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[00:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:55] <exec> 08└─It's not going to be just a few mostly-harmless stoners, paranoid and not caring about life. It's going to be aggressive lifestyle marketing campaigns. It'll be the same as how companies push cars, soda, shoes, alcohol, etc. There will be pot for every imaginable market segment, with potential buyer...
[00:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:57] <exec> 08└─Home planting is killing Big Weed!
[00:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:59] <exec> 08└─Although it can be said about any stock market play, this one seems more than a little suspect. Most Legal Grow ops are state corporations at best, and as likely to be partnerships that do not issue stock. Those that do issue stock are likely to be traded over the Cafe Table at 3pm on any random Tue...
[00:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:01] <exec> 08└─Like home brewing is killing Big Beer?
[00:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:15] <exec> 08└─Some websites will comply with takedown notices when congressional penis is being posted, those are the "free and regulated" web. Other rogue websites will not comply with such takedown notices, those are the "tarriffed unregulated" web - which carry a tax of 1 cent per bit transmitted to cover the...
[00:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:16] <exec> 08└─I'm going to go by Texas law for now although I don't know which state's (or D.C.) laws are going to apply here ultimately. "Intimate visual material" means visual material that depicts a person: (A) with the person’s intimate parts exposed; or (B) engaged in sexual conduct.
[00:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:18] <exec> 08└─Note: The image doesn't contain congressional penis. It was censored before it was released, not after.
[00:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:20] <exec> 08└─He's holding out a shred of hope for reelection but he doesn't have it easy like Roy Moore. Barton may be a dirty old man who is past due for retirement, but at least he's cool and hip enough to sext like the millennials.
[00:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:23] <exec> 08└─"adult mature RUSSIAN women", what do you want to bet?
[00:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:25] <exec> 08└─But don't we all, what with the Republican control of both houses, and the "increase the deficit to give a tax-break to the wealthy" bill, have a little congressional penis in us?
[00:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:27] <exec> 08└─Too little to be captured in the form of revenge porn?
[00:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank Knew of Data Breach at Uber - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:35] <exec> 08└─From the beginning, they pack up the board with heavy-weight political figures. They keep getting mega bucks investments from the likes of Saudi state funds. They spent money on poaching CMU robotics researchers, autonomous vehicles which is decades away and won't resemble anything like today's taxi...
[00:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank Knew of Data Breach at Uber - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:37] <exec> 08└─Not an enterprise, but a geopolitical bubble.
[00:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Knew of Data Breach at Uber - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:39] <exec> 08└─It has a value that transcends money. It promises to control and monitor human movements. Its name is... UBER.
[00:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:58] <exec> 08└─I got a short video on the "impartiality" link about Planet Nine where they said computer simulations showed it was around 20 times further from the Sun than Earth. Yes... closer than Neptune. Sigh.
[00:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:59] <exec> 08└─it's proven impossible for me to find under the mountain of lies and data manipulation
[00:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:01] <exec> 08└─governments like to use it as an excuse to let filthy hordes of third-world immigrants into their borders
[00:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:46] <exec> 08└─What facts?
[00:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence of Abnormal Osteoarthritis Found in Dolly the Sheep - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:00] <exec> 08└─OTOH, they have the current results (in the still-living animal), they know exactly how old the individual is, and they have numerous others of the same age against whom they can compare. Seems like you're picking nits. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria As Pacemaker For The Intestine - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:15] <exec> 08└─Jaundiced, you mean.
[00:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Molecules From Deep Fat Frying May Have a Cooling Effect on the Climate - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:26] <exec> 08└─My typical meal is a veggie medley. I often start by browning an onion or 2. The veggies get stir-fried. Glad I could help. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underwater Explosion Detected in the Vicinity of Missing Argentine Submarine - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:08] <exec> 08└─You're a sick little girl, but you know that.
[00:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:28] <exec> 08└─Pointing to tiny, genetically homogeneous societies as your examples of success.
[00:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Dolphins Observed "Gifting" Sponges to Females in Order to Mate - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:54] <exec> 08└─That's rape now because you're stealing her consents away. At the very least, you have to check her drunkenness ≤ your drunkenness.
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[01:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:59] <exec> 08└─It's going to be aggressive lifestyle marketing campaigns. It'll be the same as how companies push cars, soda, shoes, alcohol, etc.
[01:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:51] <exec> 08└─This has long been the problem in the space where climate 'science' begins to inform and interface with policy. People don't really understand climate. But they understand weather. Kind of. So we talk about weather as climate. When this year's big weather happened around the USA, anyone who asked t...
[01:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:52] <exec> 08└─So we have lots of bears feeding on a whale carcass? I think Entropy nailed it [soylentnews.org]. Anything is evidence of global warming. Confirmation bias at its finest. Sure, it might be polar bears starving due to global warming. BUT given that there were almost 600 bears present, maybe global w...
[01:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:55] <exec> 08└─This has long been the problem in the space where climate 'science' begins to inform and interface with policy. People don't really understand climate. But they understand weather. Kind of. So we talk about weather as climate.
[01:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:57] <exec> 08└─Antarctic ice growth
[01:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island In Sign Of Arctic Change - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:59] <exec> 08└─More hair is a sign of aging. Less hair is also a sign of aging. WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW, ATHEISTS?
[01:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Molecules From Deep Fat Frying May Have a Cooling Effect on the Climate - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:25] <exec> 08└─If one party is claiming it is okay to use force to prevent man-made change to Earth's climate, would it not then be okay to use force against that same party which would be actively about to attempt to change Earth's climate by use of sulfate aerosol sprays, etc.?
[01:10:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─Nice one. Pointing to tiny, genetically homogeneous societies as your examples of success.
[01:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:41] <exec> 08└─The proposal in Hawaii
[01:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:43] <exec> 08└─Are you really suggesting that encouraging children to gamble is a good idea? I'll have to disagree with you if that is what you believe.
[01:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:45] <exec> 08└─but should be updated
[01:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:47] <exec> 08└─and possibly there should be some sort of legal requirement to ensure that the game is not rigged
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[02:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yuri Milner Considering Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:56] <exec> 08└─To drill through the icy surface of enceladus, just get an ordinary drill and a package of frozen enceladus. Hold the enceladus still so they won't spin, while being careful not to drill your hand. A vice is ideal, but you can use your feet to pin the enceladus between a couple packages of enceladus...
[02:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yuri Milner Considering Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:58] <exec> 08└─A probe to Enceladus could be done for well under $1 billion, but it likely wouldn't be able to drill through the icy surface.
[02:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:10] <exec> 08└─Alcohol and cigarettes kill many. They also cause newborns to be deformed in many ways: the obvious, internally, on a molecular level, and mentally. The fact that society doesn't fall apart is true. It's a terribly low standard however.
[02:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:11] <exec> 08└─Alcohol and cigarettes kill many.
[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─It's not "their choice" when they get hit by a drunk driver. It's not "their choice" when an apartment building burns down. It's not "their choice" when they get beat to a pulp by an enraged drunk. It's not "their choice" to be born into a family with these issues. If we could ban these items withou...
[02:06:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:26] <exec> 08└─You're confused. It's not revenge against the Senator. He's 68 years old. The revenge victims are the people who can't unsee it.
[02:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:35] <exec> 08└─Note: The image doesn't contain congressional penis. It was censored before it was released, not after. --
[02:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:11] <exec> 08└─For the hard of thinking, the point made by this AC was that, yes, more ice and less ice can both be signs of warming, depending on where those measurements are made: For example: if there's less ice in your freezer, but more sloshing about on the kitchen floor, it's more likely to be due to your fr...
[02:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:13] <exec> 08└─Or they could have showed up for the free gourmet buffet. Set up a free steak and lobster buffet in any city in the US and watch the scavengers gather from far and wide.
[02:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:15] <exec> 08└─I was thinking similar lines. Covertly dump a billion dollars in loose hundreds in the middle of nowhere and I bet we could get quite a few people to show up for it. Bears can smell a carcass from a long ways off so it shouldn't be a surprise that they show up for the buffet.
[02:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:17] <exec> 08└─Not seeing the [problem] Of course -you- don't. A scientific aliterate wouldn't. With your Reactionary focus on the short term, one wonders where you got your MBA. Earth Temperature Timeline [xkcd.com] ...for those claiming that Earth has seen global warming before. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.or...
[02:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah. C'mon, folks. We can do better than that. Another thing about that rag (besides their lack of veracity) is the incredible bloat of their pages. 356kB for their page of hypertext--and that's before adding in the gob of useless graphics that they push with each page. What a completely ridiculous...
[02:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Evidence of Abnormal Osteoarthritis Found in Dolly the Sheep - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:19] <exec> 08└─Plus a humongous sample size of 10 would rule out p-hacking.
[02:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:50] <exec> 08└─Your response is so outlandish; it's completely detached from any kind of logical analysis. You're just an illogical fool, and thus we don't have to take your ideas seriously.
[02:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:52] <exec> 08└─Rather, socialists use the ancient, simplistically dumb ideas of authoritarianism to grow insidious parasitical structures around the productive capitalists; being people who don't respect the principles of capitalism, these socialists construct terribly inefficient "welfare" programs. Invalid form...
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[03:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:13] <exec> 08└─It's not "their choice" when they get hit by a drunk driver. It's not "their choice" when an apartment building burns down. It's not "their choice" when they get beat to a pulp by an enraged drunk. It's not "their choice" to be born into a family with these issues.
[03:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not proposing prohibition. I'm admitting that prohibition is both good and bad, but probably more bad than good. I'm pointing out that legalization is going to lead to terrible things, not denying that prohibition also leads to terrible things. I didn't propose anything, but here I will: Impose...
[03:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:37] <exec> 08└─"The image doesn't show his "intimate parts". They were colored out by the person who initially released the image." That depends on how we interpret exposed. There were clearly exposed in the original image and then censored. Is that still an image in which they were exposed? I hear what you are sa...
[03:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:38] <exec> 08└─It's terrorism.
[03:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:20] <exec> 08└─Notice the two huge problems with that graph: no error bars and no multi-decadal variations before the age of instrumentation in 1850. And it appears you haven't heard of confirmation bias. You can't even show that current global warming is bad for polar bears.
[03:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Dolphins Observed "Gifting" Sponges to Females in Order to Mate - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:18] <exec> 08└─You would think that, but thefact is that the dolphin patriarchy is oppressing the dolphin women by teaching them harmful social constructs.
[03:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Translated Doc Debunks Narrative of Al Qaeda-Iran “Alliance” - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:42] <exec> 08└─Once again, AC shows himself to be clueless.
[03:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Translated Doc Debunks Narrative of Al Qaeda-Iran “Alliance” - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:43] <exec> 08└─Hey retard - if you were born in Zimbabwe, and then traveled around for a couple decades, and finally bought a home in Egypt - would that make you Egyptian? One more time: I'm not an Arkansan.
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[04:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:58] <exec> 08└─Your great but BD Cooper is greater !
[04:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:59] <exec> 08└─The Wikipedia page on him [wikipedia.org] says he was smart--though probably not smart enough. Cooper was shrewd. He demanded four parachutes to force the assumption that he might compel one or more hostages to jump with him, thus ensuring he would not be deliberately supplied with sabotaged equipme...
[04:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:01] <exec> 08└─"Cooper vane" [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yuri Milner Considering Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:12] <exec> 08└─Even at Indian ISRO prices, it would be extraordinarily difficult, something never attempted before. I am guessing it would require a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, adding to the costs and safety considerations for the mission. The technology would still need to be developed, which has its c...
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[04:06:52] <exec> 08└─Probably. But it will cost the average middle-class American a Thousand. And then there will be the increased cost of health insurance, so the middle class will be doubly screwed. Did you notice that the blurred out portion could have two penises in it?
[04:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:53] <exec> 08└─Society is going down the shitter, because government is slowly outlawing personal responsibility. Only for Republicans. The rest of us are still held accountable. Hell, Democrats are even held accountable for made-up "scandals" like the Benghazi nonsense But you are right, that's enough to put our...
[04:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:55] <exec> 08└─Last I checked in on Trump's tax ideas, "tax breaks for the wealthy" was nowhere to be found in it. It cut taxes on the low end, cut taxes on corporations, and raised taxes on high income bracket individuals. One of us needs to do a lot less Listen-and-Believe-ing.
[04:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:37] <exec> 08└─Grab'em by the pussy, idiot.
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[05:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:59] <exec> 08└─The letter says he wore putty makeup and a toupée. Maybe realDonaldTrump is DB Cooper!
[05:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:51] <exec> 08└─The response to the Al Franken picture would beg to differ, and there are actual photographs of that.
[05:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:53] <exec> 08└─Why do I think of Dylan's song "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and the lyric "But to live outside the law, you must be honest" ?
[05:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 1772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:55] <exec> 08└─It so happens that I live in Barton's district, for now. I was already going to vote against him or any other Republican that might beat him in the primaries. Maybe this means the Republican might actually lose. But don't count on it. The so-called Christians in these parts can easily overlook this...
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[05:08:23] <exec> 08└─Didn't think you were such an easily triggered idiot though ;)
[05:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bacteria As Pacemaker For The Intestine - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:53] <exec> 08└─Haha... This maybe truer than you realise. If your poo is golden, you're probably not breaking down Bilirubin. That isn't good. I think this impacts kidneys (as they must excrete it, a bile product, instead of the intestines) - it damages them and causes hypertension. If your Vitamin D level is down...
[05:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:10] <exec> 08└─One of those is very corrupt.
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[06:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Modder Puts Computer inside a Power Supply - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:52] <exec> 08└─And here's my radiator [hardkernel.com]. 5 years old but still much faster than certain too-popular-for-their-worth SoCs from last year.
[06:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:03] <exec> 08└─It should be pointed out that nobody knows what headgear he wore during the jump. A helmet is not actually needed for skydiving. Thousands of jumps have been made with nothing but a close fitting leather hat with no padding.
[06:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:04] <exec> 08└─The FBI also never established the authenticity of the letter to the four newspapers, or, for that matter, four other letters that also purported to be from the hijacker. Those letter [sic] were sent a few days after the hijacking.
[06:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:07] <exec> 08└─There was a -70°F wind chill, it was raining, and he jumped ito a forest. He was wearing a business suit, a trenchcoat, and loafers. I suspect that he was a peoplesicle before he touched the ground. The parachute wasn't steerable and any parachute training he had seems minimal. Chances of him not i...
[06:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:09] <exec> 08└─I remembered the Cooper vane thing from a previous investigation I had made. In looking for an image of that, I found this page [grasshoppair.com] which was taken from an earlier version of the Wikipedia page. It says that indications are he might have been a USAF cargo specialist, even having exper...
[06:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:03] <exec> 08└─Is that still an image in which they were exposed? I hear what you are saying; I think a court could go either way.
[06:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:04] <exec> 08└─Russians! They can't keep getting away with it!
[06:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:07] <exec> 08└─Incumbent politicians in "safe" Congressional districts have little trouble getting reelected. Barton got 68.7% in the 2016 primary, and 58.3%-39% (2.6% went to a Green Party candidate) in the general election. Barton previously said he would run for reelection, now he's reconsidering. A Republican...
[06:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:09] <exec> 08└─http://www.tmz.com/2010/10/20/hot-russian-spy-anna-chapman-maxim-photo-spread-toless-lingerie/ [tmz.com]
[06:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:11] <exec> 08└─"I don't see such ambiguity. There are no intimate parts in the image. Just as there would not be if the image was cropped to show only the top 50%." I see a distinction between a cropped image and a censored one. The latter is quite a bit more suggestive. "For all we know he could have a sock on it...
[06:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Knew of Data Breach at Uber - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:22] <exec> 08└─You know who else liked to use the term "uber" a lot? [wikipedia.org] That's right. When you take an Uber you're riding with Hitler.
[06:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:56] <exec> 08└─At 40 below, you get very little actual precipitation, Antarctica for example is mostly desert. Warm that place up to a couple of degrees below zero (Celsius) and you get a lot more precipitation, still in the form of snow, which doesn't melt due to it still being below freezing, ice increases even...
[06:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:57] <exec> 08└─Well, just a few years back, perhaps a couple of decades, Pluto was planet 9 and it was closer then Neptune.
[06:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:59] <exec> 08└─<pedantic>Pluto's perihelion is 29.658 AU, not ~20 AU.</pedantic>
[06:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:01] <exec> 08└─Good point, though to be pedantic, you would have been better to have said that it was around the orbit of Uranus. Aphelion 20.11 AU
[06:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Bear Pussy. We ain't fucking with no Russians. We fucking a whole lotta tough ursids tho.
[06:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Explosion Detected in the Vicinity of Missing Argentine Submarine - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:14] <exec> 08└─Please, this is self-serving, self-reinforcing ingroup thinking disguised as actual empathy. He doesn't give a shit except that it's "his tribe."
[06:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Explosion Detected in the Vicinity of Missing Argentine Submarine - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:16] <exec> 08└─Last I saw he was tinkering in the garage with some oversize wooden airplane model while pissing into a jar. And refusing to cut his toenails.
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[07:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Modder Puts Computer inside a Power Supply - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:59] <exec> 08└─Little smaller than my Advantech UNO-3072LA [ibb.co]. Has three boards, CoM with the actual CPU/chipset/memory (Single core Atom w/2GB). Then a standardized mezzanine connector to a motherboard with CF, SATA, USB, and the I/O ports. Then a PCI carrier that plugs into the motherboard. 24V DC power re...
[07:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Modder Puts Computer inside a Power Supply - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:00] <exec> 08└─TFA and the summary says this: The finished computer uses a Mini-ITX form factor motherboard
[07:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yuri Milner Considering Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:24] <exec> 08└─I was trying to follow your advice, but the enceladus packages wouldn't hold the enceladus still enough so I had to improvise. What do you do if the enceladus get stuck in uranus while you're drilling?
[07:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yuri Milner Considering Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:26] <exec> 08└─Even at Indian ISRO prices
[07:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:43] <exec> 08└─I'm pointing out that legalization is going to lead to terrible things, not denying that prohibition also leads to terrible things.
[07:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Knew of Data Breach at Uber - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:29] <exec> 08└─God is my co-pilot, but Hitler is my driver.
[07:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:08] <exec> 08└─You know that there is a reason they call it the "Daily Fail", don't you? The Daily Mail isn't credible. Wikipedia warns against its use because it has a history of being unreliable.
[07:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:10] <exec> 08└─Any given 'El Niño' (Spanish for, the Niño)
[07:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:12] <exec> 08└─Aren't you the cocky idiot
[07:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:14] <exec> 08└─And, just when you need it, the Daily Mail proves, once again why you should not trust it: In the middle of the chaos, the Daily Mail reported that a truck had “plough[ed] into pedestrians” around the Oxford Circus station. In another social media post, since deleted, the paper said that a witne...
[07:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:17] <exec> 08└─Vaffanculo. Not everyone spent their youth watching SNL.
[07:08:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] 02 - 06Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:46] <exec> 08└─The Ars version of the story had a good run-down of the issues with the study. The study has a lot of limitations. It’s an observational study based on self-reported data. There’s nothing to say that alcohol causes these emotions, just that these respondents think they do. There are confounding...
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[07:09:05] <exec> 08└─Hint: he seems to oppose me, off with his head!
[07:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:55] <exec> 08└─Nah, the wealth was built during a "sod it, let's try everything" attitude born out of desperation (kinda like how South Korea got immensly rich even faster). Quite frankly we used every single model we could to reduce the costs and maximize the gains (and do note - gains with "getting most quality...
[07:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:57] <exec> 08└─And Alaska has 0.75 million people despite being the greatest state in USA... (ffs, provide context)
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[08:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:56] <exec> 08└─it's not yet possible to send a spare wheel to Mars and have it fitted,
[08:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:03] <exec> 08└─Lecture hall is an altar, you are a sacrifice.
[08:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:05] <exec> 08└─not very successfully: I kept attempting to take a UCSC algorithms course but repeatedly had to drop it when work got too busy. I was the only one in the class who was taking notes in a notebook, by writing them by hand. Everyone else used a laptop. I'm quite a fast typist but I can't see how anyone...
[08:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:07] <exec> 08└─"MDC is old."
[08:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:09] <exec> 08└─There is freedom of religion. If you don't like, don't go. But if you go, respect the rites and the priest. Are there better ways forma learning than a lecture? Maybe, but if you attend a lecture, pay attention to the person up there
[08:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:11] <exec> 08└─As with anything, laptops in the classroom are a mixed bag. But technology marches on, and it's frankly a bit stupid to try to stand in its way. I mean, we could also return to the kind of rote learning still practiced in some parts of the world - but we've moved beyond that, and that's a good thing...
[08:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:02] <exec> 08└─+1, Touche
[08:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:03] <exec> 08└─When was the last time you heard tell of Budweiser?
[08:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:05] <exec> 08└─now women suffer as many heart attacks as men.
[08:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:08] <exec> 08└─SCOTUS has held that different kinds of speech have different levels of first amendment protection. Restrictions on protected speech require "strict scrutiny" by the courts. Different kinds of speech are given different kinds of scrutiny. There is also "compelling interest". IIRC correctly, commerci...
[08:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:10] <exec> 08└─cannibus is all the rage these days over an angel.co. I Am Absolutely Serious. None have gone public yet, but this ETF will be prepared when some do.
[08:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:45] <exec> 08└─What is you take an image with intimate parts exposed, crop it to just depicting the head (so you couldn't even tell that it was from an image with exposed intimate parts), and then publish the cropped image? Before cropping, the image clearly did have the intimate parts exposed, right? What if inst...
[08:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:46] <exec> 08└─This was kind of delved into in the other subthread; check it out. For what its worth, I think cropping is different from blocking out content. The latter is much more suggestive that something has been 'blocked' out, but I take your point.
[08:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:42] <exec> 08└─Of course, the alarmists ignore any inconvenient facts, like the increase in the polar bear population over the past 15 years [polarbearscience.com]. As for how "crowded" the poor polar bears are: There are around 30,000 of them, in all of the arctic (Greenland + Russia + Canada + ice cap). The amaz...
[08:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:43] <exec> 08└─But Uranus is planet 9. Where planet 8 is? There is no planet 8. God forgot to create it. ;-)
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[09:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:59] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking it will cost no less than $500 million to use a new rover flown to Mars for the purpose of changing the tires on Curiosity. Better just to build future rovers with these new tires. Starting with Mars 2020 [wikipedia.org] which is launching in July 2020. NASA should be hounded repeatedly...
[09:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:11] <exec> 08└─Mr. Skipper made each of us keep a notebook and the notebook was a significant part of the grade. I thought|think that is stupid. In the time it takes me to make a note, I miss 3 other things. ...and everything was already documented in the textbook. Not everyone learns in the same way. Looking back...
[09:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:13] <exec> 08└─I'm fifty-three, you young whippersnapper.
[09:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:15] <exec> 08└─In the time it takes me to make a note, I miss 3 other things.
[09:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe the universities should only be paid for failed students. That way they have an interest to actually sieve out the best: If they deny too many degrees, or if they don't properly give the degrees based on achievements, people will go elsewhere, and they won't get paid. But if they give too many...
[09:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:19] <exec> 08└─> Maybe the universities should only be paid for failed students Fascinating idea, open for abuse in some markets though. Students that have few short term prospects might earn some buck by failing exams and splitting the proceedings. And, people is then likely to receive letters from Harvard like "...
[09:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Modder Puts Computer inside a Power Supply - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:30] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu? Systemd enabler!
[09:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:45] <exec> 08└─The jump would be physically demanding and risky to say the least, but keep in mind he would quickly fall into warmer conditions. Notably, a woman survived falling from even higher [guinnessworldrecords.com] without a parachute, suggesting that if he died, it wasn't the cold that killed him. That sa...
[09:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that big blob of blue colour where the intimate parts are supposed to be is so disturbing … :-) Actually I think that was not so much revenge porn as revenge fat shaming. :-)
[09:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:58] <exec> 08└─What if you take a cropped image, but paint over it an arrow with the text "down there are the intimate parts"? That's certainly suggestive; should it also be considered revenge porn?
[09:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:00] <exec> 08└─I'll totally agree with your dislike of gerrymandering - it really gets pretty ridiculous at times. More: it would be easy to fix, by just defining and enforcing a maximum mathematical ratio of circumference to area. However, I really do not understand the objection to voter ID laws. Voting is an im...
[09:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:02] <exec> 08└─Thank you! We're doing the biggest tax cut in the history of the world and the amazing thing is, I won't benefit personally. I'm one of the richest guys ever, as you know. And believe me, I won't benefit at all. But it's going to be tremendous for our companies. Yours, mine, everybody's. I own over...
[09:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:04] <exec> 08└─He's a pig, an absolute pig. The Senate is disgraced every day that he sits in it. Our fine nation is disgraced every time he plops his ugly butt down in that chair. They're doing an investigation. It will confirm what we already know. There needs to be some form of punishment. I think there's going...
[09:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:02] <exec> 08└─Ice cores, Tree rings, Fossil leaves, Boreholes, Corals, Pollen grains, Dinoflagellate cysts, Lake and ocean sediments, Water isotopes climate proxies [wikipedia.org] I stand by my evaluation of your scientific literacy. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:03] <exec> 08└─#MakeCeresPlanetFive [wikipedia.org]
[09:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:05] <exec> 08└─If you believe Fox News is the sole source of manipulated mainstream news, then I've got a bridge to sell you, buddy. If you believe ANYthing you hear in the mainstream news because you heard it from the mainstream news, I still think you'd be interested in buying my bridge. If CNN/MSNBC/Faux/NYT/ad...
[09:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Explosion Detected in the Vicinity of Missing Argentine Submarine - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:20] <exec> 08└─The sub was built in Germany. So what does that say?
[09:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Explosion Detected in the Vicinity of Missing Argentine Submarine - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:22] <exec> 08└─But this was a German built sub from a not horrible design [wikipedia.org] by a competent shipyard, and based on designs used by the German Navy itself. It wasn't a crap design. Only two were built. The reason for this disaster is probably piss poor maintenance, not a bad design. Losing your main ba...
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[09:11:25] <exec> 08└─"my army bigger than yours"
[09:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:51] <exec> 08└─The Chinese government is definitely a parasitical, tyrannical regime built atop whatever resources can be gathered by whatever means necessary. It's true: Capitalistic flows of resources have led to a great deal of prosperity in China. However, that's not because such flows of resources have been b...
[09:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:52] <exec> 08└─Scandinavia is a large, resource-full land inhabited by a small number of hard-working, homogeneous, Germanic whites. That's the way it is. Accept it. Invalid form key: bOK8iWIUFg
[09:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:55] <exec> 08└─Your response is so outlandish; it's completely detached from any kind of logical analysis. You're just an illogical fool, and thus we don't have to take your ideas seriously.
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[10:05:54] <exec> 08└─Mutti has been sucking moslem schwanzstucker for so long nobody else wants to kiss her now.
[10:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:03] <exec> 08└─Station keeping . . . I've wondered why they don't put something like that into a higher orbit, where it's much easier to maintain station. And, if it does wander a little, the consequences are negligible. In LEO, being ten miles off course can be catastrophic. Somewhere close to the earth/moon Lagr...
[10:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:05] <exec> 08└─An L2 orbit is meta-stable so it requires orbital station-keeping or an object will drift away from this orbital configuration. [...] The JWST will be located near the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Earth-Sun system, which is 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 mi) from Earth, directly opposite to the...
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[10:12:45] <exec> 08└─Rather, socialists use the ancient, simplistically dumb ideas of authoritarianism to grow insidious parasitical structures around the productive capitalists; being people who don't respect the principles of capitalism, these socialists construct terribly inefficient "welfare" programs. Invalid form...
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[11:05:57] <exec> 08└─I came here to say about the same thing.
[11:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:58] <exec> 08└─Quite disgusting. You know what the the difference between 1930s Nazis and you? Pretty much nothing. The entire root cause of hate is fear. And people are rather cowards, as you can see from the parent. What they don't understand, they fear. And what they fear, they learn to hate. You can take stori...
[11:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:25] <exec> 08└─You should have taken a course in shorthand and/or stenography. Court clerks can "take notes" all day long, and only miss a word now and then. Of course, it's a real fad to blame the professor because you came to class unprepared.
[11:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:26] <exec> 08└─I did the same thing back when I was in university, because everyone always said you should take notes to help understand the material. Preferably by hand because that activates different parts of the brain which aids learning. For me that lasted just a few months. Until the moment I realized that I...
[11:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:55] <exec> 08└─So, who is it that consistently mods Aristarchus troll posts up? This ^ is a troll post. He names one person specifically, and uses generalities to include a number of other people, implying that they are stupid. Troll. Whoever mods him up has to be the troll's bitch. In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈ...
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[11:09:57] <exec> 08└─So, do you prefer the oregano, the ragweed, dandelions, or something else?
[11:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:59] <exec> 08└─troll smiley
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[12:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 1427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:59] <exec> 08└─In essence I would say that this is probably true. She is now the symbol of something that is becoming increasingly unpopular, third world mass migration that brings nothing but trouble. Merkel claimed that "Wir schaffen es" (we can do it/this), clearly this was a much broader and general "we". Turn...
[12:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:01] <exec> 08└─It's about cultures. Personally, I like Western culture. It has create a lot of good things, not least of which is most of modern civilization. Massive immigration from other cultures is a serious danger. I like our culture, and I want to keep it. What, exactly, is wrong with that? Let's try an anal...
[12:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a minority government, which is a giant pain since it might turn out that you can't really govern with it as you just spend time waiting for the next election.
[12:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 2634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:05] <exec> 08└─Third world mass migration that brings a lot of trouble is not going away just because it is becoming increasingly unpopular in the host countries. If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them? Merkel saw it as an acute problem with no good solutions. So,...
[12:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:34] <exec> 08└─Some lecturers use attendance at lectures as a grading bonus - adding "this will be in the exam" after a particular probkem had been shown on the board (and, to differentiate the *complete* sadists, sometimes added just *after* they had erased those notes..)
[12:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:35] <exec> 08└─G-E-O-M-E-T-R-Y the professor H-I-G-H S-C-H-O-O-L came to class unprepared I came prepared to to things the way that had served me perfectly fine for 10 years of school. ...then I ran into his One Microsoft Way. You goddamned Authoritarians all stick together. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:37] <exec> 08└─So, you always make excuses? This teacher - he was new at your school? You had never heard of him before? Or, you rode the short bus to the short school, and none of the students ever discussed the teachers? Was he a short teacher, as well? And, did NO ONE pass his course? Or did only ten percent of...
[12:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:35] <exec> 08└─i don't really know how they can make a ETF that "tracks" another stock or index or whatnot. if a buyer wants to pay "more" (and finds a seller) then the spot price, the new (higher) stock price reflects this. if a buyer wants to pay "less" (and finds a seller) then the spot price, the new (lower) s...
[12:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:37] <exec> 08└─> Restrictions on protected speech require "strict scrutiny" by the courts. Different kinds of speech are given different kinds of scrutiny. There is also "compelling interest". Indeed. Those who don't believe this should put a chapter from a Game of Thrones book on their site and then try and free-...
[12:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:20] <exec> 08└─Really? Everyone said he was a creep, he made a public apology, and then another one, and the woman said she forgives him. What more do you want? I seriously doubt he'll be reelected after this. If you're a Republican, however, you can't even get elected anymore without grabbing a few pussies and mo...
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[13:06:05] <exec> 08└─Okay may be yes.
[13:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:16] <exec> 08└─Compare this new "chainmail" tire to the original General Motors designed Lunar Rover tire, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Very similar woven mesh design. The Lunar Rover tire has Titanium "tread" elements attached and there are various othe...
[13:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─I passed. I got marked down, however, because my gait didn't match his my-way-or-the-highway rigidity. Intelligent instructors don't do that kind of stupid shit. "Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." --Lt.General George S. Patton Jr....
[13:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:40] <exec> 08└─I discovered ZIM not long ago, and I m,ust say it's wonderful!! The ability to take structured notes, plus you can export them to wiki html is great. Simple and lightweight, very handy for notes of any kind.-
[13:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Modder Puts Computer inside a Power Supply - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:51] <exec> 08└─How does that compare to an Intel i5 6400T with a GTX 1060 graphics card? If this had been done with a Pi like system, it wouldn't be impressive and not worth posting, this is interesting due to the components he managed to squeeze in to this small space. Your comment is not even relevant to the art...
[13:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah. 33,000 feet. That's pretty dramatic. 27 days in a coma and 16 months convalescence. Yow! ...and, of course, there was someone around to pick up the pieces. landing blind into a forest ...and we haven't mentioned yet that this was at 8:13PM, well after dark. ...otherwise, one of the two F-106s...
[13:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:26] <exec> 08└─Well, there are other sources. (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/arctic-could-become-ice-free-for-first-time-in-more-than-100000-years-claims-leading-scientist-a7065781.html) .. Are you trying to say the global warming research ship heading there to prove there was less ice wa...
[13:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria As Pacemaker For The Intestine - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:49] <exec> 08└─This maybe truer than you realise.
[13:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria As Pacemaker For The Intestine - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:50] <exec> 08└─Have you tried carrots in large amount? Like sauteed or mashed instead of potatoes? Good amount of fibre. Except, when you go out... if you look at the product, you'll notice a striking resemblance with Trump.
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[14:05:53] <exec> 08└─See https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] from 2014 to get a bigger picture of developments proposed for Vancouver, Washington. The NY Times article points out that Vancouver WA acts (in part) as a low rent (and low tax) bedroom...
[14:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:54] <exec> 08└─Sounds like those objections coulds be applied (and mostly more so) to any method of transporting and delivering oil. Perhaps it is different in USA, but rail transport in Europe, and the UK in particular, is orders of magnitude safer than any other form. potential risk of oil spills, train accident...
[14:06:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 2634 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:07] <exec> 08└─Third world mass migration that brings a lot of trouble is not going away just because it is becoming increasingly unpopular in the host countries. If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them? Merkel saw it as an acute problem with no good solutions. So,...
[14:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't a government that can't trouble citizens by its "governing", the very best option in most circumstances?
[14:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:12] <exec> 08└─Stumped by Betteridge's conjecture
[14:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:14] <exec> 08└─Third world mass migration that brings a lot of trouble is not going away just because it is becoming increasingly unpopular in the host countries. If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them?
[14:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:16] <exec> 08└─As much as I hate Chancellor Merkels politics, your analogy, as well as your grasp on what happens in Germany, frankly sucks. To use an analogy of my own, it is basically equivalent in verity to me saying that Trump is proof Americans are stupid and literally voted for Hitler. So, why is your analog...
[14:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lester [6231] 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:37] <exec> 08└─There is freedom of religion. If you don't like, don't go. But if you go, respect the rites and the priest. Are there better ways forma learning than a lecture? Maybe, but if you attend a lecture, pay attention to the person up there
[14:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:52] <exec> 08└─Except, Patton was talking about mature people, with education and training behind them. Patton wasn't addressing high school kids with neither.
[14:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:38] <exec> 08└─Texas’s new revenge-porn statute, Texas Penile Code Section 21.16, ...
[14:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, bears are one of the last species I'd worry about, as long as hunting is kept in check and ample environment is set aside. They're some of the most intelligent, adaptable, and tough animals on the planet.
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[15:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:01] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that while rail is far safer than road, it is less safe than pipelines. I admit that beliefs may have come from pro-pipeline propaganda, I don't know. Maybe it is because rail has less "slow leak" potential since the individual cars can be inspected; wheras a huge pipeline...
[15:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:20] <exec> 08└─Since the government in this case has clearly fucked up by letting in a massive amount of "useless" people that cause nothing but trouble. Just leaving that system in place and doing nothing about it is probably not the best solution.
[15:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:22] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you say about Schengen and the Dublin Regulation; I suspect that it was set up to deal with a stream of a few thousand Somalis and Congolese and Afghanis per year. No law or regulation was prepared for this "Great Migration Period", at least our modern-day Visigoths and Merovingian...
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[15:06:24] <exec> 08└─If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them?
[15:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:26] <exec> 08└─u😸
[15:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:29] <exec> 08└─If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them? You let them die.
[15:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:31] <exec> 08└─So, how did mass migration work out for the native North Americans? Or, the native Australians? Mass immigration is death for the existing culture, and we have plenty of examples in history to point to. Where are the people who lived in Europe before you round headed pale skinned people moved in? Th...
[15:06:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:49] <exec> 08└─not very successfully: I kept attempting to take a UCSC algorithms course but repeatedly had to drop it when work got too busy. I was the only one in the class who was taking notes in a notebook, by writing them by hand. Everyone else used a laptop. I'm quite a fast typist but I can't see how anyone...
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[15:07:06] <exec> 08└─Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either. - Edwin Emery Slosson (possibly), 1927 [quoteinvestigator.com]...
[15:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:08] <exec> 08└─If you can't take notes by hand fast enough to keep up either you're instructor is speaking inordinately fast or you have some sort of memory/attention problem. You're not supposed to copy the lecture down word for word, you're supposed to copy important pieces of information and any relevant exampl...
[15:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:10] <exec> 08└─This kind of arrogance is more or less what's wrong with education. For anybody that doesn't have ADHD a 50 minute class isn't that long to pay attention to something that's rather dry. This whole business of expecting to be entertained by the instructor is something new and something rather problem...
[15:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Modder Puts Computer inside a Power Supply - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:21] <exec> 08└─How does that compare to an Intel i5 6400T with a GTX 1060 graphics card?
[15:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:13] <exec> 08└─Everyone dies of something.
[15:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:14] <exec> 08└─Not relevant. The previous AC was speaking of eliminating brands and other absurd rules.
[15:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:59] <exec> 08└─Puerile!
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─What is the point of that post? You still have the large error before 1850 which has been completely glossed over. You still have the large biases today towards playing up global warming which may be in large part caused by those multi-decadal variations. What you don't have is a demonstration that...
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─This is why a science education is important. No wonder deniers are so confused, they're used to "common sense" being more useful than it is today.
[15:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─No oneshouldbe expected to do a Google search for a vague TV reference. You should have apologized at the beginning of your response, not insulted.
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─Well then your scientific literacy is still bad, and your approach to the topic is incredibly biased. Sounds more like you got called out, can't refute the massive evidence just cited, so you're turning tail like a little bitch but snarling back a last word. Sad.
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─To pick a nit, "bear" (Ursus) isn't a species; it's a genus. (Think: black bear, brown bear, grizzly bear, polar bear.) FTFS: two mothers trailed by a rare four cubs each I recently read something by a grizzly bear conservationist: For female grizzlies, being obese is especially critical. The fatter...
[15:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:01] <exec> 08└─If you're going to test this, you really need to account for the rate at which the alcohol is consumed. Comparing the effects of a beer that is being sipped over 20 minutes to a 3 oz brandy highball that is gulped back in 1 are obviously going to yield different results, but it isn't a matter off th...
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[16:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:54] <exec> 08└─I'll miss it like the plague. I guess I have not taught about it much for the last few years. But I used to hate having to go into the BIOS and make all the changes needed for drives and such. Then it became automated so you didn't have to bother much. Then game the "non-ascii" BIOS interfaces that...
[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:55] <exec> 08└─>Removing the legacy BIOS support will mitigate some security risks, Really? I mean, without Secure Boot, how exactly does UEFI make a system more secure? Please, name ONE recurity risk mitigated by UEFI. >allows for supporting more modern technologies, Citation needed. Given that the legacy BIOS on...
[16:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:57] <exec> 08└─Is it even possible to completely remove support for the legacy BIOS? Couldn't a board vendor install some little bit of hardware and/or ROM that implemented the BIOS and then bootstrapped the main CPU...and hung around to provide BIOS services as required. There are many, many expensive devices (me...
[16:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:00] <exec> 08└─>I'll miss it like the plague. I guess I have not taught about it much for the last few >years. But I used to hate having to go into the BIOS and make all the changes >needed for drives and such. You're talking about the BIOS setup routine, and that's not the part they'll be removing.
[16:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:02] <exec> 08└─I think you just explained it. "Its not a bug its a feature!!". Brought to you by The Eyes.
[16:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:04] <exec> 08└─I think the better question is what security problems were there with the BIOS in the first place. There's plenty of reasons why we shouldn't be using the old school BIOS any longer, but security isn't really one of the ones I can think of. The BIOS was something that was cooked up when computers we...
[16:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:15] <exec> 08└─If you are evaluating an approach, not even an implementation, and you see significant impacts that cannot be avoided, it is time to go back to the drawing board. My presumption is that the study used "standard practice", aka "how we have always done it" for the various terminals and facilities. The...
[16:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:17] <exec> 08└─We've already had a train derailment in Washington recently that would have done serious damage to a small town if it had happened in the city limits. Just look at https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and https://www.seattletimes.com
[16:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:19] <exec> 08└─Depends what you mean by safer. Trains have fewer accidents than trucks do, but when they do have accidents they tend to be on a much larger scale. Pipelines are OK, but they tend to leak oil and they require destroying large amounts of wildlife habitat to build. Pipelines are also problematic becau...
[16:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:44] <exec> 08└─Obviously, I disagree with you. Sure, Greece (and Italy and Spain) are immediately at fault for failing to secure their borders. However, Merkel pretty much led the European politics into providing the migrants with a goal: a place they could expect to stay. Had the initial migrants been caught and...
[16:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:45] <exec> 08└─Why bring it with them? Because it is what they know.
[16:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:48] <exec> 08└─Bugger. Let's go straight to 7, with you and your moslem bunkie first.
[16:06:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 1244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:58] <exec> 08└─An L2 orbit is meta-stable so it requires orbital station-keeping or an object will drift away from this orbital configuration. [...] The JWST will be located near the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Earth-Sun system, which is 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 mi) from Earth, directly opposite to the...
[16:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─My high school geometry teacher(*) started class by putting the assignment for the next day on the lower left of her chalk board. Along with a few other friends, I sat in the back and did that assignment concurrently with her lecture -- and never had to take home any homework. After we finished, we...
[16:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:25] <exec> 08└─Global population of polar bears has increased by 2,650 - 5,700 since 2001 That defies logic. Melting Ice Threatens Polar Bears' Survival -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [whoi.edu] melting Arctic ice is a critical threat to the bears’ survival. Polar bears need ice as a platform to hunt fo...
[16:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.xkcd.com/617/ [xkcd.com]
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[17:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:59] <exec> 08└─Really? I mean, without Secure Boot, how exactly does UEFI make a system more secure? Please, name ONE recurity risk mitigated by UEFI.
[17:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─i better be able to use my own keys without some third party being involved or you're going to have hell to pay.
[17:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:03] <exec> 08└─Well, there are three parts to the BIOS. Part 1 is the hardware support. That's still required, and whether it is in the form of BIOS or UEFI doesn't really matter. Part 2 is the service routines. Those are indeed outdated, and only used by ancient operating systems (with a few exceptions, which are...
[17:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:05] <exec> 08└─As far as I am concerned, EFI has exactly one benefit, complete compatibility with larger boot drives. MBRs are restricted to a maximum size of 2TB without workarounds. There are three workarounds, all with drawbacks in that software that doesn't realize they are in use. First is to use the native s...
[17:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:18] <exec> 08└─Pipelines are OK, but they tend to leak oil and they require destroying large amounts of wildlife habitat to build.
[17:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:20] <exec> 08└─If you are evaluating an approach, not even an implementation, and you see significant impacts that cannot be avoided, it is time to go back to the drawing board.
[17:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:22] <exec> 08└─Oil companies spin off enough cash to make multiple individuals billions of dollars. In part, this is because they rarely have to pay more than a token amount for the damage their accidents cause.
[17:06:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:38] <exec> 08└─Third world mass migration that brings a lot of trouble is not going away just because it is becoming increasingly unpopular in the host countries. If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them?
[17:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:50] <exec> 08└─"If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them?" Simple. Let them die. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.
[17:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:51] <exec> 08└─So they need to learn something else. Preferably without suicide bombers and IED's.
[17:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:53] <exec> 08└─If people would rather die than stay in their own country, how are you going to stop them?
[17:07:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:58] <exec> 08└─The jump would be physically demanding and risky to say the least, but keep in mind he would quickly fall into warmer conditions. Notably, a woman survived falling from even higher [guinnessworldrecords.com] without a parachute, suggesting that if he died, it wasn't the cold that killed him. That sa...
[17:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Released a Letter That May be From Hijacker D.B. Cooper - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:00] <exec> 08└─"He also failed to bring or request a helmet, chose to jump {animation] [blogspot.com] with the older and technically inferior of the two primary parachutes supplied to him, and jumped into a -70 °F (-57 °C) wind chill without proper protection against the extreme cold." maybe he was just an OG?
[17:09:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 1772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─It so happens that I live in Barton's district, for now. I was already going to vote against him or any other Republican that might beat him in the primaries. Maybe this means the Republican might actually lose. But don't count on it. The so-called Christians in these parts can easily overlook this...
[17:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:24] <exec> 08└─I think this starts to deviate from the image properties itself towards the intent of the person posting them, and the context under which it was posted. I mean, what if you take just headshots and bikini shots and post them along with a few paragraphs of 'erotic story' about the person, to a site c...
[17:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dry [223] 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 937 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:10] <exec> 08└─At 40 below, you get very little actual precipitation, Antarctica for example is mostly desert. Warm that place up to a couple of degrees below zero (Celsius) and you get a lot more precipitation, still in the form of snow, which doesn't melt due to it still being below freezing, ice increases even...
[17:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like you got called out,
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─That defies logic.
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[18:05:55] <exec> 08└─For Americans for minimum wage you assholes, I'd easily put in long days do that job.
[18:06:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:10] <exec> 08└─Well, there are three parts to the BIOS. Part 1 is the hardware support. That's still required, and whether it is in the form of BIOS or UEFI doesn't really matter. Part 2 is the service routines. Those are indeed outdated, and only used by ancient operating systems (with a few exceptions, which are...
[18:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─>As far as I am concerned, EFI has exactly one benefit, complete compatibility >with larger boot drives. That's actually an issue with the OS boot loader, not the BIOS. >MBRs are restricted to a maximum size of 2TB without workarounds. No, the MBR *partitioning scheme* (really the partitioning schem...
[18:06:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 1286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:23] <exec> 08└─If you are evaluating an approach, not even an implementation, and you see significant impacts that cannot be avoided, it is time to go back to the drawing board. My presumption is that the study used "standard practice", aka "how we have always done it" for the various terminals and facilities. The...
[18:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:30] <exec> 08└─> Even the hugest oil spills, the ones with loud predictions of "planet-ending impact any minute now", Who predicted that? I'm thinking nobody did, at least not seriously. > have not left any lasting damage to the environment. Wrong. The Ixtoc I spill was in 1979: Some larger species with longer lif...
[18:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:32] <exec> 08└─According to the infographic on this page [noaa.gov], after the Exxon Valdez spill, the Common Loon population recovered already after 17 years. In 2006. I suppose that explains all the bad things that happened to the world since 2007 :-(
[18:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:03] <exec> 08└─Why bring it with them? Just like the pilgrims, they want to be in a place where they can be *their* type of assholes.
[18:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Nothing to do with chainmail, these are just a material upgrade of the old lunar rover wheels. My question is how the nitinol will perform in the extreme temperature variations of extraterrestrial environments. My company makes nitinol medical implants, and liquid nitrogen is used to put the...
[18:07:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:40] <exec> 08└─Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either. - Edwin Emery Slosson (possibly), 1927 [quoteinvestigator.com]...
[18:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:44] <exec> 08└─My California history teacher was worse. Each day, he would lecture and you had to take notes and turn them in. His entire grade was based on how many pages of notes you took. 5 pages was an A, 4 pages was a B and so on. 5 pages of notes in 1 period is a lot of writing in a 45 minute period. I used...
[18:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:46] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't retain well unless time is sweet between ideas for taking notes or I don't take them. I focus too intently to listen and write at the same time.
[18:07:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Modder Puts Computer inside a Power Supply - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:56] <exec> 08└─TFA and the summary says this: The finished computer uses a Mini-ITX form factor motherboard
[18:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─Probably the most ironic thing you've posted so far. lol.
[18:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:41] <exec> 08└─He forgot the #MeToo.
[18:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─However, I really do not understand the objection to voter ID laws.
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[19:05:55] <exec> 08└─If you polish up your English, they may hire you.
[19:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:57] <exec> 08└─Also "third party sellers" who attach to an existing listing, then deliver a counterfeit product. Amazon has a huge problem with counterfeit products. From what I can tell, they have little to no care about stopping it. The only way to know you aren't getting counterfeit is to order something "sold...
[19:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:59] <exec> 08└─if only people who bought items could rate them i'd give a damn, but as is, its an amazon enabled bully play pit and the headline is completely misleading how about "Amazon enabled gladiator pits have people get hurt and complain!" while the enforcers of monopoly laws stand idly by while amzn loo...
[19:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:01] <exec> 08└─Yup, Amazon started out as bullies (when they started with book-selling, they were hell on many small specialty publishers) and the culture hasn't changed. Now it appears they have attracted other bullies to join them. I've never knowingly bought anything from Amazon. I did buy some small item on eB...
[19:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:19] <exec> 08└─Right now if you refuse to pay the microsoft tax most newly bought PC-s are loaded with FreeDOS or a small minority wih a linux distro. FreeDOS has no UEFI support so that won't work forever. I wonder what PC builders will use on these systems.
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:20] <exec> 08└─ME is outside of main CPU. It controls the damn machine. Make it do the full job. BIOS or EFI does not matter then. You can run a BIOSbased machine right next to WINDOWS XII. No skin off anyone nose. Hell,they could offer a BIOS add on module to offer boot of old systems.
[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─Somebody should take the NT4 leak, or the OpenNT fork (if you can still find a copy online) and add GPT support to it. Hell with a bit of knowledge of the code and some injection work one could probably support GPT on Windows XP and the Windows 6.0+ revisions as well, although you would probably nee...
[19:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:40] <exec> 08└─No impact? No long term consequences? Idiots lime you are a danger to the world https://www.npr.org [npr.org] Lots spent on cleanup helped for sure, but to pretend there are no long term consequences is idiotic and e...
[19:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:42] <exec> 08└─> Even the hugest oil spills, the ones with loud predictions of "planet-ending impact any minute now", Who predicted that? I'm thinking nobody did, at least not seriously.
[19:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─[quote]You can take stories from late 1920s or 1930s about Jews and compare them to stories about Islam today in the "alt-right" circles, and they are all the same. So my question would be, why are you so afraid?[/quote] In the '20s and '30s, were Jews beheading people for apostasy, blasphemy or hom...
[19:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:15] <exec> 08└─So, where are we in the "West" about Islam?
[19:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─A friend who had recently retired from Goodyear R&D, was asked to work on a volunteer project about 10 years ago -- re-create the Lunar Rover wheels/tires. While they had a sample to look at, the original tooling was gone, along with the know-how of the original makers. They had a devil of a time, b...
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─We can build a tire for low temperature. It would likely be liquid at Earth temperature, but this is a minor annoyance. The obvious way to deal with that is to keep the tires at Martian temperature as we prep for launch. An alternative is to have a thin other layer that is not liquid. After the unde...
[19:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:02] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised some smartass (or group of smartasses) haven't brought in manual typewriters and tried taking notes that way.
[19:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yuri Milner Considering Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:44] <exec> 08└─strontium 90
[19:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:12] <exec> 08└─i don't really know how they can make a ETF that "tracks" another stock or index or whatnot.
[19:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:03] <exec> 08└─He names one person specifically, and uses generalities to include a number of other people, implying that they are stupid.
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[20:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:56] <exec> 08└─So, if I get this right, I can buy Jeff Bezos if I put down roughly $100e9? I guess I have to have a chat with my financial backers. I've always wanted to own a billionaire.
[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─The new Axis of Evil
[20:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:29] <exec> 08└─All that needs to happen is somebody cook up a BIOS compatibility layer as an EFI executable and GPL it. It could even support a classic looking BIOS Setup screen to configure it where the variables get stored in the UEFI space. Since TianoCore includes a CSM it should not be a big effort to pull it...
[20:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:30] <exec> 08└─No, not really. Its just one more step in making our machines, 'theirs.
[20:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:52] <exec> 08└─Unless you are building a honking big pipeline or dealing with permafrost, a pipeline is generally invisible to wildlife a year after the construction has moved on. And even big ones like the Alaska Pipeline didn't impact wildlife in the long run. And when they leak we (in the first world) insist th...
[20:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:53] <exec> 08└─This isn't interesting, it's a complete load of bullshit. Even if you ignore the land destroyed by the oil being used, it's still not true. You lose 264 000 square feet per mile of pipeline at a minimum if you've got the minimal easement of 25' on each side and that doesn't even include the actual p...
[20:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:55] <exec> 08└─You're begging the question here. You assume that we need to burn that oil, which we don't. We could have moved from fossil fuels to other fuels at a much faster pace than we have if not for apologists like you. We know for a fact that we ca't keep burning oil, but yet, we seem hell bent on burning...
[20:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─> Ten years. If this is your definition of "lasting damage", it is plain laughable. Hooray, it's semantics time! What's your definition? How about 30 years? I mentioned a 30-year period in the next paragraph, which you ignored. fritsd linked to an infographic showing effects ~34 years later. > Did t...
[20:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:00] <exec> 08└─What significant impacts? The oil isn't being drilled for in Washington and it's being moved to the port in order to export. Why on Earth should the people of Washington be stuck with the risk associated with that stuff moving through our state, risking our bodies of water, just so that it can be bu...
[20:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:34] <exec> 08└─Humans have these emotions for good reason. Evolution gave us these emotions because the people without them are long dead. Lebanon was recently a Christian nation. Afghanistan was Buddhist. Bangladesh was Hindu. How many nations have escaped the grasp of Islam? Going by modern names, I can think of...
[20:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:35] <exec> 08└─If one population grows by a factor of 5 per generation, and another "grows" by a factor of 0.6 per generation, simple math tells us what will happen. AfD has proposed nothing to stop this. In the end, one group will exterminate the other. I doubt the ethnic Germans will win this time, but we'll see...
[20:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 2042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:37] <exec> 08└─You are assuming that however one Muslim behaves is how they all behave. Because a small number of Muslims in the Middle East are adopting extremism you feel that all Muslims are extremists. You are wrong. Many western nations have fought wars against each other, have been frightened of each other,...
[20:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:39] <exec> 08└─The entire root cause of hate is fear.
[20:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:54] <exec> 08└─The wheel damage is because NASA ignored both of these well-studied problems: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Aluminum is just going to fail. Titanium and spring steel are far better. Mars also has pe...
[20:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:27] <exec> 08└─Damn, you are quite young compared with me then....
[20:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:28] <exec> 08└─This kind of arrogance is more or less what's wrong with education.
[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─The supreme court decision that granted partial personhood to businesses was a disaster. Businesses get the upsides, but they face few of the downsides. They don't register for the draft. They don't risk execution for their crimes. Businesses are fundamentally not people and are not deserving of rig...
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the mighty orange had a tax idea like that, I bet he tweeted it - since it seems to fit in 140 characters or less and sounds like something that might have made him feel good to say at some point. The actual tax bills that are rolling through, what is in them - surely takes more than 140 ch...
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─So, you're in Texas, and you're thinking anywhere but the central core of the cities will vote Democrat? I think folks in those parts are actually afraid that somebody might spy on their secret ballot and burn a cross in their yard, or worse, if they voted Democrat.
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─There is simply no evidence of voter fraud.
[20:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─Funny thing is, death notices are filed with the government as well as published in the paper. There are parts of the government that will mark you dead and refuse to serve you, even if it was a mistake. But, not the polls... that would be beyond the volunteer poll workers' capabilities to process s...
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[21:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:56] <exec> 08└─You forgot Facebook, FAAG.
[21:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:58] <exec> 08└─Don't forget McDonald's. Those bastards still won't make a sausage egg McMuffin past 10:30am.
[21:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─It's the fucking Chinese hacking my phone! They're taking our jobs and our words!
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:11] <exec> 08└─Posting from a toy phone? They have already taken your brains!
[21:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:35] <exec> 08└─They could use Ubuntu with the SecureBoot shim - the root is still signed by Microsoft Ubuntu SecureBoot [ubuntu.com] The issue is, of course, that you no longer have the illusion of control of your hardware. Why do I say the 'illusion of control' - well, even now, because Intel's and AMD's hardware...
[21:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:01] <exec> 08└─Should just a defective AC but sometimes it is hilarious to smack one of you goofballs. Move to what? As I already wrote, -every- Green tech is a net economic loss, that if pretty much the definition of green tech since any that breaks through will get hated on. If it costs more wealth per unit of e...
[21:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:03] <exec> 08└─So what else does Washington State plan to trade the Chinese for their trinkets? You want that iPhone or don't ya?
[21:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:05] <exec> 08└─rail transport in Europe, and the UK in particular, is orders of magnitude safer than any other form.
[21:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:07] <exec> 08└─How about 30 years? I mentioned a 30-year period in the next paragraph, which you ignored.
[21:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:09] <exec> 08└─Even the hugest oil spills, the ones with loud predictions of "planet-ending impact any minute now",
[21:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:48] <exec> 08└─Double digit percentages of Muslims holding U.S. citizenship support imposing Sharia, support violent action against infidels, including here on U.S. soil. That number is stable and repeated across time. Elsewhere in the world that support crosses 50%. Sorry, if that number dropped to 0.1% I'd still...
[21:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:49] <exec> 08└─The problem for Merkel is simple. She can now choose her ending but that is the extent of her options at this point. Stupid is supposed to hurt so this is good. She can admit defeat, call for fresh elections and watch AfD form a government. Before voting for AfD was kinda like voting Libertarian her...
[21:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Its not an easy place to get to either. But a simple refueling port on the platform would have been cheap. You could easily justify the cost on a hunch that automated vehicles could be designed in the interim. Its expected life was 5 to 10 years. Musk's first flight was in 2008. He's routin...
[21:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:41] <exec> 08└─First off, there isn't a single ad hominem in that entire post. Perhaps if you weren't so ignorant, you'd know that. Secondly, none of this is pre-Gutenburg, the style of education used in schools didn't exist until several centuries after his death. Thirdly, people find things interesting or not, t...
[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─what is the average life expectancy of women who smoke? What is it for women who don't?
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[22:05:54] <exec> 08└─SSH: 1995 OpenVPN: 2001
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:05] <exec> 08└─Bzzzzt Right corporation. Wrong reason. (Yeah, I know, "Whoooosh", I know. The big M just pisses me off. A lot.)
[22:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:07] <exec> 08└─"Szechuan sauce"
[22:06:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigterm [849] 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 1296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:28] <exec> 08└─>Removing the legacy BIOS support will mitigate some security risks, Really? I mean, without Secure Boot, how exactly does UEFI make a system more secure? Please, name ONE recurity risk mitigated by UEFI. >allows for supporting more modern technologies, Citation needed. Given that the legacy BIOS on...
[22:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:44] <exec> 08└─Without BIOS support, it won't be possible to run DOS.
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:46] <exec> 08└─While we are at it, we should just get rid of all firmware. :P There were actually some CP/M-80 era machines that could boot just fine without a single ROM or line of firmware bootstrap code. At powerup the disk controller would hold the CPU in a reset state, perform a hardware DMA operation to load...
[22:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:18] <exec> 08└─> http://thechoiceperspective.com [thechoiceperspective.com] > https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net [bibliotecapleyades.net] > Here are a couple examples, from among too many for a bad joke. They're not independent: t...
[22:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:19] <exec> 08└─You lose 264 000 square feet per mile of pipeline at a minimum if you've got the minimal easement of 25' on each side and that doesn't even include the actual pipeline itself or the roads to and from various access points.
[22:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:21] <exec> 08└─Why on Earth should the people of Washington be stuck with the risk associated with that stuff moving through our state, risking our bodies of water, just so that it can be burned overseas?
[22:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:01] <exec> 08└─[citation needed] And no, Breitbart won't be accepted as source.
[22:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:03] <exec> 08└─Pew good enough for ya? Good grief, Google got results on the first effing page. Do you even belong here if your kung-fu is that weak? Sure you are smart enough for this ride? American Muslims views on terrorism... [pewforum.org] Note they are spinning, when Progs poll it is more to MAKE public opin...
[22:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:20] <exec> 08└─We can build a tire for low temperature. It would likely be liquid at Earth temperature,
[22:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:21] <exec> 08└─Wheel damage has pretty much tapered off in the second half of the mission. The guy who wrote the hand-wringing wail of the wheels has pretty much admitted he was mistaken. [soylentnews.org] I've been concerned about the potential for wheel damage from the Naukluft crossing ever since I wrote my lon...
[22:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:57] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I'm far more worried about the "dumbing down" of college that I see
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:08] <exec> 08└─I expect that the state could argue that it has a compelling interest in discouraging smoking by eliminating brands.
[22:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA to Get its First Marijuana ETF - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─I expect that the state could argue that it has a compelling interest in discouraging smoking by eliminating brands.
[22:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:04] <exec> 08└─Will there be more and better jobs for them if they vote for the Democrat or the Republican?
[22:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Congressman Claims to be a Victim of "Revenge Porn" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─However, I really do not understand the objection to voter ID laws.
[22:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polar Bears Crowd On Russian Island Is Sign Of Arctic Change - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:16] <exec> 08└─If you trace the comments, you'll see that I was not the first to lead with the personally directed bull. Not that should excuse it... but I will not apologize for the ignorance of another.
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[23:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SSH vs OpenVPN for Tunneling - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:56] <exec> 08└─SSH also supports compression. It makes a huge difference. Most people run it by default. I have no idea what he means by tcp over tcp, and I doubt he does either. VPNs are simply encrypted data streams traveling via TCP/ip. Oddly enough that's true of SSH as well. Why did he post this? He failed hi...
[23:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SSH vs OpenVPN for Tunneling - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─The ssh manual mentions overhead for TCP tunnels, but the guy is indeed forwarding just one port.
[23:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SSH vs OpenVPN for Tunneling - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:00] <exec> 08└─If you care about speed, you always benchmark. Case in point: ATAoE stuff keep advertising very low overhead, both CPU and bandwidth, yadda yadda. Thus, it should win handily over NBD, right? Especially if you hit a bug in NBD that makes it work only over IPv6 for you, for a total overhead of 60 by...
[23:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SSH vs OpenVPN for Tunneling - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─Guy should have just used socat. Forwarding one port is what socat is good at. But oh noes, don't make a young kid use the command line like an old neckbeard. Youth doesn't get paid shittons of money for fucking simple effective solutions to problems.
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:14] <exec> 08└─Wubalubadubdub!
[23:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:28] <exec> 08└─That's the bigger problem. I tend to review some of the low ratings to see what their issue was, often times the issue is that they were shipped something that wasn't what was advertised. If the low reviews don't seem relevant, then I ignore them. Amazon doesn't seem to care, they'll happily charge...
[23:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:30] <exec> 08└─Are you guys on a different planet to the rest of us? Almost every "real" review I see has the words "Verified Purchase" next to it. If it doesn't, you ignore it. I don't think that's a UK/EU-only thing, surely? And do you think competitors are buying competing products just to bad-review them?
[23:06:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 - 939 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:51] <exec> 08└─All that needs to happen is somebody cook up a BIOS compatibility layer as an EFI executable and GPL it. It could even support a classic looking BIOS Setup screen to configure it where the variables get stored in the UEFI space. Since TianoCore includes a CSM it should not be a big effort to pull it...
[23:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:30] <exec> 08└─Now, to be totally fair, your assignment is to figure out the land lost to a railroad right of way. Most pipelines are buried for most of their route, unless there are permafrost issues. Which leaves all that open-space for wild life. One of the funniest pictures I saw was of Alaska Senator Ted Stev...
[23:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Panel Outlines Risk of Oil-by-rail Terminal - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:31] <exec> 08└─transportation infrastructure of Washington state takes a bit off the top
[23:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Germany's Chancellor Merkel Form a New Coalition Government? - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry Jan, but I'm mostly with J-Mo he--aaugh, hang on a moment...*geuuurrrrghpth*...ugh, that is vile. Sorry. Yeah...sorry, but some cultures are not compatible with 21st century civilization. Most of the Middle East's cultures are among that number. I would say much of the US, especially that part...
[23:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:34] <exec> 08└─I think it's pretty good for wear resistance. I know it eats endmills like popcorn when you machine it unless you're running liquid nitrogen for coolant. It's also what's called "superelastic", look up the yield curves.
[23:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Develops "Chainmail Tires" for Future Rovers - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:35] <exec> 08└─It's not an easy place for humans to get to, ala Hubble servicing missions. Or in other words, it would be further away than humans have ever traveled from Earth (although not that far, just ~four times the distance to the Moon). But robotic spacecraft? No problem. I hope that despite its lack of se...
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