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[00:05:52] <exec> 08└─Does this mean I can expect a refund?
[00:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:18] <exec> 08└─Because... It sucks sometimes.
[00:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Called Off After Months of Talks - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:43] <exec> 08└─Lack of a sim card on a CDMA network is not the same thing as an e-sim on GSM. Also, software programmable radios are only recently finding their way into the handset market because 1) technology has only in the last 5 years made this possible, 2) regulatory pressure to keep control of transmitters...
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─They're investments in legitimate things that return more money because they don't pay certain taxes.
[00:10:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Stink Over Frowning Poo Emoji at the Unicode Consortium - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:41] <exec> 08└─Emoji should embarrass the entire committee, not just poop-emoji, but all of them. They should not exist in Unicode, period.
[00:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Cross Finds $6 Million of Fraud During the Ebola Epidemic - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:04] <exec> 08└─The Red Cross tracked that down, but still hasn't found any of the missing 9/11 money. ;-) Choose your giving wisely.
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[01:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:54] <exec> 08└─This is a prime example of what is wrong with modern day unions. They are not the workers' advocates they are supposed to be but rather parasites. Any fool should know better than to say "we want more" when the owner is already losing money but modern unions do not care if the industry their workers...
[01:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:56] <exec> 08└─You have a work problem. You get a union. Now you have two problems. The proper solutions are class action lawsuits and anti-trust actions. A supreme court decision and the lack of lawmaking action to undo it have made class action lawsuits nearly extinct, and our well-lobbied politicians aren't too...
[01:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:58] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps this shows exactly why the owner was losing money. The union specifically said they weren't after money, they were after more control over the general operations. And the owner specifically said he was shutting down because he wants to be the only one in control. No wonder he can't put ou...
[01:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:00] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. But why would a billionaire want to pay people to spout stupid opinions? Especially if they aren't even his stupid opinions?
[01:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:02] <exec> 08└─On exactly what grounds do you see the staff taking the owner to court?
[01:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:05] <exec> 08└─The fact that he has chosen to shut down the archives suggests that his action has little to do with money and everything to do with sending a message. In other words, his decision to shut the websites down is rooted in ideology, not business.
[01:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:07] <exec> 08└─I've heard that from unions before. It's never been true except for the immediate present which lasts until about a day after they get what they're currently asking for. Regardless, asking for creative control was even more foolish. A person might operate at a loss for a while to get their side of t...
[01:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:09] <exec> 08└─But why would a billionaire want to pay people to spout stupid opinions? Especially if they aren't even his stupid opinions?
[01:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:11] <exec> 08└─Before he bought the sites, were they making money? If so, what happened? Maybe they weren't making enough money for his tastes... Anyway, by shutting them down, he should lose all copyright, etc protection over them, and maybe the hardware too.
[01:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:14] <exec> 08└─Nah. See above. He was likely just willing to accept burning through some cash for a while to get his views aired. If the employees weren't willing to do so anymore though, there's no point in keeping the sites open.
[01:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─Now you're just grasping at straws out of spite. They were his businesses. He owned them. He can shut them down whenever he likes and there is and should be fuck all anyone can do about it.
[01:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:18] <exec> 08└─On exactly what grounds do you see the staff taking the owner to court?
[01:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─In this case, the union was no better than a common thug forcing a 'partnership' when an owner can't pay the 'protection' money. Were I in the owner's shoes, I do the same thing.
[01:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:30] <exec> 08└─those who already own the initial installment will get Heart of the Swarm for free.
[01:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:33] <exec> 08└─I've watched but never played either, and I wonder if this applies equally [cnet.com] to Starcraft and Starcraft II.
[01:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:35] <exec> 08└─So, you're implying I need to RTFA before commenting on TFA? Blasphemy! Can we ban this guy from the tubes?
[01:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:02] <exec> 08└─Where is éthanol fueled when you need him? Alcohol hit that target and more.. Do you have any recurring vivid traumatic memories? They are supposed to be partially deleted...
[01:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:03] <exec> 08└─The patient can give a you measurement for the others; that's the whole point of therapy: To help close the mismatch between a person's fantasy and a person's reality, whether it's psychological or chemical.
[01:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:33] <exec> 08└─Any way you like, as long as you take some action. Doing nothing, saying nothing, forgetting about it... just encourages them to continue. It sends a powerful message when you don't react. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. So don't act like it.
[01:11:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Stink Over Frowning Poo Emoji at the Unicode Consortium - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:27] <exec> 08└─What UI elements? Do you mean those 17 squares in your post?
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[02:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:52] <exec> 08└─THIS POST IS NOT RELATED TO TERRORISM.
[02:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:53] <exec> 08└─Well, in some high gravity areas, in Jupiter's gravity well for example, it may weigh a ton. Or more!
[02:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:55] <exec> 08└─A kilogram has never weighed a kilogram because kilograms are a unit of mass... not weight. A kilogram weighs about 2.2lbs on earth, at sea level but if you take that kilogram to another planet, its weight will change. Its mass will still be 1kg, though.
[02:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:57] <exec> 08└─What did you spend the $700 on? Booze?
[02:06:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:06] <exec> 08└─This is a prime example of what is wrong with modern day unions. They are not the workers' advocates they are supposed to be but rather parasites. Any fool should know better than to say "we want more" when the owner is already losing money but modern unions do not care if the industry their workers...
[02:06:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:08] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps this shows exactly why the owner was losing money. The union specifically said they weren't after money, they were after more control over the general operations. And the owner specifically said he was shutting down because he wants to be the only one in control. No wonder he can't put ou...
[02:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:19] <exec> 08└─Now you're just grasping at straws out of spite.
[02:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:21] <exec> 08└─There's no maybe to it. That's what "ownership" means. When it comes right down to it, not even the most die-hard socialist wants their own ownership rights made subject of debate, only everyone else's.
[02:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:23] <exec> 08└─The union specifically said they weren't after money, they were after more control over the general operations.
[02:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:25] <exec> 08└─That would be the owner of the shut sites that you speak about. You telling me that he can block the former employees if they want to revive the site under a different name? (so that this story may actually have a continuation)? If I remember well, it didn't worked this way for S/N case.
[02:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:27] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. He owns the content, and can do with it what he wants. Look, I absolutely guarantee that if he continued to run the archives, people (like you) would be bemoaning the fact he was still profiting from people he fired. He did the right thing, in fact its the only honorable thing.
[02:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:30] <exec> 08└─not even the most die-hard socialist wants their own ownership rights made subject of debate, only everyone else's.
[02:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:32] <exec> 08└─He paid for the content produced under the old company. He decided to keep it. Nobody said the writers could never write again. You made that up. I suspect if those writers want to go out and start a new site they can do just that. (They are glorified bloggers after all - that's what they do). He to...
[02:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:34] <exec> 08└─I see noone speaking about socialism anywhere.
[02:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:36] <exec> 08└─If I remember well, it didn't worked this way for S/N case.
[02:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:38] <exec> 08└─Sure whatever, but I repeat, were the sites and the employees making money before they were bought out?
[02:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:40] <exec> 08└─If I remember well, it didn't worked this way for S/N case.
[02:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:43] <exec> 08└─Take this as a lesson: if I'm not calling them "fucking pieces of socialist shit", I'm not even mildly annoyed. I'm just not one to hold my tongue or hide my feelings. Today you're reading a tone that doesn't exist.
[02:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:45] <exec> 08└─The proper solutions are class action lawsuits and anti-trust actions. A supreme court decision and the lack of lawmaking action to undo it have made class action lawsuits nearly extinct, and our well-lobbied politicians aren't too keen on anti-trust actions, but the fact remains that those are the...
[02:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:47] <exec> 08└─And did I suggest that they may take anything from the old site other than the model of running it as a profitable business? (remember my "If there is a model those sites can make money. ...")
[02:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:49] <exec> 08└─Well, if you remember so well, you'll remember that SN didn't import content from any old green sites into this one.
[02:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:51] <exec> 08└─Yup. My suggested dept. line was from the capitalist-ownership-model dept. Want your opinion to count? Become the owner. Can't do that on your own? Form a worker-owned cooperative. My Original Submission #2 [soylentnews.org] also contained some razor wire from the Deadspin writer. The S/N editor blu...
[02:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:53] <exec> 08└─If the owner does something illegal, you take them to court. I did NOT say that something illegal had been done. I think this was all 100% legal in fact. Assuming that to be the case, then tough shit. You don't get to boss the boss around. Start your own damn company if you wish to run the show. The...
[02:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:33] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, he saved those memories in his journal, and the Internet Archive saved the HTML of those memories.
[02:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:34] <exec> 08└─I'd love to shoot my load up a pretty heroine to help me get over post-traumatic stress. :P
[02:08:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 725 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:32] <exec> 08└─The council of elders in Anglo-Saxon England was known as the Witenagemot, and they selected Harold Godwinson as king when both William and Harald Hardrada of Norway had claims to the throne. Harold defeated an invasion by Harald Hardrada but could not also see off William and was killed at Hasting...
[02:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:38] <exec> 08└─Wait, are you talking about Alwaleed or Trump?
[02:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:05] <exec> 08└─And this is why it's a government trough problem, not a tax cheat problem: Close the loophole that allows this, so they can't legally do it! But pigs gotta eat, snouts gotta.....push against my crotch.....? The rich push for the loophole, then use it. Politicians are to blame. And the rich are to bl...
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[03:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:58] <exec> 08└─Why do they want to define kilogram in terms of not perfectly known value such as Planck's constant? Why not something permanent such as a certain number of neutrons at rest? Does mass of a neutron fluctuates by any chance?
[03:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:00] <exec> 08└─A pound is still a pound (assuming one is not talking of British currency). An ounce is still an ounce, an inch is still an inch, a yard is still a yard etc.
[03:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:02] <exec> 08└─That throws the easily memorable conversion of 1kg=2.2lbs right out the window.
[03:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:04] <exec> 08└─Does mass of a neutron fluctuates by any chance?
[03:06:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:16] <exec> 08└─The fact that he has chosen to shut down the archives suggests that his action has little to do with money and everything to do with sending a message. In other words, his decision to shut the websites down is rooted in ideology, not business.
[03:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:42] <exec> 08└─Does it hurt your chin when your knee jerks that hard? They weren't after money. Also considering the vote was just a week ago, they hadn't actually had time to even discuss what they did want.
[03:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:43] <exec> 08└─Were that true, he wouldn't want to shut down an archive full of his views. This is just the whiny kid stomping home with his marbles because the other kids wouldn't let him win.
[03:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:46] <exec> 08└─Nobcdy said the writers could never write again. You made that up.
[03:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:48] <exec> 08└─His half of the copyright bargain is that the works so protected are available and eventually enter the public domain. There's nothing at all radical about that view, it's existed since the country was founded.
[03:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:50] <exec> 08└─Heaven forbid the people who are actually doing all the work get any say in how things are run. The workers (managers included) *are* the business - without them all that remains is supplies and facilities, which is all the "owner" actually owns.
[03:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:52] <exec> 08└─Want your opinion to count? Become the owner. Can't do that on your own? Form a worker-owned cooperative.
[03:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:54] <exec> 08└─I think you're going to have to kill The Mouse before that ever happens.
[03:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:56] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter what they were after. They unionized as unskilled labor in a sole-owner company that was consistently losing money. That's foolish enough to warrant a good stretch of unemployment to consider the wisdom of their choices.
[03:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:59] <exec> 08└─> the works so protected are available and eventually enter the public domain Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
[03:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:01] <exec> 08└─I smell revisionism! Also, unskilled?
[03:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:03] <exec> 08└─The Mighty Buzzard constantly shows his ignorance, calling things "socialism" when they aren't that. As an example, land reform in Cuba after centuries of European and USAian Imperialism would properly be called Anti-Imperialism or Bolivarianism. I see noone speaking about socialism anywhere Well, I...
[03:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:05] <exec> 08└─I remember now why I have a script that removes the comment section on other browsers... This entire thread is total shit.
[03:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:07] <exec> 08└─> Fair enough. But why would a billionaire want to pay people to spout stupid opinions? Especially if they aren't even his stupid opinions? He can't use the platform as his personal megaphone all day, every day. He has to have some space in between so that people pay attention. That space can just b...
[03:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:19] <exec> 08└─What if I already own Heart of the Swarm? Do I get Legacy of the Void for free?
[03:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:20] <exec> 08└─Nope, according to the announcement, it will be $15 with no credit for already owning Heart of the Swarm.
[03:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:23] <exec> 08└─Brianna Wu for Congress
[03:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:54] <exec> 08└─I want to live in an Isekai.
[03:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:55] <exec> 08└─And what's the LD50? Aminita isn't safe.
[03:10:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 1468 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:46] <exec> 08└─One useful thing we can all do is not repeat self-defeating memes. "They all do it, so there's nothing we can do," is one example. We can also modify our own behavior to align with our beliefs. If we feel that something needs to be done about anthrogenic climate change, then we can stop buying thing...
[03:11:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tizan [3245] 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:05] <exec> 08└─a) If you believe in America First ...why are you investing in other countries b) if you believe it is just good capitalistic process...just to make money, nothing funny happening here, then why not invest openly why go through hidden routes.....invest openly in Putin's oil companies it brings highe...
[03:11:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:09] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that competition is a race to the bottom and at the bottom, the state is unable to pay for the basic necessities of running a country.
[03:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:29] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that competition is a race to the bottom and at the bottom, the state is unable to pay for the basic necessities of running a country.
[03:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:30] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when new road construction is emphasized over existing road maintenance. I assure you there is vastly more money in the budget of these states and the US government than would be needed to cover potholes.
[03:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Adds Ability to Order from Best Buy - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:41] <exec> 08└─I want my AI to be called Lexx and say sexy things to me...like "yes, I know her name is Xev/Zev and not Lexx, but Lexx riffs better off Alexa, so there, baby". Nerdy, nerdy Lexx.....oh, yeah. Talk nerdy to me.
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Cross Finds $6 Million of Fraud During the Ebola Epidemic - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─This problem seems to go back a long time -- Mississippi Fred McDowell: Red Cross Store https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Well I ain't goin' back to that Red Cross store no more. Well I ain't goin' back to that Red Cross store no more. Lord I went to the merchant, as...
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[04:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:53] <exec> 08└─They trained a dog to find truffles? Do they not realize chocolate is toxic to dogs?
[04:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:55] <exec> 08└─Knowledge is toxic to Anonymous Cowards. Prove me wrong.
[04:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:57] <exec> 08└─...is to make sure the precious truffles don't disappear, oh no! Because the rich still need their precious sustenance of honey and ambrosia! Fuck that. I'm living off beans and lentils. I'm sure cultivating fucking truffles is really putting the heat on BP and ExxonMobil to get their shit together....
[04:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:59] <exec> 08└─"Knowledge is toxic to Anonymous Cowards. Prove me wrong." OK, truffles do not naturally contain chocolate. It's added after harvest. Shocking, I know.
[04:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:01] <exec> 08└─Buy a loompanics book I myself grew oyster mushrooms
[04:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:16] <exec> 08└─1000 grams, hence the name 'kilogram'. Thats what a kilogram weighs.
[04:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:17] <exec> 08└─A kilogram has never weighed a kilogram because kilograms are a unit of mass... not weight.
[04:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:19] <exec> 08└─Forget about Jupiter. A give mass will weigh dirrently, depending on where you weigh it, right here on earth. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Also, from the same page, https://en.wikipedia.org
[04:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captainproton [1009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:22] <exec> 08└─Bound or free neutrons? If bound, what geometry? These will affect the mass of the collection of neutrons (bound systems at lower energy therefore lower mass than free unbound systems).
[04:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, and cosmic rays are pretty chancy. *grin*
[04:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:14] <exec> 08└─Nope. I'll cop to not RTFA-ing. Yup, unskilled. If everyone and their dog can do your job, it's not a skilled profession. The way it's practiced today, everyone and their dog most definitely can do journalism.
[04:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:16] <exec> 08└─Couldn't you just... not scroll down?
[04:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:18] <exec> 08└─That's nice. How far up your employer's arse is your nose? "Nice little job you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it." "Oh, do not attempt to call the police or exercise your democratic right to organize in defense of your rights. I know where you live." Darn Thugs! And t...
[04:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:20] <exec> 08└─frojack! Your right-wing slip is showing again! Time to fix the wardrobe malfunction.
[04:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 3679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:23] <exec> 08└─Seriously, fuck em. Immoral thieves the lot of em. A union vote is nothing less than workers deciding to seize the means of production with the complicity of the government backing the theft. And since it is illegal to fire the organizers, illegal to fire anybody after the union vote occurs without...
[04:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:25] <exec> 08└─The Mighty Buzzard constantly shows his ignorance, calling things "socialism" when they aren't that.
[04:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:27] <exec> 08└─Well, since its obvious so easy, may I suggest you call them up and set them up operating again? No bought it should be trivial, since 'The workers (managers included) *are* the business' The small fact that the business was running at a loss, and their wages were having to be bolstered directly out...
[04:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:29] <exec> 08└─Again! Now jmorris is triggered, too! Will no one think of the conservatives! WHY IS THERE NO TRIGGER WARNING ON THIS ARTICLE? I fear we are opening up SoylentNews to possible lawsuits for damages to libertarians and conservatives who inflict grevious bodily damage to themselves and others by means...
[04:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:31] <exec> 08└─And that was about as useless a contribution as one might imagine. Maybe that is why you love the idea so much; From each according to their ability would leave you a lot of free time. :)
[04:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:34] <exec> 08└─When you hire a plumber to replace something, he's the one doing all the work. He should get to say how things are run, right? (don't be a hypocrite now) So if he runs the drain pipe across the middle of a room, about a foot above the ground, you'll be fine with that. He's the one doing the work, so...
[04:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:36] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. He owns the content, and can do with it what he wants.
[04:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:27] <exec> 08└─They should not try to go too fast or too far.
[04:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ozone Layer Hole at its Smallest Size Since 1988 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:31] <exec> 08└─... that would be rDT ...
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[05:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:04] <exec> 08└─Grocery outlet is having a fire sale on brats
[05:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:05] <exec> 08└─"I'm living off beans and lentils." And fortunately for you, there's a legume that will grow in virtually any climate, so you can quit worrying your pretty little head about it.
[05:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:07] <exec> 08└─John Boehner Unchained [politico.com] On the eve of his golf outing, I find myself on Boehner’s back patio. He’s hosting a barbecue for friends who came to Ohio for the fundraiser, and we get acquainted as Boehner works several outdoor grills, Camel in his left hand and tongs in his right. Among...
[05:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:10] <exec> 08└─What do you make with your lentils? I tried to make kofte [blogspot.com] once but failed at it. Other than that I just throw red lentils in curries.
[05:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─Truffles aren't like honey (ambrosia isn't real). And honestly, if they want to put some people to work keeping these stupid fungi alive for them, that's fine; it's a good way of separating them from their money, and it keeps some places from being developed. I've actually had truffles before. They...
[05:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:14] <exec> 08└─Grocery outlet is having a fire sale on brats
[05:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:16] <exec> 08└─Not in areas without enough water, no.
[05:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:18] <exec> 08└─I myself grew oyster mushrooms
[05:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:21] <exec> 08└─Not funny at all, I must add. The candidiasis, I mean
[05:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:23] <exec> 08└─What's more amusing is that under normal circumstances the rules and their enforcers here in the UK would be against little experiments like this, deliberate introduction of an alien species to our environment. 21st Century Britain: not only Rank, but the food of Rank has it's privilege
[05:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:43] <exec> 08└─Planck's constant is also permanent. Note the word "constant".
[05:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:44] <exec> 08└─fail physics much? Wooooosh.....
[05:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:47] <exec> 08└─Honestly, this happens quite often. Sometimes it's just a few key people who say, "fuck it, this guy is an asshole. let's go do this ourselves." It's happened in my industry quite a few times. Usually it works out pretty well too. The owners / board of directors are typically kind of dumb. The peopl...
[05:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:48] <exec> 08└─I'll grant that journalism isn't what it used to be by any means, but it's still not exactly unskilled. Imagine the McDs employees who need a cash register with pictograms trying to write for a magazine or paper.
[05:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 1410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:51] <exec> 08└─> if he continued to run the archives, people (like you) would be bemoaning the fact he was still profiting from people he fired. We silly people say enough silly things. You needn't put words in our mouths to make us look even sillier. Some of us understand the notion of works for hire. If these ar...
[05:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:53] <exec> 08└─> If they want to violate the owner's copyright and build a site around pirated content they kept on home computers, there may be more drama. (You know that was exactly their plan). No, I don't know that. What makes you think they planned such a thing?
[05:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:55] <exec> 08└─> I'll cop to not RTFA-ing. Had you read the article, you would have seen that it's not only journalists: Correction: November 2, 2017 An earlier version of this article misidentified which employees lost their jobs when the sites shut down. The 115 people include journalists, salespeople, developer...
[05:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:10] <exec> 08└─It would have been enough to RTFS, actually.
[05:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─"William's claim to the throne was pretty dubious really, Edward the Confessor was his cousin and had been forced into making William his heir, but William was good at the conquering bit." Well in addition to that he had the blessing and support of the Pope - the invasion of England was actually an...
[05:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:14] <exec> 08└─But there's no case I've ever heard of of a woman mass-murdering numerous strangers intentionally.
[05:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:15] <exec> 08└─Sure, pretend like the basic facts of biology are just religious arguments. People make mistakes all the time. Some guy's ass is the wrong hole to fuck. Faggotry is wrong like trying to plug a male connector into a male port is wrong.
[05:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:17] <exec> 08└─Here's a statistic you won't hear very often. Mens' prison sentences are 6 times longer than womens' on average, for the same crime. That has a non-trivial effect on the gender distribution in prisons.
[05:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:24] <exec> 08└─I did mean anthropogenic, and realized my error a split second after hitting "submit". Sigh.
[05:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:25] <exec> 08└─No it was clear you didn't condone it, nor was I insinuating that. It's the expression of futility that we can endeavor to avoid. I'm a fellow sufferer on this score, so I'm saying it to myself as much as anyone else.
[05:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stink Over Frowning Poo Emoji at the Unicode Consortium - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:26] <exec> 08└─So instead of including inline SVG, you include a 4MB font because most fonts do not support emoji and even if the user's font supports emoji, you have no idea what their font looks like. That doesn't really solve the problem. Every web app I have to use now is completely unusable without allowing t...
[05:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stink Over Frowning Poo Emoji at the Unicode Consortium - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:28] <exec> 08└─Use the right browser and there's no need for a custom font.
[05:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TripAdvisor Removed User Reviews Warning of Rapes at Mexican Resorts - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:40] <exec> 08└─Sucks for them, I only read the 1 star reviews
[05:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06antiX 17, a Linux Distribution Without Systemd, is Released - 3230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:21] <exec> 08└─The more I use systemd, the more I like it. With systemd, all logs go into one place. All logs are automatically timestamped, and it is not possible for logs from multiple sources to intermingle, or for one process to pretend to log as another process. As long as the logs exist, I know that they hav...
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[06:05:56] <exec> 08└─... when I got paid, but instead I'll wait until Apple ships a model with this chip in it. Right around that same time, Intel will announce an even better chip. When carried to its logical conclusion, this corollary to Zeno's Paradox results in my new MacBook Pro being unobtainable. While I have a M...
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[06:06:19] <exec> 08└─idiot_king doesn't have to conform to your peculiar notion of "making sense".
[06:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:20] <exec> 08└─But I also got some hot dogs. After someone posted to Facebook what goes into a hot dog, I buy the Hebrew National all-beef kosher weenies in the hopes that it has fewer unidentifiable body parts than do the generic hot dogs.
[06:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:45] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't a mole of graphite and a mole of diamond have slightly different weights due to differences in bonding energy?
[06:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:47] <exec> 08└─But what really matters is how big a pint is at the pub.
[06:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:49] <exec> 08└─Grocery outlet, bargain market If the tent cities further south are like the ones in Portland he probably drank water laced with something. Although I suppose based on the quality I occasionally see at grocery outlet the brats could have contained something as well. But I guess for 1.99 its worth th...
[06:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:51] <exec> 08└─Why do they want to define kilogram in terms of not perfectly known value such as Planck's constant?
[06:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:53] <exec> 08└─In modern times, a pound is defined through the kilogram, therefore any redefinition of the kilogram affects the pound in exactly the same way.
[06:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:55] <exec> 08└─1 kilogram weighs 9.8 Newtons if it's on the Earth's surface. On the moon 1 kilogram weighs about 1.6 Newtons.
[06:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:57] <exec> 08└─Strictly speaking, yes. But I doubt that there exists any scales that is precise enough to detect the difference. Especially given that it probably will be dwarfed by the mass differences between two different moles of graphite caused by the statistical fluctuation of the isotopic composition (that...
[06:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:00] <exec> 08└─"I've been a fiduciary at several sausage factories." -- Jean-Luc Gassee
[06:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The cohesive energy of diamond is like 10 kJ/mol, so a diamond with exactly one mole of carbon-12 would have a mass of around 1.11×10-10 grams less than just plain carbon without any chemical bond. With the kinds of precisions we're talking about here that would definitely be a consideration.
[06:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:10] <exec> 08└─The company had offices in five cities. At only one office did the workers vote to have a union. From the article: The decision puts 115 people out of work, both at the New York operations that unionized and at those in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington that did not.
[06:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:11] <exec> 08└─The fact that he has chosen to shut down the archives suggests that his action has little to do with money and everything to do with sending a message. In other words, his decision to shut the websites down is rooted in ideology, not business.
[06:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:13] <exec> 08└─Glorified bloggers, but they did play an important role here in Brooklyn, their beat. We citizens have a lot of trouble keeping the city and its bureaucracy honest. There is no real political opposition to the Democratic party, not even the sham opposition the Republican party is, so corruption is e...
[06:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:15] <exec> 08└─The union is no more and no less than a group of workers choosing to negotiate as a group to level the playing field. Unless you reject the right to freely assemble, unions are fair enough. If we're going to allow corporations to exist, it's only fair to also support unions.
[06:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:18] <exec> 08└─Hell, I have belonged to lots of them, since before the name even existed.
[06:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:12] <exec> 08└─Back about the turn of last century the west was frightened of an incipient Islamic enlightenment and the evidence seems to suggest they were correct about that.
[06:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:40] <exec> 08└─Brave New World was published in 1932.
[06:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ozone Layer Hole at its Smallest Size Since 1988 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:26] <exec> 08└─Or maybe it's just science getting it right like it usually does.
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[07:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:54] <exec> 08└─Spy: "Why the hell is there a hole in my undies? ... Dammit, foiled again!"
[07:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:56] <exec> 08└─...or are you just happy to see me?
[07:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:29] <exec> 08└─I had truffle appetizers at my third wedding, also caviar and lobster. And many other times. They're great as an appetizer or just a snack. Tasty but light on the stomach! It's great that someone grew them in South Wales. Very tricky to grow truffles but maybe, probably we can start growing them in...
[07:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:02] <exec> 08└─Is so fat, that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house! [With apologies to yo mama]
[07:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:04] <exec> 08└─You are wrong about the statistical fluctuations which are 10^-14 for one mole. The binding energy difference of 2kJ/mole between graphite and diamond changes the mass by 180 times more.
[07:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:06] <exec> 08└─You may think you're pretty clever, but the new kilogram will be defined by the Watt balance, which does in fact weigh things.
[07:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:08] <exec> 08└─The British did a very smart thing when they kept their pound sterling. They didn't surrender to the false song of globalism. Very easy to take back their country, because they have their own money!
[07:07:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:31] <exec> 08└─The union specifically said they weren't after money, they were after more control over the general operations.
[07:07:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:47] <exec> 08└─Were that true, he wouldn't want to shut down an archive full of his views. This is just the whiny kid stomping home with his marbles because the other kids wouldn't let him win.
[07:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 2888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:22] <exec> 08└─Nope. A union in the United States is legally (but not morally) seizing the means of production. If workers want to form a legal entity and have that entity offer to supply labor as a block to their former employer as some sort of outsourced thing, more power to em. Can't see where things improve fo...
[07:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:23] <exec> 08└─Unlike some of the other repliers, I see this as plausible.
[07:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:25] <exec> 08└─I wasn't planning to do anything about it. Everyone seems to have gotten what they deserve. The billionaire will no doubt find a new outlet on which to dump money, the former workers, if they so choose, can learn the value of the employer, maybe even become their own employers.
[07:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:28] <exec> 08└─"If the sites that closed down have had a profitable business model before the acquisition, then the writers can start their own site building on top of that business model, without the current owner being able to stop them
[07:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, you did because you kept referring to the new business as "the site", "those sites", etc. In particular, "revive the site" most certainly is not merely use a similar business model (and what is the model anyway? A: blog/write and collect revenue from ads).
[07:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:32] <exec> 08└─As an example, land reform in Cuba after centuries of European and USAian Imperialism would properly be called Anti-Imperialism or Bolivarianism.
[07:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:34] <exec> 08└─Nope. I'll cop to not RTFA-ing.
[07:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:50] <exec> 08└─Mmmm no, but I am sure they will continue stealing your CPU cycles and spying on you, because that's how nonfree software vendors make money these days. This is a win for everyone: law enforcement, spammers, marketers, retailers, politicians, and of course the Blizzard upper management, which in tur...
[07:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:07] <exec> 08└─Oregon is willing to cough up its share provided the Trimet MAX light rail is extended to go across the bridge. Presently it stops at the river.
[07:13:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Stink Over Frowning Poo Emoji at the Unicode Consortium - 1345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:41] <exec> 08└─I can see the argument for the original emoji set: there is a legacy Japanese character set used for text messaging that included them and one goal for unicode is to support all existing character sets. They should then have been marked as legacy and not intended for use for anything other than back...
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[08:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:33] <exec> 08└─>I suppose one of the brands was soylent green. VT100 scheme?
[08:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 5292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:11] <exec> 08└─Dried beans are cheap and offer a lot of protein, fiber, and minerals to keep you alive. Try cooked dried black beans with a smoked turkey leg and spices added. The turkey is very cheap meat but adds lots of flavor to the beans. The longer you simmer it, the better and creamier it should get. Plus y...
[08:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, jmorris, you ought not have done this! You exquisitely ignorant, full of yourself, complete ignoramous! I will bring thousands of years of philosophical insight down upon your head, you idiot! Did it not occur to you that this would not be a good idea? In America we follow the good fork off...
[08:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:22] <exec> 08└─There are your burdons and then there are the burdons foisted upon you. Tackling the former makes you a better person, suffering the latter can make you never the same person again. One is foundational the other is the opposite.
[08:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:31] <exec> 08└─Actually Monarchs have often been above the law. Even today, the Queen of England is above the law. She doesn't bother with things like license plates for her car or even licenses for her dogs because she is above the law. Since she personifies the courts, she can't be hauled into court as she is th...
[08:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:32] <exec> 08└─"No way anyone was caring about Islamic enlightenment back then. They were more worried about how to carve that turkey up into spheres of influence." Two sides of the same question. The Empire was destroyed and only a couple decades later the Caliphate destroyed entirely. The peoples escaped from it...
[08:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:10] <exec> 08└─Folks, our tax code is a giant, self-inflicted, economic wound. Outdated, complex, and extremely burdensome, with billions of hours wasted on paperwork and on compliance. So we're doing a giant, beautiful, massive tax cut. The biggest in history. This is going to be the biggest tax cut and the large...
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[09:06:01] <exec> 08└─that's actually remarkable for a pliable material. I know they make projection film that doesn't burn; if that technology was used for magnetic tapes, would they resist ironing?
[09:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:03] <exec> 08└─Stealing the secrets in that case will also get … interesting. ;-)
[09:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:05] <exec> 08└─According to the German Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org] about clothes iron, the temperature at ironing goes only up to 220°C, that is about 500 K (the English page doesn't appear to give explicit temperatures). Looking at the Curie temperature [wikipedia.org] of different materials, actually the ma...
[09:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:14] <exec> 08└─For me, Linux is already ready for the desktop (I'm using it on all my computers since 2000).
[09:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:41] <exec> 08└─I thought making sense on SN was optional, if not frowned-on.
[09:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:20] <exec> 08└─Since before there was any distinction between gravitational attraction and inertial mass, "weigh" has meant "evaluate the mass of". A minority of scientists should not have the right to tell the large majority of the population that their usage of language is wrong, when it's perfectly correct. The...
[09:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:21] <exec> 08└─In modern times, a pound is defined through the kilogram, therefore any redefinition of the kilogram affects the pound in exactly the same way.
[09:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and the rest of the world is more or less telling them that they agree by handing over increasing amounts of pounds sterling. It's all envy that Britain has been able to stave of globalism and never take any part in it.
[09:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:26] <exec> 08└─If sterling falls, "so what?" That's what Nigel says. Believe me, he's a smart cookie. Because when the pound drops, it makes British exports cheaper. It's great for their exports.
[09:08:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:04] <exec> 08└─Does it hurt your chin when your knee jerks that hard? They weren't after money. Also considering the vote was just a week ago, they hadn't actually had time to even discuss what they did want.
[09:08:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:08] <exec> 08└─Heaven forbid the people who are actually doing all the work get any say in how things are run. The workers (managers included) *are* the business - without them all that remains is supplies and facilities, which is all the "owner" actually owns.
[09:08:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:37] <exec> 08└─The union is no more and no less than a group of workers choosing to negotiate as a group to level the playing field. Unless you reject the right to freely assemble, unions are fair enough. If we're going to allow corporations to exist, it's only fair to also support unions.
[09:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:48] <exec> 08└─I'm beginning to think we only see these stories so TMB can lose his shit about unions again...
[09:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:49] <exec> 08└─Have you ever actually met a "socialist"? You bitch about them and their views all the fucking time, but you don't seem to actually KNKW anything. How are you so angry about these things?
[09:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:51] <exec> 08└─Absolutely [theguardian.com]. Workers' livelihoods should be at the whims of a bigoted rich man perhaps with a personality disorder, suffering other mental health issues, or generally just being a misery guts.
[09:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:54] <exec> 08└─This here balderdash is why America is broken.
[09:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:56] <exec> 08└─who wants to read a paper that only carries the opinions of some out of touch billionaire?
[09:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:58] <exec> 08└─Got any examples? Because I am not aware of any case where a union has managed to acquire the company they used to work for under anything but amicable conditions. I am unaware, for example, of the UAW owning the Detroit auto makers now.
[09:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:14] <exec> 08└─Ever since I lost my Battle.net account when my ISP removed my e-mail address, I've been saying that I'm not buying any more Blizzard games until Blizzard support gives me my paid for Wings of Liberty back. Making it free to play doesn't count, especially when those with a paid copy of Wings of Libe...
[09:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:49] <exec> 08└─You know, Vietnam Vets used to swear up and down that anti-war protesters called them "baby-killers". I have known vets of the Iraq clusterfuck who told me about "friends" of theirs who had to mow down kids, because it might be an IED. Nations should not but their citizens in situations like this....
[09:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 4511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, that was a well-written friendly post, but it's not correct. The Queen of England is not above the law. She may well have an exemption for license plates, and I imagine if a dog-catcher ever had the opportunity to check her license he would have more important things to do at the moment,...
[09:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:39] <exec> 08└─I've never said this before, but thank you, Mr. Obama, for helping to make America great again!
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[10:05:52] <exec> 08└─In my day we decided how good a person was by their results. Didn't care if they stayed in their chair for hours on end, or stayed drunk as a skunk. If the results were there they were good.
[10:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:54] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that, Big Brother. My webcam's covered by duct tape.
[10:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:56] <exec> 08└─The schmooze was there before, but buttering up HR does more for keeping yourself retained than anything else nowadays. Won't get you out of everything (guy I know got a felony which lost him reentry at a tech company the HR director would have otherwise hired him on the spot for.) As stated in the...
[10:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:58] <exec> 08└─I am focused. I'm focused on soylentnews. hmm, seems I'm getting pinged by HR ... be right back guys!
[10:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:15] <exec> 08└─embroidered in my other pants.
[10:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:17] <exec> 08└─I do this every day. I call it 'getting dressed.'
[10:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:19] <exec> 08└─I see, it's a bitcoin wallet.
[10:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:29] <exec> 08└─So Intel effectively admits that its own graphics is worse than AMD's? BTW, the "Slow Down Cowboy" message should be placed somewhere where you actually can see it not only by accident.
[10:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:57] <exec> 08└─That's probably why they did it. Swine enjoy truffles about as much as people do...
[10:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:58] <exec> 08└─Grishnakh has already said that he thinks that truffles taste like dirt. The mention of caviar reminds me of the scene in "Big" where the kid inhabiting an adult's body (Tom Hanks) tastes those salty fish eggs for the first time. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[10:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, the issue that prompted the redefinition is that the Kilogram went on a diet.
[10:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:43] <exec> 08└─Globalism bad, exports good.
[10:08:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:41] <exec> 08└─The Mighty Buzzard constantly shows his ignorance, calling things "socialism" when they aren't that.
[10:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:12] <exec> 08└─I hope somebody takes up the torch.
[10:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 1916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:13] <exec> 08└─Unions aren't very (at all) democratic. I offer to hire you to perform some task for me in my organization, which makes widgets. I offer you $X and perhaps some other compensation, such as medical care, or free coffee, or a corner office. No stock, no upwards control. You agree, and I hire you. You...
[10:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:55] <exec> 08└─No, people are just angry that those cheating options are only available for the rich.
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[11:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:06] <exec> 08└─Can't you just try the trick from Speed, where Dennis Hopper is fooled for a time by looping the same video tape?
[11:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's a shock to anyone. There were basically two high-end discrete GPU vendors left: nVidia and ATi. Then AMD bought ATi. If Intel wants to be in this space, then they have three choices: Invest a lot more in their GPU division, buy nVidia or license nVidia GPUs, or license AMD GPUs....
[11:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:51] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, the kilogram could be defined as a precise number of atoms of, say, carbon-12, which is exactly 12 atomic mass units by definition, and so if you had an object with exactly 6.02214085774×1023 atoms (fixing the value of Avogadro's number) of 12C, that would have a mass of exactly 12 g...
[11:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:53] <exec> 08└─Logic is outdated. Feelings rule!
[11:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:23] <exec> 08└─No, they call it McDonald's, Papa John's, and Walmart.
[11:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:25] <exec> 08└─jmorris is triggered. Best to not respond to him for a period of at least 24 hours. Same for TMB. They have suffered serious trauma, mostly by having completely batshit ideas and having to face the contradiction with reality those ideas entail. But as I say, just help them calm down by not respondi...
[11:10:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 1265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:58] <exec> 08└─Allowed to drive, allowed in sports stadiums, and no Islamic dress code in the $500 billion megacity. There is unease between the House of Saud and Wahhabi Islam, and an apparent trajectory towards marginalizing Wahhabi Islam. Liberalization can happen even with the Saudi royals remaining in control...
[11:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:28] <exec> 08└─Also possible said prince was trying to skip the country and was stopped, hard, with Yemen / Iran being an awfully convenient way to point the blame. I doubt we'll ever know. What is clear is that being a Saudi royal has suddenly become awfully tricky and probably a lot less fun. Couldn't happen to...
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[12:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:06] <exec> 08└─That'd be fine, but how many of us actually work for Dennis Hopper?
[12:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:28] <exec> 08└─> I call it 'getting dressed.' I call it "stuffing my pockets," have a mental check list to make sure I have everything before going out.
[12:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:39] <exec> 08└─The chips may be destined to a market AMD doesn't have any penetration into so it won't cannibalize sales. On the other hand, perhaps they're hoping Intel won't invest as heavily in their own solutions and that the product will be very successful. A few generations later AMD would be in a much bette...
[12:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:41] <exec> 08└─So Intel effectively admits that its own graphics is worse than AMD's?
[12:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:43] <exec> 08└─Be interesting to see how it stacks against Ryzen Mobile though - this looks like a fairly direct competitor there. https://www.amd.com [amd.com]
[12:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:59] <exec> 08└─Which part of Earth surface?
[12:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:01] <exec> 08└─The outside.
[12:08:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:43] <exec> 08└─His half of the copyright bargain is that the works so protected are available and eventually enter the public domain. There's nothing at all radical about that view, it's existed since the country was founded.
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─No, I didn't.
[12:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─You must be new here. Me being angry looks quite a lot different than this.
[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:37] <exec> 08└─Glad to see we agree. Oh, you were being sarcastic when you were saying that ownership should mean you control what you own? You need to get in your little red boat and row back to China.
[12:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:40] <exec> 08└─Dude, one word finishes this disagreement: Bloggers. There are an absurd amount of them around and until today's journalists start producing better content, they can't claim a higher skill valuation.
[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:42] <exec> 08└─There's no particular need to understand the nuances of one instance of whiny socialist parasites getting bitchslapped by reality to talk about the overarching issues. You used many characters in that response but very little wisdom.
[12:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:44] <exec> 08└─That's some quality nit-picking there. You left out the cleaning staff though.
[12:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:46] <exec> 08└─Erm... you don't appear to know what the word "rights" means.
[12:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, me and gewg_ are in cahoots. He's really a libertarian free-market capitalist and just subs socialist drivel for me to smack down.
[12:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:51] <exec> 08└─> The idea that workers would bully the owner via a union is simply offensive. Without a union, the employer may have the ability to bully the workers. Not that any employer would.
[12:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:53] <exec> 08└─This is absolutely true but in no way means employees should be in control of what they do not own. The answer to a badly run bit of capitalism isn't socialism but more capitalism.
[12:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:55] <exec> 08└─Since we're playing a game of Fascists v. Commies, why don't you climb aboard your U-Boot and go back to 1930s Germany, mein Fuehrer?
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[13:06:10] <exec> 08└─loop video software on the rise
[13:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03xhedit [6669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:44] <exec> 08└─Linux is great on the desktop if you aren't a washed up hack.
[13:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 1883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:45] <exec> 08└─You know, I do absolutely agree with your description. And - from my experience in the US - unions there have truly become parasites: looking out for their own good, at the expense of the very employees that they are supposed to represent. It wasn't always that way. Once upon a time, unions provided...
[13:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:46] <exec> 08└─Which part of the Nazis being a socialist regime evades you? A jibe comparing me to the old robber barons would have been a better fit. Tangent: The first time I heard that "little red boat" crack was out of the mouth of a friend of Chinese ancestry due to another friend (who looked for all the worl...
[13:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:19] <exec> 08└─There is already an answer for people who don't want to adopt, but have a child with their genes: hire a surrogate. Do in vitro to create an embryo and implant it in the surrogate's womb. I shouldn't have to spell it out, but the surrogate is a woman, as in a *real* woman. This is a solved problem f...
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[14:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:49] <exec> 08└─I can't visualize 138 megaelectron volts. Can someone give an idea of the amount of energy released, compared to atom or hydrogen bombs? For instance, how much energy could we theoretically get out of one gram of those bottom quarks?
[14:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think so
[14:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:52] <exec> 08└─138 megaelectron volts is an amazing 6.141677×10-18 kilowatt hours. I.e., it's pretty much close to zero. It is, however, almost 8 times the energy released by the fusion of a deuterium and a tritium atom, as described in TFA. Thus, if you could make a whole bunch of bottom quarks fuse at the same...
[14:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Essen 2017: Best Board Games from the Biggest Board Game Convention - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:00] <exec> 08└─BGG Con is a huge board gaming convention, perhaps the biggest, held in Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas every November. It's coming up in just a few days. Often sells out months beforehand: https://boardgamegeek.com [boardgamegeek.com] . So they started running it twice a...
[14:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:14] <exec> 08└─FaceRig: http://store.steampowered.com [steampowered.com]
[14:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:15] <exec> 08└─I have no webcams on my desk. Also, some employers care mostly about the fact that the job gets done.
[14:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pr [5942] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks to all the posters in this thread, in particular the parent and on sn in general. There have been some really cool threads recently. Shame most of the good comments are ACs really. PR
[14:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 1772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:53] <exec> 08└─Intel was always running last in graphics anyway. Intel + nVidia is the gamer's combo. AMD + AMD/ATI is the cheap gamer's combo / "i have better numbers for 2.5 seconds until another product comes out" show-off. Intel does need a better on-board graphics, there's no question. Licensing nVidia would...
[14:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:54] <exec> 08└─I started using Linux as my exclusive desktop system in 1999. Windows has never been ready for the desktop. It was forced onto everybody for so long, though, that people just learned how to shoehorn it into doing the job. I have transitioned a number of non-technical people to Kubuntu over the years...
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:57] <exec> 08└─I offer to hire you to perform some task for me in my organization, which makes widgets. I offer you $X and perhaps some other compensation, such as medical care, or free coffee, or a corner office. No stock, no upwards control. You agree, and I hire you. You try to take over my decision making.
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:50] <exec> 08└─Amanita is more than one type. Some are not safe, some are perhaps psychologically unsound, and some are santa claus mushrooms that make reindeer fly and witches brooms streak across the sky and encourage pagan sex rituals (or just uncouth behavior by Christian schoolgirls--and adults) The LD50 on t...
[14:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:52] <exec> 08└─From your personal experience as someone with obsessive thoughts, PTSD, or a similarly relevant condition? Or is your post the equivalent of a lifelong Windows user giving well-intentioned advice regarding how to solve package conflicts in Linux?
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[15:05:53] <exec> 08└─Let's see … Metaphors: "This is like the memory layout of the ZX Spectrum." Anecdotes: "You know, back then when I first got hands on an IBM PC, I really was shocked at how primitive their BASIC interpreter was." Contrasts: "Emacs is much better than vi!" Lists: "Well, there is ls, cp, mv, rm, cd,...
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[15:05:54] <exec> 08└─The subhead "from the seems-to-be-appearance-over-substance dept." is the typical techie attitude towards "suits". It has some validity; substance should matter more. OTOH, just like people's reaction to HMI and man pages and error messages, the interface is how the substance will be transmitted, an...
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[15:05:56] <exec> 08└─Aristotle and later Cicero were writing about this over 2000 years ago. These are among the techniques of rhetoric. Everybody in the business of public speaking or marketing knows all about them. Although a big one left out is appearance: People tend to listen to those that look the appropriate part...
[15:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:58] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It's important to know how to communicate effectively. If you have a message you genuinely believe in, you can choose to communicate it in a way that bores your audience, or resonates with them. Which are you going to choose? Stand straight, adopt an open physical posture, look people in the...
[15:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:01] <exec> 08└─Then those listeners should attempt to be more rational, if they're even capable of it. Computer analogies are just irrelevant here.
[15:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:03] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It's important to know how to communicate effectively.
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[15:06:19] <exec> 08└─is the only board game I own; I found it in a dumpster (perfect condition, no missing pieces). I use the front cover as visual room decoration by standing the box upright near my computer. Screenshot of the cover [museumofplay.org] Review [boardgamegeek.com]
[15:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 1739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I feel something crucial is missing with this focus on warm bodies in seats working intensely constantly with no breaks. Does anybody evaluate the quality of work produced any more? Does anybody actually know what they're employees do? Why do we even have employees if nobody knows what they do...
[15:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:37] <exec> 08└─Star Citizen is apparently getting similar tech [robertsspaceindustries.com]. Well, of course, that is if CIG ever decides they're getting bored with producing (impressive, at least) tech demos and wants to get started developing a game one of these days.
[15:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:00] <exec> 08└─I use a song called, "Keys, Wallet, Watch, and Phone" sung to the tune of "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes." It's silly. It embarrasses my family. But I never forget those items. They spend much time looking for their belongings and suffer a great deal of unnecessary stress. Also, I never change my...
[15:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:02] <exec> 08└─Thank you for expressing appreciation. It is the coin of this realm, and more precious than gold.
[15:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:19] <exec> 08└─Look at the accumulated and current losses of AMD. That's not sustainable. But Intel fears Antitrust more than AMD. So, every now and then, they throw them a little bone to chew on. :) (Disclaimer: I hold a couple of AMD shares. Should've sold them at 44 in 2004 instead of Apple...)
[15:08:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 1568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:06] <exec> 08└─Forget about Jupiter. A give mass will weigh dirrently, depending on where you weigh it, right here on earth. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Also, from the same page, https://en.wikipedia.org
[15:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:37] <exec> 08└─weigh a ton
[15:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:39] <exec> 08└─"Olives . . . almost no nutrition" You savage. How could you? Olives are a fine source of nutrients. https://www.nutrition-and-you.com [nutrition-and-you.com] I like the ripe olives - buy a can, open it up, and pour them into a bowl or mug, stick it in the fridge. Take some out and eat t...
[15:10:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 1883 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:22] <exec> 08└─You know, I do absolutely agree with your description. And - from my experience in the US - unions there have truly become parasites: looking out for their own good, at the expense of the very employees that they are supposed to represent. It wasn't always that way. Once upon a time, unions provided...
[15:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:26] <exec> 08└─If there is a model those sites can make money. one can expect the sites to respawn (perhaps under another name).
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:28] <exec> 08└─I'm busy running those school board meetings 2-3 times/week, and all the attendant meetings that go along with that like school visits. I'm one of the guys doing the challenging that is the news for others to report on. Should I also turn around and do all the reporting, writing, editing, publishing...
[15:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─It would have been more honorable to give the workers notice. It would have been more honorable to attempt to get along with the unionized workers. It would have been more honorable to continue operations while attempting to sell the company. Even an unprofitable company can be more valuable intact...
[15:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:24] <exec> 08└─The patient can tell you that they would like things to be better than they are, but they almost never have a real baseline to compare it to. There are exceptions: women experiencing post-partum depression know what "normal" feels like and can provide a better measurement as to whether they are reac...
[15:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:07] <exec> 08└─The morality of "the wrong hole to fuck" is not a basic fact of biology. Some reasons why the "unnatural" argument is not compelling are: Homosexuality is observed in nature. It would be a joke to assert that humans should follow some "natural" standard when participating in a modern human society b...
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[16:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:51] <exec> 08└─yet reading is a revolutionary act https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[16:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:05] <exec> 08└─In the MBA world, it is the superficial bullshit that matters, not the content. As you pointed out, it always has, and it always will.
[16:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:06] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the unwritten rule: Don't be Jewish.
[16:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:09] <exec> 08└─I think the effectiveness boils down to, are they real or not real? Unfortunately that requires some intelligence and social skills to determine, as well as being part of an audience with half a brain.
[16:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:11] <exec> 08└─It's not about being a "shallow idiot". I tried to make a point of the fact that honesty and genuinely believing one's message is important. This is the opposite of being shallow. It's also not being an idiot to understand one's audience. I find it easier to understand someone when they're speaking...
[16:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, bullshit. More like: "when I first realized that such a reaction was possible (but entirely unpractical), I realized that I could jinn up a sensationalized sentence to get me some cheap press." Full disclosure: I have done some simulations on black hole and quasar physics that involve energies...
[16:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:24] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "So far, these reactions are entirely theoretical and haven't been demonstrated in a lab." Please fix the clickbait headline.
[16:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:26] <exec> 08└─Fusion examples: Energy / starting mass = energy density The standard unit of mass for particle physics, where you're looking at single particles is the mega-electron-volt per speed of light squared or MeV/c^2 (derived from E=mc^2,). Often simply expressed simply as MeV - the energy equivalent of th...
[16:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:52] <exec> 08└─You sound like you expect managers to do something like work - which is so obviously totally beneath them - rather than just count butts in seats. DNOK. You'll never make the C-levels with an attitude like that.
[16:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:17] <exec> 08└─I've had my name written in marker on my undies since, like, forever.
[16:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:04] <exec> 08└─Water is mostly an engineering problem. Many pics do fine with very little in any case.
[16:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:06] <exec> 08└─I like lentil soup (I got a good recipe from an Arab friend), mujadara, and sometimes just plain lentils (although I usually use stock or bullion rather than plain water).
[16:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:08] <exec> 08└─Pulses*
[16:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:10] <exec> 08└─I've seen it put forth that ambrosia refers to the giant ragweed, which was cultivated by the Romans as a grain.
[16:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perigord Black Truffle Cultivated in the UK for the First Time - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:12] <exec> 08└─You can cultivate a literal ton of magic shrooms in the time it takes to grow one stupid truffle.
[16:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:03] <exec> 08└─Now tell that to the astronomers and watch the door furor ignite.
[16:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:05] <exec> 08└─Is enough for a really great weekend. There,,, Solved!
[16:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:07] <exec> 08└─calories/$ haven't impressed me and it mostly seems to have Iron and Vitamin A. If you were on a budget I would advise to throw that money towards meat, other vegetables, maybe cheese.
[16:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:09] <exec> 08└─Olives with cherry tomatoes. Done.
[16:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:11] <exec> 08└─A metric ton is a measure of mass (1 Megagram). A US ton is a measure of force (2000 lbs).
[16:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:13] <exec> 08└─You must remember this A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply As time goes by.
[16:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─Two sides of the same question. The Empire was destroyed and only a couple decades later the Caliphate destroyed entirely. The peoples escaped from it wanted to determine their own destiny, the victors wanted to prevent that. Encouraging the most violent and reactionary muslims, helping them to take...
[16:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:53] <exec> 08└─There are tax haven islands where you can see this in action. They are great places to put your money and great places to live, if you are wealthy, but they don't have the tax revenue to provide those things that you describe as basic necessities.
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[17:05:54] <exec> 08└─I've always liked the AvE Boltr youtube channel for his tears downs and reviews. Very honest and in an oldschool style, doesn't hold back. He doesn't accept free products for reviews, so no worry about bias from that. He limits to mostly tools and appliances, but it's still interesting and very funn...
[17:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I have trouble with the suspension of disbelief. 35 years isn't long enough for people to forget what freedom is like or to forget how to read. That's because older generations (such as our judge and prosecutor would be) would still remember vestiges of freedom from their childhoods. Even in...
[17:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:57] <exec> 08└─“Read the frickin’ instruction manual!”
[17:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 1684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:00] <exec> 08└─It is a gradual process. You don't get rid of all freedom overnight. It really does take decades. Some steps require waiting for an event to take place that can rationalize or justify the removal of rights. 9/11 was the government's wet dream come true resulting in atrocities such as the PATRIOT act...
[17:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:02] <exec> 08└─That's what I do I just find people that know about systems and I read their minds, I don't need no stinkin' manuals!
[17:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:04] <exec> 08└─I've always liked the AvE Boltr youtube channel for his tears
[17:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─If only vulgarity was the end of it, there is a whole world of kanukistani slang to learn, and then you get into the real meat of her and just start mispronouncing words for fun. I have a hard time pronouncing certain words now, it is a coin toss if I say rectifier correctly, and I am a blonde one f...
[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:08] <exec> 08└─The word for it is a "show trial". Show Trials were done decades ago in the Eastern bloc countries to pretend that there was justice.
[17:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 2734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:25] <exec> 08└─I feel that GP isn't talking about your experience, personally, as an individual in the audience. GP is talking about how, invariably, the audience is a herd of idiots. You may be physically present there, but are you part of the herd? It's an emergent property of the audience. I'd call it emergent...
[17:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:26] <exec> 08└─In the MBA world, it is the superficial bullshit that matters, not the content. As you pointed out, it always has, and it always will. Not necessarily, for the "always will" part. There's a couple of things that could change that: 1) the human race dies out or destroys itself (probably due to listen...
[17:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:28] <exec> 08└─[Charisma] is not such a magical, or imperceptible quality as it might first seem...But it’s not just how you use words that is important. Body language, gestures, facial expressions and tone of voice contribute to emotional signalling too and should match the message you want to convey.
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─My guess is that the author thought there might be a chance that the process could be used to generate a runaway strange matter reaction in the Earth's crust, which would be bad. My view is that an errant cosmic ray would have triggered such a process by now, if it were possible. The Earth has been...
[17:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:42] <exec> 08└─If there was ever a way to separate, isolate, preserve, and fuse a large number of bottom quarks, it could replace the fissile material used in a fusion bomb to make a pure fusion weapon. Antimatter is probably easier to work with than bottom quarks.
[17:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:45] <exec> 08└─It'll be interesting to see if any sci-fi writers try to come up with a "quark drive", but you're right, it's hard to see how it would make sense compared to antimatter. Antimatter can be confined with magnetic fields, so in theory it shouldn't be that hard to work with once you've figured out how t...
[17:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:11] <exec> 08└─Never know when those cell phone are recording without your permission either.
[17:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First-Ever Fiber Optic Cable Between U.S. and India Via Brazil and South Africa - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:18] <exec> 08└─It's weird that South Africa is included, but not much higher population countries like Indonesia, Nigeria, or Pakistan. At least Russia is the ninth most populous country (with the other three, Brazil, India, and China, being higher population than Russia).
[17:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:55] <exec> 08└─(Disclaimer: I hold a couple of AMD shares. Should've sold them at 44 in 2004 instead of Apple...)
[17:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:57] <exec> 08└─The Anandtech article speculates that these chips will still have the Intel graphics on-die for low power applications. Intel has never sold their GPU independent of a mobo or CPU, so they realize that they have a niche. But they do dominate that low power space. In addition, Intel can leverage thes...
[17:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:59] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin wasn't looking strong in 2010 (kill me).
[17:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:01] <exec> 08└─That link indicates that not only is AMD not supporting LPDDR, they don't even realise that it's a requirement for a lot of the mobile market. A 15W TDP is nice for the CPU, but if it has to be coupled with 12W-at-idle RAM instead of 2W-at-idle RAM then it's suddenly much less interesting.
[17:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, no. The pound-force is the product of one avoirdupois pound (exactly 0.45359237 kg) and the standard acceleration due to gravity, 9.80665 m/s2 (about 32.174049 ft/s2).
[17:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06StarCraft II is Going Free-To-Play - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:40] <exec> 08└─Next you're going to tell me that I need to read posts before I reply. Completely laughable.
[17:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─"Homosexuality is observed in nature." You justify your actions with the fact that the beasts of the field to it. So - it's alright for you to attack your parents, when they grow old and weak, and eat them.
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:03] <exec> 08└─If you'll just take that infrared light out near Pluto, and hang it, it will be far enough to me. By the time you get back, I'll be safely in my grave.
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─Disabled children, developmentally impaired children, ugly children, and discipline problems don't have a lot of takers. Not to mention, age works against all of them. The youngest, and prettiest, smartest, and most disciplined children get snatched up. No matter how desparate for children a couple...
[17:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:08] <exec> 08└─As AC so eloquently put it - only the abnormal need special descriptors. Men and women don't need that silly "cisgendered", because we're all pretty much more or less "normal". When we need more precise descriptors, terms like blonde, short, skinny, dimwitted, and asshole work just fine. Cisgendered...
[17:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:10] <exec> 08└─Heh. I farted, and you can't escape it. You will be forced to smell it once it permeates through the 'net.
[17:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─GASP!! You said "real woman"!! Someone will be triggered!
[17:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:26] <exec> 08└─but they don't have the tax revenue to provide those things that you describe as basic necessities.
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[18:05:52] <exec> 08└─Is that like a metric ton?
[18:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─"Linux" my ass. It's older than Unix And it's "READ THE FUCKING MANUAL", like SNAFU is "Situation Normal, All Fucked UP" There, I said it. Now get the fuck off my lawn.
[18:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tbuskey [6127] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:10] <exec> 08└─I spent quite a bit of time on an Openstack installer and an installer for our product on that cloud. We'd send it to customers, our sales guys, our qa guys and they'd call me with question. They were in all time zones and often had to wait for my answers. The installer changed and improved quite a...
[18:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─It's called RTFM. Read The Friendly1 Manual.
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:14] <exec> 08└─I disagree completely that products without manuals are desirable. Kitchen knives should have manuals. What type of steel is it? Should it be oiled? Dried immediately after washing? How to wash without damaging blade? How is a nick in the edge repaired? How do you properly sharpen your knife? "Commo...
[18:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:16] <exec> 08└─I would agree with and extend along a different track that "real" techie type stuff has never avoided reading even if perhaps today's video game players aren't into manuals. Note that "when I was a kid" arcades existed as did the Atari 2600 and space invaders didn't exactly come with a 5000 page man...
[18:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed they are! Back in the day, pirated software often didn't come with the manuals. Too much trouble to Xerox them and carry them around, and most of the info in them was near worthless anyway, lot of filler verbiage even more insultingly obvious than the typical "apps for dummies" kind of book....
[18:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:39] <exec> 08└─That is never going to change. We techies need to be skinwalkers, as it were; we need to emulate the subconscious signals these idiots pick up on, get in our places, and THEN do the actual work. It sucks, but the world is run by fucking morons. Always has been, always will be. This is double-hard fo...
[18:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:40] <exec> 08└─Nailed it. A mob is a gestalt entity whose IQ is 110 minus the square root of the number of shoes in it, and whose capability for wise, rational thought decreases as the square of its size.
[18:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:42] <exec> 08└─The subhead "from the seems-to-be-appearance-over-substance dept." is the typical techie attitude towards "suits". It has some validity; substance should matter more. OTOH, just like people's reaction to HMI and man pages and error messages, the interface is how the substance will be transmitted, an...
[18:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:44] <exec> 08└─Things will be better with AIs in charge.
[18:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:47] <exec> 08└─My Atari T-shirt brings all the girls to the yard, And there like, Its better than yours, Damn right its better than yours, I can teach you ... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:02] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton [wikipedia.org] 938.2720813(58) MeV/c2 I don't think electron-positron collision would produce enough energy, so go up to antiproton. tardigrade DNA mushroom drive
[18:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:04] <exec> 08└─STD, huh? Sounds like the Zerg gone stupid. Yep, STD. I haven't even seen it; just the reviews are enough to make me avoid it. Very disappointing that some people actually involved in prior ST shows have been involved in that turd, and that so many fans have been defending it. The Orville has been p...
[18:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-Ever Fiber Optic Cable Between U.S. and India Via Brazil and South Africa - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS_Cable [wikipedia.org] What is the capacity of this new cable?
[18:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-Ever Fiber Optic Cable Between U.S. and India Via Brazil and South Africa - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:41] <exec> 08└─Fast enough that you can mis-understand the out-sourced help line person even quicker!
[18:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:23] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin wasn't looking strong in 2010 (kill me).
[18:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:24] <exec> 08└─Just when Intel Graphics were getting "good enough" for HD, the industry moved to 4K... Got some catching up to do (in performance, since they still have the lead in volume), and in the meantime propping up AMD a bit keeps the regulators (not the US obviously, but the ROW) at bay while not making an...
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─> and find that your kilogram isn't so perfect after all. > Despite different weights in different places, that "perfect" example of a kilogram is still a kilogram. Outside influences simply act on that kilogram differently. A lot of words to repeat what women all know: Men can't seem to measure pro...
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─> Why do they want to define kilogram in terms of not perfectly known value such as Planck's constant? Why not something permanent > such as a certain number of neutrons at rest? Does mass of a neutron fluctuates by any chance? The point of defining the kilogram differently than "this piece of metal...
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─A kilogram doesn't "weigh" anything without other assumptions. The gram is the unit of mass, not weight. And thanks for reading the summary.
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─The kilogram going on a diet causes everyone to get heavier, inflation in grocery prices, and general discontent (except for Weight Watchers). Actually, maybe the kilogram getting lighter is the explanation for the pints of ice cream and pound of pasta suddenly becoming 14 ounces at constant price.....
[18:10:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 603 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:18] <exec> 08└─I've heard that from unions before. It's never been true except for the immediate present which lasts until about a day after they get what they're currently asking for. Regardless, asking for creative control was even more foolish. A person might operate at a loss for a while to get their side of t...
[18:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:36] <exec> 08└─By the time I get back you won't need the heat lamp, since it'll be plenty hot where you're going :D
[18:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:37] <exec> 08└─Thought you didn't believe in that shit any more.
[18:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:39] <exec> 08└─You're not paying attention, are you? Hell is real. That is to say, there are as many Hells as there are people in them, and they last exactly as long and are exactly as horrible as they need to be. Most people in them have no idea what's happening to them and interpret it as something like whatever...
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─You don't see them, because you don't want to see. But how about education? I saw a documentary about a British territory which is a tax haven and they don't have the money to properly fund education for kids. Also, better not get ill on those islands if you are poor, because health care for those p...
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[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:22] <exec> 08└─Things even come with manuals these days? There is possible the giant EULA or legal document telling you that you accept all problems and liability if things go sideways. Then there is the commercial document congratulating you for buying this awesome quality product. Then there is the installation...
[19:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─The old Turbo C and Turbo Assembler manuals were pretty interesting.
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─I guess people are expected to gargle and youtube around randomly, hoping to stumble upon this stuff now.
[19:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:51] <exec> 08└─The Buck Rogers and ST:TNG futures are optimistic and rosy and nice to look at, but they aren't realistic in any way, unless you somehow re-engineer humans. The Matrix future isn't too bad really. The Terminator future is more likely though, but I think the most likely future will look like "The Wal...
[19:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:10] <exec> 08└─> you'd get a bomb that is almost eight times more powerful than a fusion bomb. The people who control thousands of H-bombs have decided that getting anywhere near the top of their potential boom range wasn't very useful. Even if the delivery mechanisms can support multi-megaton warheads, somewhere...
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:11] <exec> 08└─This article is bogus on so many levels. Never mind there are no known sources of "free quarks" that you could attempt to fuse - this would violate the principal of "confinement" (quarks cannot exist in isolation). With hydrogen fusion we at least have tremendous sources of deuterium and tritium ava...
[19:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:13] <exec> 08└─You are seriously projecting the mood 400 years from now, when it oscillates back and forth on a scale of decades? I can think of arguments that it will stabilize at gloom, but also arguments that it will stabilize at optimism, and I don't believe either of them. I don't even believe that it will co...
[19:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:15] <exec> 08└─That's not clear. Bottom quarks are extremely hard to make, and the cosmic ray that would make a pair of them is so unusual that we probably haven't encountered many of them. And environmental constraints can be as important as the initiating event WRT whether a reaction propagates. But it's also tr...
[19:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:18] <exec> 08└─and the cosmic ray that would make a pair of them is so unusual that we probably haven't encountered many of them
[19:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Essen 2017: Best Board Games from the Biggest Board Game Convention - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:28] <exec> 08└─Essen during the fair is one of those things I always want to visit but I just never get around to do it. Silly work schedule always comes in the way somehow. Me and the people I play boardgames with usually keep saying 'next year' but then we sort of forget about it until it has already passed. An...
[19:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:48] <exec> 08└─This kind of shit makes it very hard to pull out of a depressive state. I know, the trick is to keep working for a brighter future, but when invasive nasty shit like this is the norm it paralyzes me and makes me feel like not doing a thing. These policies harm society's psyche on a much broader scal...
[19:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:49] <exec> 08└─Undoubtedly this is the route slackers will take. Record some typical actions, then have a program repeat them in pseudo random order. Better yet, let's move away from this death by bean counters. Bean counting is important, but only up to a point. After that the bean counting produces negative retu...
[19:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:52] <exec> 08└─Haha! Ain't it the truth!
[19:11:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─This here balderdash is why America is broken.
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─Quite right. I didn't want to turn my comment into a full on lecture, (unless anyone needs some credits for a paper?) but we forget how politically powerful the Church was during the Middle Ages.
[19:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:11] <exec> 08└─But how about education? I saw a documentary about a British territory which is a tax haven and they don't have the money to properly fund education for kids.
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[20:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:54] <exec> 08└─So for how long as that feature existed? Forever (or well since the beginning of the product)? All your secret surf time not to secret after all ...
[20:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dust Belts and Possible Additional Exoplanet Spotted Around Proxima Centauri - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:03] <exec> 08└─Cruising the universe is like a drive west of the Mississippi: There's occasionally some really cool stuff, and seemingly endless boredom in between those places.
[20:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dust Belts and Possible Additional Exoplanet Spotted Around Proxima Centauri - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:05] <exec> 08└─Plus we're cruising at a simply pathetic speed right now. The fastest we've ever managed (and this was with some gravity assists) is 0.000134c (approximately 33,000 m/s). So it's not just traversing Kansas, it's traversing Kansas at a speed of approximately 24 millimeters per hour, or about 1/10 the...
[20:06:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 1684 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:15] <exec> 08└─It is a gradual process. You don't get rid of all freedom overnight. It really does take decades. Some steps require waiting for an event to take place that can rationalize or justify the removal of rights. 9/11 was the government's wet dream come true resulting in atrocities such as the PATRIOT act...
[20:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:30] <exec> 08└─Manual writers think their bugs are so important. But . . . A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation.
[20:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:31] <exec> 08└─It is interesting to think about how much some kinds of products have changed over the years. An early 1980s software manual would likely have a large foldout displaying the applications' menu hierarchy. But later applications used more code and ram to draw consistent friendly graphical menus. Pages...
[20:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:34] <exec> 08└─An automobile manual doesn't teach you to drive, but it does have a LOT of important information. How to operate everything. And a lot of details about servicing requirements. What kind of fuel / oil / other products to use. So last June, we rented a nice big powerful car for driving in the Colorado...
[20:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:36] <exec> 08└─Once reading becomes unpopular and nobody does it anymore then society will be rescued by hipsters. They'll write EcmaScript++ by day and read/write books by night : P
[20:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─Music hardware. Want to know how to set the MIDI channel? Want to know which ports are line level and which are mic level? High impedance or low? They still have that stuff.
[20:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:40] <exec> 08└─For safety reasons they didn't want you spending hours goofing around the UI while the car is in motion so they disabled it until you are parked : P
[20:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:42] <exec> 08└─Tungsten carbide drills? Wot in the bloody 'ell are tungsten carbide drills?
[20:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed, if one can find a way to engineer humans with a stronger sense of community and altruism. Without turning them into zombies, of course. Meh on the Matrix future... if you're in the Matrix your experience is no different than what we have now, or you are flushed. Except for the huge dance par...
[20:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:11] <exec> 08└─Agreed, if one can find a way to engineer humans with a stronger sense of community and altruism. Without turning them into zombies, of course. I really wonder what would happen if we simply came up with a test to identify sociopaths (5-10% of the population), and either cull them, somehow make them...
[20:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:13] <exec> 08└─Let's just hope this is first [xkcd.com].
[20:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quark Fusion Releases More Energy than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion, but is Unlikely to be Exploited - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─Once you have a massive extinction or civilization-ending event, things don't oscillate on the scale of decades. Look at the fall of the Roman Empire: it took 1000 years for Europe to regain just some of the technology and civilization that came before. And that was just a societal collapse in one p...
[20:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:09] <exec> 08└─This kind of shit makes it very hard to pull out of a depressive state.
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:10] <exec> 08└─Not giving a fuck tells everyone else it's normal. Congratulations! You are now part of the problem.
[20:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Core H Laptop Chips With AMD Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:03] <exec> 08└─What's nice about this announcement is its timing. I think this article will work on the Intel CPU: http://schd.ws [schd.ws] Get rid of most of UEFI, rewrite the firmware on the motherboard. If that doesn't keep out the spooks/whoever, I'd plan on...
[20:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─Grocery Outlet often sells stuff at a steep discount. The key is to look for handwritten prices rather than computer-printed tags. Last night I discovered that bags of grated cheese are cheaper than blocks of cheese. I'm planning to make "Poor Man's Pizza". I invented this when I was at UCSC. Use a...
[20:11:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 1410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:47] <exec> 08└─> if he continued to run the archives, people (like you) would be bemoaning the fact he was still profiting from people he fired. We silly people say enough silly things. You needn't put words in our mouths to make us look even sillier. Some of us understand the notion of works for hire. If these ar...
[20:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes and Many Ministers for Alleged Corruption - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:40] <exec> 08└─"There are plenty, not just in ISIS, who do that whether of other groups or individuals." Yes, this is the mark of the takfiri, the modern fundamentalist "islamist terrorist" mold. It's also a direct contradiction of the sharia they pay so much lip service to. It places them firmly outside of Islam.
[20:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:21] <exec> 08└─It seems it's only male homosexuality you take issue with. I'm guessing you'd have less trouble watching, for example, me and my girlfriend making love, not that we'd ever let you. This reveals several things, one of which is your incredibly male-centric idea of sexuality, to the point that it's bor...
[20:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:23] <exec> 08└─I've never even been in a police station except to help point someone out of a lineup. Nice try, you bitter old man :D Keep it up! Feel the hate flow through you! With any luck you'll die of a painful stroke at age 45 on my account.
[20:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Paradise Papers" Leaked - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:40] <exec> 08└─The trains are packed during rush hour.
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[21:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:56] <exec> 08└─They outta threaten to kick Apple out - Apple's using Ireland as a tax shelter.
[21:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, wonder if they asked for the billions in back taxes at the same meeting?
[21:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:59] <exec> 08└─When the elephants fight it is the shamrocks that get trod on.
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─I don't use file:// very often, and I personally cannot see why I would want to use it under TOR. I'm not a heavy TOR user but all the links that I have accessed have been http or https. However, I'm sure that someone who uses it far more often than I do will come up with several use cases that I h...
[21:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─You still need to click on it. It's not like the early information leaks that necessitated the creation of Tails. That and apparently the windows version and the Tails version aren't vulnerable. I'm more worried about the information leaks that happen that don't require interactivity with the user.
[21:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:13] <exec> 08└─And there was a *HUGE* stink about it when it was implemented too, for exactly this concern. I am not sure if the mail archives survive that far back, but someone with strong google-fu should be able to provide the supporting links for this as-yet unsubstantiated statement of fact. Most of Mozilla's...
[21:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:54] <exec> 08└─lighters are allowed
[21:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:55] <exec> 08└─Atari 2600 and space invaders didn't exactly come with a 5000 page manual
[21:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:58] <exec> 08└─1A variety of F-words have been known to be used instead of Friendly. Other F-word examples would include Fantastic or Fabulous.
[21:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:00] <exec> 08└─They also made the maps non-upgradeable and the 5 years old set was the only one that matched the manufacturing cost without cutting into management bonuses.
[21:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:02] <exec> 08└─Iirc they're allowed as long as they don't have anything combustible in them (ie - the lighter is allowed but the lighter fluid in it isn't)
[21:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─If you link to the actual page, [xkcd.com] people can also read the image's title text without having to do a web search first.
[21:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:30] <exec> 08└─The trouble is, if your boss isn't capable enough to figure out if you're getting results, s/he can't judge you by those results. Which means the boss has to be capable of doing your job to at least a basic degree. This is why most organizations are so inept: At some point, you're likely to have som...
[21:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:31] <exec> 08└─Batteries not removable in a cell phone? That's not suspicious at all.
[21:11:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:46] <exec> 08└─I think you're going to have to kill The Mouse before that ever happens.
[21:11:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 832 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:50] <exec> 08└─The Mighty Buzzard constantly shows his ignorance, calling things "socialism" when they aren't that. As an example, land reform in Cuba after centuries of European and USAian Imperialism would properly be called Anti-Imperialism or Bolivarianism. I see noone speaking about socialism anywhere Well, I...
[21:11:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Vote to Unionize - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:57] <exec> 08└─frojack! Your right-wing slip is showing again! Time to fix the wardrobe malfunction.
[21:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hippocampal GABA: The Key to Blocking Unwanted Thoughts - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─You could even make measurements "objective" measurements at that first consultation, say with an fMRI, and then track how treatment affects the measured signals.
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[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:03] <exec> 08└─That's the problem. The EU is trying to force Ireland to tax Apple. Ireland is trying not to, because those tax schemes are the pre-brexit key to their prosperity (post-brexit, being the only anglophone and EU still helps). I think Cook is sending a message to Ireland to push the EU back stronger. S...
[22:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:14] <exec> 08└─Do you hover over every link on a webpage to check the URL before you click it?
[22:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Belts and Possible Additional Exoplanet Spotted Around Proxima Centauri - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:25] <exec> 08└─It's nice that we are starting to see a clearer picture of what's around the stars in the Alpha Centauri system. We have already seen protoplanetary disks around a few stars, but those are HOT and YOUNG. In this case we are seeing something with a lot more similarity to our own solar system. And it...
[22:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Belts and Possible Additional Exoplanet Spotted Around Proxima Centauri - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:26] <exec> 08└─The Alpha Centauri system will get closer to us over the next roughly 27,700 years. So that's about how long we have to figure out how to travel there. It will be slightly easier in 1000 years. Breakthrough Starshot [wikipedia.org] is one way we could at least send sensors there with a 20-30 year tr...
[22:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Belts and Possible Additional Exoplanet Spotted Around Proxima Centauri - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:28] <exec> 08└─Breakthrough Starshot is one way we might possibly be able to at least send sensors there that can't communicate with us for another 4-5 years, assuming nothing bad happens between launch and arrival with a 20-30 year travel time. I'm not saying we shouldn't try for it, just that we're a long way fr...
[22:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:05] <exec> 08└─"Please enter the 16th word on page 4 to continue:"
[22:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:07] <exec> 08└─One of the things that made it particularly bad was that it had quite a combination of both touch screen and physical knobs
[22:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:09] <exec> 08└─For some things, a print manual is uselessly obsolete, because it is impossible to maintain as the product changes over time. A manual from 6 months ago is 10% wrong now, which is as good as useless and possibly worse. I'm all for keeping the manual online, but then you realize most companies aren't...
[22:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:11] <exec> 08└─And this is a two-edged sword as well. Yes, sometimes the program needs to change, but by not providing any sort of manual the manufacturer reserves the maximum freedom for them to change any part of it, at any time, without notice, etc. Which is not always a good thing. I'd dearly love to see some...
[22:07:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 773 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:19] <exec> 08└─Let's see … Metaphors: "This is like the memory layout of the ZX Spectrum." Anecdotes: "You know, back then when I first got hands on an IBM PC, I really was shocked at how primitive their BASIC interpreter was." Contrasts: "Emacs is much better than vi!" Lists: "Well, there is ls, cp, mv, rm, cd,...
[22:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Art and Science of Being Charismatic - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:43] <exec> 08└─That is what I take from most of those suggestions. Don't be yourself, pretend to be just like you're audience.
[22:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:43] <exec> 08└─Gotta love these brain dead, simplistic metrics, assuming an occupied chair means productive work is being done. It's hypocritically lazy. They put minimal effort in actually caring about your work, slack off on trying to employ a good measure of productivity, but expect employees to keep their nose...
[22:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:13] <exec> 08└─Well if you make 6-8 pounds of pulled pork on a Sunday, for example, you should have enough food for the next 3-4 days without any prep on the weekdays. (My reasoning for 3-4 days is that each 2 pounds should be in the ballpark of 1500 calories, not counting rice, and hopefully won't be the only thi...
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[23:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:09] <exec> 08└─Apple already moved most of that, it is now based in Jersey. And of course they were almost certainly never planning to build that data center anyway, it was just part of the game to get their 'special' tax status. It is even more of a joke that they claim the 'value' of their work not resides in Je...
[23:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─wonder if they asked for the billions in back taxes at the same meeting?
[23:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:13] <exec> 08└─-~LINK)]}>~-
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:15] <exec> 08└─http://www.warplife.com/tips/finance/asset/protection/money-laundering/howto/internet/ [warplife.com]
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:17] <exec> 08└─I worked at 6 Infinite Loop at a time when the company had 11,000. Now it has something like 60,000 - maybe more by now - but all the manufacturing is done by contractors. That's why I cannot keep up with their ever-changing deprecations.
[23:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─A planned $1 billion Apple data center is in doubt after Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the U.S. company's Chief Executive Tim Cook would no longer commit to it, adding that Dublin would do whatever necessary to get it built.
[23:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Not Committing to $1 Billion Irish Data Center - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:22] <exec> 08└─Aren't the patricks super smart? They thought being a tax shelter within EU will bring them the pot of gold. Maybe the limeys were right about the Irish.
[23:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:33] <exec> 08└─Do you hover over every link on a webpage to check the URL before you click it?
[23:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:35] <exec> 08└─So I didn't RTFA... but anyone want to take odds that this was how the FBI busted Silk Road? (And yeah, I'm sorry if I'm talking out my ass because while I've read accounts I thought they were cagey about how they claimed to get the exploit which unmasked Ulbricht. Maybe I'm wrong though.)
[23:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:37] <exec> 08└─I don't use file:// very often,
[23:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:39] <exec> 08└─However web design works much better if you run a localhost web server: 127.0.0.1 jobs.velvet 127.0.0.1 warplife.velvet Velvet is one of my favorite strippers.
[23:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users’ Real IP Address - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:41] <exec> 08└─I used it for a while but found that it didn't always work. Having an appealing meta description and an identical first paragraph after the header, combined with these sketchy links, enables your site to get more SEO without having anything to do with link popularity. When I first wrote about that,...
[23:07:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 918 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:13] <exec> 08└─I disagree completely that products without manuals are desirable. Kitchen knives should have manuals. What type of steel is it? Should it be oiled? Dried immediately after washing? How to wash without damaging blade? How is a nick in the edge repaired? How do you properly sharpen your knife? "Commo...
[23:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:36] <exec> 08└─That's when you practice saying "tungsten carbide" over and over to get the pronunciation right.
[23:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:37] <exec> 08└─Show trials are a real thing. They work best when the 'trial' is known to happen and *in theory* the public could go watch even if in practice, it never quite manages to work out. That theoretical possibility is part of the show. Don't get hung up on exact dates. 1984, for example, was an arbitrary...
[23:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:39] <exec> 08└─So for safety reasons the front passenger cannot use the UI? Then it is useless. The car even has a sensor to detect if there IS a front seat passenger (or dog) present.
[23:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:41] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that the EULA, disguised as a manual, is also binding by merely realizing it exists, and binds you to use biased Arbitration instead of a less biased litigation.
[23:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:44] <exec> 08└─I never was a smoker, so I can't be sure. But I seem to recall a documentary "Farenheight 9/11" that pointed out that cigarettes, and I think lighters, were allowed. At least at first. Of course, all domestic flights became non-smoking and thus it was a non issue at some point. But I could be mistak...
[23:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, and if it does load, the documentation is useless and states only the damn obvious.
[23:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I feel something crucial is missing with this focus on warm bodies in seats working intensely constantly with no breaks. Does anybody evaluate the quality of work produced any more?
[23:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Does a Kilogram Weigh? - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:49] <exec> 08└─Nothing brings out the pedantic assholes like the metric system. Enjoy, my lonely friends, today victory is yours! And I should point out that "metric" is the name for an obsolete, inconsistent system of units. The correct name for the modernized system you casually mis-refer to as metric is "Systè...
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