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[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:08] <exec> 08└─Won't the servers melt down without any fans?
[00:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:10] <exec> 08└─Other people had advance this notion, similar to the idle land laws: tax any intellectual property. Fail to pay the taxes and the property is forfeited. EA is not making money out of its old intellectual property, so probably would not like paying a tax or fee to maintain it, so it should devolve to...
[00:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:29] <exec> 08└─*space jissom
[00:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:30] <exec> 08└─I know everyone will swoon over holodecks, tricorders and phasers. But I just want that medical device Phlox used to fix the teeth of T'pol. That thing seemed totally sweet.
[00:26:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:47] <exec> 08└─As a U.S. Attorney in Alabama in the 1980s, Sessions said he thought the KKK "were OK until I found out they smoked pot.”
[00:27:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:09] <exec> 08└─You've got unlimited access to alcohol. Did that make you an alcoholic? I've got access to pretty much everything and yet I sit here sober.
[00:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:18] <exec> 08└─junkies are ruining things for the rest of us.
[00:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:20] <exec> 08└─I like to think that, when it comes to driving, small amounts of cannabis or alcohol actually make people better, safer drivers. Obviously too much of either will reverse the effect and make them retarded drivers, like a distant family member who while drunk crashed his car into the front of a pet s...
[00:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:22] <exec> 08└─"I only had one Bud, occifer."
[00:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:24] <exec> 08└─Cupcakes are a drug.
[00:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:06] <exec> 08└─right after the medical community shamed and pressured them into taking excessive measures to keep them living as long as possible
[00:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tide is Turning for Underwater Turbines - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:41] <exec> 08└─I don't believe in the teflon or silicone stuff. I've been following anti fouling technology for years, and the alternatives just don't work very well despite the manufacturers claims. And even the best stuff doesn't stop everything - if you race sailboats you still have scrub the bottom every week...
[00:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Election Server Wiped after Lawsuit Filed - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:28] <exec> 08└─Those pesky Russian hackers are at it again, huh.
[00:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapchat's Spectacles: A Bad Idea in Hindsight - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:15] <exec> 08└─Right -- who would think that there could be any *good* ideas involving glasses to enable you to see out of your butt? Seriously.
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[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:09] <exec> 08└─In some areas, being better than a human is a remarkable achievement - Chess and Go were such. In some areas, humans set a pretty low bar that an AI would have to surpass. Driving and solving Captcha's are like this.
[01:26:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:16] <exec> 08└─EA appreciates your enjoyment of our old games, but thinks you suck, for not giving them more money. Stop enjoying stuff when we aren't making money out of it! Buy new stuff! Now!
[01:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:22] <exec> 08└─They cant make money off you with old software so kill off your ability to use it. Either with built-in problems, removing license servers, or suits. F-em.
[01:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:24] <exec> 08└─And where is the EA headquarters, as well as the headquarters and location of all these assholes making those kinds of decisions? Yep, you guessed it, the "progressive" Bay Area.
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 1421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─Now this is one area where Microsoft is (well, not for long) good -- sure, they make obsolete all of their older operating systems, but they traditionally did it in a controlled and well-informed manner. This is why you still see the U.S. military (and many civilian outfits, such as the VA) running...
[01:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:29] <exec> 08└─Here is the amazing thing. Trump is keeping them all so busy arguing over silly things. Another one will not happen. They will be too busy arguing about whatever he tweets today.....
[01:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:31] <exec> 08└─No but EA will meltdown without any fans.
[01:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:33] <exec> 08└─I wanted to write a "motivating" post about how they should use the momentum they have right now and reverse the actual Gamespy servers and protocols, so that a connection is a hosts-file edit away instead of having to hex and distribute the binaries, but apparently Project Reality already did that...
[01:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:54] <exec> 08└─If that device vibrates, my first thought would have been using it some place else. Anyway, I wonder how many people die in the fictional trek universe to make their impossible socialism possible? [nytimes.com]
[01:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:56] <exec> 08└─But I thought the mere possession of an Amazon Alexa qualifies as technology retardation.
[01:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 2129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:47] <exec> 08└─Seriously, why is this _necessarily_ a bad thing? It's been shown that living entities turn to drugs when it's a better alternative than their living situation. If we prevent people from overdosing to death, are we going to pull them out of poverty? Give them friends to hug and be merry with? Give t...
[01:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:48] <exec> 08└─Actually - it's a little hard to support your statement. The Taliban had gone a long, long way toward shutting down opium production in Afghanistan. Then, the US invaded, and opium production is at an all time high. If the US does nothing more than turn a blind eye toward to poppy fields, then they...
[01:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:51] <exec> 08└─"go after big pharma themselves. " I think a top-down approach, as well as a bottom-up, is fitting. Remember all the crap we were told about pushers, decades ago? They were predators, lowlifes, less-than-human, pushing their poison to children, and the weak. The hell with the street corner pushers....
[01:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:34] <exec> 08└─So what? Not like you'll care anymore!
[01:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tide is Turning for Underwater Turbines - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:10] <exec> 08└─> ...Linux turbines And how many birds will they kill?
[01:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tide is Turning for Underwater Turbines - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:11] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, "fallacious" was your new word for today, amiright?
[01:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Election Server Wiped after Lawsuit Filed - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:59] <exec> 08└─Can you say "obstruction of justice"?
[01:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:32] <exec> 08└─I was referring to Kosovo, which kind-of, opened pandora's box. Interesting bit about the envoy, Putin sure seems to enjoy trolling his colleagues.
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[02:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:10] <exec> 08└─They will phase out captchas within 3 years and replace it with "AI" to detect and delete spam and objectionable content.
[02:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:12] <exec> 08└─That's where slashcode was ahead of the curve. An AI can't determine if something is complete crap but a human can. Unfortunately, (youtube adpocolypse) the powers that be do not like the results and think AI is the answer. [youtube.com] LOL!
[02:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:14] <exec> 08└─Dear Takyon, Soylent news comment #588870 [soylentnews.org] has been deleted due to spam and objectionable content. Please click here [google.co.uk] to help resolve the issue. Hate speech is not tolerated, thank you for understanding.
[02:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:16] <exec> 08└─You're probably right, that humans in general set a low bar for captcha crap. But, I can't even get up to that bar. A lot of them just kick my ass, and I just give up on them, because I just can't see whatever it is that I'm supposed to see.
[02:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:34] <exec> 08└─And you would be completely wrong. When I started working for the Navy more than thirty years ago it was mostly Windows with some Unix workstations. When I retired Windows was only used for pushing paperwork. Redhat had replaced Windows on over half of the PCs and was being used for the real work o...
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─Besides the fact that it began development in 2015, before the AM2R fiasco began, I don't think you played the new version of Metroid 2. Samus Returns is in no way comparable AM2R. Beyond the graphical differences, the engines are different as well. The mechanics, which AM2R tried hard to duplicate,...
[02:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:59] <exec> 08└─Nah, the Farnsworth dark matter drive is vastly superior, especially when you've got a cute little alien that shits fuel!
[02:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:54] <exec> 08└─I ABSOLURTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Opium in Afghan Town [nytimes.com] How opium defeated America in Afghanistan [salon.com] U.S. KICKS DRUG-WAR HABIT, MAKES PEACE WITH AFGHAN POPPIES [wired.com] File:Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation 1994-2007b.PNG [wikimedia...
[02:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:55] <exec> 08└─It is even more pervasive than doctors prescribing to patients. I've mentioned a coupe of times that I had medical problems last year. A pinched hernia put me into shock, the ambulance was called, and almost the first thing they did was to shoot me up with morphine. You mention "severe pain". There...
[02:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:57] <exec> 08└─Not sure if there's an element of sarcasm there or not. Whatever, it bothers me to have odd sensations and feelings from drugs. Very low levels of an opiate are good sometimes, for my aches and pains. Very low - just enough to relax all those tensions. No feel-good though. If I start the feel-good,...
[02:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:00] <exec> 08└─You do realize that "I like to think" isn't an argument for or against any position. But, just how "small" an amount of alcohol or cannabis are you talking about? With alcohol, I'd like to stick to pretty well established facts. A single drink doesn't impair the average adult. Two drinks begin to im...
[02:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, FFS - one more time. As much as I detest Nazis, those particular Nazis were permitted to take part in a legal protest, and they were obeying the law. The bitch who was killed was a socialist activist who was there for the sole purpose of instigating a riot. Her fellow socialists attacked the Naz...
[02:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:04] <exec> 08└─Definitely informative.
[02:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:06] <exec> 08└─All of those are potential parts of a solution. I'll believe the feds are serious about actually solving the problem when they let go of their sacred cows. Part of the problem is that for way too much of law enforcement and even the justice system, justice was long ago forgotten. Today it's all abou...
[02:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Luxury Tourism" Version of World's Largest Aircraft is in the Works - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:42] <exec> 08└─Everything that flies and carries people is an aircraft. An airship is an aircraft suspended by a lighter-than-air gas.
[02:30:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Georgia Election Server Wiped after Lawsuit Filed - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:06] <exec> 08└─Georgia has always been a special place as far as elections are concerned. Here's quote from a Jimmy Carter speech to the legislature. "I always remember one major amendment that took a lot of debate in the Senate. It was introduced by Bobby Rowan from Enigma, Georgia. The amendment said that no one...
[02:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:51] <exec> 08└─Yep, they got me too. Wanna start a gullible readers club?
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[03:26:08] <exec> 08└─Unless you are using surpass the bar in a strange way, I think you have it the wrong way round. Chess and Go are fixed rules in a limited universe. Solving self-driving is going to be much more harder and more complicated. Captchas are somewhere in the middle depending on their difficulty and accep...
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[03:26:10] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/810/ [xkcd.com]
[03:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:12] <exec> 08└─It is not, there is no consciousness and never will be , can ray please upload himself ASAP because we need to stop with the useless AI, oh yay please DIAF
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[03:26:14] <exec> 08└─there is no consciousness and never will be
[03:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:16] <exec> 08└─The AI's don't need to be smart enough to fool the captchas. They just need to be smart enough to fool us into believing they're not in cahoots.
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[03:26:36] <exec> 08└─How would you scale the fees? If it is a flat fee of say $10k/yr then EA would pay that forever. It must scale up based on project earnings or it will be a useless tax that only hurts the little people.
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[03:27:00] <exec> 08└─You can make that determination yourself, sir.
[03:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:01] <exec> 08└─That's kinda interesting and all - but WTF are "colored folk" killing "colored folk"? Don't black lives really matter? And, if the "colored folk" don't realy care about black lives, then WTF should any of the rest of us?
[03:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:02] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you abused pot hard. But I'm betting despite that that spending a year or two in jail and coming out with a scarlet letter saying nothing but menial jobs for you for the rest of your life would not have helped. In fact, it might have more or less stuck you there until you took that ex...
[03:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:04] <exec> 08└─There's some truth to it, normally people didn't get hooked on drugs if their lives were good, there wasn't any reason to try. The reason we're having these issues with opioid abuse is that people get legitimate prescriptions for opioids, insufficient monitoring and wind up hooked. If we'd ban the s...
[03:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:07] <exec> 08└─I have seem a few studies that suggest that stoned driving tends not to be a problem since stoned drivers tend to drive slower and more carefully in proportion to their impairment. It's interesting that the complaint is that they can't tell you're stoned but they still worry about it.
[03:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:09] <exec> 08└─No, they're not. If they're going to be legal at all, they need to be used as last line options after already having tried the other safer options. Marijuana, hypnosis and medication are all effective methods of managing pain. And then there's the numerous other pharmaceuticals that don't have the r...
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[03:28:11] <exec> 08└─The complaint isn't that they can't tell that people are stoned, the issue is that it's more difficult to enforce the rules than it is with alcohol. Same goes for prescription medications and anything else that might effect how people drive and their reaction time. Bottom line is that anybody that's...
[03:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:13] <exec> 08└─To an extent yes, but the people who wind up having serious drug problems are usually either hooked because they were given an opiod prescription without adequate monitoring or who have serious issues with their lives that they're trying to avoid. It's unrealistic to ever expect to completely solve...
[03:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:15] <exec> 08└─That is a problem. I can only imagine how many average people became street junkies because big pharma advertised one of the most addictive formulations ever as non-addictive.
[03:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:18] <exec> 08└─Is there any moral difference between the two?
[03:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:20] <exec> 08└─I would enjoy having that lovely feeling on a regular basis.
[03:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing is Booming - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:34] <exec> 08└─This just goes to show the infinite stupidity of modern business. We outsourced our email to Office365, and have had more email outages in the last year than we had for the entire prior 15 years we manage our own email.
[03:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03unitron [70] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:06] <exec> 08└─... to Leave Their Remains" Pretty sure death will remain the primary method for the foreseeable future, however.
[03:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Attempting $66 Billion Acquistion of Health Insurer Aetna - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:47] <exec> 08└─Happens in politics lmost all the time, happens less in corporate (but it still happens). Many CEO-s are prepared from the start for the moment they'll be "parachuted", they know well it not an "if" it's a "when" - for them, money is the end, CEO-ing (and the power that comes with it) is the mean.
[03:32:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:29] <exec> 08└─He's not stupid. He can shine if he wants to. He trolls intentionally. It's too bad. The world would be better with his authentic wit than the dull caricature he constructs.
[03:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 1972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:06] <exec> 08└─You just don't learn. Trolling is trolling. Flapping your gums to call people names is trolling. At this point in time you are either the foremost, or the second leading troll on Soylent. It's a pretty close race, really, but you seem to choose to troll more people than the other contender for first...
[03:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:08] <exec> 08└─Your assumption that Eth is stupid only cripples you. From a military perspective, one should never underestimate the enemy. And, listen to you - just because you disagree with a man's positions, you assume that he is stupid. An impartial observier might conclude that Eth is smarter than you are.
[03:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Granted "Citizenship" in Saudi Arabia, Sparking Backlash - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:34] <exec> 08└─The article says it has "female features."
[03:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:58] <exec> 08└─>"Plants need light" isn't entirely true Are you thinking of fungi as plants? Photosynthesis needs light. >and with modern bioengineering we could probably improve low-light growth On Mars, sunlight is 44% as bright [colorado.edu] as on Earth. Plants that are well-adapted to that amount of light alr...
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[04:26:02] <exec> 08└─I cold just print money
[04:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:03] <exec> 08└─also 404 yah Your on my hate list
[04:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:05] <exec> 08└─Just a heads up: the trailing period at the end of that link breaks things a little. The source itself seems fine though [getintent.com]
[04:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─Already fixed. Should show up in a few minutes. Silly eds put the period of the sentence as part of the URL.
[04:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:10] <exec> 08└─FUCK THE GODDAMN scumbags. WE WILL WIN! WE ARE KLINGION! OUR heart is of THIS world. OUR blood IS AS YOURS.
[04:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:26] <exec> 08└─Well that is about as bright as AI but not as bright as bender
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─People that invented them have spoken about them on this site, they are good at bounded problems, but they are not intelligent they are not even close to the SCA
[04:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:30] <exec> 08└─Google's captchas are absolutely terrible. It'll give you a picture of a guy on a bike and ask you to find the street signs. And you have to pick the guy on the bike if you want to get it right.
[04:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:51] <exec> 08└─The point myself and other sympathetics are trying to make is that, Metroid 2 and derivatives suck. AM2R Rocks.
[04:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:52] <exec> 08└─..and what versions of the inferior rpms are you using? Please give us all the details, Dottorre
[04:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:28] <exec> 08└─>p>If it's adversely affecting their driving, then you can tell they're on something.
[04:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:29] <exec> 08└─Sex is an expensive habit.
[04:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:31] <exec> 08└─"This person sucks at driving or is tired" usually results in much less punishment than "this person failed a field sobriety test". "This person hit the bong an hour ago" = ???
[04:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:33] <exec> 08└─The Nazi in the car has a pretty valid case of "self defense".
[04:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing is Booming - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:48] <exec> 08└─Apples and oranges. There are probably better places to outsource email than MS.
[04:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tide is Turning for Underwater Turbines - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:57] <exec> 08└─Calling someone a moron or snob doesn't refute the person's argument.
[04:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:23] <exec> 08└─Other reports say Rajoy specifically sacked Soler and another police official: A day after the Catalan parliament defied Madrid and voted for a unilateral declaration of independence, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy issued a decree that confirmed the sacking of Josep Lluís Trapero, head of the...
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[04:37:12] <exec> 08└─Not all plants require photosynthesis. Never did that "grow $X in a dark closet" grade-school science experiment? With appropriate nutrition etc, a lot of stuff can be grown without sunlight.
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[05:26:09] <exec> 08└─Digital Signal Processor? TFA only has DSP once, and it isn't explained. Some searching suggests it could be Demand Side Platform. Maybe. Meaning bidding for ads.
[05:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:29] <exec> 08└─Bite my shiny virtual ass!
[05:26:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:40] <exec> 08└─Other people had advance this notion, similar to the idle land laws: tax any intellectual property. Fail to pay the taxes and the property is forfeited. EA is not making money out of its old intellectual property, so probably would not like paying a tax or fee to maintain it, so it should devolve to...
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[05:26:52] <exec> 08└─You get fucked every time.
[05:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:31] <exec> 08└─If you weren't already going to hell, that post would have punched your ticket.
[05:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:33] <exec> 08└─You have to have probable cause that they've done something illegal in order to get the blood draw necessary to make that determination in general. Pot is a particular problem because nobody really knows how to adequately determine if somebody is too impaired to drive. Determining whether or not som...
[05:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:35] <exec> 08└─Democrats want to spend 45 billion on this? Surprise, surprise. That's over $100 per person; an obvious money grab.
[05:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes, those chocolate cupcakes, or White cake cupcakes, are both delicious to the extreme. When the frosting is put on them you become a pure addict. I don't give a flying fuck about mainlining cake, but when you cut a piece off that has that nice cake frosting, all bets are off. There is a reaso...
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[05:28:39] <exec> 08└─Study your agonists, avoid rigorous scheduling (the "ritual" and routine tell your body to prepare for drugs - effectively raising your tolerance), allow yourself to come down before re-dosing to avoid quckly building a high tolerance, better to simply avoid daily use though if you want a sustainabl...
[05:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:27] <exec> 08└─Citation: Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
[05:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Luxury Tourism" Version of World's Largest Aircraft is in the Works - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:23] <exec> 08└─*one "photo" with the Great Wall and one with the Eiffel Tower
[05:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:39] <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...
[05:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:40] <exec> 08└─The key really is to avoid anything co-authored by Gentry Lee. He seems like a smart guy, but never really cared much for his writing style.
[05:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Colonists Could Produce Oxygen by Making a Plasma Out of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds better than dying of lack of oxygen. Hazards are relative.
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[06:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:05] <exec> 08└─So much for impeachment, he'll just sic the National Guard on any dissenters' asses! All hail Emperor Trump! Long live the Racist In Charge! (Please don't kill me, I have family that depends on me (unlike YOU))
[06:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:06] <exec> 08└─The weird thing about Trump is that all his deranged haters manage to be even more dislikeable than he is. Case in point.
[06:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:09] <exec> 08└─So Regan, bush . Clinton, bush, Obama, trump are all war criminals at least as bad as Milosevic so domestic violence must exceed real violence from external actors so it must be invented
[06:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:11] <exec> 08└─People who hate racism, bigotry, sexism, classicism, chauvinism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and the like are all more dislikeable than Trump? I'll let the KKK know that the next time I stop by a rally. I'm sure they'd love a colored man such as myself walking up to them to let them know...
[06:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:23] <exec> 08└─Meaning bidding for ads.
[06:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:24] <exec> 08└─When I am paying for your "cloud"
[06:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's because you mistakenly think your hero is called "Methanol-Fueled", not "Ethanol-fueled."
[06:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:10] <exec> 08└─Niggers
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[06:27:11] <exec> 08└─That one's easy. Make the fee go up each year. Start with something ridiculously low, like a dollar. Then double it the next year. Then double it again. 25 years later, your fee is $16 million. This sounds about right if you consider the original copyright length (14 years, extensible for another 14...
[06:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:55] <exec> 08└─Sure, but not zero. The goal is to correct the bad behavior, not maximize punishment (at least that is supposedly the goal). We managed w/ alcohol before the breathalyzer. If the person demonstrates coordination, balance, good orientation, and reasonable reaction time, it's a bit silly to whine that...
[06:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you had more problems than just weed. Smoking, for me, made my life complete. I have never been happier, more succesful, had more friends and better relationships, than when I spent almost 100% of my waking hours high. Being sober is a pitiful existence being crushed by daily drudgery, d...
[06:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:59] <exec> 08└─Are you okay, brother? Perhaps you should settle down and get a grip. We can help you with that.
[06:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:01] <exec> 08└─You are partially right and partially wrong. Of all the addicts I know not one got addicted because of their doctor. I am not saying it does not happen. But most were recreational up until it was no longer recreational. I also know many who keep it recreational and never progressed.
[06:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:03] <exec> 08└─We managed DUI enforcement before there even was a breathalyser. Close your eyes and touch your nose. Walk the line heel to toe. Recite the alphabet, etc. If you flunk, there's your probable cause.
[06:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:06] <exec> 08└─So the problem solves itself? Half will be on drugs, the other half will be sick or dead (no health care) and/or jobless :/
[06:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06According to Gallup, American Support for Cannabis Legalization is at an All-Time High - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:35] <exec> 08└─Lesson learned: Never come between a man and his drink.
[06:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:58] <exec> 08└─Runaway, you could just admit that you have no idea where Catalonia is. It would be better than all this fluster trying to cover up your basic American ignorance. And once again, I am quite sure that all Soylentils are quite happy that once again you have shared your opinion on something, since your...
[06:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:59] <exec> 08└─It will never become a nation, nor should it. Lot of countries didn't sign up to be a nation, and they will fucking leave because no one likes you changing the rules of the club once people have joined.
[06:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:07] <exec> 08└─I would say we'd have little hope of catching a rock like this. It's going to be going faster than the escape velocity of the solar system, and we've only managed to get a small handful of objects up to that kind of speed. And in the case of this rock, it's going about 50% faster than the Voyager pr...
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[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─People hate those who get their "-isms" everywhere. It's gross keep it in your pants. You're having so many "-isms" you don't even know how to spell them, and as a result needed a spell-checker for your post (which corrected to something entirely unrelated).
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[07:26:20] <exec> 08└─If anything, consider what would have likely happened if those capable of creating these kind of things tried to "get a job". Do you think we would have had a Facebook had the person with the dream tried to build it under someone else's supervision? Would the creativity have even been tolerated in...
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[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─EA wants to effectively convert a purchase to a rental by tying them to servers that disappear when they think it's time you make a payment. They're also able to prevent non-microtransaction games from out-competing the new shit shows. EA has been a hard no for me since they started that.
[07:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:58] <exec> 08└─> Could you post a few videos of him being racist? I am sure those exist. I am coming up a little dry to back you up. My google fu is failing today. If you can't find videos of Trump being racist, it's time to seek help for your condition.
[07:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:47] <exec> 08└─I would be happy enough if they would just bury me in a cardboard box, preferably under where they are planting a tree, in the same manner as my ancestors used to plant a fish right under where they planted a seed of corn. I watched 'em transplant trees at the park. A couple more scoopfuls of dirt...
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[07:33:55] <exec> 08└─Eth is not an enemy. He is an idiot. I expect a certain level of competence in my enemies. This is why I also loves me some Runaway! Too stupid to be a threat! Battle of wits with an unarmed opponent!
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[07:33:57] <exec> 08└─If you had read the handbook, you would know that your pointy hood and robes should be of the purest white muslin! Hey, did anyone else see the pics of TMB in Tennessee today? https://www.gannett-cdn.com
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[08:26:57] <exec> 08└─In a better universe this would be unquestionably legal. Reverse engineering and 3rd part built tools for the purposes of interoperability. A thing that a customer has paid for and would like to continue to use.
[08:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CVS Attempting $66 Billion Acquistion of Health Insurer Aetna - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:37] <exec> 08└─You may want to check the fit of your tinfoil hat. These are publicly listed companies whose managements are answerable to share holders. Share holders want capital gain and dividends, and market, wider economic, and to a lesser degree political power in the hands of a company they have shares in is...
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[09:26:00] <exec> 08└─Trump is fighting hard to pass tax cuts for the middle class. Of course, Trump considers himself and his family "middle class", so he's fighting for tax cuts for people who have between $50 million and $5 billion dollars.
[09:26:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:10] <exec> 08└─People who hate racism, bigotry, sexism, classicism, chauvinism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and the like are all more dislikeable than Trump? I'll let the KKK know that the next time I stop by a rally. I'm sure they'd love a colored man such as myself walking up to them to let them know...
[09:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, after a quick look, the site is all about advertising. It's interesting though, technical well written with detailed analysis, really gives you a different insight into ads.
[09:28:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:51] <exec> 08└─The Nazi in the car has a pretty valid case of "self defense".
[09:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:53] <exec> 08└─Absolutely!
[09:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tide is Turning for Underwater Turbines - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:32] <exec> 08└─My housecats make luncheon out of pigeon. ( Never liked pigeons much... to me they are more like a flying shit tank. )
[09:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:07] <exec> 08└─like John McCain, he has relatives in high places that afford him the luxury of being a troll on the internets
[09:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:08] <exec> 08└─A specific example I heard about once was that EU environmental regulations led to flooding in England.
[09:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:11] <exec> 08└─Just about every other country has been, to one extent or another, disillusioned by the EU, as it falls far short of what it was founded for.
[09:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:21] <exec> 08└─Energy does matter. The Meteor Crater burst has been estimated to be about 10 megatons. If it were going 20 times as fast, that would be a 4,000 megaton impact (20^2 = 400 times more energy). Air isn't going to dissipate that. However, the impact that is thought to have ended the dinosaurs was abou...
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[10:26:05] <exec> 08└─I don't remember who this was. IIRC he was speaking at Davos. What he was really afraid of was that the stark inequality might lead the common people to commit acts of violence against the rich.
[10:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:06] <exec> 08└─Those tax cuts will get the administration in a deeper budgetary black hole. Yeah, I know, I know... he promised he'll plug the tax loopholes, I don't see that he did and I don't think he will do it soon. Anyone knows something to the contrary?
[10:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:08] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with someone being a billionaire. I have a problem with dynasties, i.e., the wealth being passed - unearned - on to children, grandchildren, ad nauseum. So: let them keep their wealth, but all countries should have high inheritance taxes on amounts over >, which amount is a se...
[10:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:20] <exec> 08└─Of course all wars are beyond review. There is no war where you are looking. We are simply field-testing our newest weapons and congress has approved those tests. There is nothing wrong here. We have never declared war on anybody for a long time. Didn't you know, we've always been at war with Drugs.
[10:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:58] <exec> 08└─Actually, those captchas are much better than some of the others. The ones with a bunch of poorly drawn numerals, mixed in with a bunch of squiggly lines were among the worst. And, then there were the ones with poorly written letters, sometimes cursive, which were only a tiny bit better. I much pref...
[10:27:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:24] <exec> 08└─EA wants to effectively convert a purchase to a rental by tying them to servers that disappear when they think it's time you make a payment. They're also able to prevent non-microtransaction games from out-competing the new shit shows. EA has been a hard no for me since they started that.
[10:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:16] <exec> 08└─You're right! Tax cuts and deregulation to the rescue.
[10:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:17] <exec> 08└─I'll be in good company with Arnaud Amalric, right? Except, I don't like Nazis or commies. Let them kill each other. Arnaud was willing to kill a bunch of his own, to ensure he got the other side. Isn't that worser? Or not?
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[10:32:54] <exec> 08└─+1 just for the link to bumwine!
[10:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:24] <exec> 08└─There are none so blind as he who will not see. Stop trolling, and you can stop the down mods. And, no, contructive criticism is not trolling - but I guess you got your jollies by downmodding that post.
[10:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible Interstellar Asteroid/Comet Enters Solar System - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:35] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting that it'll exit the Solar System with a lower velocity as it climbs out of the gravity well of the Sun, maybe 26 km/s at a long distance from the Sun? Even a century from now, an unmanned spacecraft would be able to catch up and match speed to the object, though it'd take significa...
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[11:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:02] <exec> 08└─The Bloomberg report indicates that the show was delayed because the initial cuts had swearing and "references to vaginal hygiene."
[11:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:04] <exec> 08└─Look at how well Pixar stuff sells. In contrast Hollywood seems to have a different agenda - it's not mainly about making profitable movies. Maybe personal profit (or to grope/rape more actors) or maybe many of them are truly completely incompetent ( https://www.youtube.com [yout...
[11:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:06] <exec> 08└─Or maybe just implement profiles and parental controls, like Netflix does?
[11:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:17] <exec> 08└─Wealth inequality is only a problem if you're a greedy shit stain who bases their happiness on the wealth of others. The destruction of the middle class is the real problem; that's taking what people have already worked hard for away from them. Make sure and drop the last four former Presidents a fr...
[11:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:18] <exec> 08└─The current inheritance taxes are as high as they can before alternative tax avoidance measures become viable. As with all things taxes in a failed government and economy, unless some miraculous technology comes about, it will take a full tax code reform (not to mention a well irrigated and fertiliz...
[11:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:20] <exec> 08└─So how would you define "inheritance tax" ??? Seriously, you either tax income or nothing at all. Inheritance tax can be dodged left and right fairly easily, especially in today's world. And you don't want dynasties? Too bad. At least we are not in the time of kings and queens, mostly. Boosting taxe...
[11:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:22] <exec> 08└─Why? Muffy Vandercunt never having to work a day in her life doesn't affect the economy or your financial position within it at all. And even yoinking all Bezos's fortune back directly into the economy on his death wouldn't amount to a drop in the bucket given the relative size of the bucket it's go...
[11:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:25] <exec> 08└─Especially Obama, as he did more to crush everyone down towards poverty than any President since Herbert Hoover with Obamacare alone.
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─You're saying we shouldn't blame the person directly responsible for transferring the largest percentage of wealth from the middle class to corporate interests in a hundred years? Why, exactly?
[11:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:39] <exec> 08└─People who hate (list of everything and the kitchen sink) are all more dislikeable than Trump?
[11:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:41] <exec> 08└─People have been saying that Trump is racist every second of every day, all year long. What exactly are you accomplishing by doing this, when it isn't even on topic? TFA is about war. Now please tell me which you believe is worse: war, or bigotry and blah, blah, blah? Is it OK to bomb people as long...
[11:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, being possessed by Alexa sounds really bad.
[11:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:11] <exec> 08└─Too dangerous. You never know whether your ship randomly picks up a few people, transmutes objects around you, or does other improbable things. I'll stick to bistromatics.
[11:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Quantum Materials May Soon Make Star Trek Technology Reality - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:13] <exec> 08└─Gives a whole new meaning to "vagina dentata" :-)
[11:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:42] <exec> 08└─AC's "condition" seems to be that he thinks for himself. Listen to you - "We told you that he's racist, boy, wtf you need some kind of proof? We say who's racist, you take our word, or you're one of them!"
[11:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:44] <exec> 08└─So, tell me - how many people do you know who DON'T issues in their lives?
[11:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:51] <exec> 08└─Stop taking the bait, you complete and utter moron! My god, Runaway! You have such thin skin, for such a tough dude! Or is it that you cannot understand what is going on here? You are allying yourself with enemies of the United States of America! You are a traitor, man! Time to step back, to realiz...
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[12:26:14] <exec> 08└─Trump is fighting hard to pass tax cuts for the middle class. Of course, Trump considers himself and his family "middle class", so he's fighting for tax cuts for people who have between $50 million and $5 billion dollars.
[12:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:25] <exec> 08└─Publishers Weekly said I set "the gold standard of the entrepreneurial spirit." Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families. I will fight for you with every breath in my body -- and I will never, ever let you d...
[12:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:26] <exec> 08└─This is true but it amuses me that it's D voters who are suddenly concerned with the deficit. They're damned sure not bothered by it when it comes to social spending.
[12:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:28] <exec> 08└─The game has been won.
[12:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:31] <exec> 08└─You sure are posting lots in this discussion. So far, 12 comments and 4 of them are yours. Why are you focusing on just one or two people out of the thousands who made Gilded Age 2.0 happen? Your belief in the power of the US Presidency is blinding you. Like, there's the Supreme Court justices who r...
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[12:26:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is, the rich and super-rich refuse to pay tax, and they persuade the poor to vote in people who will cut taxes at every opportunity. The money to run civillisation has to come from somewhere, so the "middle class" gets it in the neck. They (the rich) are trolling you.
[12:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:35] <exec> 08└─I just lost The Game. :\
[12:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:37] <exec> 08└─It interests me and it's exceedingly likely to have a whole lot of outright idiotic things said that need correcting. Plus it's morning coffee time and there's nothing else going on. Why focus on Presidents? Because they're the loudest voices preaching helping the people while fucking them in the as...
[12:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:40] <exec> 08└─Well, as the Wikipedia article noted, in the developed world the "Progressive Era" (and subsequent eras, resulting in today's era of prosperity) followed the "Gilded Age". In a similar fashion, this era will be followed by something similar. My view is that now as in the actual Gilded Age, we're in...
[12:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:42] <exec> 08└─The money to run civillisation has to come from somewhere...
[12:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:56] <exec> 08└─Melania is doing a tremendous thing. Doing a lot to stop the cyber bullying. Amazing job! pic.twitter.com/EFYDZDN6yR [t.co]
[12:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:58] <exec> 08└─I think there is blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I think there is blame on both sides. You have some very bad people in that group. You also have some very fine people on both sides. The classicists and anti-classicists, I call them Anticla.
[12:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:01] <exec> 08└─If opioids were banned or more restricted you would see more suicides in addition to greater pain. People forget about all of those legit pain patients that are out there that these medicines at least make their lives semi-tolerable, if not always productive. You can cut the opioid death rate, but I...
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[12:32:17] <exec> 08└─Many counties in California had more votes than registered voters.
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[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─as a parent you probably do want to get at least a few minutes of sleep every night rather than having to deal with your kids getting nightmares the whole night
[13:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:12] <exec> 08└─Or maybe just implement profiles and parental controls, like Netflix does?
[13:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:38] <exec> 08└─Possibly Warren Buffet?
[13:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:40] <exec> 08└─At least you can see a silver lining the black cloud (but, warning [despair.com], "lightning kill hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it"). Does it feel good to you to live on the money of you kids/grandkids, with lesser benefits for you? that it's D voters who are suddenly concerned...
[13:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:42] <exec> 08└─A huge glaring flaw with wealth inequality analysis, is that all wealth is considered equal. Money in a bank account or the value of a home is considered equivalent to Uber stock (at a glance, they were trying to IPO it for a valuation of $70 billion), a collection of fine art, or some weird combina...
[13:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, I didn't say I'm in favor of deficit spending. I'm not remotely. I just find it amusing that both sides are ready to mortgage the nation's future but only get butthurt when the other side is doing it.
[13:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:01] <exec> 08└─Because accusing someone of bigotry has been the go-to tactic for the Control Left for a generation or two. They can't be bothered to try to debate his stances, so they've decided that the Democrat party platform is that Trump is bad 'cuz Trump. Of course, given that Bernie supporters loved Trump's...
[13:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:02] <exec> 08└─I agree that Congress badly needs to take back the power to decide we need to run around blowing people up but your approach to convincing anyone of it is at best impotent and at worst counterproductive. Please stop using the word "sociopath". It loses impact and meaning when you use it for everyone...
[13:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:19] <exec> 08└─Because bare metal is exactly the opposite of the cloud?
[13:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the captchas are working as designed.
[13:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:44] <exec> 08└─I may be "objectionable content" (just ask my ex) but I am not going down without a fight.
[13:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:46] <exec> 08└─there is no consciousness and never will be
[13:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:13] <exec> 08└─Silicon Valley and Disney are politically liberal in many respects, but when it comes to intellectual property, copyright, and digital rights management they're as evil as you can get.
[13:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:14] <exec> 08└─Occam's Razor says the biggest reason Microsoft is trying to push customers to The Cloud is simply recurring revenue, not data mining. With respect to Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution and running old versions indefinitely, it's not practical. It takes time and effort to keep supporting the old...
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[14:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:04] <exec> 08└─Internet is for... [youtube.com] KATE MONSTER Finally! I get to teach a whole lesson all by myself! And I'm gonna teach something relevant, something Modern -- the internet! The internet is really really great. ...
[14:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds rubbish. The very first thing one needs to know when applying for funding is what rules are applicable, saying that schools were unaware of a 28-day limit for replying puts the onus on the schools, not the FCC. And, at any rate, if details are requested and a reply hasn’t been filed in 28 d...
[14:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:07] <exec> 08└─Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. As a general rule it explains a lot of governmental action/inaction.
[14:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:19] <exec> 08└─Now what kind of control-freakery would that be? This is Apple we're talking about. Giving people options is not what they're all about.
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:20] <exec> 08└─This is Apple we're talking about. Giving people options is not no longer what they're all about.
[14:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:51] <exec> 08└─As a billionaire, invest a % of your money with billionaires who invest in a media portfolio containing Netflix, Apple TV, American Ninja Warrior, Survivor, America's Fucking Funniest Home Videos, Ow! My Balls!, etc. Then invest another % with a group producing false and bankrolling political outrag...
[14:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:10] <exec> 08└─People who hate racism, bigotry, sexism, classicism, chauvinism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and the like are all more dislikeable than Trump?
[14:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:21] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, there are fan run servers, and a new master server, so you can still play this game. Old, but fun.
[14:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:20] <exec> 08└─Well, big pharma started lacing opiods with acetaminophen so they'd kill addicts and reduce the PR problem. According to the FDA, acetaminophen remains the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., despite repeated government warnings. However, the majority of acetaminophen-related deaths are due...
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[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
[15:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:26] <exec> 08└─Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo... Think differently: to hell with their genius! We, Apple, are gonna give them uplif...
[15:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:27] <exec> 08└─The misfits.
[15:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─Some people are so poor, through no fault of their own, that they shouldn't have to pay a penny. They should not have to rely on random and infrequent acts of "charity" either. A civillised society takes care of its poor. They should have to pay their "fair share" right enough, and that share is 0%.
[15:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:00] <exec> 08└─It might incentivize them to do something useful with it. The hoarding tendency to protect your offspring might not trigger as strongly. If you know it's gone when you're gone, you might start a very risky but interesting or useful endeavor with it instead. I agree that the government getting it all...
[15:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:02] <exec> 08└─So your argument is there are too many people for the spit to work out? OK. That's an interesting direction to go looking. All wealth is not created equal though, you are right. Wealth gained without the application of personal time and energy should be less protected and taxed more heavily. Interes...
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:04] <exec> 08└─Just give me ONE example of a society which is civilized and doesn't have a government. I'll give you Somalia as an example of a society without government and it ain't civilized. Some tribes in the Amazon might not have a government as such, but they can't be called civilized either. Both communism...
[15:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─There is a TED talk [ted.com] from some rich guy saying the pitchforks are coming and urging fellow plutocrats to address inequality.
[15:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:09] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. It's always been the Democratic voters that were concerned about the deficit. Who precisely do you think voted for the idiots that blew up the national debt? Here's a hint, the idiots that blew up the debt all had Rs attached to their names. The GOP has been using dynamic scoring fo...
[15:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:11] <exec> 08└─You'd have to be a great fool not to see that coming. Before the bribery of politicians was so egregious there was at least some hope of politicians doing something about it, but now that the SCrOTUmS have decided that there's no such thing as bribery, I have no faith of any sort that there's going...
[15:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:31] <exec> 08└─If you think the wars are continuing with "hardly a word against them" you're living in an echo chamber so small you couldn't fit your Audi in it, and I honestly can't think of how to help you aside from (a) start getting some news from a country not your own, and (b) start listening to people not i...
[15:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:44] <exec> 08└─While true, it misses my point of the vendors planning to obsolete what you have, and then killing it off so you *cant* use it, even if you choose to. Sure, time marches on, as does technology, and it makes things less viable over time, but at least that is not 'by design', and just an artifact of a...
[15:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:36] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, you're right - feed me to the birds, or worms, or set me on fire, or put me in a tub and have a party where everyone pisses on me... I really don't care. On the other hand, I've spent too much of my life supporting the fiasco that is health care in the United States, it's mutually b...
[15:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tide is Turning for Underwater Turbines - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:16] <exec> 08└─It's quite meaty and cromulent, don't you think?
[15:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tide is Turning for Underwater Turbines - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:17] <exec> 08└─No, no it's much worse than nothing. It could be entirely made-up, yet fools believe it to be true with zero evidence that it is simply because it exists. I can make all kinds of unsourced charts that say all kinds of untrue things.
[15:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:58] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone want to live in the USA, to be bled dry and worked to death to make the super-rich even richer? Or shot by a lunatic spraying random people with bullets because it's his Constitutional right?
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[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't such a filter run afoul of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights? It has a strong protection for freedom of expression and any mandated filter law would run afoul of that.
[16:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─You'd think hate speech would be better protected as well. I see they walk back [europa.eu] these rights in Article 51, Scope (page 21). 1. Any limitation on the exercise of the rights and freedoms recognised by this Charter must be provided for by law and respect the essence of those rights and fre...
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[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─Where can I access this filter so I can pipe in /dev/urandom? Or are they going to charge a fee?
[16:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:12] <exec> 08└─The keyphrase is "rights and freedom of others". That allows to regulate hate-speech because it is about other (natural) persons. The balance is that one group may not prevent another group from having the same rights. That is, generally, a very difficult line to walk. The proposed (censorship) law...
[16:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:22] <exec> 08└─s/Ajit Pai/Idjit Pie/ His "expertise" is in lobbying for wireless carriers. Would be TFU, but for use as a really bad example.
[16:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:23] <exec> 08└─From TFS it appears the submitter(s) were not the schools themselves but the consulting firm, Funds for Learning. They either had marvelous market penetration but no knowledge of the rules OR they were filing applications with no supporting information from the schools. That makes me wonder whether...
[16:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:40] <exec> 08└─But seriously - parental controls only control which existing material kids can access.
[16:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:19] <exec> 08└─Because as long as money = political speech, inheriting multimillions makes our government a hereditary monarchy.
[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, it would, Most of the inequality is driven by a handful of extremely wealthy people hoarding money that they could never spend in their lifetime. If there was a maximum limit on how much you could leave to your children it would greatly reduce the need to bribe government officials for more tax...
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─Or if you expect to be able to pay for frivolous things like food and shelter and be able to take a week or two off for vacation every year. That's something that an increasing number of Americans can't do, there's only 12 counties in the entire country that have affordable housing for those living...
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─But, we're not building wealth. Most of our "wealth" is tied up in the stock market and is increasingly invested in companies that don't produce anything. If you account for the way that stock valuations are done, you'd find that we have a small fraction of the wealth that we seem to have. The momen...
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─This isn't interesting, it's moronic. Money in a bank account is not equivalent to money invested in Uber. I can, right now, go to my banks and withdraw all of those funds and get the exact amount that I expect. If I want to sell my stock, it's dependent upon other people being willing to buy. You a...
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─Wealth gained without the application of personal time and energy should be less protected and taxed more heavily.
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─What's funny is the Rs keep cutting taxes at the top but not cutting spending, then they wonder where this deficit came from. nda like the way they started out talking big about replacing Obamacare with something better the instant they had control. Now they're just trying to kill Obamacare and repl...
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:33] <exec> 08└─You either haven't been paying attention or are refusing to believe the truth despite overwhelming evidence. Obamacare was the biggest corporate boondoggle in American history (and the biggest bit of deficit spending) and sucking the life blood from the middle class and giving it to the poor destroy...
[16:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:36] <exec> 08└─You're wrong on the Republican plans for Obamacare (do a bit of research) but that's not especially important since I doubt they'll get their shit together long enough to pass anything at all. The important thing is you at least see that Democrats are "Tax and Spend More" while the Republicans are "...
[16:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─Using an inflationary currency was designed to take care of that by making truly stagnant money (of which there is very, very little) worth less every year, thus providing incentive to reinvest in the economy. And it would if we could manage enough growth to allow for it. Destroy the middle class an...
[16:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:40] <exec> 08└─How'd that work out for Hillary? She outspent Trump by an enormous margin. Money's not as powerful as you think.
[16:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:42] <exec> 08└─It'd take too long to school you on how wrong you are and that even if you weren't you're trying to use a chainsaw to fix a hangnail. I prefer brevity and I feel a sunday afternoon nap sneaking up on me, so someone else can explain it if they like.
[16:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:03] <exec> 08└─Medically, sociopathy is termed as antisocial personality disorder. It is defined as "a mental health condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others."
[16:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:22] <exec> 08└─with that funding, i would be generous. I would condsider the pain that the academic elite feel now that the open-mouth breathing unwashed masses have emerged in a post-AOL internet. I would then pay editors and other people that could help, to eliminate unrelated culutural meme generating meta tagg...
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[16:31:19] <exec> 08└─His party believes it works for financial and family planning, too. If you just do what they tell you, they'll be fine.
[16:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:20] <exec> 08└─" By the fourth drink many people are acting downright stupid. "
[16:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing is Booming - 1704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:37] <exec> 08└─very good who is tracking the costs of this? clearly not finance. it shows IT is still incompetent and they havent outsourced enough of it yet. i am warning you, you better start giving them metrics of why it is down. because even if MS says there is a problem that cost doesnt show on the company ba...
[16:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:35] <exec> 08└─John McCain is a senile old traitor who, without his family connections, would be rotting in Leavenworth for high treason.
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[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─It's like Einstein said: the universe and human stupidity are infinite, and he wasn't sure about the former. These rent seeking, media rights hoarding fools really would burn down the house to kill a few flies. Let's hope the rest of us aren't stupid enough to do as they ask. Anyway, their proposal...
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─So video of your cat, Sylvester, will definitely get swatted down for Time-Warner sake.
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─Let's hope the rest of us aren't stupid enough to do as they ask. Considering recent election results in the EU and the US, I believe you're in for a big disappointment. At the ISP level censorship is easy. With hardly an accusation they can snip your wire. But they will still tread lightly, or peop...
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─It has a strong protection for freedom of expression... No it doesn't, as already pointed out above. The only strong protection for freedom of expression on the whole planet is contained in the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. Nothing else comes close. All we need now is a supreme court that wi...
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[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Well, they will also ban it because Sylvester spoke with a lisp and that's politically incorrect to portray. In the name of inclusion, we need to have a therioth show in which the protagonist speaks with a lisp and anybody caught laughing at it goes to jail for being, uh, not diverse or inclusive or...
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[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─*sigh* [cia.gov]
[17:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─KATE MONSTER Finally! I get to teach a whole lesson all by myself! And I'm gonna teach something relevant, something Modern -- the internet! The internet is really really great. ...
[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:49] <exec> 08└─No, the new Huxtables!
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─And to make matters worse, when wealthy people are able to buy most of the stocks, it distorts the market and leads to decisions being made that ultimately undermine the long term solvency of the businesses themselves.
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─That's why the Rs have failed utterly 4 times over to do anything about it. Meanwhile, there's a lot of people who couldn't get insurance at all before who have it now. Of course, the real problem, carefully ignored by both parties is that we pay 4 times as much for healthcare as the U.K. $8 dollar...
[17:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:45] <exec> 08└─No, there is nothing civilized about taking what one person has earned and giving it to someone undeserving. Having money is not a vice and being poor is not a virtue. Our economy is in need of some fixing but saying "here, have some of his money" doesn't fix anything; it just buys you votes. What w...
[17:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:47] <exec> 08└─Strawman. I said people can be civilized without the government forcing them, not that there should be no government. There is a vast gulf between small government and no government.
[17:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:49] <exec> 08└─[Obamacare (etc.):] sucking the life blood from the middle class and giving it to the poor destroys the economy rather than helping it.
[17:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:51] <exec> 08└─Think I'm wrong? Pre-Obamacare, my roommate had 90/10 coverage for his family with a deductible of about a month's wages for around the cost of a mortgage payment. Fast-forward to now and he has 60/40 coverage with a deductible of over a year's worth of mortgage payments for the same cost to him.
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─So not till a fair portion of us are dead.
[17:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─While I agree that "Obamacare" is / was a boondoggle, many of its failings are due to all the amendments that had to be negotiated in order to get the legislation to the President's desk. The involvement of commercial insurance corporations is, in my view, the biggest problem. The money was sucked f...
[17:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:58] <exec> 08└─How'd that work out for Hillary? She outspent Trump by an enormous margin. Money's not as powerful as you think.
[17:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:00] <exec> 08└─As for Obamacare, your room mate most likely had a substandard plan that would have cut out if anything serious had happened.
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─You think I'm lauding the Republicans? You aren't paying attention then. Or you just want a strawman.
[17:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:05] <exec> 08└─But, we're not building wealth. Most of our "wealth" is tied up in the stock market and is increasingly invested in companies that don't produce anything.
[17:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─No, there is nothing civilized about taking what one person has earned and giving it to someone undeserving.
[17:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:09] <exec> 08└─do you always look backwards at things? billionaires don't ever work BECAUSE there are thousands of people working FOR them it is a social issue because this work is done under certain social rules. bonus points if you can tell who makes the rules?
[17:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:11] <exec> 08└─No, there is nothing civilized about taking what one person has earned and giving it to someone undeserving.
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─A) Your daughter did not have a 90/10 plan with a low deductible and all the other bells and whistles. Those plans that used to be possible for middle class Americans are gone for anyone but the rich now. B) There are two insurers in the state and until Trump EO'd it this month you couldn't buy out...
[17:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:16] <exec> 08└─So not till a fair portion of us are dead.
[17:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:18] <exec> 08└─For example, the creation of the high tech industry over the past 70 years has resulted in a vast new basket in which to put eggs.
[17:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:20] <exec> 08└─If I'm wrong, where is this amazing Republican solution? The deadline for this year came and went and they haven't managed to do a damned thing but make some noise. The best evidence suggests that the grand plan is to do nothing until they lose their majority (because of doing nothing), then retroac...
[17:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:22] <exec> 08└─It might incentivize them to do something useful with it.
[17:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:25] <exec> 08└─When merely inheriting wealth is considered a "monarchy", they are attributing a great deal more power to money than it actually has.
[17:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:27] <exec> 08└─That money goes directly into the pockets of the insurance companies, to the medical care establishment...
[17:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:29] <exec> 08└─Nah, they're just confused about what words mean. :)
[17:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:31] <exec> 08└─extremely wealthy people hoarding money
[17:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:34] <exec> 08└─There isn't one everyone agrees upon but there are several that different factions are pushing. Note I did not say that they had their shit together. I'm pretty sure I said the opposite. You're right on the budget but Bill can't really take credit for that. That was the insane growth of the 90s that...
[17:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:36] <exec> 08└─The problem with that line of reasoning is that "earning" is merely being given crumbs from the table of the rich man, the bear minimum he can part with in order to get some value out of you.
[17:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:38] <exec> 08└─I do care about the future even after I'm gone, but I'm not a masochist. We can bring prosperity sooner and we should.
[17:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:40] <exec> 08└─billionaires don't ever work
[17:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, the gadfly of Soylent News comes to challenge our simplistic beliefs!
[17:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:45] <exec> 08└─I do care about the future even after I'm gone, but I'm not a masochist. We can bring prosperity sooner and we should.
[17:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:47] <exec> 08└─The more I see TMB posting in a discussion, the more confident I can be that reading it is a waste of time.
[17:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:49] <exec> 08└─There is a thing called the riot index [ssrn.com]. While autocracies and democracies show a broadly similar responses to budget cuts, countries with more constraints on the executive are less likely to see unrest after austerity measures. [emph mine]
[17:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:51] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I'm sure if you resist hard enough, you can avoid learning something today. I'll note in your earlier post, you expressed far more concern over the motives of billionaires than over the consequences. I don't see the point to caring that someone is trying to pay me as little as possible, when...
[17:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:54] <exec> 08└─...being given crumbs from the table of the rich man...
[17:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:16] <exec> 08└─"If you think the wars are continuing with "hardly a word against them" you're living in an echo chamber so small you couldn't fit your Audi in it" Or else he's living in America. Where both major parties and the mainstream media adhere to a consensus on all important issues, including that war is r...
[17:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:17] <exec> 08└─So anyone who disagrees with you is incapable of empathy? And you think they're the ones fucked up in the head?
[17:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:19] <exec> 08└─I like to imagine that people such as yourself are just trolling for lulz, but sadly I've seen too many examples otherwise. MUH OPPRESSION!@!
[17:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:21] <exec> 08└─Never said any of that, shows where your mind is at. The persecution complex is strong with this one!
[17:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:24] <exec> 08└─Nice tactic there, putting words in their mouth. It's almost like you are exploiting disagreement in order to manipulate the conversation on to your own terms. Such exploitation!
[17:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:38] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with that. I was countering the idea that Nintendo took any help from the AM2R people.
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[18:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:07] <exec> 08└─Fucking Massholes. They are perhaps the only portion of the American population that even Californians hate. Timezones are about pragmatism, being in sync with your neighbor states.
[18:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:09] <exec> 08└─They should go whole hog and adopt Newfoundland Time! [wikipedia.org]
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:11] <exec> 08└─Politicians are wannabe time travelers, changing clocks back and forth like it means something. We have atomic clocks that can keep time to 18 decimal points, and along comes the government to decree: "Hey, why don't you move time up by an hour on some future date (which we'll keep a secret), and mo...
[18:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:41] <exec> 08└─In this case I might be willing to believe both malice and incompetence.
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─What are you implying?
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:01] <exec> 08└─If you thought Sesame Street characters were scary, there was something going on that should have been addressed. If you still think kids should be protected from the images you saw on Sesame Street as a kid, you probably need good help. Unfortunately, I don't know what help should be recommended. O...
[18:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:28] <exec> 08└─For starters, I think everyone deserves to not freeze, starve, die of something preventable, or live in pain.
[18:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:30] <exec> 08└─A Spider's Touch [youtube.com]...
[18:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:32] <exec> 08└─Right now, I'm focusing on keeping the developed world at developed world status. As usual, you're focused on moving the goalposts. Do tell, why is it necessary to screw everyone over to develop the 3rd world.
[18:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:34] <exec> 08└─What's the magic fix that'll bring several billion people quickly to developed world status? Disobedience. Our own submissiveness/subservience is the only thing stopping us. It is the direct cause of all our poverty. The prison is our own making. And the truth is that we can turn on a dime if we wan...
[18:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:36] <exec> 08└─The two sides advance two halves of the real agenda and disrupt each other's fake agenda. Trying to change the system through politics is like trying to break in a house from the main, reinforced, door. Look how Linux briefly disrupted the system. Being stealthily adopted because it was too convenie...
[18:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:38] <exec> 08└─Do you have a point? If so, explain it.
[18:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:41] <exec> 08└─There is no meaningful market in healthcare. Hospitals don't even bother posting price lists. You are expected to just go and pay whatever they say.
[18:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:07] <exec> 08└─Not on topic?? The president of the United States in 2017 is a bigoted piece of entitled crap, and pointing it out is "off topic" and relentless? Such strawman, much stupid.
[18:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:09] <exec> 08└─Do you need some diaper rash ointment for all that butthurt or did you just think the first reply was as weak as I did?
[18:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:11] <exec> 08└─You are being silly to claim all such offenses are equal. However... This is another example of how BOTH of the major parties promote centralization of power. The may disagree about details (not certain how much of that is PR), but on many of the most important issues their stance is identical. Plea...
[18:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure about "As bad as Milosevic": They've definitely committed war crimes per Nuremberg and the International Tribunal for the Far East, but have not attempted (as far as I currently know) genocide. My views may be skewed, however, by befriending in my youth a family who had managed to escap...
[18:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:32] <exec> 08└─There are protocols in this world that are not HTTP. There is more to the internet than your world wide web. Expand your tiny mind.
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[19:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:09] <exec> 08└─For the contiguous 48 states: East of the Mississippi on one zone (possibly including states directly west of the big river), west on the other. Not sure if 2 or 3 hours apart is the best fit?
[19:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not rhetorical, since the paths to abuse are soo many I can't see any way _not_ to abuse this (unless you are a philantrope soon to become a cynic) Soo, just for fun - what would be nweded to make this into something that won't be abused? (Btw, someone should really produce 15s clips of procedur...
[19:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:44] <exec> 08└─That's the thing about him, and really most of the other Trump appointees, they're usually not so much incompetent as purposefully corrupt. Pai knows damn well that what he's doing isn't good for the American people, but since it's good for his previous and future employers he does it anyways. Reall...
[19:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:04] <exec> 08└─Will Apple be the new Disney?
[19:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:05] <exec> 08└─Hollywood's agenda is to make money by providing people with the content they want. It's hardly perfect as we wind up with a ton of sequels and reboots, but it's disingenuous to suggest that they have a motive other than selling more copies. Pixar's stuff sells well in large part because it isn't th...
[19:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:07] <exec> 08└─TBH, while not a Sesame Street character, I did find Sam Eagle to be terrifying when I first watched the Muppet Show, I definitely got nightmares from it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In general though, what scares little kids is rather varied and not necessarily the thing...
[19:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:10] <exec> 08└─Since when is gay not safe for children? Perhaps if you'd take the dick out of your mouth for a few minutes, you'd realize that most people aren't closet cases and can see gay people without immediately heading off to the nearest truck stop to service the glory hole.
[19:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─From the beginning of time up until around now, as in five years ago Disney execs would have been fired for even suggesting devoting an entire season to a triangle between a thot, a dude and a gay BFF lusting after the same dude. Even in the worst degeneracy during the terminal stages of the decline...
[19:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:46] <exec> 08└─Here's what moving the goalposts [wikipedia.org] means: Moving the goalposts (or shifting the goalposts) is a metaphor, derived from association football or other games, that means to change the criterion (goal) of a process or competition while still in progress, in such a way that the new goal off...
[19:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:47] <exec> 08└─A) Yes, she did. Low co-pays, very low deductible. B) That doesn't affect my point that your friend didn't have the insurance he thought he had. C) My insurance (through my employer) was largely unaffected by the ACA, and I am not dirt poor. Far from it. My pay stubs show this. So my insurance is no...
[19:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:50] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by that?
[19:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:52] <exec> 08└─Disobedience. Our own submissiveness/subservience is the only thing stopping us. It is the direct cause of all our poverty. The prison is our own making.
[19:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:54] <exec> 08└─It doesn't exist, the one they had was a $600bn set of tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of the debt and the people's medical care. They've had years to develop a plan for what they'd replace Obamacare with and they haven't been able to come up with anything at all. They could have come up with...
[19:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:57] <exec> 08└─The use of an inflationary currency was designed to avoid a deflationary death spiral. It's well established that the richest are more likely to have large portions of their money tied up in stocks that are relatively resistant to inflationary pressures. What's destroying the middle class is the kin...
[19:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:59] <exec> 08└─This is why nobody takes you seriously. You're deliberately missing the point. The economy doesn't grow because people invest. The economy grows because there's more people buying things and engaged in trade. It would make business a lot easier if all we had to do is invest more money and suddenly w...
[19:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:02] <exec> 08└─You have to admit though that the last big push on healthcare was just a rollback and all of them are just variations on Obamacare lite. As far as government involvement goes, the biggest single anti-market rule is the ban on Medicare negotiating drug prices. That's not something the Ds cooked up. I...
[19:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:04] <exec> 08└─Because in terms of income inequality, it's not the amount of stocks you own, it's the amount of money that those stocks are generating whether they're reinvested or the earnings are collected. That's the basis on which people get taxed on stocks in the US, there's a few minor fees, but that's about...
[19:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:06] <exec> 08└─Given that TFA is talking about the developed world, it's not much of a stretch for me to expect the comments to be on-topic.
[19:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:09] <exec> 08└─There's little point in arguing with you, you are so fucking incompetent that you can't even comprehend that you're wrong. Not a single one of your points actually contains any truth to it. Those institutional investors are only slightly less bad than the individuals with personal holdings of large...
[19:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Set Up Bare Metal Load Balancing to Process Over Half a Million Requests Per Second - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:59] <exec> 08└─Beggars living on the street are self employed with complete freedom to organize their begging business any way they like. Let's all be beggars. GIMME BASIC INCOME NOW.
[19:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:27] <exec> 08└─I have great eyesight (official test a couple of months ago), but within the last year I think I needed to repeat two or three captcha tests. They're just dumb.
[19:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Smart Enough to Fool Captcha Security Check - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:28] <exec> 08└─I have poor eyesight as well and have many friends that are blind or near-blind. I challenge almost anyone who thinks that visual CAPTCHAs are bad to try the audio ones. Some of those are just insane. They are random assemblages of noise and whatever. The Google ones can be frustrating too, as the a...
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[20:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:06] <exec> 08└─What's the difference between this and, say, installing the GNURoot Debian and XSDL apps onto any Android phone and connecting it to a USB or Bluetooth keyboard and an HDMI monitor?
[20:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:07] <exec> 08└─"supremely better than all the earlier attempts to have a smartphone docking into a big screen" 😎
[20:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:19] <exec> 08└─If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line, but, it'd better work this time.
[20:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:20] <exec> 08└─Just go with UTC, people will adapt to the whenever stores open and workday starts (varies widely anyways). And the push for it to be implemented globally. This will have a few advantages: * No DST * No timezones to convert between * New year parties will diversify And drawbacks are only for people...
[20:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:22] <exec> 08└─I work in MA and it's tough as it is to coordinate with companies on the West Coast. This would be bleeping insane. I vote for going to Central Time myself. Not really but preferable to Atlantic. Of course what we really need is a law to make more daylight in the winter :-)
[20:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─NIce thought, but biology overrules you. Humans simply don't function properly if up at night and sleeping during the day. The bright/dark cycle really matters. Granted when( :-) ) we all move underground, we can set the artificial sunlight appropriately and all will be well. So to speak.
[20:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:27] <exec> 08└─Let those dipshits serve as a model for California. They will suffer pain from the rest of the union. You want to be edgy? You want to rebel against Trump because you are Facist fucks who want to pick-and-choose what you do based on the wind? Then do it. I support your efforts. Watch your state spli...
[20:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:29] <exec> 08└─West coast should be on mountain time, with no DST
[20:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:31] <exec> 08└─But then instead of Massachusetts, they'd be Buddy Was-his-name and those other guys.
[20:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:33] <exec> 08└─I served in the military and come from a strongly and historically military and academic Pro-America family, However, I am in favor of Balkanization. We fought a civil war against balkanization, but the funny thing about our civil war was that we fought against the rights of our provinces vs. the gr...
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:29] <exec> 08└─Bacause "douche" is offensive, even though "bitch" is all over network TV nowadays.
[20:27:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:59] <exec> 08└─At least you can see a silver lining the black cloud (but, warning [despair.com], "lightning kill hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it"). Does it feel good to you to live on the money of you kids/grandkids, with lesser benefits for you? that it's D voters who are suddenly concerned...
[20:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not the article and the article is not talking about the developed world. Look at the title of the article: World's witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires’ wealth swells to $6tn
[20:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know about an appearance at Davos, but this guy was on the radio on or about September 30. The Ralph Nader Radio Hour [ralphnaderradiohour.com] Ralph talks to millionaire Morris Pearl, chairman of Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy individuals fighting for economic and political equa...
[20:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:19] <exec> 08└─There is another option you may have missed. They may not see it as a problem at all...after all, it doesn't affect them or their friends.
[20:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Second Gilded Age Is Here - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:21] <exec> 08└─The world is witnessing it, but the billionaires aren't in the 3rd world. The taxes would come from the developed world.
[20:29:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:37] <exec> 08└─I think there is blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I think there is blame on both sides. You have some very bad people in that group. You also have some very fine people on both sides. The classicists and anti-classicists, I call them Anticla.
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[21:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:09] <exec> 08└─Nothing. However if docking stations become more popular, and available for general use with all smartphones, I imagine someone might do all of what you said without the hassle of connecting blue tooth devices and plugging in a monitor cord. The year of the Linux desktop may finally come, minus the...
[21:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─You don't have to root your phone, which most people will never do. And you don't have to know how to do anything but click the icon, which most people don't. And you'll be supported by the original manufacturer's warranty still. But apart from that... yeah... "nothing"...
[21:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:13] <exec> 08└─Samsung (presumably) has polished off the rough edges, making things that can be "plug and play" truly plug and play, without, you know, using ifconfig to find an ip address and manually typing it in along with three commands and seven options on a cli to make anything work.
[21:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:15] <exec> 08└─For the time being try a laptop without cpu, ssd, etc. Add the docking connector to the back of the lid and you have a mobile docking station that weighs 1/2 as much as your current laptop.
[21:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:18] <exec> 08└─You have a cheese pizza. And then you have SUPREME pizza, with, like, anchovies and pineapple and shit. That's the difference.
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─OP wasn't suggesting changing the time you get up. If you currently sleep at 2300 and rise at 0700 in the winter in New York local time, you'd simply get up at 1200 and sleep at 0400. If you do 0600-2200 hours in Singapore, you'd instead rise at 2200 and sleep at 1200.
[21:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:38] <exec> 08└─It's a Goddamn shame that this was modded "funny," because given the approaching tumult this is an issue which is going to hit us in the face and, rather rudely. Unless, of course, our magnificent president Donald Trump puts a stop to Californian assholes, and quickly. Let's hope he does so.
[21:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:40] <exec> 08└─No that isn't a real solution. The reason is that you move from explicit time zones to implicit time zones. Sure, you'd eventually adjust to the area around you doing their times at whatever. But we are in a global economy. If I want to know what my relatives in Alaska are doing, I just have to ask...
[21:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:42] <exec> 08└─Why not just do away with time zones altogether then?
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:59] <exec> 08└─Fuck the EU.
[21:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─As of now, it's a proposal of the national governments of three EU countries (France, Spain and Portugal). So fuck those three governments instead. Should the EU accept this proposal, then it's time to fuck the EU over this.
[21:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:02] <exec> 08└─The most hilarious part is that it's Germany again
[21:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:05] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. We will kick the living shit out of you shit-eaters! Come on, Scheisskopfs. Put up your dukes!
[21:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is the FCC Purposefully Screwing Up US School Broadband Projects? - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:23] <exec> 08└─You're probably close to the mark on this. Disclosure: I work in K-12 and have submitted and received e-rate grants in the past. E-rate is intended to help urban and rural and especially poor school districts and libraries get connected. It works great for the big urban districts. Big districts hav...
[21:27:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:39] <exec> 08└─But seriously - parental controls only control which existing material kids can access.
[21:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:06] <exec> 08└─What do you think sociopath means?!
[21:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:27] <exec> 08└─They buy good games, and absolutely ruin them. The C&C franchise? Ruined. Battlefield? Ruined. The reason people are playing old versions of the game is because the new versions have been fully brought into EA's theory about games which result in them being terrible in my opinion.
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─We're talking people in general. The masses. Unless you have a tour bus of booze hounds, then the average tour bus has people starting to get stupid on just three or four beers. Ethanol Fueled is not the average American. Ethanol Fueled is the standard by which insecure rednecks judge their own perf...
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[21:33:31] <exec> 08└─Both Scotch and Scots Whiskey or Whisky are for tryhard pretenders. Even the shit that's been aged 15 years. But you've already admitted that you're not a hardcore drinker, so could I suggest something more to your taste? Like, Boones Farm Stawberry Hill? Maybe other Wine-coolers that come in 4-pack...
[21:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Catalonia Declares Independence - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:46] <exec> 08└─I've got my 2nd amendment bears, ain't skeered of no bears.
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[22:26:22] <exec> 08└─And then you have SUPREME pizza, with, like, anchovies and pineapple and shit.
[22:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:24] <exec> 08└─There's no human being liking the thing [anchovies on pizza]
[22:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:26] <exec> 08└─But, . . . can it run Linux?
[22:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:28] <exec> 08└─There's no human being liking the thing
[22:27:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:09] <exec> 08└─The most hilarious part is that it's Germany again
[22:27:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:43] <exec> 08└─Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo... Think differently: to hell with their genius! We, Apple, are gonna give them uplif...
[22:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's $1 Billion TV Lineup Will be Family-Friendly, Not "Game of Thrones" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:55] <exec> 08└─Parental controls simply teach kids which shows they need to look at next time... etc
[22:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electronic Arts Shuts Down Fan-Run Battlefield Servers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:37] <exec> 08└─It't not my fault that you're useless and still wet behind the ears.
[22:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06According to Gallup, American Support for Cannabis Legalization is at an All-Time High - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:24] <exec> 08└─Interesting that you expect civility from "the people around you" when you lie like a rug. [soylentnews.org] Even if you merely perceived in your own mind as having given answers to the questions you'd claimed to have answered, a simple link to your "answer" is supremely easy to do. That you didn't...
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[23:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Blames North Korea for WannaCry Attacks, Says NHS Didn't Follow Cybersecurity Guidelines - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:18] <exec> 08└─Instead of blaming poor security, blame North Korea instead. What has NK got to gain from hacking the NHS? Nothing, except in the fevered imaginations of the war hawks.
[23:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Blames North Korea for WannaCry Attacks, Says NHS Didn't Follow Cybersecurity Guidelines - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:19] <exec> 08└─I think you mean chicken hawks instead of war hawks. War hawks may fight but chicken hawks get bone spurs.
[23:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Blames North Korea for WannaCry Attacks, Says NHS Didn't Follow Cybersecurity Guidelines - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─Your info is sadly years out of date: The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More. [nytimes.com] Maybe the attribution is incorrect, but your idea that "war hawks" are falsifying it doesn't make any sense. UK doesn't want to go to war with North Korea, and the U.S. probably doesn't (w...
[23:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Blames North Korea for WannaCry Attacks, Says NHS Didn't Follow Cybersecurity Guidelines - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:24] <exec> 08└─Doesn't change the fact that N Korea has nothing to gain by hacking the UK's NHS. What would they gain?
[23:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Blames North Korea for WannaCry Attacks, Says NHS Didn't Follow Cybersecurity Guidelines - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:26] <exec> 08└─Money. It's ransomware. Some people did pay out. You are also forgetting that the NHS was far from the only target: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The attack began on Friday, 12 May 2017, and within a day was reported to have infected more than 230,000 compu...
[23:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:44] <exec> 08└─Start with that article: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] View text for the article, and note the lack of SVG. All there is is a JPG. Now, back to the article, click on the image. My web browser says the link goes one place, but it goes elsewhere. Supposedly it goes to https...
[23:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:45] <exec> 08└─Samsung makes lots of phones. Samsung makes lots of TVs. The obvious thing is to build a near-field connection into the top of every TV they make. Don't charge extra or limit the models that have it. Then you can place any Samsung phone on top of any Samsung TV to get power and a big display. The on...
[23:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:47] <exec> 08└─The best pizza is New York-style floppy pizza, with sauce and olive oil dripping down, with pepperoni and mushroom. Chicago deep-shit can fuck themselves. I mean, that's a lousy lagsania/musaka. CA chicken garlic thing aint' too bad, though.
[23:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 1903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:50] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia has an internal image viewer on articles. In the past, when you clicked on an image, you opened a new page detailing the file, other sizes, previous versions, comments, license info, etc. This is that page: https://en.wikipedia.org
[23:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:52] <exec> 08└─Anchovies are bait. You use them to catch actual food......😎
[23:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:54] <exec> 08└─"Then you can place any Samsung phone on top of any Samsung TV" Going to need some type of mount on the TV, My TV is only 3/4" wide on top. Hell of a balancing act otherwise.....
[23:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:56] <exec> 08└─The one at the bottom of the page is this little one with the blue oval: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] That is NOT the one that shows up as the next image. The "next image" one is just the word, over a transparent background. It has this URL: https://en.wikipedi...
[23:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:58] <exec> 08└─I found it. It was inside the other template: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You only see it when you expand it.
[23:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:21] <exec> 08└─Because it would be ridiculous. China already does something like that, they should be 4 time zones or something like that, but they all use just one time zone for national unity. Putting the west coast on mountain time and putting central time over to eastern time would leave us with two timezones...
[23:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:23] <exec> 08└─The Eastern Time Zone in the US is substantially larger east-west than the 15 degrees latitude that would match what the sun's doing. The effect of this is that, within the same time zone, sunrise/sunset can vary by about 90 minutes at roughly the same latitude. The Vermont-New York border is a good...
[23:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Commission Considering a Potential Move to the Atlantic Time Zone - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:25] <exec> 08└─The other extreme: Instead of hourly time zones, have time be set on a municipal level to local solar noon and make computers do all the conversion math for you depending on where you are. So, for instance, when it's 12:00 PM in Springfield MA, it's 12:05 in Boston MA. Which sounds really confusing,...
[23:27:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Three EU Governments Want to Give Record Labels Control Over What We Can and Can’t Post Online - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:35] <exec> 08└─It's like Einstein said: the universe and human stupidity are infinite, and he wasn't sure about the former. These rent seeking, media rights hoarding fools really would burn down the house to kill a few flies. Let's hope the rest of us aren't stupid enough to do as they ask. Anyway, their proposal...
[23:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Justice Department: Wars Are Off Limits to Court Review - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:49] <exec> 08└─Antisocial personality disorder (Sociopath) starts on page 2. http://www.psi.uba.ar [psi.uba.ar]
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─Junkies wrecking their own lives should be fine with all of us. It doesn’t hurt me if you kill yourself. But instead of living by that idea, we’re stuck between conservatives that want the government enforcing arbitrary moral standards and liberals that want the government to save us from oursel...
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