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[00:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:51] <exec> 08└─Puree someone's poop in a blender (single use only, no smoothies in that one (hopefully...)), put it in a pill, and down the hatch. It's actually science that holds promise, see Mary Roach's book Gulp for an entire chapter on it. She's much funnier and sciency than I'll ever be.
[00:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:53] <exec> 08└─More like quit washing your hands every 5 minutes and eat some dirt.
[00:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:06] <exec> 08└─I live in Canada were we have a constitutional monarchy. Essentially, the monarchy is still our head of state: but does little to interfere with the governing of the country. The other comment about forgetting to kill our monarchs is probably not too far off, actually. As long as they do not go agai...
[00:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:08] <exec> 08└─Another month or so, and we'll be done with the Disney buzzmaking machine, regularly hyping minor details of a totally original movie where some of the heroes will flee a cold planet, end up on a floating city surrounded by gas, trapped by the bad guy, until rescued by the jedi-in-training who has t...
[00:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:10] <exec> 08└─Careful, expressing anti-capitalistic sentiments around here won't make you any friends. About now is when TMB shows up to tell you off. Seems like a way bigger problem than maintaining a royal family though, that transition seems a little wonky to me.
[00:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:13] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I would love to see them pull that trick twice, whether it works or not it will be fun as hell to watch people argue whether it was another scene for scene reshoot.
[00:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:15] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, SpaceX _is_ a bunch of people (some of them are very wealthy, and many of them are not) who have banded together (formed a corporation) to pursue this venture. When there is an extremely wealthy leader putting in a lot of their own money, it is easier to get other people to invest,...
[00:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:17] <exec> 08└─Letting people pick who they want to be head of state doesn't always work out so well. I don't see how they contribute to your country but they appear to leech a ton of money and resources.
[00:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:20] <exec> 08└─It wasn't anti-capitalist, but apparently we're in the post-truth world so whatever. Limits on wealth ownership would be pretty easy and do not preclude a capitalist venture. Coops are still capitalist enterprises, they simply are no longer pyramid structures.
[00:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:31] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Sig and Edgar would much rather fish in the tropics than the Bering sea.
[00:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:30] <exec> 08└─Could you really blame them? Not everyone wants to slave away for corporations until they are of old age, so the chance of suddenly making a lot of money could free them from that if they use it wisely enough.
[00:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:36] <exec> 08└─No private corporation should every be able to lock away research funded by U.S. taxpayers. If the company wants to lock it away, they can fund all the research on their own. When will stop this "corporations first" attitude?
[00:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:38] <exec> 08└─Stem cells, vaccines, whatever. Lets destroy our edge in medical research so that only countries that are not whiney special snowflakes can actually do research that matters. This reminds me of their idiotic no encryption export thing that resulted in all encryption research being done outside the U...
[00:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:37] <exec> 08└─Firefox is an ok operating system, but what it really needs is a decent browser.
[00:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:38] <exec> 08└─Because I'm not a self-righteous holier-than-thou software justice warrior. How are people being abused by proprietary software (in the general case)? That's a ridiculous hyperbole. Are people "abused" by wearing proprietary clothes, eating proprietary meals, or watching proprietary TV shows? If you...
[00:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:41] <exec> 08└─Cheese microscope.
[00:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:24] <exec> 08└─Yes teens can and do acquire alcohol that way, but it turns out that by and large most people will not do that or it will cost the teens more than they care to pay the mule. Higher cost, requirement of finding someone willing to break the law, generally turns out its hard to do. Also, most people tu...
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[01:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:50] <exec> 08└─I wonder which MBA came up with that idea. If I see a vendor's online prices higher than its stated in-store, first thing I'll check is other online stores..
[01:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:52] <exec> 08└─I want the best price without having to think about it. If there's any uncertainty, I'll just shun your stupid store online and possibly offline. The aim is to also help reduce processing costs and increase online sales margins, since driving customers to stores means less shipping costs for the ret...
[01:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:01] <exec> 08└─Yep :) That's what I came here to point out, the delivery. You're literally eating shit to shit better. I don't understand how it might affect obesity, but I find nature deeply weird in that it can heal me by eating the qualitatively better shit of another animal. Reminds of the Road to Wellville wi...
[01:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:03] <exec> 08└─10 years ago this might have been news.... have they gone any further than simply transplanting from a healthy subject? By the way, suppositories are preferred to oral ingestion.
[01:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:23] <exec> 08└─The comment was about the undesirability of the royal family owning large amounts of land. Accumulating and profiting from capital, such as land, is literally the whole idea of capitalism. No matter where you draw the line in the sand that you clearly haven't given much thought to, you are literall...
[01:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 4970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:25] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I'm for trying to take over Corporate America with coops. To do that though, we would need a very recognizable branding along with enough participants to effectively marginalize one of the bad corps in any given area. Every single dollar you spend at a coop (although really half in some coo...
[01:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:38] <exec> 08└─How do these taste steamed and served with drawn butter?
[01:08:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:35] <exec> 08└─Did the Nazis pay the people they experimented on? Did they give any of them treatments with the expectation that they would be cured?
[01:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:45] <exec> 08└─Twice as many, it seems.
[01:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:47] <exec> 08└─You love competition and the myth of the free market so much, so why did they choose the Caribbean again? That's right, to make their principled stand against the problematic ethics and their application in the U.S? Bullshit.
[01:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:49] <exec> 08└─If the premise is correct, the response makes things better. But it doesn't make things right.
[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:30] <exec> 08└─Are you purposely dense?
[01:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:54] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be "i-Jmorris", or is that only if he really goes dark, like to the Dark Side: Apple.
[01:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:53] <exec> 08└─Or instead of opening your profiles to let them upgrade as you change the settings, you could have manually opened the databases containing that setting and turned off auto-updated before loading your other profiles. Try that next time. If you don't like modifying files directly, then turn off your...
[01:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 1549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:31] <exec> 08└─they mostly already have to also work a legitimate job just to make ends meet Not really. It is a good theory. But having been exposed to this world for a few years I can safely say they are just fucking morons. One dude my wife dealt with? He would get nearly 100-300 bucks a day cash tax free. He a...
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[02:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:58] <exec> 08└─"If we charge more we'll make more money" isn't necessarily a bad idea ... unless your competition is charging less. That being said ... ... Amazon's prices on food items is not very competitive (the vast majority are sold via marketplace resellers) and they have relatively few food items that have...
[02:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:00] <exec> 08└─so, does this qualify as a tax on laziness? "how much can we charge before lazy bones gets up and comes into the store?" unless the truck drivers have suddenly started to up their sub-contracting fees (unlikely), this isn't about delivery costs, or storage, as they warehouse distribution is FAR chea...
[02:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:12] <exec> 08└─After all, all the bacteria colonized from the outside. I don't see any reason why this process should ever stop. Therefore, unless the "bad" bacteria strains are unusual, I would expect them to slowly reestablish after the treatment.
[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:13] <exec> 08└─Sometime the "bad" bacteria are there because of a lack of competitive "good" bacteria occupying that niche. Once a competitive strain it is implanted in an resources ritch environment, it usually stays until a broad spectrum antibiotics is used... broad antibiotics don't care wherever it's a good b...
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─Both good and bad bacteria are always in all of us, but are normally in balance. Many factors cause candida overgrowth, including oral antibiotics, certainly diet (too much sugar/carbs). There are many symptoms from mild to bad, short-term and long-term problems. I have a bit of a problem with it-...
[02:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:18] <exec> 08└─This appears to work for people with compromised protein handling in the gut, whereas the transplant helps with a gut population problem in an otherwise healthy person (or possibly a person who can function as normal if they've got a bacteria strain they're not getting naturally where they live). It...
[02:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:40] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is a weird case, as Musk holds a majority of stock. Yes, there are other investors, but the strawman still works as one individual had to put up an enormous amount of wealth to get that ball rolling. This comment isn't an argument for or against capitalism, merely an opinion about the aptness...
[02:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:41] <exec> 08└─Nothing is more stable then people without duress, savings, sophisticated educations, and community engagement.
[02:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:44] <exec> 08└─It's never too late!
[02:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:57] <exec> 08└─I believe I looked this up and found that they're quite tasty to the point that they've been overhunted, unfortunately.
[02:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:59] <exec> 08└─They look tasty https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com [tripadvisor.com]
[02:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:01] <exec> 08└─The cannibalism does not help it's cause either
[02:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:03] <exec> 08└─If we all die in a crabpocalypse, I'm blaming you.
[02:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:06] <exec> 08└─Needs a garnish of coconut.
[02:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:05] <exec> 08└─Illegal or not, it's time to start building out mesh networks. Cheap transmitters and mesh routers, like $5-$15 range. Wall socket outlets, light switches, solar match boxes, usb sticks. Fuck the wireless carriers stomp on their bands too. Distributed routing, distributed storage, fully encrypted, f...
[02:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:07] <exec> 08└─https://ting.com/blog/getting-straight-about-common-carriers-and-title-ii/ [ting.com] In 1996, Congress passed a major Telecommunications Act that, says Cherry, “basically approved the distinctions between transmission and enhanced services that the FCC had had to make up on its own,” although t...
[02:08:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:50] <exec> 08└─Did the Nazis pay the people they experimented on? Did they give any of them treatments with the expectation that they would be cured? Than how about you take it fucker?
[02:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:19] <exec> 08└─Do you have to be stupendously evil ALL the time? By your logic we should support slavery. Imagine what an economic powerhouse the US would be!! Asia would have never gotten our outsourced industries and even when when they built their own we'd still win with rock bottom labor costs. Do you feel stu...
[02:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:20] <exec> 08└─We all benefited greatly from Nazi medicine. You directly benefited from Nazi medical science. It was a treasure trove of information and advanced medical science by decades, maybe more. Thiel's team seemed to adhere to the local laws. I don't see anything necessarily wrong with this. Not everyone m...
[02:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:22] <exec> 08└─No, data is data. If harm is done, then penalize the people who did the harm. You can even make the penalty so big that others are dissuaded from unethical research, but throwing out the data once you have it is making that harm worse by rendering it pointless.
[02:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:25] <exec> 08└─You seem to be implying that @realdonaldtrump is the real account and DannyB is the sockpuppet. Do you think @realdonaldtrump is actually the POTUS and he sometimes pretends to be DannyB?
[02:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:29] <exec> 08└─Are people "abused" by wearing proprietary clothes, eating proprietary meals, or watching proprietary TV shows?
[02:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:30] <exec> 08└─We really needed a universal, network-aware client GUI interface since xterms don't cut it in the 21st century.
[02:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:32] <exec> 08└─Browsers should not be second-tier operating systems.
[02:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:34] <exec> 08└─Cannot unsee.
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[03:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:53] <exec> 08└─From the Space Flight Now link: "SpaceX has delayed its next launch from the Kennedy Space Center until at least Friday night, and possibly later, to examine data from a recent payload fairing test for another customer."
[03:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:55] <exec> 08└─Too risky to lose to a fairing failure? Or cover story because Kim Jong Un promised to be nice. Initially, the launch was supposed to go up on Wednesday at the same time, but SpaceX has repeatedly changed the day of the mission since then. The first delay was given without a reason. “Both Falcon 9...
[03:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:06] <exec> 08└─This is about add-on-sales. Store shoppers buy more impulse items than online shoppers. Getting you into a store is what is in Walmart's best interest.
[03:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:07] <exec> 08└─Just charge for shipping or allow free shipping for all items.
[03:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:09] <exec> 08└─And, if the truth be know, walking around and buying things you might need next week just because you happeded to see them is probably way better for the environment than you ordering something today, then another thing tomorrow, and the day after. Planning ahead saves trips, gasoline, and packaging...
[03:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:25] <exec> 08└─The real problem is the reimbursement factor: how much can you really charge for an injection of someone else's feces? Back around 2001 we had an acquaintance with severe Crohn's, woman otherwise vibrant and healthy in her mid 20s. The recommended line of treatment was removal of the colon and lifel...
[03:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:26] <exec> 08└─We also knew someone who was on the verge of a colostomy for Crohn's shortly before I got involved with the world of epilepsy. There the great travesty of medicine is the ketogenic diet - doctors will literally let families rot in epileptic hell, offering damaging lobotomies and not even suggest try...
[03:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:28] <exec> 08└─Depends... of course they could, but if you think of gut bacteria like a lawn - the established groundcover has a significant advantage over invaders. A lot depends on how you maintain the lawn: regular mowings favor hardy fast growing low lying grasses, while infrequent mowings will allow tall seed...
[03:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:30] <exec> 08└─Historically, humans have eaten a lot more fermented foods than is currently popular. Nowadays, most stuff that we think of as fermented isn't even fermented, just flavored because it's cheaper. Pickled stuff, yogurts, sourdoughs, etc, all have positive health effects because they're "natural probio...
[03:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:33] <exec> 08└─10 years ago this might have been news..
[03:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:35] <exec> 08└─https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/is-american-wheat-different-than-european-wheat.htm [howstuffworks.com]
[03:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:00] <exec> 08└─however I think the world needs very explicit limits on wealth ownership
[03:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:02] <exec> 08└─I live in a Commonwealth nation, and might be able to answer your question: The Windsor propaganda machine has become hugely successful since Diana began manipulating it for her own ends 20 years or so ago. Rupert Murdoch noticed how the Royals increased sales of his various titles, and so he has...
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─You might want to follow the links within the summary? Seems to be saying: "An “active investigation” has begun in St Kitts and Nevis over allegations that a US-backed vaccine test took place in the federation to evade American safety oversight. In a statement this evening, the country’s chief...
[03:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:45] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention, Firefox and Chrome both have limits on how much data you can sync, so if you have too many, you may have to roll your own. Luckily, that is stupidly easy if you know what you are doing, but can be frustratingly difficult if you don't.
[03:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:47] <exec> 08└─The good - supposedly snappier, lighter on RAM, modernized. The bad - add-ons lagging. Not that they had no warning :) ..and the flat design, silly 1980's tab shapes, etc. FF58 might fix these? From time to time Mozilla (oh sorry, "moz://a") innovate to stay ahead. This is the next step in the legac...
[03:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:26] <exec> 08└─Not to mention decriminalising marijuana would result in far fewer disenfranchised black and latino voters, not to mention lower profits from for-profit prisons... GOP couldn't have that...
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[04:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:12] <exec> 08└─The point of the $35 minimum is to make it less likely that they'll be selling cheap items at a loss. Driving people to the stores means that rather than boxing up individual items and loading them onto trucks, they ship large amounts of them at the same time to the same place and the customer gets...
[04:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:34] <exec> 08└─It makes far, far more sense to take it as a suppository, even if it's a pain in the ass. Personally, I'd hesitate to do that until there's a much greater understanding of the relevant roles of bacteria in the digestive track. Some bacteria are clearly helpful, but others seem to be just there or ar...
[04:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:36] <exec> 08└─This is ignorant right here. Doing a fecal matter transplant involves risks that still haven't been fully identified. Not only do you have the risk of communicable diseases, but you also have the unknowns associated with the new bacteria and what they're going to do in somebody elses colon. Not to m...
[04:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:38] <exec> 08└─Usually bad bacteria are there in large quantities because the good and neutral bacteria aren't competing with them. The whole business of antibiotics makes little sense in most cases as it's almost always preferable to add benign bacteria rather than try to remove harmful ones. The antibiotics that...
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[04:06:40] <exec> 08└─A lot of the fermented stuff can be made at home. Sauer kraut is more or less trivial, you mostly just need shredded cabbage, salt and a jar to leave it in. Just be mindful to use one with a pressure release or to burp it from time to time or the whole thing will explode.
[04:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:43] <exec> 08└─Eat fermented food: yogurt, sourkraut, kimchi, pickles, even beer and salo. Lutefisk, no scratch that. Fermented food, not corroded food.
[04:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:10] <exec> 08└─They would be imperials, wouldn't they?
[04:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:11] <exec> 08└─This is whack. Seriously, what's next, kadarshians' great photo-op adventure?!
[04:08:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:24] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality was how the net started out. Net Neutrality is something to be defended. Like clean air and clean water. The whole subject of Net Neutrality would never have come up if ISPs weren't 'polluting' the internet with packet discrimination and even alteration. Like with air and water pollut...
[04:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:32] <exec> 08└─I want a plant that gives me 3 Mb/s for general Internet, but 40 Mb/s for Netflix (as long as it's less than I'd have to pay for general 40 Mb/s).
[04:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:34] <exec> 08└─Now, try again.
[04:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:36] <exec> 08└─Got it. By the way, a government that arises from free market enterprise is going to be a lot different than a government that arises from coercion at the very start.
[04:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:38] <exec> 08└─Soylentils, you're intellectual garbage.
[04:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:41] <exec> 08└─That's part of the picture. What cable TV companies who also do internet want is a paradigm very much like cable TV packages. This is my favorite infographic on the topic: The Internet Without Net Neutrality [imgur.com] These guys have more graphics: What The Internet Looks Like Without Net Neutrali...
[04:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:15] <exec> 08└─I am leery of *anyone* bearing "gifts". Christmas is just around the corner. This is the time of year I just want to completely disappear until this whole thing blows over.
[04:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:07] <exec> 08└─How are people being abused by proprietary software
[04:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:08] <exec> 08└─The Save/Export thing on GIMP lost most of my former students, who switched to easier-to-use alternatives, because the change happened without warning, accompanied by neither instructions on how to navigate the change, nor an explanation of why the program was operating in a manner different to ever...
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[05:05:53] <exec> 08└─Immortality!
[05:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, well understood to cause permanent irreversable harm.
[05:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:12] <exec> 08└─Are those chicken coops or pigeon coops? (The standard shortening for "cooperative" uses a hyphen: co-op.) Coops are still capitalist enterprises It's just pathetic how many people defend Capitalism and don't even understand what it is. In a co-op, everyone is an owner; in Capitalism there is an Own...
[05:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:31] <exec> 08└─They are native in tropical climate from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific. Any part of that with good sized human population, they are hunted to extinction. So I suspect they taste pretty good, sweet flesh like lobster and other crab.
[05:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:33] <exec> 08└─One recipe is to boil them in coconut milk. "We've heard you like coconut. So we boiled coconut crabs in coconut milk."
[05:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:35] <exec> 08└─You guys who can scale things by flipping a few bits are a hoot. In the physical world, things have natural limits. There's a reason that the legs of elephants look like tree trunks and that giant ants are only bad fiction. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe...
[05:11:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 1713 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:04] <exec> 08└─I think you're being too hard on the author. He made a couple mistakes, but he also started his article with a preface about the difficulty of increased specialization of knowledge. Yes, it's problematic if he accidentally spreads misinformation, but in my opinion at least he lands at the right conc...
[05:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:18] <exec> 08└─This very thing happened to my grandpa. He could not stand up to Monsanto's lawyers. They had immense financial backing and could drag things out until they depleted grandpa out of his resources. This kind of thing is why I believe all this "rights" legislation has gone way overboard. This legislati...
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[06:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hurricane Season, as Shown by Salt, Smoke, and Dust - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:49] <exec> 08└─I'd really like to see the other hemisphere to see how stuff from the orient and South Asia moves across the Pacific.
[06:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:57] <exec> 08└─I'm too old to even pretend I'm close to 21 anymore. I definitely feel my age in my bones. So, no, my credit card numbers are not floating around in the aether because of me shopping there.
[06:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:59] <exec> 08└─Well that store really caters to teenage and 20-something girls, so there's not likely to be anyone on this site who shops there, unless they have a teenage daughter.
[06:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:02] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of cougars who wear that shit. Asian women in tech who never got degrees and went on to become engineers, for example. Or if you're talking more widespread use of the style, every goddamn woman in L.A.
[06:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:51] <exec> 08└─And precisely what is your point? We know what the results are going to be from that, but a fecal matter transplant can cause other problems which are much more significant than that and we're still not sure what bacteria should be present and in what concentrations. The whole thing sucks, but let's...
[06:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:52] <exec> 08└─This kind of paranoia is ridiculous. The medical system has a lot of issues, but you don't think that health insurers would rather pay for a diet to solve things like this than the surgery? Precisely whose crack are you smoking? Dietary changes are virtually always preferred by insurance when the me...
[06:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:54] <exec> 08└─This is awesome- thanks. Everyone should take this seriously. I know some people who are very intensely dedicated food / nutritionists. Yes, they're into organics, etc., but with reason. They stay away from certain chemicals, "processing" (what does that mean!?!), etc., and rave about Sauer kraut, a...
[06:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:25] <exec> 08└─You may just yet get your wish, commie - there was an article on Zerohedge today that speculated that the mass media's embrace of communism is to prepare the public first for NIRP, then for universal basic income.
[06:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:53] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry that you don't understand what the other poster is saying. Survival of the Fittest does not imply an inhuman process; after all, humans are part of that process. Evolution just means variation and selection, which are 2 aspects of the process provided by a free market.
[06:09:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:36] <exec> 08└─He could volunteer for experimental lobotomy to see if it reduces sociopathic tendencies. It would be a scientific study. With all the rigor and ethics that he practices on other human subjects.
[06:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:25] <exec> 08└─Easily said... But you missed my point: I DID NOT know that the breaking update was coming. How do I stop the update by going offline, while the profile has ALREADY downloaded the new version? Remember, my profiles are used all at the same time, to separate my uses... Even if it were not already dow...
[06:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:26] <exec> 08└─Which gets broken with the newest version.
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[07:06:27] <exec> 08└─" The painting has been cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right "
[07:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:28] <exec> 08└─Sure, the art can be put on display to rake in some cash flow from the plebs, but that's not why this kind of serious cash is spent on artwork. Rather, the deep pockets put their money in art because it has a lot of tax benefits, including the ability to transfer large amounts of wealth more easily....
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[07:06:38] <exec> 08└─" In this cool video created by NASA "
[07:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:12] <exec> 08└─You and the parent comment to which you responded are both correct, but there is a third element -- Having to deal with the packs of Mexicans (now usually In these kinds of situations I would also include the Blacks, but the Blacks are conspicuously absent from California Wal-Marts, likely due to th...
[07:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:38] <exec> 08└─Actually they are quite tasty. Though they are quick and have those big claws (the best eating part), they are easy to trap and can be dispatched with a sharp blow with a malachite or hefty stick. I've eaten them in South Asia; Sri Lanka, The Maldives and Thailand. The meat is sweet with hint of coc...
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[07:08:39] <exec> 08└─I can think of plenty of scarier things off the top of my head: - Jerusalem Crickets - Sun Spiders (more commonly known as "camel spiders") - Perhaps the underside of a giant isopod I've always thought that crabs were pretty cute (and tasty), especially the way they scuttle away. Ducks are pretty cu...
[07:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:32] <exec> 08└─Why would I go back to Firefox, when it is now as full of telemetry, and users that dare disable it are insulted by the pompous Mozilla developers? Just check how the arrogant "genius" that infected Firefox with DRM reacted to the bug opened when he decided to beak sound in Linux: "Telemetry is a lo...
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[07:14:33] <exec> 08└─Blaming the victims does not help, and your arguments are wrong... The reason I use the DEV Edition is mostly because it's the official way to run unsigned addons, which i NEED, because I have some small personal addons & I've done a bit of testing of addons dev, so I must be able to run unsigned on...
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[07:14:35] <exec> 08└─The worthy add-ons will catch up if they are not already updated.
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[08:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:23] <exec> 08└─This is crime.
[08:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:25] <exec> 08└─It may be illegal, but it's not necessarily immoral. Better that the money remain in the hands of productive people, rather than be stolen and then squandered by paper-pushing bureaucrats. Invalid form key: ZRS01tJApY
[08:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:45] <exec> 08└─"Well that store really caters to teenage and 20-something girls" They actually carry a good deal of men's clothing, and have plenty of female customers who are much older than that. Their niche is "inexpensive, stylish, durable; we chose the first two." If you prefer to buy something that will last...
[08:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:13] <exec> 08└─Start with something we should be able to find enough soylentils to pull off: Forking a pre-Rust Gecko version, patching every security flaw mozilla does, then finding an alternative route to including multithreading while also allowing addons to migrate with minimal changes over time. One way of do...
[08:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:04] <exec> 08└─It's pretty bogus to portray the dumping of radioactive waste in the drinking water as an ethical concern.
[08:13:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:59] <exec> 08└─Also, I don't use the regular version, I use the Dev Edition, which is updated earlier.
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[09:06:01] <exec> 08└─Lo! And Behold! For the Lord your God doth work in mysterious ways.
[09:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:39] <exec> 08└─No reason to delay because of KJU. If the fairing doesn't separate properly or at all, bad things happen. A bad separation could re-contact the second stage and cause damage or not separate at all and the mission fails. OCO mission failure: http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com
[09:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:41] <exec> 08└─If you have trouble with Spaceflightnow video, use the SpaceX website. I still don't know WTF is wrong with Firefox but I'm having a hell of a time getting some videos to work. HTML5 works fine on some sites but craps the bed on others. *shrugs* As for the upcoming Delta II launch from Vandenberg, I...
[09:06:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder which MBA came up with that idea. If I see a vendor's online prices higher than its stated in-store, first thing I'll check is other online stores..
[09:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:59] <exec> 08└─I frequent a forum where several people have ordered from Walmart. Apparently, the mail order was more than a bit chaotic. One moment, they wanted to underprice Amazon, and offered prices they clearly were losing money. The next moment, the prices on the same items would be back to normal. Shipping...
[09:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:02] <exec> 08└─Over here it's the other way around. Stores are starting to get rid of staff, to remove any advantage the physical store has over buying online.
[09:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:33] <exec> 08└─You're not completely wrong in that the long term effects of FMT need further research, but it has been proven successful in the treatment of recurring C.diff. infection (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] for example).
[09:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 1947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:06] <exec> 08└─You haven't mentioned anything that corresponds to my vision of a proper future. communism My vision of Communism is that that follows widespread Socialism, with Socialism being worker-owned cooperatives. As I see it, Communism comes with the gov't (including a very tight feedback loop from The Work...
[09:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─I'm a pro, so I can manage, but what about other users?
[09:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:17] <exec> 08└─That makes no sense to me. The browser has full access to every tab, not matter what you do. I don't see the browser as more trusted than add-ons, I more see the add-ons (such as Classic Theme Restorer) as the browser, and the actual browser as the rendering engine. But then, most of the add-ons I h...
[09:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:19] <exec> 08└─BTW, I find this "extension" and "add on" terminology needlessly confusing. They appear to be the same thing,
[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:21] <exec> 08└─uMatrix is pretty awesome (and works for 95%+ of my usage), but it does not allow you to blacklist-or-whitelist specific resources. So you pretty much need to use both of Gorhill's extensions (uMatrix & uBlock) if you need finer than domain-level contol.
[09:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:24] <exec> 08└─Firefox Dev AKA Firefox Aurora is behind Nightly by ~4 weeks. Whereas Firefox Beta is behind Nightly by ~8-12 weeks.
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[10:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:47] <exec> 08└─Copied comment from El Reg: About what is lawful or not: The awkward thing about the right to be forgotten is that it prevents Google to display certain results for certain search queries, even though it's perfectly legal to publish the content on a website. So for instance, it's legal to have a web...
[10:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:48] <exec> 08└─Dear google, In Europe, companies commercial codes are generally under different civil codes than the ones applying to people. Common law is not common here. Please take your company free speech else-where.
[10:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:50] <exec> 08└─Oh look, a European pretending it has free speech.
[10:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:52] <exec> 08└─your right to be forgotten infringes on my right to be wary of repeat offenders, so I will be suspicious by default so all you did is carpet punishing the clean innocent ones. Anyway, a corporation complaining about injustice is a side effect.
[10:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:01] <exec> 08└─the life extending mutation should be named "livin' like an Amish"?
[10:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:40] <exec> 08└─Couldn't be soon enough. Outer space is definitely the best place to put Zuma. Now if only they could ship all his cronies there as well.
[10:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:13] <exec> 08└─Not sure I get the point... You can write in your text editor of choice, and then copy-paste into the browsers text-box. So "It's All Text!" saves you a couple seconds of Activating an Editor, Copy, Activating Browser and Pasting? And the time savings is questionable, as you have to save the text in...
[10:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:15] <exec> 08└─Something that may cause you to re-think your opinion: All that Javascript to play video is not needed, it's something websites do just to ensure that the user has to learn a new user interface on every website they visit. That doesn't give you the video opening in an external player, but I don't ag...
[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:17] <exec> 08└─The browser has full access to every tab, not matter what you do
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[11:05:54] <exec> 08└─your right to be forgotten infringes on my right to be wary of repeat offenders
[11:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:04] <exec> 08└─Most news outlets like to quote that the cost of the monarchy, here in the UK, is 65 pence per person paid for by our hard earned taxes. The truth is that the Queen is paid out of income from the Crown Estates. She owns the Crown Estates which make around £300 million profit each year, of that she...
[11:09:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sbgen [1302] 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:55] <exec> 08└─I was wondering about the rejection of the manuscript too, so I read the reasons given by the reviewers. It looks like the paper was primarily rejected for lack of data on whatever the authors were claiming. Take into account this before going off on a rage. The paper itself appears to have been inv...
[11:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:52] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, to hell with recent decades - how 'bout some nice, relaxing thalidomide?
[11:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 1427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:54] <exec> 08└─An earlier poster has already Godwin'd this thread, so I'll point out that research from concentration camps is probably the canonical (though far more exteme) example of when this has happened before. Most of the medical community refused to use any of the results (it turns out you can get quite a...
[11:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─In my experience, any time Mozilla announces that a new version of Firefox is faster, it means that the time between freezing is shorter. Which can technically be considered faster, it moves faster from one freeze to the next. Last time it became "faster" was when they moved everything over to SQLit...
[11:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:24] <exec> 08└─The browser (code that you downloaded from either mozilla.org or google.com) has access to everything. Sure it's compartmentalized, but there is still communication between compartments, otherwise the UI wouldn't work. That communication can be done for add-ons also. Compartmentalizing these things...
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[12:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Planning on Adding Rear-Facing 3D Sensors to Future iPhones for Augmented Reality Capabilities - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:54] <exec> 08└─You mean... Apple is starting to look backwards? Might be that Steve was a class better than Tim, if Tim needs augmented 3D-reality now to look good. (grin)
[12:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:06] <exec> 08└─Until Google, you lived your life without knowing what somebody you may have met has done in the past. So it was possible to live it without Google. Let's play a bit the devil's advocate here... yes, I know I risk some rep points here, but let discuss it openly. What's the fuss about? Big bruhaha ab...
[12:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:08] <exec> 08└─Typo. Please read: "without knowing what somebody you met may have done in the past."
[12:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:10] <exec> 08└─This is only partly true, of course. The information was freely available public information long before the internet. It was just a bit more trouble to get at. You had to either go to the area where the records were, or find a local contact who would do that for you. Google, and digitization of pub...
[12:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:12] <exec> 08└─It's a bit more complex in Europe because of WWII. Although history is slowly forgetting this detail, the reason why so many Jews were easily rounded up and transported away to the death camps, is because the Nazis just had to go through municipal records in occupied countries. For a number of decad...
[12:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:14] <exec> 08└─if you examine it rationally you'll find it implies a right to inflict amnesia. And that doesn't sound nearly so nice.
[12:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:17] <exec> 08└─Oh look, a {} pretending it has free speech.
[12:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:19] <exec> 08└─The thing is this: The information is public, Google just makes it more accessible. The original case (iirc) was about a Spanish businessman who had once gone bankrupt. The articles are still online in the Spanish newspapers, but Google is no longer allowed to index those articles in their search re...
[12:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:21] <exec> 08└─(oh, gawd, I actually need to actually go to... actually... sleep... presently, like... now would be a good moment. Actually... yesterday was a better one)
[12:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:31] <exec> 08└─should be named "livin' like an Amish"?
[12:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:41] <exec> 08└─If you value the work per se then restoration is required to maintain it in the best condition possible for enjoyment of the work for the longest time to come. If you value the historical artifact, then perhaps consider that the art may well be more valuable than the insights into some painter's lif...
[12:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:24] <exec> 08└─@realDonalTrump is still available.
[12:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:33] <exec> 08└─Once an open source cryptocurrency has wide enough adoption, presumably if the founders make a change the other users don't like the other users can just fork the project. I'm following Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others with interest but not investing anything more than a few hours of reading here or th...
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[13:06:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:09] <exec> 08└─It's a bit more complex in Europe because of WWII. Although history is slowly forgetting this detail, the reason why so many Jews were easily rounded up and transported away to the death camps, is because the Nazis just had to go through municipal records in occupied countries. For a number of decad...
[13:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:15] <exec> 08└─It may be nice for bad actors and foolish people but it's the epitome of idiocy for a society. Actions should always have consequences and those who are legally prohibited from remembering history are doomed to repeat it.
[13:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:17] <exec> 08└─Worth noting: one of the cases currently being considered by the courts would force Google to remove links worldwide. One political entity deciding for the entire world what information may be indexed. If that precedent were accepted, then every country would take advantage of it, including the most...
[13:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:19] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your moderation of disagree. I find it refreshing that here on Soylent when people disagree they have a way to express their dislike without modding to oblivion. To the answer. So your comment is that privacy is infringing on your right to be suspicious. You are not the purveyor of jus...
[13:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:21] <exec> 08└─That makes no sense at all. Either the information is legal, or it is not. If it's legal, then there is every reason for search engines to index it.
[13:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:24] <exec> 08└─Worth noting: one of the cases currently being considered by the courts would force Google to remove links about a private person worldwide.
[13:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:26] <exec> 08└─You are correct, except for the census, in Portugal you cannot have public state records on your race and religion.
[13:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:28] <exec> 08└─Actions should always have consequences and those who are legally prohibited from remembering history are doomed to repeat it.
[13:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─So a null mutation gives extended lives. Would be interesting to see if other loci are present around the world, that result in a similar effect, yet don't pose the extra risks in homozygous state. Check this gene with people of high age, or communities with people of high age (there is an island in...
[13:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:10] <exec> 08└─At least they can now try to regain their lost customers by using Lil Peep's ugly mug in their next advertising campaign.
[13:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:39] <exec> 08└─Granted. But when I had kids under the age of four I was so tired all the damn time I couldn't plan out a meal of dry Cheerios and the next load of laundry, let alone plan out household needs for a week. So I'm sympathetic to anyone with young kids that can't muster the mental energy to shop efficie...
[13:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:46] <exec> 08└─Submitted because I thought it would be fun to poke fun at them or imagine creative ways for them to die. I was hoping for something like "buggered to death by Gungans", but SN has let me down so far.
[13:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:18] <exec> 08└─By the way, a government that arises from free market enterprise is going to be a lot different than a government that arises from coercion at the very start.
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[14:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:47] <exec> 08└─From the Twitter description of verified accounts: "The blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. ... Twitter reserves the right to remove verification at any time without notice. Reasons for removal may reflect behaviors on and off Twitter... I...
[14:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:49] <exec> 08└─They are up in arms because of a checkmark, when an outright ban for rule violations would br more fitting? Fuck Nazis.
[14:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:51] <exec> 08└─Eh? What's a Nazi?
[14:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:53] <exec> 08└─They are destroying any tattered illusion of neutrality that Twitter had left. They directly damaging their own business, chasing people away to the competition, ...
[14:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:56] <exec> 08└─Eh? What's a Nazi?
[14:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:58] <exec> 08└─Notice how he is not calling for an entity that claims a monopoly on the "legitimate" use of force to come and threaten them to reinstate the blue checkmark on a certain group on pain of death? Reads more like he is letting a certain viewpoint be known in order to provide information so that a self-...
[14:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:32] <exec> 08└─Giving sex offender status to a public urinator has nothing to do with "the right to be forgotten". That person should just be fined. But it wouldn't be forgotten.
[14:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:33] <exec> 08└─Giving sex offender status to a public urinator has nothing to do with "the right to be forgotten"... But it wouldn't be forgotten.
[14:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:35] <exec> 08└─Go out, live and let live
[14:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:38] <exec> 08└─Freedom is about a balance between one person's rights and another's. Some things are simple, like person A's right to live versus person B's right to prevent that. This situation is more complicated. One underlying problem here is that often people are not perfect, but they learn and end up leading...
[14:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:48] <exec> 08└─So, these mutants are in a natural "blood thinner" state, just like the pills we give to basically everyone over the age of 60 with any kind of arteriosclerosis. Next, we need to engineer a control mechanism so that the blood thinner effect only expresses itself when needed - but, wait, that would b...
[14:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:50] <exec> 08└─(there is an island in northern Japan where people also get exceptionally old).
[14:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:02] <exec> 08└─It's just prices going up as usual. At the rate things are going $450m will soon hardly cover ones health insurance premium.
[14:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:25] <exec> 08└─I wish there was a law about not being allowed to risk customer data obtained during the activity engaged in, in order to sell to the very same customers. And then punishment for being so stupid actually do it. The fact they had terminals that were secure and ones that were not... why the difference...
[14:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:26] <exec> 08└─Wow you are so hip. http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[14:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:03] <exec> 08└─That's because SN has degenerated into pointless political virtue-signalling, any vestige of merry pranksterism was chased out by humorless scolds months ago. You could have prevented this.
[14:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:18] <exec> 08└─So what? Once again, we're ignoring outcome.
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[15:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:48] <exec> 08└─Ideally get proof, make videos being careful to document and not accuse, disseminate them. Anyway the streisand effect seems to have kicked in. Oh and get a linux cd or use toram when booting linux from usb key, or even better consider all your communication compromised already.
[15:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:50] <exec> 08└─huh?
[15:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:52] <exec> 08└─huh?
[15:05:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 812 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:59] <exec> 08└─From the Twitter description of verified accounts: "The blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. ... Twitter reserves the right to remove verification at any time without notice. Reasons for removal may reflect behaviors on and off Twitter... I...
[15:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:06] <exec> 08└─Those who viewed it as a free and open platform will hopefully change their opinion of it, but if they're in the echo chamber, they hardly have an incentive. People like echo-chamber safe spaces where they hear only what they like because they don't have the capability of making an argument that sup...
[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. A long gone political party from Germany.
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:11] <exec> 08└─But the stock price didn't rise *because* of this decision, nor did it even rise *after* its decision. It rose because Twitter said it was cutting costs, which always drives stock prices up. However, the rise this year is utterly pathetic compared to the S&P500 which otherwise reflects the bubble we...
[15:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:13] <exec> 08└─Obviously a nazi is someone with a blue checkmark... Now, pink triangles, yellow stars, etc. they're different, but the common factor is that they're a way of identifying someone as different/special. Apparently some of the nazis are not special anymore and have been downgraded, by having their chec...
[15:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:15] <exec> 08└─. It is vitally important to believe in the right things when you are part of the nazi elite...
[15:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:53] <exec> 08└─That understanding seems a better starting point for choosing a new balance.
[15:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─this has worked thru a balance of public records in obscure places
[15:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:57] <exec> 08└─Oh look, a {} pretending it has free speech.
[15:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:59] <exec> 08└─It's actually an assault on globalism. As in, what gives Google the right to establish a worldwide standard that completely disregards what nations, states, and local regulations require? Localities may feel it is their prerogative to constrict businesses that offer goods or services to their local...
[15:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:47] <exec> 08└─You need to get out more...
[15:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering the Gut Microbiome With 'Good' Bacteria May Help Treat Crohn's Disease - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:49] <exec> 08└─The only way to stop a bad bacteria? With a gun. Is a good bacteria and a gun.
[15:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─That's because SN has degenerated into pointless political virtue-signalling, any vestige of merry pranksterism was chased out by humorless scolds months ago.
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, man, but that deathstar went to 11. And that cantina was turned into a smoking crater. And that villain was a whiny millenial. Were you not entertained? The next installment is sure to similarly amp up episode V. I mean, I can't wait, can you? I bet the cloud city part will have a plot dynamic...
[15:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:20] <exec> 08└─Wow, you make slavery sound pretty awesome.
[15:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:21] <exec> 08└─Those unintended consequences you mention are more a result of over reaction, than a proper reaction. IMHO, women should be included in any and all research and tests. But, women should be properly INFORMED. To lazy to go in search of thes story again, but some dude in Toronto was earning money in c...
[15:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:05] <exec> 08└─Obviously you haven't read entire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Otherwise, you would Know that all it takes is for some alien bureaucrat who needs to check off Done on their make way for new Super Highway. Seriously, after reading that entire series, I realized for the first time how blea...
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[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:55] <exec> 08└─As much as I love sweets, sugar is one of the worst things to happen to food in a long time. After cutting down sugar to almost nothing, I've lost a little over 15 lbs over the past year. I went from awkwardly fitting into a large with a big gut sticking out to fitting into a medium shirt with minor...
[16:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:56] <exec> 08└─Ok, now stop eating bread and baked beans (read the label, you'll be amazed how much sugar Heinz puts in) and drop the pasteurized beer (and no, Bud and Coors aren't even beers)
[16:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:59] <exec> 08└─Step away from the pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce.
[16:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:01] <exec> 08└─Ok, now stop eating bread and baked beans (read the label, you'll be amazed how much sugar Heinz puts in)...
[16:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:19] <exec> 08└─I don't like twitter, but I DO like seeing it trigger idiots! I read through their rules and there is nothing SJW about it. They prohibit posts encouraging violence and self-harm, big whoop. I've said before, we need decentralized systems if we want our privacy and autonomy back. Do you get angry at...
[16:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:20] <exec> 08└─It was a while back. Here's the abridged edition: Nazis: #yesallaryans Jews: #notalljews Nazis: kekekekekekekekekekeke
[16:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:23] <exec> 08└─It's not like anyone's speech is actually being curtailed in any way. Nazis are still allowed to spread their bullshit on twitter, just like before, they just don't get a little blue star that says they're special.
[16:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:05] <exec> 08└─Facts [dailymail.co.uk] win [dailymail.co.uk]
[16:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:06] <exec> 08└─will drive demand for a Google alternative hosted outside the reach of the law. That would be a good thing. The law is an ass. We need more alternatives that can't be shut down.
[16:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:20] <exec> 08└─How could an article like this not even mention https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Is it the same? Different? Why different?
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─I like the structure you're proposing. It's close to what I've been cogitating on, but haven't yet brought to words as well as you did. The pitch needs a different wrapper, though. What you're talking about is not socialism. Socialism has lost all utility as a term, and what it actually is in a poli...
[16:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:54] <exec> 08└─well yeah, thinner atmosphere -> more solar radiation -> hotter surface. But it's not 1:1. Just look at Venus for an example of the exact opposite thing happening.
[16:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize you had all your profiles open at once. I too use multiple profiles, but I also have tons of tabs so I can't have too many profiles open at once else things start crashing.
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[17:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 2060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:46] <exec> 08└─Toyota's been working on this hydrogen crap for ages, and apparently their management doesn't understand the Sunk Cost Fallacy, as it seems they think they have to stick with it because they've done a lot of R&D on it already, even though hydrogen has proven to be a terrible "fuel". It has horrible...
[17:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:48] <exec> 08└─The main motivation looks to be government subsidies. Japan is pushing hydrogen, California gives out more credits for hydrogen than electric cars, and Germany also offers some support. When that's gone I expect the hydrogen cars to go, too.
[17:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:50] <exec> 08└─As appealing as battery electric is, it isn't going to become standard overnight. We still have a long way to go infrastructure wise as we have yet to solve the charger problem in large, dense cities. Anyone without a private parking spot where a charger can be installed will be the target market fo...
[17:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe the government needs to read the first post right before yours. During flu season be sure to take plenty of Vitamin C++
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─I quit soda pop years ago. Restaurants charging over $1, and even pushing past $2 for a drink helped push me away. Wish I'd known in high school that excessive sugar also causes acne. Used to pay no attention to ingredients and would eat those sorts that were upwards of 99% sugar: fruit chews, hard...
[17:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:07] <exec> 08└─I quit soda pop years ago. Restaurants charging over $1, and even pushing past $2 for a drink helped push me away. Same here. I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted when I was young, but in my late 20s it caught up with me and I had a weight problem. The biggest change I made was not d...
[17:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─What's going to really shock you is how much fructose is in an apple! Well, actually I do hear you on bread. All the bread I can find, even supposed "slimwiches" (flatbread buns that are supposed to be healthier but just have the exact same number of calories), have sugar. I guess I kind of gave up...
[17:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:12] <exec> 08└─Ah, the late 20's bulge. I remember I was about 28 when I started noticing my gut was growing exponentially from all the drinking. It really hit me after my grandmother's poignant comment to me one day: "You better get rid of that gut! Girls don't want to look down and see a big fat gut, they want t...
[17:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:14] <exec> 08└─Bread doesn't 'need' sugar. A basic bread recipe is yeast, water, flour and salt. Sugar can add sweetness to the bread (duh) but the yeast also feed on the sugar helping things rise faster. Most of the bread that I make has about a tablespoon of sugar per loaf, so not much.
[17:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:16] <exec> 08└─Wish I'd known in high school that excessive sugar also causes acne. Used to pay no attention to ingredients and would eat those sorts that were upwards of 99% sugar: fruit chews, hard candies, toffees and caramels, syrups. Now I check and if the food is more than 1/3 sugar, I avoid it. Also try to...
[17:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:37] <exec> 08└─This trivial wrongthink gets your account blocked from everything but browsing and direct messages to followers. You are forced to dox yourself, revealing a phone number that can be used to track you in additional ways, and you are forced to delete the tweet: https://i.redd.it [i.re...
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:38] <exec> 08└─First, I do not have any of FaceTwit. So I may be speaking out of turn. IMO, Twitter's "blue star" should be an indication of verification. Nothing more. Not an endorsement. Part of that neutrality is that they should not pick and choose who they will verify. But that would mean they probably need t...
[17:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:40] <exec> 08└─You can get blocked for posting FBI statistics as a bar graph: https://i.redd.it [i.redd.it] For such doubleplusungood crimethink, you lose nearly all account ability (tweet, retweet, follow, like) until 12 hours after you delete the tweet (speech suppressed) and reveal your phone n...
[17:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:43] <exec> 08└─Twitter's "verification" system is used to confirm accounts of celebrities and other accounts of "public interest." However, the feature has long straddled a blurry line between identity confirmation and "elite" user status, especially since verified accounts receive heightened visibility and perks...
[17:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:27] <exec> 08└─To the answer. So your comment is that privacy is infringing on your right to be suspicious. You are not the purveyor of justice, the state is, for good or bad.
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─Voterrecords.com lists voter registrations with party affiliations for 14 states. Look up your own if you don't believe it. When the fascists completely consolidate their power, it'll be easy for them to verify that your political views are in opposition to their rule. I wrote my representatives loc...
[17:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:30] <exec> 08└─As it would be for Google to index and allow access to the electoral rolls.
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's not a tuple, but a set. Maybe it was the set of ancestor posts containing intelligence? Or some other set? The set of every set which does not contain itself as an element. That set would appear to qualify for inclusion in the set, thus making it a set which now includes itself, making it...
[17:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─A right to be forgotten is really the delusional attempt to pretend that reality is not what it actually is. Pretend that facts are fake. Pretend that actual events did not occur. Pretend that people do not exist. Pretend that certain things were not said. Wow! The Right To Be Forgotten is actually...
[17:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:37] <exec> 08└─That is a circular argument. The problem is that the people wanting to implement a "right" to be forgotten are by definition public figures since they have lawful public information about themselves that they are trying to suppress.
[17:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:39] <exec> 08└─Freedom is about a balance between one person's rights and another's.
[17:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:53] <exec> 08└─Forget about naming the life extending mutation. It needs to be studied. Perhaps Peter Thief can engage in some more human subject testing with the high standards of rigor and ethics his scientific studies are known for.
[17:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hurricane Season, as Shown by Salt, Smoke, and Dust - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:15] <exec> 08└─Based on the forest fires in the video, Europe will be getting a high from all the smoke emanating from CA.
[17:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hurricane Season, as Shown by Salt, Smoke, and Dust - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:17] <exec> 08└─In the video there was a large "backdraft" through the Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Ocean. I checked the date, and yes, it was September. Living in suburban Portland I distinctly remember those days: Labor Day was supposed to be over 100F but the smoke kept the temperature lower about 5~10 degre...
[17:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:44] <exec> 08└─It's more fun to watch on 60" tv in living room than to watch on Firefox on computer. (Although I suppose the non-lazy could use TV as computer monitor.)
[17:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:04] <exec> 08└─From the article I read, they are trying to set the online prices to compete with Amazon. For things like kitchen staples, Amazon is typically more expensive than retail anyway, so this price dynamic already existed for the most place. Proof: a few weeks ago I had a conference call with my friend, a...
[17:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:16] <exec> 08└─Nah, he's just gonna grope her with the force, cause that's what only super-baddies do.
[17:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:41] <exec> 08└─can be dispatched with a sharp blow with a malachite or hefty stick.
[17:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:43] <exec> 08└─You are technically correct and informative, and I want to reach for whatever mod means "you know it's a joke, let it be, you party pooper"
[17:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:52] <exec> 08└─Typical "fuck you got mine" Republican attitude.
[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 2258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:15] <exec> 08└─You raise a really good question that gets to the heart of the ethical dilemma, AC. To me, there are three approaches which should control (and in this case were apparently ignored). The first is that an Illinois institution was involved as the patent holder and academic home of the principal invest...
[17:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously, after reading that entire series, I realized for the first time how bleak of a world view Atheism is.
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:02] <exec> 08└─Look at the title of this thread which remains unchanged since you kicked it off. Hopefully, you will come up with a better argument.
[17:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:04] <exec> 08└─The real problem is the socio-economic systems we have yet to grow out of.
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[18:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is a matter of which country you were buying it in, but I remember Dell's original Linux offerings as being equally expensive as their Windows offerings. I was ordering Desktops at the time, but they could not offer an explanation, so I just assume that they were still paying the Windows...
[18:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:52] <exec> 08└─Several manufacturers have offered Linux laptops, most notably Dell, and the Linux price has frequently been higher than the Windows price. This isn't because of a "Windows tax" (Microsoft forces the manufacturer to pay a license fee for every Windows laptop), it's because of the "Windows crapware s...
[18:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you mean by technical work. Information Technology - yeah, sure. I would use Linux or BSD. But probably BSD. CAD, CAM, FMEA, optical sims, ... any # of 1000s of niche simulation and optimization tools - Windows. Linux isn't even seriously considered. Numpy/scipy etc make scientific m...
[18:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:56] <exec> 08└─People who do technical work may like Linux, but that's not a given. I manage some of the IT in the Library I work at. IT sent us an all-in-one to replace a desktop. This was one junky, slow thing, that was excruciating to use Windows on. I installed Linux on it and helped my student worker learn wh...
[18:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─When are they going to bring back the nice keyboards they used to have on the E6x00-E6x30 series Latitude laptops, before they jumped on this idiotic "island keyboard" craze that all the laptop makers have joined in their quest to copy Apple?
[18:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:00] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is, we need more crapware for Linux?
[18:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:11] <exec> 08└─Is Toyota going to build the network of hydrogen-refueling stations to serve its hydrogen-powered cars?
[18:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─Classic Lefty-government-does-business "success story." It may be terribly inefficient, horrendously impractical, but it is our duty to do the just thing, and use other people's money to try to make it work!
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─It's all fun and games till your hydrogen infrastructure blows up. This is one problem. Another is that liquefying the hydrogen will require plenty of energy making this a crazy endeavor. Not that such considerations ever stopped anything...
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─No but the oil companies/gasoline suppliers will reluctantly step up to the mark if it looks like there's a danger of electric cars eating their lunch.
[18:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, are you arguing that batteries have better "fuel" density than hydrogen? Or that the "filling stations" are convenient, cheap, and fast? Or maybe you are arguing that battery-electric is simpler than a hydrogen power plant? Maybe you are arguing that battery-electric is efficient and loss...
[18:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:39] <exec> 08└─Regular exercise really helps with the depression and anxiety. Personally, I recommend getting a bike and finding some nice (and safe) trails to ride on. Gyms bore the hell out of me (and many seem to be filled with guys who look like criminals) and I like to feel like I'm accomplishing something or...
[18:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:40] <exec> 08└─The thinking on exercise bothers me. When did "exercise" become something that you had to work into your schedule? Used to be exercise was only something that those weird rich liberals from California did, while the rest of us labored on the farm. Now somehow this "getting your exercise" by doing fr...
[18:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:42] <exec> 08└─That one seems a bit odd to me too, but I guess you could just look at the nutrition info and count the grams of sugar, multiplied by number of portions per package, and divide by the net weight.
[18:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:08] <exec> 08└─Would you care to back up your assertions that a) Twitter had a "tattered illusion of neutrality", and b) Twitter is run by SJWs? Those two statements seems to be directly at odds with each other. If your point is that SJWs outside of Twitter are destroying the perception of Twitter's neutrality, th...
[18:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:10] <exec> 08└─Nazis on one kind dissing nazis of another kind. Boohoo!
[18:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:12] <exec> 08└─What I don't get about the blue badge is why Twitter seems to be giving them out for free. We're talking about public figures with PR budgets, after all. Why not pay for the privilege? It would certainly clear up a lot about whether Twitter endorses the recipients, not to mention aiding the process...
[18:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─What Nazis? Who is advocating for that warped form of Communism now a days? I have lived in the US for 25 years now and I have not met a single Nazi. Your milage may very, but to me they seem like something akin to the boogeyman.
[18:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:16] <exec> 08└─No one's speech is being suppressed. It's Twitter - it's their platform and they get to set the rules. If they bother enough people with their ToS then competitors will start to eat Twitter's marketshare. That's the way it works. That's the way it's supposed to work.
[18:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:19] <exec> 08└─First, I do not have any of FaceTwit. So I may be speaking out of turn.
[18:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:11] <exec> 08└─When government demands that information must not be searchable, but not unpublishable how is there really any right to be forgotten? If the right to be forgotten can't be brought up in a court of law to suppress history, how is there any such right? The logical conclusion is that newspapers must cu...
[18:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:13] <exec> 08└─In my specific country we do not have perpetual crime nor are the criminal records public,
[18:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:15] <exec> 08└─No, just the opposite. They are explicitly saying they don't.
[18:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:29] <exec> 08└─A little offtopic, but FYI there has previously been some research into the effect of the anticoagulant Coumadin against some psychiatric/neurological disorders, due to downstream effects that tissue plasminogen activator has on neurogenesis. https://www.medscape.com [medscape.com...
[18:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hurricane Season, as Shown by Salt, Smoke, and Dust - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:54] <exec> 08└─What is puffing up synchronously from the southeastern US? It happens a bit at the start, and a lot around 1:12 in [youtube.com]. Power plants, maybe?
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:53] <exec> 08└─It's good to be the.... Prince? And now, Dark Lorde singing Roy-ales. I've never seen a blaster in the flesh I cut my teeth on dark Sith Lords in the movies And I'm not proud of my address In the blown-up town, no ion charge envy But every shot's like white hats, blue bars, shootin' up the cell room...
[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─Any species that comes up with a movie as bad as "Armageddon" (or worse, "Battlefield: Earth") deserves to get wiped out by an asteroid.
[18:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:40] <exec> 08└─Who said anything about aliens having superior ethics? Maybe the aliens just don't like us, and find us annoying, and want to exterminate us because of that, and because they think it's funny. After all, we've done exactly the same ourselves, so we can't claim any kind of moral high ground. Just loo...
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[19:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:57] <exec> 08└─"crapware from various companies like McAfee, Symantec, Adobe, and others," You mention only programs that have some minimal redeeming value. When the first Athlons were hitting the market, the wife decided to buy a computer, and settled on a Compaq. Windows XP, Athlow XP, enough hard drive and memo...
[19:05:58] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 1281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:58] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Juggernaut? They STILL hide their Linux models, the still sell very few in comparison to windows, and they still act like you are from Mars if you ask for tech support. Even their XPS line, which was their Linux breed only hints at linux availability with pictures of penguins. You can onl...
[19:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:00] <exec> 08└─Nothing's changed in that regard with Dell. You still to this day get a machine so bloated with crapware they run dog slow. My HOA association purchased a machine for association business. All new and shiny and Windows 10. It literally took two days of crapware removal to get it to the point it coul...
[19:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:03] <exec> 08└─Ahem. I think most scientists use Mac these days, seen as best of "usability/compatibility" and "can run a compiler/etc". I have seen some folks run windows desktop, do real work on a cluster and interface via e.g. putty.
[19:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:05] <exec> 08└─It literally took two days of crapware removal to get it to the point it could run quickbooks and Office Libre at the same time. Can't you just download a clean corporate copy of Windows and install that instead? Heck, even buying a license for a full clean copy is cheaper than 2 days of your time.
[19:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:07] <exec> 08└─I just got a Dell "black friday sale" paper catalog in the mail, maybe a dozen pages. In among the various systems and accessories there are three machines that ship with Windows 7 (Windows 10 free upgrade included). The first time I saw this was ~4 months ago, same kind of small paper catalog -- mo...
[19:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:09] <exec> 08└─Honestly, it wouldn't hurt. I wouldn't mind having tons of crapware on a preloaded-Linux laptop, including crapware that sends all my private data to some company's server, as long as they're paying me by reducing the purchase price (perhaps down to zero...). It doesn't matter to me, because I'm jus...
[19:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:11] <exec> 08└─When not doing "technical work" I always feel much safer in Linux. I have less bloatware, I have a reasonable approximation of a sane permissions system, I can easily jail things I distrust. I refuse to read email on any windows machine, and its rare that I browse the web on windows. Technical work...
[19:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:14] <exec> 08└─I don't think he's saying that. No need to put crapware on Linux. I would be happy to pay the higher price to not have crapware and ads. Of course, I'd be even happier to pay the lower price and not have the crapware or ads.
[19:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:16] <exec> 08└─I hope they know enough to remind the IT department who they work for. Most of those guys are Microsoft zombies all the way down. If they are getting nervous its just a sign of how shallow their skillset is.
[19:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:18] <exec> 08└─i'm glad they are doing this but if they were some sort of visionaries they would have had at least a small commitment to linux back in 2000, not 20 freaking 12! a company like them could have partnered with canonical and built transparent windows app support and super stability with security update...
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:20] <exec> 08└─> even buying a license for a full clean copy is cheaper than 2 days of your time Haven't tried this with a Dell laptop, but did try it with a ThinkPad (Win XP years). No go, something(s) were missing and installing WinXP Pro from a Microsoft optical disk would not boot into Windows. Didn't go furth...
[19:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:36] <exec> 08└─. . . solve the charger problem in large, dense cities. Anyone without a private parking spot where a charger can be installed will be the target market for 'fueled' vehicles.
[19:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:37] <exec> 08└─In California they have Crazy Jerry. Who isn't as crazy as he looks. He makes a big show of how Green he is. He's not Green, he's Brown. He files to Paris, flies to Bonn, flies to the Vatican and says "Oh no, the Trump factor! Oh no, the climate is changing!" While in California they had a big, big...
[19:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, are you arguing that batteries have better "fuel" density than hydrogen? Or that the "filling stations" are convenient, cheap, and fast? Or maybe you are arguing that battery-electric is simpler than a hydrogen power plant? Maybe you are arguing that battery-electric is efficient and loss...
[19:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe. OTOH, it's good to have a backup plan. It appears that various material shortages may limit the total number of energy dense batteries that we can build. That said, I don't trust a backup plan that relies on a platinum catalyst. But maybe they're working on that.
[19:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:44] <exec> 08└─> Filling stations could become a thing of the past. I think just the opposite -- given the relatively long time to charge batteries, I think e-filling stations will look like old time drive-in movies. Huge areas to park many cars, with many charging points (instead of the posts that held little spe...
[19:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:46] <exec> 08└─People in cities are the main target for EVs. They don't need a lot of range, and charging infrastructure can be installed (legislatively if necessary, to force apartment owners to upgrade their facilities, and incentivize businesses to install chargers in parking lots). It's the people who live in...
[19:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:48] <exec> 08└─I can think of a simple reason why Japan's government would be pushing Hydrogen. They can produce it locally from seawater and not have to import petroleum for auto fuel.
[19:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:12] <exec> 08└─I get most of my exercise doing useful things like housework. Not everyone has a big house needing that much housework. And housework isn't really aerobic exercise, nor particularly strenuous. Proper exercise needs to get your heartbeat to an elevated level for an extended period of time to be effec...
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:13] <exec> 08└─I multiply by 3 in my head. If the amount of sugar per serving * 3 is more than the serving size, then the product is more than 1/3 sugar.
[19:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:15] <exec> 08└─Losing the taste for sugar has amazing effects. Start with the drinks, move on to other foods in your diet. Start looking at processed food labels. This includes everything that comes in a box or bag. Nearly everything has a refined sugar in it! It's incredible. The sugar industry is poisoning our f...
[19:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:18] <exec> 08└─Look at the ingredients list. If it has a refined sugar product in it do not buy it. Food does not need to have refined sweeteners added to it. Develop a taste for real food. Within a few months you will not be able to stomach the industrial byproducts that the food industry is passing off as "food"...
[19:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:20] <exec> 08└─The thinking on exercise bothers me. When did "exercise" become something that you had to work into your schedule? Used to be exercise was only something that those weird rich liberals from California did, while the rest of us labored on the farm.
[19:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:22] <exec> 08└─Most bread needs some sugar to enable a rapid rise time, but excess sugar is not needed by the yeast. When I was making bread I generally used about a teaspoon of sugar for a loaf, and it wasn't a small loaf. If you don't add sugar at all you need to extend the rise time significantly, but I haven't...
[19:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:24] <exec> 08└─Meh. I drive from behind 7 dashcams.
[19:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:26] <exec> 08└─Exercise helps with depression, health, etc. But don't expect it to help you lose weigh, as it also increases appetite (just not immediately after the exercise). Only diet can cause you to lose weight...and possibly having the right gut bacteria, though I think that's still being debated, and, of co...
[19:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─Wish I'd known in high school that excessive sugar also causes acne.
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:31] <exec> 08└─While I agree that excess sugar is a major problem, and contributes significantly to the obesity epidemic, the proportion of obesity that you are comparing probably has more to do with changes in lifestyle. In the 1970's people were a lot more active. More of them were physically active on the job....
[19:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:33] <exec> 08└─I completely disagree. The total lack of obese people in Manhattan, plus all the other places around the developed world where people walk a lot, is proof enough that exercise helps maintain weight. More exercise = higher metabolism.
[19:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:05] <exec> 08└─You will be banned from Twitter for posting inconvenient facts that challenge the SJW hugbox narrative. Don't let that reality get in the way of you calling people that disagree with you nazis.
[19:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:07] <exec> 08└─Follow the money. In Twitter's case, it's a pretty interesting rabbit hole. Twitter is and has always been fully infiltrated by people that hate freedom and free expression.
[19:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:09] <exec> 08└─Apparently, anyone who isn't a Maoist. BTW, lx's post didn't sufficiently and directly praise Mao. He's a Nazi too.
[19:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:11] <exec> 08└─No love for Pol Pot? :-(
[19:08:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 911 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:41] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your moderation of disagree. I find it refreshing that here on Soylent when people disagree they have a way to express their dislike without modding to oblivion. To the answer. So your comment is that privacy is infringing on your right to be suspicious. You are not the purveyor of jus...
[19:08:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 1073 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:53] <exec> 08└─It's actually an assault on globalism. As in, what gives Google the right to establish a worldwide standard that completely disregards what nations, states, and local regulations require? Localities may feel it is their prerogative to constrict businesses that offer goods or services to their local...
[19:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:07] <exec> 08└─If only we could make the internet technically indelible and universally accessible, we wouldn't be wasting all our time and energy arguing about it.
[19:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:09] <exec> 08└─Keeping info about another person at a low level of accessibility infringes on your or anyone else's right to free speech? Any and all regulation of content on the internet, or any other communication device, by the state or any other monopoly, is an infringement on free speech, by definition. Nobod...
[19:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:11] <exec> 08└─Two different issues. It's ludicrous to brand that a 'sex offense.' Absolute insanity. The solution is to quit doing that. Nothing at all to do with the subject at hand.
[19:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:13] <exec> 08└─Each individual is capable of filtering what they down/upload. Nobody has any right to filter what other people want to down/upload. That is not anybody's prerogative. The state has the responsibility to provide what people need, not to tell people what they can see and hear. If the internet can tea...
[19:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:29] <exec> 08└─Little by little they are figuring it out: Every gene is linked to every phenotype. Not sure why it will take a century and trillions of dollars to realize the obvious though. Is it that good of a jobs program?
[19:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─It's different because this doesn't prevent blood clotting, it merely inhibits it...i.e., it slows it to a lesser degree. With hemophilia a simple scratch can be life-threatening. With this one it took a significant wound. That still doesn't mean it's a good trade-off. Not when you're young, certain...
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─It may be illegal, but it's not necessarily immoral. Better that the money remain in the hands of productive people, rather than be stolen and then squandered by paper-pushing bureaucrats. Invalid form key: ZRS01tJApY
[19:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─your gross, (what should be criminal) negligence is not really a "hack", you goofy fucks. in fact, your security is so shitty your practices basically amount to fraud. you have official looking machines that people assume must work with some level of professionalism, but they are slaveware laden pie...
[19:10:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:20] <exec> 08└─From the Space Flight Now link: "SpaceX has delayed its next launch from the Kennedy Space Center until at least Friday night, and possibly later, to examine data from a recent payload fairing test for another customer."
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─Now, try again.
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─It looks like the problem in this scenario is your government; stupid things happen when an organization ("government") gets to demand income by decree, and thereby spend other people's hard-earned resources.
[19:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:29] <exec> 08└─you are a good serf, your current and future masters will be pleased of your ass-licking
[19:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:30] <exec> 08└─Back in the day when you never encountered a display >1920x1080 resolution, I preferred KDE as well. Today, it feels seedy, out of sync with modern equipment. Not sure what's a good alternative really, GNOME reminds me too much of cave dwelling.
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[20:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:50] <exec> 08└─Toto Riina just died, and Manson may be right behind. Who else wants to join on that boat ride to Tartarus ?
[20:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:52] <exec> 08└─So I was told by a former inmate. The other inmates regard Charlie as "special".
[20:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:17] <exec> 08└─All depends on the company. Some companies (names excluded to protect the guilty) of which I am personally aware are pushing hard to drop Windows in favour of OSX and/or Linux. Not because they like Apple particularly, but because the Windows 10 model is just not good news. Pay Microsoft $Money on t...
[20:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:19] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy to get a laptop for free that's full of crapware and ads and even sends all my private data off somewhere. Why would you not want this? In short, what kind of Linux user uses the OS that's pre-loaded by the manufacturer? Crapware and spyware doesn't matter when you just wipe the HD as s...
[20:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:21] <exec> 08└─Now that you mention it, that was a big problem with Windows for a long time: you couldn't just install a clean copy, because you had to get a bunch of driver discs or download drivers from the manufacturer's website(s), and then go through a bunch of rebooting cycles to get all the drivers installe...
[20:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you're talking about. Every laptop keyboard I've used that isn't the Apple-style chiclet was terrible. I would make so many typing mistakes due to poor feedback and inadequate distance between keys. The chiclet isn't perfect, but it's better than anything else that fits in that sho...
[20:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:25] <exec> 08└─There will be much discussion here about the crapware that comes pre-installed with Windows on a brand-new computer, so maybe now is a good time to ask a question: "How exactly does one install a fresh copy of Windows (without all the crapware) on a brand-new PC?" One presumably has the licence to r...
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03John Bresnahan [5989] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:28] <exec> 08└─This should provide a good start: https://answers.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] You can freely download an ISO file and either burn it to a DVD (I think it...
[20:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:50] <exec> 08└─you're complaining because toyota is helping to build an open source infotainment system? are you fucking brain damaged? it's dumb ass, little, wallowing pigs like you who keep the whole world enslaved by technology, instead of freed by it. apple or google in my car? fuck you!
[20:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:52] <exec> 08└─I think a better solution is ethanol or chemically produced gasoline from catbon snd hydrogen. We could build giant solar farms in deserts to provide input energy to create it anf pull the chimicals to crack into carbon and hydrogen from the air and wayer.
[20:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:27] <exec> 08└─As I recall, it was an article I read years ago in Science News. The son of an ice cream shop owner grew up on ice cream and suffered from terrible acne. The article linked the problem not to the dairy, but to the sugar in the ice cream. My own experience suggests it's true. Whenever I indulge in sw...
[20:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:28] <exec> 08└─This won't work for a great many foods that are packaged as individual serving pieces, though. If there's .5g of sugar in a muffin, it's more than 1/3 sugar? .5g * 3 = 1.5 > 1 muffin
[20:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:31] <exec> 08└─> buying expensive and bulky items such as the exercise bike I have exercise bikes, but didn't have to buy them -- just kept my eyes open on trash day. Exercise equipment is thrown out on a regular basis in the suburbs. Must be the stuff of forgotten dreams (dreams of a flat stomach!)
[20:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:07] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/1914/ [xkcd.com] "Twitter Verification"
[20:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:08] <exec> 08└─Twitter, if it weren't for us, they wouldn't be here. They wouldn’t exist. They should pay us. Like it or don’t like it, people have backed Twitter. What I really mind though is we back it at tremendous expense. We get nothing for it. The primary reason we are with Twitter is because we need to...
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:11] <exec> 08└─Hey, I call em as I see em.
[20:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:13] <exec> 08└─That's not what we're talking about though. I agree that they should be able to spread as much bullshit as they like. But they don't need a special little blue star that gives them special ability to spread it better. No platform and so on.
[20:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:15] <exec> 08└─It amuses me when people pretend nazis don't exist. They definitely do, it's straight delusional to think otherwise.
[20:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:17] <exec> 08└─This is true. It's pretty common for people to get banned from r/The_Donald, or stormfront or various chatrooms, for having incorrect opinions. And if they're not banned they're swamped with harrassment and non-arguments. People really need to step out of their safe spaces every once in a while.
[20:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:19] <exec> 08└─Follow the money. In Twitter's case, it's a pretty interesting rabbit hole. Twitter is and has always been fully infiltrated by people that hate freedom and free expression.
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─Nice work if you can get it.
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─Let me introduce you to my boss, so you two can discuss those silly "inflation" theories...
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Retail Chain Forever 21 Warns of Data Breach - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─Funny that a place with "forever" in their name does not make clothes that last.
[20:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Payload 0100-0300 UTC on 17th (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST on 16th) - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─Come on, it's far from perfect, but Zuma Beach [wikipedia.org] has some really good eye candy
[20:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:55] <exec> 08└─"Realistically, mail order should cost more than in-store shopping, because you have to pay someone to fetch and pack the individual orders." you didn't think that one through all the way, did you.
[20:11:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 4970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:49] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I'm for trying to take over Corporate America with coops. To do that though, we would need a very recognizable branding along with enough participants to effectively marginalize one of the bad corps in any given area. Every single dollar you spend at a coop (although really half in some coo...
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:46] <exec> 08└─It's impossible to have a conversation; we disagree vehemently on the meanings of the words "fair", "free market", "freedom", "property", "profit" and probably many others such as "law", "order", "self-interest", and so on. I'll simply note that monarchists scoffed merrily at the ridiculous, patent...
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[21:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:00] <exec> 08└─Trust me, we won't beat them like this. Torture works. OK, folks? You know, I have these guys -- ”Torture doesn’t work!” -- believe me, it works. And waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it’s not actually torture. Let’s assume it is. But they asked me the question: What do you...
[21:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think he wants to join, but it would just be extra special sweetness if the Orange Anus were on that ride too.
[21:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:03] <exec> 08└─Totò Riina, che coglione! [youtu.be]
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─What did you think of the Klingon torture flashback scene on last Sunday's episode of Star Trek: Discovery? I think the Klingons are winning and we're losing because they have more effective torture. I think we need some kind of agony booth if we want to win.
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─The other inmates regard Charlie as "special".
[21:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:39] <exec> 08└─As soon as Apple has the Courage to bring good keyboards back, the rest of the industry will sheepishly follow. Given the Slim Laptop Without Ports craze, I'd say it won't happen anytime soon.
[21:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:40] <exec> 08└─First, identify all the vendors for all the hardware in the computer. OK, next go to all the vendors of all the hardware in the computer, and download all their drivers for all the hardware in the computer. Third, save all the drivers for all the hardware in the computer on separate media. Fourth, g...
[21:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:42] <exec> 08└─You don't even need to buy a new license to reinstall Windows on a laptop that came with preinstalled with Windows. The computer comes with a license. On older versions (Windows 7 and older) you had to do phone activation when using the OEM key from the sticker (which was easy enough) but newer vers...
[21:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:44] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you're talking about. Every laptop keyboard I've used that isn't the Apple-style chiclet was terrible. I would make so many typing mistakes due to poor feedback and inadequate distance between keys.
[21:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:47] <exec> 08└─First, identify all the vendors for all the hardware in the computer. OK, next go to all the vendors of all the hardware in the computer, and download all their drivers for all the hardware in the computer. Third, save all the drivers for all the hardware in the computer on separate media. Fourth, g...
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─It depends on whether the "Ubuntu" option is the same price as the "FreeDOS" option. If I'm going to wipe the preinstalled OS first (which I am), then FreeDOS may be the actual choice I want.
[21:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:51] <exec> 08└─Now that you mention it, that was a big problem with Windows for a long time: you couldn't just install a clean copy, because you had to get a bunch of driver discs or download drivers from the manufacturer's website(s), and then go through a bunch of rebooting cycles to get all the drivers installe...
[21:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:53] <exec> 08└─It's frojack! More likely than not, he tacked the lappy to the side of a shed, and years later when they moved, it still had crapware on it.
[21:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if the FreeDOS option cost more, why would you pay for that if you're going to wipe the HD anyway? In fact, hypothetically speaking, if you could get the exact same laptop with Windows preloaded for $100 less, why bother with those more expensive options? Just to prevent MS from getting a lice...
[21:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:58] <exec> 08└─I know of some still solidly running Dell PowerEdge 2450, 2550, and 2650s which were bought new in the early 2000s. It seems that some of them were purchased with Linux installed. Some of the original manuals and CDs are still around and are all about Linux. The Dell website still has the support do...
[21:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:00] <exec> 08└─If your computer came with a copy of Windows 10, then the fresh install should automatically activate.
[21:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:02] <exec> 08└─He's not making anything up; that's exactly how it used to be back in the 2000/XP days. Supposedly it's not as bad now, but I only had to do that back in the XP days so that's the way I remember it.
[21:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:04] <exec> 08└─Worked in Microsoft or mixed shops for years, clean installs were a problem with NT and 2000 but from XP onwards were typically straightforward, particularly once the "slipstream" tools were available (not sure they were out with XP at the start, but certainly used with XP) to merge drivers and upda...
[21:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:29] <exec> 08└─The city has many more detailed problems than people think about. There are loads of smaller apartment and multi family homes without tenant parking. There are also many homes built in the 20's in my neighborhood with driveways so narrow they are useless. These people are forced to park on residenti...
[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:30] <exec> 08└─Since land is expensive in cities, these will be in the suburbs (or integrated into city parking garages).
[21:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amid Global Electric-Car Buzz, Toyota Bullish on Hydrogen - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─Toyota is simply working to insure that we have 3 vehicle energy infrastructures rather than 2. Because more is better. Helping to save us from a violently imposed monopoly!
[21:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:09] <exec> 08└─Exercise equipment is thrown out on a regular basis in the suburbs. Must be the stuff of forgotten dreams (dreams of a flat stomach!)
[21:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:11] <exec> 08└─Just because your hungry doesn't mean you have to eat. That's what fasting is all about. Getting the right bacteria is a matter of providing them with the right environment and understanding that that environment is meant to ebb and flow. Glut, encroaching famine, seasonal availability, food require...
[21:08:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:25] <exec> 08└─Those who viewed it as a free and open platform will hopefully change their opinion of it, but if they're in the echo chamber, they hardly have an incentive. People like echo-chamber safe spaces where they hear only what they like because they don't have the capability of making an argument that sup...
[21:08:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:26] <exec> 08└─A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. A long gone political party from Germany.
[21:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:55] <exec> 08└─lol [twitter.com]
[21:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:57] <exec> 08└─Those places are explicitly partisan. The_Donald in particular bills itself as a continuous online Trump rally. It's also only a small part of reddit. Likewise, a communist place like /r/LateStageCapitalism would be expected to ban capitalists. The trouble here is that whole platforms, billed as gen...
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:57] <exec> 08└─The whole concept of a "party affiliation" seems completely insane to most of the world. You should be able to show up at the designated polling place, just as a citizen, nothing more... and vote for whoever you want from the full slate of available candidates in your area. Period.
[21:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 1856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:44] <exec> 08└─Fuck that. Let's try NO PLUGINS, a system that randomizes fingerprinting, and as many countermeasures to information leakage as possible between tabs. I would seriously consider not only threads per window, but entirely separating running tabs into completely separate running programs with their own...
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[22:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samuel Oschin Telescope Near San Diego Upgraded to Capture Fast-Changing Celestial Events - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:51] <exec> 08└─> that researchers will have to automate the process of sifting through observed events to find ones worth following up Surely they do this already?
[22:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samuel Oschin Telescope Near San Diego Upgraded to Capture Fast-Changing Celestial Events - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:52] <exec> 08└─Surely they do this already?
[22:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:51] <exec> 08└─newer versions have the license stored in nvram so it "just works"
[22:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:52] <exec> 08└─CAD, CAM, FMEA, optical sims, ... any # of 1000s of niche simulation and optimization tools - Windows. Linux isn't even seriously considered.
[22:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:54] <exec> 08└─He's not making anything up; that's exactly how it used to be back in the 2000/XP days.
[22:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:56] <exec> 08└─I had a computer motherboard die on me at work. I bought the parts for a new system (SuperMicro chassis, new motherboard, etc.), but no OS. I wanted to just install a clean copy of Win7 and activate it with the license key that was on the chassis of the computer that died. I had an OEM install disk...
[22:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:59] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu is ready for you now.
[22:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:05] <exec> 08└─My generation, the last of gen x, are the last generation of children to grow up without excessive video games and cable/streaming TV. We rode bikes, played manhunt in parks and the neighborhood, climbed the abandoned LIIR elevated tracks, broke into abandoned factories and warehouses making them ou...
[22:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soda Wars: Colombia's Soda Cartel - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:07] <exec> 08└─Apparently Colombian soda industry pulled a drug-cartel move to threaten a civic group's leader, but all the comments yack about sugar. Self-centered bastards we are, pathetic society Colombia's is.
[22:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:53] <exec> 08└─No one's speech is being suppressed.
[22:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:54] <exec> 08└─Where?? I've never seen one, or meet anyone that claimed to be one (maybe they're just in hiding because everyone hates nazis). Where are the Nazis? Only on the internet as far as I can tell. I've met plenty of people that have anti-Semitic views, but mostly they're other minorities, not Aryan or ev...
[22:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:57] <exec> 08└─...Except they claim common carrier protection. Which means they claim that it is impossible for them to control their content. Hmmm....
[22:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:59] <exec> 08└─"on the internet" is exactly where we're talking about. Nobody is open about that kind of shit except skinheads, and they're not exactly the types that most people interact with on a daily basis.
[22:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:01] <exec> 08└─Rednecks certainly exist, and a bunch of them seem to think its 'cool' to think they are Nazis (in their thinking it seems to fit in with the gunrack in the back of the truck I guess), however I suspect they would actually be pretty shocked to have known what actual Nazis were, and how they would ha...
[22:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:03] <exec> 08└─So, your problem is with the marketing of those platforms being inaccurate?
[22:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:06] <exec> 08└─I could sort of like that. First, they admit the truth. Then, competitors can point to that flaw. Also, any protections for user-provided content are toast: by openly exercising editorial control, they get to be liable for stuff the users post. Fun times! Obviously I'd rather they cut that shit out,...
[22:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:08] <exec> 08└─No it isn't. They can't have a special blue badge. Boo boo. Even if they are banned from any SM platform, they are free to speak in any forum that will tolerate them.
[22:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 1971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:10] <exec> 08└─You explain why I don't like Twitter. I think they're in the wrong and the issues with bots and disinformation campaigns will only be solved by society as a whole catching on that yes people / organizations / countries do engage in massive propaganda campaigns. Of course I got modded flamebait, but...
[22:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:12] <exec> 08└─who consider anyone to their right to be a Nazi, again with zero apparent knowledge of what a Nazi actually was (hint: it was a strongly centralist party, quite possibly to the left of the Dems these days)
[22:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Planning on Adding Rear-Facing 3D Sensors to Future iPhones for Augmented Reality Capabilities - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:21] <exec> 08└─I agree that none of existing videoconferencing systems provide both front and rear view of the speaker. Apple, driven by burning need, comes up with a unique product! :-)
[22:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─...consequences of their stupid actions at one age should not be a deterrent to their change in better in the future.
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:16] <exec> 08└─> The law is an ass The alternative is a pack of wolves though.
[22:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:19] <exec> 08└─No, we'd be arguing on it instead. When we weren't browsing porn or looking at cat videos.
[22:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:21] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying recursion is its own reward then? :)
[22:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:38] <exec> 08└─I think their datapoint was date of death vs date of birth - not saying much about quality of life in-between, but good enough to get published.
[22:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presumed Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sold for $450 Million - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─It may be illegal, but it's not necessarily immoral. Better that the money remain in the hands of productive people, rather than be stolen and then squandered by paper-pushing bureaucrats. Invalid form key: ZRS01tJApY
[22:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart is Raising Prices Online to Increase in-Store Traffic - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:59] <exec> 08└─Whatever it costs, it's worth it not to have to drive two miles to Walmart and deal with humans!
[22:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:14] <exec> 08└─As a Yank, I sort of took it for granted the feelings the Brits have for their monarchy. The thing I never understood was why the hell so many Yanks care about the British monarchy. I mean, come on people! We fought and won a war over this. We flipped them off and then punched them in the nose when...
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[23:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Samuel Oschin Telescope Near San Diego Upgraded to Capture Fast-Changing Celestial Events - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:56] <exec> 08└─Blame Windows filename limit. Marketing had suggested : Unparalleled_Opportunity_To_Learn_On_World_Class_Instrument_And_Potentially_Be_Rewarded_With_Celestial_Objects_Named_After_You.exe
[23:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Samuel Oschin Telescope Near San Diego Upgraded to Capture Fast-Changing Celestial Events - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─Schmidt cameras are difficult to fabricate. They use a correcting lens at the mirror's center of curvature that has a fourth-order curve of revolution on one face. Loosely speaking that curve is the difference between a sphere and a parabola. The original correcting lens was just one piece of glass,...
[23:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samuel Oschin Telescope Near San Diego Upgraded to Capture Fast-Changing Celestial Events - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:59] <exec> 08└─Not only did I earn a spectacular five dollars per hour, but I was the third coauthor on all the papers.
[23:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:13] <exec> 08└─Of course he is special. If his groupies had not killed who they killed, he would have been paroled a long time ago. As he is so found of saying, he never killed anybody. (Or rather, he didn't kill the people he is incarcerated for. He claims to have killed someone many years before that nobody care...
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:14] <exec> 08└─I grew up in a place that has not closed down its insane asylums. Sad for the both of you, and this country.
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:16] <exec> 08└─And what better argument is there for the death penalty?
[23:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Satan is not looking forward to the competition moving in on his territory when Charles Manson finally dies.
[23:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─Next time try the spoiler tag. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Or risk being cursed at in Klingon by a mob of trekkies who have yet to stream/torrent the latest episode.
[23:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:23] <exec> 08└─As much as I agree with you that sometimes people like Manson should be removed from life there are occasionally some times good reasons not to. First, as it stands currently he may still have groupies but not nearly as many as would be the case if he had been executed and become some kind of martyr...
[23:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:26] <exec> 08└─Manson is small potatoes. When the vast majority of today's politicians die, mostly R but a bunch of Ds as well including the entire Clinton dynasty, *then* ol' Scratch is gonna have some competition.
[23:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charles Manson Hospitalized -- Convicted Killer Near Death, Report Claims - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:29] <exec> 08└─we should go tougher than waterboarding
[23:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:17] <exec> 08└─Well, you get systemd, don't you?
[23:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:19] <exec> 08└─Didn't RTFA, but based on the summary, it sounds like they are referring to the early netbooks that all ran a Linux distro (Xandros or something? I think it was whatever Lindows became after getting sued). There were a lot of FUD articles at the time about people being upset, mostly pushed by Micros...
[23:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:21] <exec> 08└─The April 2016 release disabled the Ubuntu Shopping Lens by default. [google.com] It was something they tried and they responded to the negative feedback appropriately. Get over it already. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:23] <exec> 08└─My most powerful box runs Linux Mint but I rarely so much as turn it on. When I got my first paycheck from my current client, I bought a Mac mini. During my homelessness I had an Acer windows laptop but now I never turn it on either. I'm going to buy a MacBook Pro so I can work at Starbucks. To avoi...
[23:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Dell’s Gamble On Linux Laptops Has Paid Off - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:25] <exec> 08└─OTOH, if it ships with Linux, you can check to see that all the hardware is supported under Linux before paving over the pre-installed distro. N.B. Yeah, this is pretty ancient lore. Most whitebox vendors have learned to just avoid hardware manufacturers who won't support Linux properly. (Some years...
[23:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:29] <exec> 08└─Nazis gained appreciation and power in part by violently fighting communists in the streets. Compared to communists, the Nazis were certainly on the right. Nazis still favored all-encompassing big government, including government control of much of industry. Nazis made joining a union a requirement;...
[23:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter: Our Blue Check Marks Aren't Just About "Verification" - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:30] <exec> 08└─So really, you don't know if they exist at all. These could all be sock puppet trolls getting people riled up about imaginary nazis lurking in the dark corners of the internet, while the powers that be fuck us harder. I'm not concerned about cowards who hide on the internet or trolls who say nasty s...
[23:09:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 463 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Until Google, you lived your life without knowing what somebody you may have met has done in the past. So it was possible to live it without Google. Let's play a bit the devil's advocate here... yes, I know I risk some rep points here, but let discuss it openly. What's the fuss about? Big bruhaha ab...
[23:10:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 1014 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:24] <exec> 08└─When government demands that information must not be searchable, but not unpublishable how is there really any right to be forgotten? If the right to be forgotten can't be brought up in a court of law to suppress history, how is there any such right? The logical conclusion is that newspapers must cu...
[23:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:36] <exec> 08└─Europeans have a few extra centuries of experience in learning the dangers of allowing dumb people to listen to dangerous speech. Don't worry, we're catching up ...
[23:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:38] <exec> 08└─> When the serial rapist shows up to take your 14 year old daughter for a trip ti the Mall, I suspect all this nonsense about forgetting goes out the window. Think Of The Children (TM), from Frojack ? Wow... The serial rapist is either in jail, in treatment, or deemed rehabilitated. If a simple Goog...
[23:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─Except that "in treatment" is a canard and "rehabilitated" is s statistically non-existent condition when it comes to sex offenders. Any clinical psychologist will tell you that sex offenders have a recidivism rate approaching 100%.
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─Considering that the definition of "sex offender" can refer to anything from someone who raped a 5 year old to an 18 year old who banged his/her 15 year old lover, I would say that's quite a meaningless term. Any clinical psychologist will tell you that sex offenders have a recidivism rate approachi...
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─> Any clinical psychologist will tell you that sex offenders have a recidivism rate approaching 100%. That's not even true in the US, where only rich people get "treatment" rather than being thrown in for-profit jail. The primary reason why it's not true, is that many people are branded "sex offende...
[23:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:46] <exec> 08└─"Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom" Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Google's Momentary Convenience. FTFY.
[23:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Anti-Aging Mutation Discovered in Indiana Amish Community - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:05] <exec> 08└─The French have been claiming for decades that a couple glasses of wine every day helps you live longer. And what does (moderate amount of) alcohol do to your blood?
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