written like this, scientific literature and history would be commonplace. Clark's insight and wit is throughout the book and much of it is based in the actual chemistry. Formulas and such are laid out bare and not glossed over--and the book is better because of it. If you like re...
[02:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:21] <exec> 08└─He owns more than me. On paper, he owns more. But look, you look at the type of assets he has, it's not solid. It's mostly cyber. My assets are very solid. I see Bill Gates, we close up that Internet in some way, poof! There goes Zuckerberg's cyber stock. We close up the Internet, where ISIS does a...
[02:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:32] <exec> 08└─A caller on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning also wanted the media to stop using "gender" for anything but grammar. But if not "gender", then what other word means "societal role traditionally correlated with sex" in the same way that grammatical gender means "noun class traditionally correl...
[02:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:34] <exec> 08└─Without looking it up: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools something something Terrorism Looked it up: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Do I win 70% of a cookie?
[02:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:36] <exec> 08└─Do I win 70% of a cookie?
[02:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:38] <exec> 08└─then what other word means "societal role traditionally correlated with sex"
[02:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:40] <exec> 08└─They would post, in their snide and arrogant way, "Gluten Tag!" all the time. Nazis.
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[03:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Data Centers in Ireland Are Getting an Influx of Wind Power - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─an experimental data center in Wyoming that operates off the grid and is powered fully by biogas
[03:09:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:42] <exec> 08└─Really, it'd be a pretty good time for a merger. The BSA have better numbers but the GSA is way, way better at marketing. I mean, come on, popcorn vs. thin mints?
[03:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─Additionally - you can find instances of mismanagement in both the BSA and GSA. But, that mismanagement is worse in the GSA. They have sold off a lot of real estate, so that they can spend money on frivolities. The BSA is far more reluctant to lose any of their real estate. And, really, that seems o...
[03:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:55] <exec> 08└─I think the Girl Scouts USA is in an unenviable position
[03:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:57] <exec> 08└─Man, you don't have to sell Girl Scout cookies. You just have to knock on the door and hope you can carry that much money. Things are like crack.
[03:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:59] <exec> 08└─Scouting USA?
[03:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:01] <exec> 08└─well, hopefully you're honest and see it as just "allow for segregation" vs enforcing segregation. Big differences. My daughters could probably out Boy Scout most of the Boy Scouts. Not that they were deliberately raised to do so, but they could. Since the Boy Scouts do not include something like a...
[03:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:04] <exec> 08└─Politics divides our nation. Lots of girls are kept out of Girl Scouts because of liberal ideas. Churches near me are killing off Girl Scout stuff in favor of American Heritage Girls. Even the cookies are getting harder to sell, since that has come to be associated with abortion. Yes, really. Fundin...
[03:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:26] <exec> 08└─One guy holding up the left lane often leads to a stack of drivers all tailgating each other out of frustration.
[03:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:19] <exec> 08└─A few years ago, they had a campaign to try and keep them in one lane, and not keep changing lanes.. It worked: now they sit in a lane and do whatever speed- usually 20 under, or 20 overr, the speed limit.
[03:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:21] <exec> 08└─But, but... how do you know how far behind you the car behind you might be? Maybe you mean using *mirrors*? Are you insane? The car in front might brake while you're looking behind you! /not really sarcasm, alas..
[03:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:23] <exec> 08└─you just might be the problem.
[03:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:25] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind, you need to accommodate your WORST reaction time. Not your best, nor your average or your typical. Yes, it is also unreasonable to want enough distance to stop under the assumption the car in front will suddenly stick in place like the road runner.
[03:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:27] <exec> 08└─*sigh* I know, pearls to the swine [travelers.com]...
[03:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:57] <exec> 08└─Well still, I don't understand why the Apple cultists were laughing at Samsung users after the "you're holding the phone the wrong way" reception debacle. That should have been the first clue to ditch Apple. If I'm gonna pay 1000 bucks for a fucking phone it'd better come with its own solid-gold vib...
[03:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:59] <exec> 08└─Yep, your desire for a but-plug is unsurprising.
[03:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:01] <exec> 08└─s/t
[03:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 2409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:20] <exec> 08└─Yup. That's the term. (No need to hyphenate it.) Hillary, [Debbie Wasserman-Schultz], etc. It's probably the main reason they lost so badly last year. No "probably" about it. Folks who voted for Bernie (on the Blue ticket) in the primary, voted for Trump or just stayed home in November rather than v...
[03:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:57] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy if the AI could tell the difference between babe and dog. Oh the heartbreak of false advertising!
[03:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:40] <exec> 08└─But at least they will be gluten-free. The one thing I could never stomach about Grammar Nazis was all the gluten. They would post, in their snide and arrogant way, "Gluten Tag!" all the time. Nazis.
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[04:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:36] <exec> 08└─LEAK IT!
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─This is a low point, even for SN.
[04:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:13] <exec> 08└─The boy scouts camp out in the wildnerness, surrounded by wildlife and trees. The girl scouts camp out at entrances to grocery stores, surrounded by boxes of cookies.
[04:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:14] <exec> 08└─My grandfather bought his piano from a door-to-door piano salesman. I have since inherited it.
[04:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:16] <exec> 08└─As for the older scouts, I'm just gonna say that there's no moral code in the world that's strong enough to keep a teenaged boy's hormones under control.
[04:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:18] <exec> 08└─Both have been dying. This is a move of desperation by the BSA because of the membership collapse due to the gay scoutmaster debacle. They think they can steal some members from Girl Scouts.
[04:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:31] <exec> 08└─I live in Oregon (up to $0.10/can or bottle now), and am amazed to still see broken glass on the road. Even more amazed to see the beer bottle label left over. Reminds me of a joke... A rodeo clown was driving back to Cheyenne from a rodeo in Rapid City, SD. As he's cruising down US 87, a young woma...
[04:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:32] <exec> 08└─You can also get airless tires wheelbarrows, etc. No, not a solid tire. Same form factor as pneumatic tire, but filled with closed cell urethane foam. Never goes flat, but more or less same as regular pneumatic tire.
[04:10:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 747 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:43] <exec> 08└─Of course tailgating sucks, and of course people shouldn't do it. This might as well have been done by the Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious. The more interesting thing is why people tailgate. And that's a whole other issue. As far as I can tell, the...
[04:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:50] <exec> 08└─Another aspect of this that just makes things worse: More than a few problems are caused by people being passed speeding up in response. So even if everyone's being being disciplined about what lane they are in, the person going 70 who pulls out to pass someone going 55 might find themselves being h...
[04:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:42] <exec> 08└─or make it pay-to-play, like on I-405 in Seattle area, or various HOV lanes in California. The cameras on the lanes can see your license plate AND see if there's a passenger in front with the driver or not, and they toll you accordingly. In Washington, they have a phone # where you can rat violators...
[04:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:44] <exec> 08└─I had a friend long ago that had one of those volkswagens that had the exhaust pipe mounted straight up in the center of the rear of the vehicle. He had had it with tailgaters bumping his rear bumper into his flywheel. He had rigged a small 12V pump so as to feed pump used motor oil into his exhaust...
[04:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:46] <exec> 08└─uh, it doesn't work that way. If you're really worried about it, get a GPS speedometer app for your phone. Chances are, at ~50-70 mph, your speedo reads about 1-3 MPH higher than GPS speedo will read. The car mags periodically do stories about just this, as does Consumer Reports. At least in the US,...
[04:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:48] <exec> 08└─my driving experiences in Phoenix AZ were psychotic. Driving at 11pm on highway. speed limit is 65. OK, I'm in the "slow" right lane, driving the speed limit. the other 3-4 lanes are empty. fucking empty. Inevitably, someone from behind comes up going...faster than 65mph. Quite riding on my bumper....
[04:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:50] <exec> 08└─I find the very situation you describe happens to me a lot in my van. I really don't want to drive all that fast, as I am not as maneuverable as smaller cars built for speed, and I can do a helluva lot of damage with the amount of kinetic energy supposedly under my control. If someone tries to pass...
[04:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:53] <exec> 08└─3 seconds. [...] Eh, better give yourself 4 seconds, just to be sure...
[04:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:26] <exec> 08└─I believe Apple is selling to the same breed of people who buy Starbucks coffee, wear designer apparel, and drive expensive sports cars.... These are not necessarily needed things, rather they are symbols to publicly exhibit one has disposable income.
[04:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's really bad too, as are many other things about this show, such as killing off the only likable character in the 2nd episode in an incredibly stupid way. But none of that is as remotely bad as the very idea of a starship running Windows, even if it is somewhat obscure. It's simply unforg...
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[04:15:32] <exec> 08└─yet at the same time are supposed to be highly trained starship officers. At least Janeway and Neelix were only a bit annoying rather than being outright horrible people! Janeway was annoying, and personally I thought she was probably miscast. Neelix however wasn't supposed to be a trained starship...
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[04:17:08] <exec> 08└─That word means that violence was used or threatened. That didn't happen. I challenge you to produce evidence that violence against humans has -ever- been used by the animal liberation folks. TFS was a tiny part of the article. (I read TFA before it was submitted here.) The really good stuff was omi...
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[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─Looks like it is a neutron star collision detected with both gravitational waves and follow-up optical observations: http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] https://www.geekwire.com
[05:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─We'll have to work hard to reach you at the bottom.
[05:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─From the statement that is released now: The event will be introduced from ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile by the Director General, Xavier Barcons you can make a reasonably decent prediction. The Paranal observatory has a nice set of optical - and optical interferometer capable - telescopes, bu...
[05:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:45] <exec> 08└─It could be optical confirmation of a gravitational wave detection of a neutron star collision, see added links.
[05:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:47] <exec> 08└─I read about this a few days ago, surely they wouldn't be playing so "cloak and dagger" and hyping up the talks if it was just rehashing this? It has to be something new - or they are adding something to the story/science that the other observatories have already done. I'm not sure if these stories...
[05:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─multiple language packs
[05:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:51] <exec> 08└─The "tune in next Monday" stuff is awful. Wait until Monday, then run a story. Meanwhile, there is a really good story getting ignored: https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=How+Kaspersky+AV+was+caught+helping+Russian+hackers+steal+NSA+secrets [soylentnews.org] That one...
[05:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 6991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:30] <exec> 08└─A lot, a lot of people, such a tremendous group. I was waving to people in the back so small I couldn’t even see them. Man, it was a lot of people. So incredible! An incredible massive crowd, record setting. But they didn’t show it on television tonight?. The fake media said, "President Trump sp...
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[05:10:31] <exec> 08└─......In life, in order to be successful -- and Boy Scouts are well on the road to success -- you have to find out what makes you excited, what makes you want to get up each morning and go to work? You have to find it. If you love what you do and dedicate yourself to your work, then you will gain mo...
[05:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:33] <exec> 08└─Secretary Tom Price also came to the Boy Scout Jamboree. Dr. Price still lives the Scout oath, helping to keep millions of Americans strong and healthy as our secretary of Health and Human Services. And he's doing a great job. And hopefully he's going to get the votes to start our path toward killin...
[05:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 6495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:35] <exec> 08└─....Now, with that, I have to tell you our economy is doing great. Our stock market has picked up TREMENDOUSLY since the election. Our stocks are setting a lot, a lot of records. November 8th -- do we remember that day? Was that a beautiful day? What a day! Do you remember that famous night on telev...
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[05:10:38] <exec> 08└─...Let your scouting oath guide your path from this day forward. Remember your duty to God and your country. Now, with that, I have to tell you our economy is doing great. Our stock market has picked up TREMENDOUSLY since the election. Our stocks are setting a lot, a lot of records. November 8th --...
[05:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:40] <exec> 08└─It is the usual Prog program though. 1. ID a respected institution 2. Kill it 3. Gut it 4. Wear it's carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect. 5. Institution fades away, Progs can't understand why. 6. GOTO 1
[05:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:42] <exec> 08└─That's so true. Tom Price is a swamp creature, who resigned. I told him he could resign, or be fired. I'm very happy he resigned, because I would have had to fire him. I'm not happy, OK? He's a very good man, a fine man. The ideal Boy Scout. But he's a big, big part of the swamp. Screw him. I need a...
[05:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:44] <exec> 08└─Was the salesman carrying a demonstrator around with him?
[05:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:46] <exec> 08└─It's absolutely ridiculous. Just another instance of women bullying their way in where they don't belong. Where precisely are boys supposed to go to figure out how to be upstanding men if they can't ever get time away from women to just be young men? Women get to have women's only groups, seems to m...
[05:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:01] <exec> 08└─Obligatory Sheldon Brown [sheldonbrown.com] quote: Of all the inventions that came out of the bicycle industry, probably none is as important and useful as Dr. Dunlop's pneumatic tire. Airless tires have been obsolete for over a century, but crackpot "inventors" keep trying to bring them back. They...
[05:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:16] <exec> 08└─That would be your problem, and your opinion, which is irrelevant. The question has been answered
[05:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:51] <exec> 08└─Yup, there's a coffee-table article on this presently on the BBC website. http://www.bbc.com My favourite example of overpriced shit is Beats (by Dre) headphones - when put through rigorous acoustic tests, they perform worse than budget (non-...
[05:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:57] <exec> 08└─Not only that, at this time the Klingons have to look like they did in ST:TOS (i.e., like middle easterners with goatees). One of the 4th-season episodes of ST:Enterprise "explained" how Klingons got to look like that due to a genetic experiment gone wrong. This doesn't fit into the canon at all. Th...
[05:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:59] <exec> 08└─Is it Game of Thrones in Space? Definitely not. Game of Thrones was an almost instant smash hit. People were hooked as soon as they saw the first few episodes. I don't think I ever heard of anyone complaining that the first few episodes of GoT were awful; it got better later to be sure, but even rig...
[05:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:37] <exec> 08└─I saw an article the other day where a sex worker said that Stephen Paddock would take her to a casino, lose a bunch of money, and pay her to have violent sex. [google.com] The dude had a loose screw, not an agenda. The Texas Tower sniper was mentioned upthread. Charles Whitman had a brain tumor. [g...
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[05:17:38] <exec> 08└─I liked how, when they had the Orlando shooter on the phone, he claimed affiliation with Al-Qaeda AND Hamas (2 groups that HATE EACH OTHER'S GUTS). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:40] <exec> 08└─You're going to fail the course. Sincerely, Your English teacher -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:54] <exec> 08└─Facebook's Virtual Reality Unit Needs to Speed Up Its Hardware Launches [thestreet.com] Oculus Go HMD: What We Know (So Far), Including SoC [tomshardware.com] They say it will be powered by a Snapdragon 821.
[05:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─The Tom's article seems to conclude that Oculus Go is a Gear VR killer because it requires a high-end Samsung smartphone. But people who already have a high-end (or mid-range?) smartphone can pay less for Gear VR or Google Daydream View. They could be more likely to use the device since most people...
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[06:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:41] <exec> 08└─A University of Edinburgh team has found that transmitting digital data via LEDs at the same time as using them to generate light does not make the light dimmer or change its colour.
[06:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:58] <exec> 08└─Ok. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Check it out at 12:49 AM UTC on Saturday.
[06:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:59] <exec> 08└─I am getting really fed up with all these Nibiru wolf calls.
[06:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:01] <exec> 08└─It will be too late by October 16th: http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com]
[06:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:04] <exec> 08└─Gravitational waves recorded the neutron dance. Pointer Sisters will give the presentation.
[06:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:06] <exec> 08└─http://jango-raid.ml [jango-raid.ml] Song Title = Neutron Dance or Neutron Star Collision
[06:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:52] <exec> 08└─Praying? Did you attend one of the many troops that are sponsored by the Mormon church? Otherwise, I can't imagine any more than token prayers in scouts.
[06:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:54] <exec> 08└─This is how it is in the UK, where the Scout movement has been co-ed for many years. Not many girls actually opt to join the scouts, though. This is more of a symbolic move.
[06:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:56] <exec> 08└─We mandate gene therapy for all kids at birth, adding new chemical signals and receptors to the genitalia. The new DNA causes a permanent color change when you first have sex. We can use the green florescent protein as an indicator. Note that the change can be non-local. Signal molecules can be tran...
[06:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:26] <exec> 08└─The cameras on the lanes can see your license plate AND see if there's a passenger in front with the driver or not, and they toll you accordingly.
[06:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:28] <exec> 08└─The question has been answered
[06:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:30] <exec> 08└─How long is one long car length?
[06:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:05] <exec> 08└─Well that's just swell...
[06:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:54] <exec> 08└─I've had a Nook Simple Touch for four years now which goes with me almost everywhere, rooted, the battery life on average is three weeks with daily use for several hours, that, coupled with the micro SD slot and the fact that the thing is apparently near indestructible (it's survived many a fall and...
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[06:17:55] <exec> 08└─The democratically-elected Sandinistas had Nicaragua on the mend after years of military dictatorships. There was lots of healthcare. education, proper nutrition, housing, and, in general, they didn't treat Jose Average like a peasant. The Sandinistas were a Bolivarian/anti-imperialist lot. They did...
[06:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:56] <exec> 08└─Of the 10 cookies that were originally on the plate, DHS has grabbed 9 and is now pointing at the nearly-empty plate and attempting to convince you that a terrorist is trying to take your cookie. Security theater: the best kind of kabuki theater. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:59] <exec> 08└─The silly-looking stuff at the end of the URL, starting with the question mark, is not vital to the URL. Next time, chop that off and see if the URL is still valid. It almost always is. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:01] <exec> 08└─...but the reports that I saw about the LV shooter said that he died of a self-inflicted pistol shot to the head. Probably not enough of his brain left intact to check for tumors. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[07:09:34] <exec> 08└─I suppose something has to keep funding all the zany non-technical projects they come up with in the name of social equality/justice/whatever. If they'd just stuck to developing solid software they might've had more money left. Then again, I'm getting old, grouchy and cynical about these things, so...
[07:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:36] <exec> 08└─If what you get from those premium services is like the "improvements" you got for free in the browser, then no thanks.
[07:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:45] <exec> 08└─My concern is the LED lighting is not bidirectional... they can send only. Something else would have to serve as the return channel. I have been involved with ( several years ago ) a lighting scheme using manchester-coded LED drive to illuminate signage or products. Having a cellphone with the corr...
[07:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Data Centers in Ireland Are Getting an Influx of Wind Power - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:14] <exec> 08└─Conventional wisdom suggests that it is highly unwise to put all your eggs in one basket - or in business terms - to have too much business with a single client. And that's not even taking this particular client into consideration - a company with a track record of screwing over companies foolish en...
[07:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Data Centers in Ireland Are Getting an Influx of Wind Power - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:15] <exec> 08└─... of "recycling" (snigger) other companies' ideas. Google was touting its greener energy use years ago. https://www.google.com
[07:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed and the pack I joined was run by men and we did masculine things like rock climbing and snow camping. Just because one pack doesn't work for you, doesn't mean another won't.
[07:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:01] <exec> 08└─The scout masters weren't gay, they were pedophiles and child molesters. The organization cracked down hard on it and requires all sorts of training and background checks that other organizations don't in order to ensures that it isn't ever common. The thing that's really killing them are thesame cu...
[07:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:03] <exec> 08└─Missing the point snowflake. The purpose of the Boy Scouts was not the merit badges, it was to teach boys to be men. If you put your daughters through the exact same program you would teach your daughters to be men and you will have mentally unstable freaks as a result. If you mix them you can do ne...
[07:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:05] <exec> 08└─http://abcnews.go.com/US/girl-scouts-slam-boy-scouts-decision-accept-girls/story?id=50433448 [go.com] Girl Scouts slam Boy Scouts' decision to accept girls: 'The Boy Scouts' house is on fire'
[07:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 1791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:39] <exec> 08└─Italian driver here. The law here is that "you must always use the rightmost free lane" at any time. And right-passing is specificcally forbidden and a very serious offense. Basically, by law, you are requested to drive always in the righmost lane I think it's a very good law, because the left lanes...
[07:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:40] <exec> 08└─"even in metric, that's a large distance..." this reminds me of an old saying: "what's heavier: a kilogram of lead or a kilogram of cotton candy?"
[07:13:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:52] <exec> 08└─Using a program like Calibre [wikipedia.org] makes the conversion and management of ebooks fairly painless.
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[07:15:27] <exec> 08└─Heh. Yeah. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[07:16:27] <exec> 08└─"Free" TV costs the US public $70b a year in increased prices of products that are advertised. That's $526 per household.
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[08:09:38] <exec> 08└─OK if they want to sell some storage solution that integrates with their browser or if they want to start their own VPN service who am I to argue. As long as I can opt out of it, even tho I don't use Mozilla Firefox, but I guess I'm somewhat dependent on it since it forms the basis for Pale Moon for...
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─I can't even imagine what they could offer that people would pay for. Secure web mail?
[08:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know either. They do mention things like VPN, Secure Web Mail and cloud storage in the article. So I guess it's those things, that said there are already products like that around that also integrate into or with Firefox so I don't think there is a giant market for that unless they somehow b...
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[08:09:44] <exec> 08└─If what you get from those premium services is like the "improvements" you got for free in the browser, then no thanks.
[08:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:46] <exec> 08└─unless they somehow break all those extensions or addons.
[08:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:16] <exec> 08└─Whatever it is, it likely happened tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago, and we're just detecting it now. How will three days make a difference?
[08:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:18] <exec> 08└─It will make a difference in the social media buzz generated. For example, scroll up.
[08:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Data Centers in Ireland Are Getting an Influx of Wind Power - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:28] <exec> 08└─of "recycling" (snigger) other companies' ideas.
[08:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:16] <exec> 08└─Lots of good comments above... My 2 cents worth, as someone who profited a lot from the BSA when I was a kid: - There's a reason to segregate boys and girls. There are also reasons to put them together. Those make for two very different experiences, and both are important. If you want co-ed activiti...
[08:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:18] <exec> 08└─Guess the vow will just have to be modified, otherwise that would be sexist/racist/whatever.
[08:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:54] <exec> 08└─I might also tap the brakes a few times if they don't get the hint.
[08:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:55] <exec> 08└─You're right. We should get rid of the HOV lane.
[08:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:58] <exec> 08└─As someone who drives long distances the thing that pisses me off is big trucks bringing the high speed lane down to 45 as they pull out and creep past the big truck going 44. I call it the Outbound Truck Sort. It will end up using all available lanes. This happens on the road out of town in any cit...
[08:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:43] <exec> 08└─I haven't watched Discovery, but it sounds like it is canon like LOST is canon with Gilligan's Island because... Island. Actually Discovery refers a lot to the canon. Some visuals have changed, the biggest complaint seems to be about a one-off line from TOS that TOS itself contradicted on multiple l...
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[08:16:45] <exec> 08└─People had exactly the same complaints when Enterprise launched and Klingons looked like they did in the 24th century.
[08:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:47] <exec> 08└─But is The Orville really any better? I wouldn't know. Discovery is available to over 5 billion people around the world from about 2AM GMT on Monday morning. Orville is available to less than 1/10th of that number. If they can't be bothered to broadcast it, I can't be bothered to watch it.
[08:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:49] <exec> 08└─Their speech is so slow that I could get up, make a cup of coffee, and be drinking it before the Klingon finishes their sentence There's been a shift recently to have people who don't speak English actually not speaking English - in The Americans whole swathes of the show are set in the Soviet Embas...
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[09:09:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:46] <exec> 08└─I suppose something has to keep funding all the zany non-technical projects they come up with in the name of social equality/justice/whatever. If they'd just stuck to developing solid software they might've had more money left. Then again, I'm getting old, grouchy and cynical about these things, so...
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─(He writes, in a firefox instance gobbling ~5gig of resident ram despite only 27 tabs open)
[09:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─With VPN, they would need to operate it outside of the U.S. or keep no logs. Zero [bestvpn.com]. Secure web mail would need to be cryptographically impossible for Mozilla or NSA to access. Cloud storage would be a mistake for Mozilla. They could just partner with an existing cloud storage service an...
[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─Time to move to Pale Moon [soylentnews.org], don't you think? I made the switch, it's much faster, uses less RAM, and works almost everywhere firefox or chrome will work.
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:00] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy to pay a reasonable amount for the continued existence of Firefox and Thunderbird, so long as they remained FLOSS. As Red Hat demonstrate, it is entirely possible to exist on service revenues. Maintaining and updating a large code-base to track Linux kernel changes, Windows changes, and...
[09:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:02] <exec> 08└─The resource efficiency of Soylent News is one of the nice attributes of this site, in my opinion.
[09:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:12] <exec> 08└─It could be handy in the home, assuming your devices were equipped to read it: If this was paired with a special wifi router then you could have normal 802.whatever upload speed, but muchly increased download speed (only between device & router, obviously, your broadband connection would still be a...
[09:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:35] <exec> 08└─It's a massive gamma ray burst from a stellar collision just a few dozen light years away. By careful observation they were able to predict the exact time of the collision, and therefore when the highly energetic burst of lethal energy will scour the earth of life, which is 16th October, 15:59 CEST....
[09:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Data Centers in Ireland Are Getting an Influx of Wind Power - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:46] <exec> 08└─They seem to be thinking ahead to "extinguish" with that underwater data cantre.
[09:11:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:17] <exec> 08└─Both have been dying. This is a move of desperation by the BSA because of the membership collapse due to the gay scoutmaster debacle. They think they can steal some members from Girl Scouts.
[09:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:37] <exec> 08└─That at least addresses the issue of wild, raging hormones :)
[09:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:38] <exec> 08└─Since Order of the Arrow only serves the Boy Scouts, female scouts must wait until they are 21 to join. “We get some of the hardy camping moms, like my wife,” said von Schmacht. “There’s nothing wrong with women. Women are cool. They’re some of our hardest workers. Literally.”
[09:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:40] <exec> 08└─That modus operandi fits extremely well to the current US administration. Does that make the current US administration is a prime example of "Prog program"? Or is this behaviour typical of a certain class of idiots, found on all sides of the political spectrum in the USA?
[09:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:42] <exec> 08└─You won't be a virgin long with titties in the tent!
[09:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:45] <exec> 08└─Girl Scouts seems to have the turn girls into go gurrl feminazis market locked down so BSA could go in different direction?
[09:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:47] <exec> 08└─Snowflake? How does that apply to the person you replied to? it was to teach boys to be men.
[09:13:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:07] <exec> 08└─you just might be the problem.
[09:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:25] <exec> 08└─I do think increasing the speed limit has probably reduced the accidents. May have increased the average severity though. I'll see if I can find the numbers.
[09:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:27] <exec> 08└─if everybody else jumps off a cliff, don't be the last one to take a dive!
[09:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:29] <exec> 08└─and if I've learned one thing about humans, if everybody else jumps off a cliff, don't be the last one to take a dive!
[09:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:31] <exec> 08└─Depends on how fast you are going, relatively... :-)
[09:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:33] <exec> 08└─It's about two library of congress' bookshelves.
[09:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:35] <exec> 08└─Unless you have a long commute, going 5-10 mph faster, which is often the differential that creates the road rage in the left lane, is generally not going to save you so much time that it's worth risking your life... IMHO.)
[09:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:37] <exec> 08└─Yes people shouldn't be hogging the passing lane if there's a perfectly empty lane beside, nor should they be going slower than other traffic beside if they're in the passing lane. BUT a bigger (and as common if not more common) problem are the asshole tailgaters who do dangerous stuff because they...
[09:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:40] <exec> 08└─How do you hurt the guy behind the tailgater? Unless that person is also tailgating...
[09:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:42] <exec> 08└─A lot of these wimpy people are tourists or retirees.
[09:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah my relative's friend was faster - he was driving so fast that the photos of his license plate were blurry enough for him to convince the court there was reasonable doubt that it was his car ;). Allegedly there were multiple photos taken at different points along the long route the car took, and...
[09:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:46] <exec> 08└─That's because they where taught some stupid shit like "1 car lengh per 10 mph" or whatever it is.
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[10:09:59] <exec> 08└─As Red Hat demonstrate, it is entirely possible to exist on service revenues.
[10:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:00] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon's Mac implementation is a slow, single-threaded resource hog that doesn't release RAM even when closing all tabs.
[10:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:02] <exec> 08└─>wonder if this is really a coincidence. omg, why would you even think that this roll-out/announcement is a coincidence? i certainly don't want to school you, and please don't misunderstand me, but are you a millenial??
[10:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:13] <exec> 08└─Just thinking about what I just typed... should I try that today, I think I would be sending up entire HTML pages and loading them into the browser. But the main problem is the way our browsers are coded these days, this technique would be ripe for malware. TCP not involved. Just a streaming transf...
[10:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:15] <exec> 08└─Interesting thoughts. I'll throw another. I wonder if such a thing would also be useful in venues catering to the hard-of-hearing to provide captioning info and clean audio stream for attendees hearing aids? With the info coded onto the main venue lighting, everywhere in the building illuminated by...
[10:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:17] <exec> 08└─The unidirectional nature of it makes me think of the old teletext systems we used to have on TV.
[10:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 506 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:00] <exec> 08└─I gotta say I think they made the right choice keeping at least the Cub Scout dens single gender. The girls will learn a whole lot more without a bunch of knucklehead boys hoorahing around. I'm not dogging boys but I was one myself and I'm in no denial about the knuckleheadedness of us at that age....
[10:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:48] <exec> 08└─In my experience, as individuals, women are more attached to their land than men are, because they make a more personal and emotion connection to the land.
[10:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:49] <exec> 08└─If you put your daughters through the exact same program you would teach your daughters to be men and you will have mentally unstable freaks as a result.
[10:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:52] <exec> 08└─They had you tying knots? As a Cub Scout?? Wow. I remember us spent all of our time making crap out of Chlorox bottles, cardboard boxes, vegetable packaging, macaroni, and that kind of junk. ...and I'm as skeptical about the praying as is Whoever (4524). . Daddy was an Eagle Scout. Mama was a den mo...
[10:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:54] <exec> 08└─You think boy scouts won't earn a badge for helping lady? HashTagGenderStereotypes
[10:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:56] <exec> 08└─"I wonder what its icon would be." A game controller?
[10:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:21] <exec> 08└─This is why no one likes Apple fanboys. Why can't you admit Apple has fucked up? Did you see Note 7 owners deny it had issues? No, they just wanted a fixed phone or a refund. Because they're normal people.
[10:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:43] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, if he does the change, he could be a solid 5. If he gets his face fixed, a 6. Maybe a 6. And he can be my running mate. Mark, if you're reading this, I promise you. Do the change and you can be my running mate. But it has to be the full change. Tits, pussy, the works. With or without...
[10:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:20] <exec> 08└─babe and dog
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[11:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:37] <exec> 08└─Fat chance. Waterworld is happening, baby.
[11:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:05] <exec> 08└─So those things seems somewhat hard for them to achieve on their own. So unless they want to have like deals with others or become some kind of service reseller that sort of just leaves that other scarey door, the one where they take all their freemium ideas from the mobile gaming market -- first 5...
[11:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:07] <exec> 08└─If they'd just stuck to developing solid software they might've had more money left. Then again, I'm getting old, grouchy and cynical about these things, so what do I know?
[11:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:09] <exec> 08└─If they do that might indeed piss even more people off and drive them over into the hands of Google Chrome, which already has like a 60+ % market share in the browser desktop market at the moment.
[11:11:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:19] <exec> 08└─Man, you don't have to sell Girl Scout cookies. You just have to knock on the door and hope you can carry that much money. Things are like crack.
[11:11:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:32] <exec> 08└─It is the usual Prog program though. 1. ID a respected institution 2. Kill it 3. Gut it 4. Wear it's carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect. 5. Institution fades away, Progs can't understand why. 6. GOTO 1
[11:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:56] <exec> 08└─Girl scouts ftw!
[11:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:58] <exec> 08└─You really need to talk to a shrink or even a sociologist. You're astoundingly incorrect.
[11:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:00] <exec> 08└─I submit the theory that thin mints must taste better, based on the exclusionary proof that nothing tastes better. Rene Descartes might have agreed. Cookie eato, ergo sum!
[11:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:02] <exec> 08└─It seems like an uncontroversial move if there were no Girl Scouts, but there are. They are going to cannibalize the latter. So it makes me think they're hurting for numbers and had to find some way to get new ones.
[11:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:53] <exec> 08└─And potholes. Don't forget potholes. If you tailgate you might not have enough time to spot and avoid potholes on the road, and could find yourself losing an hour replacing a tire. At night. In the rain. Safe following distance is essential.
[11:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:54] <exec> 08└─Tailgating at slow speeds doesn't make sense either, though not for safety. When you tailgate, you make it impossible for people to change lanes to get to the lane they need. They wind up having to elbow in, which brings your lane to a complete, abrupt halt. People far back in your lane get annoyed...
[11:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:56] <exec> 08└─No, it's called a "brake check". But tapping on the brakes enough to light up the brake lights momentarily, without reducing speed by any meaningful amount, is not in any way the same thing as slamming on the brakes long enough to endanger anyone following too closely. Don't confuse the two ends of...
[11:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:58] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to keep that from getting to you, but you can console yourself with the thought that they'll gain a whole car length on you before they, too, come up against the guy you had been keeping a safe distance behind. If there had been nobody in front of you, then you can thank the idiot for...
[11:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:01] <exec> 08└─Safe following distance is safe following distance. It doesn't matter if it's rush hour traffic or not. Your goal is to get to your destination safely. The time you will save by speeding and tailgating is nothing next to the time it will take you to learn how to walk again after getting in the inevi...
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[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:38] <exec> 08└─That word does not mean what you think it means.
[12:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:40] <exec> 08└─Flip chip involves adding a dot of solder to each bond pad, flipping the chip upside down atop the circuit board, and then melting the solder to bond it. The result is a smaller, denser, and lower inductance connection.
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:50] <exec> 08└─Yup. Same argument can be made (in vain) against people who take the biblical flood too literally.
[12:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:57] <exec> 08└─Whatever it is, it likely happened tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago, and we're just detecting it now. How will three days make a difference?
[12:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:59] <exec> 08└─They found Yeti on Mars. The too expensive metal cup kind, not the hairy kind. It was left by a travelling space being that wanted to keep his ice from melting while walking through the asteroid belts near Uranus.
[12:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:01] <exec> 08└─Oops, I read that as "introduced from ESO’s Paranormal Observatory in Chile by the Director General, Xavier Barcons"
[12:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:16] <exec> 08└─yo it's in the summary
[12:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:18] <exec> 08└─Well, probably. I suppose BSA could issue a merit badge for virginity, although it would be hard for a boy to prove that he's lived up to it. I wonder what its icon would be.
[12:13:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:10] <exec> 08└─You get the point... one certainly is responsible for one's own behaviour, but at some point, you just take out the cricket bat and go bananas on the guy
[12:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:13] <exec> 08└─Is that stupid? I find it sensible. It's easy to remember and adjusts with your speed so you always have a safe following distance. In a couple years it will become a moot point with self-driving cars, but in the meantime it's a good rule of thumb.
[12:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:14] <exec> 08└─Safe following distance is infinite, stay off the road. Sociologically, if you follow too far behind you are more subject to people pulling out in front of you - a certain percentage of those people show poor judgement and create dangerous situations. Psychologically, if you're too far behind you ca...
[12:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:52] <exec> 08└─Quit being sexist. That could have been a comment from a fangirl. Use the PC fanbeing, so you don't offend anyone or anything.
[12:15:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:52] <exec> 08└─A liar, thief, carnival barker, tone deaf "progressive", opportunist, unapologetic exploiter of H1B visas, globalist. Makes his fortune on outsource government spying on its own citizens. Colluded with the other top tech corps to not "poach" and to undercut employee bargaining power. Looks like the...
[12:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:09] <exec> 08└─Gene Roddenberry died in 1991 (hence the quote from his obituary).
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[13:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─Getting started now is the way to go. How do you get started? By tackling modest goals. You build from there.
[13:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:45] <exec> 08└─Well, if New Jersey is also underwater, I'd call it fair enough.
[13:10:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:05] <exec> 08└─(He writes, in a firefox instance gobbling ~5gig of resident ram despite only 27 tabs open)
[13:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:17] <exec> 08└─is if they're going to force the services on us. I've already got Pocket and a bunch of other junk I can't stand polluting my context menus. Hopefully it's opt-in, or at least opt-out at the basic level. Beyond that, I'd be open to subscribing to services as long as they keep everything as separate...
[13:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:18] <exec> 08└─Firefox's browser share is almost nothing and continues to drop. They continue to waste money on God-Knows-What. I think they will disappear when the checks stop coming.
[13:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:20] <exec> 08└─donate, and tell others to donate. that's what I did with EFF and FSF.
[13:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:18] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind a couple things: The programs are still going to be separate, but identical as far as the information that has currently been released says. The Cub Scout dens will be single sex, and the only mixing will be at the pack meetings/outings. The Boy Scout Troops will (supposedly) be complet...
[13:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:20] <exec> 08└─Scouts has always been a program to promote militarism and patriotic state adoration. They can have it. My boys and girls won't be participating.
[13:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 4555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:22] <exec> 08└─Thats funny because its true, but I was a scout as a kid and my kids have been scouts and the difference are WAY deeper. Like it or not, just like there's fundamental biological differences in bodies and races there's differences in brains and hormones. So naturally cub scouts focused on boys has th...
[13:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:24] <exec> 08└─Hahahaha! I followed the link to a comment that links to a comment, and if your problem is raising children as gender neutral is bad, then guess what you'll never listen to! As somebody trans, I think you're right!!!! You won't listen to that. Obviously I must be lying to you because I'm a feminist...
[13:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:27] <exec> 08└─You really need to talk to a shrink or even a sociologist. You're astoundingly incorrect.
[13:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:29] <exec> 08└─imagining
[13:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 3605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:31] <exec> 08└─Reading these comments I'm almost surprised (I suppose I shouldn't be?) that so many of you fucking knuckleheads think that this gender-neutralizing tribal-political rain dance the West has being doing since the 1970s is going to somehow make the world a beautiful endless perfect rainbow for our chi...
[13:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:47] <exec> 08└─Yes yes, when they work, they're much better, we know that. Unfortunately around here they get punctured very quickly. And once you let the air out they no longer work so well. I don't even try to ride here now but I did for years. I had liners and supposedly thorn resistant tires and tubes as well...
[13:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:30] <exec> 08└─At 55mph you travel 80 ft/sec +/-. 2 Seconds then is 160 ft/sec. Even in metric, that's a large distance... The typical midsize car is maybe 15 ft long. A 2 second break is more than 10 car-lengths. Leave that much in rush-hour traffic and someone will try something stupid.
[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─That's because they where taught some stupid shit like "1 car lengh per 10 mph" or whatever it is.
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:34] <exec> 08└─The law here is that "you must always use the rightmost free lane" at any time. And right-passing is specificcally forbidden and a very serious offense. Basically, by law, you are requested to drive always in the righmost lane
[13:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:33] <exec> 08└─With digital, can crunch pretty much any kind of statistics imaginable.
[13:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:34] <exec> 08└─The subject line looks like weird spam but I assure you as a teen boy in the 80s/90s this book was 100% successful at encouraging me to put computer and electronic stuff on the back burner for a few years and go to uni as a chemistry major. That lasted until I realized, just like Gergel's memoirs, t...
[13:19:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:10] <exec> 08└─You americans are batshit crazy. And you are batshit crazy for such a long time you think this is normal.
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[14:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:38] <exec> 08└─Why not give a billion people jobs? Or feed a billion Africans? Oh I get it. He's a nice guy. Maybe that's the joke. Ha ha.
[14:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:39] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg is visionary enough to realize the importance of getting everyone to use VR and Augmented Reality, all the time, every day. This will accomplish two very important things. 1. It will get people to stop having their head down stuck in a smart phone while walking or driving. People should n...
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─This will give a billion people jobs. See my post below. I am NOT a cowboy and there is nothing wrong with this speed for a small number of posts.
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we'll end up with two robotized human army brands fighting and killing one another on sight in ord
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─> It will accelerate the corporate overlord goal of turning everyone into obedient robots. I don't see the point. We're gonna [4th directive] you anyway. Your heat signature gives you away.
[14:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:48] <exec> 08└─How would that serve his goal of continuing to amass more money and power? There's no obvious connection. Embracing VR, however, very much fits his pattern. He'll tell you he's giving people what they want - to a degree that's certainly true. But as always the devil is in the details. You can be sur...
[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:50] <exec> 08└─Jeez. That prospect makes me want to pull the third lever for the Fight Club option.
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. But can you name the TV series?
[14:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:55] <exec> 08└─I appreciate how they needed to point out that it's Facebook's Zuckerberg. Otherwise, I might have mistaken the headline for the bridge player Zuckerberg and interpreted the news very differently.
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:57] <exec> 08└─The only way I'll ever bother with VR is if I can have a giant dick for an avatar. Photo-realistic veins and such required. Lacking that bit of kek, it's shiny but ultimately useless garbage. Right now, in non-virtual reality, I can see all the info I have a use for. While that's possible in VR as w...
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─That word does not mean what you think it means.
[14:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:18] <exec> 08└─Getting started now is the way to go.
[14:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:20] <exec> 08└─Yes but then all the toxic waste buried in New Jersey, both its substances and its people, will float elsewhere and contaminate perfectly lovely communities.
[14:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:54] <exec> 08└─"Gnome almost went bankrupt doing just that." "Almost" can be the saddest word in the language. :(
[14:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:55] <exec> 08└─With VPN, they would need to operate it outside of the U.S. and keep no logs.
[14:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:35] <exec> 08└─I read a short story, or novelette, years ago, in which they found "God's thumbprint" on a new world. Dang it, I forget it's proper title and author. I went in search of it, and found a bunch of - relatively speaking - silly stuff. Anyway, the telescopes have probably found God's thumbprint, and all...
[14:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:02] <exec> 08└─Right, so when can boys sign up for girl scouts? Oh wait this wasn't about equality after all?
[14:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:03] <exec> 08└─My daughter loved tagging along to cub scouts with my son. They learned to make fires, carve things, use a pocketknife, make birdhouses, first aid, build and race wooden cars, tie knots, and had epic games of tag and tug of war. In Girl Scouts they colored, did workbooks, sold a shitton of cookies,...
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:05] <exec> 08└─Lemme think a second here. Men, especially young men, have raging hormones that stay pretty much the same all the time. Women have a hormone cycle that sends them constantly up and down and up again. Then, they've got this 9 month thing where hormones do especially crazy things to them. And, finally...
[14:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─For those who don't know Scouting history that was a motto from the BSA's 1970s "vatican II moment". Much like vatican II the peak happened and then it was time to change everything and since then its been continuous decline although surely it could never be the fault of the changes LOL. Unlike vati...
[14:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:10] <exec> 08└─it was to teach boys to aspire to meet some vague notion of manhood
[14:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─Useless virginity tests are the wrong approach. Use chastity protection devices instead. Designed using modern tech. Maybe even chastity protecting drugs. Boys and girls could be trusted to be together without doing or even thinking about naughty things. In time the entire world could stop doing nau...
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Please no! It's better to acknowledge that wild raging hormones do not exist. Ignore the problem long enough and it will go away.
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─Also: a "sensor-equipped tire"? Did the IoT just reach into tires as well? Do /I/ get access to the sensor data or do I just get to transmit it (i.e. it is the manufacturers data and they tell me to go and get stuffed)?
[14:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:17] <exec> 08└─They don't appear to be bound either by the laws of Physics or the law of the land in my experience.
[14:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:19] <exec> 08└─That's a good method, too. Anything that conveys the idea that "the faster you go, the more safe following distance you need," will work.
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─Does that mean that you do not approve of *any* military intervention? Am I getting that right? Because that's the equivalent of this between countries. One man's aggression is another's 'signaling'. I take it you also never flash your lights at anyone?
[14:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:23] <exec> 08└─Does that mean that you do not approve of *any* military intervention?
[14:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:02] <exec> 08└─Is that your iPhone 8 or are you just glad to see me?
[14:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:03] <exec> 08└─Immaculate Misconception.
[14:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:28] <exec> 08└─Chemical propulsion still has some room for improvement. Current work is in making lower molecular weight reaction products (for example, if you can somehow get more molecular and/or atomic hydrogen in your exhaust stream, you'll have on average a higher exhaust velocity over stuff like water vapor...
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[15:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:39] <exec> 08└─Google could help by being a responsible corporate citizen. Google would invest in treatments or cures if they would but recognize that blind children are deprived of advertisements for life. (alternately wire VR headsets directly into the visual cortex)
[15:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─Hmm, some might say you're a virtual dick already. C'mon, you had to know you were leaving yourself wide open on that one. :-)
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─I am going to steal your great avatar idea. You could tell Facebook and Google Glass systems what avatar to use not only for your personal appearance, but also for your home and automobile. Your home could have a different "paint job" every season of the year. No more need to have 3,000 different pa...
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─Why not give a billion people jobs? Jobs doing what, exactly? Obviously, he wants to give some people jobs in the VR industry. What more do you want? I hate to stick up for Fuckerberg, but seriously: suppose you suddenly find yourself bestowed with a billion dollars in wealth (not in cash, though, m...
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─Google had the correct evil vision, but Google Glass failed in its first attempt. Zuckerberg might be able to pull it off. He has the necessary greed and lack of empathy. Only Google may be able to challenge. Not true. Apple and Microsoft can also challenge; they have the money. The Apple VR set wil...
[15:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:25] <exec> 08└─Given that the flood has multiple sources, and given that in the bible the age in years of men before and after the flood is different (and has very tenuous theological meaning so is likely not symbolic) which points to a different rotation rate of the planet itself or to something equally radical,...
[15:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:02] <exec> 08└─That's to remind you it's a fork of Firefox!
[15:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:03] <exec> 08└─And Yahoo Mail doesn't work on it :( (I use Pale Moon extensively)
[15:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:05] <exec> 08└─I recently revived a 133mhz Thinkpad, from 1996, and it is challenging to even get a browser to run on it--well, aside from what I had installed on it already (including IE, since that was baked in at the OS level...) Netscape Navigator did OK for many sites, but once it looks like its for a mobile...
[15:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:46] <exec> 08└─Haha. Yeah but will we survive the Song Title : Nuclear Seasons
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:20] <exec> 08└─Of course it wasn't. It was about growing their community to combat flagging numbers. Why would a boy want to join the GSA anyway? The BSA offers a far better experience in every way except the cookies.
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:22] <exec> 08└─A stylized DnD wizard or if the graphics arts team freak, the text "/r9k/" would probably do among today's youth. If we're going to shitpost controversial merit badges I'm thinking of one with the artwork of a simple "red pill". There's a small subculture of scouts or parents where mom owns a digita...
[15:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─Keep the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts separate please. No need to intermix them. But allow boys to join the Girl Scouts. After all, the Girl Scouts should be inclusive too.
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─Sweety, you can deny science all you like but it's still going to exist. Men and women are both physically and mentally different. Always have been. Always will be.
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─"On My Honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and to my country..."
[15:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:31] <exec> 08└─Why should boys or men ever be allowed to have any time or place where they can be together without the presence of a woman? Can you even imagine the naughty things that could happen? It should be taken further that boys and men shouldn't even be allowed to be alone without the presence of a woman....
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:33] <exec> 08└─Educate me here. Which particular part of the Boy Scouts experience is inappropriate for girls to participate in from gender-separated groups? Will being able to sharpen a knife without cutting their hand off mentally scar them? Are hard work, honesty, respect, and other western values damaging to t...
[15:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:35] <exec> 08└─Use chastity protection devices instead.
[15:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─Just have her the fleshy part of her nose surgically amputated at birth. Problem solved.
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─the church my wife attends is about 75% 80+ yr senior citizens and will be closing soon. You can draw graphs and trendline models and estimate the date the last white catholic dies or leaves the faith in the USA, and its surprisingly soon.
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─It must be horribly depressing to see life through shit-colored glasses. You have my pity.
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 2904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─Confirmed. Four minor extensions: AC's probably a rare SN female because our council didn't allow male participation other than very strictly isolated events. My wife did volunteer as a leader. Reportedly most of the female GS leaders spend most of their time doing cat fights with the other alpha fe...
[15:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 7071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:46] <exec> 08└─On the other side having heard how girl scouts is run and operates I kind of take a fuck 'em approach as girl scouts has needed to adapt for a long time and has been resisting more so than boy scouts. Also the most likely recruits into either boy/cub scouts or girl scouts are those who's parents wer...
[15:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:48] <exec> 08└─Either you're scientific and red pilled to human biological differences or its Lysenkoism politics overrides scientific fact blue pills.
[15:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:51] <exec> 08└─This is about money more than anything else. Scouting membership is declining. This represents a loss of revenue for the national organization and those people want to keep their jobs just like anyone else. Allowing girls brings in more revenue. Business is business. I've seen the same thing going o...
[15:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:53] <exec> 08└─It used to be that we didn't have any ubiquitous counterexamples to this unscientific claim about men and women's emotions. But hey, they said if I voted for Hillary I would end up with an emotionally unstable insider with a private email server. Well, I voted for Hillary, and look what happened.
[15:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:11] <exec> 08└─As an early teen I threw newspapers from a dirt bike (1984). I was able to stack ~150lbs of papers in the side saddle bags. (then needed to ride very carefully at first to keep from flipping over backwards) I had blowouts and punctures frequently. I found a kevlar sidewall tire I could order, that t...
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:12] <exec> 08└─I trust you kept your tyres well inflated, too? A low tyre pressure means you're more succeptible to "snakebite" punctures, where on impact the wheel rim pinches the inner tube against the ground (e.g. when hitting a pothole). I understand that a higher pressure also means tyres will tend to deflect...
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─I would vote for this Donald Trump.
[15:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─Well… [cnn.com]
[15:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:26] <exec> 08└─But sea level rise is everyone's problem. People on the coast are not going to stay and drown. If it comes to serious sea level rise, we will all have to adjust.
[15:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:07] <exec> 08└─That's because the TOS Klingons looked goofy and ridiculous, basically like middle easterners with evil-looking goatees. It was a low-budget product of the 1960s, after all. By TNG and beyond, people were used to the much more believable Klingons shown there (and also in the TOS movies); they didn't...
[15:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:09] <exec> 08└─They'd be cancelled after 13 movies then finally return for a disapointing movie. Wrong. That only happens when you make the mistake of having your show on FOX. CBS is doing a lot of things really wrong here, but let's not equate them with the idiots at FOX. It takes a special kind of stupid to show...
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[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─Wow. This came out of left field. Not quite the article where I would have predicted a Google hate comment to have been inserted, particularly as the first comment. Working through some issues today, maybe?
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 2174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─Graders assessing primary outcome were affiliated with an independent reading center, and were masked to treatment group by providing video files to them as coded files that did not reference date or assignment group (see appendix). Orientation and mobility assessors were also masked to treatment gr...
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─MASH ?
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─Virtual Reality (VR) closes one off from the world. I don't care for it. It's too claustrophobic. I don't like not knowing what's going on around me. OTOH, Augmented Reality (AR) could be quite useful, like a heads-up display. Judging from some of the comments, it seems like it's not really clear wh...
[16:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:05] <exec> 08└─You hit the nail on the head with the comment about the inside of your eyelids. I think the same thing with self-driving cars. People say, "Oh, I won't have to own a car! I can just order up a car and go somewhere!" And I'm thinking, "Yeah, and you'll be trapped in a tiny, uncomfortable box, that yo...
[16:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─Someone read Snow Crash :P You're just silly to have zero desire to check out VR, it has a pletura of excellent use cases. Like already happens with screens / media there will be people who stay plugged in too much.
[16:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:18] <exec> 08└─Not really, BGA packaging still uses wires from silicon to package with the solder balls on the bottom of the package. The silicon is placed with active stuff up. In flip chip, smaller solder balls are placed on the pads where the bond wires usually go and the silicon is flipped "up-side down".
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─which points to a different rotation rate of the planet itself or to something equally radical
[16:10:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:53] <exec> 08└─unless they somehow break all those extensions or addons.
[16:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:13] <exec> 08└─That's just anti-hacking protection kicking in.
[16:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:15] <exec> 08└─is if they're going to force the services on us. I've already got Pocket and a bunch of other junk I can't stand polluting my context menus.
[16:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:17] <exec> 08└─The internet changed from an experiment to capitalistic based economy worried about increasing shareholder value long ago. Look no further than google and facebook.
[16:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:19] <exec> 08└─t is the usual Prog program though. 1. ID a respected institution 2. Kill it 3. Gut it 4. Wear it's carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect. 5. Institution fades away, Progs can't understand why. 6. GOTO 1 This needs copypasta into most political threads these days because again we see a res...
[16:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:32] <exec> 08└─so like you mean ti display test via a udp stream or something like that using a broadcast? isn't that what that was designed for originally? it doesnt have to be tcp or html. it can be text in an icmp payload for all that it matters.
[16:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:03] <exec> 08└─Does it make it OK when the topic is a new SciFi "teaser" that is released, or a "XXX Premier This Weekend" story, or "Game of Thrones New Season Kicks Off Saturday" type of story?
[16:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:04] <exec> 08└─It was nice knowing you all. Well, most of you. Bah, more like a small handful of you. The galaxy will be better off without us.
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:55] <exec> 08└─That's going to make for some interesting camp outs.
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─One thing that has always been true in American politics is that the right-wing is just better organized than the left-wing. They built all these institutions and organizations and bureaucracies to make the country what it is. And the left has always been unable to compete on the same footing. So wh...
[16:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:59] <exec> 08└─...those people want to keep their jobs just like anyone else.
[16:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 1684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─First of all, I was a scout for several years as well...I quit after the leadership changed and we went from guns and carpentry and survival skills to sitting around a kitchen eating cookies and playing games. The boy scout experience is highly variable depending on who's running the group. So any a...
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─Um, why not? The only "vow" on that page is the "24-hour vow of silence". I'm pretty sure the stereotype about girls and deception goes the other way.
[16:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─One thing that has always been true in American politics is that the right-wing is just better organized than the left-wing.
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─That was terriffic. And this: Each of these leaders will tell that you their road to American success -- and you have to understand -- their American success, and they are a great, great story, was paved with the patriotic American values and traditions they learned in the Boy Scouts.
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:27] <exec> 08└─Checked em twice a day when I was pedal-commuting, yeah. These aren't "snakebit" punctures I'm talking about. They're large goats-head thorns. Natures caltrops, with very hard very thin armor-piercing spines. You can push them into tire rubber with a finger-tip, very little pressure required. Fortun...
[16:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:48] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but you still shouldn't have to.
[16:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:25] <exec> 08└─I used to have sympathy for Joss Weedon over firefly. Then he did Dollhouse with Fox too - I never watched that due to how firefly was treated.
[16:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, I see now after a Google search. Interesting that IMDB doesn't show that at all, but I guess they wait until something's aired/released before putting such credits on someone's bio. This still won't fix this trainwreck of a show. At the very best, they could try to salvage the Klingon mess by c...
[16:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you gotta wonder what he was thinking there. Didn't he ever hear the saying, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me"? (Or the updated version, "...won't get fooled again"...) Maybe he was desperate and no one else was willing to pick up his new show.
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[17:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─East: Cobalt warhead? On the diagram the giant torpedo's range is given as "up to 10,000km" (6,200 miles) and depth of trajectory is "up to 1,000m" (3,300ft). It was developed by Rubin, a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg. It would, apparently, be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the...
[17:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:34] <exec> 08└─the Bloomberg Brain Concentration Index, which tracks business formation as well as employment and education in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─The smartest Americans looked at the Rockies and said fuck it, I'm stopping here.
[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─What the heck are you talking about? They're not claiming that a majority of smart people nationwide are all moving to 3 towns in Colorado; that's completely ridiculous. They're claiming that of the top-10 places where smart people are moving to, out of all the places where smart people are moving,...
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─If they're headed closer to California, they're not that smart.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─"Higher"... Yes. I believe that might have something to do with it.
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─Could easily substitute "Facebook" and "blind Puerto Rican children" in that comment without changing it. However Alphabet/Google does have not one but TWO medical branches: Calico [wikipedia.org] and Verily [wikipedia.org].
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying that is the kind of thing the FDA should be concerned about
[17:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─*spoilers* The series is Dollhouse. It's about an organisation that can wipe peoples' minds and upload customised personalities for specialised missions / jobs, then wipe them clean and restore their personality later. They have a collection of (more or less consenting) people whose bodies they use...
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─venereal dupe aaaaaaarrgh
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:35] <exec> 08└─Flip chip packaging has been around forever.
[17:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─I keep hoping they'll come up with a working variant that will operate at room temperature...or at least liquid Nitrogen. This doesn't, however, appear to be it.
[17:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─What, you don't use liquid helium to cool your Core i9?
[17:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:54] <exec> 08└─I'm 99% certain you're arguing against a point you agree with. "Starting now" means addressing specific problems instead of creating a long term holistic plan. Planning ahead is important, but this research says do what you can first so you don't get bogged down by committees arguing details for yea...
[17:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:55] <exec> 08└─My point is that basic emergency preparedness would cover "starting now" without requiring the city to think even a little bit about the risks from climate change. In other words, climate change is a red herring. This is stuff that would be a good idea to do even if there are no climate change-relat...
[17:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're projecting the GOP SOP on to your "enemies". Not surprising. Mozilla had plenty of problems, but your wacky dystopian version is not one of them. They are struggling against the giant Google and pressure from the industry, hence why they decided to bundle DRM into the browser. The...
[17:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:41] <exec> 08└─If they mess it up, the community can always fork the code and start from the ashes of "Freemium"
[17:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:43] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, Giant Google's best play against Mozilla was dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into it, effectively paralyzing the project. They can't even commit to their diversions [soylentnews.org]. Now Mozilla is slurping up Yahoo/Verizon money: https://www.computerworld.com
[17:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:45] <exec> 08└─Why would a browser need integrated cloud storage? Everything it does involves data pulled from the cloud already; why put it back?
[17:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─This was a nice physiology study but that is as far as it goes. Any light-beam communications other than isolated point-to-point will need to solve the multipath echo problems. Further, the solution will need to simultaneously avoid being too expensive and too rate-limiting. Plus, it would require a...
[17:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:31] <exec> 08└─Song ID : 78938 😉
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─Remember when you broke off from The Green Site? Why? What for? To eventually come around to realize that they were right all along?
[17:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─It's the same reason they don't (didn't?) have women on submarines: it's just not worth the bother of integration and the extra problems it causes for no real benefit. As people above have pointed out, they've already got Girl Scouts and something called Venture Scouts. Why do they need to be in an...
[17:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:33] <exec> 08└─To steal a phrase from my Scout Master as he taught that to the new kids, "And notice that GOD comes first, BEFORE everything else!"
[17:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:22] <exec> 08└─No, "Apple cultists" were not "laughing". EVERYONE was "laughing". And the only people who were genuinely laughing were random assholes. Everyone else was going, "Oh shit" or "I knew Samsung devices were crap quality but this is beyond the pale". Stop trying to make this an apple vs android thing wh...
[17:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:23] <exec> 08└─I do agree on the non-replaceable battery thing though. That's a trend I would very much like to see reversed.
[17:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:25] <exec> 08└─Because there are fundamental differences. Having a battery fail safely (ie: swell) is a MASSIVE difference from exploding. The Note 7 had almost 100 cases of *explosions*, which caused burns and property damage. There is no mention of battery swelling. Samsung sold about 2.5m Note 7s total. Compare...
[17:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:28] <exec> 08└─Correction, I misread the Forbes article I found. It is estimated that only 5.5 million iphone 8's have been sold in September. But my point still stands.
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[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:50] <exec> 08└─chatanooga looks pretty nice to me
[18:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─You mean no. 2 and 3 on the list? Not that I give any credence to a business bullshit index.
[18:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─Ok, realistically there's probably some decent places in every state, and places where smart people might even want to move. But is Chattanooga in or even near the top-10 for destinations right now? I kinda doubt it. It's a small city, and there isn't that much happening there. Also, while they were...
[18:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─They're obviously going there to prospect for gold. Sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics fields don't pay enough for mortgages, cars, student loans, cell phones, and food these days.
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─North: The N.C.A.A. on Friday announced that it “could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated N.C.A.A. academic rules” in what is widely considered the worst academic scandal in college sports history. The organization, which governs the top tier of college sports in the Un...
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─RTFHeadline as well as the name of the index and what that would logically imply.
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─A lot of them are moving to CO from California, so technically they are heading East.
[18:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─There's also a really cool underground lake a little north of Chattanooga
[18:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─If they're headed closer to California, they're not that smart.
[18:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─The recommendation came in a unanimous 16-0 vote after a daylong hearing that included emotional testimonials by doctors, parents of children blinded by the disease and from children and young adults helped by the treatment.
[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:20] <exec> 08└─You could also substitute McDonald, Boeing or freaking Blackwater and they would all be equally relevant to the actual article: AKA not relevant at all!
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:48] <exec> 08└─Jobs doing what, exactly? Obviously, he wants to give some people jobs in the VR industry. What more do you want? I hate to stick up for Fuckerberg, but seriously: suppose you suddenly find yourself bestowed with a billion dollars in wealth (not in cash, though, mostly in some company's stock). You...
[18:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:50] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a fun bit of dystopian sci-fi but I fail to see how replacing one small screen with two really small screens is going to make much of a difference.
[18:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─it is not possible for me to also see where my coffee cup is Well clearly the solution is IOT enabled coffee cups, duh! (yes, that was sarcasm)
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:54] <exec> 08└─Why limit yourself to surfaces? Decent AR can create giant floating movie screens and billboards wherever it wants. No need for physical billboards at all - ad-laden billboards can be drawn in empty fields, and even travel along with you while they have your attention rather than rushing past before...
[18:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:57] <exec> 08└─Never had heard of dollhouse until I notice it while looking around Netflix within the last week or so. Never watched it, nor Firefly, nor Buffy.
[18:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:59] <exec> 08└─In the future, people will be rewarded with periods of ad-free existence. Hey, I just earned 48 ad-free minutes! Wanna trade for something?
[18:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:01] <exec> 08└─Forget coffee cups. You'll get it intravenously. The words "Java" and "Dependency Injection" come to mind.
[18:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─Dystopian sci-fi may come true just like other sci-fi. Replacing one small screen with two doesn't matter, as you say. What matters is that everyone will be wearing the one or two screens all the time instead of having their head stuck to a smartphone all the time. The machine manipulation of humans...
[18:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:17] <exec> 08└─Technically, BGAs can be - cavity-up: die facing "up", away from the balls, with gold wirebonds - flip-chip: die facing down, with balls on the die attaching to the substrate or the balls of the package Flip-chip provides better signal integrity and better thermals, and is also used in multi-c...
[18:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:18] <exec> 08└─... so that you'd have something to back up your improper usage.
[18:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:21] <exec> 08└─Can you use an i9 without liquid He or H cooling? I thought for your enthusiast money, your only Intel choices were de-lid or go exotic.
[18:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis [wikipedia.org]
[18:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:40] <exec> 08└─And people who do Risk Assessment assess risks....
[18:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:28] <exec> 08└─Remember when you could surf the web on a 90 MHz Pentium just fine?
[18:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─A University of Edinburgh team has found that transmitting digital data via LEDs at the same time as using them to generate light does not make the light dimmer or change its colour. Nor does it make the LED more energy-hungry.
[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─Well, we can't run that one, because it sounds like it's against our Narrative. Our Narrative is diametrically to opposed to the Their Narrative. The reasoning goes like this: "she lost! get over it!" Therefore, anything that might make it sound like Russia may have been up to no good constitutes cl...
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:19] <exec> 08└─Anyway, the telescopes have probably found God's thumbprint, and all you atheists are going to have to work overtime explaining it away.
[18:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:21] <exec> 08└─lol I already ran the story and submitted the preceding the story about Kaspersky. Typical idiot AC with an axe to grind.
[18:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─That modus operandi fits extremely well to the current US administration. Does that make the current US administration is a prime example of "Prog program"? Or is this behaviour typical of a certain class of idiots, found on all sides of the political spectrum in the USA?
[18:15:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06 Futuristic Airless Tire is 3D Printed, Won't Go Flat or Need Replacement - 1528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:29] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, this Michelin concept won't be back to bother you, it's all for corporate image. They are developing a small, specialized market for the composite Tweel airless tire for things like outdoor fork lifts and lawn tractors. The rolling resistance is high, so don't bother dreaming about use...
[18:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:39] <exec> 08└─You can always print it out, then scan it in as jpeg and OCR it. Yep, there's no beating hard-copy.
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[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─Now that is just astoudingly stupid. As long as Uber said "drive for us, bring your own car", they were believably hiring independent contractors. If they have also been providing the vehicles, under whatever terms, I do believe they have crossed the line into an employer/employee relationship. AFAI...
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─In the late 1980s, all I saw on Manhattan streets were legitimate taxis - I think this was the period in which the medallions were approaching $1M apiece. By the late 1990s, you could effectively hail a ride from a Limo service - nicer cars, no medallions, but they got you from midtown to JFK or LaG...
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─Plenty of "work from home, independent consultant" schemes supply marketing material and the goods to sell... not saying those are a great way to make money, either, but brochures and samples are the "tools of the trade" at tupperware parties and the like.
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─Yet another company that's just got hundreds of millions to throw away, does so on things that can clearly never be profitable, obviously takes over the market (because it's easy to capture a market if you're just throwing money away on profitless adventures that your customers can benefit from), an...
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─Tell me how this makes sense. Drivers receive unilateral changes to their lease agreement through the bankruptcy administration process of Uber. An agreement they, I suppose, are not a party to and cannot contest? Yet the large investment banking institutions do not suffer a loss? So the capital los...
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─No, those are sales goods and marketing material. If they provide the desk and the computer, it would be different. Über providing the car is more like equipping your office.
[19:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─Uber did not get it's start due to deregulation. They just went "fuck regulations, we'll incorporate out of the country so you can't touch us." Here in Edmonton, AB, you sign up with an Uber company that is incorporated in Germany I believe, and likely the same in the US. Uber Canada claims to just...
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─I wonder if, were Uber to die the painful death it deserves, that whomever buys the assets can impose whatever random terms they want for these vehicle leases. Hopefully people wouldn't be dumb enough to sign up for a lease with a "Terms of this lease may change with 30 days notice, and you must acc...
[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─Some people drive for Uber and Lyft.
[19:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pendorbound [2688] 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─"Higher"... Yes. I believe that might have something to do with it.
[19:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:20] <exec> 08└─Skip Memphis unless you want to live way out around Germantown. It's a shithole in Memphis proper with a way above average chance of you getting robbed, raped, or killed to death. Well, maybe not raped if you fit the male nerd stereotype but it's the twenty-teens so you never know.
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─most of them are heading the other way, leaving California. Colorado [etc.] are dumping grounds for California refugees.
[19:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:23] <exec> 08└─Boulder is awful. Rich and arrogant, and generally full of people quite unpleasant to be around. Do you like watching vegan yuppies smell each others farts? Move to Boulder.
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:25] <exec> 08└─Like most of your "understanding", you are wrong. House prices are still rising in the SF Bay Area. Do you think that happens because there is a net migration away? You really represent the typical "low information voter", don't you.
[19:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─I search for Boulder-area software jobs when I was dating a woman who lived there. We broke up - I remain heartbroken - so I didn't move there. But the list I compiled for companies to apply to looked just like this [soggy.jobs].
[19:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:30] <exec> 08└─Oregon law permits no-cause eviction. This has resulted in many people becoming homeless, while Software Engineers who moved from somewhere else paying twice the evicted person's rent. San Francisco is even worse.
[19:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:44] <exec> 08└─The FDA is a government agency that is supposed to represent the will of the people. Voters, patient advocacy groups, and other lobbiest organizations have pushed for the inclusion of these testimonials and case studies. This can go very wrong and biases the decision-making process, but the FDA isn'...
[19:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:20] <exec> 08└─I think your near-sighted assessment of the situation is a good argument for why no one person should be making decisions for everyone. The tech that comes out of low-latency, hi-resolution "VR entertainment" is directly applicable to remote surgery, VR tele-operation of heavy machinery, and countle...
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─I think it's likely that Facebook VR is going to fail. Thank god. Let's just remember Facebook has really nothing to do with this technology. It was developed by Palmer and Carmack and then bought by facebook. I'd like to mention that as soon as they bought it, between DK2 and production releases, t...
[19:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:58] <exec> 08└─Except for the fact that preparing for preparing's sake is not something that people generally do, and especially governments.
[19:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Trackers Test Warning System as Small Asteroid 2012 TC4 Flies by Earth - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:05] <exec> 08└─Just wondering if there has ever been a collision that was predicted in advance, or whether scientists can say when such a successful prediction might first occur?
[19:12:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:25] <exec> 08└─As Red Hat demonstrate, it is entirely possible to exist on service revenues.
[19:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:49] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon's Mac implementation is a slow, single-threaded resource hog that doesn't release RAM even when closing all tabs.
[19:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:50] <exec> 08└─The current social politics shit is just a symptom, not the cause though. The mismanagement is executive staff on down and it has been that way in large part thanks to obscenely high management salaries since the 90s. They thought the money they were getting meant they were doing things right, rathe...
[19:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Dark Side to Using LED Lights to Supplement Wifi, Research Reveals - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:07] <exec> 08└─Just increase the lumens output by 10% to account for the data transfer use. The data processing circuitry might only be an extra 1-2 Watts, about another +10%, but whatever it is you'll be fine with it if you see a benefit from "Li-Fi".
[19:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:44] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe they found multiple gods and all you mono-deists will have lots of "walking back" and sucking up to do. Or maybe they've been able to observe past the edge of this universe and see into the Cowboy Universe.
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 1770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─I'm almost a 100% supporter of Trump, and mostly wish he were more... Trump-like. Magnify the MAGA. (only a gripe about net neutrality) Most countries, Russia included, are frenemies. They can be helpful, but watch your back! Republicans generally have been steady about Russia for almost 3 decades....
[19:16:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Valkor [4253] 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:48] <exec> 08└─Hit the windshield washer button. If you have one for the rear, use it. The spray will get on them, too.
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[20:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:40] <exec> 08└─...
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:42] <exec> 08└─It's almost a certainty the Microsoft OSes were in use here, which explains why they were so easily hacked. Will Microsoft ultimately be responsible for a nuclear war, and possibly the extinction of the human race? When will we as a species finally realize how dangerous MS software is and stop using...
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─Even if they know the plan it doesn't mean they can stop it.
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─This encryption of data has to stop, its just dangerous to allow anyone to use encryption. We need backdoors to all encrypted data. Oh, wait..... Nevermind.
[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:02] <exec> 08└─It's just win-win-win and blowjobs all around for the investment bankers, isn't it? They quite literally cannot lose at this game.
[20:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─They sell you branded tablecloths to display on, they sell you the website to take orders on - does it need to be a physical desk and computer? What's the real difference between providing the physical computer vs providing all the company specific software to access via your cellphone?
[20:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:06] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, the distinction between independent contractor and employee is based on three factors: No, it's not. You're referring to official IRS rules, which are completely irrelevant. The real distinction is: how does your employer pay you, as a 1099 contractor or a W-2 employee? The nature of your wor...
[20:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─The Smoky Mountains are OK as a national park, but it's got nothing on the parks in the West. Glacier, Yellowstone, Badlands, Cascades, Olympic, Redwoods, Yosemite, Death Valley, Kings Canyon, Sequoia, Arches, Capitol Reef. All of those have grandeur Smoky Mountains can't touch. You could spend a li...
[20:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:35] <exec> 08└─That's a weird map. I mean, who knew that Beckley, WV (pop 17k) and Altoona, PA (pop 44k) qualified as "metro areas"? I've been in Altoona, and I can assure you that it is neither metropolitan nor any sort of techie nirvana. It's just another small city in the midst of the rust belt. As for Colorado...
[20:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─White people have been leaving California for the Pacific Northwest for 30 years. People in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming call it "californication." They have raised hackles among the natives because they tend to be holier-than-thou post-hippies who drove up all the local housing p...
[20:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:40] <exec> 08└─Neither. A better question would be: Who paid Bloomberg to produce this study, and why?
[20:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:42] <exec> 08└─Close, but no cigar. They're shooting for those thousands of coal jobs that are sure to show up any day now!
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─House prices are still rising in the SF Bay Area. Do you think that happens because there is a net migration away?
[20:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:46] <exec> 08└─The Smoky Mountains are OK as a national park, but it's got nothing on the parks in the West. Glacier, Yellowstone, Badlands, Cascades, Olympic, Redwoods, Yosemite, Death Valley, Kings Canyon, Sequoia, Arches, Capitol Reef. Sorry, but no. The east coast and west coast simply aren't comparable, it's...
[20:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:48] <exec> 08└─Net migration away != no migration away.
[20:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:51] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong. The Appalachians are nice. They're close. They're lovely in the fall when the leaves turn. They're comforting in the way a good quilt is on a chilly day. There are even a handful of nice vistas. But they don't say to you, Wow, this is nature! Nowhere in the Appalachians puts you...
[20:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:43] <exec> 08└─And got bashed as just being 'Cowboys in Space', which along with it being during college courses I was taking lead to me not watching it until 3+ years later. The actual series delved into transhumanism, one world government dystopia, legalized prostitution as both a prestigious and often derided c...
[20:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:44] <exec> 08└─Don't you want a 90s style Johnny Mneumonic raytraced model using low poly count nurbs curves? :)
[20:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:46] <exec> 08└─And what is the great lesson we learn from Joss Whedon's misadventures in sci-fi? Why, don't name your shows or movies after feminine hygiene products, of course.
[20:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:48] <exec> 08└─It's nothing BB guns and flamethrowers can't fix.
[20:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:51] <exec> 08└─The tech that comes out of low-latency, hi-resolution "VR entertainment" is directly applicable to remote surgery, VR tele-operation of heavy machinery, and countless other "useful" endeavors.
[20:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:53] <exec> 08└─Cuz it's a tough game against google and now even Micro$hit is getting into the game with winders10 (= Spy Edition).
[20:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:30] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1960s, before he became krytonite, Bill Cosby had the best take on this. [google.com] "I keep telling the rabbits, 'Only two, only two'." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:31] <exec> 08└─You don't even have to postulate much in the way of global warming to justify this approach. Everyone now realizes that Katrina was "JUST WAITING" to happen, and the idea of living below sea level in Nolo, a historical hurricane target zone, was always going to end badly. The land (the whole delta)...
[20:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Trackers Test Warning System as Small Asteroid 2012 TC4 Flies by Earth - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:41] <exec> 08└─I looked at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Apparently, the first such detection occurred on Oct. 7, 2008. 2008 TC3 [wikipedia.org], with a 4.1 meter diameter. Compare to the Chelyabinsk meteor [wikipedia.org]. Had an estimated 20 meter diameter, si...
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:25] <exec> 08└─(He writes, in a firefox instance gobbling ~5gig of resident ram despite only 27 tabs open)
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─The GOP and progs are different ends of the same serpent. Open your eyes man.
[20:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:14] <exec> 08└─Did you see Note 7 owners deny it had issues? No, they just wanted a fixed phone or a refund. Because they're normal people.
[20:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:09] <exec> 08└─Your phone? That's the catch, you just carry it and paid a buying price for it. But it's still their phone as you can see.
[20:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:11] <exec> 08└─I demand bulletproof...
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[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─won't work due to helicopter parents: if they try to teach Johnny how to behave and he doesn't, what are the consequences? Johnny's parents won't like consequences. Johnny's parents NEVER like consequences. Johnny doesn't have to behave in public because Johnny needs to express himself. You try to s...
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:52] <exec> 08└─We'll know the answer to your second question when we figure out the answer to your first question.
[21:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─This happened during the previous administration of Park Geun-Hye, who had been impeached and is now going through a trial for whole lots of charges. A possible new charge is having the national intelligence agency engaged in various secret and illegal political activities to snuff out all criticism...
[21:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:56] <exec> 08└─TFS: When the hack was discovered last year, the ministry blamed North Korea.
[21:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:14] <exec> 08└─However, 40,000 drivers may incur unilateral changes to their lease arrangements.
[21:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:53] <exec> 08└─Sure. The grandkids will have ocean front property.
[21:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:54] <exec> 08└─Nowhere in the Appalachians puts you in your proper place as a human being, which I think means in awe of the beauty/wonder/coolness of the universe. One of the neater views I've seen including the parks out west is off the back side of Thunderhead on a sunny winter morning as the melt poin...
[21:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:56] <exec> 08└─The Smoky Mountains are OK as a national park, but it's got nothing on the parks in the West.
[21:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:59] <exec> 08└─He never said that there was a net migration away from California, just that those particular states were receiving a lot of people who had moved out of CA. It's still quite possible for CA to keep increasing its population despite losing so many people, from both internal growth (birth rate > death...
[21:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:01] <exec> 08└─As for Colorado, it's beautiful, but it's being rapidly destroyed by progs fleeing the results of their own politics. Who knew? If you put prog policies in place, the place becomes unlivable, so you move somewhere else and start all over again. The progressive laws on marijuana in Colorado seem to b...
[21:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:03] <exec> 08└─If you like tea and move to Boulder, you'll have to use cold-water tea bags,
[21:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:05] <exec> 08└─Net migration is the only measure that matters.
[21:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:07] <exec> 08└─Well, I picked out the Denver/Boulder area as the city I want to move to on that basis. Everybody thinks it's a joke, but think about it. I'm a libertarian. If the science shows that big government's "facts" about why it needs to keep something illegal, despite how stupid the idea of contraband is i...
[21:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─Please link to your predictive model which has a multi-year verified history after publication, and also matches non-manipulated historical temperature data. Be sure to include data showing sea level rise of greater than one mile so as to put Boulder, Colorodo at the new sea level within 90 years.
[21:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:12] <exec> 08└─While I generally am amiable to libertarian views (thought I think literal anarchy is the more logically-consistent ideology), compare and contrast your views on Colorado and its government with its recent "high capacity magazine ban", which prompted private businesses like Magpul to pull up roots a...
[21:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:47] <exec> 08└─preparing for preparing's sake is not something that people generally do
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─Typical Repug comment. Blame everything on liberals who are defined as people you don't like. Dude, grow up. Its gotta suck being a 12 year old in a 50 y/o body.
[21:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:43] <exec> 08└─If you aren't 50 then then those 50 or older consider you a millennial. Its the modern day equivalent of whippersnapper.
[21:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:45] <exec> 08└─1. Sell a Mac 2. Buy a Linux box for a quarter of the price. 3. Enjoy a working browser. 4. Profit = Left over money. Use to purchase cleanser to remove the family of apple stickers you stuck on your Subaru.
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, Palin was never mocked for seeing Russia as a threat. She was mocked because she claimed (or implied) she had foreign policy experience because Alaska is geographically very close to Russia. Your election fraud claim is entirely unsubstantiated, so if you could substantiate it i...
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─If I may ask, I wonder what makes you an almost 100% supporter of Trump? He has not held a consistent position on almost any topic over at least the last 5 years or so. His positions change constantly, and that is true even after he was sworn in. I found him an interesting candidate before the RNC b...
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[22:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─49 per cent of parents agree they would like their child's school to do more about teaching them how to behave in public
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─Aren't you being too hard on Johnny? After all, he's only a lad [youtube.com].
[22:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I'm sorry. Sorry, Johnny. It's all my fault, not yours. Def not yours, Johnny. Poor Johnny: society let you down. (I HOPE YOU FRY, JOHNNY!!!) ;)
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─Yes: the PARENTS should be teaching them how to behave!
[22:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─> school to do more about teaching them how to behave in public In additional news, 49% of parents should pay attention to the fact the their children are no longer allowed to blink in school without being handcuffed (unless they are part of the football team, obviously). I'm pretty sure "behaving"...
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─...for the Babylon 5 reference!
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─Social skills??? These kids can't even boil water. How about some survival skills that do not involve potato chips. Here's a possible clue to the problem Single Parent kids [kidscount.org]. The welfare state has done a great job of driving away black fathers so that black mothers can keep their welf...
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─The ninth edition of "Inc. Yourself" said nothing whatsoever about taxes. Hilarity ensued.
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:55] <exec> 08└─We will lose a war because our soldiers are afraid to attack. When I was a kid I could go anywhere I wanted, provided I was home for supper.
[22:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:58] <exec> 08└─The public should not be financially responsible for raising the children of the irresponsible.
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─https://mobile.twitter.com/ivanka/status/821286796491362304/photo/1 [twitter.com]
[22:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:14] <exec> 08└─Also from ABCNews [go.com] "It is beyond imagination what they have already done inside South Korea," said Jang Se-Yul, a former North Korean computer expert who defected to the South in 2004. "The North has prepared for a massive cyber attack since the early '90s. They are more than ready to destro...
[22:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─Especially since the plans was tweaked recently by the Trump administration. I'll risk my life and liberty to divulge it to you right now, exclusively for SN: Step 1: Nuke it all. Step 2: Congratulate the President. Step 3: Evaluate licensing opportunities of Trump brand during rebuild of Seoul.
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:17] <exec> 08└─No doubt the Ruskies are engaging the norks so as to gain a leverage against the US. It's a low-risk tactic - unlike China, Russia doesn't really care if Nork collapses since N. Korea isn't a buffer/neighboring state for Russia - the border shared between Russia and N Korea is tiny titbit at the riv...
[22:10:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:30] <exec> 08└─Uber did not get it's start due to deregulation. They just went "fuck regulations, we'll incorporate out of the country so you can't touch us." Here in Edmonton, AB, you sign up with an Uber company that is incorporated in Germany I believe, and likely the same in the US. Uber Canada claims to just...
[22:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:37] <exec> 08└─> vehicles accumulating 20,000 miles within six months, vehicles have depreciated to 1/2 of their showroom price please point me to those 1/2 price cars so I can buy 10-30 outright, cash money
[22:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:25] <exec> 08└─No one is perfect, and his point is that the Gov of Colorado is responsive. Did the people of Colorado want to ban high capacity mags?
[22:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:27] <exec> 08└─Pedantic AC can't take a joke I see.
[22:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:29] <exec> 08└─Good point - I don't recall reports of "the people" doing a whole lot in that regard. The bans happened as a result of knee-jerk politics from the government's version of Newtown/Sandy Hook, as I recall.
[22:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:31] <exec> 08└─So, your one-line post is a joke, and it's the same joke as the one used at the end of the SN summary. Did I get that right? Or should I use more redundancy?
[22:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:33] <exec> 08└─Nah, leave him be. He just likes stalking the OP
[22:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:36] <exec> 08└─Uh oh! Better call 5-0!
[22:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:33] <exec> 08└─I think it's likely that Facebook VR is going to fail.
[22:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:34] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Immersive Reality Experience will feature the beloved Clippit, voiced by James Earl Jones. "Tell me what you want to do!"
[22:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:07] <exec> 08└─Or it could be that new non-dwarf planet they have been looking for, and the 3-days is the time it takes them to prepare for the onslaught of Planet_niners fighting Planet_teners about names and classifications.
[22:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Data Centers in Ireland Are Getting an Influx of Wind Power - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:19] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the guys at Keysight are jealous these days... http://www.mercurynews.com [mercurynews.com]
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[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─> When I was a kid I could go anywhere I wanted, provided I was home for supper. Yet it was still such an oppressive requirement that you later got rid of the whole "home" thing. Never satisfied, those millen^H old geezers.
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry! No time for Life Skills. We've already cancelled frills like geography and music so that we can teach every single kid coding! Seriously, every primary teacher that I know does the things suggested all of the time, in the context of their regular teaching. They're clever that way.
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe the parent(s) kicked him out.
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:56] <exec> 08└─In other other news, the other 51% of parents were perfectly happy with how they behaved in public, and continued to yell at their kids' teachers at parent-teacher meetings. Oh, they want the schools to teach the *kids* how to behave better in public? Once again, technology is here to provide us the...
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─But, if it's included in the curriculum, then we can develop metrics for it, rubrics by which to assess it, trend changes over time, develop minimum standards for advancement and admission - doesn't that sound like a fun world? Let's make social functioning another grade in school, another SAT score...
[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:01] <exec> 08└─So you are advocating abolishing state schools and not providing any funding for education whatsoever? That's going to work out well for the country when there are 10s of millions of uneducated people. Really well. Or perhaps you would just like to limit access to education to people who look like y...
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:03] <exec> 08└─Aren't 'social skills' fuzzily defined, and partially culturally specific? A lot of etiquette incidents are still turning into conflagrations online, so I have to wonder if this stuff should be defined better before the school gets involved. Either that, or a waiver saying, 'Yes, I *do* want you to...
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:20] <exec> 08└─Its an interesting border to trace. About 500 feet from where the China border stops and the Russian border starts there is a rail bridge leading to a large coal fired plant in North Korea. There isn't any other bridge to Russia or China for over a 100 miles till you get to Yanbian, North Korea, whe...
[23:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:34] <exec> 08└─I agree. The biological diversity of the Smokies in unmatched. Guess Phoenix666 is not much of a biologist. The Smokies in the summer reminds me of the tropics in some ways.
[23:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:36] <exec> 08└─I don't know what the current emigration rate is, but it was around a million a year last decade.
[23:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:38] <exec> 08└─As for Colorado, it's beautiful, but it's being rapidly destroyed by progs fleeing the results of their own politics.
[23:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:37] <exec> 08└─VR is and will continue to be a really shitty gimmick until companies decide to treat the headsets like the peripherals that they are. Instead Facebook along with (although not as strongly) Valve and Microsoft are focusing on keeping applications, features, and games exclusive to their device. These...
[23:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:11] <exec> 08└─This is even more sensational than their announcement that they were going to announce that they were going to announce something. I'm glad they finally announced that they were going to announce something. I've been waiting for this day ever since they announced they were going to announce that the...
[23:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but... and this is admittedly reading a lot into very little... a planet shouldn't be considered an "astronomical phenomenon that has never been witnessed before", even if it is a new gas giant in our solar backyard. Meanwhile, Newsweek says "The discovery, which is being kept secret until pre...
[23:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:15] <exec> 08└─https://ci.memecdn.com/4313173.jpg [memecdn.com]
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:17] <exec> 08└─Right there on the announcement page =) https://www.eso.org [eso.org] Details about how to connect to the conference, how to submit questions or book interviews, will be sent after registration. An ESO press release will be publicly issued at the start of the conferenc...
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:19] <exec> 08└─Gotcha, thanks.
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