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[00:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Observes Titanium Dioxide "Snow" on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:07] <exec> 08└─It doesn't snow "sunscreen". It appears to snow a chemical compound USED in sunscreen products.
[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Observes Titanium Dioxide "Snow" on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:08] <exec> 08└─You got the good headline and the bad headline.
[00:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:17] <exec> 08└─But while I love Python, it isn't exactly a low level programming language like C/C++. If Python can break your security, your security is seriously broken.
[00:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─Huh? Even high level languages tend to be capable of assembling buffers of arbitrary bytes (aka packets). We're not talking about complex manipulation of memory and opcodes here, this is a REMOTE exploit. As in, if you send the right packet (or packet sequence) to the target, it has an unintended ef...
[00:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:50] <exec> 08└─Oooh, you bastard. You did that knowing full well that there are chuckleheads on here who would have said that in total seriousness.
[00:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:51] <exec> 08└─It's obviously not the correct one if I can make the amount of money I desire at will and you lot can't.
[00:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:54] <exec> 08└─Timing isn't any part luck. It's factored in when you are fleshing out the idea in the first place or you're doing thinking wrong.
[00:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you're sub-zero a third of the year. I'd rather wear shorts and hawaiian shirts year long and deal with Sacramento trying to screw me out of more money than usual.
[00:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:25] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder what conversion of inches to centimeters would turn you into enjoying gay sex, as opposed to not liking it......
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[01:26:11] <exec> 08└─Time to dig through the dumps and recycle shit. I say we use white collar criminals to do the digging!
[01:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHTuSRRbX6Y [youtube.com]
[01:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Observes Titanium Dioxide "Snow" on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:22] <exec> 08└─As a Canadian let me thank the américain tax payers of the USA for that wonderful gift to mankind. If you are not amazed by the power of that telescope you must be a soulless nihilistic drooling sheep fuckin moron
[01:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Observes Titanium Dioxide "Snow" on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:24] <exec> 08└─So we can redefine the term "astronomer" to be "speculative physicist". That is an order of magnitude stronger than the term "theoretical physicist" which early computer scientists had to use.
[01:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:50] <exec> 08└─I'm filthy rich and I have blockchains to thank. All you need is a little confidence in yourself and a $200 to create a superior mining rig. In my book you can learn all the steps, you can get it from Amazon with fee shipping!
[01:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:04] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, because vital aspects of human civilization are obviously easily monetized. I mean if no one wants to subscribe to a regular dose then it isn't worth doing right?
[01:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:47] <exec> 08└─The players aren't protesting the anthem. They're protesting police brutality during the anthem.
[01:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:48] <exec> 08└─Americans feel disgusted... by people who won't stand for their national anthem.
[01:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:51] <exec> 08└─Well I used to think you were an old douche. Now I know you are just another 30-40 something douche. If you were old at least you'd have an excuse.
[01:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:13] <exec> 08└─Once again, my humble apologies... for triggering you (grin - next time maybe I'll try it on purpose)
[01:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:14] <exec> 08└─"Yoghurt, is that you?"
[01:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:17] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is obviously doing a lot of things right when we get this caliber of involuntary irony taking place, a good troll could feed on this one for years if it wanted to :D
[01:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls to Ban Coca-Cola Christmas Truck From Liverpool - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:09] <exec> 08└─Your post isn't speech. It's mental pollution.
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[02:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:11] <exec> 08└─Why, yes. Yes, he did.
[02:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:20] <exec> 08└─You can get the extreme-right to do it, by promising those materials are clear proof that Hillary is guilty of something.
[02:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:22] <exec> 08└─Hasn't the illicit nature of the drugs market led to impurities? Anyway, I bet the legal nature of the battery market will lead to a solution; besides hope and glory, there is a lot of money riding on the success of "alternative" energies.
[02:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:25] <exec> 08└─The most common stainless steel is 18/8 -- 8% nickel https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So the battery suppliers are going to be facing off against the steel makers...and all the chefs who like their stainless cookware and cutlery. Always wanted that nice set of stai...
[02:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:27] <exec> 08└─Nickel is an element. Do we have a problem with radioactive nickel? I doubt it. Nickel is just nickel, no matter where it comes from. You can purify it. There are electrochemical methods. You can make nickel carbonyl and then distill it. Heck, go nuts: run nickel carbonyl gas through a gas centrifug...
[02:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:46] <exec> 08└─Glad I always disable SMB and block the ports on my windows boxes!
[02:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:06] <exec> 08└─Being "private" doesn't necessarily mean that it's only in control of a single entity. It could just mean that the unwashed masses are not invited to participate. Such private-club blockchains are what is being mooted for use with inter-bank transfers and whatnot.
[02:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:07] <exec> 08└─Well since you can trade fractions of a coin there really ISN'T a limit! Just keep inflating the price and dividing by whatever number makes your bank account bigger.
[02:27:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 880 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:18] <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...
[02:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:23] <exec> 08└─Sure, make churches pay taxes. Sounds great to me (a post-theological AC), but has a snowballs chance in hell of going anywhere. Sheesh, talk about impractical dreams, that about takes the cake.
[02:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:08] <exec> 08└─Broken bones, cuts, yes. But the chance of traumatic brain injuries is much lower when playing Rugby.
[02:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 2249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:34] <exec> 08└─You are obviously not correct if you do not know that I make far more money than I need or even want, which means I've got you beat by millennia. C'mon, TMB, you have a Roomie because why? And you may want to think that my massive income is due to hard work, but I would say it is more luck. S...
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[03:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:12] <exec> 08└─If an ecosystem develops around self-replicating processes, then natural selection should come into play - but, in a different environment and with a different starting sequence, natural selection would be expected to come up with some dramatically different forms. Bilateral symmetry might be a some...
[03:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:13] <exec> 08└─yes, just like us, extinct in 10,000 to 15,000 years.
[03:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:16] <exec> 08└─We feel joy, grief, pain, we bleed green just like you.
[03:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:18] <exec> 08└─Speculative science fiction, eh?
[03:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:20] <exec> 08└─That's incredibly optimistic.
[03:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:22] <exec> 08└─I think h. sapiens has already made it past the 15,000 year mark, we've even survived 5000+ years of agriculture and city building. Electricity was probably the beginning of the end for us, starting with Tesla - after that the rate of technological progress and change really picked up, almost simult...
[03:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:24] <exec> 08└─There are already lots of lifeforms on this planet which are very NOT like us from our normal usage of "like us". But if you're comparing with a nebula or a star I'm sure many aliens will be more like us than such stuff.
[03:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:27] <exec> 08└─"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" (The Merchant of Venus)
[03:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:39] <exec> 08└─Natsocs wanted Hillary elected to accelerate the collapse of the current U.S. hegemony. Instead we got Trump. People confuse the autist-right with actual "Nazis" because of the general ignorance that the populace has. This stupidity is endemic of democracies; average people should not govern themsel...
[03:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:41] <exec> 08└─My Generals tell me there are a lot of minerals in Niger. Cobalt, lithium and copper, which are used by our great cell phone and electric car industries. Uranium, very important and we're going to need a lot of that. For our nuclear, our nuclear energy and especially our nuclear arsenal. To upgrade...
[03:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hubble Observes Titanium Dioxide "Snow" on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't thank our taxpayers, thank our military who wants to be sure the whole world knows: A) we can drop whatever size bomb we want, wherever on the planet we want, whenever we want B) we have the optical sensing and data processing capability to see a ladybug on your ass no matter where on the...
[03:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Observes Titanium Dioxide "Snow" on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:53] <exec> 08└─I was trying to reinforce a positive behaviour, I have no illusion on the role of the military on the progress of science ... But as far as i know the taxpayer pays for the military, well they vote peoples who vote for deficit but it almost the same.
[03:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:04] <exec> 08└─I have a bad feeling about this. Malware, that breeds like rabbits? At least it is not Tribbles, yet.
[03:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:41] <exec> 08└─I am a Consumer Reports fan. I have subscribed to the print magazine for decades, and to the online service for many years. There have been some problems in the last couple years, such as: the use of slang and poor grammar in the print magazine, manufacturers figuring out how to make a product test...
[03:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:42] <exec> 08└─They say [archiveteam.org] "Archive Team can always be reached by e-mail at archiveteam@archiveteam.org or by IRC at the #archiveteam channel on EFnet."
[03:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:05] <exec> 08└─> Alexa's UI does absolutely rock for "set a timer" "what time is it" "Alexa how many mililiters are in two cups" "two cups is 473.18 mL" type stuff. For someone that lazy, you sure do write long posts! Two timers in the kitchen here, a buzzer with round knob on the old range and touch pad on the mi...
[03:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─Your general analysis is correct,
[03:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:08] <exec> 08└─> I can guess that it's a bit under 500mL, and since cooking isn't rocket science, my recipe will be just fine. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:59] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember one of the parties implicated railing on about how "Troll" should not be used for "disagree". And yet again, aristarchus, who people disagree with because he is correct, usually, is again modded "Troll" for this post. Hang your heads in shame, SoylentNews! Shame!
[03:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:01] <exec> 08└─I HATE you, khallow! I Hate YOU! You are an uncaring conservative ideologue, and I just wish I could just get quit of you! Signed, your Brokeback Mountain Time Friend. p.s. When you coming home?
[03:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:04] <exec> 08└─You say that NOW, . . .
[03:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy Upcycle Initiative is Needed but Shouldn't Be - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:41] <exec> 08└─"With Brexit, we in the UK don't matter anyway - we still have to do what the EU says - the alternative is no food." Or you could discover that there's actually an entire country outside of London. Lots of farms and pastures, more than enough to provide all the food needed, if people would go work t...
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[04:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:09] <exec> 08└─While it was a good system for a long time, is there any more need for Braille? As far as I can tell, computers have removed the need for Braille. With the exception graphic designers that still think there is a need for images replacing text, computers and web browsers can easily read content off t...
[04:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:10] <exec> 08└─In the early 1980s a friend worked with this amazing blind, self-taught engineer in Hull/Ottawa Canada, Roland Galarneau: https://www.ieee.ca [www.ieee.ca] ...In 1961, his first major project came to him in a dream. Microcomputers had yet to be invented, and compu...
[04:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:13] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried using a computer with a screen reader such as JAWS? It's a very frustrating experience, even if you can see the screen and use the mouse to move the pointer to the appropriate place on the screen. Meanwhile, braille is like paper printouts. How about if people suggested doing awa...
[04:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:15] <exec> 08└─No, the real question is whether the drop in Braille literacy is trending with the general drop in literacy in the population at large. Text-to-speech has been a boon to the non-sighted. But the sighted have no such excuse, other than that they are too lazy to learn to read. So give us stats: More b...
[04:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:17] <exec> 08└─Oh God, those contractions. In addition to the 26 letters, you have 10 times that in contractions (or at least it feels like that). When I was trying to learn braille to relate to my blind family, I just could not get the knack of that. Probably because I can still see and the lack of brain plastici...
[04:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:33] <exec> 08└─Stop and think for a minute about the Oort cloud - if you can "make your own star" in the form of a controlled fusion reactor, the Oort cloud has hundreds, perhaps thousands of bodies rich in volatiles like water and organic chemicals. If we graduate to moderately capable sub-light speed space trave...
[04:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:34] <exec> 08└─> There are already lots of lifeforms on this planet which are very NOT like us from our normal usage of "like us". Everything we deem alive consists of bags of proteins, water and nucleic acids. We don't say viruses are alive but they consist of nucleic acids in an envelope of protein. All of it pr...
[04:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:36] <exec> 08└─There are already lots of lifeforms on this planet which are very NOT like us from our normal usage of "like us". There are, but precisely none of them have developed written language or significant technology. We've done that because of a few big reasons: we're land-based, we have big brains, and w...
[04:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 1578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:39] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I don't see the attraction of the Oort Cloud for colonization unless you really want to get away from the inner system for some reason (e.g., the Alliance controls it with an iron fist). First of all, assuming we can make a reliable fusion reactor, you need fuel for it. That usually means...
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[04:27:05] <exec> 08└─In my district they vote for people who will keep growing the Navy base because the Navy base feeds the local economy, more about keeping personal income high than any lofty ideals of any kind.
[04:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:38] <exec> 08└─I nominate this comment for the most ignorant comment on SoylentNews in 2017. Can he win a prize?
[04:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:56] <exec> 08└─> They provide the best rating and reliability information on automobiles. Personally, I'm a fan (and early member) of this relative newcomer, https://www.truedelta.com [truedelta.com] for reliability data. The webmaster is pretty sharp with statistics and always publishes the sample sizes, along w...
[04:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:15] <exec> 08└─Yogurt! I has the taste of Yogurt. What does the Fox Say? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] In the face! It's a special kind.
[04:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Unlocks "Steamroller" Achievement as Company Eyes 19 Launches in 2017 - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:33] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking (yes, I know the dangers)... all these space launches (hundreds a year) and all the aircraft (thousands every day) SURELY contribute way more to "Global Warming" than if every 2nd person on Earth drove a Hummer or dirty-diesel Taureg / Amarok twenty miles a day. So all this eco-ca...
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[05:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:21] <exec> 08└─By that logic, we don't need to worry about illiteracy of any kind, since sighted people can also use speech-to-text and its reverse. Aside from the fact that no one bothers to write actual web-pages anymore so it often fails spectacularly, even when it works, it's not the same as literacy.
[05:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:22] <exec> 08└─in 1970, at a time when computer chips did not yet exist. That's an odd thing for the IEEE to say. There was only one microprocessor [wikipedia.org] on the market in 1970: The AL1 was an 8-bit bit slice which contained eight registers and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). It was implemented using four...
[05:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:24] <exec> 08└─We have emoji ∴ literacy 📉.
[05:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:44] <exec> 08└─Everything else is basically too dumb to come close to our level of technology, and certainly isn't going to be traveling between stars anytime soon.
[05:26:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:53] <exec> 08└─You can get the extreme-right to do it, by promising those materials are clear proof that Hillary is guilty of something.
[05:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:00] <exec> 08└─Anyway, I bet the legal nature of the battery market will lead to a solution
[05:27:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:37] <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.
[05:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:22] <exec> 08└─If it wanted to. The quality of goats is not in their bleating. Or so I have heard.
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[06:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:08] <exec> 08└─I would hope that it would be a lesson to those who abuse the power they are entrusted with, but that is a lot to hope for.
[06:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:10] <exec> 08└─Especially when one of the parties paying out the settlement is "the university that owns the hospital." They failed to protect the nurse from police violence, so they're at fault?
[06:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─Why? They didn't pay for it (yes, one guy was fired; all the others are still out there, oppressing)
[06:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:26] <exec> 08└─Braille that's created specifically for readability by the blind can be replaced by eTexts that are created specifically for the blind (where this preparation might be as simple as "Save As - Plain Text", for example). Compare apples to apples, please, the fact that the world's gone bananas doesn't...
[06:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:48] <exec> 08└─there is supposedly a bunch of He3 on the moon. Of course, it's there because of the radiation from the Sun, so you're not going to find it in the Oort cloud. Helium-3 is primordial. The Sun is making helium-4, not helium-3. The tiny amount that arrives on the Moon via the solar wind is offset by wh...
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[06:26:50] <exec> 08└─Lazy reporting, just read some of the more approachable science books and selected one that would sell well. A+ for butt sniffing?
[06:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:52] <exec> 08└─If the only interesting life forms are the ones capable of interstellar travel, then as far as we know there are no interesting life forms (the article speaks of "habitable planets" not of interstellar travel).
[06:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:54] <exec> 08└─No. It's hard science. With a sample size of 0. What could possibly go wrong?
[06:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:10] <exec> 08└─Asteroid mining.
[06:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:11] <exec> 08└─> Better buy it now, the price is headed up. Because it's as cheap as chips currently, at least compared to boomtime: http://www.infomine.com (change '10y' to 'max' to get more history)
[06:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:13] <exec> 08└─So you're saying the quality of the nickel can be improved by removing reactive radicals?
[06:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:17] <exec> 08└─Why didn't you unsubscribe from the e-mails?
[06:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Eat Too Much Black Licorice, Aka the Worst Candy - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:12] <exec> 08└─I'm too afraid to say, lest I get banged up in federal kilogram-me-in-the-ass prison!
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[07:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rylo: A $500 360-Degree Camera With Image Stabilization - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:11] <exec> 08└─I don't see it able to replace a 10 yr old camera for close ups. 4k is not enough to match good FullHD or even HD if you have to crop a lot out. OTOH it costs less than a wide angle lens which does not even cover 1/3rd of the angle so, this kind of cams save the day in many situations.
[07:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:21] <exec> 08└─While she certainly deserved something, half-a-million is far too much. Seriously, a few thousand would be much more appropriate. At the same time, the people responsible are paying too little. Specifically: zero. The two officers won't pay it. Their bosses, who set departmental policy, won't pay it...
[07:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:22] <exec> 08└─bradley12, in my humble opinion, is paid too much. Paid too much for his job. Paid too much for that accident he was involved in. Paid too much for the fundamental violation of his human rights, when he was raped and forced to sign a NDA by some Twentynine year olds at some start-up in Belgium!! Pay...
[07:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:25] <exec> 08└─And bradley13 is paid an increment more than bradley12, so it is even worse! Please, all you bradleys, return your unearned income back to the common pool of society at large. Otherwise, we may have to like sue your asses.
[07:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:40] <exec> 08└─How about if people suggested doing away with printers for sighted people.
[07:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:06] <exec> 08└─it could be argued that this is a field with much more grounding in reality than string theory. for instance the predictions are definitely easier to test.
[07:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─"We can't say whether or not we're alone on Earth" The aliens walk among us already? Damn ... So are they like Greys or Reptilians or ...
[07:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:10] <exec> 08└─I hear the experience tends to vary [youtube.com] somewhat.
[07:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:29] <exec> 08└─The ocean floor/crust has a fair amount of cobalt and nickel. And seawater actually has a fair amount of lithium. See also: https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com] And some asteroids can be a good source: https://www.wired.com
[07:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:30] <exec> 08└─Not the nickel. A lot of the nickel comes from Russia and Canada. Which are giving us a lot of problems too. Politically, a lot of problems. They sent us the Steele dossier. And they sent us Ted Cruz. To mess with our great elections. They almost made a DISASTER of our elections. 🇺🇸
[07:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:32] <exec> 08└─to build 260 cars every 3 months.
[07:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed. And, oh look, one of the electric car makers also has an active space program :D
[07:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIPE75 Presentations Online - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:12] <exec> 08└─EMEA is just as well used by European companies. AfriNIC is a quite recent organisation -- 2005 -- before that, IP addresses for Africa were distributed by APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre).
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[08:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:25] <exec> 08└─According to the Washington Post the city and the university both agreed to pay the nurse $250.000. I can understand that the city, as employer of the police officer, pays damages to the nurse. But the university is her employer, and as far as I can see they did nothing wrong and could not have prev...
[08:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:27] <exec> 08└─While she certainly deserved something, half-a-million is far too much.
[08:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:29] <exec> 08└─http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/01/561337106/utah-nurse-arrested-for-doing-her-job-reaches-500-000-settlement [npr.org] The settlement deal covers all possible defendants from lawsuits, The Associated Press reports, including individual police officers and hospital security guards.
[08:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:31] <exec> 08└─Please, all you bradleys, return your unearned income back to the common pool of society at large.
[08:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:48] <exec> 08└─It's odd that he built an electromechanical computer when electronic computers had been in use for 24 years.
[08:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:17] <exec> 08└─I don't think that the GP is quite living up to their nickname either; there are clearly at least two additional zeros more than you'd expect, no?
[08:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:18] <exec> 08└─There's also the sheer scale to consider. There seems to be a perception that the Oort cloud is pretty dense - kind of like the asteroid fields in many SciFi movies - but the likely reality is that while you probably do have a lot of lumps of dust, ice, and volatiles, that might be able to support s...
[08:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is a reference to a length of time that homo sapiens sapiens (+ a few Neanderthal genes) [wikipedia.org] or modern civilization [wikipedia.org] has been around.
[08:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:23] <exec> 08└─but that hubris... Don't get me started on that! :-)
[08:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:46] <exec> 08└─What a mess! We need that wall YESTERDAY. Like, the 1950s. To keep American minerals and vitamins in. We make beautiful nickels in this country but THEY won't tell you about it.
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[09:26:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds nice, but it runs systemd.
[09:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:07] <exec> 08└─antiX 17, a Linux distribution without systemd, is released [soylentnews.org]
[09:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:09] <exec> 08└─Oh wow, another debian thing with a different default DE, it's so amazing! All these people put so much time and energy into trying to make the next Ubuntu, but they never do anything new...
[09:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:11] <exec> 08└─If you want new, you should try Windows 12 [windowsreport.com].
[09:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:51] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, computers have removed the need for Braille. With the exception graphic designers that still think there is a need for images replacing text, computers and web browsers can easily read content off the internet. Even cheap smart phones can perform this ability
[09:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:53] <exec> 08└─You know, I can tell you are using emojis, but while I can read text at my current monitor resolution, I cannot tell if the cheese on your cheeseburger emoji is under the bun (google) or on top of the bun (apple), or recursively layered in a directory (unix). So, could you use your words, or, get of...
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[09:26:55] <exec> 08└─🌱🌱🌱🚜
[09:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:27] <exec> 08└─I doubt we'll go extinct anytime soon, we may have a population shrink from 7 billion down to 70,000, but I think that as a species, we're clever enough to survive our own foolishness for quite a while.
[09:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:28] <exec> 08└─As any Star Trek fan will tell you, aliens look like humans with only minor differences, such as differently shaped foreheads or ears.
[09:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:30] <exec> 08└─The aliens walk among us already?
[09:32:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:35] <exec> 08└─You reckon that being persistently wrong is a success recipe?
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[10:26:19] <exec> 08└─How to setup Q4OS on Devuan (without systemd) http://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1592 How to make Q4OS look like a clone of Windows 2000/XP using XPQ4 theme pack http://dailylinuxuser.com/2016/11/make-q4os-look-like-windows-with-xpq4.html EXE Linux - Devuan with Trinity Desktop E...
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[10:26:21] <exec> 08└─Very flexible indeed. So flexible that it runs on a Vista machine, hardware totally overpowered for running Linux in the first place. FFS, Linux system requirements are extremely low, I think we are up to 16 MB RAM by now, it's the desktop environments that require a lot more than that. And this dis...
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[10:26:44] <exec> 08└─These kinds of settlement figures are far less about compensating an individual (hard to put a price on that in most circumstances) and much more about attempting to penalize a powerful organization like the city government to put pressure on their employees to behave better. In that sense I believe...
[10:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:06] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. The article says "It took 1,000 relays and more than 100,000 connections before the computer operated properly."
[10:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:07] <exec> 08└─It's so annoying when people use text without the <tt> tag.
[10:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:43] <exec> 08└─"As far as we know". As far as we know, it isn't possible to go faster than the speed of light, which is a basic requirement of interstellar travel. From that we can conclude that we won't be able to detect anything going faster than the speed of light - if we were, the first such detection would de...
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[10:27:44] <exec> 08└─a good chance that many of them won't have all that many volatiles Why would that be? There was a story the other day [soylentnews.org] about the discovery of water ice on Ceres, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. Comets, which spend much of their time in th eouter Solar System, have substantial v...
[10:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:31] <exec> 08└─To be fair, he only gets modded Troll when he challenges the alt-wrong/far-stupid narrative which as we all know is the pinnacle of human philosophical perfection and our greatest achievement as a species to date.
[10:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:33] <exec> 08└─...you have a Roomie because why?
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[11:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:08] <exec> 08└─... seems like some of them couldn't hold the change and broke. On to the next point of resistance.
[11:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:10] <exec> 08└─What about other plants? What is the percentage of Oxygen Violet? Of Nitrogen Daisy? Or of Ethanol Tulip?
[11:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:23] <exec> 08└─No thank you, I prefer being anally probed by a stick wrapped in barbed wire.
[11:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:25] <exec> 08└─I think we are up to 16 MB RAM by now
[11:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:50] <exec> 08└─"The settlement deal covers all possible defendants from lawsuits, The Associated Press reports, including individual police officers and hospital security guards." As in, the hospital security did not work to secure the hospital. That doesn't mean "take the police down" but at least say "Sorry, off...
[11:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:52] <exec> 08└─The point regarding dolphins going back to the water made me think. Lot of our daily technological advances don't mix very well with water. Yet, dolphins have not developed other technologies to generate a "technosphere". Let's say aliens also would return to their oceans somewhere in their evolutio...
[11:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:17] <exec> 08└─There is more Nickel than we could ever use directly below our feet. About 1800 miles below, to be more precise: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This explains Elon Musk's sudden interest in tunnelling machines.
[11:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:03] <exec> 08└─Any links about that? Up to now I thought Ripple is the banks coin.
[11:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:48] <exec> 08└─Well, there are people who judge other's posts only by those posts, not by whether the author of that post decided to log in. Remember, the truth is independent of who said it. Also, you don't even know whether the author of that post was logged in, as there's always the option to post anonymously w...
[11:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa Can Help You Check Your Credit Score - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:50] <exec> 08└─For someone that lazy, you sure do write long posts!
[11:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:48] <exec> 08└─Yup. I wasn't always this brilliantly insightful into the ways of commerce. My mistakes were just that though, mistakes on my part. I take full ownership of them and blame not one on "luck" to assuage my hurting backside.
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[12:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:08] <exec> 08└─He goes on to say that Edge was in some locked-down mode; it wasn't just that Edge is full of bugs. The fact that even an expert finds it easier to install Chrome (without any permissions issues) than to reconfigure Edge, is what's really damning here.
[12:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:10] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't freeze up because of some configuration option regardless.
[12:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:12] <exec> 08└─Normally I'd agree but that would go against decades of official Microsoft policy.
[12:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:22] <exec> 08└─Oh down south in the Dixie, In the deeps of Tennessee There's a girl that I admired just as pretty as can be Her eyes as soft as redwood Her hair like golden sun Her lovely lips as red as fire I was sure she was the one But then one day I realised That our love would have to pass When I realised jus...
[12:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:24] <exec> 08└─Did you wrote it on the whim, just now, as a pun at the TFA ? My hat off to you!
[12:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:26] <exec> 08└─The press release refers to bulletin. The bulletin refers to NOAA's Annual Greenhouse Gas Index [noaa.gov]. The Index refers to explanation page [noaa.gov]. And the explanation page, em, explains... :) Radiative Forcing Calculations To determine the total radiative forcing of the greenhouse gases, w...
[12:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:28] <exec> 08└─It is not a mystery that of recent permafrost in Arctic thaws and great amount of methane previously sequestered in it is bubbling out. I don't know if there is even a theoretical possibility that anything could be done about it.
[12:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:30] <exec> 08└─we have woken the beast, from now on it will make little difference how much CO2 and CH4 we emit ourselves :( Next: prepare for rapid rise of the sea level.
[12:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:45] <exec> 08└─Well, as long as I can find a serial EEPROM/Flash big enough to hold it ...
[12:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:33] <exec> 08└─You're right that text-to-speech has been amazing, and has made it much easier for people with a vision impairment to get information and communicate. No arguments there, and when you can get 95% of what they need with a shallow learning curve why would you spend years mastering a specific skill to...
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[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:11] <exec> 08└─It will sure take the struggle out of wire tapping people when they otherwise would be expected to have their phone in a case or purse or their pocket. Just add a clause that states your car performance recordings are subject to governmental and other 3rd party sharing. really, you'd think maybe the...
[13:26:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:18] <exec> 08└─He goes on to say that Edge was in some locked-down mode; it wasn't just that Edge is full of bugs. The fact that even an expert finds it easier to install Chrome (without any permissions issues) than to reconfigure Edge, is what's really damning here.
[13:26:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:20] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't freeze up because of some configuration option regardless.
[13:26:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:22] <exec> 08└─Normally I'd agree but that would go against decades of official Microsoft policy.
[13:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:24] <exec> 08└─+1 agree, -1 sad but true.
[13:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:26] <exec> 08└─Can we PLEASE stop spreading this "quote" which is pretty much a direct lie. He said "The EDGE on these machines is LOCKED down a little bit."
[13:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:28] <exec> 08└─+11 Hahaha! Serves him right for using MS products in the first place! ;)
[13:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:31] <exec> 08└─Locked down is MS speak for "fuck why do I gotta use this shit!?!?....oh yeah...paycheck..." Locked down should not mean unusable crash shit.
[13:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:33] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I'm being oblivious, but isn't that what I just said?
[13:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:35] <exec> 08└─I was just directly calling out the mis-quote in the story to reinforce what you were saying. It is fucking retarded that it is still getting spread, it is not even valid English.
[13:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:37] <exec> 08└─If the story were "Google Engineer Installs Microsoft Edge During Presentation after Chrome Freezes" it would be more surprising.
[13:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:40] <exec> 08└─Still not as funny as when Windows 98 BSOD:ed when Gates was showing it at Comdex'98 after trying to install a plug-n-play scanner.
[13:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Feel free to make up more verses, everyone... As graceful as an antelope As peaceful as a lamb As flatulent as a pickup truck with a poorly fitted cam...
[13:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:55] <exec> 08└─📈 not 🌹
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[13:26:57] <exec> 08└─Next: prepare for rapid rise of the sea level.
[13:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:59] <exec> 08└─If we really are at the top of the cycle (which it looks like +/- 10k years or so[1]), I think the expectation is for icecaps to melt to a greater extent thus leading to the flooding you mention. However, this should lead to more moisture -> increased precipitation -> bigger snowfalls -> increased a...
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[13:27:15] <exec> 08└─Me too. Staying with Windows 10!
[13:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:41] <exec> 08└─It's worth remembering that the patient in question was a coma victim of an accident caused by a person fleeing police. The official story [cachevalleydaily.com] is that the suspect caused the accident within 10 seconds of accelerating away from police. Supposedly, that's not showing a lot of liabi...
[13:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:43] <exec> 08└─While she certainly deserved something, half-a-million is far too much. Seriously, a few thousand would be much more appropriate.
[13:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:45] <exec> 08└─The university didn't do anything to publicly support her or change their policies concerning the police until she put the video on the internet a whole month later.
[13:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:09] <exec> 08└─The problems with JAWS aren't solved by Braille either. Braille terminals are a thing, but you still have the problem of condensing 1080p worth of pixels into 40 or 80 columns of text. Figuring out what window has focus, what part of the window to read & when, etc. The same hints that developers *ca...
[13:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:50] <exec> 08└─... the rate of technological progress and change really picked up, almost simultaneously with the halting of natural evolution.
[13:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:52] <exec> 08└─...or Garry. I knew it!
[13:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:54] <exec> 08└─Pluto is a pretty nice lump of ice and dust to work with, and it's not a planet because there are so many other Oortian objects out there of similar and larger mass. No, they're not close together, but that isn't such a bad thing. The resources on Pluto should support a sizeable colony, say 100K res...
[13:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:56] <exec> 08└─What does "biologically superior" even mean for humans anymore? What we are seeing in terms of population growth today is the explosion of children of people who are willing to have children, and as a "fitness function" I find that dubious, at best.
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[14:26:11] <exec> 08└─It's about time someone implemented this for consumer use. Vibration techs have been doing this in industrial settings for quite a while now. Saves them heaps of money because they can tell before something shits the bed what part of it is wearing out and roughly how long they can expect it to keep...
[14:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─What if there's a free software project after the patent expires to do this? (Assuming something won't be available sooner, which it likely will.) Then I can use my free software Raspberry PI entertainment center to listen to and analyze my 1970s carburetor engine. I bought a 2011 car new after I go...
[14:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:31] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't freeze up because of some configuration option regardless.
[14:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:33] <exec> 08└─In that case, win98 was still in development. That's a little different, but then, I guess it can be said the same of windows 10, except everyone agreed in the eula that it may not work for them. win98 was expected to work upon install, something MS has managed to get out of via their distribution m...
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[14:26:43] <exec> 08└─Oh down south in the Dixie, In the deeps of Tennessee There's a girl that I admired just as pretty as can be Her eyes as soft as redwood Her hair like golden sun Her lovely lips as red as fire I was sure she was the one But then one day I realised That our love would have to pass When I realised jus...
[14:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:53] <exec> 08└─Is there already an Emoji for "Whoosh"?
[14:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:55] <exec> 08└─I don't know if there is even a theoretical possibility that anything could be done about it.
[14:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─One night I did invite her To sleep between my sheets But my joy was interrupted By her bowel's fetid bleats! And even when I kiss her A kind and tender smooch The noise and smell alert me This can't be blamed on the pooch!
[14:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:59] <exec> 08└─Our most handsome politicians are going to have to get together and hire a bunch of suckers to go collect an ice cube from a passing comet and drop it into the ocean to cool everything down. And each year, we'll use a bigger ice cube. Thus solving the problem once and for all. ONCE AND FOR ALL!
[14:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:16] <exec> 08└─How many times can you say desktop in a summary?
[14:27:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─I would hope that it would be a lesson to those who abuse the power they are entrusted with, but that is a lot to hope for.
[14:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:47] <exec> 08└─Given the open and brazen hostility and anger management problems of modern police, I think the university security did the right thing. Saying "Sorry, officers, but this isn't right" is likely to get you shot in the modern police state. When police get out of control or overstep their authority, th...
[14:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:49] <exec> 08└─Here's where things get really shifty. It strains credulity to suppose that Detective Payne would risk this sort of illegal behavior merely for a blood sample that might show illicit drugs. What else did he have in mind and what other laws was he willing to break?
[14:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:51] <exec> 08└─Police officers will be barred from patient-care areas at a hospital in Utah that drew widespread notice when an officer handcuffed a nurse, hospital officials said this week.
[14:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 1901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:53] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what is too much and too little. Police departments and individual officers are still not getting the message after years of being in the public eye and poisoning the public trust. Therefore the award is FAR too small. The judgements need to get much bigger until police departments get...
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[14:27:56] <exec> 08└─And it was implied in an earlier story that this was being done in an attempt to prove the off duty officer had drugs or alcohol in his system to help cover for their own incompetent actions regarding the police chase which might in fact have been done under questionable circumstances over a fleeing...
[14:28:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:08] <exec> 08└─By that logic, we don't need to worry about illiteracy of any kind, since sighted people can also use speech-to-text and its reverse. Aside from the fact that no one bothers to write actual web-pages anymore so it often fails spectacularly, even when it works, it's not the same as literacy.
[14:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:21] <exec> 08└─Google understands 119 voices [www.blog.google] in speech-to-text. Presumably text-to-speech is easier and more supported. You need about 400 languages to cover 94% of the population [cmu.edu]. I wonder how many of the 6900 languages are similar enough to each other that a TTS engine for one could m...
[14:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:23] <exec> 08└─Illiteracy is a virtue to be sought after. If the president can have illiteracy, then everyone else should be equally entitled to halve it two. Eye suppose that explains the appointment of the secretary of education. Hour country should also have innumeracy as whale.
[14:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:25] <exec> 08└─It's "linked to a teletype machine which fed its memory" but "It scanned and translated texts". This thing couldn't have done OCR, could it? It had to have been more like a Braille printer, right?
[14:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:27] <exec> 08└─Since I don't expect to ever need to use Braille I don't have any opinion. But I would point out that like Braille, other skills have become unnecessary in the past. And we got by just fine. Telegraph operator. Telephone switchboard operator. Horse and buggy driver. Government Ethics Chief. Fact Che...
[14:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:12] <exec> 08└─Everything else is basically too dumb
[14:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:13] <exec> 08└─As for isotopes, while we are shying away from the endeavor, we've been capable of manufacturing all kinds of isotopes for 60+ years. Not saying that our current practices are efficient, or practical, but with practice they should improve. And, as for what raw materials exist in the Oort, I doubt we...
[14:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:15] <exec> 08└─but if you are born as a dolphin, there is a much bigger chance to die as an infant, there is a much bigger chance that any infection will be lethal, and there is a much bigger chance that you are hunted and killed for food by humans. and you can't jerk off.
[14:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:18] <exec> 08└─you can't have technology in water, because you cannot build precision tools. or you need to learn how to take advantage of underground volcanoes in order to melt metal, but I'm not sure you can then convince the metal (while under water) to get into a precision tool shape. water melting all around,...
[14:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:20] <exec> 08└─What does "biologically superior" even mean for humans anymore?
[14:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:23] <exec> 08└─That's true enough, like I said, it started with Tesla and has been all downhill since.
[14:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:25] <exec> 08└─and you can't jerk off.
[14:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:27] <exec> 08└─As far as we know, it isn't possible to go faster than the speed of light, which is a basic requirement of interstellar travel.
[14:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:29] <exec> 08└─They don't use their flippers, but they do have dildo's .. "Dolphins have long penises that they can manipulate like it was an arm. Masturbation is fairly commonplace and there have even been reports of dolphins using live, wriggling eels to give some extra pleasure to the experience. With that said...
[14:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:32] <exec> 08└─A lot of underwater creators build their shelter underwater. Clams grow it, for example. I suppose other forms of 'technology' could then also be done underwater? We huumanz just didn't often need to create things underwater.
[14:29:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:45] <exec> 08└─My Generals tell me there are a lot of minerals in Niger. Cobalt, lithium and copper, which are used by our great cell phone and electric car industries. Uranium, very important and we're going to need a lot of that. For our nuclear, our nuclear energy and especially our nuclear arsenal. To upgrade...
[14:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:57] <exec> 08└─"The minerals there are fabulous" I lost it. +1 Funny
[14:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:58] <exec> 08└─Yes. Just what I was going to suggest. Asteroid mining. If we have a huge need for these metals, and they are out there, then we will be motivated to find a way to get there. Just like we found ways of getting to oil that was formerly 'impossible' to get to.
[14:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:00] <exec> 08└─Cars do not, nor will they ever equal watt/kgmile of public transport regardless of whether they are electric. The automotive market is a luxury market. Which is to say that having a car AT ALL, is a luxury. In consequence as the available watt/person ratio goes down with population growth (all ener...
[14:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Observes Titanium Dioxide "Snow" on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:14] <exec> 08└─You're welcome! America has done a lot more for the world than our children are taught we have done.
[14:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:27] <exec> 08└─soooo .. excuse me, WHAT is the secret to sending files over the network then? FTP is not encrypted, has "troubles" without extra firewall modules (babysitting). SMB is flawed because it was born and raised in m$ house. NFS works perfect, if you got an computer engineering degree from some uni that...
[14:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:10] <exec> 08└─but why mention consumer reports is not shutting down if no one actually claimed it did; at least not in the summary. the summary even quotes the consumerist as stating the same info will be made available at the consumer reports website. The summary clearly states the consumerist is being closed by...
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[15:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:10] <exec> 08└─Really, did you need yet another reason NOT to vote Democrat? I can think of plenty of reasons to vote for neither a democrat or a republican. When the hell are some third parties going to get their act together? Seriously, neither Johnson or Stein were on the ball, or they could have stolen a march...
[15:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:12] <exec> 08└─cisgender straight while males
[15:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:14] <exec> 08└─Not really. Neither Johnson nor Stein had any charisma to speak of. Plus neither was goofy-looking enough to be a serious presidential contender. Seriously, think about the past half-dozen Presidents. You know I'm right.
[15:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:16] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Stein offered him her Green ticket with her as VP to compete, but instead he threw his supporters under the bus and told them to vote Hillary. The bigger issue though is nobody willing to sacrifice 4 years of a shitty president in order to get a party up to the 5-10 percent for federal c...
[15:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─The reality is that by far the largest numbers of voters are going to vote R or D, and no argument anyone has put forward over many decades has even put a dent in that behavior. We can wish it otherwise, but that's all it is, a wish. So we're stuck with "lesser evil." It's unfortunate, but it's not...
[15:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:21] <exec> 08└─How about hiring the best candidates for the jobs who actually know something about IT security? Hiring people for reasons other than their actual qualifications is stupid, especially for IT positions.
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:23] <exec> 08└─It's not any particular variety of gender or sexual identity folk that are needed. What is needed are people who respect other's personal choices.
[15:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 2150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:25] <exec> 08└─When the hell are some third parties going to get their act together? Seriously, neither Johnson or Stein were on the ball, or they could have stolen a march or two on the Two Big Parties. This, and also the rest of the politics in this nation, are a great illustration of Lord Dark Helmet's quip, "E...
[15:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:28] <exec> 08└─Then an oompaloompa. The only way they can top the last 4 presidents is to find an Ewok to be president. Or a Gorilla.
[15:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:30] <exec> 08└─I like Daryl Perry personally
[15:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:32] <exec> 08└─The bigger issue though is nobody willing to sacrifice 4 years of a shitty president in order to get a party up to the 5-10 percent for federal campaign funds and so they can push them into the national debates.
[15:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:34] <exec> 08└─F the left. And while I'm at it, F the right, too. My issues are based first on personal liberty, and second on compassion. Neither of the R/L polarizations works for me at all.
[15:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was thinking. All my years of experience make me a great candidate, but I'm cisgender straight while male, so fuck me right? Who are the ones discriminating again?
[15:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─That most people vote Democrat for the same reason you and yours vote republican, right? They are more concerned about what the OTHER guy is going to do with their 4-8 years than they are with what 'their guy' is going to do the next 4-8 years. And y'know what? Both sides waste those 4-8 years bitch...
[15:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:41] <exec> 08└─It is probably better for them to learn the hard way. Choose entirely based on need with no regard for merit and watch as they get burned again. Sadly i doubt they will learn their lesson and will instead blame the closest unrelated male janitor they can find.
[15:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:43] <exec> 08└─I just pick the best person for the job. Whether the job is a waitress or my chief of staff. Very happy with my choices!
[15:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:45] <exec> 08└─Because, like the Giants and the Raider nation, there are only two teams you can root for, unless you want everybody else ganging up on you. Rah Rah, AmeriCA!
[15:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:48] <exec> 08└─although we'd need to knock off the electoral college and move to a wholly popular vote to have an real change
[15:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:50] <exec> 08└─F the left. And while I'm at it, F the right, too.
[15:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:52] <exec> 08└─"had young people turning out in droves for rallies" There's something to that, if I can just articulate it. The DNC really really should have gone with Bernie, on that score alone. The future belongs to those kids, after all. Now, I'm not all crazy about putting kids in charge, or letting them expr...
[15:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:55] <exec> 08└─As long as you're racist against white, and sexist against male. I'm pretty tired of the rampant racism these days, the majority of it being re-branded racism under a different more PC name with some nonsense excuse behind it like "Oh, it's OK to discriminate against white people because of white pr...
[15:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:57] <exec> 08└─How about hiring the best candidates for the jobs who actually know something about IT security?
[15:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─There's something to that, if I can just articulate it. The DNC really really should have gone with Bernie, on that score alone. Exactly, I agree 100%. Hillary should have stepped aside for him. I'm not even going to go into the rest of your comment about them, but recent history is clear: the Dems...
[15:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:01] <exec> 08└─Fuck the Democrats. Fuck the Republicans. Fuck the Raiders. If you think that way you are part of the problem.
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─Stuff like this isn't going to win that many votes from the cisgender straight white males. And provides more ammo for the other side. But the DNC retards will keep blaming other people for their losses. Maybe the Russians again. You don't have to do a Trump and tell lies nonstop. But you need to wi...
[15:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:06] <exec> 08└─Did you fact check or do you normally jump to conclusions?
[15:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:08] <exec> 08└─Aaaah come on! This is hilarious. When the phone app, javascript, and student loan financing bubbles burst I'm going to be so god damned smug. All day, every day.
[15:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:10] <exec> 08└─They just violated the EOE act.
[15:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:12] <exec> 08└─although we'd need to knock off the electoral college and move to a wholly popular vote to have an real change
[15:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:15] <exec> 08└─... and then they turned around the economy, kicked out non-native investment banking ruining their monetary system, and in general, got the place back on track after some grossly abusive agreements with the "winners" of WWI.
[15:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:17] <exec> 08└─As long as you're racist against white, and sexist against male
[15:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─I am more bothered that people don't do this already. I am constantly listening for any variations in the noise my vehicle is making or how much it vibrates at a stop to figure out if I have anything going wrong. Discovered that my '13 F150 had misgapped spark plugs from the factory that way. Guess...
[15:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:48] <exec> 08└─Did he say "locked-down" or "locked-up"?
[15:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:49] <exec> 08└─Just because he's a Microsoft employee doesn't mean that he's an expert, nor a company shill. It's very possible that he, his boss, and even maybe his boss' boss don't really care all that much for their employer's products and they're all just there for the paycheck while it lasts or until somethin...
[15:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:51] <exec> 08└─Still not as funny as Windows 95 not launching until 1996.
[15:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:54] <exec> 08└─And this is just a clever marketing ploy to show their cloud software also works well on chrome? It wouldn't really surprise me if MS eventually wants to get rid of maintaining windows and concentrate on cloud services and office software. Those are the actual cashcows after all and windows is just...
[15:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:56] <exec> 08└─I asked you for clarification. What are you talking about?
[15:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:18] <exec> 08└─By superlogarithmic do you mean the inverse of tetration? I don't see that in those equations.
[15:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:19] <exec> 08└─Ah, but those ice cubes consist of water and thus will raise the sea level. Ah, wait, I know. We must use dry ice! :-)
[15:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:21] <exec> 08└─The HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, A/C) industry has been pressed to monitor for dangerous gases, particularly carbon monoxide and combustion byproducts from gas furnaces. Over the decades, gas furnaces have caused a number of tragic deaths, with leaks from them poisoning and suffocating entire familie...
[15:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:24] <exec> 08└─Meh, it's not that hard to test. We are doing it right now. Just wait and see!
[15:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:42] <exec> 08└─4 times in ~347 words in the original summary (1.1%) 2 times in 11 words in your comment (18.1%)
[15:29:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 1717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:06] <exec> 08└─These kinds of settlement figures are far less about compensating an individual (hard to put a price on that in most circumstances) and much more about attempting to penalize a powerful organization like the city government to put pressure on their employees to behave better. In that sense I believe...
[15:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:16] <exec> 08└─the people responsible are paying too little. Specifically: zero. The two officers won't pay it. Their bosses, who set departmental policy, won't pay it.
[15:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:46] <exec> 08└─Electronic Braille devices exist and have done so for a few years. They are very expensive though and most blind people are poor.
[15:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 1704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:41] <exec> 08└─As for isotopes, while we are shying away from the endeavor, we've been capable of manufacturing all kinds of isotopes for 60+ years. Using energy to manufacture isotopes to fuel reactors to create energy isn't going to work. We already can't figure out how to make fusion reactors energy-positive, e...
[15:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:43] <exec> 08└─Dolphins are being killed off by humans, and one species (in China) is thought to be extinct now. Their long-term strategy clearly is inferior to the humans'. It might work OK on a planet without any technological species, but Earth isn't that planet.
[15:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:45] <exec> 08└─So, I think you misunderstand me - I'm not saying we skip the inner system, I'm saying that's not where we ultimately end up. Of course we'll need to practice asteroid mining before we can venture beyond Neptune to do things there, but the better and better we get at living independent of Earth supp...
[15:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:47] <exec> 08└─Yep, the coral reef ecosystem is really impressive, and arguably the great barrier reef is a bigger construction than any human metropolitan corridor today - too bad they're all dying from rising temperatures and many are dissolving from acidification.
[15:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but purification takes money and we don't have time for that! You know, until it makes a lot of sense to do that.
[15:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:17] <exec> 08└─The running cost to extract lithium from seawater is roughly double the current sell price. Amortise in enough to cover the cost of the plant, and you have a pretty hard upper limit on the price,
[15:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Curious George [6763] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:19] <exec> 08└─I had an environmental chemistry professor bring up this point a year or two ago. Our current methods of producing batteries, solar panels, and windmills can often be just as environmentally devastating as their combustible counterparts. NREL and other national labs have been pushing research into i...
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─Her method of recognizing competent rivals was asking the question "Are they completely loyal to me and never call me out for my mistakes?" If not, fire 'em.
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup in Desperate Search for Ideas - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─It takes considerable work and expertise from the person or their advisors to minimize that.
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[16:26:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─F the left. And while I'm at it, F the right, too. My issues are based first on personal liberty, and second on compassion. Neither of the R/L polarizations works for me at all.
[16:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:38] <exec> 08└─I was waiting for you to come along and do the fact checking. If you can't do your job, we'll get someone else to do it. And, no overtime, either.
[16:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:39] <exec> 08└─Is Obama a Baby Boomer?
[16:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─What is needed are people who respect other's personal choices.
[16:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:44] <exec> 08└─I like him more than I did when I voted for him. I didn't really believe he'd take his campaign promises so seriously. Sure, I can gripe: * I don't like the situation with the FCC and net neutrality. * She isn't locked up yet. Neither is Obama. * There are still Muslims sneaking into our country. Th...
[16:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:46] <exec> 08└─Neither Johnson nor Stein had any charisma to speak of.
[16:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, they wouldn't. But the thing is, we don't really need them to, since California already joined and they just need 50%+1 electoral votes. Texas, Florida, Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan would get it to exactly the magic number right now. And actually Rhode Island has already passed it. Psephologis...
[16:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─Thing is though, Hillary would have done better on at most 1 of those.
[16:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:53] <exec> 08└─You're out of touch with mainstream America if you don't feel the love for President Trump. Probably you hate America. If I could physically do it, I'd have a huge silly grin 24x7. President Trump has done so many wonderful things for our country.
[16:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:55] <exec> 08└─They hired a non-white to run IT for the House of Representatives. He was from Pakistan. He spends 2/3 of his time in Pakistan. He or somebody else logs in from Pakistan. He starts blackmailing members of congress. Think about that. Almost half of our House of Representatives was compromised. A whol...
[16:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:57] <exec> 08└─The early baby boom was roughly 1944 through 1954, and the late baby boom (sometimes called Generation Jones) was 1955 through 1964. Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Hawaii in 1961.
[16:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:59] <exec> 08└─And this is why you can't have nice things. The whole system is rigged to prevent third party candidates. I know there are cries at the moment of "who said both parties were the same", but really they're more alike than different. Look at the breadth of political opportunity in the world, and then l...
[16:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:02] <exec> 08└─> cisgender straight while males while males do ... # what is this i don't even
[16:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, putting something like this in writing is just foolish. It shows such poor judgement. If this is what she wanted, she should have inferred it in a conversation, not put it in writing. To be clear, I'm not in favour of the opinion to start with, but really it amazes me how some people get into...
[16:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe no charisma, but they thought she had Joementum.
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:08] <exec> 08└─Not as much as Correct the Record or Share Blue is paying you.
[16:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─I'm from Iowa, and most people here don't like being the first caucus. Additionally, the ones that do are slowly aging out of the human race. Younger people are getting savvy to the fact that politicians show up get votes and then disappear for months, only to show up again because we are a swing st...
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:13] <exec> 08└─I got paid a half million less than the $500,000 which Bill Clinton got from Russians as a "speaking fee" (bribe) while Hillary Clinton was our secretary of state. Outside your bubble, there were Trump signs everywhere and giant rallies. Yes, really, a large part of America loves President Trump. Th...
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─I am more bothered that people don't do this already.
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─Was just able to tell that there was something off because it sounded a little rough. After a while of testing various things I pulled a plug and realized it was mis-gapped, all eight were way out of range. Fortunately Kendall Ford is a pile of shit and refused to help or warranty me some new plugs....
[16:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:50] <exec> 08└─> With 120,000 employees, you can't keep them all toeing the company line. I wanted to say "you can if you're Apple", but there was that one guy a few days ago who let his daughter take photos of iPhone X...
[16:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:34] <exec> 08└─*9 times in the original summary
[16:29:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 1162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:04] <exec> 08└─Given the open and brazen hostility and anger management problems of modern police, I think the university security did the right thing. Saying "Sorry, officers, but this isn't right" is likely to get you shot in the modern police state. When police get out of control or overstep their authority, th...
[16:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:10] <exec> 08└─penalize a powerful organization like the city government to put pressure on their employees to behave better
[16:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I agree. I think she should get something, and I'm happy to see she's planning on donating some of it at least. I'd rather have seen the payout to be $1-2M, paid by people other than taxpayers, with the nurse getting maybe $200k and the rest going to human rights organizations, police watch gr...
[16:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:14] <exec> 08└─Therefore the award is FAR too small. The judgements need to get much bigger until police departments get the message and start pro-actively doing something.
[16:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:42] <exec> 08└─What does "biologically superior" even mean for humans anymore?
[16:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:44] <exec> 08└─Time Lords
[16:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:46] <exec> 08└─Which is inferior remains to be seen. Humans have demonstrated the clear ability to destroy any living thing on Earth, including themselves, but does that make them superior? If any one of a dozen recent historical events had gone differently, it could have been the dolphins living free and easy rig...
[16:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:48] <exec> 08└─Looking around me, humans' intelligence seems to be (loosely) negatively correlated with number of offspring... it's one of my larger concerns about the future of the human race.
[16:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:51] <exec> 08└─Well, the real question is: if we do bork ourselves back to the stone age, will we come out on top in the next iteration, or will something evolve that can take us out? That something doesn't have to beat us at our own games, it just has to beat us at the basic games of life: obtaining food, procrea...
[16:31:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:43] <exec> 08└─Huh? Even high level languages tend to be capable of assembling buffers of arbitrary bytes (aka packets). We're not talking about complex manipulation of memory and opcodes here, this is a REMOTE exploit. As in, if you send the right packet (or packet sequence) to the target, it has an unintended ef...
[16:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:48] <exec> 08└─I use Dropbox. Though, good old fashioned Sneaker Net is very reliable and not likely to be intercepted between the two computers.
[16:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Reports Closes Consumerist - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:31] <exec> 08└─Not the GP, but I can see two reasons. One is that the similar name and combined ownership might make one thing that it is both. The second is that Consumer Reports is having widely publicized problems itself, so the idea of Consumer Reports going out of business wouldn't surprise me. However, the r...
[16:33:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More - 546 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <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...
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[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─FDA: Cannabis has no accepted medicinal uses. Researcher: We've shown that it's extremely effective against seizures, Tourette Syndrome, etc., etc., etc., and even has some very promising anti-carcinogenic properties. FDA: Your independent research does not entitle you to advertise medical claims. R...
[17:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─I used to be a 5'2" little black kid, then I started smoking weed, and now I'm 6' and white.
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Then do the clinical trials in countries that aren't the United States of America.
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─You can't trust Canadians or West Europeans to know what's good for US health. On the other hand, you can trust food supplement and vitamins manufacturers to claim anything they want about their products without studies, because they are good Americans with a Senator in the family, not evil pot push...
[17:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─FDA: Cannabis has no accepted medicinal uses. The DEA schedules drugs, not the FDA. DEA says marijuana has no medical use; pot remains listed as dangerous [seattletimes.com]
[17:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:24] <exec> 08└─The DEA defers to the FDA when de-scheduling Schedule I substances.
[17:26:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─They just violated the EOE act.
[17:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:21] <exec> 08└─This. Discrimination on the basis of race or gender is illegal. Any white male who is qualified, but rejected for the job, now has a solid legal basis for a lawsuit. Idiots. The DNC is virtue-signalling so hard that they will succeed in alienating essentially their entire base. I mean, once they eli...
[17:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:23] <exec> 08└─In other words, *Surrender, just give up*... Well, by the looks of things, it appears you already have. You are looking at the results of your "lesser evil" game, and the only ones to blame are those that play along.
[17:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 1999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─I realize I'm going to get a lot of hate on here from saying what I'm about to say, but that's because most of you don't have to go through what I go through on a day-to-day basis. Imagine a time and place where skin color and what's in your pants determine, with high statistical accuracy, exactly h...
[17:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:27] <exec> 08└─This has already been unofficial policy in some areas for years, they're just getting more bold about acknowledging it in public. The BBC has reached that point too. http://www.dailymail.co.uk http://www.bbc.com
[17:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:29] <exec> 08└─American Democrats. Everything thats wrong with political correctness.
[17:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:31] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they decided to run "Creepy Uncle Joe" next, Breitbart and the independent media would have a field-day repeatedly showing clips of Creepy Uncle Joe committing public frotteurism against uneasy women and young girls alike. Don't believe me? Look it up yours...
[17:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:34] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem here is that our politicians and political parties are completely and utterly incompetent. After all the bullshit, these people still have to win your vote. Where is the incompetence really? We would do better grabbing some random people off the street to be our leaders. Yes,...
[17:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:36] <exec> 08└─Compassion? Invite families of illegals and African Muslim "refugees" into your home and see what happens. Of course, I'd warn against it if you want your body to stay in one piece.
[17:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:38] <exec> 08└─So ONLY "people like you" should be helped? Thats what I get from your statement.
[17:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:40] <exec> 08└─At least they show up. Here in solid blue country (CA), politicians only show up for fund raisers.
[17:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:42] <exec> 08└─.... and then they turned around the economy, kicked out non-native investment banking ruining their monetary system, and in general, got the place back on track after some grossly abusive agreements with the "winners" of WWI. And all it took was a smidge of genocide! Glad you care more about money...
[17:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:45] <exec> 08└─Look, man, you either have absolute fairness (equality) in the law or you have privileged groups. There is zero middle ground. I'm for equality. Show me legal flaws, I'm happy to help correct them. But not by granting privilege to one group over any others. That is not how you get equality; that is...
[17:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:47] <exec> 08└─You'll be okay, Indio. Just keep voting Democrat, milking Affirmative Action and other "diversity" initiatives, be the good little token show-pet of your employers' photo shoots, have lots of anchor-babies, and refuse to learn English; and be sure to call anybody who disagrees with you a "racist." I...
[17:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:49] <exec> 08└─Are you a fan of Justice Clarence Thomas? He is, by the way, the only person on the court who is not a native English speaker. He got bullied every time he opened his mouth. He's also a Catholic. That'll get you bullied by many protestants, being called a papist or even a non-Christian. It'll also g...
[17:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:51] <exec> 08└─"Respect" for other's choices shouldn't have anything to do w/ who gets hired.
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─But... Diversity laws!
[17:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─No, it's entirely correct. The "while males" refers to the fact that they may change their gender; only while they are males you should not forward the mail to them, as soon as they stop being males, you are allowed to forward it.
[17:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:58] <exec> 08└─Look, man, you either have absolute fairness (equality) in the law or you have privileged groups.
[17:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:00] <exec> 08└─While the Democrats might be discriminating; those God Fearing™ Republicans would never do such a thing. The Republicans under Trump's administration actually embrace diversity: * straight white christian men with black hair * straight white christian men with brown hair * straight white christian...
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─Here we see the fundamental flaw in the liberal argument in its most refined form. Respect is not and should not be guaranteed anyone for anything. Tolerance is all you're entitled to. As in "I had to tolerate this guy who smelled like he shit himself on the bus to work today.". There is no amount o...
[17:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:05] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of the counties voted for him
[17:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:18] <exec> 08└─grinding in the steering wheel when moving extremely slowly
[17:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:19] <exec> 08└─> a little bit of grinding in the steering wheel when moving extremely slowly. That's a pretty usual sound for an F150, and easy to fix by turning on the right radio channel: it's the souls of environmentalists.
[17:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:21] <exec> 08└─The primary problem with that method is to get a baseline to calibrate the app for every single car on the market. It's cute to say your phone can recognize a sound, after you trained it. It's very different to tell people "car not recognized, calibration step 2: please disassemble radiator fan, put...
[17:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:24] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't be too difficult, really. Not if you're interested in selling your code to the car manufacturers as well. I certainly would be.
[17:28:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:36] <exec> 08└─+11 Hahaha! Serves him right for using MS products in the first place! ;)
[17:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:50] <exec> 08└─Most likely the dashboard is a javascript mess and Edge javascript (or jscript) engine is shait?
[17:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:52] <exec> 08└─I must confess that is a most interesting hypothesis (which I would find amazingly brilliant were it true) but I have my doubts. To put a reverse spin on Hanlon's Razor [wikipedia.org]: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
[17:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:18] <exec> 08└─A proper test requires a control group. I wonder where you get that from.
[17:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 1791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:20] <exec> 08└─That's great and everything. What would you like us to do? I mean, really? Let's just take it on trust, depending on how much trust you think you need to put in "the entire world's scientific community". You're right. Great. Now what? Change a lightbulb or two? Stop talking nonsense. Stop driving di...
[17:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:40] <exec> 08└─You're two revisions back! The new Corporate Motivators Edition comes with standard razor wire stick dipped in salt.
[17:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rylo: A $500 360-Degree Camera With Image Stabilization - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:48] <exec> 08└─> this kind of cams save the day in many situations. Save the day ? From what, having only 90 or 180 degrees video? From not having about 3/4 of the video information being useless?
[17:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:20] <exec> 08└─, while the cop arrested the nurse and slammed her up against the wall. They were specifically hired and put in place to protect hospital staff, and failed to do so, simply because the perpetrator was a cop.
[17:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:21] <exec> 08└─It's the roids man.
[17:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:23] <exec> 08└─Nobody said the money was contributing "unearned income of all the others non-bradleys". You see, I have a friend named Bill, and a bridge that needs repairs, and if Bill repairs the bridge, then Bill has enough money to help me get re-elected, so I can find another bridge for Bill to repair with Br...
[17:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:26] <exec> 08└─In some cases. In other cases it could just be that they always were a bully, and thus were naturally drawn to law enforcement where they could bully other people around with impunity. The sad thing is, I still believe these bad cops are the minority. But they are the ones shaping the public's attit...
[17:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:28] <exec> 08└─> Why on earth do they pay damages? Because she had a lawyer, and hospitals have excessive piles of money. The previous responses tell you why she would have ground to unleash the lawyer on the high-bank-account target, so settling quickly for a quarter million isn't a bad deal.
[17:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:30] <exec> 08└─Those in authority should be held to a more rigorous standard.
[17:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not thinking bigger awards. I'm thinking bigger judgements. The victim does need to be compensated. But I'm thinking of what is called "punitive damages". That is, a financial judgement intended to punish and send a message. And it is a real thing. It should be done -- especially if a police dep...
[17:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:02] <exec> 08└─I wish to return this tobacconists. It is scratched.
[17:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:07] <exec> 08└─Even if lots of people die, enough will survive so we are unlikely to go extinct in 150 years. There are 7+ billion of us. Even if there's a global nuclear war that ends modern civilization it won't wipe all humans out. At least tens of thousands will still survive. We might even still outnumber the...
[17:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:08] <exec> 08└─There are, but precisely none of them have developed written language or significant technology.
[17:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:40] <exec> 08└─1800 miles may not seem like a lot, until you start thinking about drilling or extracting anything at that depth. It's approximately 1800 miles from San Antonio, Texas to New York City. That would be a feat of engineering to dig a tunnel at a reasonable depth to connect the two. When you talk about...
[17:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I should have used some irony tags...
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[18:26:09] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:09] <exec> 08└─Why can we talk about PISA results, comparing the performance of students in school, but we are not allowed to talk about differences in IQ? Because IQ is a load of bullshit?
[18:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:11] <exec> 08└─Sticking our collective heads in the sand, because the topic is not PC, is not going to solve any problems.
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─unz.com: The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media WIth such gems as "Geezers Don’t Care! Marc Faber Defies AntiRacist Moral Panic", "Libertarianism, the Alt-Right and An...
[18:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─Let's say, for argument, that this is correct and IQ isn't bullshit, as said above, this could easily lead down the "we know what's best for you" approach that has been done in the past with disastrous results. The treatment and indoctrination of Aboriginal people in Australia are one of the better...
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─Suppose that guy from Uzbekistan hadn't run over people in New York. He still had no hope of being non-negative for the USA. Based on the size of his family and our typical per-person income, his family would need to earn $229,600 per year to break even. He was an Uber driver. Worse yet, he sponsore...
[18:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:20] <exec> 08└─IQ is measurable and highly predictive. What more could you ask for? The fact that we may have trouble expressing the exact meaning of IQ does not make it bullshit. IQ matches up pretty damn well with our observations that some people seem to be smarter than others. Smart people, as determined by or...
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:22] <exec> 08└─IQ is a useful indicator of a person's potential. That is, IF IQ is accurately measured. Unfortunately, we don't have an accurate measure. No matter how smart you or I may be, though, that intelligences has little if any value in a situation where you lack any training. Take your typical disaster. S...
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─Famously, IQ is a measure of how well someone can answer IQ test questions. Meaning it doesn't measure raw intelligence, but the ability of the person who takes the IQ test to understand what answers the designer of the IQ test expects. Well, guess what: successful people learn to bullshit their way...
[18:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:37] <exec> 08└─* YMMV. Offer not valid in Tennessee.
[18:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act [wikipedia.org] The legislation created five Schedules (classifications), with varying qualifications for a substance to be included in each. Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Food and Drug Administration (...
[18:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:40] <exec> 08└─Last June I happened to be vacationing in Colorado. At individual dispensaries people give all kinds of advice to people looking for "treatment" of various things. Some of that advice is appallingly bad. One peeve that I've kept as a long time pet is the: "it's natural!" as if that means it is neces...
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:43] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is garbage: the CBD sellers should be able to make any crazy claims they want. If the supplement sellers and chiropractors and naturopathic "doctors" can make unsubstantiated claims about their cure-alls, then anyone else should be allowed to as well. As long as those groups are allowe...
[18:26:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:52] <exec> 08└─Really, did you need yet another reason NOT to vote Democrat? I can think of plenty of reasons to vote for neither a democrat or a republican. When the hell are some third parties going to get their act together? Seriously, neither Johnson or Stein were on the ball, or they could have stolen a march...
[18:26:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:58] <exec> 08└─How about hiring the best candidates for the jobs who actually know something about IT security? Hiring people for reasons other than their actual qualifications is stupid, especially for IT positions.
[18:26:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:00] <exec> 08└─It's not any particular variety of gender or sexual identity folk that are needed. What is needed are people who respect other's personal choices.
[18:27:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:14] <exec> 08└─As long as you're racist against white, and sexist against male. I'm pretty tired of the rampant racism these days, the majority of it being re-branded racism under a different more PC name with some nonsense excuse behind it like "Oh, it's OK to discriminate against white people because of white pr...
[18:27:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 847 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:43] <exec> 08└─This. Discrimination on the basis of race or gender is illegal. Any white male who is qualified, but rejected for the job, now has a solid legal basis for a lawsuit. Idiots. The DNC is virtue-signalling so hard that they will succeed in alienating essentially their entire base. I mean, once they eli...
[18:27:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 1999 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:45] <exec> 08└─I realize I'm going to get a lot of hate on here from saying what I'm about to say, but that's because most of you don't have to go through what I go through on a day-to-day basis. Imagine a time and place where skin color and what's in your pants determine, with high statistical accuracy, exactly h...
[18:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:04] <exec> 08└─That's what all good little fascists do right?
[18:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:06] <exec> 08└─I got paid a half million less than the $500,000 which Bill Clinton got from Russians as a "speaking fee" (bribe) while Hillary Clinton was our secretary of state. Donald Trump Jr. is getting $100,000 for university speech sponsored by GOP donor’s company [washingtonpost.com]
[18:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:08] <exec> 08└─Hiring based on race/gender is most certainly illegal, yes.
[18:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:10] <exec> 08└─That man is a bloody disaster.
[18:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:12] <exec> 08└─But it was her turn! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Sure if you think Bernie could stop the Trump Train, but even if he won he would be murdered once he started his "Socialist Utopia" BS.
[18:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:15] <exec> 08└─That isn't even remotely similar aside from being a paid speech. There is a group that sponsors events to fund National Merit Scholarships for UNT students. It's funded by various corporations, probably as a mix of good PR, trying to win favor with employable students, and CEOs having a personal des...
[18:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:17] <exec> 08└─There is no amount of implied respect in the definition of "tolerance".
[18:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:19] <exec> 08└─We find "cis" and "cisgender" to be offensive. We wish to be referred to as "normal" thank you.
[18:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:21] <exec> 08└─Neither Johnson nor Stein had any charisma to speak of.
[18:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:24] <exec> 08└─Imagine walking around all day, seeing people like Obama criticized for essentially yawning at the wrong time and Trump being praised for calling undocumented citizens "rapists and murderers,"
[18:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:26] <exec> 08└─You must be new here.
[18:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:28] <exec> 08└─Or traditionally gendered. Why are we letting a fringe pick these names.
[18:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:30] <exec> 08└─Goddammit, I am still mad that we never got to see the campaign John McAfee would have run in the general. How he placed behind Petersen is mindnumbing.
[18:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:32] <exec> 08└─That isn't even remotely similar.... You're right, they're very dissimilar. Bill Clinton's $500k Russia speech is an unproven allegation. [snopes.com] Whereas my Trump Jr article includes the actual contract.
[18:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─Yup. Respect must be earned.
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:37] <exec> 08└─The Chief of Staff actually said we could have avoided the Civil War by compromising on slavery.
[18:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:39] <exec> 08└─While your points are solid, they're not relevant to his experiences in the nation he lives in. Myself, I think he's looking at the nation through shit-colored glasses that he's been sold by the DNC but that's another matter entirely as well. This is more of a "how do you solve it" thread.
[18:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:41] <exec> 08└─Normies get out
[18:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:43] <exec> 08└─Because you are privileged cis-scum.
[18:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:46] <exec> 08└─Is anybody here surprised? This is about as surprising to me as if the RNC had the same job openings, but didn't post them anywhere and got them filled with the family members of powerful RNC members. Neither represents what every voter in those parties would do. And yeah, if you get butthurt about...
[18:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:02] <exec> 08└─Offtopic, Actually looked it up, have a much milder version of what the video on the linked forum has. Mine only does this at speed when not really turning. The guy got his fixed under warranty by replacing the intermediate shaft. http://www.f150ecoboost.net
[18:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:58] <exec> 08└─By superlogarithmic do you mean the inverse of tetration? I don't see that in those equations. Nope, by "superlogarithmic" he's indicating he doesn't know WTF he's talking about.
[18:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:00] <exec> 08└─For example, not a single human will die if you Americans stop using your car to get to the shop just around the corner, wasting tons of fossil fuel. Indeed, with less cars needlessly on the road, less people will die.
[18:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:02] <exec> 08└─noooooooooooooo....
[18:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:04] <exec> 08└─💨? I wanted to explain, not insult.
[18:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:06] <exec> 08└─Most people can probably knock 20% off their emissions with a few small changes. Looking up carbon footprint calculator can help give you a idea what changes might be most effective. You probably save some money and be healthier from the changes as well. Things like walking or cycling when practical...
[18:30:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 934 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:54] <exec> 08└─It's worth remembering that the patient in question was a coma victim of an accident caused by a person fleeing police. The official story [cachevalleydaily.com] is that the suspect caused the accident within 10 seconds of accelerating away from police. Supposedly, that's not showing a lot of liabi...
[18:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:13] <exec> 08└─Bigger fines may be achievable and, if big enough, may get their superiors to lean on the bad cops. To throw bad cops in jail however, you have to depend on other cops to throw them. Ain't gonna happen. "Thin blue line" and "bro's stand together" and all that other gang loyalty bullshit.
[18:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:15] <exec> 08└─imagine normal people would handcuff a nurse and take her with them after she refused to do something illegal on their demand. I'm sure they would get a harsh punishment.
[18:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Seeks to Preserve Fading Skill: Braille Literacy - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:47] <exec> 08└─I used to think it would be cool to be able to lie in bed and read a book without any light source. No more sleep-blurred vision forcing me to sleep before I finish that book I can't put down! So I thought, hey, I should learn braille... so I started looking at dots. Well, that's not the right skill...
[18:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:53] <exec> 08└─Yep, Idiocracy in action. I submit that attractiveness counts for way more than intelligence (no matter what the women claim on the dating sites).
[18:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:55] <exec> 08└─It really doesn't matter if humans survive or not. If the dolphins are made extinct by humans (even if that event destroys human civilization too), then the dolphins' strategy obviously was not superior, as it was a failure to compete and survive. A good human analogy for this is Hawaiian culture. B...
[18:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:57] <exec> 08└─Well, at risk of perpetuating a stereotype - the beauty queens I have known all tend to have more than 2 children, usually early, and often by multiple fathers. Pretty much following the Erin Brokovich storyline: no use for school, they had other ways to "feel powerful" in the world.
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[19:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─MENSA isn't all bad. I was a member year's ago. I met some nice people there. I also met some assholes. Mostly, my experience with MENSA made me doubt the legitimacy of IQ tests.
[19:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:23] <exec> 08└─This kind of data will inevitably be co-opted by white supremacists. The drive will be to exterminate the inferior people, not to educate them.
[19:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:25] <exec> 08└─> IQ is measurable and highly predictive. What more could you ask for? Highly predictive? What skills do you to measure for "smart"? It depends on your context, as correctly explained by Runaway [soylentnews.org] further down.
[19:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:27] <exec> 08└─So wait, why is IQ score comparisons subject to racism? You do not explain this and yet state we're not allowed to talk about such difference because the speaker is immediately accused of racism? who? where? in what context? Are you projecting something?
[19:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:30] <exec> 08└─Recent research has shown that a combination of multiple tests are much more reliable when regarding intelligence. A single test is too simple to measure something as complex as intelligence. http://www.telegraph.co.uk [tel...
[19:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:32] <exec> 08└─When I was 15 I passed the IQ test!!!! MENSA invited me to join and sent me a bill. I declined. Turgid senior said, "Well done, son, you passed the real intelligence test."
[19:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:34] <exec> 08└─You don't correct such misunderstandings by rendering discussions of them verboten, quite the opposite is true.
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:36] <exec> 08└─It's pretty widely accepted that IQ is a general measure, not an absolute standard, of intelligence (which ironically is largely where we get lost in the woods in such discussions). I'm not an expert in the field, but I can at least attest that any IQ test I've ever taken has relied on a certain "fr...
[19:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:39] <exec> 08└─This submission is garbage, IQ tests have been repeatedly shown to be culturally dependent and NOT a good measure of full intelligence.
[19:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:41] <exec> 08└─There's another reason besides the use by supermacists. All the PC/SJW types get start getting their torches and pitchforks out, even when the person presenting the information [independent.co.uk] (admittedly quite badly) is one of the most celebrated and well known names in the field of genetics. I...
[19:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Troll) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:43] <exec> 08└─As you say, IQ shows your potential. Specifically, it shows your ability to perform certain kinds of thought processes. Thought processes that are useful for abstract thought, for problem solving, for language, for the kinds of things that have led to advanced civilization. You say that there is no...
[19:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:45] <exec> 08└─FWIW Asians are "over-represented" in Facebook and Google and whites are under-represented (according to USA demographics). Lots of people claim that whites are over-represented in Facebook and Google, but they are wrong. Speaking of distribution the average/mean and median are useful for some stuff...
[19:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─Apparently you don't read history, and trying to play this off as There's a difference between "sticking your head in the sand" and "knowing how powerful education is".
[19:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:50] <exec> 08└─This is more than not PC. This story can far too easily be interpreted as saying that the darker you are, the dumber you are. It's raw meat for white supremacists. Even if the original material does not say that, the way it is presented is terrible. Even so, the entire idea is extremely suspect. Is...
[19:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:52] <exec> 08└─The thing that made me realize that MENSA wasn't all it's cracked up to be is the realization that MENSA members, unless they've been diligently hiding their association with MENSA, have zero correlation with other highly successful people in society, and have no real accomplishments to speak of. Fo...
[19:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:54] <exec> 08└─Dog breeds also vary in intelligence. There are variations of course but some breeds tend to be dumber than others. In many cases an obedient trainable dog is more important and useful than a clever intelligent dog. And lots of people think an obedient trainable dog is very smart because it can be m...
[19:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:57] <exec> 08└─This was my experience with Mensa to, except that I failed that particular part of the test for a few years. Until I came to my senses. Mensa in some form seem to have a lot in common with Scientology, while I have never been a member of that cult I have heard and read a few things -- as far as I kn...
[19:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:59] <exec> 08└─And as a practical matter, any limiting factors for G are things we want to find an reduce as much as possible. But if the answer always comes back to genetics, what then? Eugenics leads to spectacularly awful places. For UN outreach/nation building/actual well intentioned efforts to help: Western o...
[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:01] <exec> 08└─yeah it happened to me, too years later as an adult I met some mensa types and maybe 1 out of 5 were friendly and 1 out of 5 were really smart. the rest were jerks or mean or arrogant or smelled bad
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:03] <exec> 08└─That does not explain some cities in USA... to put it as nice as possible.
[19:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:06] <exec> 08└─John Horn and John McArdle have argued that the modern g theory, as espoused by, for example, Arthur Jensen, is unfalsifiable, because the existence of a common factor like g follows tautologically from positive correlations among tests. They contrasted the modern hierarchical theory of g with Spear...
[19:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:08] <exec> 08└─This story comes right on the heels of the DNC "no white males!" story. Are people being set up to be angry and then handed a "scientifice" segway into why racism is good? True or not that is how grassroots propaganda is done.
[19:28:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:56] <exec> 08└─That isn't even remotely similar.... You're right, they're very dissimilar. Bill Clinton's $500k Russia speech is an unproven allegation. [snopes.com] Whereas my Trump Jr article includes the actual contract.
[19:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:03] <exec> 08└─I'm at a loss, did I miss a news article about Trump giving that company our nuclear stockpile for pennies on the dollar?
[19:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:05] <exec> 08└─Bill Clinton's $500k Russia speech is proven. The only thing unproven is pay-for-play, but... why exactly would Russians desire so strongly to hear Bill Clinton speak? We have pictures of Bill Clinton in Russia for the speech: http://www.breitbart.com
[19:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:07] <exec> 08└─Can we put this guy into a REAL watchlist? Y'know, the kind where you can keep an eye on him and not worry about him moving farther than 10 feet in any direction?
[19:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:10] <exec> 08└─I'm born and raised in New Hampshire, and I never minded the quadrennial circus coming to town. It boosts business for a lot of restaurants and such, and it gives 'em way more voting power than they really should have. Also, New Hampshire has a fairly good track record of picking wisely, mostly in w...
[19:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 4808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:12] <exec> 08└─The problem is that third party candidates are pretty wacky. While I'd love to run a politiical party myself, the outlook of it suceeding seems low enough due to election laws that I wont bother. Laws that stop lobbying and limit donations and whatnot serve their intended purpose: Protecting big pol...
[19:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:15] <exec> 08└─So you're literally cheering on the rise of the Nazis. Are you dumb? Trolling? Or actually a neo nazi? YAY NATIONALISM! /sarcasm
[19:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:17] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the truth hurts. It isn't a question on whether or not allowing slavery to continue would have maintained the status quo longer, the question is whether it was preferable to have a war if and end to slavery was part of the victory. I don't recall Kelly saying that we should have allowed sl...
[19:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:19] <exec> 08└─Take a big drive. Loop around the country by car, avoiding interstates and the stuff within a couple dozen miles of the coast. America is rural.
[19:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:21] <exec> 08└─My point was that our experiences are not a solid metric to measure reality. I am not stopping him/her of changing the world, just pointing out that the world is not as it appears.
[19:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:24] <exec> 08└─unlike the disaster of do-nothing Obama
[19:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:09] <exec> 08└─Serves him right for using MS products in the first place
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[19:30:10] <exec> 08└─It's completely sideways.
[19:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:44] <exec> 08└─> What would you like us to do? You may well ask this question, because the story isn't advocating for a specific action. > It's like a stewardess walking into the cockpit of a plane, seeing a red-light on a control panel he/she doesn't understand, and then getting everyone to jump out of the plane....
[19:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:46] <exec> 08└─False. Our shops aren't located "just around the corner" unfortunately they're rather far away. And many Americans would not survive a walk to the store and back.
[19:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:48] <exec> 08└─How did any astronomy ever get done in your world?
[19:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:09] <exec> 08└─if only there was tasksel...
[19:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:58] <exec> 08└─While she certainly deserved something, half-a-million is far too much. Keep in mind, this is the USA. So that payout is taxable income. And if she fails to file her taxes properly, it's straight to jail. The real award is closer to $300k after taxes.
[19:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─What I've gleaned of pre-contact Hawaiian culture is that: yes, the tourist myths are true to some extent, time to surf, plenty of poi to eat, etc. but it was also a pretty harsh dictatorship, something that gets soft-pedaled now that their culture has been steamrollered. If you take a hypothetical...
[19:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 2880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:41] <exec> 08└─What I've gleaned of pre-contact Hawaiian culture is that: yes, the tourist myths are true to some extent, time to surf, plenty of poi to eat, etc. but it was also a pretty harsh dictatorship, something that gets soft-pedaled now that their culture has been steamrollered. How so? According to what I...
[19:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:43] <exec> 08└─Because they have Trumpulians
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Rabbit Used NSA “EternalRomance” Exploit to Spread, Researchers Say - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─What? NFS is pretty damn easy to set up, the only drawback is it only works with nixes. I've got no degree, no car, no house, no wife, a couple F's, and I can figure it out...
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[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─Even Verizon wants her e-mails!
[20:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 728 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:25] <exec> 08└─unz.com: The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media WIth such gems as "Geezers Don’t Care! Marc Faber Defies AntiRacist Moral Panic", "Libertarianism, the Alt-Right and An...
[20:26:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1009 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:30] <exec> 08└─Famously, IQ is a measure of how well someone can answer IQ test questions. Meaning it doesn't measure raw intelligence, but the ability of the person who takes the IQ test to understand what answers the designer of the IQ test expects. Well, guess what: successful people learn to bullshit their way...
[20:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:55] <exec> 08└─Asians of course do the best, not white people.
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:57] <exec> 08└─Asians do the best, blacks the worst. Asians are not white... So it's good for Asian supremacist movement I guess. And of course it's not PC to say anything that doesn't jive with the black supremacist movement, but that's the real reason people tend to downplay IQ tests.
[20:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:59] <exec> 08└─There is no censorship here, just sharing historical information about how these "intelligence tests" have been created and used in the past. The intention of these tests in the past was to create a plausible framework to justify racism and genocide. Practically these tests server no purpose, otherw...
[20:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:01] <exec> 08└─For instance, Marilyn vos Savant has supposedly the highest-measured IQ. What has she ever accomplished, other than that incident about the Monty Python question? Her career has been as a small-time columnist on the back page of some section of the newspaper, answering puzzle questions.
[20:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:03] <exec> 08└─It's not in business, it's on charity.
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─Of course. But to be fair there is a significant part of population in China that never gets to take this test. Think about people from rural China who pull their pants down on a crowded train and shit right on the floor thinking it is OK, because where they are from they shit anywhere they want (ye...
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─Famous(?) pornstar, and a mensa member. How do you explain that, huh, smartguy?!
[20:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:10] <exec> 08└─In the first instance, it doesn't even matter why there are differences. They may be genetic, or disease related, or nutrition related, or something else. If these differences are real (and the evidence is pretty strong that they are), then we need to deal with them. Imagine if the low IQs in Africa...
[20:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─Presumably you mean the Monty Hall problem.
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:14] <exec> 08└─Speaking very generally (averages, not individuals or outliers), IQ scores correlates with jobs that require more intelligence (e.g. what makes "smart people" smart). Speaking generally, it is not very controversial that people consider medical doctors, engineers, and scientists to be smart or that...
[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:17] <exec> 08└─According to Wikipedia she got multiple scholarships as a child. So it's a safe bet she was smart before she started in p0rn. Then her career ended, she moved to Utah, her husband died and she became an alcoholic. High IQ people do stupid shit to ... Next question?
[20:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:19] <exec> 08└─"This story can far too easily be interpreted as saying that the darker you are, the dumber you are. " Virtually anything can be misinterpreted. Are we to simply quit discussing all facts that can be misinterpreted? What do you imagine would be left to talk about? "What evolutionary forces could pos...
[20:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 3056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:21] <exec> 08└─I was curious about the source for this article. Interestingly, they have an entire sub-section devoted to Race/ethnicity articles. I did find one with this counter example to the submission: TLDR summary: Being a world champion at Scrabble takes high order mental skills, People from African nati...
[20:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:23] <exec> 08└─The basic problem is the assumption that there is a unitary measure of intelligence. I believe this is false unless you tailor your definition of intelligence to be the same as some particular unitary measure that happens to exist. And this is what IQ tests do. Note that different tests on the same...
[20:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:40] <exec> 08└─go back to raiding housewives for raw milk you jackbooted pieces of shit.
[20:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, okay, Michael, and now you're dead!
[20:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:44] <exec> 08└─The only drawback that is in the forefront of my mind is the potential for tolerance, then dependence, then addiction.
[20:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─Not cheap if you get addicted. In several different senses of not cheap. Only take them if you need them. They are a tool to improve your quality of life, not to get high.
[20:28:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 2150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:01] <exec> 08└─When the hell are some third parties going to get their act together? Seriously, neither Johnson or Stein were on the ball, or they could have stolen a march or two on the Two Big Parties. This, and also the rest of the politics in this nation, are a great illustration of Lord Dark Helmet's quip, "E...
[20:28:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 1038 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:29] <exec> 08└─I like him more than I did when I voted for him. I didn't really believe he'd take his campaign promises so seriously. Sure, I can gripe: * I don't like the situation with the FCC and net neutrality. * She isn't locked up yet. Neither is Obama. * There are still Muslims sneaking into our country. Th...
[20:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:21] <exec> 08└─You are fake news.
[20:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:22] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 [wikipedia.org] General availability: August 24, 1995; 22 years ago
[20:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that, fog of memory. I know we didn't write anything to run on it until summer of '96, I don't think we purchased any machines with Window '95 on them until after SP1 came out in February of '96. But, yes indeed, Windows '95 was making grown men cry in late August of 1995.
[20:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:01] <exec> 08└─She did say "get down on me" Yet past the navel to there it couldn't be said more clearly her biggest issue wasn't the hair. Yet I tried, for I was dumb, young, foolish, need exercise, labored hard with teary eyes, for two days my tongue was numb
[20:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:02] <exec> 08└─If you think you do know shit, do explain how approximating logarithms by square roots work and where it ceases to. Or do quit jawing.
[20:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:14] <exec> 08└─Here's the previous story, not included in the summary: Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video [soylentnews.org] . There's this recent item as well: Man Gets $37,500 Payout After Field Drug Test Says Donut Crumbs are Methamphetamines [techdirt.com] ...which is a followup to Orland...
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─Male dolphins have been known to masturbate by wrapping a live eel around their penis. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If that's not tool use, what is?
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 2556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:59] <exec> 08└─My visit to Hawaii was brief, and Oahu only, but we did a lot of research on the Big Island and considered moving to HPP or thereabouts pretty seriously for a while. The condition there, outside Hilo, today too much resembles the Florida I grew up in: out of control immigrant growth. It was sad to g...
[20:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:02] <exec> 08└─And the universal translator works, perfectly, in 99/100 episodes.
[20:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Set Up Private Blockchain With Ethereum - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─the entities mentioned have a consortium where they are building their own private tech using eth technology. so fucking what?
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[21:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:09] <exec> 08└─Why not 10,000 RPM speed instead of 7,200 RPM? With helium being such a tiny atom, how can they effectively seal the drive for long duration without the gas escaping? If the gas escapes does drive performance degrade or suffer in some weigh? Wow 14 TB, that ought to be enough for anybody! If I recor...
[21:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:33] <exec> 08└─This kind of data will inevitably be co-opted by white supremacists. The drive will be to exterminate the inferior people, not to educate them.
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:12] <exec> 08└─There is no censorship here, just sharing historical information about how these "intelligence tests" have been created and used in the past.
[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─So wait, why is IQ score comparisons subject to racism?
[21:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:15] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the selection and survival biases of the people who actually did successfully leave the 'continent.' Think of all the people you know from your high school days. How many stayed more or less where they were born? How many moved, especially to distant places? How would you generally rela...
[21:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:18] <exec> 08└─Eugenics leads to spectacularly awful places.
[21:27:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─IQ tests do tell us something, they tell us who the racists are. Now we know, with verifiable repeatable factual data, that bradley11 is in fact a racist. It was only suspected before, but now we know. And now that we know, I would suggest we think twice before putting racist shit on the front page...
[21:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:22] <exec> 08└─Different AC. You seem to have thoroughly misread the comment.
[21:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:24] <exec> 08└─Nope, just a literate human with a functional memory.
[21:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─Turgid senior said, "Well done, son, you passed the real intelligence test."
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:29] <exec> 08└─"Smart" doesn't mean "no mistake". At least hers is a case of extraordinary life.
[21:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:31] <exec> 08└─Then prove that functional memory with some functioning links, why don't you? Does your literacy extend anywhere past bullshitting?
[21:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:33] <exec> 08└─Wilful ignorance is damaging. Always.
[21:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:36] <exec> 08└─For someone who linked to dihydrogen monoxide you have a lot to prove. No I don't care to find supporting links for some jerkoff AC, go do your own searching.
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:38] <exec> 08└─We may not want that but good luck preventing people from forming that opinion. Source: this article's commentary.
[21:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah. It measures intelligence not wisdom, ambition, creativity, social prowess, or any number of other factors of human life. There's no reason to read anything but raw intelligence into an IQ score. For that it's quite accurate though.
[21:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:42] <exec> 08└─Sure, it absolutely does. Education is a key aspect of culture, whether that education is formal or not.
[21:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:44] <exec> 08└─"I like fucking" + "I like money" + "I don't want a real job" = "Make porn" Seems logical to me.
[21:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:47] <exec> 08└─Lots of squid ink being squirted today. Lets reject all of it and get down to the hatefacts, shall we? Stop me when I say something disputable. 1. Intelligence is a thing. Argue about the reliability of a specific measuring tool if it makes you happy but it exists and people vary in both the "quanti...
[21:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:07] <exec> 08└─They are a tool to improve your quality of life, not to get high.
[21:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.ca/patents/US6630507 [google.ca] ABSTRACT Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such a...
[21:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:47] <exec> 08└─Edge was in some locked-down mode; it wasn't just that Edge is full of bugs.
[21:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:48] <exec> 08└─Remember the time you upgraded because you wanted to run the latest games... now you just need it to use the web... *sigh*
[21:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:50] <exec> 08└─not sure if serious
[21:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:52] <exec> 08└─Yup. The times have changed. I built a dual core AMD Athlon with 2GB RAM and an Nvidia GTX 8800 and ran XP64 but moved to Vista 64 because XP64 was a bit of a bastard for gaming as drivers for gaming devices were not available (The Belkin Nostromo n52 was the issue). After buying Crysis I had to upg...
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─100 Billion stars in the galaxy, and hundreds of potentially habitable bodies orbiting each one, or drifting through space unassociated with a particular star. 100,000 light years from one side to the other. Minor quibble: I thought the Milky Way had about 1 trillion stars in it at last count. The...
[21:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Not Have Enough Minerals to Even Meet Electric Car Demand - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:02] <exec> 08└─We'd need some super "Unobtainium" kind of material / advancement / Hollywood style leap in drilling "science" to get to those kinds of depths.
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[22:26:18] <exec> 08└─It's why I try to avoid posting high.
[22:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:20] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, consume all 14TB of porn therein, then come back and re-assess.
[22:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:22] <exec> 08└─Probably reliability although you would think the helium could counteract. Also 10K makes much less sense because SSD has taken over speedy applications and this is for bulk, mostly cold storage. Economics of high RPM HDDs discussed here and it ain't a pretty picture for the 10-15K RPM spinning rust...
[22:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:24] <exec> 08└─Price?
[22:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:33] <exec> 08└─The ISPs are at least arguably correct. The Internet is most definitely interstate by its very nature and the feds have legitimate claim on regulating interstate commerce. They're also arguably incorrect though. My ISP and its upstream connections are all state-local. The only interstate thing about...
[22:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:35] <exec> 08└─What we need is some sort of representative of the people to provide a voice for the common welfare in our federal and state governments. Has such a system ever existed? Can an oligarchy of robber barons and investment bankers be motivated to move to such a system?
[22:27:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2048 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:01] <exec> 08└─As you say, IQ shows your potential. Specifically, it shows your ability to perform certain kinds of thought processes. Thought processes that are useful for abstract thought, for problem solving, for language, for the kinds of things that have led to advanced civilization. You say that there is no...
[22:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:47] <exec> 08└─They also have the highest percentage of neanderthal DNA on average of any race while sub-saharan africans mostly have zero percent. I'm thinking it might be time to quit thinking of the neanderthals as dumbasses who cro magnon out-performed by mental superiority and start wondering why a possibly m...
[22:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:48] <exec> 08└─IQ is measurable and highly predictive. What more could you ask for?
[22:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:51] <exec> 08└─I blame the French.
[22:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:53] <exec> 08└─Success is 80% determination, stubbornness, getting your ass out of bed in them morning every morning, eating right, courage, raw fucking will power. 15% luck. 5% ability and "talent". Intelligent, unmotivated, lazy people fuck up at life 99% of the time.
[22:28:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:01] <exec> 08└─FDA: Cannabis has no accepted medicinal uses. Researcher: We've shown that it's extremely effective against seizures, Tourette Syndrome, etc., etc., etc., and even has some very promising anti-carcinogenic properties. FDA: Your independent research does not entitle you to advertise medical claims. R...
[22:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:18] <exec> 08└─Thinking about it can't those company just give potential customer a copy of this patent?
[22:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:58] <exec> 08└─It's funny because (from the headline) he was a Microsoft engineer. You see, to imply that a Microsoft engineer shouldn't use Microsoft products goes against our expectations, which makes it funny.
[22:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:37] <exec> 08└─I don't need to because those expressions do not contain super logarithms.
[22:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:38] <exec> 08└─So we all stop using cars. Does that stop the process? Likely not. Does that mean that we now have to source all food etc. locally? Yes. Are there areas of the country that therefore now cannot obtain food like they have in modern times but only by travelling miles by some other method? Does that in...
[22:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:40] <exec> 08└─What would you like us to do? I mean, really?
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─You may have already read it by now, but there's a graphic novel called Expedition-2358 which explores a lot of what you're describing (note that's the *abbreviated* name; it has an excessively long subtitle I can't remember). I'm not sure if it's still in print atm. If something you're interested i...
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[23:26:25] <exec> 08└─How long do these drives last? Lately, I have had too many HDDs die young on me. I'd rather have a 4TB drive that lasts 10 years (if there is such a thing) than this if it's going to fail in 3 years. The "TB years" is nearly equivalent: 4*10 = 40 vs 14*3 = 42.
[23:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:27] <exec> 08└─"the Ultrastar Hs14 is rated for 2.5 million hours MTBF and comes with a five-year warranty."
[23:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:37] <exec> 08└─Good thing those Republicans are so pro-states-rights, eh? They'll never let something like this pass!
[23:27:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:19] <exec> 08└─Asians do the best, blacks the worst. Asians are not white... So it's good for Asian supremacist movement I guess. And of course it's not PC to say anything that doesn't jive with the black supremacist movement, but that's the real reason people tend to downplay IQ tests.
[23:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:54] <exec> 08└─1. True. 2. Also true. 3. Do you have a reference for a gene or specific set of genes that determine "race"? Scientists don't even have a decent list of genes that account for height, which is a relatively simple trait with strong heritability. 4. Yes, there are differences among groups that people...
[23:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:56] <exec> 08└─Society is holding a mirror up to itself and it isn't pretty. Unfortunately, the majority can't see through the thick makeup yet.
[23:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I realize all this; everyone here has probably heard the saying "success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration". I'm just pointing out that my beef with MENSA is that these people basically have this group for themselves and go to meetings together and basically sit around and congratulate thems...
[23:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:00] <exec> 08└─For MENSA you don't really have to pay for a test if you have verifiable the results of one that you took in school, or the military, or some such. I paid for the test because the fee was small, and I didn't have easy access to the results of tests I'd taken previously at the time. What was interest...
[23:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:03] <exec> 08└─I think the stop sign is on #5. I read it as the only thing you can think of that could possibly make X true is crazy so X can't be true. I can't think of a rational reason to expect evolution to stop at the brain either, but an argument like this does not prove what is likely correct. Perhaps the s...
[23:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─This was broken down by nations rather than race. One of the smartest people I know is from a little African country but now lives near me here in the U.S. To which nation is his IQ score counted in the average. He now holds U.S. citizenship. The fact that smart people generally do not wish stay in...
[23:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:07] <exec> 08└─You don't correct such misunderstandings by rendering discussions of them verboten, quite the opposite is true. Whew! For a second there I thought this discussion thread was real. It's quite a relief to know this is all a dream.
[23:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:09] <exec> 08└─All the PC/SJW types get start getting their torches and pitchforks out... Scientists do that too when people lie about data.
[23:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:11] <exec> 08└─My guess would be that the smarter guys weren't as ready to opt for the brute force method, hoping instead to resolve things in a more sophisticated way.
[23:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:42] <exec> 08└─If your car is making a strange noise, just get a broomstick, and touch each part while listening to the other end. The broomstick will transmit the noise directly to your ear, and you will know exactly what part is failing. Obviously can't do it if the noise only occurs when the car is moving.
[23:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:19] <exec> 08└─It's funny because (from the headline) he was a Microsoft engineer. You see, to imply that a Microsoft engineer shouldn't use Microsoft products goes against our expectations, which makes it funny.
[23:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:20] <exec> 08└─Good point.
[23:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:02] <exec> 08└─I'll also point out that radiative forcing factors have nothing to do with the topic at hand which is c02 concentrations.
[23:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:03] <exec> 08└─C02 is heavier that air. Just move the kids upstairs, problem solved!
[23:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:06] <exec> 08└─It is not a mystery that of recent permafrost in Arctic thaws and great amount of methane previously sequestered in it is bubbling out. That hasn't really been observed in the wild yet so it shouldn't be much of a driver right now. We do know that oil & gas emissions are higher than previously thoug...
[23:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:08] <exec> 08└─There is. All we have to do is to start a global thermonuclear war. This will cause a nuclear winter and thus stop the Arctic thaws. Turns out Trump wasn't lying when he said "“I am, to a large extent, an environmentalist," He's just exploring the North Korean path to ending Global Warming.
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