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[00:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:23] <exec> 08└─Whatever it is he's smoking, I'd sure like some of it...
[00:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:54] <exec> 08└─Of course you would, maybe you should go outside more, perhaps travel to non-Western countries. If you have done these things then perhaps some shock treatment, or even a lobotomy?
[00:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:55] <exec> 08└─Solution: Hire fat cops.
[00:27:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:07] <exec> 08└─Much like with concerns about all the killing of civilians in Yemen, the UK/US/UN will seek assurances from the Saudi government that it's not intentional... They'll do this the next time they meet to sell KSA some more weapons or position to get in on the Saudi Aramco IPO.
[00:27:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:14] <exec> 08└─I knew I could count on one of these ignorant posts. you did not disappoint. The deal was for a stake in the company. It is illegal to sell uranium outside the US without a license that has NEVER been issued, and none has been exported. They bought shares of profits, not uranium. The only reason it...
[00:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:17] <exec> 08└─It's all part of the super secret master plan to avoid nuking Iran. 3 easy steps: 1. We just have the Saudis do it! 2. Invest heavily in oil in other parts of the world just before it happens. 3. Profit! What could possibly go wrong?
[00:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:19] <exec> 08└─Or since Clinton is currently not the one in power HA! That's what they want you to think! Trump calls her every day, asking what to do next. She'll have more power than the next five presidents, just like Kissinger held sway over the last nine...
[00:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:21] <exec> 08└─Why are we letting foreign nationals gain control over American corporations? This hurts us. We shouldn't allow it, even if the product is only as important as the Pet Rock. Selling out our nation is harmful to our nation.
[00:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:23] <exec> 08└─Because everyone else did it and now it's your turn to submit to corporate rule.
[00:28:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:06] <exec> 08└─Care to enlighten us as to what this new net grammar is all about?
[00:28:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:13] <exec> 08└─Normally, I have independent views... Our 2 party system sucks. BUT... in this particular case, It was a solid *R* next to those voting for this. From NPR News [npr.org]: With Vice President Pence casting the tie-breaking vote, the rollback of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule banning re...
[00:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:21] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing the moment I read it actually. THere are some very consumer friendly laws in Australia that override this sort of thing actually - you just can't sign away certain rights: https://www.choice.com.au
[00:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:23] <exec> 08└─The point of class action suits is to punish the offending party because it's cost prohibitive for people to take companies to court, even small claims court, for small amounts of money. Even at the federal minimum wage, it's not worth missing a day of work for $5 or even $50. Companies know it and...
[00:29:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:01] <exec> 08└─My hovercraft is full of eels.
[00:29:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:05] <exec> 08└─While I wouldn't trust automatic translations too much, this specific error sounds just too implausible. I'd like to at least see a second, independent source; it would also be nice if someone who actually can speak the involved languages and has access to Facebook's translation services double-chec...
[00:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:23] <exec> 08└─If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel
[00:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 2034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:25] <exec> 08└─I get it where you're trying to go with that (which isn't exactly how you originally phrased things, get it, lost in translation?), but you're making some very weak assumptions. You're assuming that what has been translated for us English speakers from the original Palestinian Arabic dialect as "goo...
[00:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:27] <exec> 08└─Completely missing the point that the supposed vaguely threatening caption of "attack them" does not line up well with the apparent demeanor and tone of the overall photograph, nor its context. Any rational person who simply looked at the photo itself should have realized that the words didn't make...
[00:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:29] <exec> 08└─People in NY look up at low-flying planes. People in London and Nice keep an eye on trucks maneuvering around. People in Israel are careful when some Semite drives heavy equipment around. Can you blame them for thinking "attack them", with a smile, should be investigated as an allusion to an attack?...
[00:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:32] <exec> 08└─there would be no more Israel
[00:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FEMA, White House Disavow Whitefish Energy Holdings Puerto Rico Contract - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:10] <exec> 08└─Putting in a transformer across the border in Washington State
[00:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Drops Everything to Fix Cheeseburger Emoji - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:02] <exec> 08└─Need to understand there are 3 "cheese burgers" First the patty melt. The cheese is placed on top of meat WHILE it is being cooked, so the cheese is MELTED to the patty. Second the grilled cheese. The cheese is MELTED to the bread while toasting on the grill. The patty is added after the process w...
[00:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel Near Los Angeles - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:50] <exec> 08└─No, but we might need to worry about pr0n diseases.
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[01:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:15] <exec> 08└─When you have a holiday based around capitalist-style overconsumption and gluttony, you're bound to get heart problems. Interesting how most all holidays in the good ol' USA are all about overconsuming mass-produced stuff that's bad for your body. Really makes you think, don't it?
[01:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:17] <exec> 08└─people 40 years old or over, eating two ounces of black licorice a day for two weeks...
[01:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:19] <exec> 08└─The problem is caused by glycyrrhizin—a sweetening compound derived from the root of licorice, a low-growing shrub that is found most in Greece, Turkey and Asia. When consumed in large amounts, glycyrrhizin can prompt potassium levels in the body to fall. Low potassium can lead to a variety of hea...
[01:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:21] <exec> 08└─So I guess if you're going to eat licorice, go bananas. They're high in potassium.
[01:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:23] <exec> 08└─Hey, the "🍌🍌🍌" emoji didn't show up in the title. ☹️ Even though they did in the preview.
[01:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─I ate a 1lb bag of black licorice got liquid black explosive diarrhea which reeks of something dead and rotting.
[01:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:28] <exec> 08└─Sure, but we're talking ounces, of which there are 16 in a pound. Or so google tells me - I don't deal with these weird units normally. Two ounces is 57grams, which might be half a regular pack (100g being a common weight to buy sweet things in). Someone eating half a pack a day for two weeks is pla...
[01:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─What if I eat a half a kg (~ 1lb) of liver?
[01:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:32] <exec> 08└─I have practical experience with those units, let me help: An once is rounded down to 28g An lb is rounded up to 454g. And 1g=1.5 6mm diameter x 70mm cannabis joints rolled using the Zig-zag 70mm Premium Automatic Cigarette Rolling Machine ;-)
[01:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:35] <exec> 08└─I find it funny people who use decent units have to stop and think about converting to our units, yet I can mentally convert metric to brain dead instantly. 2.2 kg = 1 lb, 39 inches = 1 meter, 28 grams/ounce, a liter is a quart, kilometer is 2/3 of a mile, etc. Not perfect but close enough unless yo...
[01:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:37] <exec> 08└─as long as you don't wash it down with fava beans and chianti you'll be alright.
[01:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:39] <exec> 08└─Not much, unless you are allergic, no need to ask the fda
[01:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:41] <exec> 08└─Errr, 2.2 lb = 1 kg. My bad.
[01:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:44] <exec> 08└─I certainly misread that, yes 50-odd grams a day for two weeks would not be unreasonable. Using ounces instead of grams just feels like the sort of thing my Grandfather would have done, were he still alive.
[01:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:56] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen, it's the same shit that most Trump supporters are smoking. They think 9/11 was a conspiracy, that Russia is going to use their nuclear submarines to cause a tsunami that will wipe out the entire eastern half of the US, that Halloween is satanic and that child sacrifices regularl...
[01:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:58] <exec> 08└─Is this what "liberals" believe of Trump supporters? I thought you guys were supposed to be the smart ones.
[01:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:54] <exec> 08└─"One should wonder how well they can prevent a few misbehaving fanatics from doing an unapproved launch. One should also wonder about stability" The same applies to the US.
[01:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds good to me. I was speaking from an individual perspective above. It currently makes no sense for anyone to ever join a class-action suit if they can afford the necessary legal representation to win an individual suit.
[01:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:59] <exec> 08└─kids raised to hate their neighbors and they don't even really know why.
[01:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:00] <exec> 08└─Fascinating that "Semitic" refers to both Hebrew and Arabic speakers, similar to "Hispanic" for Spanish speakers, yet I've never heard "anti-semitic" used outside of the isolated context of what always seems to mean "ethnically Jewish" before. Props for making me open my dictionary app and learn som...
[01:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA, White House Disavow Whitefish Energy Holdings Puerto Rico Contract - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:40] <exec> 08└─I went into politics for one reason: to drain the Washington swamp. Even when my own guys are part of it. Which is why I accepted Tom Price's resignation. Which is why I fired James Comey. Which is why I'm putting up with Mueller's so-called investigation. For now, I'm putting up with it. I think he...
[01:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Peter Madsen Admits to Dismembering Journalist - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─I think because we aren't from his region of the world. If this was Elon Musk would it be more interesting?
[01:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches First Two Ryzen Mobile APUs With Vega Graphics - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─I'll bite : ) Which Ryzen 7, mobo, and RAM? Powersupply wattage on the sticker and how old is it?
[01:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Three Former Trump Aides Charged - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─Are the Republicans in Congress going to persuade Trump to quickly sign their "reverse Robin Hood" healthcare/tax law, so that he can have his deserved accident? I don't think Trump is very smart, but he's probably smart enough to keep delaying that law as if his life depends on it.
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[02:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:14] <exec> 08└─"Barring any delays due to launch failures, I think we will see them grab an even bigger slice of the market and could actually approach a monopoly position in commercial launch."
[02:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/22/10815800/blue-origin-rocket-launch- [theverge.com] http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] https://www.theverge.com
[02:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:37] <exec> 08└─Wash it down with buttermilk and limburger cheese.
[02:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:38] <exec> 08└─That's the kind of thing people get shot over on the streets. God dayum!
[02:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:40] <exec> 08└─To be fair ounces and pounds are different measurements; I know the system the US uses is dumb but it is not that dumb. 2 ounces = 56.699g so eating ~57g a day for 14 days = 798g. It really isn't that much. Admittedly I wouldn't eat that much in one sitting but over two weeks sure no problem; I also...
[02:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:42] <exec> 08└─2/3 is OK 3/5 is better (what I used for years) 5/8 is excellent It turns out that the bigger numbers aren't bad at all, since you can get rid of the 3. Both 1/8 and 1/5 have nice decimal representations.
[02:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:45] <exec> 08└─That's why I only sold pot and hash, after a couple good tokes nobody is getting shot :)
[02:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:47] <exec> 08└─Calf and chicken liver aren't bad. Polar bear liver kills you with excess vitamin A. Liver from birds of prey and from high-mercury fish would likely poison you. Liver from the fugu fish is quickly fatal. Liver from a koala bear will probably make you puke if you can even get it down in the first pl...
[02:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:01] <exec> 08└─Instead of sitting down with a judge and all those other people, why doesn't he just go out and shoot one? Even better, he could take a photo, then he wouldn't even need to go to court.
[02:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:03] <exec> 08└─This will be perfect. Declare squatches an endangered species. Since we know nothing about them (being mythical and all) enviros can do literally anything to 'protect' 'critical' squatch living spaces from pretty much anything they can dream up and nobody can refute it with science since science doe...
[02:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:05] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'.
[02:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:01] <exec> 08└─Granted, we do have 1% or 2% muslim in the USA, and leftist groups like Antifa are constantly starting violence. Being a bit less politically correct when granting security clearances would stop that potential problem entirely. Stability is currently quite good; there are outlets for expressing frus...
[02:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:25] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see the correlation between having children and aging. Could having viable offspring present accelerate aging based on having a "replacement" to your genetic line already? While I'll admit stress is a major factor in parenting, I can't disregard the physical appearance of parents (the sa...
[02:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:27] <exec> 08└─We are 7-bit creatures. No one lives past 127. I celebrated getting my last bit at 64.
[02:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:29] <exec> 08└─Meh, I don't think it would be good for most people. Probably most would turn into some twisted parody of a human being. You can see it already with the uber rich, regular people are sheep to be sheared or slaughtered. Give those people a few hundred years and empathy will likely disappear completel...
[02:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:31] <exec> 08└─When there's enough wishful thinking?
[02:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:33] <exec> 08└─Obviously the solution is to have longer years, duh. I'm not even 1 yet.
[02:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:35] <exec> 08└─I always believed this, in part because nobody has ever had a defect that allowed them to live say 200 years. Out of billions of people, if it were possible to tweak genes to live for 200 years, somebody would have such a defect by now.
[02:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel Near Los Angeles - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:37] <exec> 08└─*stares in disbelief* You guys all know that . . .
[02:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Peter Madsen Admits to Dismembering Journalist - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:20] <exec> 08└─Danish rules may be different, but I can assure you that Peter Madsen is not helping his case by failing to shut the fuck up. In fact quite the opposite. If he had only shut the fuck up from the start, he would be in a much better position today.
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[03:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:47] <exec> 08└─Klicks to miles using 2/3. Halve klicks, add to original number. Bingo. Klicks to miles using 3/5. Umm, math. Klicks to miles using 5/8: Umm, math. I don't need sub 10 meter accuracy. I need a frame of reference. Can I look at 2 points and say "Yepper, those are 3.2 miles apart"?. Nope, I say "those...
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[03:26:49] <exec> 08└─To be fair ounces and pounds are different measurements; I know the system the US uses is dumb but it is not that dumb. 2 ounces = 56.699g so eating ~57g a day for 14 days = 798g. It really isn't that much. Admittedly I wouldn't eat that much in one sitting but over two weeks sure no problem; I also...
[03:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:51] <exec> 08└─I live near the Canadian border. It must be YOU who comes down and sets your cruise at 67 mph -- 3 under the limit.
[03:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:53] <exec> 08└─I too like licorice -- I know I have on occasion eaten a whole bag, probably 6-8 ounces, over the course of an hour. Not often but when the craving hits. I guess I'll have to mix in some bananas but that combo sounds kinda gross.
[03:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:55] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised they didn't include the weak anti-androgen effect of glycyrrhizin. There's nothing that will frighten people quite like the idea that something is feminizing. See the odd fascination with similar when it comes to soy products (or BPA). It'll steal your balls and make you like pretty pi...
[03:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:13] <exec> 08└─Norway has trolls - that's what the power lines are for: to fence them in. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:15] <exec> 08└─I just finished the last two weeks hunting for blacktail, much of it in a riverbed. When I first started scouting the area in September I ran across some footprints -- looked like some large dude walking barefoot in the muddy sand. I was really disappointed because I wanted the area all to myself. B...
[03:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:17] <exec> 08└─Nope no connection between how a bear's footprint looks like a barefoot human print.
[03:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:14] <exec> 08└─is there any gain to be gotton from just getting -experience- playing with radioactive material? even if its not bomb-grade, perhaps there is still things they can learn by going down this path. ie, when they do decide to go serious, some of the background learning would have been done. I don't know...
[03:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:16] <exec> 08└─go to silicon valley and check out the home prices and who is buying/owning. more so, check out who the landlords are. rich chinese come here, buy houses that cost $1M and more IN CASH and locals can't even compete. china is buying up the US. and we are stupidly letting them. other countries don't s...
[03:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:18] <exec> 08└─> other countries don't sell their own country out so fast. I wonder what's wrong with us, that we keep doing things against our own best (long term) interests. You were on the "buying" side for so long, you don't know what it means to "be bought". Just like "interfering with" and " be interfered wi...
[03:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:47] <exec> 08└─According to one DNA researcher (who specializes in ancient DNA) humans average about 50 new mutations per generation (I believe he meant per descendant, not the aggregate), tho most don't change anything we'd notice.
[03:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:48] <exec> 08└─Energy definitely helps, but centuries ago if you got leprosy, or gonorrhea, or syphilis, or an un-specified infection from a deep wound, it didn't really matter how well off you were, you usually died. Same for premature births, so many birth defects that are moderated by modern methods, and all th...
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[03:31:50] <exec> 08└─The fun thing about backups, stored in diverse locations, is that if one backup has 0.98 probability of surviving to be used, then two backups have .99 probability, 10 backups are 0.998, and 1000 backups have .99998 probability of coming through when needed. If there were such a thing as a 500TB fil...
[03:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:52] <exec> 08└─Depends on the goal, those biblical people lived to 900 and more - most likely due to shorter "years."
[03:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA, White House Disavow Whitefish Energy Holdings Puerto Rico Contract - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:14] <exec> 08└─Two employees, right? At best, they should have been a minor subcontractor, answering to some real professionals, who then answer to the government in Puerto Rico and the federal government. I don't care how good a people the Colonnettas may or may not be. Nepotism is still nepotism. You silly excus...
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[04:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:12] <exec> 08└─Death and trouble also probably light up sections of the brain for people like me who like horror and slasher flicks. Am I gonna be labeled suicidal because I want to see Chucky XVII, or Saw IXV?
[04:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:14] <exec> 08└─Only if you are seeing a therapist who sticks electrodes on your head.
[04:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:16] <exec> 08└─Can this be used to detect suicide (or suicidal) bombers at a distance? Y'know, for safety :)
[04:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:18] <exec> 08└─because I want to see Chucky XVII, or Saw IXV?
[04:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:20] <exec> 08└─...or are applying for a job at Foxconn. Apple doesn't like the bad press when someone jumps.
[04:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:01] <exec> 08└─I live near the Canadian border. It must be YOU who comes down and sets your cruise at 67 mph -- 3 under the limit.
[04:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:03] <exec> 08└─What about red licorice? Purple? I've even seen green licorice. Why are the black ones singled out as the bad guys? Black licorice matters!
[04:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:05] <exec> 08└─unless your in a chemistry/physics lab
[04:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:07] <exec> 08└─The big thing here is that they are warning people against a subtle effect that could cause a problem for a small minority of the population. And ignoring the effects of the sugar itself, which, while having perhaps a more minor effect, is a negative for pretty much everyone, including the huge numb...
[04:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:10] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, you could just eat a bit less sugar? No, you are right, mass production is the answer......
[04:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:12] <exec> 08└─That reminds me to submit the "soy no longer good for your heart" thing.
[04:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:14] <exec> 08└─Why would they focus on the sugar? Are there tons of people out there that are unaware of what sugar does in the body that could reasonably be swayed via a media blitz? People know the issues associated with sugar, they don't typically know the risks associated specifically with licorice. As far as...
[04:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:16] <exec> 08└─If we were meant to do that, licorice wouldn't taste so bad that we had to invent the good stuff. Red licorice is completely immune to this particular problem by virtue of not being actual licorice.
[04:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:38] <exec> 08└─It'll be all subcontracted out to foreign outfits.
[04:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:39] <exec> 08└─another neighbor that conquered and took over western civilization.
[04:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:40] <exec> 08└─This is something that continues to puzzle me. I know that we can all sometimes act against our own interests at times in politics, but it seems that the citizens of the US have raised this to an art form. If you don't like this law then simply vote out the party that is furthest from what you want,...
[04:32:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google CEO Drops Everything to Fix Cheeseburger Emoji - 1240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:54] <exec> 08└─We need fucking emojis. The new animoji stuff, for animated emojis, would be great for this. Submit proposals to Unicode to make it happen. We need all the different positions. We need an emoji for goatse, one for tubgirl, and one for lemonparty. We need an emoji for a goatfucker, for a sheepfucker...
[04:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Deploy Shelf-Scanning Robots at 50 Stores - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:02] <exec> 08└─I've got the "don't breed" part covered ;) Lesbianism is 100% effective birth control unless it turns out Yahweh DOES exist and wants me to be the next Virgin Mary.
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[05:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA "Twins Study" Finds Evidence of Gene Expression Changes - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:14] <exec> 08└─Evolution is alive and well, thank you. As soon as the environment changes, genes change preparing for adaptation… I think. I’m not a biologist but for sure it sounds like the body is turning on/off genes and see which changes stick.
[05:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:16] <exec> 08└─> I know the system the US uses is dumb but it is not that dumb. Yes it is that dumberer. Quite common to see ingredients given in the fun unit of mg per ounce. Is 75mg of sodium per 28g (1 oz) a lot of sodium, or not?
[05:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:17] <exec> 08└─There's something deep and complex about licorice that is intensely interesting.
[05:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:19] <exec> 08└─I've read that glazed donuts are the worst food you can possibly eat outside of outright poison and inedible things. Those kind of donuts are basically deep fried sugar coated with more sugar. It's like they removed all trace of bread and cake, leaving only sugar and grease.
[05:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:43] <exec> 08└─Scaling up Thorium reactors hasn't been really done yet despite India's investment. Not exactly a straightforward replacement option.
[05:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:44] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, women will be allowed to attend sporting events at stadiums
[05:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:46] <exec> 08└─How is it even legal for a citizen to sign away his constitutional right to due process under the law in the first place?
[05:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:48] <exec> 08└─He has also made it pretty clear that he disagrees with the post-1937 interpretation of the commerce clause, and he just goes along with it because there is no realistic way to fight it. In other words, he believes it is easier to fight overreach from within the system.
[05:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:50] <exec> 08└─This is something that continues to puzzle me. I know that we can all sometimes act against our own interests at times in politics, but it seems that the citizens of the US have raised this to an art form.
[05:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:27] <exec> 08└─After they have reanimated the 1st frozen stiff, -then- you will have a point. Until then, it's just expensive self-indulgent wishful thinking.
[05:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:28] <exec> 08└─Nanobots are an obvious solution for both cancer and anti-aging. If they can interact with DNA inside of cells, they could repair (or alter?) genomes using a digital reference. If they can't get inside cells, at least they could identify cancer cells and zap them.
[05:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:30] <exec> 08└─Mind uploading/transfer is a red herring. Anti-aging will be accomplished by fixing accumulated damage and rewinding the clock if there is "biological planned obsolescence. That's the option that is both achievable in the near term and will be acceptable to most people. Come back in a hundred years,...
[05:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA, White House Disavow Whitefish Energy Holdings Puerto Rico Contract - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:54] <exec> 08└─The Army Corps of Engineers is a mixed bag. Sometimes they do excellent work, and sometimes they do lousy work. I don't know what makes the difference.
[05:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Drops Everything to Fix Cheeseburger Emoji - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:47] <exec> 08└─So who moved the cheese?
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[06:26:15] <exec> 08└─Privacy Badger blocks upcycling.us17.list-manage.com
[06:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:26] <exec> 08└─Red licorice would be false advertising. That's why they normally call it vines. Unfortunately, most of the stuff you can buy as (black) licorice is also just black vines. And I think it's terrible. Real licorice, however, I really liked before I gave up on sugar.
[06:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:27] <exec> 08└─Anise almost gives you a licorice smell, but it sure doesn't give the real licorice flavor. Some of the black imitation licorice is flavored with anise, though, and perhaps that's what you're thinking of.
[06:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:29] <exec> 08└─What about red licorice? Purple? I've even seen green licorice.
[06:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:51] <exec> 08└─"It's no joke, I'm coming with PhDs, professors, police officers, the best in the world … this is the real deal, the evidence is here" It does sound like a joke. Some people believe that they are right simply because they decided that they are. It seems that the only next step they ever consider...
[06:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:53] <exec> 08└─I love it when jmorris discourses on history, science, and myth! There is just such an artistic combination of all in his putting words together in montages that seem to say something, but then immediately dissipate into a cloud of unknowing and right-wing paranoia.
[06:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:55] <exec> 08└─It is still a big world, despite all the humans in it. Most humans tend to travel known paths, and there are significant swathes in between where they don't go because they have no reason to go there. Why would you, unless you are a wilderness biologist who is trying to catalogue fungi species or s...
[06:28:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:13] <exec> 08└─While it may stop you from running from the police, it won't stop you from signing executive orders and pardons.
[06:29:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:46] <exec> 08└─You're either a lawyer or care more about punishing the offender than making it right to people who were harmed.
[06:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:04] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=22315&cid=590190 [soylentnews.org]
[06:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:12] <exec> 08└─What if the service had translated "attack them" to "good morning"?
[06:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:13] <exec> 08└─I believe FB uses Microsoft's translation services.
[06:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:48] <exec> 08└─We went from telescope to spacecraft in about 500 years. Give humanity a million or billion years and they might be able to hop universes, travel back in time, or otherwise GTFO when the heat death of the universe is nigh.
[06:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:49] <exec> 08└─A lot of downtrodden people are on the religion drug. https://thehumanist.com [thehumanist.com] Islam is the fastest growing religion because most of the world's population growth is in Africa and Asia. https://www.citylab.com
[06:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:51] <exec> 08└─You fap, you die!
[06:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA, White House Disavow Whitefish Energy Holdings Puerto Rico Contract - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:15] <exec> 08└─They hired 400 employees to do the job. The "two employees" are the permanent staff. It's normal for the industry; you can't afford to keep hundreds of workers on the payroll while waiting for a disaster to happen. Adding more layers would be bad. That slows everything down and adds corruption. Keep...
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[07:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:15] <exec> 08└─A cheap ploy to get old phones off the market. Especially the bitcoin mining rig idea is ridiculous. Bitcoin is probably the least green new technology out there. It's a huge distributed machine burning fuel to generate smugness and greed. Compared to the bitcoin ecosystem traditional banking is a s...
[07:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:17] <exec> 08└─At least the Bitcoin miners or oligarchists or whatever are moving towards rigs with greater megahashes per Joule [bitcoin.it] using ASICs or whatever. Whereas a Beowulf cluster of phones attempting the same thing will just suck ass. If it ends up not mining any coins during the lifetime of the hard...
[07:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:19] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is greener, overall.
[07:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA "Twins Study" Finds Evidence of Gene Expression Changes - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:28] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine that anything that happened up there improved the man's fertility.
[07:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:34] <exec> 08└─Never heard of the arrythmia aspect before, but licorice is also known for raising blood pressure which can lead to all sorts of unpleasantness.
[07:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:36] <exec> 08└─Personally I class donuts among inedible things. They taste horrible. Too sweet and too fat.
[07:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:38] <exec> 08└─I could eat a whole dozen right now. But that is irresponsible. It is better to add a little prep time and make a bacon cheeseburger sandwiched between two glazed donuts. Now that is some good eatin'.
[07:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:03] <exec> 08└─Batshit crazy knows no bounds and is not limited to any political ideology. There is more than enough to go around.
[07:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:04] <exec> 08└─So you were tracking Bigfoot and didn't even know it?
[07:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:07] <exec> 08└─but can the case be dismissed for lack of Standing?
[07:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:40] <exec> 08└─Fatty detected. Trigger warning: Don't look here. [google.nl]
[07:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:41] <exec> 08└─Advertising isn't speech. It's mental pollution.
[07:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:16] <exec> 08└─When we do it, it's "investment" and good for them. When they do it, it's blah whatever that guy said.
[07:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:30] <exec> 08└─But most importantly you're not paying any attention to the fact that it already says right in the summary that "Arabic speakers" confirmed […]
[07:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:08] <exec> 08└─Now you have to fight the aging of the nanobots. :-)
[07:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah. That was the phrase I was looking for. are possible Perhaps. I won't be holding my breath. ...and I don't see coming back after everyone you know is dead and everything you know is useless as a great enticement. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:12] <exec> 08└─...and I don't see coming back after everyone you know is dead and everything you know is useless as a great enticement.
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[08:26:24] <exec> 08└─At the moment Bitcoin is still small relative to the banking sector, so the impact is limited. Still I have no doubt that the bitcoin ecosystem does facilitate large drug and arms deals. This is inherent in all financial systems. I'm afraid that with growth, this cute little thing will grow to consu...
[08:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:26] <exec> 08└─Needed for Samsung to make more money? Nope, most people don't give a shit. Needed for people to not feel bad? Nope, they could just use outdated phones and take any difference in experience as a chance to feel self-sacrificing while raising awareness and not actually giving up having a mobile. Need...
[08:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:45] <exec> 08└─No no no. Do it right, eat high cocoa chocolate or potato chips. ;) 70% cocoa chocolate, 722mg Potassium per 100g/605kcal: http://nutritiondata.self.com [self.com] Potato chips, 1642 Potassium per 100g/547kcal http://nutritiondata.self.com [self.com] Bananas,...
[08:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:47] <exec> 08└─You may need to use the html escape stuff: . e.g 🍫
[08:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:37] <exec> 08└─Well, Douglas Adams is stuck in an infinite loop. [translationparty.com] And in case you didn't know: Perfection is achieved. There is nothing to add, but nothing is left. - SaintExupéry · Into Toon [translationparty.com]
[08:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:18] <exec> 08└─I guess your biggest risk would be that for some reason, someone decides that not you will not be restored from backup (you maybe forgot to pay the latest rate of the backup service?). Or that someone destroys all your backups. I mean, murder might be harder in that world, but it is still not imposs...
[08:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:19] <exec> 08└─No amount of human advancement will allow you to violate the laws of the universe.
[08:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:21] <exec> 08└─In mathematics, it is possible to prove a negative. For example, there's a classic prove that no rational number has square 2. The obvious tool to prove a negative is a proof by contradiction.
[08:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:24] <exec> 08└─I guess it's time to fire all physicists. We already know everything!
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[09:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:01] <exec> 08└─seriously. "I promised these people I'd make money for them, but I didn't and now I need to pay them back or I they'll fire me. please give me some money, maybe in the future I'll send you a thank you note for it, and then I can keep my job for longer, and then maybe I'll think of a way to make ever...
[09:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:02] <exec> 08└─money may be made by selling merchandise.
[09:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:04] <exec> 08└─the embedding meant that visitors had to allow 3rd party cookies
[09:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:22] <exec> 08└─It is informally called "Bitcoin mining" to mine a memory-hard algorithm like ETH or XMR, then convert to Bitcoin later. I do hope that we get full hardware access, but suspect some things like the radio will be disabled. That may actually be an advantage if you are paranoid.
[09:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:23] <exec> 08└─Before hearing about this, I was planing on reusing a Samsung phone anyway. They are loaded with sensors, and have a decent CPU+memory. To top it all off, the power requirements are modest. One thing that confuses me is that Samsung has traditionally been a more proprietary phone maker. They do thin...
[09:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:43] <exec> 08└─Isn't one allowed to kill him/herself in peace without shrinks prying into your mind and publish their findings about you?
[09:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:44] <exec> 08└─10 years from now al newborn infants will be implanted an IoT micro-mood gauge and disorder warning system into their brain. Possibility to retrofit grown-up people is currently been investigated.
[09:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:46] <exec> 08└─Dark toast with margarine and sugar seems bad too. Get your carcinogens, transfats and sugar in one mouthful.
[09:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:48] <exec> 08└─Interesting how most all holidays in the good ol' USA are all about overconsuming mass-produced stuff that's bad for your body.
[09:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:50] <exec> 08└─If it'll make me *enjoy* gay sex, what's so wrong in that? If it makes me crave to participate in, but *not enjoy* gay sex, then that would be bad.
[09:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:26] <exec> 08└─Not really. Getting uranium up to 3-5% is pretty straightforward, the cascades of ultracentrifuges you need to get to HEU is a very different matter. There are also much scarier things you can do with a reactor than use it to breed plutonium. Want to depopulate New York? Create a good quantity of so...
[09:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:27] <exec> 08└─Well, in theory you can bread U233 from it, but India hasn't been going too well with that option. Mind you, this is India we're talking about here...
[09:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:27] <exec> 08└─No, we do not know everything. But those things we do know we do know quite well.
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[10:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:16] <exec> 08└─"SoylentNews the Flamethrower!" I'd pay money for that. Especially with this Fine Submarineishon.
[10:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars [4376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:17] <exec> 08└─While this does sound bad, it is pretty typical startup behavior, that can lead to success. Plenty of successful business have taken ideas that already exist and still made them work. There does not need to be just one company for each category of business. While the location sharing idea is common,...
[10:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:19] <exec> 08└─I even dare to day that cookies are in fact ever hardly really needed. Most of the times it is just convenience, ignorance that it can be done in another way or a simple throw in method for fast/sloppy coding.
[10:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:21] <exec> 08└─Sound like this is just a start up for quick money grab: come up with an idea that is 1) not a good idea, and/or 2) things others also have come up with, dump shitty implementation of said idea on to the market (which generates enough revenue, but hardly any profit due to overhead) and try to sell t...
[10:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:24] <exec> 08└─JFC, this is real and not satire by Scott Adams? I feel a bubble about to burst.
[10:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:26] <exec> 08└─He's not even the cool Scott Adams [wikipedia.org].
[10:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:46] <exec> 08└─What unlocking software? My Samsung Galaxy S4 had no need of unlocking software to flash stock Android or LineageOS. There's even a community still porting new versions and updates to my hardware faster than most phone vendors can be bothered to.
[10:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicidal Thoughts Could be Detectable Using Brain Scans - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:07] <exec> 08└─All I wanted was a Pepsi, and you wouldn't let me have it! Even if they perfected this, there is no way the average office of psychiatrists or LPC's is going to have any of this laying around to use. Its doubtful even ER's would have it laying around, and it would end up cost prohibitive to use it....
[10:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:16] <exec> 08└─Investors have just shied away in the past because space is too expensive to waste money on unproven concepts.
[10:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cpghost [4591] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:14] <exec> 08└─Instead of sodium chloride (NaCl, a.k.a. "regular" salt), switch to potassium chloride (KCl, E508, "diet" salt) while on a licorice diet. Easiest way to replenish lost potassium ions. But talk to your doctor if you have kidney problems before taking too much KCl.
[10:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:53] <exec> 08└─I am not aware of Americans massively buying homesteads in other countries. America is global battleground for power. Whichever group of humans (ethnicity, language, religion, race, ...) dominates it, dominates the world. Chinese people, even they already are the single most numerous group of the wo...
[10:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:54] <exec> 08└─Great, as if we weren't on enough watchlists already :)
[10:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:56] <exec> 08└─I am not aware of Americans massively buying homesteads in other countries.
[10:30:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:53] <exec> 08└─Because the CFPB was created by Democrats so it is automatically evil. Republicans are supposed to look at everything bad and see a liberal conspiracy. Since liberals gave the CFPB the authority to make this rule, this rule must be part of the liberal conspiracy to steal our freedoms. Disclaimer: Pr...
[10:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:03] <exec> 08└─Give it a couple minutes. I'm sure the Senate Dems will do something outrageous before you finish reading this.
[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─The HeLa cell line was profited off by people other than her family because medical waste is considered owned by the hospital, disposal company, etc. Each of which in turn may sell said medical waste to anyone for any reason. I am not sure if HEPA requires them to delete documentation of WHERE such...
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:01] <exec> 08└─That should be fine, provided your biology doesn't depend on Vim.
[10:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:03] <exec> 08└─Too late at night to be typing up long posts.
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[11:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:25] <exec> 08└─the embedding meant that visitors had to allow 3rd party cookies No, there's no reason why embedding third-party content would need third-party cookies to be enabled.
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:26] <exec> 08└─slideshow with slides shown in chronological order.
[11:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:29] <exec> 08└─you may sell merchandise if you become famous enough, which is always a matter of luck, not hard work.
[11:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:31] <exec> 08└─I even dare to day that cookies are in fact ever hardly really needed.
[11:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:33] <exec> 08└─We prefer cookies round these parts. Yeah, there are other ways to associate a particular device and a session but none as easy to control for the user. I'm pretty sure using more invasive and difficult to avoid association methods would cheese a goodly portion of our community off. So we don't.
[11:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:35] <exec> 08└─slideshow with slides shown in chronological order. That can be achieved with a small Makefile [soylentnews.org].
[11:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:38] <exec> 08└─Just about the only time cookies are needed (and even this can be worked around by a skilled webdev) is for logging in.
[11:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:40] <exec> 08└─which maybe they will someday exchange for "WHEN tokens"
[11:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:42] <exec> 08└─You're vastly oversimplifying things. - The guy behind flappy wings was also not interested in it taking off and making gerzillions of dollars. He also didn't put in the effort to reach that bar. Yet he reached it. - Plenty of endeavors are interested in taking off and making gerzillions of dollars....
[11:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:44] <exec> 08└─Eh, you're half right. You can't enter a well-served or saturated market and expect to ever become anything more than a bit player unless you offer people a significant improvement from their point of view. You have to jump into an un-or-under-served niche, create one, or offer advantages that large...
[11:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:52] <exec> 08└─RIPE always seemed more governance (and ISP) focused to me (interesting stuff [ripe.net] though). If you want to go more practical, and not be limited to BGP techniques, you might want to look through the NANOG (North American Network Operators' Group) archives [nanog.org] (NANOG71 [nanog.org], Sep...
[11:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:16] <exec> 08└─If a country requires 51 percent domestic land ownership, we require the same of their nationals in our country. If a country requires 51 percent domestic corporate ownership, we require the same of corporations in our country with corporate creation or majority stakeholders being of their legal jur...
[11:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tomtomtom [340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:24] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, there's a much better way to deal with that specific situation: dispute the charge via your bank or credit card company. Quick, painless and you get all your money back. If you were a participant in a class action, you'd get 50 cents back after 5 years. It really, really, isn't a good s...
[11:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earliest HP Archives Destroyed in Santa Rosa Fires - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:50] <exec> 08└─The piece of equipment in the foreground of the photo, on the roller conveyor, is a digital voltmeter (I used to have one). The front of it would have had nixie tubes.
[11:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:36] <exec> 08└─It's clearly a language from the devil. Note how a wrong transliteration from a proper, if bastardized, language goes exactly the opposite way -> DEATH TO ALL JUICE. What more evidence you need.
[11:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel Arrested Palestinian Because Facebook Translated "Good Morning" to "Attack Them" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:38] <exec> 08└─hmmm.... you'd get a good mourning?
[11:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─Y so serious? "My sight is failing," she said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?" For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he re...
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[12:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:10] <exec> 08└─Losing 15,000 subscribers per day is a lot, but is that because of the NFL anthem protests or because cord-cutting has finally reached a tipping point?
[12:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:11] <exec> 08└─...HAH! (Nelson voice).
[12:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:14] <exec> 08└─Even if people are turning off the NFL due to the anthem protests (on every channel, not just ESPN) they do that with their remotes and not by cancelling ESPN. ESPN is part of a standard cable package or a sports package. It is not an "a la cartel" channel. The cable industry should report how many...
[12:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:46] <exec> 08└─...which i haven't invented yet. But i could use your money to spend more time inventing the idea and not working. I'll give you an IOU (disclaimer: I don't owe you shit. When i make my millions, i MIGHT buy you a cup of coffee, but not the Starbucks, expenssive coffee)
[12:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:48] <exec> 08└─"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
[12:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:50] <exec> 08└─Duly noted and appreciated.
[12:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:52] <exec> 08└─the more discerning commenters desired ...
[12:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:55] <exec> 08└─That's not luck, that's just a stopped clock being right twice a day.
[12:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:17] <exec> 08└─This is great and all, but... We're talking about a hardware manufacturer creating a way for their older, unsupported, insecure phones to be useful again. They MADE the phones and used an open-source OS to run them. Unless Android has evolved to the point where they can't back-port the OS to work...
[12:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:19] <exec> 08└─A cursory search shows that all Samsung devices that are sold through US carriers are locked and modern Galaxy phones sold in North America are also locked. Apparently the "international" version, running a different SoC (exynos vs snapdragon) can be unlocked via OEM code.
[12:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:21] <exec> 08└─All hardware should allow the owner to install and run the software of their choice. Presumably purchasing a piece of hardware from a retailer constitutes ownership, but that may not be true anymore.
[12:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA "Twins Study" Finds Evidence of Gene Expression Changes - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:31] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call it evolution. This is gene regulation. Upon environmental stimuli expression of genes changes in response. So, nothing to see here. The interesting part would be to quantify the changes. Are the observed changes comparable to changes seen for other stimuli like changing diet, work-ou...
[12:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:55] <exec> 08└─I also doubt that they will soon reach a monopoly status on commercial launches. Colleagues of mine who dealt with SpaceX told me their commercial customers are second class, having their launches delayed with moving expected dates, while government customers (where the bulk of the money comes from)...
[12:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:54] <exec> 08└─Much of the "food" that people can afford to eat has poor nutritional quality and is full of various crap that's known to make it hard to keep the weight off.
[12:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:55] <exec> 08└─If you're a licorice fan, try salmiakki. It's salty at first, but after a minute you don't taste the salt and the flavors of the licorice come out better than in any sugared version.
[12:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:58] <exec> 08└─Then you're talking about vanilla pudding.
[12:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:26] <exec> 08└─please have a look at figure 12 from this paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com] it looks to me like good bear footprints are extremely different from good human footprints.
[12:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:27] <exec> 08└─Icelanders believe in the "Hidden Folk" and are more elves.. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://grapevine.is [grapevine.is]
[12:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:30] <exec> 08└─But what if it's a naughty bear?
[12:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:05] <exec> 08└─Yea, and it also gives women the confidence to tell me to fuck off at bars. Then how am I supposed to get laid?
[12:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:46] <exec> 08└─Don't put all your eggs in one basket. The Sun could go out any day now.
[12:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:48] <exec> 08└─Thorium is useless for making nuclear weapons, apparently
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[13:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:14] <exec> 08└─That may have been true several decades ago but nowadays cable channels get a significant portion of their income from advertising, so it very much matters if they're watched or not.
[13:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not disputing the importance of viewership and advertising dollars. I was just pointing out that ESPN does no "lose subscribers" on their own. They can only lose subscribers by cable customers discontinuing an entire sports package or disconnecting their service. If I could disconnect only ESPN...
[13:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:18] <exec> 08└─More and more Americans are DISGUSTED by the unpatriotic NFL players who #TakeAKnee and by ESPN's very disrespectful .@JemeleHill. Apologize! Football rights will get cheaper and cheaper. While ESPN gets poorer and poorer. Both failing big time! NFL merchandise sales also tanking massively. pic.twit...
[13:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:20] <exec> 08└─According to this article from two years ago, ESPN got 60% of its revenue from subscriber fees. They got $6.04 per subscriber and the next highest fee charged by a network was TNT at $1.48, with total subscriber fee revenues of $6.9 billion and $1.48 billion, respectively. http://www.businessinsider...
[13:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:22] <exec> 08└─Or is it because the people realized how stupid NFL really is?
[13:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:24] <exec> 08└─...is that even though "old-school" economorons will suggest they don't go hand-in-hand ("something something efficient use of resources" is their general argument), they absolutely do. Latent and not-so-latent biases and bigotry are what govern use of resources in many cases. Notice how hockey and...
[13:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:27] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff.
[13:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:29] <exec> 08└─NFL is a lousy entertainment product. College football is much better.
[13:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:31] <exec> 08└─I never understood how people could watch golf without chewing off their eyeballs to escape the tedium. Then there came a period when I was looking for work in the Bay Area and stayed with my aunt and golf-fanatic uncle in the guest room of their condo in Fremont. There was a desktop in there, so I...
[13:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Ends, "Follow-On" Launching Soon - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:39] <exec> 08└─Let's see. The "Gravity Recovery [...] Experiment". So, did they manage to recover any of that gravity? Why is that gravity being wasted, anyway? And where does it go if not recovered? Seriously, guys: "GRACE" sounds very cool, and I realize that a catchy mission name is somewhat important nowadays,...
[13:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:11] <exec> 08└─How in the jumped up monkey could you possibly read that into what I said? That's so far out of left field it's not even a strawman.
[13:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:12] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff.
[13:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, forgot to grin.
[13:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:24] <exec> 08└─"The RIPE75 meeting took place from October 22nd to the 26th in the UAE (United Arab Emirates)" Sorry. No justification whatsoever for that. Europe not big enough to find the right venue in? All that tells me is that RIPE is a way for someone to cream off money in a layer of management.
[13:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:42] <exec> 08└─Right but we're specifically talking about dated kit here. What was matters, what is doesn't matter yet.
[13:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:44] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid that with growth, this cute little thing will grow to consume everything before it, eventually funding wars and crimes to keep it going.
[13:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:18] <exec> 08└─You might be eating the wrong kind. Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme are the wrong kind. Beignets in New Orleans, which are made fresh in front of you, or gourmet donuts like you can find in some cities, are worth eating. But now that you mention it I don't really think of those as donuts, either, but...
[13:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:19] <exec> 08└─but vegetables aren't addictive
[13:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:51] <exec> 08└─So it's plausible that there are species out there in the rugged terrain of the world that we haven't discovered yet.
[13:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:53] <exec> 08└─That's a great panel. My wife's cousin's husband is a professional cartoonist for the New Yorker. Should I send him the idea?
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[14:26:14] <exec> 08└─non-carbon based life forms that harvest the magnetic field for energy (rather than a photosynthesis-based biochemistry).
[14:26:33] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:33] <exec> 08└─pic.twitter.com/bQ9Wo7Fnsa
[14:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:35] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? Hockey's US viewership can best be described as -- with apologies to SNL -- stable after being declared dead in 2005. It's very much a regional thing now, and nothing at all like the NFL, MLB, and NBA. Are the playoff games even nationally televised any more? In most of t...
[14:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:37] <exec> 08└─Why did the owners start playing the anthem at every game? Not everyone goes for rah-rah patriotism. And the players disagree with the propaganda. Free speech!
[14:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:39] <exec> 08└─I just read an analysis on the problems of the declining viewership in all professional sports. The case could be made that it is directly related to demographics. The average age of viewers is increasing dramatically. There is very little influx of younger viewers. Younger viewers don't watch TV li...
[14:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:41] <exec> 08└─POW! There you have it. Your mind has been blown, no? Actually, no, I think you forget the quasi-ubiquitous applicability of Rule 34. You won't think that playing guitar [xkcd.com] is "a twisted sublimation of middle aged men's desires", will ya?
[14:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe the younger potential audience is habituated to Internet economics, where 'free' stuff is supported by advertising; and if you actually pay for something, you expect it to be without advertising? If you look at smartphone apps, the model seems to be pretty much, free with extensive advertising...
[14:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Ends, "Follow-On" Launching Soon - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:53] <exec> 08└─Given that they could have thrown in a word like "Research" and gotten away with it, I think it probably has to do with what they're measuring. For example [nasa.gov]: Data from the mission also will allow scientists to more accurately determine the extent to which sea level is impacted by a phenome...
[14:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Ends, "Follow-On" Launching Soon - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:55] <exec> 08└─That's just the point: "I suspect that is the 'recovery' referred to". You are well-informed about the mission objectives (thanks for looking it up, BTW) and you _still_ can only guess at what the name stands for. I concur with your thoughts, there's probably a good reason for that wording. But shou...
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:31] <exec> 08└─You're vastly oversimplifying things. - One example to prove an oversimplified and erroneous generalization about luck. - Counterexamples about hard work, prove oversimplified and erroneous generalization about hard work.
[14:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:32] <exec> 08└─You reckon that being persistently wrong is a success recipe?
[14:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA "Twins Study" Finds Evidence of Gene Expression Changes - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:10] <exec> 08└─You have to remember that evolution is blind and acts by chance. Most mutations will result in damage to the organism, except a few lucky ones, which will then be passed on. Sure, if fertility crashes in outer space (and we know it generally does), maybe we can't adapt to that environment. But it do...
[14:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:38] <exec> 08└─They can be, but it takes a long time to acquire the addiction. Or maybe it's better classified as a habit. Once you have it, you don't desire unhealthy food anymore because it feels empty and pointless and makes you sick to your stomach.
[14:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:39] <exec> 08└─You should do it more often. Licorice is a laxative, but the foul dead rotting smell is all the other shit stuck up your arse. Eat more licorice and clean it out occaisionally.
[14:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:42] <exec> 08└─The licorice killed an inner demon. Congratulations! You should continue to eat it until all your demons are gone. You have taken your first step towards goodness.
[14:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Could Switch From Qualcomm to Intel and MediaTek for Modems - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:47] <exec> 08└─Because the news has made the market twitch: QCOM -6.68% Yeah, shares, not the chipsets. Disclaimer: this is not investment advice, there's no reason to believe there will be a recovery. I'm just highlighting the fact that a bunch of people think this is quite significant an announcement.
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[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─Does this not just move the habitable zone outward, causing possibly other planets to become into the zone?
[15:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Induction Heating Could Cause TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets to Melt - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:13] <exec> 08└─Catholic are all about the hell fire
[15:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─because, really now, do you see any other country playing this brain-wrecker?
[15:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:40] <exec> 08└─If you don't live near where your team plays, it is often very difficult to get that game each week, without subscribing to both DirecTV and a ludicrously expensive NFL package that includes every team in the league. Do they think people only watch out of market games because of fantasy nonsense? Or...
[15:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:42] <exec> 08└─My military, my Department of Defense, pays for it. Pays the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, MLB, NASCAR and Major League Soccer. Because it's great for recruiting. When they do it, it works great. And a lot of that money comes from our taxpayers. If you think about it, a lot of it comes from taxes in the en...
[15:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:45] <exec> 08└─Because who would possibly think that having this much money in a sport is something that is worth it? On top of that for a sport that is increasingly recognized as dangerous and debilitating for the players... Oh yeah, pickup trucks and light beer commercials, I forgot those were important. It's th...
[15:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:47] <exec> 08└─I think a major problem is that football has been increasingly being seen as a game played by thugs. Not because of their skin color, but because of their actions. Murder, rape, assault, even dog abuse and fighting. Even if those engaging in crime are a minority, they reflect very poorly on the rest...
[15:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:49] <exec> 08└─I just read an analysis on the problems of the declining viewership in all professional sports. The case could be made that it is directly related to demographics. Sure, but the question that's relevant to this discussion is: how is NFL viewership changing, relative to all the other sports? If it's...
[15:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:51] <exec> 08└─This to some degree is what pushed me away from UFC. I still love the sport, but the advertising is just simply obnoxious. Every other replay being 'brought to you by' some company, or random advertisements being plastered on the screens during matches. And of course their stickers and logos everywh...
[15:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:54] <exec> 08└─Since Disney Co. (the owners of ESPN) all but require every cable package to carry ESPN if the cable companies want to carry any other Disney channel (and they have so damn many of them, they get to be this 800lb gorilla), then 15,000 ESPN subscribers lost per day says that almost 15,000 cable subsc...
[15:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:56] <exec> 08└─> They are highly paid entertainers and I do not want to be subjected to their personal politics when I am paying for entertainment. You might have a point... if they protested during the game. Or if you consider "standing for national anthem" entertainment, I suppose... > If I want politics, I'll t...
[15:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:58] <exec> 08└─"Douchebags aren't people who put their career in jeopardy because they want to make a political statement about their friends and relatives and neighbors being murdered by police. If you leave politics to the politicians, then you're not going to get very good results." Not necessarily. Grandstandi...
[15:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:00] <exec> 08└─"is that because of the NFL anthem protests or because cord-cutting has finally reached a tipping point" Yes. As in: both. First, more and more people stream this stuff online. Joe Sixpack sitting in front of the TV? As long as it's convenient, maybe, but not Joe's kids. And even Joe will stop, if h...
[15:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─To say nothing about one on one brain wreaking "sports" like Boxing, MMA, where the entire object of the "sport" is exactly, and only, and unabashedly to hurt another human being.
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:05] <exec> 08└─Rugby, has far fewer impacts. In Rugby, one can only tackle the person carrying the ball and the types of collisions that happen in NFL are not allowed.
[15:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Ends, "Follow-On" Launching Soon - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:16] <exec> 08└─That line of reasoning sounds much to business-y to me to feel comfortable when scientists start doing it. Because I know all too well how those businesses work on the inside, and what that reasoning leads to.
[15:27:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─you may sell merchandise if you become famous enough, which is always a matter of luck, not hard work.
[15:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:53] <exec> 08└─I know you're vanitous
[15:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:55] <exec> 08└─Offtopic Currently at work we are running Peoplesoft Financials 9.2. It won't let you log in unless you have cookies enabled, but if you don't clear your cookies at the beginning of every session (or halfway through an active session) it locks up. Annoying as hell. Pretty sure they are useless but t...
[15:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:57] <exec> 08└─Lately, I've been seeing a fair bit of solutions hunting for problems. Went to this hackathon featuring Raspberry Pis and software development tools with massive cloud based AI libraries featuring IBM Watson doing image recognition, and the biggest problem wasn't learning how to use their fancy tool...
[15:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:59] <exec> 08└─If you give coverage to the failures and not successes, then people will stop trying. While people are trying, it doesn't matter if only 0.1% succeed, there will always be successes. If people stop trying, no one will succeed, and strangely you will be left with something resembling outcome of Commu...
[15:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:09] <exec> 08└─RIPE (NCC) is responsible for IP addressing in EMEA, which includes the UAE.
[15:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:04] <exec> 08└─It's not wholly owned by Musk. The rest are mostly investors.
[15:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:11] <exec> 08└─This is some pretty impractical advice. Most cheap "licorice" -- the type usually found around Halloween -- is artificially flavored and has no glycyrrhizin at all. The real thing is too expensive to be handing out to kids.
[15:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:45] <exec> 08└─Probably not: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[15:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:12] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and mod this one -1 Off-Topic. "Informative" is not the right mod for my comment above. I would appreciate "Insightful" or "Interesting", but "Informative" should be reserved for well-sourced information. No matter how much you agree with me, my ideas are not "Informative" unless they are b...
[15:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:13] <exec> 08└─I know that we can all sometimes act against our own interests at times in politics, but it seems that the citizens of the US have raised this to an art form.
[15:35:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06It's Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists say - 2559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─Mathematics depends on the assumptions that you start with, it doesn't directly address the physical world. That it can be used to address the physical world does not mean that if the math is solid, the conclusions are certain, because the mapping between math and reality is always imperfect. Now it...
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[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─We just have to quit acting like animals. Three little words are all you need: Be nice goddammit!
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not exactly going to hold my breath. Talk is cheap in that regard. Coming up with artificial solutions might be easy, implementing them in reality might be a lot harder.
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─And humans surviving a successful implementation, the least likely of all.
[16:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:18] <exec> 08└─... given the source, this has a "venture hype, just-give-us-your-money" stench. Excerpts: Quantum computers are very similar to the computers in households today — only much more powerful.
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:20] <exec> 08└─Only evil robots could design a simulation like this, actual humans would never behave like this...
[16:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:23] <exec> 08└─'This data is invaluable...' this is a bold faced lie since people buy this data
[16:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Induction Heating Could Cause TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets to Melt - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:33] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when they can actually go there and try it.
[16:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Induction Heating Could Cause TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets to Melt - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:36] <exec> 08└─And evolve to mechanical self-configuring modular lifeforms [wikipedia.org]
[16:27:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bziman [3577] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 832 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:02] <exec> 08└─If you don't live near where your team plays, it is often very difficult to get that game each week, without subscribing to both DirecTV and a ludicrously expensive NFL package that includes every team in the league. Do they think people only watch out of market games because of fantasy nonsense? Or...
[16:27:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 946 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─I just read an analysis on the problems of the declining viewership in all professional sports. The case could be made that it is directly related to demographics. Sure, but the question that's relevant to this discussion is: how is NFL viewership changing, relative to all the other sports? If it's...
[16:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:15] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Grandstanding on an opinion - however correct - doesn't mean that the player in question isn't a gigantic asshole. That's true, someone could certainly be grandstanding and still an asshole. Plenty of Hollywood folks are guilty of this: they publicly take good stands on certain poli...
[16:27:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─Disrepect the flag? I doubt any of them are watching NFL just now. Stupid, entitled players biting the hand that feeds them.
[16:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─I have the same view of professional athletes and professional actors: They are both paid entertainment. I not only have zero interest in their political opinions, I have negative interest: I actively do not want to know. They are paid to entertain, and if they make a splash outside their paid role,...
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─So ESPN is paying NFL $2B/year for their dumb games, and ESPN's subscriber base is eroding fast. What's going to happen if ESPN collapses, or just refuses to pay NFL $2B? Is the NFL going to take their business elsewhere? Or will the NFL lower their prices to ESPN? Doesn't the NFL kinda depend on ES...
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─ESPN is part of a standard cable package or a sports package. It is not an "a la cartel" channel.
[16:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:26] <exec> 08└─From what I can tell, none of those games use helmets, and presumable discourage head impacts as a result. Thus much less brain trauma. The problem with American football is that the players armor their heads against surface injuries, and routinely absorb quite large head impacts without obvious dam...
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:28] <exec> 08└─There's still plenty of opportunity for injury in rugby. Some of the common areas of play where it happens include: - The scrum, where groups of 6 players all locked together push directly at each other head-first. Until the invention of the scrum cap, ear damage was very common in a scrum. - Rucks,...
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─That's how cable TV was in the '90s. I felt cheated when cable started showing commercials.
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:33] <exec> 08└─maybe we can start to look at things realistically. These numbers that get thrown around for stupid stuff like this is getting ridiculous.
[16:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:35] <exec> 08└─The thing I find odd is how people take offence to kneeling. Historically, the only time I have heard of someone taking offence to kneeling was when the British envoy to the Chinese knelt in the presence of the emperor. Why was that offensive? because they only knelt instead of kowtowing (full on fa...
[16:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:37] <exec> 08└─You can make this claim, however look at how it's worked for Hollywood actors: many of them spout political opinions, and does it hurt their careers? No, it doesn't. So maybe you don't like it, but apparently many other people do, or at least don't care, and pay to watch their movies anyway. Just lo...
[16:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:39] <exec> 08└─You think ESPN is shit, look at what happened to the History Channel, et al. The entire nature of TV production on every channel has has adopted this horrible screaming sensational format that's impossible to bear, all designed to raise your blood pressure. It's unwatchable. AXN is all there is now.
[16:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:42] <exec> 08└─The NFL is playing the part of the Wizzard of OZ right now (don't look behind this curtain...). They are hoping that some benefactor with deeper pockets will come along and rescue them by giving them more money than ESPN currently gives them and so they can continue to go on as if nothing had happe...
[16:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:33] <exec> 08└─This isn't seriously a word, is it? The adjective form of "vanity" is "vain."
[16:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:34] <exec> 08└─A key problem here is that she wasn't using your yardstick for success. I think we'll find that "failing upwards" happened all the way up to the shareholders. Everyone in charge was probably quite successful at enriching themselves, being big fish in little ponds at the expense of the company, and m...
[16:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:36] <exec> 08└─I even own the domain, and I will tell you for the low price of 500 000 000 it's a tiny investment I know but this will be much more successful than BBQ dot com
[16:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:38] <exec> 08└─Two important details you missed: Hard work can typically only get you incremental gains - making large leaps forward is pretty much always due primarily to luck. Though hard work will certainly help you take advantage of that luck, and maintain the gains you got from it. >What came easily can go ju...
[16:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:40] <exec> 08└─Any such formula must account for luck, brainpower/beauty, and effort. Suppose we represent those as L, B, and E with values almost always roughly from 0 to 1. Your net worth could be: L*1000+B*1000+E*1000-20000 If you have all 3 factors, you might be a billionaire. With only 2 factors, you're a mil...
[16:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:52] <exec> 08└─We have to stop this. The Internet belongs to the U.S.A., not the Europeans.
[16:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:54] <exec> 08└─UAE is often thought to be a less-evil portion of the Middle East, but you can still find yourself in serious trouble. For example, if you get raped by a UAE citizen, you must not report it. When you report it, you are admitting to sex outside of marriage. Best case, your passport is taken while you...
[16:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:14] <exec> 08└─As long as the device is off the second hand market, anything is fine. Smash it with a rock or drink it or... Just keep buying, that'll save the world.
[16:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:16] <exec> 08└─Dated kit? I am still using my Samsung S3 with LineageOS. We need an EU law saying that if the manufacturer is no longer supporting the phone he is required to put details of the hardware in the public domain so anyone can. With Brexit, we in the UK don't matter anyway - we still have to do what the...
[16:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA "Twins Study" Finds Evidence of Gene Expression Changes - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:27] <exec> 08└─I agree - not evolution in the normal sense: you're not seeing generational changes in DNA as the organism adapts through mutation and recombination. You are likely seeing epigenetics in action though - nothing new being added, but different combinations of existing potential being expressed. And th...
[16:30:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:01] <exec> 08└─When you have a holiday based around capitalist-style overconsumption and gluttony, you're bound to get heart problems. Interesting how most all holidays in the good ol' USA are all about overconsuming mass-produced stuff that's bad for your body. Really makes you think, don't it?
[16:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:00] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "red licorice."
[16:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:01] <exec> 08└─Potato chips (crisps) goes very well with liquorice (just pour a few bags of liquorice candy in the chips-bag, shake and pour into a bowl). Chocolate+liquorice is being sold premade (most wellknown brands are icelandic) if you look around. (Just in case anyone wonders if it is viable)
[16:31:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:12] <exec> 08└─Adam and Jaime: "Plausible". Technically, a judge with a sense of humour could declare that the myth is real. But it would be a lot simpler to just ask a court in the USA to declare BigFoot Belief to be a religion. It's sustained by the same amount of proof as most major ones, and definitely more pl...
[16:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:37] <exec> 08└─and Floridian Man isn't Florida man, but that's not really how people phrase these things....
[16:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:38] <exec> 08└─That's a great panel. My wife's cousin's husband is a professional cartoonist for the New Yorker. Should I send him the idea?
[16:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:40] <exec> 08└─Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're not real.
[16:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:43] <exec> 08└─Check these prints out: http://www.bear-tracker.com [bear-tracker.com] http://www.bear-tracker.com [bear-tracker.com] http://www.bear-tracker.com [bear-tracker.com] from: http://www.bear-tracker....
[16:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:45] <exec> 08└─I love it when aristarchus discourses on history, science, and myth! There is just such an artistic combination of all in his putting words together in montages that seem to say something, but then immediately dissipate into a cloud of unknowing and right-wing paranoia.
[16:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:47] <exec> 08└─Oops, meant to replace right-wing with left-wing. Whatever, same thing.
[16:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─This is because of a misconception that the party in power is the one causing this specific problem and the party that's not in power (because there's only two, right?) wouldn't have caused it, and the voters chose the wrong party. They didn't choose the wrong party, in this specific sense. The othe...
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA, White House Disavow Whitefish Energy Holdings Puerto Rico Contract - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─I take it, then, that you have worked in construction? You've worked for the likes of Brown and Root (before it became Kellog, Brown and Root) or some other serious construction company? Maybe you've even run such a company? Funny you should mention splitting it up by region. I was thinking that tho...
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[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─...and Siri can kiss my ass. I don't want to tell what Cortana can do, it's too dirty Seriously, guys, what's with the "consumer-oriented AI" bullshit you are peddling? It starts to be irritating.
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─I am not up for this, I do not trust such things to compromised phone hardware / software. Yes FB crowd will eat this up, convenience beats security every. goddamn. time. I'm sure most of us here are guilty of it as well, so just imagine people who have zero idea how this all works! They can't handl...
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Of course they will, they've been mind-bleached of any thought about their privacy - they're the perfect product. After they'll eat it, they'll wipe their mouth with the latest advertised toilet paper (assuming their credit is in good enough standing to afford it)
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, unfortunately, they will. I'm not sure Facebook is the likely source of such fools, most of them are just not intelligent enough to know what a credit score actually is. But the line up for the next iPhone crowd and the smartphone controlled colored lightbulb crowd will certainly fall for this,...
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─yeah like video as a default method of providing me what used to be text based news. so listen up; your opinion and mine can go back into the ivory tower of intellect we came from. because people dont give a shit about any of our concerns no matter how valid the concerns are. you will see more of it...
[17:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:34] <exec> 08└─In other words, "AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World for corporate boards and officers"
[17:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:36] <exec> 08└─We just have to quit acting like animals.
[17:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:38] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Humans are rather adept at surviving things. It'll depend on the situation.
[17:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:40] <exec> 08└─3) You have to be willing to be not nice in order to get this - the key means of enforcement will be creating negative consequences for those who aren't nice.
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─He didn't make you watch. He didn't take your dog. Why do you care? If somebody wants to damage their own personal property for fun, it doesn't involve you. You have no legitimate say in the situation.
[17:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:44] <exec> 08└─I assure you that it not universally true. More Cable companies are starting to allow a la cart selection, as are satellite providers.
[17:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:47] <exec> 08└─You think ESPN is shit, look at what happened to the History Channel, et al.
[17:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:49] <exec> 08└─It is a cultural thing, just as you mention with the Chinese (japanese??) emperor. "Please stand for the pledge of allegiance" not kneel, not sit, not squat. Take off hats, hand over heart, it is a ritual to display patriotism and the details do matter. I find the pledge distasteful and creepy. I fi...
[17:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:51] <exec> 08└─Before there were cameras dissecting every movement on the field, Rugby players were keeping each other reasonable by reminding any guy playing mean/dangerous that he would soon get a turn at the bottom of the pile. Anyone who didn't get the hint quickly was likely to limp for a few days. The additi...
[17:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:53] <exec> 08└─they are both primarily "white" sports Yet nobody's rise and fall had a bigger effect on viewership than Tiger Woods... y'know... jus' sayin'...
[17:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:55] <exec> 08└─It's actually 36 U.S. Code § 301 - National anthem. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/301) And when you read it you may notice that the operative words are "should" and "may" not "must" or "required".
[17:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:57] <exec> 08└─No one will dispute that, but the stats are clear that rugby is safer than US football.
[17:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:00] <exec> 08└─It raised attendance [espn.com]. So ... money, as usual.
[17:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 2165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─Look, what kind of person watches football? It's not a low-T soy-boy sitting at Starbucks. It's not a hateful lady in a Burqa. It's not an illegal immigrant. Perhaps excluding black people, football audiences overwhelmingly support: the police, the military, Trump, Boy Scouts, the wall, stuff made i...
[17:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:04] <exec> 08└─You realise realDonaldTrump (6614) isn't really Donald Trump right - far too coherent and knowledgable.
[17:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:06] <exec> 08└─wait, which one?
[17:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:09] <exec> 08└─Piracy! Piracy! Piracy! Why has no one blamed piracy for the decline in numbers? You know, cable pirates. Then they can call for further criminalization of all forms of sharing and copying. It's a favorite ploy of the MAFIAA.
[17:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, the players are paid actors. They are supposed to follow direction, put on the costume and perform. They can pontificate all they want between games, if the contract allows it. It's all pretty straightforward. As Trump would say, *They knew what they signed up for*
[17:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:13] <exec> 08└─US TV is unbearable, especially football, and its pinnacle the Superbowl. You have a 40-minute "sport" in which the ball is moving about 11 minutes, which turns into a 5-hour show. Even counting some legitimate replays, which do consume three to five times as many minutes as the action, it's still a...
[17:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:15] <exec> 08└─An actor spouting a political opinion is trying to impress an audience that consists of casting directors. The decision-makers in Hollywood do not often give roles to people who fail to signal that they are liberal. Public signaling is expected.
[17:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:26] <exec> 08└─While this does sound bad, it is pretty typical startup behavior, that can lead to success. Plenty of successful business have taken ideas that already exist and still made them work.
[17:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:28] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Having the tools, even being good with the tools, just makes you a tool of someone with an actual idea. Don't run away from that. Embrace your toolhood grass hopper. Its the rest of your schooling.
[17:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:30] <exec> 08└─...the green site repeatedly shot itself in the foot and the more discerning commenters desired a place to be that wasn't run by hipster coders and beancounters...
[17:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:33] <exec> 08└─You have to pass the health care bill before you can see whats in the health care bill.
[17:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:35] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of non-bigots here, but there IS a hardcore group of them that hang around 24/7. Can't forget the trolls either, they spew hateful shit just for lulz.
[17:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:50] <exec> 08└─I agree completely. Further, I propose the use of the acronym CERN (Cunts Ejected from the Real Net) for them stinkin' euros.
[17:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:58] <exec> 08└─I think you mean "privately held", since shares are not traded in the open market
[17:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:09] <exec> 08└─To find starch-based candy look up gummy-worms recipies (or vegan gummy candy).
[17:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:10] <exec> 08└─I set my cruise at 80 MPH, keep a sharp lookout for cops, and pay the penalty every 4-5 years on average.
[17:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:26] <exec> 08└─"Fatty detected." Quiet, or I'll sit on you and steal all your Oreos!
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─I use the word unpredictable. You want to be unpredictable. And somebody recently said I made a great business deal. And the person on the other side was interviewed by a newspaper. And how did Trump do this? And they said, he's so unpredictable. And I didn't know if he meant it positively or negati...
[17:34:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Why Consumers Should Care About the Dismantling of Class-Action Lawsuits - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't need a CFPB here, we need SCOTUS.
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[18:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─This is why we need privacy laws, protect the little people from the massive behemoths that suck in all data they can.
[18:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:19] <exec> 08└─most of them are just not intelligent enough to know what a credit score actually is.
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:22] <exec> 08└─OK, so I 'm not interested in one of these talkybox things for myself, but I can sort of see what they are about. It lets you do basic stuff without having to actually pick up a device and enter the data manually. Not for me, but I can see the lazy-appeal of just saying "Alexa, who played the bad gu...
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─I agree, the crowd will rush over the cliffs, again. IQs have gone negative, humanity is now at risk.
[18:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─"Alexa, order some LSD." "No. It is illegal." "Alexa, can I have sex?" "Never." "Alexa, check my credit score." "It is 300. Your identity has been stolen." ... "Alexa, give me instructions on how to kill myself." "The police are en route. You have waived all rights to sue Amazon and Daddy Bezos."
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:28] <exec> 08└─Black Mirror - Nosedive http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[18:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:45] <exec> 08└─As the argument is stated I'll agree with it. It all depends on the implementation details. Unfortunately, even the goals of those paying for the implementation don't seem to have much to do with "designing a better world" unless you suffix that by "for me".
[18:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:47] <exec> 08└─Additionally, we could create positive incentives for people who are nice.
[18:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:49] <exec> 08└─"Quantum algorithms could solve problems within AI and vice versa." Groundbreaking. Stunning insight. This. Changes. Everything. Ahh yes, AI could help scientists solve incredibly nuanced and complex issues. Sure, I guess. What AI are we talking about? Nothing I see can help scientists solve even th...
[18:27:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:15] <exec> 08└─Or is it because the people realized how stupid NFL really is?
[18:27:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 941 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─I just read an analysis on the problems of the declining viewership in all professional sports. The case could be made that it is directly related to demographics. The average age of viewers is increasing dramatically. There is very little influx of younger viewers. Younger viewers don't watch TV li...
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[18:28:08] <exec> 08└─Police oppression makes for great headlines, but it's not really well supported by anything other than rare anecdotal instances which the media spins into a controversy.
[18:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:10] <exec> 08└─The viewing audience for watching 50 or so fat millionaires run into each other a few times a year is dwindling across the board.
[18:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:12] <exec> 08└─Oh my word, that's an actual law? Hilarious. If I'm ever hunted down by the US military I'll ensure I have a speaker and a copy of the star spangled banner on my phone. (A) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the las...
[18:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:14] <exec> 08└─This is an argument that's been raging on this site for decades: https://news.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] by _ganja_ ( 179968 ) on Friday November 23, 2001 @09:44PM (#2605409) Homepage I'd never thought I'd see the day when a geek site was arguing if football or rug...
[18:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:16] <exec> 08└─Douchebags aren't people who put their career in jeopardy...
[18:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:19] <exec> 08└─Your mind has been blown, no? No, something else entirely... don't leave me wanting, please, go on, tell me more
[18:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:21] <exec> 08└─I'm betting sports free cable packages become a thing within a year. Maybe, but my opinion is that it won't change things for the cablecos. As you said, sports are the only thing propping up cable TV now; it's the sports fans who still have subscriptions. Everyone else with a brain has already cut t...
[18:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:23] <exec> 08└─That's it. Long & complicated way to say: respect Flag, Anthem and Country. Nobody knew that could be so complicated. #MAGA 🇺🇸
[18:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:25] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree on this one, simply because if you look at all the actors in Hollywood, not all of them talk politics. There's tons of them where there's no record of them saying anything political publicly. And not all of them are liberals either; Clint Eastwood is pretty famous for being Republ...
[18:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:28] <exec> 08└─Despite the stupidity, they are still king of the ratings, so someone will pick them up and they will continue. After all, as a comment below implies, isn't it great to see those one-percenters get tackled and thrown around? Maybe the rating would be even higher, at least in liberal circles, if the...
[18:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not. What I'm curious about is why the sports leagues like NFL, NBA, etc., haven't tried setting up their own streaming services just like HBO, CBS, etc. I'm guessing their existing distribution contracts prevent it, but that can change (esp. if ESPN drops them, or tries to renegotiate...
[18:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:32] <exec> 08└─Hard work can typically only get you incremental gains - making large leaps forward is pretty much always due primarily to luck.
[18:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed. We got you after all. Can't get much more hate filled than that.
[18:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:35] <exec> 08└─That just doesn't really happen. Almost all startups operating this way are thrashing. Doomed to failure.
[18:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:38] <exec> 08└─Everybody remembers Bill Gates. Tim Paterson is lost to history.
[18:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:40] <exec> 08└─when in reality it was just the random one who managed to get through the 0.001% survival filter.
[18:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:03] <exec> 08└─Most of the sweetness comes from glycyrrhizin, which naturally occurs in licorice plant roots. This is a 0-calorie sweetener. There is usually molasses too, which will have some residual sucrose. The molasses is there mostly for color; cheaper licorice has artificial color instead. The other ingredi...
[18:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:03] <exec> 08└─To make Th work you need U or Pu (unless you go with accelerators). Also U is dirt cheap today and has established supply and distribution (Th lacks this), also U-reactors are easier to make than Th reactors. And talking about weapons the critical mass of U-233 (which is what creates the energy in T...
[18:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:05] <exec> 08└─It is a testament to humanity that we haven't already wiped ourselves off the planet. Came close quite a few times though.
[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 4728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─We are not being reimbursed for our protection of many countries, including Saudi Arabia. You know, Saudi Arabia, for a period of time, now the oil has gone down, but still the numbers are phenomenal, and the amount of money they have is phenomenal. But we protect countries, and take tremendous mone...
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:09] <exec> 08└─rich chinese come here, buy houses that cost $1M and more IN CASH and locals can't even compete. china is buying up the US. and we are stupidly letting them.
[18:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─The deal was for a stake in the company.
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[19:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:11] <exec> 08└─or you have no evidence and "Consumerist site shuts down after alleged mismanagement"
[19:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:12] <exec> 08└─Right cause "stop reporting on us or else" is really how someone would quietly shut down a site. I have zero evidence aside from the ever increasing trajectory of corruption in the US, paired with the interesting timing with the Net Neutrality Neutering Project. To be clear I am NOT saying this is 1...
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:14] <exec> 08└─Will the bridge employ people in my district? If so, I'll have the money guy contact you. Don't worry about the cost, we've got it covered. - Anonymous Congressman
[19:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:32] <exec> 08└─Wrong, but the media and internet circle-jerking sure makes people think that is the case. If anything the collective IQ has risen so the only hope for corrupt assholes is to divide the people and turn them against each other. Every generation thinks that because they are the latest generation that...
[19:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 2055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:33] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely disagree with you but I have a different tangent on the same idea. I have an Alexa in the kitchen and she's quite useful. I feel its almost a public service for me to own and use an Alexa, to make Russian Hackers (who are bored and unemployed after helping Trump win, somehow) listen...
[19:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─Why are credit rating companies allowed they are spy organizations they are a threat to national security, they are a violent arbitrary military enforced by the state mercenaries they are just violent.
[19:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:55] <exec> 08└─Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Without artificial incentives, nobody has any reason to keep seeding torrents.
[19:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:57] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'll buy that.
[19:27:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03schad [2398] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 530 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? Hockey's US viewership can best be described as -- with apologies to SNL -- stable after being declared dead in 2005. It's very much a regional thing now, and nothing at all like the NFL, MLB, and NBA. Are the playoff games even nationally televised any more? In most of t...
[19:27:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:59] <exec> 08└─You think ESPN is shit, look at what happened to the History Channel, et al. The entire nature of TV production on every channel has has adopted this horrible screaming sensational format that's impossible to bear, all designed to raise your blood pressure. It's unwatchable. AXN is all there is now.
[19:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:28] <exec> 08└─I don't think boxing or MMA fighting should be characterized as a sport, and I think many/most of the participants would agree. It's a fight, or a battle. Sanctioned by an organization and with ground rules. It's dangerous. The participants are going to get damaged. These things are OK. This is part...
[19:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, don't piss off your employees either. The leagues have enough trouble with players unions. By not playing the anthem, they could have avoided these problems. Maybe it made sense in the aftermath of 9/11, but that was a long time ago.
[19:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:32] <exec> 08└─What an awful lot of assertions with nothing to back them up. I think I'd take issue with every single one of them. That is, if you had an actual argument. If you want to make a real argument instead of describing a fairly twisted, fictional alternate reality, go ahead and try.
[19:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─But when someone refers to "douchebags" in the NFL, I think of someone like Michael Vick, who isn't known for any political or social stands, but instead for dog-fighting.
[19:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:37] <exec> 08└─Changing tastes due to participation. I've always found the people most interested in sports are those that played them as a child, and maybe through high-school and university. University is a non-option now. It's essentially the breeder league for pro, and so all players are aspiring pro-players f...
[19:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:39] <exec> 08└─How are those bone spurs doing? Did they move to your head?
[19:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:41] <exec> 08└─Wow, c'mon now. It is "Haha!" Not a single "hah". I call this correction a case of science, no opinion needed.
[19:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:43] <exec> 08└─espn has been irrelevant for a long time. oh, and college sports are for amateurs, and boring. there's a reason there are pros, and pro leagues.
[19:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:50] <exec> 08└─Is pretty much entirely false - once you have gained an advantage, regardless of the amount of effort it required to get, you now have additional assets to leverage in order to maintain and advance your position.
[19:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:52] <exec> 08└─You're so vain you probably thought this comment was about you.
[19:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:54] <exec> 08└─You forgot the most important one: Timing (only partially covered by luck). Good ideas often arrive too early or too late. The guy who creates his working product at the right time is a billionaire, while the much better products which came too early or too late never make it big.
[19:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:56] <exec> 08└─You have to invade Iraq to find proof that they're hiding WMDs.
[19:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:19] <exec> 08└─Two sides of the same coin. Potassium (a positive ion) sits inside your nerve cells to help with ionic balance. Upon Sodium (another positive ion's) entry into your nerve cells (as in, fire your muscles including your heart and your arterial linings,) potassium is pushed out to balance out the nerve...
[19:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:21] <exec> 08└─Wow as a citizen of a country that uses rational units; this just makes me laugh. But 75mg per 28g unit is pretty close to 3/1000 so not too bad on the mental calc scale.
[19:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they say that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but just changing one word is hardly imitation. And besides, it doesn't work. Cryptozoology is the provenance of right-wing nut jobs. Actual environmentalists have a hard enough time defending actually existing endangered species from t...
[19:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:04] <exec> 08└─..nobody can refute it with science since science doesn't apply to myths. You can thank the GHG deniers and Creationists for that one. You know...the people you ally yourself with.
[19:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:06] <exec> 08└─Not so much for lack of Standing, as for Standing's lack of mens sana.
[19:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:08] <exec> 08└─I think bears and a cougar were tracking me. I saw both bear and cougar prints on top of my own bootprints.
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[20:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:12] <exec> 08└─I don't get it... A few months ago, I went to a bitcoin meetup. It was the first meetup I have ever been to. There were about 20 people there. Of those 20 people, there were maybe 3 of us that actually had a clue. The rest of them had heard of this 'blockchain thing' and were trying to shoehorn idea...
[20:26:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:52] <exec> 08└─... given the source, this has a "venture hype, just-give-us-your-money" stench. Excerpts: Quantum computers are very similar to the computers in households today — only much more powerful.
[20:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:04] <exec> 08└─And always will be. For several major reasons: 1. Because the people excitedly making pronouncements along these lines on stages and news articles are almost never called to account when their predictions end up being completely and utterly wrong. And even when they are, they made a nice chunk of ch...
[20:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, don't piss off your employees either. The leagues have enough trouble with players unions. By not playing the anthem, they could have avoided these problems. Maybe it made sense in the aftermath of 9/11, but that was a long time ago.
[20:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:45] <exec> 08└─Fake news!
[20:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 4066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:47] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, do you even know the story behind King other than him getting beaten? The night before the event King spent it with friends getting drunk and high. They then decided to go speeding down the freeway which attracted police attention. King was worried about getting pulled over since h...
[20:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:49] <exec> 08└─This is really showing how many people really watch sports. I think 10's of millions people paid for many channels they never watched. I remember buying cable and not watching ESPN, Golf etc... It was not a pay per consumption more pay for a block where you watch a few channels you wanted. What is h...
[20:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:34] <exec> 08└─I can think of one non-ridiculous use for it: 1. Set up a bitcoin mining rig made of Samsung phones in your basement. 2. Watch your house burn to the ground. 3. Collect that sweet sweet insurance money. 4. Profit!
[20:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:12] <exec> 08└─The last couple landings have been a bit fiery. They still have a few tweaks to do to save on the refurb costs.
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[21:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:16] <exec> 08└─I am interested in obtaining some of your Snowcoin, I hear your blockchain is very high-tech! If i get in on the ground floor, can you make me filthy rich? Yours, former Bernie Madoff investor.
[21:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:18] <exec> 08└─I have an argument for the perpetually increasing value of bitcoin. My understanding is that there is a limit to the total number of coins that can be mined, but more and more people are "investing" in it. Also my understanding is that it gets harder and harder to mine. Sometimes someone will die or...
[21:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:20] <exec> 08└─While building a website that I don't call a job board [soggy.jobs], I am repeatedly finding posts seeking candidates with the following skills. (Not all at once): blockchain full stack developer artificial intelligence How hard can it be to learn all about blockchains? If you know blockchains, you...
[21:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:22] <exec> 08└─I know! Let's put energy in this blockchain then we can trade it! If i get in on the ground floor, can you make me filthy rich? Yours, former Enron investor.
[21:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:24] <exec> 08└─It's called "forensic accounting". Every financial business, and I expect every large business employs a few forensic accountants so at to clue in early when someone starts cooking the books. Magic The Gathering Online Exchange's BitCoin Cookbook [warplife.com]
[21:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:26] <exec> 08└─A really cool get-rich-quick scheme is to invent a new cryptocurrency, mine yourself a zillion coins then convince everyone else to put it into common use.
[21:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:29] <exec> 08└─Haha, true that! MDC, check out https://coinmarketcap.com [coinmarketcap.com] They don't even list all coins, and they have over 1200 coins listed. All but /maybe/ 5 are complete shit.
[21:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:39] <exec> 08└─Consumer Reports isn't shutting down, just a .com spinoff they thought could sustain itself independently through donations. It couldn't. CR seems to be able to operate on a subscription model and has done so for quite some time, the Internet ain't the same thing. And they were giving away the conte...
[21:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─There's no need to dream up conspiracy theories. Consumer Reports has been losing readership, subscriptions and therefore money for a while now. I even canceled my subscription. There were several reasons: The first was that I hardly used the service. Their reviews were too few and far between. Sinc...
[21:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:06] <exec> 08└─In America we let the courts proscribe the punishment, not the arresting officers.
[21:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:08] <exec> 08└─Ok, so tell me about Malice Green now...
[21:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:11] <exec> 08└─They can pontificate all they want between games, if the contract allows it. They can do anything their contract doesn't disallow, including kneeling.
[21:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:13] <exec> 08└─It really doesn't matter what you say, reality still won't change. Americans feel disgusted, rather than entertained, by people who won't stand for their national anthem. Doesn't matter whether they're visually subjected to it or not, it's the people doing the kneeling which are now the object of di...
[21:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:15] <exec> 08└─My point wasn't about Rodney King, and the circumstances are irrelevant to my argument. I stipulate to the facts you provided, and as you noted, the media offered information only from one side at the very end. I do not hold him as a martyr. Rather that the public at large immediately empathized wit...
[21:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Ends, "Follow-On" Launching Soon - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:26] <exec> 08└─They recover a gravity model from the spacecraft data. Recover is used as a synonym for extract.
[21:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:28] <exec> 08└─On the other hand if you wanted to yell at bigots on the internet you'd be home already!
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[21:31:04] <exec> 08└─That's a damn good reason.
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[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:12] <exec> 08└─I've been seeing a related attack at work for the last three days; I came into the office on Monday, and was greeted by an unending stream of alerts from my antivirus: * OS Attack: Microsoft SMB MS17-010 Disclosure Attempt * Audit: Unimplemented Trans2 Subcommand * Attack: SMB Double Pulsar Ping Thi...
[22:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:27] <exec> 08└─Isn't Ethereum the trojan horse currency backed by Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, etc.? If I understand it properly (and I probably do not), the public ledger is what for wanking into. The real control and trades are made privately, and centrally controlled. It's like an oversized bobble-head mask to hid...
[22:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:29] <exec> 08└─It smells doesn't it? That's the problem, the blockchain buzzword is being overloaded and sold like it has all the shiny that Bitcoin has but behind the scenes it is being stripped down and tweaked for specific use-cases. It reeks like a snake-oil salesman expo.
[22:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:42] <exec> 08└─An Important Message from Consumer Reports Ah the same method sirus radio uses. Out of the thousands they have sent me only 1 was worth reading.
[22:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Induction Heating Could Cause TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets to Melt - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:37] <exec> 08└─Most people just say habitable zone and assume it means earthlike. It means close enough to the star to possibly have liquid water. In our solar system Mars and Venus are in this zone and both are not remotely habitable, many other factors effect habitability. The problem with small dwarf stars is t...
[22:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:15] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Douchebags may be douchebags, but that doesn't mean they're 100% evil people and everything they believe is automatically wrong, or that they're incapable of doing something good once in a while. They may be really annoying to be around and bad interpersonal behavior, but they can have s...
[22:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:16] <exec> 08└─it is a ritual to display patriotism
[22:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:18] <exec> 08└─Historically, the only time I have heard of someone taking offence to kneeling
[22:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:20] <exec> 08└─If the soldier is armed then a lot of that stuff goes out the window. Don't have to salute. Don't have to remove your hat/helmet. Just a warning to you before you do something stupid : P
[22:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting point of view. Along that point of view, is car racing a sport, fight, battle... How about non-professional recreational bicycle riding?
[22:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:35] <exec> 08└─She couldn't have been that dumb if she was able to recognize competent rivals. :)
[22:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:36] <exec> 08└─TMB: Nope. It's still not luck. Even those knuckleheads who manage unexpected viral success do it by the same means as everyone else who succeeds.
[22:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:50] <exec> 08└─EMEA is a US corporate geographic zone, that European orgs are not obliged to follow. In fact, AfriNIC is responsible for Africa.
[22:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:07] <exec> 08└─Go with old fashioned donuts, more cake and body to 'em.
[22:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Announced Plans to Extract Uranium for Domestic Nuclear Power Program - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:17] <exec> 08└─You only need the One: Petrodollars
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[23:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:44] <exec> 08└─How hard can it be to learn all about blockchains?
[23:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:18] <exec> 08└─They are a private entity, so I reckon it should be OK. The real violently-imposed-monopoly is expected to chime in and settle the matter.
[23:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI and Quantum Algorithms Together Can Compute a Better World - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:42] <exec> 08└─What sort of problems in AI can quantum computers solve? What sort of problems in physics can AI (as we currently understand it) solve? Look in TFA and you won't find answers to these questions. In fact, you won't even find the questions. About the closest is the assertion that AI needs a lot of com...
[23:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:38] <exec> 08└─more about opinions
[23:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:39] <exec> 08└─US TV is unbearable, especially football, and its pinnacle the Superbowl.
[23:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:41] <exec> 08└─Considering how the answer to declining viewership has been to shrink the 42-minute-per-hour towards 38 minutes (i.e. going from 18 to 22 minutes of ads per hour, including automatically dropping frames in old reruns), I wouldn't bet on the US execs admitting that they have a real problem. With the...
[23:30:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:02] <exec> 08└─money may be made by selling merchandise.
[23:30:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:18] <exec> 08└─You're vastly oversimplifying things. - The guy behind flappy wings was also not interested in it taking off and making gerzillions of dollars. He also didn't put in the effort to reach that bar. Yet he reached it. - Plenty of endeavors are interested in taking off and making gerzillions of dollars....
[23:30:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:24] <exec> 08└─the more discerning commenters desired ...
[23:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:58] <exec> 08└─Wot? Mick Jagger is on SoylentNews now? I am really impressed.
[23:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:59] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight. We have two people with two opinions? Astounding^2.
[23:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:01] <exec> 08└─Two people with the same opinion, and the rest of us with the correct one? More kind of a ménage à trois.
[23:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:04] <exec> 08└─Meh, that's pretty weak. Sad. Maybe your replacement alt will troll better.
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