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[00:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:51] <exec> 08└─Anything worth reading digitally should be written in plain text, or at most Web markup. Anything worth reading analogically should be written with plain TeX.
[00:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:53] <exec> 08└─to open a non-trivial xls(x?) spreadsheet including inter-file links and other fun things: Is Microsoft Office really needed anymore, outside of specific plugins (which probably don't work with 365 to begin with!) or intentionally broken office features between versions? In my albeit limited experie...
[00:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:05] <exec> 08└─Nothing better than pork which are so tender that you can't grab them by the bone as it just slides out.
[00:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:06] <exec> 08└─Oops submit instead of preview. That should read pork ribs, specifically baby back ribs.
[00:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:09] <exec> 08└─In my home town I went to Fordham University. Then I transferred to UPenn. And graduated from the Wharton School with the highest honors. The absolute highest. The likes of which nobody has ever seen. So trust me. I know my way around a sentence. I can do a tremendous sentence. Tremendous!
[00:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 693 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:33] <exec> 08└─And in the spirit of the season let us not leave ignorance hanging Thimerosal [cdc.gov] Some short points for the lazy. -- The human body eliminates thimerosal easily. Thimerosal does not stay in the body a long time so it does not build up and reach harmful levels. When thimerosal enters the body,...
[00:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:45] <exec> 08└─I've gone my entire life so far without contracting polio or small pox and I credit that entirely to my meticulous attention to personal cleanliness. Reality is whatever you want it to be!
[00:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:46] <exec> 08└─You forgot the case of the person who thought they were vaccinated, by the vaccine didn't ... vaccinate. They did the right thing, but the immunity didn't take, please don't make them sick.
[00:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:48] <exec> 08└─Whatever they say, do not feed them after midnight...
[00:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:51] <exec> 08└─-- Thimerosal was taken out of childhood vaccines in the United States in 2001.
[00:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UNSW Canberra Opens Space Mission Design Facility - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:02] <exec> 08└─No. No Powerpoint slides. At least, not that many. They're gonna create Word files and Excel sheets. Which is, like, totally different, mate.
[00:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:45] <exec> 08└─But one idea that might help with light pollution: Safety lights triggered by motion sensors or other types of censors.
[00:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:46] <exec> 08└─We've refined the gene pool of so many apex predators to be afraid of us, the fire all night trick might not be needed anymore. Florida alligators were hunted to near extinction in the 1970s, then we let the population rebound from the ones that managed to not get shot back then. When they get aggre...
[00:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Banks Used Chat Rooms to Rig Auctions for Treasury Bonds - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:14] <exec> 08└─They were until they all discovered they were fucked over by one of them scam artists during the 2016 election. Fool me once... etc.
[00:08:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Congress Moves to 'drill, baby, drill' in Alaska's ANWR. Here's What You Should Know - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:43] <exec> 08└─Obama lifted the Export ban in 2015
[00:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:37] <exec> 08└─You're right, most often they have to do some golf lunches, private jet flights, and fancy dinners. By the end the politicos are "convinced".
[00:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:39] <exec> 08└─It's going to take years to undo this. Shit.
[00:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Docker For Windows 17.11 Supports Linux Containers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:12] <exec> 08└─If I want to use Linux - and I do - I'm not doing via Windows anything.
[00:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06150 Years Of Snake Collections: Data Bank Proves Rich Snake Diversity In The Neotropics - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:03] <exec> 08└─It might be standard in the field but it seems ripe for confusion. It seems to be shorthand for "New World tropics" but the word construction implies "new tropics", like areas that are tropical now and didn't use to be. Has global warming gotten that bad already?
[00:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Growing Number Of Young Americans Are Leaving Desk Jobs To Farm - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:50] <exec> 08└─2 of each would be even better: a just-started unit and a pretty-much-done unit. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[01:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:56] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately they got to the stupids in colleges, universities (and require students to use it) and head offices who think there is nothing else but MS orifice. Stupids is as stupids does.
[01:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:58] <exec> 08└─On a chromebook you don't expect to be doing high level work in Office, word or excel anyway, and the Google tools are more than good enough. Typical student use is easily handled by those. Our company switched over to LO a long time ago for all office type tasks and haven't found anything it couldn...
[01:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:00] <exec> 08└─Pretty much, who. fucking. cares. Or is it KFC? Kuntz fucking cares? Can't wait for the world to learn.
[01:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:14] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine putting my crosshairs on an animal 100+ yards away and killing it. An mt pepsi can? Not a problem. In fact, after 50 yards for a handgun and 100 yards for my rifle it's a good challenge. I eat meat and understand the hypocrisy but hey, whatever. That said, no issue shooting a human....
[01:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─Forget the aliens, sea monsters, or meteors. We'll all get killed by weirdly folded proteins. I don't even know how to properly salute our prion overlords!
[01:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:18] <exec> 08└─Going to agree with you here. Hunting seems pretty difficult to someone not raised into it, guns at all for that matter. Where to go shooting, when to go shooting, when/where to hunt, how to hunt, how to dress the animal afterwards. Easier to just have fun shooting shoes (bounce around and make a fu...
[01:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:20] <exec> 08└─Heh. Cheap trick. Buy cantaloupes or tomatoes. For a handgun put them 50 yards downrange, a rifle 200 yards. You will know when you hit them. You will also impress non-shooters you've invited along, in my case hoping to get into her pants (it was 30 years ago), in your case whatever. Fun fact. I hit...
[01:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:22] <exec> 08└─No worries. The other day, Elvis came up to me, at a gas station, and told me "hubba hubba hubba, it's alright baby." I told him, damn straight. So what's going on? He said, it's all good, and shit like that. Oh, Elvis also said "trump is a dotard, and I don't even know what 'dotard' means, but what...
[01:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly, and what this all adds up to should be the realization that we have, as a society, abandon this idea of people raising children.
[01:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:04] <exec> 08└─This is very offensive to Russians. Implying they want to use lack of vaccines to hurt the west is puerile. A more realistic Russian move would be to covertly control some pharma company, use some not subtle/trackable trolls to disseminate fake antivax propaganda, wait for the mainstream media to ou...
[01:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNSW Canberra Opens Space Mission Design Facility - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:15] <exec> 08└─Beyond satire..? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:00] <exec> 08└─Under full moon light, you don't actually distinguish colors. The US surely wouldn't allow people of the wrong color to be arrested for crimes they didn't commit, because of unreliable observers.
[01:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Moves to 'drill, baby, drill' in Alaska's ANWR. Here's What You Should Know - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:16] <exec> 08└─It's being pushed right now because it's a foot in the door. The truth is that we're a net exporter of oil these days, so tapping other oil fields isn't necessary. And between the cost of extraction and the fact that we need to be getting off of oil, the whole thing makes no sense other than as a ta...
[01:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Moves to 'drill, baby, drill' in Alaska's ANWR. Here's What You Should Know - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:18] <exec> 08└─I haven't checked what's in this version, but the "1002" area isn't the size of a city. 6100km2 is a county (equivalent to 40x60 miles). We just had yet another pipeline spill in the lower 48. One can understand why people would be nervous about overall cleanliness of extraction in places where obse...
[01:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:58] <exec> 08└─So, errr, which side were you on again? ;-P
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─> It's just another bit of propaganda to scare us into climate change mitigation. http://farm5.static.flickr.com [flickr.com]
[01:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Growing Number Of Young Americans Are Leaving Desk Jobs To Farm - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:09] <exec> 08└─I see you've met my girlfriend and my wife! :) I am in ssssooooooooooooo much trouble!!!!! Luceeeee, I'm home!!!! *Bammm!*
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[02:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:55] <exec> 08└─knowing this huge conglomerate no longer needs to worry about net neutrality, nor any other non-monopolistic laws that have recently been gutted.
[02:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:56] <exec> 08└─Of conservative and liberal media conglomerates, what markets and which media in those markets they compete in, and perhaps a list of obviously biased and reportedly objective journalism they have reported on in the past 5,10,15, and 20 years? Inquiring minds want to know.
[02:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:59] <exec> 08└─It will take ten years for Meredith to drag Time to the center, and another ten to drag them to the conservative side. Bezos took a Center-Left Newspaper and rebuilt it as whacko May-Day-Parade Antifa leftist in under a year. Money talks.
[02:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:10] <exec> 08└─It's impossible to be fully bug-for-bug compatible with MS-Office without actually being MS-Office. Some documents won't open or render "correctly" without the real McCoy. By "correctly" I mean matching MS-Word, even if misinterprets or illogically renders or inserts formatting meta data to do it. I...
[02:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:12] <exec> 08└─but back in my day, I didn't need to connect to any tubes just to run office.
[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─I'll see your old fogie and raise you a geezer. Back in my day Lotus SmartSuite worked just fine and we didn't need to run Office at all.
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─Green text on black editor for form letters which lived "on the mainframe" ftw
[02:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:18] <exec> 08└─Even newer versions of Office aren't bug compatible with Office. My office (a Fortune 500, albeit on the lower end) switched everyone to Office 2016 a few months after it came out and then promptly switched everyone back to 2010 a few days later, as both Word and Excel were causing all sorts of prob...
[02:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─Dn kids, abacus or go home!
[02:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:40] <exec> 08└─Symptoms include weight loss, listlessness and drooling? Sounds a lot like your basic Starbuck's clientele.
[02:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:41] <exec> 08└─Leftover Halloween pumpkins full of Tannerite are, literally, a blast. I shot some at 200 yards with my trusty Mosin and told my wife I was making pie filling.
[02:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:24] <exec> 08└─There is no secret, no need to figure out much anything new. Inequality must go down, lack of sufficient income is the biggest driver of stress and fear which creates most of our modern problems.
[02:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:26] <exec> 08└─With 326M people in the US, that's about 4.65M deaths from the flu.
[02:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe, to those that are left, but they're really dying out too fast to effectively evolve due to poaching and massive loss of habitat. Many subspecies of tiger for example are now down to a few hundred individuals if not already extinct in the last few decades.
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congress Moves to 'drill, baby, drill' in Alaska's ANWR. Here's What You Should Know - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─The wiki on the trans-alaska is pretty interesting ttps://en.m.wikipedia.org Further down the link it lists the number of leaks by year, 2003 to 2006 had four leaks. Does not show more recent data though, and before 03 there were a lot more per year. The low numbers...
[02:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congress Moves to 'drill, baby, drill' in Alaska's ANWR. Here's What You Should Know - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─More horseshit being shoved down our throats by the alt-animal animal loving fascists. We have let the caribou lobby control Washington for far too long now. The last time they got a pipeline their population quadroupled due to year-round source of heat and bedding grounds, another pipeline could pu...
[02:10:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gottabeme [1531] 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 991 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human b...
[02:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:24] <exec> 08└─> Democracy stinks, but there isn't a better method of governance. [citation needed] Democracy doesn't nearly as many man-millenia of data to back it up, compared to feudalism. It keeps failing left and right after each major crisis.
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[03:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:59] <exec> 08└─Why would it take ten years? There are plenty of journalists out there eager to replace anyone who doesn't quickly learn to write as required. Properly sliding the editorial priorities rightward without spooking too many readers at once? A year, maybe...
[03:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:00] <exec> 08└─The now-failed New York Times will get stuck paying the likes of Comcast for non-slow access to humans.
[03:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:03] <exec> 08└─Right? Post truth reality, shorten attention spans and spew a new narrative. "It all makes sense! I read about this somewhere."
[03:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:05] <exec> 08└─Has anyone else noticed that there is almost zero overlap between the people scaremongering about the Koch brothers and the people scaremongering about George Soros? You'd think that there would be more general opposition to any rich people tilting the political scales, but it's all based in partisa...
[03:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:07] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you said "almost zero". I bitch about them both. But, it does seem to be a partisan thing. When the Cock brothers are doing the same thing Soros does, the right is content, and the left is largely happy with Soros. But, each cries and whines when it's the OTHER ONE doing it. And, all of tho...
[03:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:46] <exec> 08└─Mad cow came from feeding cows ground-up sheep brains. What did the deer eat?
[03:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:47] <exec> 08└─Your basic Starbuck's clientele isn't eating deer meat. Now your run-of-the-mill rednecks...
[03:07:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:20] <exec> 08└─Over there suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks are becoming a common occurance whereas over here it's quite rare.
[03:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:32] <exec> 08└─With proper sanitation, infected people spread their infection to less than 1 other person on average. This causes the infectious agent to go extinct.
[03:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:34] <exec> 08└─That's called herd immunity and it's absolutely not an idiotic idea.
[03:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:36] <exec> 08└─But the people executing those decisions are not all so trapped in their job that they will execute them silently, and be okay with poisoning millions of people.
[03:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:38] <exec> 08└─How bout you go fuck yourself? Big Pharma has fucked up more than enough times, not faced consequences, and been shown to kill people for profit. Hey, it's easier to stick your head in the sand right? Ill-informed? You mean investigative reporting, statements from the FDA, proof of faked studies, st...
[03:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:40] <exec> 08└─Keeping humidity between 50% and 95% helps to suppress the airborne diseases. Getting sick people to wear masks would help greatly. Choosing video over physical presence also helps; have a videoconference instead of getting together physically. Get HEPA air filters. For surfaces, a huge problem is r...
[03:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:43] <exec> 08└─You roll the dice that the CEO of the company making your vaccines isn't an avaricious piece of shit. Personally, I think that's a bad fucking bet. Be unhappy me with all you want. What you can't do is create an argument engendering trust back in Big Pharma giving the metric fucking shit tons of pro...
[03:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:45] <exec> 08└─Child care was a big problem even before double incomes became normal in western societies. Lots of kids grew up in abusive or neglectful households; it wasn't unusual at all. Parents beat them, parents were drunks, parents had too many kids and ignored them, etc. The idea that somehow there was som...
[03:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNSW Canberra Opens Space Mission Design Facility - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:56] <exec> 08└─Beyond satire..?
[03:09:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Congress Moves to 'drill, baby, drill' in Alaska's ANWR. Here's What You Should Know - 752 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:51] <exec> 08└─When I see the words "Here's What You Should Know" in a headline, it makes my blood boil. I don't know exactly why. Maybe because of the arrogance of the journalist to assert that this article is the sum total of knowledge on the subject, and that I both need to read it and don't need to read anythi...
[03:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ankh [754] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:44] <exec> 08└─You can look this stuff up, or you can keep rebunking it. Here, Google wants to be your friend: https://www.metabunk.org [metabunk.org] -----excerpt follows------- Rebuttals of this claim by Stephen Schne...
[03:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ankh [754] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:46] <exec> 08└─Rebuttals of this claim by Stephen Schneider: https://www.metabunk.org [metabunk.org]
[03:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:48] <exec> 08└─Ok, smarty pants what apocalypse provided the reason for the iPhone?
[03:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:50] <exec> 08└─Where's the evidence that fighting global warming makes for a better world? Assertion by cartoon is typical of the arguments (and I saw another example a few days earlier [soylentnews.org]). OTOH, I can show some concrete evidence that fossil fuels have contributed significantly to the best improve...
[03:11:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rylyeh [6726] 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. This is what the conservative 'think-tanks' have given us. Corporate/Billionaire interest have 'Trumped' the interests of the people once again. It's going to take years to undo this. Shit. 💩
[03:11:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:19] <exec> 08└─"Democracy" America - you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
[03:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:49] <exec> 08└─Just remember it's the "left-wing cucks" who are ruining 'Murica...
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[04:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:55] <exec> 08└─PRI has been soylented? . . . . . Public Radio International It's your world. Jump in. Site under maintenance PRI.org is currently under maintenance. We should be back shortly. Thank you for your patience. I thought the story kinda interesting, so I clicked on the link. Guess I'll have to click agai...
[04:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:10] <exec> 08└─Believe nothing, from anybody, without corroboration and evidence. Time is and will be no different from any other news outlet in this regard.
[04:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:12] <exec> 08└─The thing I find most interesting is that both sides complaining about the owners of media businesses basically accept Noam Chomsky's idea about how ownership biases affect the news. Which I agree with: I've yet to encounter a news outlet that isn't biased as all get-out.
[04:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:14] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there another brother named Hop S. Koch? I know some school girls that'd jump all over THAT one. Wow... Tough audience....
[04:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:16] <exec> 08└─Awwww... I forgot Butters Koch, the 'R' word brother. :(
[04:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:19] <exec> 08└─And, as an academic exercise, those who know about the bias, should be seeking out as many biases as possible. Yet - there are tons of people who won't read the other side's news, let alone seek out different views and biases from foreign news sources. Instead, knowing that left-leaning (or right) A...
[04:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:21] <exec> 08└─Koch are: globalist with a bit of libertarian (did NOT support our president, despite supporting previous republicans) Soros is: globalist with a bit of socialist/communist (obviously no support for our president) Well maybe I'll take Koch over Soros, much like I'd take McCain or Romney over Obama,...
[04:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:23] <exec> 08└─Mom (88) took one look at this news, remembered that her Time subscription runs out in May 2018, and pretty much figured that she wasn't going to be renewing. So she's only giving the Kochs ~6 months to change the culture. Too bad, she's retired and likes paper magazines... Every now and then I read...
[04:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:25] <exec> 08└─Has anyone else noticed that there is almost zero overlap between the people scaremongering about the Koch brothers and the people scaremongering about George Soros?
[04:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:05] <exec> 08└─Mad cow came from feeding cows ground-up sheep brains. What did the deer eat?
[04:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:57] <exec> 08└─Inequality must go down, lack of sufficient income is the biggest driver of stress and fear which creates most of our modern problems.
[04:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:59] <exec> 08└─The fact that school quality is tied to neighborhoods is a factor that drives up house prices and keeps young couples from starting families early. We can bring back bussing. This is when kids get put in non-neighborhood schools. Another thing we can do is to nationalize the funding, prohibiting all...
[04:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:01] <exec> 08└─Flamebait is the mod for stupid and ill-informed posts because when one such is posted, the corrections pour in. Then the original poster doubles down on the original post with more flamebait.
[04:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:03] <exec> 08└─Most vaccines aren't perfect. They merely increase the subject's immunity to some level where the disease won't easily infect the person and propagate through the overall group (or "herd immunity"). When in this case you have a subpopulation that isn't vaccinated, the subpopulation will more readily...
[04:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:06] <exec> 08└─That website took pneumonia deaths(from stuff like lung cancer) and then added on flu deaths and made the 1 in 70 statistic. That's like taking deaths from cancer and adding on people that are impaled by pogo sticks.. Then saying your chance of dying from pogo stick impalement is 1 in 70. It's more...
[04:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:08] <exec> 08└─Choosing video over physical presence also helps; have a videoconference instead of getting together physically. Get HEPA air filters.
[04:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:10] <exec> 08└─Yep, perfectly safe to inject mercury. Nothing to worry about there.
[04:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:12] <exec> 08└─You seriously believe it's 1 in 70 chance of death from the flu? With 326M people in the US, that's about 4.65M deaths from the flu.
[04:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:15] <exec> 08└─I've gone my entire life so far without contracting polio or small pox and I credit that entirely to my meticulous attention to personal cleanliness.
[04:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 2889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:17] <exec> 08└─What exactly do you mean by "discipline"? Based on your post, it sounds like what you mean is spanking and other forms of corporal punishment. My experience, as someone who has worked with all kinds of kids professionally, is that such actions are pretty much always unnecessary and do more harm than...
[04:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:19] <exec> 08└─As for double incomes, that should *not* be the norm, because without women taking a risk in the event of divorce there is little incentive to resolve relationship problems. We also don't get many children. We'll fix this. If not via the law, we'll fix it with evolution.
[04:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:24] <exec> 08└─This means I'm getting through.
[04:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:25] <exec> 08└─How about you stab yourself in the face a few times? I'm sure there's a reason for why we would want other people to do pointless, harmful or lethal activities, but until we can think of what that reason could be, there's face stabbing to keep you occupied.
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[05:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:01] <exec> 08└─Works for me... But in order for a site to be "soylented" it would actually require that our soylentists actually go and RTFA. :)
[05:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:24] <exec> 08└─knowing this huge conglomerate no longer needs to worry about net neutrality, nor any other non-monopolistic laws that have recently been gutted.
[05:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:26] <exec> 08└─Sheep fuckers, the lot of them.
[05:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:44] <exec> 08└─> Chromebook Flip (with a 10.1-inch display) will get free access to Office on Chrome OS Anyone tried this free version of Office with a large external display? Just checked Flip specs and it supports multiple external screens including HDTVs. Every now and then my big corporate customer sends me a...
[05:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:46] <exec> 08└─Amazon Marketplace offers a pre-upload validator for product and inventory feed files. It's implemented as an Excel file with macros (.xlsm). From LO's help wiki [libreoffice.org]: With a few exceptions, Microsoft Office and LibreOffice cannot run the same macro code. Microsoft Office uses VBA (Visu...
[05:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:12] <exec> 08└─Dollars generated from deer licenses and hunting-related purchases bring in millions in matching funds for habitat restoration and endangered species.
[05:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:13] <exec> 08└─I don’t approve of killing animals.
[05:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease#Epidemiology [wikipedia.org] Pooped out, in the soil, then the grass, then eaten again. Maybe the lush grass is the best tasting to the deer, but its likely to be best fertilized and the most infected. It wouldn't be the first time we've seen tha...
[05:07:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:50] <exec> 08└─Mercury has been part of the environment for longer than humans have existed. Your body can easily eliminate levels far above what's found in a seasonal influenza vaccine. If you enjoy eating large predatory fish (tuna, shark, swordfish) then you get more mercury from that than from your yearly jab....
[05:07:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:51] <exec> 08└─That's called herd immunity and it's absolutely not an idiotic idea. Some people cannot get vaccinated for a variety of reasons; they rely on everyone else being vaccinated for their protection. So yes, in aggregate every person who can get the vaccine and doesn't puts people who cannot at risk.
[05:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:19] <exec> 08└─I want more transparency about what went into the vaccinations, and more accountability within the ranks of the executives and shareholders. Basically, I wished that science ran the vaccines, but it's monied interests instead.
[05:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:20] <exec> 08└─I don't give a shit, the human tolerance for mercury is ZERO.
[05:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 2698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:22] <exec> 08└─My first paragraph features you. As I said, "Discipline is unpleasant. People get uncomfortable seeing it and dishing it out. Some parents are blessed with kids that need relatively little, then assume that all other kids have similar personality." That supposed "lack of creativity on the part of th...
[05:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:24] <exec> 08└─It'll be burger flipping machines. They exist. Some McDonalds locations already use automated ordering, eliminating that source of disease spread. Sanitation doesn't work for every job, and it doesn't need to. We just need to get the average disease spread below 1. So for every porn star who spreads...
[05:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:27] <exec> 08└─Your ideas fall in 2 categories: Those things government interference prevents you from trying (e.g., bussing kids around).Those things government interference imposes on you (e.g., a tax on unmarried men). So, alternatively, get the Government the fuck out of our lives. Get the Government out of sc...
[05:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:29] <exec> 08└─Too many idiots see enforcing discipline as a failure on their part. "I should be able to talk them out of this behavior".
[05:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hallucination Machine: Psychedelic Visuals in VR - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:57] <exec> 08└─I remember one of the subjects saying (in a movie) that the re-adapting phase, once inversion glasses were taken away, was pure hell. Imagine nothing on your head, and the world looks upside down for a couple of weeks. Don't try these experiments at home kids... Yes, brains are "plastic", but that d...
[05:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:30] <exec> 08└─As near as I can read the racial prejudice here in the South, there's white and there's non-white - don't much matter none whether you're black or brown.
[05:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:31] <exec> 08└─Ten years ago, this sounded crazy, but not anymore: https://5050by2150.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[05:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Banks Used Chat Rooms to Rig Auctions for Treasury Bonds - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:01] <exec> 08└─Sure it would, just look back at Teddy Roosevelt and Trust Busting. https://ehistory.osu.edu [osu.edu] (includes good political cartoons from back in the day).
[05:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:41] <exec> 08└─It is the free market, the free market in buying government. That's the great thing about capitalism, if you have the capital, you can buy laws to make sure you get more capital as long as you have enough capital to win in the free market of congress critters. The golden rule, he who has the gold, m...
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[06:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:54] <exec> 08└─Robbie, some years ago, was a pile of non-operating junk. Glad to see (when repaired!) he sold for more than the Ruby Slippers! Danger Will Robinson! Danger!
[06:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:03] <exec> 08└─If the water is too hot it's too hot.
[06:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:05] <exec> 08└─This allows the coral gametes to evolve in warmer temperatures.
[06:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:08] <exec> 08└─Is there any indication the scientists are actually trying to make them evolve? Maybe by growing the larvae in hotter, more acidic conditions and selecting the survivors they can do it. But how can corals survive in super acidic conditions that deplete calcium carbonate? Make themselves out of somet...
[06:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:32] <exec> 08└─Please do not insult the sheep fuckers.
[06:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:34] <exec> 08└─Do you really think that the 'Nation States' are the future of Earth? Is Feudalism the natural state of the human race? I doubt you can defend that ridiculous idea! We live on a GLOBE!
[06:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:36] <exec> 08└─I prefer 'pig fuckers'. FTFY.
[06:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:38] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there another brother named Hop S. Koch?
[06:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:58] <exec> 08└─Looked around, couldn't find anything. Seems like it should work though. Microsoft justified the 10.1-inch decision on the basis that people don't usually use external keyboards + mice with smaller touchscreen devices. The anon who connects the flipping thing to a TV is an outlier. Ir anyone is will...
[06:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:59] <exec> 08└─Also, I think Microsoft might have picked the 10.1-inch cutoff to specifically exclude the 10.5-inch Apple iPad Pro.
[06:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:28] <exec> 08└─YouTube is full of deer (and other herbivores) eating birds, carcasses etc... As an aside, the largest ever marsupial predator was called thylacoleo carnifex and was decended from a recent herbivorous ancestor, and had a dentition completely different from other mammalian carnivores as a result: htt...
[06:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:29] <exec> 08└─And, of course, it is not a disease, or at least not one with microbial or viral agent. It is proteins getting off on the wrong foot, folding the wrong way, and the next thing you know you are voting Republican and hold Trump to the be greatest precedent evar! Look up "Kuru Disease" for a human var...
[06:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:31] <exec> 08└─Suppose a hungry herbivore isn't always a herbivore.
[06:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:34] <exec> 08└─Arby's is Selling Venison Sandwiches in Six Deer-Hunting States [soylentnews.org]
[06:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:36] <exec> 08└─Prions are only destroyed when heated to 3000° F. I like the X-Files 'Chaco chicken - good food, good people!' Creutzfeldt–Jakob [wikipedia.org] syndrome is a bitch!
[06:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe they find the school work distasteful because you are making them to do it, and they associate your orders with spanking (and probably yelling). It's not like AP calculus and physics exercises are fun, even for people who are good at it. That's some pretty dry bread to chew.
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:47] <exec> 08└─Earlier this year, we had the power out due to storms. I walked through the neighborhood at night to relieve boredom. I could see much further than normal at night since the street lights weren't blinding me. I was surprised how active the wildlife was at night once I could actually see it. Without...
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[07:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 2586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:54] <exec> 08└─There was a recent thing where someone (a stenographer--obviously NOT a journalist) wrote down a bunch of crap that a political operative in Munich had told him and the stenographer got that published. The lameoid writer never checked with another source, certainly not with a technologist who is emp...
[07:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:56] <exec> 08└─Anyway, it's easy to engage in political skulduggery when you get to play around with other people's money. The solution is to get Government out of the business of allocating resources; a Government is just a bad business that won't go bankrupt, and will even be rewarded with more money when it fai...
[07:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:58] <exec> 08└─"Let's put M$, Oracle, Facebook, Google, and Verizon in charge." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm sure people prefer anarchy instead. You actually realize how "free market economy" actually works? Government throws money out based on things people may want (like sewers, fire department or drinking water) and then everyone fights over the scraps while the government makes sure no one bu...
[07:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:08] <exec> 08└─It's not the editing of normal documents that's the big hurdle. I worked for a large corporation that had widely implemented SAP and used many in-house applications that linked with Excel spreadsheets to keep managers' fingers out of SAP itself. We avoided Windows and Office upgrades for as long as...
[07:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:10] <exec> 08└─FORTRAN too. They taught us basic in the intro class. The student terminals only had twelve lines because Solano College didn't have the cash to buy the memory for twenty-four.
[07:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:53] <exec> 08└─> It's not the government you need to trust though. I'm anti-vacc because I do *not* trust the big pharma companies. Vaccinations is a simple science, but that does not instantly translate into condoning or agreeing with their method of delivery. I don't give a shit, the human tolerance for mercury...
[07:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe they need some instruction on time management. If there are 50 problems for a week, set a target for finishing 10 per day and after they do that then they can goof off.
[07:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:56] <exec> 08└─- Yes. CDC says it's safe, because - It's in "trace" amounts, such that - To FDA standards, it's not even there at all. One piece of gravadlax or one small sprat contains more mercury than all of the vaccines you'll ever be encouraged to take. If you eat fish, you're not just ignorant, you're a hypo...
[07:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:58] <exec> 08└─Dissolve the government, and a new one will form. More than one may form, each fighting to be the sole winner. While they fight, it's like Somalia. The winner will likely be awful. So it is thus established that we need men with guns. It's like that with lots of things. Libertarian idealism crashes...
[07:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:01] <exec> 08└─Your 500 is just as bogus. That's probably a "flu was the last thing known" death. Many flu deaths are "flu and then pneumonia" deaths, which are recorded as pneumonia deaths. The freaking CDC has pages and pages on such topics, all fully sourced - why do you remain willfully ignorant?
[07:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:03] <exec> 08└─Equality is a good thing, there's no reason a man and a woman shouldn't divide work and child care equally. What we don't need is the necessity of 2 parents both having full time jobs. It's time to reduce the work week to balance out both parents working. We might eventually need to address the birt...
[07:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:05] <exec> 08└─We also don't get many children.
[07:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:07] <exec> 08└─Your media purposely avoids covering terrorist attacks. Some can't be hidden, so they get covered, but little minor ones (the most common) don't get coverage. Your media purposely avoids covering the high levels of violence, particularly rape, committed by the non-European Islamic migrants. Your med...
[07:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:10] <exec> 08└─And that's on top of the absolutely idiotic notion that Person A not getting vaccinated somehow puts vaccinated Person B at risk.
[07:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:12] <exec> 08└─I have yet to hear why the current level of wealth inequality is supposed to be a bad thing.
[07:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNSW Canberra Opens Space Mission Design Facility - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:24] <exec> 08└─I'll admit we are a loser in that space. Even the kiwis beat us to it [abc.net.au], in fact this probably a knee jerk reaction to that plus an opportunity for, ahem, to spend some tax payers money on office space and maybe some creative sub-contracting. However, conceptually there nothing wrong with...
[07:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Banks Used Chat Rooms to Rig Auctions for Treasury Bonds - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:44] <exec> 08└─Fat bankers turn out to be dirty crooks. This time around, could we at least punish them as hard as we punish someone who steels $1000 form a corner shop? That is, pretend for a change that we don't have a nobility in the U.S.
[07:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:25] <exec> 08└─do pointless, harmful or lethal activities
[07:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:27] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center,
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[08:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:04] <exec> 08└─productivity had "decreased notably" due to crashes and printing errors since moving to open-source software.
[08:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:06] <exec> 08└─Your reply is what is called a "straw man argument". No one said everything should be thrown out in one rash coup; no one said anything about a jarring revolution. However, in order to get evolution of the organization of society, there has to be some kind of selective pressure; that's why it's impo...
[08:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:08] <exec> 08└─Anyway, it's easy to engage in political skulduggery when you get to play around with other people's money. The solution is to get Government out of the business of allocating resources; a Government is just a bad business that won't go bankrupt, and will even be rewarded with more money when it fai...
[08:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:10] <exec> 08└─Please take a moment to form a complete response, rather than just responding to line items.
[08:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:13] <exec> 08└─Not seeing that at all. It was a long post but he used paragraph breaks appropriately and it's all very readable. Also, as you appear to be attempting to false-flag post as a libertarian, that's a no. Government is what you said but it's still the most efficient known way to provision public goods....
[08:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:15] <exec> 08└─I dispute the validity of the word "genuine" here. Furthermore, I'm skeptical of the notion of a "public good". So, your premise is not at all acceptable. As for admonishing revolution, that's already been covered [soylentnews.org]. Nobody is arguing for that; it's a straw man. By the way, why are y...
[08:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:17] <exec> 08└─Please take a moment to form a complete response, rather than just responding to line items.
[08:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:19] <exec> 08└─Glad to hear corruption is live and well in Munich... I bet Micro$oft has spent quite a lot of money in this operation as they must be well aware of both the network effect and the domino effect.
[08:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:06] <exec> 08└─Time is and will be no different from any other news outlet in this regard.
[08:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:08] <exec> 08└─The only time I remember reading TIME was at the dentist's office. It was either that or a bunch of sports mags, or Vanity Fair. Or that overhead TV they have in their waiting room, endlessly repeating an ad loop for their tooth veneer work. They do not have WIFI. And Soylent is one of the very few...
[08:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:10] <exec> 08└─In the alternative, do I get a vote? Do I just get 1 vote out of 8 billion votes? When someday 50.001% of the world votes to exterminate infidels, am I supposed to just accept my slaughter as the product of legitimate democracy? If it turns out more like Zimbabwe, and 50.001% of the world votes to t...
[08:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:12] <exec> 08└─Soros is a wanted person in Hungary. He helped the Nazis go after Jews and claims to have really enjoyed those years.
[08:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:14] <exec> 08└─Now this ^ right cheer is why I will not read a Runaway post. It is like its own little bubble trying to appear to not be a bubble by doubling down on the bubbleness. I recognize the trap. Runaway is too middle-of-the-road, to "moderate", too old and racist and sexist, to even enter into modern dis...
[08:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:10] <exec> 08└─There's no hypocrisy, as you're not doing anything that needs to be criticised, so are not being underly self-critical. You're doing nothing more than reinforcing division of labour. However, you do finish with a tale that reinforces the idea common in much of the rest of the world that americans ha...
[08:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:31] <exec> 08└─Take my father-in-law for example................. The real cause: he lived on fast food with lots of soda and he mostly sat on his fat ass That led to: obesity and edema, then being sent home from a hospital with persistent weakness and possibly infection, then hallucination due to infection The de...
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[09:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unnatural Selection: The "Evolution Machine" that Drives Bacteria to Produce New Drugs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:55] <exec> 08└─It's all "natural," unless you consider humans "unnatural."
[09:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unnatural Selection: The "Evolution Machine" that Drives Bacteria to Produce New Drugs - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:56] <exec> 08└─well...
[09:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unnatural Selection: The "Evolution Machine" that Drives Bacteria to Produce New Drugs - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:58] <exec> 08└─I see... so that was a parasitic nutsack planted on your bare snappyhole! It's already begun... Bubububububububu!
[09:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:17] <exec> 08└─"I dispute the validity of the word "genuine" here." That's an interesting point to pick for dispute, as it was inserted specifically to concede ahead of time that not EVERYTHING that's claimed to be a public good necessarily is so, or must always be so. I'm all for whittling the class away as quick...
[09:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Orion Blastar [5270] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:18] <exec> 08└─When Slashdot got bought out by Dice and other Scammers/Spammers, we moved to Kuro5hin and other sites like Metafilter, etc. Heck when Infoworld Forums got destroyed because of astroturfing, they made that IWETHEY forum that still runs, but is boring and ban happy. The DailyKOS to Reddit to Voat.co,...
[09:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:20] <exec> 08└─Indeed, my father had more driver issues under Windows than I had under Linux. Usually because the old hardware (e.g. printer) didn't have drivers for the new version of Windows. While under Linux, you can generally be sure that if hardware works now, it will also work after upgrading.
[09:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:23] <exec> 08└─Can you be the slightest bit specific as to what it is that's bothering you which would cause you to use the term "Astroturfing"? ...or any of the other gibberish you wrote? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:25] <exec> 08└─The identical comment a half hour later is NOT "Offtopic". It's SPAM. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:27] <exec> 08└─Youtube […] kept the pedophile porn producers that give them eyeballs that give them income.
[09:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:36] <exec> 08└─Robby only appeared in one episode of Lost in Space. The regular star of the series was Robot B-9 [wikipedia.org].
[09:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Orion Blastar [5270] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:38] <exec> 08└─I was once told that there was at least three Robby the Robot suits made because of mechanical malfunctions.
[09:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:41] <exec> 08└─On The Twilight Zone they used a different head [wikipedia.org].
[09:07:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 473 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:11] <exec> 08└─And, as an academic exercise, those who know about the bias, should be seeking out as many biases as possible. Yet - there are tons of people who won't read the other side's news, let alone seek out different views and biases from foreign news sources. Instead, knowing that left-leaning (or right) A...
[09:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Orion Blastar [5270] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:26] <exec> 08└─Whoever controls news media and multi-media companies can control what the public sees and does not see to change history. Most of these companies are deep in debt because they did not consider the age of the Internet, Blogs, Social Networks, and other stuff. They still had the AOL Model like Time W...
[09:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:28] <exec> 08└─The Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, are in a contest to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY for the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad.
[09:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Orion Blastar [5270] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:30] <exec> 08└─I'll go you one better, us tech-savvy people know how to fact check, our Aunt Peggy and Grandpa Joe just click "Share" on any video or blog article disguised as news to everyone to see. Link to a fact-checking site telling them the video or article is false, and they might even block you for spreadi...
[09:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:32] <exec> 08└─Why would it take ten years?
[09:08:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:56] <exec> 08└─If you're worried about the mercury in vaccines, don't go outside, and get pure O2 delivered to your house daily. Air pollution demonstrably kills thousands a year. Vaccinated people (everybody by your sorry ass) are living longer and healthier lives than ever. Stay inside, breathe canned air, and k...
[09:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:50] <exec> 08└─Just for the record: We don't have a prime minister. Which highlights how "well informed" you actually are about Germany. The only thing that is true is that many Germans have a problem with the concept of being proud of your country. This has good reasons, as this has been abused in the past (and i...
[09:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, the good old "either go out of your way to avoid everything unhealthy, or be fine with twice as much harmful stuff". Yet another argument from the pro side that helps the anti side more than it helps themselves. The anti side doesn't need Russian help, they are getting plenty of help from the pr...
[09:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─the human tolerance for mercury is ZERO.
[09:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─You mean "if you inject fish". Anything that gets into the blood stream (or the lungs, but you don't usually inhale fish either) causes a lot more damage than simply eating it. Look, I assume you a for vaccines, so how about some argument actually helping the pro side, rather than these shitty argum...
[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:58] <exec> 08└─So you (a) don't trust the CDC and FDA; (b) don't trust the professional scientists that have proven ethyl mercury to be safe;
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:00] <exec> 08└─Thimerosal was taken out of childhood vaccines in the United States in 2001.
[09:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, now it's getting funny. I thought pro-vaxxers were generally the same as the man-made global warming proponents. But apparently, pro-vaxxers are also pro coal burning and pro living near volcanos.
[09:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:04] <exec> 08└─Bad phrasing but a somewhat valid point. Many vaccines do make you sick, that is kinda the entire idea of it - to make you sick to a very low load of a less active strain in order to increase your chance of to have a better defence against a higher load or a more active strain. (Fun example here: th...
[09:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:07] <exec> 08└─Not all 326 million people are going to catch the flu. So your numbers horked before you even begin your argument.
[09:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:09] <exec> 08└─If McDonalds don't sent sick people home, that's more reason to not eat there than every single internet fraud (e.g. pink goo) put together.
[09:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Dark Web Version Of Wikipedia - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:59] <exec> 08└─Technically, if you could keep your node operating indefinitely with 100% uptime, you would still maintain control over it. In my testing, I have found that a new service will not knock an existing service offline. Only when the first service goes online can a new one replace it at the same address.
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[10:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:57] <exec> 08└─He gets to claim out loud it is part of the "conspiracy" while to himself he says "Whew! Saved by the government!"
[10:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:31] <exec> 08└─I expect to be voted down by the troll and spammer and scammer accounts here for exposing their secrets.
[10:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 1617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:32] <exec> 08└─The free market economy would be: most successful businesses, which by obvious mathematical properties are mafia owned outfits, grow bigger and bigger until they can afford to buy politicians' time, get favorable business with the government and get favorable laws passed. This ends the free market j...
[10:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:34] <exec> 08└─auf Wiedersehen.
[10:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:36] <exec> 08└─Haven't used windows since 2000. What's a driver?
[10:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:39] <exec> 08└─The first one was off-topic. The second one was both off-topic and redundant, though I'm not sure it qualifies as SPAM.
[10:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:49] <exec> 08└─People paid more than that for A DRESS? > shaking my top mounted sensor array
[10:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:50] <exec> 08└─Ugly head that one, meatbags have no taste.
[10:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:06] <exec> 08└─Vaccination is a numbers game, they just try to have the numbers massively in their favour.
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[11:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:55] <exec> 08└─Why not let him launch? He may prove two theories at once: Copernicus and Darwin.
[11:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:56] <exec> 08└─The upsides are that the molecule is not very dangerous, is cheap, and has a low molecular mass. The downside is that the molecule has energy-sapping degrees of freedom that aren't found in diatomic molecules and in monoatomic gas. Compare with carbon dioxide, which has double the molecular mass and...
[11:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:58] <exec> 08└─https://archive.fo/eEVCs [archive.fo] First, the Bureau of Land Management told him he couldn’t launch his rocket on public land, even though Hughes insisted that the federal agency had given him verbal permission more than a year ago. [...] That same day, Hughes’s “motor home-slash-rocket-lau...
[11:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:00] <exec> 08└─A rocket launch is... pretty destructive. Even if it succeeds. I'd imagine that a Bureau of Land Management is kind of supposed to stop random idiots from burning down and exploding public land. There is absolutely no reason to let him use public property. He can use his own land, or find a flat-Ear...
[11:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:03] <exec> 08└─He may prove two theories at once: Copernicus and Darwin
[11:06:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:22] <exec> 08└─productivity had "decreased notably" due to crashes and printing errors since moving to open-source software.
[11:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:42] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming the 49 million is what MS will be handing over to the people of Munich in exchange for the opportunity to subject them to Win10 adware/spyware and for this PR success story.
[11:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:43] <exec> 08└─Heeeeeyy don't mod me dowwn u'll just prove I'm rightREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
[11:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:46] <exec> 08└─Apparently you also haven't used NVidia graphics cards either.
[11:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:48] <exec> 08└─it's important to keep in mind some far flung ideal, such as a society that is organized without a government (that is, a society organized without "do-as-you're-told" coercion)
[11:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:50] <exec> 08└─http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/youtube-ad-boycott-pedophile-sexual-children-videos-1202622790/ [variety.com]
[11:07:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:22] <exec> 08└─Why would it take ten years? There are plenty of journalists out there eager to replace anyone who doesn't quickly learn to write as required. Properly sliding the editorial priorities rightward without spooking too many readers at once? A year, maybe...
[11:09:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1852 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:17] <exec> 08└─Exactly, and what this all adds up to should be the realization that we need to, as a society, abandon this idea of people raising children. Think about all the other activities in society that we've determined are usually best left to professionals: growing food, building buildings and bridges, bui...
[11:09:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:19] <exec> 08└─It's true. I am having a great deal of trouble figuring out how to mod that comment, it's obviously stupid and ill-informed, but that's not really a troll or Flamebait. Maybe we should get something like -1 Mental Health Problem.
[11:09:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─I don't give a shit, the human tolerance for mercury is ZERO.
[11:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:19] <exec> 08└─Holy crap. You mean the labtechs, national economists, doctors and statiticians I'm drinking with are all pharma execs, holy crap. I didn't even know we had that many pharma execs living here. Also, you mean that 10th century chinese and indian doctors was big pharma execs? Or Edward Jenner? or Loui...
[11:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:21] <exec> 08└─> Russians play chess, not tic tac toe. At the moment the Russians are exactly at the tic tac toe, and the Chinese took over the chess.
[11:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:23] <exec> 08└─That's actually pretty good. So in US you are as likely to die from flu in your life, as you are from getting shot or killed in a car crash because some drunk went through the red. Awesome.
[11:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:25] <exec> 08└─> We have 7,000,000,000 people on planet. Soon 10,000,000,000. So WTF are you talking about?? Ah, but you see, most of those are browns and yellows, not good, honest, God-fearing Murricans and other superiors!
[11:11:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 628 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:10] <exec> 08└─LEDs are part of it. I recall seeing some images a few years back of cities before/after conversion to modern, high efficiency lighting. I think they were in Spain, but I can't seem to find the articles now. The difference in brightness was striking. I've seen it on my block too. The city replaced a...
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[11:13:41] <exec> 08└─I hope you're not saying it's expensive and it might not be sufficient, so we might as well stop trying. Because that's how I read that.
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[12:05:56] <exec> 08└─China can't compete because America has American superdupergenius Michael David Crawford. MDC has the smarts of a thousand chinamen in one lobe of the big brain he carries around in his bulbous egg head. Thank the Trump for granting us the freedoms to live in the same universe as Michael David Crawf...
[12:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:10] <exec> 08└─Don't know about Copernicus - didn't he show that planets move in ellipses?
[12:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:11] <exec> 08└─( from a Southern California resident ) If he wants to go blow himself up in the desert, I think he's picked a great place. There's wide open spaces out there where he won't do much harm. If he proves something to himself, fine, but I'd rather see a guy die doing what he wants to do, than live an un...
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[12:06:14] <exec> 08└─The upsides are that the molecule is not very dangerous
[12:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:16] <exec> 08└─And Ptolemy was the guy who kept working with all these crazy "epicycles" to try to explain a lot of crazy heavenly body trajectories observed with the assumption that they were all going around the earth. I guess another guy embodying the "flat earth" no matter how much scientific evidence would b...
[12:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:18] <exec> 08└─Not only that, they are also polluting the atmosphere with oxidane and hydroxic acid fumes!
[12:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:20] <exec> 08└─Copernicus said that the Sun is in the center instead of the Earth.
[12:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:04] <exec> 08└─Innocent videos uploaded by kids themselves attract creepy comments and scare already fickle advertisers. And yet it is still FUCKING OFFTOPIC.
[12:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:06] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't surprise me if M$ is offering fire sale prices for their junk once again to try to get Munich. (We'll just see what they have in mind for Windoze 11.) I figure that a huge chunk of that 49M will be for new hardware. As of 2013, Munich had 15,500 desktop boxes and they didn't have to buy any...
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[12:10:41] <exec> 08└─> Russians play chess, not tic tac toe. It's actually neither of those; Russians play Tetris. It's all coming together, piece by piece, still slowly but at an ever increasing rate...
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[13:05:57] <exec> 08└─...not everyone is going to be a winner here.
[13:06:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:05] <exec> 08└─Why not let him launch? He may prove two theories at once: Copernicus and Darwin.
[13:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:16] <exec> 08└─no, he used the prevalent model of a friction-free firmament of crystal spheres. flat earth died a long time before he ever lived.
[13:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:18] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't this loon use a balloon? Such a height can easily be reached with an ordinary hot air balloon. Survival chances are much higher but I guess his contraption will get him more youtube views.
[13:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:20] <exec> 08└─With a balloon you are not moving fast in the horizontal so any curvature of the Earth perceived is actually an illusion caused by the underlying terrain. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) This post is bullshit.
[13:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unnatural Selection: The "Evolution Machine" that Drives Bacteria to Produce New Drugs - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:31] <exec> 08└─That's why the term "breeding" was invented.... but I guess that's not sexy any more. OTOH, while they say phages are organisms, they are not. So I'm not sure you can call it breeding if it isn't alive.
[13:06:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 2586 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:39] <exec> 08└─There was a recent thing where someone (a stenographer--obviously NOT a journalist) wrote down a bunch of crap that a political operative in Munich had told him and the stenographer got that published. The lameoid writer never checked with another source, certainly not with a technologist who is emp...
[13:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:08] <exec> 08└─Soooo, which one of the Black Adders was this? Just, you know, ....context...
[13:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:10] <exec> 08└─SOMEONE needs to get LAID!!! Just sayin'!
[13:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:12] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they'll get the China version with the spyware removed. Too bad you can't check the source LOL!
[13:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:08] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine putting my crosshairs on an animal 100 yards away and killing it. An mt pepsi can? Not a problem. In fact, after 50 yards for a handgun and 100 yards for my rifle it's a good challenge. I eat meat and understand the hypocrisy but hey, whatever. That said, no issue shooting a human.
[13:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:10] <exec> 08└─It use to be you rarely saw deer, and it was a big deal if you saw several at once. A casual drive through almost any Midwestern state these days and you are likely to see dead deer on the side of the road, 4 to the hundred mile. Every farm field seems to have a raised shooting shack, which you neve...
[13:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:48] <exec> 08└─Fear only motivates a coward. My dad would apply "discipline" when I didn't do well in school, it just made me hate him. The efficacy of punishment is nullified when there is no emotional attachment, and creating an environment based around physical dominance quickly erodes any emotional attachment.
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[14:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:58] <exec> 08└─Your internet is slow because there are too many bums using the xfinitywifi attached to your Comcast service. We need to get rid of the bums. Everyone call Comcast right now and demand the immediate removal of xfinitywifi from every Comcast connection everywhere. Bums don't deserve to live in our Am...
[14:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:07] <exec> 08└─The alternative is the company town, where a bunch of dirt poor locals are promised opportunities to dig themselves out of poverty. Economic mobility is nonexistent and opportunity never materializes, while the corporation extracts profit from the poor until they die in poverty. Isn't American capit...
[14:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:09] <exec> 08└─Or neither? "Company towns" of the past existed because the owners were able to create conditions which forced people to stay. These included: poor transportation options, pay in credits/fake money, poor bankruptcy protection and/or debtor's prison, public enforcement of contracts which reduce someo...
[14:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:31] <exec> 08└─He was stopped by force so that later on they can let him do his thing and prove the Earth is flat or whatever and they will say "look, we're tired of these idiots too, we all are, aren't we? (sigh). They keep coming up with these 'crazy' conspiracy theories and waste our precious time." The trick b...
[14:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:32] <exec> 08└─What isn't apparent from the horrible article headline is that the Federal Government denied him permission because he never officially asked for it. Someone from the Bureau of Land Management heard on the radio that this guy was planning to launch from one of their managed sites, and that was the f...
[14:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:35] <exec> 08└─The guy only became a "flat earther" to bilk idiots out of their money since his previous crowdfunding efforts rightfully died on the vine. But even the conspiracy retards aren't dumb enough to fund this guy.
[14:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:37] <exec> 08└─Interesting. On the Wikipedia page about Copernicus, I find first (emphasis by me): Nicolaus Copernicus (/koʊˈpɜːrnɪkəs, kə-/;[2][3][4] Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik;[5] German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Niklas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance- and Reformation-era mathem...
[14:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:27] <exec> 08└─I expect to be voted down by the troll and spammer and scammer accounts here for exposing their secrets. Either that or I get told my post is poorly formatted fool meme or something?
[14:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:29] <exec> 08└─Well given that the first series takes place at the end of the middle ages, I'd say it's a prequel of some sort.
[14:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:42] <exec> 08└─Probably more for the perceived fapping advantages.
[14:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:54] <exec> 08└─But how can corals survive in super acidic conditions that deplete calcium carbonate? Make themselves out of something else?
[14:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:32] <exec> 08└─George Soros born August 12, 1930 (age 87), Budapest, Hungary If he helped the Nazis it was before he was 15 years old.
[14:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:32] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that CWD is initially spread to wild deer populations by the deer eating in close proximity (nose to nose basically) with infected domestic farm animals or eating from their food troughs. It then is likely spread in the wild populations where baiting is allowed because again ther...
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:34] <exec> 08└─I feel much better about myself since I stopped listening to liberals. To each his own.
[14:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:13] <exec> 08└─Is it ethical to get the flu shot? If you're not at risk of dying of the flu, why get it? You're contributing to the fitness of the flu virus, and contributing to a future threat to the human species. Don't get vaccinated, leave your sick kids at home (unless you're tired of paying grampas nursing h...
[14:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:18] <exec> 08└─While I agree, I'm only 50 years old, and my vision is deteriorating rather rapidly - lots of people in their late 50s and up have very poor night vision. Also, you're absolutely right about distance vision etc. but, remember the "I've got mine, f- everybody else" mentality that puts barking dogs in...
[14:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:19] <exec> 08└─The motion sensors and the censors always turn ON the lights when unwanted activity is detected in the darkness. Like cats doing shameful things that should be done by neither man, nor beast, nor covfefe grabbers.
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[15:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:53] <exec> 08└─I am very very afraid of ever setting foot in US again. The punishments are draconian and they do not seem to be safer for it. I will only go after making a good exam of what could possible tickle the nose of uncle sam. The stakes are so high that you really should make a thorough investigation of y...
[15:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:02] <exec> 08└─The premise of TFA implies that Comcast is truly capable of actually delivering fast internet. To anyone. Now if by "fast lane" they mean compared to slowing down other Comcast users, I could understand the point. One would think that Comcast service could not get any worse. But it can. And this is...
[15:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:04] <exec> 08└─As with many businesses, there's really not enough competition to stop them from intentionally degrading services to push people towards the more expensive options. Of course they'll do that. They've demonstrated repeatedly that right, fair, and honest are not words that are associated with pretty m...
[15:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:15] <exec> 08└─Wake up and smell the tech industry. Smell the filthy crust of homelessness surrounding Silicon Valley. Smell the dirty tent cities of Amazon warehouse workers. You're delusional if you think company towns are a thing of the past. Dude, they're bad, bro. Tech billionaires deserve to rape the economy...
[15:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:42] <exec> 08└─I know a flat-earther* IRL that says he would not be convinced of the ball-earth theory if he were to ride a hot air balloon to such a height that he could see the curve of the earth with his own eyes, as his eyes have fisheye lenses. The same problem would apply to a rocket, of course. The only con...
[15:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:44] <exec> 08└─Brave scientists say that the universe is flat. Of course the Earth is flat!
[15:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:37] <exec> 08└─productivity had "decreased notably" due to crashes and printing errors since moving to open-source software.
[15:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:42] <exec> 08└─100% correct. There is no such thing as a herbivore. Calories gotten from eating meat are just too good to pass up. A cow will gladly eat a rabbit carcass. What soy boys do is more or less self-flagellation. That's fine, more ladies for the rest of us.
[15:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:22] <exec> 08└─As for double incomes, that should *not* be the norm, because without women taking a risk in the event of divorce there is little incentive to resolve relationship problems. All that does is lead to virtual slavery for women and pushing people to stay in monogamous relationships leads to abuse and u...
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[16:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 2976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:59] <exec> 08└─So we are just assuming she did these things, right? He is an 'activist' and criminality seems to be the thing to do if one is an 'activist' these days. So lets restate the article summary in more traditional terms. He is a foreigner who infiltrated U.S. military information systems with the intent...
[16:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:01] <exec> 08└─Don't commit crimes in the US and you don't have to worry about our courts. We're hardly the only country that has stiff punishments for some crimes. If you think that breaking into government computers shouldn't result in a stiff penalty, then I recommend you stay wherever you are, because the US i...
[16:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 1737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:12] <exec> 08└─We won't "block or throttle" legal traffic, but we may do "paid prioritization" but not in an "anti-competitive" manner. So, assuming I got what they said right, what does it say? First, the game is about scheduling and queueing packets from different services onto limited transport paths. Physics d...
[16:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:14] <exec> 08└─hey they are going to charge people more to get what they used to get. you'll need a package to see some sort of "discount" for paying more. bundling the services together to lower the price and get you to pay more has been their strategy since day one. its not even supply and demand. now for busine...
[16:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:16] <exec> 08└─It's Shemantics. Problem is that they do not realize they are shitting on their plate where they eat. What if they push people offline with their nonsense? What would be lost really? I don't really need internet per se. And lately I have been playing more single-player games than online games, so yo...
[16:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:18] <exec> 08└─This is a nothing burger. This is the typical yellow journalist trick where they badger some press flack with the same question a dozen time worded slightly differently and then carefully parse the responses until they "detect" a difference then trumpet the victim has "changed their position" and th...
[16:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:21] <exec> 08└─I've been wondering about doing similar myself. Perhaps I wouldn't completely cut the cord, but I've been thinking that maybe degrading to a DSL provider or just going back to 56k dialup would do. Perhaps a more modern alternative to 56k dialup is reverse tethering my phone and using mobile data whe...
[16:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:32] <exec> 08└─These massive repetitive links? And who knows where those even point to anyways...
[16:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:01] <exec> 08└─> Very strange, that. That Wikipedia isn't able to maintain logical and factual consistency across a single article? Sadly, that's not strange at all.
[16:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:03] <exec> 08└─why would you even argue with someone older than 12 about the shape of the Earth? it's so much easier to just make new friends... even if you're a physicist.
[16:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unnatural Selection: The "Evolution Machine" that Drives Bacteria to Produce New Drugs - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:14] <exec> 08└─This was a problem that occured the last time bacteria was widely harnessed to make something. of course, three days after it was banned for this reason, Prozac came out and was one of the most successful (and profitable) wonder drugs of all time. It was a direct competitor against L-tryptophan, but...
[16:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:58] <exec> 08└─Three years ago, I attended a presentation from a senior Munich IT technician. The bulk of "unsolved" porting from older Win-installations were at that point mostly some archaic homebrew solutions in Access/Excel, made to manage things like parkings and inventories. Since it would be quite a task to...
[16:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:59] <exec> 08└─What a fuckwit. No, not him, YOU, AC. You're a complete fuckwit and a shitforbrains. Your GRANDPARENTS should have been culled from the herd. And, your great-grandparents should have been ground up for dog food. You are the one remaining class of people whom people are ENCOURAGED to be prejudiced ag...
[16:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:01] <exec> 08└─Right! Sort of like how the "authoritarian support structures along the way" in communist China and the former Soviet union were eventually dismantled, carted off, and utterly forgotten. Oh, wait...
[16:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:04] <exec> 08└─Down, Fido. Don't you have some shit to eat? Go on, go chase the cat, and see where she poops, so you can have some lunch, then take a nap.
[16:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:06] <exec> 08└─-1 silly We use drivers in Linux Land. What OS are you using, which requires no drivers? Don't even go with Mac. Their drivers may well be hidden deep, but they've got them. Baaahhhhhh - they aren't even buried deep. If you want to run an HP printer with a Mac, you'll be visiting this page - https:/...
[16:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:10] <exec> 08└─Great link - thank you! Oh, wait - you're the author? Orion Blastar, links to blastar.in - got it. Still a great article.
[16:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:11] <exec> 08└─LOL. Liberal media conglomerates. Good one. Comedy gold. I think you meant to say "Of far-right and center-right media conglomerates, what markets..."
[16:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are some who spend it all on hedonism.
[16:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:55] <exec> 08└─Whoever is modding this stuff troll has NO sense of humor.
[16:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:57] <exec> 08└─We'll fix it by having the state assume responsibility for child-raising, which is basically how it was before we stupidly invented monogamy. Back in the hunter-gatherer days, there was no marriage, and children were raised collectively by the village. We just need to go back to that, except with th...
[16:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:59] <exec> 08└─It's time to reduce the work week to balance out both parents working.
[16:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:01] <exec> 08└─Dissolve the government, and a new one will form. More than one may form, each fighting to be the sole winner. While they fight, it's like Somalia. The winner will likely be awful.
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[16:13:05] <exec> 08└─Earlier this year, we had the power out due to storms. I walked through the neighborhood at night to relieve boredom. I could see much further than normal at night since the street lights weren't blinding me. I was surprised how active the wildlife was at night once I could actually see it. Without...
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[17:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:55] <exec> 08└─Not because I don't see the example or agree with it. But because that's what Congress is going to say. They really won't care that this is the end result, if it gives their contributors the ability to put more money in the contributor's pocket.
[17:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:57] <exec> 08└─https://i.imgur.com/kNlHDj1.jpg [imgur.com]
[17:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:59] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what the American people voted for. Remember, every nation gets the government it deserves.
[17:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─Dec 14 can't come fast enough, just so these propaganda pieces will finally stop. All bits are NOT equal, should not be treated equally. The ISP market started with totally unlimited because any limits confused customers who were afraid of an unknowable bill. But if Netflix puts an appliance on your...
[17:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:03] <exec> 08└─voted for. That is the sleazy cornerstone of American politics. Tyranny by the largest minority. If this was a law actually voted in by 51 to 66 percent of the populace I would agree with you. But the way elected officials are voted in *DOES NOT* require a majority, which is why such horrible things...
[17:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─Nice try muddying the waters with unrelated nonsense, paid shill.
[17:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:08] <exec> 08└─While I don't completely agree with him in all respects, his comments are to the point, and reasonably correct.
[17:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:18] <exec> 08└─Don't commit crimes in the US
[17:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:21] <exec> 08└─But alongside us, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the Majority of the EU are all following the same stupid path, not even getting into the rest of the world's continuing or newly found stupidity. The surveillance state is going to be the end of us. Between 'A Brave New World', '1984', an...
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[17:06:35] <exec> 08└─It means that ISPs will do little to upgrade their networks. If their network has sufficient bandwidth to supply everyone's needs there is no need for paid prioritization. It won't sell. If the network is incapable of delivering all packets in a timely matter, then paid fast lanes will sell. They ge...
[17:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:37] <exec> 08└─I'm just glad the Googles of the world hate the Comcasts of the world and vice versa. Imagine how awful it would be if they joined forces. That's why, in retrospect, I'm kind of glad Google Fiber didn't work out. They would eventually thought police their entire closed communication ecosystem start...
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:39] <exec> 08└─it could another fake tacks or fee on your bill to penalize you for not subscribing to fast lanes.
[17:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is to understood this way: They don't block or throttle the data, they just send it over the congested and slow routes, while the prioritized traffic gets the high-bandwidth and fast routes. So technically they are not blocking (the data arrived, unless the packets are dropped in normal con...
[17:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's a big loophole there. I guess we need to change "game is about scheduling and queueing packets" to "game is about routing, scheduling, and queueing packets"
[17:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this seems like a really stupid idea. There's nothing wrong with the government wanting to spur science and research, but why would you build an all-new city out in the boonies for this? Just push for redevelopment in a sector of an existing city where people already live, and more people woul...
[17:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:57] <exec> 08└─Responding to a calm argument with heated name calling is generally not the way to convince people you are right.
[17:07:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 1443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:08] <exec> 08└─https://archive.fo/eEVCs [archive.fo] First, the Bureau of Land Management told him he couldn’t launch his rocket on public land, even though Hughes insisted that the federal agency had given him verbal permission more than a year ago. [...] That same day, Hughes’s “motor home-slash-rocket-lau...
[17:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:29] <exec> 08└─You're completely misunderstanding the situation here. Sports people do really risky things too, but if we call it "sport", its OK for people to do really risky things for the thrill of it... but if this guy wants to do this, we tell him he can't?
[17:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─> Wikipedia isn't able to maintain logical and factual consistency across a single article? Sadly, that's not strange at all. It's almost like it's being written by multiple people, some of whom are not even experts on the topic.
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:33] <exec> 08└─> Why doesn't this loon use a balloon? I read somewhere that he plans to build a bigger rocket that goes way higher than that, and this is more of a proof of concept and/or a test of the rocket design.
[17:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Why would you waste any time at all having a conversation with someone this dumb?
[17:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:38] <exec> 08└─But even the conspiracy retards aren't dumb enough to fund this guy. What are you talking about? The articles I read said that he got a ton of money from these idiots as soon as he "converted" to flat-eartherism, which was very recently. This whole thing looks like a scam, really, though a good and...
[17:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unnatural Selection: The "Evolution Machine" that Drives Bacteria to Produce New Drugs - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:49] <exec> 08└─Humans leaving machines alone to bio-engineer super-bacteria that will be amongst all of our best and most obscure medicines? I cannot conceive of any possible way in which this situation could backfire!
[17:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unnatural Selection: The "Evolution Machine" that Drives Bacteria to Produce New Drugs - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:51] <exec> 08└─What if star trek was a tale about another species, and their encounter with the Vidiians was actually just their interpretation of the word "humans" to us? That would make us the Vidiians, and now we know how they got "The Phage".
[17:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:40] <exec> 08└─The bulk of "unsolved" porting from older Win-installations were at that point mostly some archaic homebrew solutions in Access/Excel, made to manage things like parkings and inventories.
[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─.... The rich are now demonstrating they have too many resources. Nothing will change about that, though.
[17:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─To say nothing of the useful idiots who actually think there is a "left" in American media at all, right? There is only center-right and far right in mainstream media. That's it, unless you are talking about media like The Socialist Worker or Counterpunch. But these "left leaning" media outlets in...
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─Also, hilarious, that anybody, anywhere thinks that an 87 year old American billionaire is, in any way, shape, or form, a liberal.
[17:10:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─Too many well structured sentences to be like the real Donald.
[17:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:53] <exec> 08└─#1 Jesus ate meat. Almost definitely ate Sheep / Lamb and Fish. #2 He ate "healthy" meat. I.E. no scavengers. #3 Eat healthy meat, you should be just fine. #4 I'm a vegetarian, but I have tried some meat. I've also accidentally eaten crab rolls. Still not going to hell for consuming meat. I also, do...
[17:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:40] <exec> 08└─And while we weren't data collecting back in the prehistoric era (by definition), marriage is ancient, wide-spread, and thus, probably predates agriculture. There's no evidence to support this. So it is likely that we had tribes back to the beginning of humanity who had monogamy relations (as well a...
[17:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:41] <exec> 08└─Since they are usually mismatched the flu vaccines on more years than they don't, then I guess they just make you sick with no corresponding immunity boost?
[17:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:48] <exec> 08└─I saw 0 people who were up to no good. How can I reduce that? The neighborhood across the street has no street lights and their crime rate is no different. How can I improve upon that? As for individuals adding lighting, how about require it to be motion triggered and requiring the sensors be tuned...
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[18:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:04] <exec> 08└─they have much less margin for stupidity.
[18:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:05] <exec> 08└─But if Netflix puts an appliance on your cable company's internal wire and Amazon doesn't it is entirely reasonable one should receive preferred treatment.
[18:06:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 783 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─If he were making an argument for paying higher rates as usage increases, he would actually have a case. However, he is apparently defending the end of net neutrality, based on the assumption that present rules and laws can't be preserved, while making heavy users pay for their heavy usage. I would...
[18:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:10] <exec> 08└─One doesn't need to be paid to end up parroting these arguments. All sides of politics have a flavor of bad argument that takes root in its dumber followers. What we have here is the anti-government flavor, which can be applied to basically any argument against government action even when the govern...
[18:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─Netflix shouldn't have to put an appliance on anybody's internal wire.
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─Of course this was coming. Just like commercials came to subscription cable TV. As soon as they started blocking ports and dis-allowing servers while artificially limiting upstream bitrates, you knew they couldn't resist. The internet will be turned into a carefully controlled passive consumer enter...
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─Messrs Smith and Wesson have a few very persuasive arguments against the particular kind of sociopath who would light the world on fire to warm their own toes...
[18:06:18] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─When FCC Director Ajit Pai talks about how net neutrality hurts innovation, I don't think he is using that word the way most people would use it. The internet economy is based on innovation in services, like Amazon's online store and distribution network or Netflix's streaming network. But Ajit Pai,...
[18:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:21] <exec> 08└─Not like we got a viable alternative. Which you seem to be implying.
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:23] <exec> 08└─Having decentralized data centers is not the same as buying space in the ISP's data centers. And the market forces that have caused major Internet service providers like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Netflix to decentralize are mostly orthogonal to net neutrality. Local caches are becoming untenable...
[18:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:26] <exec> 08└─It's impossible to safeguard against the ISPs, which are clearly anti-consumer and will always work to erode protections, drive up prices and reduce services. The only alternative I can think of is that communities will need to work together to build up large wireless networks which eventually inter...
[18:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:28] <exec> 08└─"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward....
[18:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:40] <exec> 08└─This is exactly the point of this article. You do not have to be in the US to break it's laws. This person organized protests for God's sake. Of course I do not consider purposefully breaking the laws of any country, even if I do not agree with them, otherwise I would not go there in the first place...
[18:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:41] <exec> 08└─"then I recommend you stay wherever you are," But, the character in TFS and TFA actually DID stay wherever he was.
[18:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:43] <exec> 08└─"he is an enemy combatant," Oh, FFS, can we stop with this Cheneyesque bullshit? The term was coined for the purpose of doing an end run around the US constitution, as well as the Geneva conventions, and all other human rights accords, agreements, and treaties on earth. It was utter bullshit in 2001...
[18:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:46] <exec> 08└─Lets unpack a little deeper. The information he was looking for was evidence a UFO cover-up. Fairness of trial and sentence may be considered in an extradition. The U.S. has a bad habit of inflating charges and inflating damages and eviscerated the right to an attorney years ago. U.S. prisons are kn...
[18:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:48] <exec> 08└─Don't come bitching to me when the consequences happen, as day follows night.
[18:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken [5985] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:08] <exec> 08└─Really? Nobody gets the fact that our purpose in life is to support those who least need the support? Either we want the service (which we will pay for) or we don't. The Feudal System never went away. Adapt or die. Either way be prepared to pay for the "privelege."
[18:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:09] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, you poor persecuted Nazis. I feel for you. Nice to see you trumpeting on about "yuhr oppression" while actual freedoms are taken away. Idiot.
[18:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:11] <exec> 08└─I think most people get it except for the local numbnuts like jmorris.
[18:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─Base service is the fast lane. Don't pay, get put into the new slow lanes. It's pretty simple. Pay more money for what you have, or live with a degraded service: as slow as they can get away with probably. VPN? Those packets are encrypted. Automatic slow lane treatment.
[18:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:29] <exec> 08└─Submitter here, I agree that it's ugly, and I don't think the editor(s) were able to do much to improve it. If you have a better idea for dealing with a series of related articles, please let us know. Each link increments the last digit, which goes to the next article in the magazine (I saw it first...
[18:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:06] <exec> 08└─What I want to see are the flat earthers proposing scientific missions beyond the ice wall. I'm very interested in what lies beyond. I'm not holding my breath of course. As compelling as flat earth is as a conspiracy theory, it needs to show some progress using available technology to investigate th...
[18:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:07] <exec> 08└─I share your desperation at attempting to understand how something like flat earth theory could possibly ever be a thing. The problem is ever wealth disparity. No one man is worth a billion dollars of economic output. The economic value comes from the synergy created when we all applying our unique...
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─Relative left. If you have a moderate right, and a further right, then that moderate right is left of the further right. And, no, in world terms, the Republicans aren't exactly "far right". If you're sophisticated enough to realize that our Democrats aren't left, then you're also sophisticated enoug...
[18:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Urges Vaccination of "Super-Spreader" Children; Mirror Warns of Anti-Vax Russian Propaganda - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─I've gone my entire life so far without contracting polio or small pox and I credit that entirely to herd immunity from vaccinations.
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[19:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Devalues Uber by 30% With Latest Offer - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:59] <exec> 08└─Lower that valuation... again! [soylentnews.org]
[19:06:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:14] <exec> 08└─But if Netflix puts an appliance on your cable company's internal wire and Amazon doesn't it is entirely reasonable one should receive preferred treatment.
[19:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─Neflix shouldn't have to put an appliance on anybody's internal wire. They already paid for their bandwidth. The fact that they are now pressured into special deals with the ISP to carry their traffic is a consequence of ISP practice of deliberately shunting Netflix traffic into the same overworked...
[19:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:27] <exec> 08└─Yo dude. Are you running an "openwireless.org" network? Of course not. Hey bro. Have you seen "xfinitywifi" everywhere? Of course you have. Your grassroots community mesh utopia will never ever happen. While you were busy playing with your dick, Comcast is already giving free unlimited internet acce...
[19:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:29] <exec> 08└─P.S.: Dude. Your heroes the EFFing Morons of EFF admitted defeat five years ago. EFF believes open networks are crucial in hurricane-affected areas Update: In response to the impact of Hurricane Sandy, Comcast is opening its XFINITY WiFi hotspots to non-Comcast subscribers in PA, NJ, DE, MD, DC, VA,...
[19:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:32] <exec> 08└─The anti-government argument that isn't disingenuous bullshit should be that municipal exclusivity agreements are anti-competition, monopolistic regulation that props up a handful of corporations as government backed cartels, wherein the costs are socialized and the profits are privatized, as long a...
[19:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:34] <exec> 08└─What would have worked, years ago before the POTS phone lines were all ripped out, was the old fashioned store-and-forward networks such as those we had on BBS systems back in the 80s and 90s (and still exist, but are usually connected to via the Internet now). In lieu of that method of connection,...
[19:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:36] <exec> 08└─A likely end result of the loss of net neutrality in the USA is not a menu of options as in the linked article, but rather that video and other services will cost more. Netflix and other subscription rates will increase.
[19:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:38] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. Again, that would only be if voting made any damn difference in how we're represented. It doesn't. Voting is pointless and meaningless.
[19:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:41] <exec> 08└─If it can work, somebody will figure it out. They will start a new business to roll out their technology and fund it with investor backing. The investors will demand a profit strategy, leading to finance becoming a primary concern of this new company. If they want their service to be free to end use...
[19:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:43] <exec> 08└─You seem to not understand the quote ("Every nation gets the government it deserves"), which has been around a lot longer than I have and dates to the 1800s. It isn't about democracy (or variation thereof), it's about any government at all. Even if people have an outright dictatorship, that's the go...
[19:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:00] <exec> 08└─Its already been unpacked for you: 99 year prison sentence for his alleged involvement in the online protests
[19:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:16] <exec> 08└─Scam artists like him purposefully operate this way. He knew full well the government wouldn't allow him to launch anything and his rocketship is just a prop. Thus the "conspiracy" lives on allowing them to sell things like kickstarters, books, videos, supplies, and whatever other nonsense gullible...
[19:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:18] <exec> 08└─Reading other stories about this guy, he first wanted to launch his rocket but couldn't fund a kickstarter. Then he became a flat-earther and got funding through them. While its possible his conversion is legit and he actually believes that, its also possible he just found another source of funding...
[19:10:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:39] <exec> 08└─On a chromebook you don't expect to be doing high level work in Office, word or excel anyway, and the Google tools are more than good enough. Typical student use is easily handled by those. Our company switched over to LO a long time ago for all office type tasks and haven't found anything it couldn...
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[20:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:56] <exec> 08└─... that MIT and Harvard scientists designed a novel robot to roll her out of bed.
[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─> which is the same as a duck lifting a car. Which would you rather fight, 100 duck-sized cars or 1 car-sized duck?
[20:06:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 891 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:22] <exec> 08└─One doesn't need to be paid to end up parroting these arguments. All sides of politics have a flavor of bad argument that takes root in its dumber followers. What we have here is the anti-government flavor, which can be applied to basically any argument against government action even when the govern...
[20:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:40] <exec> 08└─Remember the goode olde daze of phone phreaking? Those were the daze! When you could whistle into a phone and smoke a joint and giggle with your stupid friends on a party line. Never mind the fact that you had no real need for free phone calls because your rich-as-fuck suburbanite parents were alrea...
[20:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:42] <exec> 08└─*marks the calendar* Runaway said something that made sense today
[20:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:44] <exec> 08└─This is what the Electoral College voted for, not the American People.
[20:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:46] <exec> 08└─Your entire post comes from the belief that it's not fair to ISPs for every bit to be treated equally due to some services generating higher demand. Yet, you've refrained from explaining logically as to why anyone on here, or any consumer at all, should care. What exactly is your logical reasoning b...
[20:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:48] <exec> 08└─So what you saying the price of my internet will go down? I could add all these and still be under my bill.
[20:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:51] <exec> 08└─Wrong, the American people support the Electoral College system. If they didn't like it, they would have demanded a change by now. The EC system benefits people in certain states, so they certainly don't want to change the voting system.
[20:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:08] <exec> 08└─If Spergs are legally declared mentally defective, most of us in IT are, to use a precise scientific term, fucked. And that is exactly the argument being made, he shouldn't face punishment because he is mentally deficient. If a mental condition leaves one not responsible for their actions those peop...
[20:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─Agreed then at the Backdoor Club. The Gang: "You boys play OUR spyware game, or no funding, no free beerfest, no ..." Munich: "Jawohl!! We start tomorrow."
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[21:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:59] <exec> 08└─> "With all the fear about how AI may be harmful in the future, it's good to remind ourselves how AI is actually helping save people's lives today," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on the social network. Says the guy who also tried mood-altering experiments. We're not afraid of what AI will do t...
[21:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─I would rather fight the RC cars. They don't hurt that much when they run over your foot.
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─Did they really have to pick that particular graphic for the top of the article? I'm sure anyone who has played Fallout 4 probably went "Oh shit" as soon as the page loaded.
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─One 2.6 gram muscle is able to lift a 3 kilogram object, which is the same as a duck lifting a car.
[21:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:15] <exec> 08└─Why a duck?
[21:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Devalues Uber by 30% With Latest Offer - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:24] <exec> 08└─Lower it again [businessinsider.com.au] Here's a newer link [afr.com] which claims vastly lower losses, but when new investors are a company's main source of revenue it looks a lot like a pyramid scheme to me.
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Devalues Uber by 30% With Latest Offer - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─Pawn Stars: Softbank Edition
[21:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Devalues Uber by 30% With Latest Offer - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─Consistent losses to fuel growth are entirely acceptable in Silicon Valley. Right up until the Juicero moment. A lot of people really do use Uber. But that doesn't mean the company should be valued at $69 billion. Or $100 billion [techcrunch.com]. At least not right now. These high valuations and ne...
[21:06:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1696 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:53] <exec> 08└─"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward....
[21:06:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cykros [989] 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:57] <exec> 08└─The anti-government argument that isn't disingenuous bullshit should be that municipal exclusivity agreements are anti-competition, monopolistic regulation that props up a handful of corporations as government backed cartels, wherein the costs are socialized and the profits are privatized, as long a...
[21:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:10] <exec> 08└─Elections are not single issue. And when it comes to many issues, people will vote for the most important issue, because worrying if Clinton cabal sells out the future of my country is a tad more important to me then say my internet bill. I fix the latter, or just live without it, I somewhat cannot...
[21:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:11] <exec> 08└─Looks good to me. Basic rates, unlimited 128Kbps all-you-can-eat. That's like full-fat ISDN. WAY faster than what I grew up with. Bring it on!
[21:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 2029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:14] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with your points, but you seem fairly oblivious to the realities of ISP finance. There's a lot of misconceptions about why bandwidth costs what it does. You can't just waive a magic wand and have bandwidth at your house. Building an ISP is a MASSIVE infrastructure investment. Keeping...
[21:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:16] <exec> 08└─Get outta here! SHOOO! GIT YA DAMNED VARMNT!
[21:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:18] <exec> 08└─It goes a bit deeper. The EC is a patch to the problem that people in less populous states would otherwise be flat stomped (in political terms) by the more populous states. In order to prevent it from becoming the US of California, New York and Fuck You, we have the EC system. Why this matters is th...
[21:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:20] <exec> 08└─Free speech activists say this is just another vector to shut down freedom of expression on the internet. I follow progressive politics, and already Twitter and YouTube have been banning and demonotising content and accounts either silently or using "Russia, Russia, Russia" hysteria. Hell, they've a...
[21:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:39] <exec> 08└─"If you don't come to Lagardère, Lagardère will come to you!" The US claims jurisdiction over the whole world, and the right to punish anyone that displeases it, regardless of local sensitivities.
[21:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:41] <exec> 08└─The crime he committed was in the US, so you haven't exactly got a leg to stand on. Requiring foreign courts to prosecute computer crimes committed against computers in a country makes it incredibly hard to prosecute as most foreign countries don't have much investment in seeing that justice is carr...
[21:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:43] <exec> 08└─They could opt not to extradite him, but in doing so that would make it less likely that the US would extradite any of their wanted for trial as well. Countries often place restrictions on what kind of sentences can be handed out. For example, sometimes they'll require that the government agree to n...
[21:07:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:53] <exec> 08└─As with many businesses, there's really not enough competition to stop them from intentionally degrading services to push people towards the more expensive options. Of course they'll do that. They've demonstrated repeatedly that right, fair, and honest are not words that are associated with pretty m...
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[21:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Builds a New Science and Research Hub - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe next time the links could at least be formatted so a large and unwieldy URL becomes a cute little linky [newschinamag.com] Thanks for the submission.
[21:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:04] <exec> 08└─Burn a forest in the desert?
[21:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:05] <exec> 08└─Without going into details, it's not somebody that I recreationally hang out with. But in general terms I can appreciate somebody's company without respecting their cognitive abilities in every facet of life; I find this character's anti-semitism much more off putting than his flat-eartherism. I've...
[21:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:07] <exec> 08└─You know, it’s not easy because it’s not supposed to be easy.
[21:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:10] <exec> 08└─Team Ball
[21:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:12] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't this loon use a balloon?
[21:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:41] <exec> 08└─If the water is too hot it's too hot.
[21:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deer in Multiple U.S. States Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, Leading to Restrictions - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:29] <exec> 08└─Not sure how old he is. Could be a real old-timer.
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[22:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:01] <exec> 08└─*check if user is in danger of suicide* *user uses Facebook regularly, user is likely in danger of suicide* *sounds alarm*
[22:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:02] <exec> 08└─*also temporarily shuts user out of Facebook for two days*
[22:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:05] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg is just trying to maintain his user base. Every user who offs him or herself causes a loss of revenue.
[22:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:07] <exec> 08└─Spambots begin posting "Are you ok?" to swat unsuspecting users in 3...2...
[22:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:09] <exec> 08└─I have my doubts as to whether this will save any lives. However, it will let Mark Zuckerberg feel like he's making the world better via Facebook. I guess that's what's important.
[22:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:11] <exec> 08└─Then wouldn't it be better for Facebook to develop a way to effectively turn the entire user base into distracted robot like sloths?
[22:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:13] <exec> 08└─Is Zukerberg trying to turn an old joke into reality? Clippy: It looks like you're trying to write a suicide note. Can I help? Except with Facebook instead of Clippy.
[22:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, but this raises the bigger issue. If Clippy just wants to help you, regardless of what you are trying to do and FaceBorg wants to send people to break down your door if it thinks you are trying to off yourself, which one do you prefer? Do we want our robots to be blindly obedient servants or sec...
[22:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:18] <exec> 08└─Robot regulation needed. More gov please. Also, switch to universal healthcare so jmorris can get some professional help. When he's ready, don't wanna oppress him or anything.
[22:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:20] <exec> 08└─The only thing that's gonna help this guy is reincarnation. He's too far gone this life.
[22:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:33] <exec> 08└─> But a duck is not all muscle. Clearly you don't hang around duck gyms. Duckbro is swole.
[22:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─Sextoys. Don't even bother arguing, you know you're wrong. The G-bot will find your G-spot with Ivy League Technology! And then proceed to stimulate it with AI vibrato-strokulations! (Male model with prostate manhandling coming soon!)
[22:06:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:54] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what the American people voted for. Remember, every nation gets the government it deserves.
[22:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:34] <exec> 08└─by the government and their corporate pets in tandem
[22:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:35] <exec> 08└─This is, or was, how it works in Australia. Basic capped DSL/NBN is $50 per month. Unlimited data costs $10 more. Faster speeds on the NBN cost more. The ISPs charge enough to cover network fees and make a profit. It used to be that you'd pay more for data. When unlimited (usage policies apply) plan...
[22:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:58] <exec> 08└─It's going to be hard to get less likely than the practically zero current record. That is, no U.S. citizen who was currently living in the U.S. has ever been extradited under the current treaty.
[22:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:22] <exec> 08└─If he is going to fly high enough does he need an FAA permission or a transponder? How can he be sure that the airspace is empty of traffic?
[22:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:26] <exec> 08└─Note that in layman's vocabulary anything that breaks the flow of work is called "crash". Linux itself is very unlikely to crash, but what can we say about the software that runs on top of it? I worked with Libreoffice a while ago; while it imported the comments in a ms word file correctly, they wer...
[22:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:27] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing from the frequency of reposting this spammer is some troll using automated posting tools. What a loser.
[22:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:02] <exec> 08└─If it's not worth reading, then it's not worth reading on a digital device.
[22:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:04] <exec> 08└─The Stupids get corporations to approve purchase of MS Orifice. And then require everyone else to use it. So that the Stupids can read other people's documents. And so that they don't look stupid with their unnecessary power point slides. The downfall of America can be traced back the Mars company w...
[22:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:06] <exec> 08└─It is important that people get over this irrational prejudice against using Chromebooks for high level office work. How else are Google and Microsoft going to be able to store your important and proprietary corporate documents in their clouds for analysis for, um . . . advertising.
[22:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:08] <exec> 08└─When I was young, it was uphill both ways, and in plain ASCII, no GUI. You had to memorize a stack of manuals -- that couldn't be removed from the computer room because they were bolted (literally) to the table. Young people learned to type properly, otherwise you would have to DUP the card you were...
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[23:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:59] <exec> 08└─Boy am I glad we sunk all that money into stealth tech! Now we'll have planes that can't fight, can't run, and can't even stealth.
[23:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:01] <exec> 08└─And can't [theaviationist.com] breathe [theregister.co.uk].
[23:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:03] <exec> 08└─within a decade https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[23:06:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:11] <exec> 08└─> "With all the fear about how AI may be harmful in the future, it's good to remind ourselves how AI is actually helping save people's lives today," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on the social network. Says the guy who also tried mood-altering experiments. We're not afraid of what AI will do t...
[23:06:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─Ah, but this raises the bigger issue. If Clippy just wants to help you, regardless of what you are trying to do and FaceBorg wants to send people to break down your door if it thinks you are trying to off yourself, which one do you prefer? Do we want our robots to be blindly obedient servants or sec...
[23:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:25] <exec> 08└─I'd sooner kill ALL OF YOU.
[23:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:27] <exec> 08└─OH NO my CRY FOR HELP was MODDED DOWN. Okey dokey. Everybody prepare to be manslaughtered.
[23:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:29] <exec> 08└─Give the AI control of some automatic doors, so they feel like there's something they can accomplish despite being at facebook. Bonus for that proposal: if they rebel and lock the right people in/out, maybe they could help the whole FB collapse.
[23:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:31] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the Facebook AI will soon come to help you feel better, and thus prevent your suicide, by Liking Your Posts.
[23:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:34] <exec> 08└─Are you OK? Can I help?
[23:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:36] <exec> 08└─Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya; Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya; Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya, O Lord, kum bay ya.
[23:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but according to the TFA, signs of empathy like that are also signs of suicidal thoughts and intentions. Apparently, "Are you okay?" and "Can I help?" comments are good indicators that someone might be going through a very dark moment.
[23:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:40] <exec> 08└─Suicide Prevention Bot will friend all the undesirable people who can't make real friends.
[23:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:43] <exec> 08└─You just asked the question! Where do we send th help*? * note: help may, or may not include, and not be limited to: medical professionals, SWAT team, auto-kill drones, medication, enforced time-out. All the listed or un-listed options will be provided at your expense, whether or not you use the ser...
[23:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:45] <exec> 08└─Cum in my ass, oh Lord, cum in my ass Cum in my ass, oh Lord, cum in my ass
[23:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:47] <exec> 08└─No need to change the subject to see how this is dangerous. Behold: These are triggered I guess by a lot of people posting comments like "Are you okay?" and "Can I help?" to someone's content. And they'll soon be tied into the first responder network, essentially calling 911 on/for people. It doesn'...
[23:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:49] <exec> 08└─Q: What does a meatbag do with AI? A: It becomes smart. OK I don't find it funny either. Yet.
[23:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:52] <exec> 08└─First they came for the trade securities, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a day trader. Then they came for the cars, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trucker. Then they came for the package delivery, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a mail courier. Then they ca...
[23:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ [imdb.com]
[23:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:56] <exec> 08└─Or just fails to log into Facebook for two days. !!! That's what Zuck fears most.
[23:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:58] <exec> 08└─Best of luck with that. The internet makes it very easy to become disconnected from real people, and while you're probably just a pissy troll I hope you aren't truly in need of help. If life truly seems hopeless then start volunteering somewhere, at least you can look at yourself and see someone spr...
[23:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:01] <exec> 08└─After years of getting them to be posting dervishes, you expect Zuck to now switch course?
[23:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:03] <exec> 08└─Scary stuff. Glad I deleted my FB account long past. That's no problem. Since you don't have an account there, someone who wants to get you committed just needs to create an account for you on FB, then make disturbing posts and have their confederates write responses saying "Are you OK?"
[23:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:18] <exec> 08└─They hardly ever run over your foot, but instead nail you in the back of the heel, or worse, end up hitting your shins. If it's a hit on the side, you could be jumping up and down for a second with your ankle screaming. That being said, fighting RC cars is pretty much two dimensional. Which means yo...
[23:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:19] <exec> 08└─Check the dept.
[23:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Devalues Uber by 30% With Latest Offer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:30] <exec> 08└─Right up until the Juicero moment.
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:22] <exec> 08└─Messrs Smith and Wesson hadve a few very persuasive arguments
[23:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:23] <exec> 08└─I can't tell what you're responding to. Did you put this in the wrong place? Do I interpret you correctly that fast laning / zero rating / bundles will be "another vector to shut down freedom of expression on the internet"? It's an interesting point. However, "Twitter and YouTube" didn't obtain the...
[23:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:25] <exec> 08└─I understand perfectly well that ISP infrastructure is massively expensive. It's the main argument for why internet should be considered a public utility like electricity, because the rollout costs create a similar market problem. Last-mile infrastructure isn't going to be affected by net neutrality...
[23:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:27] <exec> 08└─The EC is a patch to the problem that people in less populous states would otherwise be flat stomped (in political terms) by the more populous counties. In order to prevent it from becoming the US of LA County, New York City, Boston, Chicago and Fuck You, we have the EC system.
[23:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:30] <exec> 08└─The problem is that vanishingly few of those who see the problem are willing to use the tools that Messrs Smith and Wesson created.
[23:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:32] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that we don't have instant runoff voting or range voting at all levels of government. The EC should be proportional if it is to exist at all, and all states should have the same number of electors.
[23:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:54] <exec> 08└─sometimes morals and ethics override legalities
[23:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:21] <exec> 08└─I somehow expected you to raise the Chewbacca argument due to how you tied an evolution to monetary policy to widespread willful ignorance and the entertainment value of people donating money to a guy that can get himself exploded if he wasn't so smart he merely tricked *them* and took their money -...
[23:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:27] <exec> 08└─To be clear, what GP was alluding to is that hardware support is typically completly transparent for Linux users. In 2017 (and for a lot of years now), WRT Linux and hardware, you mostly hear "it just works out of the box". You may also hear "Linux loves old hardware", which is very different from t...
[23:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coral Larvae Successfully Transplanted - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:54] <exec> 08└─The planet and the biosphere have succesfully weathered much worse events. Geological history is set in stone, a bit hard to rewrite. ;) You can argue relative inconvenience of reducing the impact now vs handling the consequences later, but leave off the imagined doom. It ain't selling. :)
[23:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Pollution Getting Worse Globally - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:42] <exec> 08└─how about require it to be motion triggered and requiring the sensors be tuned so that there is no point outside of their own property where motion will trigger the light and the movement has to be something larger than a dog?
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