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[00:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allen Brain Atlas Releases Data on Live Human Brain Cells - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:16] <exec> 08└─[ puts glasses on ] Oh.
[00:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:27] <exec> 08└─Given the choice, I think I might still go for the tape. Who has the time (and multi-socket adapter) to plug/unplug the 1400 uSD cards? Either way, the station wagon just got a lot bigger!
[00:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:29] <exec> 08└─Some articles in June 2015 talked about a 512 GB MicroSD card from "Microdia" that seems to have been vaporware or a limited release: http://www.trustedreviews.com [trustedreviews.com] (2017) https://www.pcworld.com
[00:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple v. Samsung Proceeds to Fourth Jury Trial - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:43] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, we could rely on the laziness of that old cat who really liked her nap more than stepping on those crinkly papers. Patent examiners even had time to re-invent physics back then. "The modern era" was born that day she accidentally stepped on "Method to dispense caffeinated drinks to...
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[00:39:21] <exec> 08└─embracing a world in which automated national programming is the new normal Its been that way for at LEAST 20 years in radio and even longer in TV. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com
[00:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:23] <exec> 08└─"The only thing that's left with any backbone (no ads; mostly volunteer presenters) is the Pacifica Radio network." WFMU KFJC (currently in their weird style of fundraising mode) also available on the web
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[00:39:25] <exec> 08└─A plug here for 100 percent listener-supported Pacifica Radio. KPFA[1] - Berkeley (First public radio station in USA, 1949) KPFK - Los Angeles KPFT[1] - Houston, Texas WBAI - NYC WPFW - Washington, DC They also stream. [1] Especially awesome audio archives, in case you miss the beginning or end of a...
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[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─Negation tends to confuse people. "Not insignificant" means "significant."
[00:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:30] <exec> 08└─http://www.pacifica.org/about_history.php [pacifica.org] for Pacifica's political agenda
[00:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:32] <exec> 08└─WFMU Yeah. I've got one of their webpages bookmarked. A Bill of Rights for Today's Busy Citizen [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wfmu.org] That's also the station that syndicated Bob Parlocha. I erroneously pegged them as a Boston station. They broadcast to NY/NJ. KFJC Good to hear about them as well...
[00:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:16] <exec> 08└─Um, khallow? You know you are responding to Eth, do you not? I don't think it was a serious comment, it was Eth, racist anti-semitic Eth. Don't do this, khallow. You are making SoylentNews look bad.
[00:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Profits in Q3 2017 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:28] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty specific use-case. If you look at the chart even intel is all over the map. One of their 70$ cpus beats 1000$+ cpus in single threaded. A CPU is way more than one statistic. I downloaded and ran that benchmark myself (30 day trial). My R7 1800x scored 173 more points than that refere...
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[00:41:23] <exec> 08└─In the quote, Phoenix666 claims that fossil fuels "fully control" the federal government and most of the state governments. Then in the very same paragraph, he admits that wind power is popular in a lot of the states "fully controlled" by fossil fuels.
[00:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:24] <exec> 08└─the problem: that was dishonest
[00:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:26] <exec> 08└─from an opinion piece in the New York Times [nytimes.com]: So, even as one in-house memo stated that “fossil fuels contribute most of the CO2” that was turning the earth into an overheated greenhouse, another memo showed that the company would seek to “emphasize the uncertainty in scientific c...
[00:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:29] <exec> 08└─according to Greenpeace [greenpeace.org]: The Koch [b]rothers have sent at least $100,343,292 directly to 84 groups denying climate change science since 1997.
[00:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, IIRC anti-protons kept in storage rings need to compensate for gravity to avoid losing them via collisions with the bottom of the storage ring...which is fairly direct evidence.
[00:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:24] <exec> 08└─Massive Anti-Black A-hole? Trump? Oh, now I see it! (And wish I had not.)
[00:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Kinect - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:35] <exec> 08└─"Too narrow a scope of use" from the perspective from somebody with no imagination and who has never actually played with one programmatically. Yeah, you might have to put some effort into paying the Microsoft tax to learn it and code for it, but the possibilities are endless. Give me a kinect V2 an...
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[01:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:15] <exec> 08└─Japan wants to be a normal country. The only country that got nuked. Country that doesn't want to/can't face up to its history. So "normal".
[01:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:17] <exec> 08└─> Country that doesn't want to/can't face up to its history. That much is normal, isn't it?
[01:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:19] <exec> 08└─The LDP for those wondering is neither liberal, nor particularly democratic. They have held government for almost the entire time since WW II with the help of the CIA and huge subsidies to rural voters. The Japanese people are wealthy though, so probably don't really care, which is fair enough. I...
[01:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:21] <exec> 08└─Dang, I wish I can I argue, but I can't. All the more reasons that countries that managed to face up to it deserve ... I don't know what.
[01:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allen Brain Atlas Releases Data on Live Human Brain Cells - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:30] <exec> 08└─Alas, it looked like "Alien Brain At last" without the glass.
[01:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allen Brain Atlas Releases Data on Live Human Brain Cells - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─That's what they want you to see.
[01:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:42] <exec> 08└─Corporate: "Can we pay you to run our slickly-produced spots for military aircraft--even though none of your listeners/viewers can actually purchase one? Oh, and if you air anything military-related of which our corporation disapproves, the money stream stops." Corporate shill broadcast outlet: "No...
[01:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:28] <exec> 08└─People don’t realize, you know, JFK, if you think about it, when and where? People don’t ask that question, but when and where did he die? And most importantly, how? Was it murder? Why could that one not have been worked out? Had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn't have had that dea...
[01:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Plans Test of Hyper Velocity Projectiles Fired From 5-Inch Guns - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:55] <exec> 08└─"If you don't care about my opinion, why in Cthulhu's eldritch unpronounceable name do you keep replying to me?" Remember that ugly, mangy dog that you and your friends threw stones at on the way to school? It was sordidly amusing, remember? Today, you're the dog.
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[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Blue Nearing Completion of Second Crowdfunding Attempt - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─I am sending you two bucks - to Alpha Century and beyond! Also, fuck you.
[02:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:27] <exec> 08└─Face.
[02:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:28] <exec> 08└─The only country that got nuked...
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[02:38:30] <exec> 08└─Sure, the Nazi gassed the Jews (and others) in industrial fashion, but the Japs pulled the Unit 731, live vivisection among others. I suppose we are no better for confiscating all the reports and cover it up, though.
[02:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:36] <exec> 08└─JFK files: government releases classified assassination documents – live [theguardian.com]
[02:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:37] <exec> 08└─First, a disclaimer: I haven't been keeping up with developments. I have just looked, for the first time, to see what there might be to see. I found the same link that Maud'Dave found - https://www.archives.gov [archives.gov] At first glance, it appears that those documents...
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[02:40:39] <exec> 08└─docid-32112745 shows that by the end of the Eisenhower administration, the CIA was essentially acting independently of presidential control to cooperate with organized crime and revolutionaries to assassinate Casto and DomRep dictator Trujillo. In Trujillo's case, the presidency heard about the plan...
[02:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:48] <exec> 08└─You simply assume that the scientist is correct, and that this can not be questioned.
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:49] <exec> 08└─What interests the public, and what is in the public interest are not the same thing. In fact, they may most often be diametrically opposed. The American public elected Trump for the entertainment value, not so that he could actually enact completely stupid Republican policy!
[02:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:51] <exec> 08└─Calm down, khallow. You are being provoked. This is not a serious argument. Everyone already knows you are a petro-shill, so the only reason to bring it up is to get a rise out of you. Do not feed the troll, khallow. I know how this works, I have done it to you many times myself, though with a bit m...
[02:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:47] <exec> 08└─Damn, Poe's law gets more difficult every day.
[02:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:48] <exec> 08└─Just the result of the equation trying to balance itself out--cumulative effect of man's nature, which is far from angelic. Man accumulates debt, not in the simple money-lending sense, yet he hasn't yet learned to keep a spare gas can for when the debt catches up with him on the side of the road.
[02:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases into Your Home - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:46] <exec> 08└─I think that's basically what they're doing with the Amazon Locker [amazon.com] partnerships they've been setting up with grocery stores. I noticed it appear as an option sometime in late spring, but I'm not sure how long it has been there.
[02:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fats Domino Dies, Aged 89 - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:15] <exec> 08└─The date: November 2, 1956 The Place: Fayetteville, NC Breece's Landing, [google.com] a privately-owned banquet hall|dance hall|concert venue between Water Street and the Cape Fear River, [googleapis.com] was the location of a Fats Domino performance. The Robesonian - Lumberton, North Carolina - Nov...
[02:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fats Domino Dies, Aged 89 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:17] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting story, but why do you think Fats wanted to forget that night? Attracting the cops and getting gassed could have created some good publicity... Remember that even bad news gets the word around.
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[03:38:16] <exec> 08└─HAHHAAHHAHA Those bitches are screaming.
[03:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:30] <exec> 08└─You misspelled H-IIA [wikipedia.org]. I'm unfamiliar with the saying you allude to.
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[03:38:40] <exec> 08└─...Allens
[03:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:53] <exec> 08└─AC's reading capacity was compressed...
[03:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:54] <exec> 08└─I've used LTO tape, and we used the scheme Snotnose mentioned, and we fought LTO for years. The prospect of 100 TB tapes crapping out with the regularity we experienced with tapes of that day is frightening. Its not just the cost of replacement tape, but the sheer time involved in moving that much d...
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[03:39:54] <exec> 08└─> KKJZ (formerly KLON) is licensed to California State University, Long Beach. When the university bought KLON, it shut down its student-run 10-watt, monaural FM station, KSUL [ksul.org]. KLON took over KSUL's studio. Check out the MP3 [ksul.org] with snippets of some KSUL programming.
[03:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:44] <exec> 08└─The documents were posted a couple of hours ago, long after I wrote that comment. Updates are in the summary.
[03:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:56] <exec> 08└─Greenpeace is deliberately conflating these donations with "denying" climate change. The Koch brothers donate to a bunch of causes mostly in the conservative or libertarian spheres. For example, over the period in question, they donated roughly $17 million to the Cato Institute, $11 million to Merca...
[03:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:58] <exec> 08└─The first link is to a story about an electricity utility lobbying to cut back on paybacks for net metering. It's not a tax and certainly not a climate change related issue. The second died in committee and didn't go anywhere, which is an indication that it didn't have lobbying support.
[03:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fats Domino Dies, Aged 89 - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:21] <exec> 08└─If you had heard Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) on "Happy Days" after he had made out with a girl, you would have heard him singing "I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill". "Chubby Checker" was a ripoff of Fats' name. Going back to the 1930s, there was stride piano master Thomas "Fats" Waller who indu...
[03:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fats Domino Dies, Aged 89 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:23] <exec> 08└─Well, he did make a point of never returning to that burg. ...and it appears that he didn't garner any publicity from it. You have have some kind of link to R&B history or that town to be aware of the story. It's not widely known, even today. ...and the details aren't even consistent among the vario...
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[12:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:09] <exec> 08└─"It just doesn't make sense. This thing is not regulated, it's not under control, it's not under the supervision" of any central bank, he said.
[12:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:10] <exec> 08└─no relation with oil
[12:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:12] <exec> 08└─Alwaleed said he thinks Twitter's rivals are monopolies.
[12:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:14] <exec> 08└─He didn't get in on the ground floor and can't figure out how to profit from it. However, the horse he is betting on would profit from bitcoins failure.
[12:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:16] <exec> 08└─Gee I wonder who has lots of power and sand to spare other than China...
[12:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:19] <exec> 08└─Doesn't mean he is wrong, though.
[12:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:27] <exec> 08└─Boy, that Wikileaks has done a job on her, hasn’t it? I’ll tell you, this Wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it and you gotta maybe get it because they’re not putting it out. They want to put it out but they can’t do that because without the media a...
[12:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:29] <exec> 08└─If russian influence in US politics is bad, why a british company influencing the same is good?
[12:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:31] <exec> 08└─But there is such a thing as dumb people asking questions.
[12:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:33] <exec> 08└─I'm going out on a limb here to suggest that you are a person with a lot of free time on your hands.
[12:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:51] <exec> 08└─or just English done badly
[12:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:53] <exec> 08└─Can you find Idaho on a map?
[12:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:55] <exec> 08└─You remember a hundred years ago? Are you Connor MacLeod or some unholy undead abomination?
[12:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:57] <exec> 08└─(different AC) Must be Portuguese, as Spanish is already covered by Mexican.
[12:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand's National Party to Pay $600k for Eminem Copyright Infringement - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:18] <exec> 08└─Many Hollywood types have already been implicated by sexual harassment claims non-stop in the last couple of weeks without any help from Kim Dotcom.
[12:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand's National Party to Pay $600k for Eminem Copyright Infringement - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:19] <exec> 08└─Time to tweet a few NK threats. Always gets a reaction. Poof! The front page news disappears.
[13:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:32] <exec> 08└─I think the AC is just depressed.
[13:04:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:36] <exec> 08└─All Matter Lives.
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[13:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:03] <exec> 08└─> This can be split to extract breathable oxygen and carbon monoxide, a fuel that could give us a "gas station on the Red Planet" and when that CO is burnt for power it will need the O that was liberated for breathing
[13:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:05] <exec> 08└─Explosive oxidation gas out of this tube. Invisible, odourless asphyxiative killer out of the other. What could go wrong? That said, I imagine their energy numbers are largely nonsense. You'd need more energy than that to separate 16kg of oxygen from carbon dioxide. They're suggesting, what... less...
[13:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:07] <exec> 08└─and when that CO is burnt for power it will need the O that was liberated for breathing
[13:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, the CO might be able to be fed into a variation of a Sabatier Process reactor (the Sabatier Process uses CO2 & hydrogen to make methane and water - CO2 + 4 H2O -> CH4 + H2O, so you'd need to switch to CO + 3H2 -> CH4 + H2O - seems doable...)
[13:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:11] <exec> 08└─Explosive oxidation gas out of this tube. Invisible, odourless asphyxiative killer out of the other. What could go wrong?
[13:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:24] <exec> 08└─Ah, another expert whose opinion I value. And, being Saudi, he knows all about freedom and capitalism, so no hypocrisy or anything.
[13:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:25] <exec> 08└─Oooh, a saudi prince thinks monetary systems should be gripped by the iron fist of central banks and government? Do tell! Amazing insight from a goat herder pushing sand around in the shithole of the world. I wonder what he will be saying when the leading fiat currency of the world isn't backed by i...
[13:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:27] <exec> 08└─So this guy says that bitcoins will fail because "This thing is not regulated, it's not under control, it's not under the supervision" but then for big companies, he says that there should not exist any regulation: "I think it's a free market, there should be free competition." So... basically, he i...
[13:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:30] <exec> 08└─His past track record isn't that great either. He was one of the biggest share holders in Citigroup when it's stock collapsed to 1 dollar and completely failed to see the sub-prime crisis.
[13:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:32] <exec> 08└─But the forked maintainers are working hard to kill it.
[13:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:34] <exec> 08└─There are different markets to consider: When Twitter got blocked in China it affected their performance in the surrounding countries as well. Also Russian ISPs own by Kremlin friendly oligarchs were deliberately down-throttling Twitter and favoring VK. Similar issues surfaced in India as well...
[13:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:36] <exec> 08└─The guy sounds like an idiot.
[13:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:07] <exec> 08└─Anyhow, as noted, even picking up a book in say English that is 100-, 200- years old or older and try reading it. It's almost like a completely different language sometimes
[13:59:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New Zealand's National Party to Pay $600k for Eminem Copyright Infringement - 1989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:23] <exec> 08└─If you want it as a separate story, feel free to promote it. Torrentfreak [torrentfreak.com]: Kim Dotcom Plots Hollywood Execs’ Downfall in Wake of Weinstein Scandal In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Kim Dotcom is offering support to victims of similar abuse. The entrepreneur says he'll...
[13:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Zealand's National Party to Pay $600k for Eminem Copyright Infringement - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:31] <exec> 08└─It seems that MotU are starting to move away from the misogynerd narrative. Been quiet lately in the media. Of course the local feminists are still wild about the misogynerd narrative, but they were pushing the general viewpoint of the misogynerd narrative before it was cool. Anyway, these popped up...
[14:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:13] <exec> 08└─That might take care of the pixelation, but it won't fix the screaming.
[14:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:14] <exec> 08└─It's not covered up in China. I've been to the Unit 731 Museum outside Harbin. Nothing hidden there. It's also in living memory of professors still teaching university, who grew up next to the compound. The Japanese didn't advertise what they were doing exactly, but neither were they particularly ci...
[14:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:16] <exec> 08└─If Japan revises its pacifist constitution it will revive the specter of their militarism and re-awaken memories of the atrocities they committed and never atoned for. To this day no matter where you go within the area of the former Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, people will candidly tell y...
[14:00:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 1113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:34] <exec> 08└─back in '90 or so, I had some 30 Sun workstations to backup on a single cassette tape. I could not get management to sign off on a better backup solution, so I made my own. Made daily incremental backups that I kept in my cube. Made weekly incremental backups, that I kept off site (e.g. my bookshelf...
[14:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple v. Samsung Proceeds to Fourth Jury Trial - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:04] <exec> 08└─Let's talk about the combination of buttons as a way to unlock. Now there are two ways. What happens when a third company wants to make a smartphone? A problem with the touch and hold approach is that it is more likely to be triggered in your pocket or purse. The Slide To Unlock is pretty obvious as...
[14:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:51] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a non-homeowner.
[14:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:52] <exec> 08└─I can imagine an alternative . . . Government Provided News! Yes, get your Real News right hear! Sea how grate your new Government Reportifying is! We have always been at war with Eastasia.
[14:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:54] <exec> 08└─When I wrote it, I intended "not insignificant" to mean like the glass is "not empty". It doesn't mean the glass if full. It just means not empty. At the local level what can be accomplished by local government is "not insignificant". Better than nothing. Somethings a lot better. But not meant to im...
[14:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:49] <exec> 08└─I meant would Trump be capable of asserting the fiction that the records cannot be released because of (omg!) . . . [x] National Security [_] Think Of The Children [_] Terrorists [_] Non White People [_] Non Male People [_] Non Christian People [_] Non Rich People [_] Non Fat People [_] Hillary's Em...
[14:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Profits in Q3 2017 - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:03] <exec> 08└─Definitely an under-served area. Something between a nano-itx and an R-Pi. A week ago i would have said AMD won't (and couldn't). But after seeing their new APUs are 15watt TDP and perform better than 65w intel equivalents then i think it's possible. But honestly you should just buy the Intel NUC si...
[14:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:18] <exec> 08└─I wish I could give you something material, but this whole debate is charged with negativity. I don't think people really appreciate the gravity of the situation and they miss the force of the argument completely.
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[14:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:01] <exec> 08└─I have to admit: I wouldn't have the foggiest idea what to do with the stuff. I mean, sure, if you smoke it, that's great and all, but...would you know how to sell that much weed without getting arrested? Probably not worth the risk...
[14:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:03] <exec> 08└─There is also the possibility that the original owner would come looking for it once they realize their mistake.
[14:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:05] <exec> 08└─Why o why they are investigating? When someone misplaces half a million worth of stuff be sure HE will be investigating. Just evacuate the unintended recipients, put a couple cops disguised as happy couple, wait for the mob to demand the stuff back, arrest them. Duh.
[14:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:17] <exec> 08└─Why burn the CO at all? Use electric vehicles. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Mars will only allow such vehicles to be sold through dealerships.
[14:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:18] <exec> 08└─Or bring plants to convert CO2 into oxygen, which can also provide food, store energy and has a positive effect on the psyche of the people in the station. No need to handle toxins and dangerous situations.
[14:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think "toxin" covers it for me when I think about CO. I think of "toxin" as something where I shouldn't spill it or it will burn my skin. if a CO container is broken, it means you lose many red-blood cells with every breath (and I'm not sure how many breaths you can take untill you lose all...
[14:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:22] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. You can use excess CO for reduction of ample iron ore on The Red Planet, to get pure metal as raw material, and at the same time replenish amount of CO2 you started with. Effectively, starting with energy, iron ore and CO2, you get pure iron and breathable air.
[14:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:24] <exec> 08└─Given that there is a plasma involved, I wonder how much ozone (O3) this process is going to make as a by-product? I suppose if there was a way to separate O2 out from O3, there is the (minuscule) beginnings of making an ozone layer to protect the Martian surface from UV.
[14:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:27] <exec> 08└─Let's take the numbers for the lowest efficiency conversion. 200W x 4 x 3600 = 2.88 MJ generates 8kg=250mol O2 (O2 - 32g/mol) -- Now, suppose we use that O2 to burn CO (generates 283.0 kJ/mol - google for "carbon monoxide combustion enthalpy"). Each 1 mol O2 requires 2mol CO to burn, so we'll be bur...
[14:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:46] <exec> 08└─but what did the New Power Generation think of it? What, too soon? Too old a reference?
[14:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:47] <exec> 08└─Dear Saudi Prints: I predict the demise of oil.
[14:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:50] <exec> 08└─The maintainers have been forked as well?
[14:59:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the note Einstein gave to my great-grandmother is worth that much. "Zwei Hemden, diesmal nicht soviel staerke am Kragen bitte". With such a distinguished author I'm sure it must be worth something.
[14:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:22] <exec> 08└─Buy my books, follow the advice. You'll get rich much sooner!
[14:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:24] <exec> 08└─For Einstein, leading a quiet and modest life would have got him into an extermination camp. His successful striving got him an invitation to the US and safety.
[15:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Blue Nearing Completion of Second Crowdfunding Attempt - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:06] <exec> 08└─I'll chip in my Dogecoins. Doge didn't make it to the moon, but maybe Doge will go to Alpha Centauri! So exoplanets! Such coronagraph! Wow!
[15:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allen Brain Atlas Releases Data on Live Human Brain Cells - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:42] <exec> 08└─Allen Brain Atlas Releases Data on Live Human Brain Cells
[15:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:12] <exec> 08└─The elimination of this rule will have one significant effect: further consolidation of power amongst the wealthy.
[15:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:08] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of Reagan. He was the actor. Also, are people aware we're talking about H.W., not W.? His dad?
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[15:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:07] <exec> 08└─I guess getting accidentally sent over half a million bucks worth of weed is when you find out if you're really serious about your anti-drugs stance the golden rule of puff and pass.
[15:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:08] <exec> 08└─N/T [soylentnews.org]
[15:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:10] <exec> 08└─"I guess getting accidentally sent over half a million bucks worth of weed is when you find out if you're really serious about your anti-drugs stance." Really? You didn't order it - do you have idea what the quality, or whether it was dosed with pesticides, or if it's organically grown? Hell, are yo...
[15:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:12] <exec> 08└─The first thing that comes to mind is to donate it to medical patients. However, that would be a nice thing, and we can't have nice things. I'm actually surprised the couple weren't brutalized, killed, arrested, tattooed, and then sent to PMITA prison. I can only assume they're not black.
[15:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:15] <exec> 08└─I can't find it now, but the first report I saw of this (a few days ago) had a photo that clearly showed Amazon UK on the box. Why would this ship out of Massachusetts?
[15:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:17] <exec> 08└─"Shit, our shipment got missed in transit and the cops have all 65 pounds of it". "Wait, wasn't it supposed to be 70 pounds?"
[15:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:19] <exec> 08└─That was probably just a stock image they had on file of an "Amazon delivery box". Also, the tracking number says this was delivered in June. Apparently news travels slow in Florida.
[15:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:36] <exec> 08└─If only there was some naturally occurring process that could easily use carbon dioxide and convert it to breathable oxygen with no awful biproducts or maybe even biproducts that could be used as a resource or possibly even eaten... Oh well guess we'll have to use asstons of energy to make hazardous...
[15:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:38] <exec> 08└─Right, and this is where we get to the basics of toxicology. Doses is important in toxicity of a substance (solid, liquid or gas). 5 beers might give you a head ache the day after, someone shoving 1 litre of 70% ethanol through your throat could very well kill you.
[15:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:40] <exec> 08└─someone shoving 1 litre of 70% ethanol through your throat could very well kill you.
[15:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we had a discussion some time back, about bringing plants to Mars. At least half of our Soylentils liked that idea. Here, we recognize the beginnings of a vicious cycle - no one is ever going to produce enough O and CO to satisfy energy needs and desires. Sounds to me like serious colonists ar...
[15:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:05] <exec> 08└─The NPG think that money don't matter tonight.
[15:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:07] <exec> 08└─Dear Saudi Prints:
[15:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:09] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make sense.
[15:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:11] <exec> 08└─Better listen, boy, he has zillions to prove he knows what he's talkin' about! (grin)
[15:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:13] <exec> 08└─Sure his wise words are to have in consideration, but not without first hearing what Nigerian prince has to say, because he is very well versed in money transactions.
[15:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:15] <exec> 08└─He has zillions, because he born on top of the heap, not because his infinite talent as businessman. Although he indeed must have skills, maybe he is triyng to use his conspicuous position to influence, obviously in his favor. As we don't see frequently saudi princes deliberating about this matters.
[15:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:17] <exec> 08└─Cowrie shells, Tulip bulbs, sub-prime mortgages. All exchanged as a kind of currency without any central regulation. Has there ever been a commodity that *hasn't* bubbled when its market is left to the vagaries of collective human ignorance and greed?
[15:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:28] <exec> 08└─Because the Russians are an Official Enemy Of the United States, that's why. It's sort of like how we all get up in arms about North Korea's nukes, but not Israel's, India's, or Pakistan's. And if you're an Official Enemy and aren't actually doing anything wrong, don't worry, the US intel agencies w...
[16:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple v. Samsung Proceeds to Fourth Jury Trial - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:52] <exec> 08└─Even this isn't the worst part, the worst part is that patents these days do not include the details of the design. Basically, the whole reason we have patents (get the design so it isn't lost to history) is gone, replaced by claims as to what the invention does.
[16:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Profits in Q3 2017 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:03] <exec> 08└─I built one of these for a friend of mine a year or so ago: [url=http://www.gigabyte.us/Mini-PcBarebone/GB-BXA8G-8890-rev-10#ov] There is, I'll admit, a rather jarring lack of options in that space, particularly in current-gen architecture, and the above appears to be out of stock in the channel.
[16:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Profits in Q3 2017 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:04] <exec> 08└─woops, link fail, followed by preview fail. http://www.gigabyte.us [gigabyte.us]
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[16:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:03] <exec> 08└─"What's most surprising is that we've never seen interstellar objects pass through before," Mmhmm, and how long has humanity been capable of tracking such objects compared to interstellar transit times? They apparently fly through so fast that it is a wonder they're seen at all! Given the sheer vast...
[16:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:05] <exec> 08└─Klaatu barada nikto
[16:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:07] <exec> 08└─He's never seen me play kerbal space program.
[16:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:09] <exec> 08└─and are they using universe sandbox for their animations?
[16:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:11] <exec> 08└─It's very rare for comets to be cube-shaped. I wonder what ... This is Thexalon of Borg. Resistance is futile.
[16:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:13] <exec> 08└─But I'm just an armchair physicist who doesn't specialize in small body astronomy.
[16:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:30] <exec> 08└─They might be doing just that, quietly, while making it sound like they're looking elsewhere.
[16:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:31] <exec> 08└─Wait, it was 80 pounds when it left Mexico!
[16:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:33] <exec> 08└─I think it was the same size, 27 gallons each. No weed within. Very disappoint 0/5 stars.
[16:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:35] <exec> 08└─Medical patients often have pretty strict requirements about the kind of weed they get. There are strains with very different percentages of CBDs and THC.
[16:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:37] <exec> 08└─Alexa.....
[16:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:40] <exec> 08└─Right, cause no one would suspect a trap after the police have been called! I guess if they don't read the news and just rush straight to the house with a bunch of armed assholes.
[16:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:42] <exec> 08└─You know, I just realized that I really could use some more storage bins.
[16:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:44] <exec> 08└─The first thing they noticed was the weight? When you drive through a neighborhood with few plants it reeks for blocks, I would think the awful smell would be a dead giveaway.
[16:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:46] <exec> 08└─I guess getting accidentally sent over half a million bucks worth of weed is when you find out if you're really serious about your anti-drugs stance.
[16:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:48] <exec> 08└─Presumably when you ship 65 lbs of the stuff you figure out how to keep the smell inside the package.
[16:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:10] <exec> 08└─Couple of points. Plants need light so we'll have to dump power into LED grow lights, and you need a lot of plants to support one human's oxygen use. We don't know for sure how well plants will do on Mars, and if they suddenly die off then colonists would be totally screwed. I don't know the numbers...
[16:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:11] <exec> 08└─I only got as far as two errors and don't care to look further. 1. Splitting CO2 will give you 1mol CO and .5mol O2. So you need 4X more oxygen than you get from this process. 2. Your numbers are for CO2 at 1 atmosphere, not Martian pressures. standard enthalpy change of combustion [wikipedia.org] A...
[16:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:42] <exec> 08└─Every "prince" over there is just another Harvey Weinstein. We should either pull the plug, or quit complaining about the sexual perverts who run the world
[16:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:43] <exec> 08└─The bank regulated currency will be around long after the bitcoin bubble bursts because the new crypto-currency flavor of the month becomes hot. Like any bubble, the value of bitcoin is so high because of speculators driving up the cost, not because it is settling out to its own intrinsic value.
[16:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:45] <exec> 08└─Al-Waleed also said "The Earth isn't round, either." "Yep," assured Al-Waleed, "It's shaped like a burrito."
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─Americans hired some Brits to write a paper. Russia directly interfered with our election. Your equivalency is false.
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─Why haven't you tweeted that Hillary shot JFK yet?
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:00] <exec> 08└─For a "whistleblowing" site these people are pretty secretive.
[17:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─It's sort of like how we all get up in arms about North Korea's nukes, but not Israel's, India's, or Pakistan's. We're currently at war with only one of those countries.
[17:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:04] <exec> 08└─For a "whistleblowing" site these people are pretty secretive. When it comes to Russia, they don't want to know about it. [foreignpolicy.com] And when they do know about it, they don't release it. [dailydot.com]
[17:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, the other three are at war with us, sending all those terrorists around the globe, and on our dime.
[17:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:09] <exec> 08└─What an amazingly short-sighted comment. Whistleblowers tend to suffer massive punishment for speaking out. Decent sites that disseminate information provided by whistleblowers will take steps to prevent significant information disclosure, particularly in regards to that which can be used to identif...
[17:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:16] <exec> 08└─2017 - 25 = 1992. Not too hard to figure out which Bush was Prez at the time (I hope).
[17:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:18] <exec> 08└─You've got it all mixed up. Trump is giddy about the release and probably won't be withholding much of anything back. Turns out he was lying. Big surprise.
[17:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:20] <exec> 08└─I like to think it was a mix of incompetence and ignorance rather than an outright lie.
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[17:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:03] <exec> 08└─There's no reason not to give this robot it's citizenship. If it gets out of line, all they have to do is hit the reset button.
[17:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:16] <exec> 08└─Gee, one of the few to call myself out for criticizing an expert yet you felt the need to highlight it. You're evidently an armchair douche!
[17:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:18] <exec> 08└─While we don't really know, since we haven't been tracking these things for that long, it's likely that interstellar asteroids don't pass this close by Earth all that often. So it's sad that we don't have our space program built up enough to take advantage of this possibly rare opportunity to study...
[17:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:20] <exec> 08└─Somebody on Pegasus is going to get bonked on the head by this thing, and they're gonna think we did it.
[17:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:22] <exec> 08└─I have compiled a list of the perfect people to put on the probe to study the next object on a fast transition in and out of the solar system. Let me see if I can attach the file for your review. It's called ArkB.lst.
[17:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─Where does it say it was cube shaped?
[17:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:51] <exec> 08└─There are no smells during shipping. That was solved some time ago. I get weed all the time in the mail. Use the right packing materials. You put the weed into the first storage bag and seal it with the machine. Wash the bag off, and with clean newly gloved hands, put that bag into another one and s...
[17:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:52] <exec> 08└─Say that to somebody in a state where they still oppress the living fuck out of smokers. They won't care. They'll smoke it and tell you the quality. If it's shit, it's still weed. Just call it Doberman. .... but say that to somebody in California, Nevada, or Colorado and they'll stick their nose up...
[17:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:54] <exec> 08└─You know this how?
[17:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:56] <exec> 08└─> Apparently news travels slow in Florida. See the next thread. It took a while to decide to call the cops and news about the remaining 75 pounds, and they took a while to report about the 65 pounds.
[17:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:59] <exec> 08└─Where do you live that weed costs that much? Even the best stuff is only about 3000/pound.
[17:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:01] <exec> 08└─I find it quite surprising that the police didn't arrest and prosecute the couple who reported it to the police. And maybe shoot them for good measure.
[17:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:03] <exec> 08└─Between the broken bottles and the assholes who think every other bottle is corked (met a few), it makes a lot of sense to go after something shatterproof with mellow customers.
[17:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:05] <exec> 08└─Sorry for typo in title.
[17:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:07] <exec> 08└─Monster Weed. From the makers of Monster Cable.
[17:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:09] <exec> 08└─This. It's not like the 1970s when you bought what you could find. Now there's a happy menu.
[17:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:11] <exec> 08└─absolutley ok.
[17:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:14] <exec> 08└─Amazing. It's almost as if trying to ban the stuff did more harm than good!
[17:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:37] <exec> 08└─That scenario sounds plausible to me. Wouldn't it make more sense to try those things out via telepresence, first, to make sure that the oxygen generator or plant dome produce enough air to keep a settlement viable? Otherwise we're setting ourselves up for needless tragedy. It was one thing for the...
[17:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:39] <exec> 08└─Explosive oxidation gas out of this tube. Invisible, odourless asphyxiative killer out of the other. The same is true of my natural gas stove and yet we survive. I think they can afford a couple CO sensors...
[18:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:12] <exec> 08└─I believe he is more in the business of making dollars than sense.
[18:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:14] <exec> 08└─The guy sounds like an idiot. He's worth more than Trump. So by Republican logic that makes him smarter than our president. Of course, that doesn't make your statement necessarily false!
[18:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:33] <exec> 08└─Nope, despite how often we bomb and invade them, we're not at war with Pakistan. Scaring them all with random drone patrols and bombings on their weddings because of their supposed support for some ideology is "anti-terrorism operations", not war. The US hasn't declared war on anyone in a really rea...
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[18:02:35] <exec> 08└─The problem with tape for the last decade or so has been the high barrier to entry. When I first looked at tape about 20 years ago, the cost of the tape drive was about the same as the cost of a hard drive of the same capacity as one tape and tapes were about a tenth of that cost. The drives were on...
[18:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:37] <exec> 08└─I was the backup admin at the last company I worked for, prior to my retirement in 2010. At the time we were using a Dell/Overland tape library with two HP LTO3 drives to back up between 3-4TB. I'd not kept up with LTO tape storage size evolution since I retired. These capacities kinda blows my 67 y...
[18:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:39] <exec> 08└─This thing is aimed at Business grade pockets, people whose data is more valuable than the TCO of LTO backup, For family pictures, we have to stick to hard drives option. It would be great to have LTO for home use but even old generation drives are over a thousand. Do they are that expensive to make...
[18:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:41] <exec> 08└─OK, but.... Around 1984 I needed to read some 800 bpi even parity tapes, that were the standard in 1960, when they were written, and couldn't find anybody who could read them. Odd parity could still be read, but not even parity. But by the standard (of 1960) even parity was used for BCD (i.e., text)...
[18:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:43] <exec> 08└─Ah but those are probably only for "ticking checkboxes" and not for actually restoring data ;).
[18:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Drop Main Studio Rule - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:50] <exec> 08└─Um, what? I don't know what billboards are like where you live, but where I live, half the time they're trying to shame women into keeping their unwanted fetuses inside their bodies. Then there's the occasional doomsday preacher that takes out a spot on the video billboard for a few days. And what t...
[18:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:20] <exec> 08└─First we need to find some negative matter of ANY persuasion. If we did, and we could handle it, it would be useful for such things as stabilizing the mouths of wormholes so they wouldn't collapse. At that point it would make sense to talk about details of how it worked. Currently it's a theory that...
[18:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN: The Universe Shouldn't Exist - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:22] <exec> 08└─the amount of matter in the universe is much bigger than any reasonable value of epsilon. that doesn't prove anything, of course, but it's the kind of situation where "the many world interpretation says that there is a universe where marilyn monroe will materialize 5 seconds from now in my room, out...
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[18:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:08] <exec> 08└─No, but all the right questions are being asked right now. There IS no good reason to give this robot what is denied half the population of human beings. This will become a legal issue and possibly result in a change. If a country is truly going to reform itself, it has to do so it's own way. We had...
[18:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:10] <exec> 08└─The important question is whether a Saudi female robot can legally drive.
[18:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:12] <exec> 08└─Females don't have autonomy in Saudi Arabia, but autonomous vehicles do.
[18:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:14] <exec> 08└─Islam allows a man to have up to four wives at a time--provided he treats each one equally well. That last part will be easy if they differ only in their serial numbers.
[18:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:16] <exec> 08└─This seems a step forward for the robocalypse. Sadly it is only a tactic. You see, the powers that be want to use tech to enslave men. If the robot has the status of a thing, this is not possible. If robots gain legal rights then you cannot interfere with them. I always say that for meatbags a worse...
[18:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:18] <exec> 08└─Wait until they learn about that US guy who's having sex with his car, and suddenly the cars will lose all autonomy and have to be covered.
[18:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:20] <exec> 08└─Actually there is a good reason, to them at least. Women aren't really human to them. They're beasts as low as a camel. I watched a Saudi Arabian TV show one day flipping through channels on a hotel TV in Las Vegas that provides foreign channels for guests. They were speaking about the *proper* way...
[18:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:22] <exec> 08└─"You're so wise. Kill 'em all, I say. Good riddance!"
[18:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:40] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought. Lets hope it's an alien ship.
[18:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:42] <exec> 08└─Where does it say it was cube shaped?
[18:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:44] <exec> 08└─(it almost certainly didn't, but) which is ~25 light years away (other stars in Lyra are much further). Further assuming it traveled at 25.5 km/s the whole way (it certainly did not, since the Sun's gravity had been accelerating it on the way in), and doing a bit of math... Its been traveling approx...
[18:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:23] <exec> 08└─The Obvious: Personal Experience :D
[18:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:24] <exec> 08└─i'm sure they found some other ways to abuse them.
[18:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:26] <exec> 08└─For all the hippies that use the stuff it sounds like it is hell on the environment with all that plastic being used, but people have their priorities I guess
[18:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:28] <exec> 08└─Can we confirm that the couples dog is still okay? Hopefully they took the dog somewhere else before calling the cops over.
[19:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:29] <exec> 08└─stfu, you fucking slave.
[19:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:30] <exec> 08└─LOL you equate the talent of a businessman to whether they desire bitcoinz? hahahaha
[19:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:51] <exec> 08└─The US hasn't declared war on anyone in a really really long time. We haven't declared peace with anyone in a really long time either. The answer is North Korea. [bbc.com]
[19:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:52] <exec> 08└─Nope. The US never declared war on North Korea [senate.gov].
[19:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Trees Grew by Controlled Structural Collapse and Repair - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:25] <exec> 08└─> some of the best preserved specimens of the world's first trees Riiight ... The first trees were 12m tall. You've either got a giant step in evolution, or an interesting step in taxonomy. "The eldest things we can find and still call trees", maybe?
[19:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Trees Grew by Controlled Structural Collapse and Repair - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:26] <exec> 08└─A while ago I put together a timeline of evolution, mostly for my own amusement. The relevant parts: 380 myo: plant seeds appear 385 myo: 1st woody plants, tree ferns: Wattieza, Archaeopteris. 428 myo: 1st vascular (tubes) plants: Cooksonia. 470 myo: 1st land plants. There's an answer to the age old...
[19:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 1878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:05] <exec> 08└─I believe we're talking about archival storage. For that flash memory is totally worthless. I believe it will hold data for a month or so without being plugged in to a power source. Perhaps there are more recent designs that will hold it longer, though I wouldn't count on it. But capacitors leak cha...
[19:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:13] <exec> 08└─At least eight? [wikipedia.org] Prominent Nazi hunters include Simon Wiesenthal [wikipedia.org], Tuviah Friedman [wikipedia.org], Serge [wikipedia.org] and Beate Klarsfeld [wikipedia.org], Ian Sayer [soylentnews.org], Yaron Svoray [wikipedia.org], Elliot Welles [wikipedia.org], and Efraim Zuroff [wi...
[19:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Cancels Talks by Three Agency Scientists at Rhode Island Event - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:36] <exec> 08└─This kind of thinking is what has left us with a potentially toxic chemical C8 in our drinking water. "I don't see it, therefore it isn't a problem." https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] See also: this year in hurricanes. Yes, t...
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[19:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shrew Skulls Shrink in the Winter - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:01] <exec> 08└─Shrink the skulls of football players as their brains shrink. Expand the skulls of zika babies to give their brains room to grow. Right-sizing!
[19:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrew Skulls Shrink in the Winter - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could inject memory foam directly into the skulls of football players.
[19:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:22] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you just made the same observation that the summary itself did 3 times.
[19:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:23] <exec> 08└─Any kind of sexual activity outside marriage is illegal in Saudi Arabia.
[19:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:25] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that was the plot of at least one of the Terminator movies... "We're here to turn you off" "Here have some nukes"
[19:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:27] <exec> 08└─If not, then in one innocent publicity stunt, Saudi Arabia inadvertently banned (practicing) sex robots.
[19:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:30] <exec> 08└─Because there is no close-in-age exemption in Saudi Arabia, it is possible for two individuals both under the age of 0 who willingly engage in intercourse to both be prosecuted for statutory rape, although this is rare. Similarly, no protections are reserved for sexual relations in which one partici...
[19:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:32] <exec> 08└─Seems the solution would just be to impose tighter tolerances [wikipedia.org]. Rev 2 should fix that.
[19:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:34] <exec> 08└─Obviously, an AI is not currently capable of providing such thoughtful responses to questions. So what we really have here is a mechanical turk...probably even with prewritten responses. It is a puppet. It is meaningless to grant "citizenship" to an inanimate object with no intelligence. The puppet...
[19:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:54] <exec> 08└─So are you suggesting that this is an Agent of Vega?
[19:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:56] <exec> 08└─http://you-books.com/book/L-Niven/The-Fourth-Profession [you-books.com] Because there's no way a Republican administration would build a launching laser for someone else's spaceship, and they'll make our sun explode.
[19:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:58] <exec> 08└─'bout freakin' time!!!!
[19:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:00] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting this was an attempted attack by the Vegans? Or that humans on Earth are a colony of Vegans? Either way, this is very disturbing. Vegans are some of the most condescending, annoying people I've ever seen, possibly even worse than Hillary Clinton supporters and GNOME developers.
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─Well, when the government makes a popular activity illegal for weak ass reasons, you gotta do what you gotta do. That's the price of the War on Drugs. What do you expect us "hippies" to do? Stop smoking and be willing to go to jail for environmentally friendly shipping? Fuck that.... The wallpaper i...
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:44] <exec> 08└─Serious question for resident Canucks, is racism against black people a serious problem in Canada? I thought that was just a U.S phenomenon.
[20:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:11] <exec> 08└─You aren't running you're natural gas stove in an airtight enclosed space with no method of escape, and no medical assistance for several million miles, are you? Additionally, your gas line will have odour added for safety. Also, it's required to vent to the outside air and tampering with the system...
[20:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:49] <exec> 08└─> I predict the demise of oil. I'll take that bet. what deadline and how much?
[20:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:51] <exec> 08└─The Church, in its infinite mercy, prefers the much faster process of being Canonized.
[20:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:53] <exec> 08└─Money, Money, Money ... It's a rich man's world.
[20:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:15] <exec> 08└─#LittleRocketMan thinks I declared war on him. I haven't yet. But follow me on Twitter -- it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. 🇺🇸
[20:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:16] <exec> 08└─I've interfered more with your election than the Russian government simply by speaking my mind. People like you could even claim that any donations I've made to SoylentNews were all about influencing the US election! :D
[20:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:42] <exec> 08└─Whoosh!
[20:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einstein's "Theory of Happiness" Note Sold for $1.56 Million - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:43] <exec> 08└─There are those who earn that much money, and you are correct about them. Then there are those who are born into money, avoiding the pursuit and unrest parts...
[20:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Trees Grew by Controlled Structural Collapse and Repair - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:53] <exec> 08└─I know this might have been intended as humor, but... Many plants are able to reproduce without seed, by sending out single roots which then form a new plant. Similar behavior also exists in some colonies of simple organisms. So, it seems possible that this method of reproduction, independently evol...
[20:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand's National Party to Pay $600k for Eminem Copyright Infringement - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:11] <exec> 08└─I guess that explains the casting couch meme.
[20:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue University Shows Off Microchannel Array Chip Cooling Technique - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:24] <exec> 08└─It will not be used by the people who already don't trust Intel Management Engine to not leak their data.
[20:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:37] <exec> 08└─That may have been a quirk of the particular hardware you had. Even now I see a project to read old 7 track tapes that manages to read even parity. I can't say I ever worked w/ 7track. I did deal with reading 9 track tapes into a PC in the mid '90s, but the format was still in production then. Reall...
[20:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:39] <exec> 08└─yeah i bought a 16 tape changer off ebay and tapes and set them to rotate and boom backups. some guy shows up and takes them and i log what ones go. bar code says which tape is in or out. i am not really sure what the problem is. some people just hate tapes.
[20:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JFK Files to be Released on the Deadline of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (Updated) - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:49] <exec> 08└─The A.C. was talking about him being an actor and dementia, so neither Bush fit well.
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[20:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Shrew Skulls Shrink in the Winter - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:20] <exec> 08└─Is this just another fancy name for living off the fat and other body mass while in hibernation? They make it sound like something the shrew does intentionally, where it could just be surviving on a starvation diet while in hibernation. Similar processes are known in bears during hibernation: https:...
[20:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:46] <exec> 08└─I think she would look a lot less creepy with a hijab actually, it would at least cover up the bare plastic shell behind the edges of her face. For that matter, burqa-clad robots would be even better, and save a bundle on facial actuators...
[20:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:48] <exec> 08└─If so, then $ = votes! More $ = more robotic voters. How awesome is that? FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:13] <exec> 08└─That's no Moon!!!
[20:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:14] <exec> 08└─So it's sad that we don't have our space program built up enough to take advantage of this possibly rare opportunity to study this object.
[20:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:17] <exec> 08└─And somewhere in the constellation Lyra, someone is hanging up his galactic pool cue and reaching for his wallet to buy a round for the table, having missed his shot at the blue ball in the far pocket.
[20:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:19] <exec> 08└─If we had a more robust presence in space capable of detecting asteroids in or near the inner solar system, we should have detected it much sooner. We didn't see it until it was too late for the same reason we've been caught with our pants down many times, where we detected an asteroid that came som...
[20:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:21] <exec> 08└─duh. it will ALWAYS be: "This is the most extreme orbit I have ever seen" until we DONT hear about it anymore, or rather wont be able to : } for profit: next week the meteor will be travel at light-speed at the size of some molecule.
[20:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:23] <exec> 08└─"we haven't been tracking these things for that long" really? stop already. the biggest danger to this planet is the human! even if it would hit us, there would be NO use to chronicle it, because we would all be dead or to busy surviving to chronicle it, unless some political part survives. statisti...
[20:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can still get our hands at some dust of this thing because it passed relatively close to Earth? Would be interesting to know its composition.
[20:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:35] <exec> 08└─Why o why they are investigating? When someone misplaces half a million worth of stuff be sure HE will be investigating. Just evacuate the unintended recipients, put a couple cops disguised as happy couple, wait for the mob to demand the stuff back, arrest them. Duh.
[21:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:12] <exec> 08└─Seriously, they're pricing this at ~$500/oz - High quality in Colorado goes for less than half that amount: http://www.priceofweed.com [priceofweed.com] and even in Florida where it's illegal it's less than $300, and Massachusetts where it shipped from is less tha...
[21:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:13] <exec> 08└─Orlando isn't too far from Cobb County, GA: http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] at least not culturally.
[21:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:15] <exec> 08└─Wine is contained in a plastic bladder typically with an air-tight valve emerging from a protective corrugated fiberboard box. It serves as an alternative to traditional wine bottling in glass with a cork or synthetic seal. It is sometimes called goon or goon bag in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.o...
[21:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:17] <exec> 08└─Racism is just more overt in the US because Americans are more forthright. Everyone else is just as bad or worse, they just pretend they're not because lying is what civilized people do. Black person in rural Europe, Canada, Australia, etc, will face discrimination, they'll just smile in your face w...
[21:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:20] <exec> 08└─They always advertise busts at the highest theoretical street value so they can claim that number on their accomplishments.
[21:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:22] <exec> 08└─Went to college with this (rich) guy from Canada, who insisted that the reason the US had black minorities and Canada had French minorities was because the US had first choice.
[21:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:24] <exec> 08└─Good way to hide your pot shipping business: mask it with a Bin Shipping business. Then, some worker, perhaps sampling too much of the product, slaps the wrong label in the wrong box.
[21:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:51] <exec> 08└─I believe the plants would need some kind of animal life to maintain CO2 levels. Probably easily done with bacteria or expendable livestock.
[21:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:52] <exec> 08└─"Plants need light" isn't entirely true, and with modern bioengineering we could probably improve low-light growth, although that may not be necessary, as humans require much the same amount of light. Lots of plants would be necessary regardless, as food must be produced somehow, and lifting tons of...
[21:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:54] <exec> 08└─Yup. Fess up. You saw that in this Total Recall scene https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Just after we build the mother of all nuclear generation plants on Mars, you plunge those electrodes into the soil, and instant atmosphere.
[21:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:57] <exec> 08└─Bring plants? None of ours are designed to survive -60c. Maybe we better cultivate martian plants. Oh wait...
[21:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:59] <exec> 08└─No wonder nobody likes to go to the movies with you. And you thought it was because you ate all the popcorn!
[21:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, what are the securities/derivatives that are positioned against oil and/or for alternative energies in a sector-wide way? Seems like that would be one long-term investment to consider.
[21:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:41] <exec> 08└─Saying he is smarter than Trump isn't exactly setting a high bar. I'm pretty sure there are monkeys that are smarter than Trump. An example of Trump's intelligence: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] He can't even string a coherent sentence together.
[21:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─>> a person with a lot of free time You are correct, and that is exactly why you should play along without being too conspicuously patronizing. The posts are cringeworthy but consider the broader perspective: This is an individual who dedicates a ridiculous amount of time to writing first-person fan...
[21:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:07] <exec> 08└─I've interfered more with your election than the Russian government simply by speaking my mind. You didn't penetrate the email servers of our political parties. You didn't attempt to penetrate State Election Commission servers.
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[21:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Adds Publisher Guidelines, Experiments With News Feed - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:05] <exec> 08└─so fb's definition of news is either free (supplied by your friends), or paid-for (by companies that already struggle with revenue (mainly, news sites) or by companies that have lots of money - trying to sell you something) Fb - all the "news" you really didn't want, none of the stuff you need.
[21:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Adds Publisher Guidelines, Experiments With News Feed - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:06] <exec> 08└─Start by avoiding facebook, along with every other pretend technology company that fails at HMTL.
[21:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Adds Publisher Guidelines, Experiments With News Feed - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:08] <exec> 08└─If it makes them money, they won't change anything of substance. Sure, maybe some new curtains, but nothing real will change. Listen to news at 11: $current_foe_of_the_day found meddling in $year $country elections...
[21:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Shrew Skulls Shrink in the Winter - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:19] <exec> 08└─...shrink their skulls...
[21:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrew Skulls Shrink in the Winter - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:22] <exec> 08└─Which leads us to a variant of the eternal question: Do Bear/Shrew females know about shrinkage?
[21:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:51] <exec> 08└─The robot isn't female. It's a robot.
[21:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:23] <exec> 08└─But it seems unlikely that any reasonable such program would have seen this one. It came in at a right angle to every other asteroid near us ever (that we've recorded.)
[21:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:25] <exec> 08└─even if it would hit us, there would be NO use to chronicle it, because we would all be dead
[22:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:17] <exec> 08└─In silver-lining news support for legalization is up to 64%. [fortune.com]
[22:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:19] <exec> 08└─^THIS! I see more 'racism' against the French than 'people of colour': the French used to constantly put up a stink about "Give us more and more and more..... or we'll separate" that it's gotten to the point where i used to say "Then separate, already". Finally, this nonsense seems to have gone from...
[22:01:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:25] <exec> 08└─The guy sounds like an idiot. He's worth more than Trump. So by Republican logic that makes him smarter than our president. Of course, that doesn't make your statement necessarily false!
[22:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:34] <exec> 08└─Yep, I know a lot of idiots that are smarter than Trump.
[22:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:36] <exec> 08└─Alwaleed said he thinks Twitter's rivals are monopolies. That doesn't make sense.
[22:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:02] <exec> 08└─Because he already accused Ted Cruz's father of being involved [nytimes.com]
[22:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:03] <exec> 08└─I always found it rather odd that Afghanistan was accused of harboring Osama bin Laden and attacked, while Pakistan was actually harboring Osama bin Laden and has not had its government overthrown. It's almost as if the real goal was putting a Unocal executive in charge so he could approve an oil pi...
[22:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Wins Election, Could Revise Pacifist Constitution - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:42] <exec> 08└─huge subsidies to rural voters
[22:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:24] <exec> 08└─LTO is specced for two generations of backwards compatibility on reads, and I have done LTO-2 on LTO-4 hardware, and LTO-4 on LTO-6 hardware. If you need older than that, there's always ebay. LTO is extremely common (by the standards of that sort of high end Enterprise gear) so I am not worried abou...
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[22:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapchat's Spectacles: A Bad Idea in Hindsight - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:10] <exec> 08└─I guess they can't find enough people ready to admit the best part of their day fits in a thirty seconds video.. Oh, Snap!
[22:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Adds Publisher Guidelines, Experiments With News Feed - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:20] <exec> 08└─The man has a Master's from Harvard, can program in FORTRAN but cannot figure out how to send or receive email.
[22:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Adds Publisher Guidelines, Experiments With News Feed - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:22] <exec> 08└─He can, he may not want to. He may simply take any excuse he can to avoid you. There's still the telephone and texting for instant affairs and the good old postal service still delivers hardcopy quite quickly and for shockingly low costs, domestically at least. But yes, I suppose if you want to forc...
[22:58:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:41] <exec> 08└─If she/it qualifies for citizenship, do we have to wait 18 years before we can... you know... asking for a friend.
[22:58:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 1510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:50] <exec> 08└─Actually there is a good reason, to them at least. Women aren't really human to them. They're beasts as low as a camel. I watched a Saudi Arabian TV show one day flipping through channels on a hotel TV in Las Vegas that provides foreign channels for guests. They were speaking about the *proper* way...
[22:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we should import some more people from that country, so they can bring their proper wife beating technique to other less enlightened countries.
[23:00:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:13] <exec> 08└─Monster Weed. From the makers of Monster Cable.
[23:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:32] <exec> 08└─FYI: Kentucky was part of the North.
[23:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:34] <exec> 08└─Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[23:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:36] <exec> 08└─? https://overgrowcanada.com [overgrowcanada.com] ? Nudge nudge, wink wink? ;)
[23:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Investigate after 65 Pounds of Weed Included with Orlando Couple's Amazon Order - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:38] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't have let on that you know the price per pound. Now the socialists are going to jump on you for THC inequality.
[23:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:10] <exec> 08└─Plants do NOT convert CO2 to oxygen. They combine CO2 with water to make starches, with a release of oxygen from the water ... as confirmed by radioactive isotope tracing of the reaction.
[23:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Point 1 doesn't show an error. you have 4kg of O2 = 250mol you need 500 mol of CO2 to get that oxygen and you'll obtain 500 mol of CO as result. Point 2 is valid. The difference 2.88->141.5MJ is the energy required to compress the gases to 1atm and heat them for -60C to 0C. At least for oxyg...
[23:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:57] <exec> 08└─However I have observed that a great many other people are willing to exchange it for USD$, so when someone sent me a LiteCoin the other day, I decided to just leave it in my wallet at CoinBase. When my code goes beta I'm going to be richer than G-d. When that happens, or maybe when my product ships...
[23:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:59] <exec> 08└─Can one sell short on BitCoin? Also can I put cryptocurrency in my IRA?
[23:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Prince Predicts Demise for Bitcoin - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:01] <exec> 08└─-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
[23:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Rejected Request by Data Firm for Clinton Emails - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:29] <exec> 08└─> Afghanistan was accused of harboring Osama bin Laden and attacked, while Pakistan was actually harboring Osama bin Laden and has not had its government overthrown As Mr Kim would say: it's amazing how much respect a few nukes buy you. Add a population over 200 million ...
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[23:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:05] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping they ask for an official referendum, and whatever the outcome, pledges that both Catalonia and Spain will be able to remain in the EU if they desire.
[23:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:07] <exec> 08└─Because they are currently in the EU, most regulations and treaties should be a trivial exercise to validate. BUT, there are many countries with their own (rich) independentists who don't want a local repeat, and therefore will prevent the process from being easy, to set a clear example. A bit like...
[23:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:09] <exec> 08└─Why would anybody want to join the EU only to be maimed and raped by Islamic savages?
[23:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:11] <exec> 08└─They are still part of the EU because the EU doesn't recognize Catalonia to be independent. Catalonia is still part of Spain and Spain is a member of the EU : ) Catalonia is the only "country" that says it is independent. If the EU treats Catalonians any differently than citizens of Spain then that...
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[23:58:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, Snap!
[23:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JBanister [5195] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:13] <exec> 08└─This is the country that still kills people for witchcraft. Legally acting on that which is fake is nothing new for a theocracy.
[23:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JBanister [5195] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:14] <exec> 08└─Think of the Children! Wikipedia says: "A child born in Saudi Arabia to a non-Saudi father and a Saudi mother has right to Saudi citizenship upon reaching the age of majority if they fulfill the following: (1) Has permanent residency (2) Fluent in Arabic." She and her non-Saudi collaborator could st...
[23:59:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:28] <exec> 08└─While we don't really know, since we haven't been tracking these things for that long, it's likely that interstellar asteroids don't pass this close by Earth all that often. So it's sad that we don't have our space program built up enough to take advantage of this possibly rare opportunity to study...