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[00:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:55] <exec> 08└─curl [lifewire.com] is a command used to download files via the internet (which you may surmise by breaking the name into 2 pieces: c-URL). Way back when I was still running Windoze, there was a 3rd-party wget for Windoze. That's similar. Back then, GetRight was also a very nice payware download man...
[00:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:57] <exec> 08└─"A better UNIX than UNIX." Anyone remember that? At first, it was curious. Then it was a bad joke.
[00:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:59] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be 'tar and feather'?
[00:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:14] <exec> 08└─Thats all fine and good, would you also have thought it funny if someone did it to secretary clinton or president obama?
[00:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:16] <exec> 08└─My heart bleeds
[00:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:18] <exec> 08└─I was coming to say the same thing. For that price, I'd imagine their home is more like a freaking hotel. Walk to a different wing.... Or maybe get your private helicopter to pick you up in the back yard.
[00:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:20] <exec> 08└─If someone left a package of shit at Crooked Hillary's house -- at one of her houses -- nobody would be laughing. They would think it was her health care plan. Or her foreign policy. And they'd ignore that package of shit. Because she's a LOSER. She lost very badly. Even with millions of votes from...
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[00:19:42] <exec> 08└─I know, right? I have the same problem too. It can be so hard sometimes to find a ladyboy when neither of the two usual choices capture the combination of anatomy I have a fetish for. I also can't figure out why ladies get so pissy when I ask them what's in their pants and then interrogate them abou...
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[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:50] <exec> 08└─If paypal and all the others didn't cut support to wikileaks, which BTW is one of the most shameful things you can conceive according to western values, Assange would not have gotten bitcoins at peanuts compared to the current price (unless it crashed while I was writing this, which is not impossibl...
[01:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:01] <exec> 08└─Next iteration of operating system to get two additional executables which have been available for other operating systems for years already? Also, I remember 4 years back when I was doing curl and tar on Windows. Why is this a big deal?
[01:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─But will cmd get the man program as well? Without it, no-one will be able to just tar...
[01:18:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:12] <exec> 08└─Ha Ha Ha - Steve Mnuchin managing to make horseshit look good.
[01:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:23] <exec> 08└─Nobody knew at that time that no shooter had escaped the mall either, so maybe shut down the whole city? Oh, a shooter could be in a house. Raid every house, in theoretical hot pursuit so no need for a warrant. Do no-knock SWAT raids with flash-bang grenades -- we don't want the police to phone it i...
[01:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:25] <exec> 08└─Trust me, helicopters are a MUST. Especially now when our 757s are having so many problems, the hacking of their radio cyber. Which I read about on SoylentNews. In many ways it's a DISASTER, but there are so many interesting things here. I'll tell you, the White House is a DUMP. Staying there is a s...
[01:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:27] <exec> 08└─I thought they did? If not horseshit, something similar??
[01:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:46] <exec> 08└─Mostly birch: it takes dampness better than spruce does. Maybe some balsa stuffing between layers, where honeycomb would be used today.
[01:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:34] <exec> 08└─Various parts of the constitution apply differently. They can apply to: a. citizens b. people subject to jurisdiction (green card holders) c. people merely present (illegal aliens) d. people everywhere Pretty much none of it applies to non-citizens who are outside the US.
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[02:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─I hope he's selling all of the illegal tokens of transaction that he's receiving. Then again, hay should still be taxed, even if they are illegal. Shitoshi's no bigger than Capone.
[02:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:54] <exec> 08└─When I was in Russia, the dollar was a a perfectly usable form of currency, despite it not being official in any way. You can use it as a mens of value and exchange, that's all.
[02:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:56] <exec> 08└─What about bitcoin? Can you use bitcoin in Russia? As a mens [sic] of value and exchange, that's all? But then, in Russia, what is the difference between a bitcoin and a USD? Or have the Guardians of the Free Market spoken and closed down this freedom of the market, for reasons that we musn't questi...
[02:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:58] <exec> 08└─FN can't open bank accounts because the banks don't want to deal with them. And read somewhere that something similar was happening in Sweden with organizations the banks don't like. It's all OK, because former are extremists and the others don't share the same moral values as banks... until they de...
[02:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:52] <exec> 08└─This kind of reminds me of old Soviet-style "Communism Marches On!"-style publicity projects. Except for small aircraft for puddle-jumping to resort islands or hunting lodges, amphibian aircraft are incredibly cost-ineffective dinosaurs. The might as well be touting the world's biggest steam locomot...
[02:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:06] <exec> 08└─Now, all the neighbors will see who didn't sweep their chimney. And to all those kids whose parents bought a new modern house with electric heat and security systems, good luck!
[02:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:00] <exec> 08└─You do realise that we can narrow you town to a 10km radius from your IP address? No illusions of privacy are real.
[02:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:02] <exec> 08└─The above may not abe correct, but unless you can prove it otherwise you should beieve even worse is true. (Posting fromm downtown Tallinn, as always, with nothing -- yet -- to fear from GEOIP.
[02:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:04] <exec> 08└─The ISP knows where I live, of course. And, the people who run the site (staff) knows what my IP is. But, users don't know what my IP is. Unless I publish my IP, the stalker doesn't know where I am. Or, the site staff publishes my IP. Or, the stalker hacks the site. So, it all depends on who "we" is...
[02:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On The Trail Of The Ocean’s Material Cycle - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─And dope the sheets with tiny amounts of the 'material' marine life requires. If you can't beat 'em...
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[03:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:49] <exec> 08└─It's not fair, I won't be able to concentrate unless there's flashing gifs and page activity when I move the mouse cursor and automatic audio/video and pop-ups and punching the fucking monkey. How will I punch the fucking monkey???? My news EXPERIENCE will be ruined.
[03:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:51] <exec> 08└─I checked out both the links, and I think they're great. I would expect a large percentage of Soylent News readers to agree. It's as if a feature of the internet that I thought was lost forever has been reborn. Some marketers must be having fits. Am I feeling some respect for CNN again??
[03:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:53] <exec> 08└─That's kinda funny. Only kinda. All those years ago, that's all I ever wanted. Text news sites. Video can be cool, but it's far overdone, IMO. Just gimme the damned news, let me read it. I'm old enough that I remember newsPAPERS. No video, no flashy gifs, none of that trash. Front page with bit head...
[03:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:04] <exec> 08└─Control of the monetary system is ultimate power. The power to rule nations. When the bank, or government, or whoever can decide if they will allow your transaction then it is not your money. You have to _ask permission_ to use your money. You traded your effort and goods for nothing. If you grovel...
[03:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:06] <exec> 08└─Only think I've ever bought with the dollar in Russia is Rubles. Apart from a few tourist shops of course. The USD is a global currency there - you won't get a good rate, but you can usually find someone to take it.
[03:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:19] <exec> 08└─So this is what a sucking chest wound sounds like. Jam your fist in the hole Microsoft. Maybe you can stay alive another decade or so.
[03:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:20] <exec> 08└─How these will be better than the cygwinised versions of these commands which are simply the gnu programs ported over?
[03:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:22] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I'm not saying anything you don't know, but curl and wget are similar but different. wget downloads files and saves them (also has some nice archiving capability by following links). curl will download a file and you can save it if you want, but the default action is to stream the contents...
[03:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:24] <exec> 08└─"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to rewrite it. Poorly." I mean hell it only took them until, what, 2006 to get the equivalent of gksudo going (and they fucked that up too), right?
[03:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:47] <exec> 08└─His name was Seth Rich. "The Murder of Seth Rich by the Coward Hillary Clinton."
[03:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:48] <exec> 08└─Large concentrations of power are top-heavy, paranoid, and require massive supporting infrastructure. This sort of thing does the equivalent of setting off a cytokine storm in said maintenance systems. I say go for it; it's exactly what they deserve.
[03:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:19] <exec> 08└─10 years, 10 lbs, 10 inches.... meh, close enough for you.
[03:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:35] <exec> 08└─And miss out on all these hilarious reactions, watching you slowly break down in a rising bubble of your own bile? Not a chance. Every time you reply you get more and more desperate. I'm going to see just how low you sink.
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Key Lesson From The 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell The Truth,' One Historian Says - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:14] <exec> 08└─Well, that's something... there's no data, per se, but at least it smells vaguely like research. Perhaps someone will give it a serious treatment.
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[04:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:51] <exec> 08└─Both example sites linked to in the description -- CNN and NPR -- have no search and no "older news" links. This will only work for a certain limited set of use-cases. It's lip-service.
[04:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:53] <exec> 08└─Not that impressed. The html is so small, the analytics script is now 98% of the site. Imagine if it didn't load 250 kB of useless crap.
[04:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:23] <exec> 08└─Did you see The Shape of Water? There's a scene in that, I'm giving it away a little by answering your tweet, I won't give away too much about it. Certain friends of mine don't like that scene, but I think it's a very strong scene. It could be stronger if they showed more of the action. But it would...
[04:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:49] <exec> 08└─I have the world's smallest violin playing the world's saddest song for you. [youtube.com]
[04:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Amphibious Plane in Production Takes Flight in China - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:10] <exec> 08└─I think the idea is to create more artificial harbors in the South China Sea.
[04:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:06] <exec> 08└─Hey moron, there are millions upon millions of Muslims that don't go in for the death and conquest. The children of these more moderate Muslims are even more moderate, to the point where I'd prefer them over some of the Christians in the world. Mooooooronnnnnnnn.
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[05:18:03] <exec> 08└─It's better than nothing. And I wouldn't expect them to invest too much in something that will not generate ad revenue for them.
[05:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:04] <exec> 08└─I'm rather fond of a site which is almost entirely text-only, but css-styled to make it pleasantly readable (unlike the WAP reminiscent CNN one). The layout also makes proper use of the full width of the screen, unlike most sites these days. There's a proper archive, search, and community moderation...
[05:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:07] <exec> 08└─The search is a little fukt tbh
[05:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:02] <exec> 08└─...must be very young. Jeez, the proper technique is MANY decades old. First, you use a paper bag, not a box. Next, you make sure that the subject of your ire is at home. You put the packaged poop on the porch AND YOU SET THE BAG ON FIRE. You ring the doorbell and sprint for the hiding place that yo...
[05:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:39] <exec> 08└─Like a happy, special...? Poor little bastard.
[05:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:38] <exec> 08└─Proof or it didn't happen. Men have been pappy to virgin Mary and other forms of women for a millenia, and have been dying to protect women for more than a millenia. And guess what men have been calling other men misogynist for more than a millenia too.
[05:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:54] <exec> 08└─I understand, Zumi. It's not like you actually have a life, or interests, or anything.
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[06:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:57] <exec> 08└─I have a bandwidth cap, like 90% of the country, except I know I have an unstated one. Pisses me off that when I do everything I can to prevent auto-play video from auto-playing (including blacklisting sites that do this), even though the video isn't playing it's downloading in the background. Sucki...
[06:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:58] <exec> 08└─Oh God yes...can you believe it was only about 25 years ago that we could read our news on the WWW just like on a newspaper?
[06:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:00] <exec> 08└─There is this new thing out now. It's called google. Try it sometime.
[06:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:03] <exec> 08└─Wow! There's someone who still allows scripts by default. Yeah, CNN still wants to load a script and a stylesheet. Neither is necessary. NPR's is actually readable-text-only. . ...and El Reg went the other direction a short while back. Apparently, they won't serve a mobile page any more if your user...
[06:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:05] <exec> 08└─I disagree... Based on the overzealous use of flash, animations, hi-res images, and heavy javascript in use on the bandwidth-intensive Soylent News site, I can't understand why anyone here would ever be willing to visit a text only site. /s
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[06:18:19] <exec> 08└─he was planning on creating an all-africa currency.
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[06:19:03] <exec> 08└─If it means that those cops won't be in non-rich neighborhoods and won't be needlessly rousting people for jaywalking on an empty street or for carrying personal-use amounts of substances, that sounds like a plus. USA has too many cops, apparently with no serious crimes to attend to. ...but it's mor...
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[07:17:49] <exec> 08└─I 'member. Remember the Pol-pot agrarian utopia? I 'member. Utopia is always another murder away, always needing a strong and firm hand to guide society.
[07:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:51] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford has made Social Engineering into a way of life. Michael David Crawford opens his persuasive mouth and everyone throws money at him. Michael David Crawford gets paid simply for existing. Michael David Crawford will inevitably be a trillionaire in the socially engineered future....
[07:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:53] <exec> 08└─That architecture is straight out of William Gibson's Gernsback continuum. If you start hallucinating utopian white domes and giant zeppelins, you should immerse yourself in porn and trash TV until you snap out of it.
[07:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:55] <exec> 08└─Implying the ruling class don't deserve to be murdered.
[07:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:57] <exec> 08└─Implying the people of SoylentNews aren't the ruling class. How naive can you be. The average soylentil is a retired boomer sitting on a nest egg investment portfolio. Soylent people are the living embodiment of idle entitled wealth. The soylent credo is, "Fuck you! Got mine." Kill them all.
[07:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:59] <exec> 08└─Back during the subprime crisis Silicon Valley had 24,000 homeless people.
[07:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:02] <exec> 08└─My driver will go to my client's customers in a few days. Once they all sign off on it I get a big paycheck.
[07:18:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘financial censorship’  - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:32] <exec> 08└─Control of the monetary system is ultimate power. The power to rule nations. When the bank, or government, or whoever can decide if they will allow your transaction then it is not your money. You have to _ask permission_ to use your money. You traded your effort and goods for nothing. If you grovel...
[07:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, I do. This just happens to be one of them :) 50+ hours a week working, Linux, cooking, and I plan to start some basic woodworking soon (already got the bedframe plans and just need the tools and lumber), and a little bit of watching sad, lonely lunatics like you digest themselves alive. You keep...
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[08:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:00] <exec> 08└─Obligatory reading of 'Brave New World' at this point. I want my soma. Now.
[08:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:21] <exec> 08└─Yes! Text-based news sites - what a relief that could be... Could be. CNN, unfortunately, isn't really much of a news site. Looking at their current list of main stories, we have 3 stories bashing Trump, 3 stupid articles (the Frozen musical is one of *the* events to look forward to in 2018), 2 stor...
[08:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:23] <exec> 08└─CNN had to handle something resembling a legitimate overload of service requests [williamwolff.org] roughly two decades ago. I thought they'd have something like this down by now, but maybe not.
[08:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:25] <exec> 08└─Or don't, because Google is a massive surveillance engine. Even if you can stop them from identifying you, it's not good to use or encourage the use of Google. I can find what I need with DuckDuckGo the vast majority of the time, but even were that not the case, I would rather have shoddy search res...
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[09:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:48] <exec> 08└─What impression do you get when you read this article - and particularly its snarky subtitle "Free as in thank God I'm not paying for this"? That Linux is free, you get what you pay for and you should stay away from it. Nevernind that the problem comes from an Intel binary blob, and that the lesson...
[09:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:49] <exec> 08└─The broblem is more Ubuntu than either Linux or Intel, in my eyes. If the driver in question was not ready for release, it probably should have staied in testing rather than being put in stable. But then again Ubuntu has no testing, that is a debianite concept, so they just put it in the only place...
[09:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:52] <exec> 08└─The comments are even worse: At least Windows never killed my BIOS... Of course the Linux apologists will say it's an Intel problem.
[09:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:54] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "Least (sic) the Linux fanbois think we're picking on them, it should also be noted that Apple and Microsoft have caused their own headaches for users with bad software releases recently." Also: "A spokesperson for Intel has been in touch to say the chipmaker is aware of the BIOS cockup tr...
[09:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:08] <exec> 08└─Or just mix the two - Zeppelin porn: https://www.redbubble.com [redbubble.com]
[09:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:10] <exec> 08└─+1, Good Job & Good Luck!
[09:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:30] <exec> 08└─> Your victim comes to the door, sees the fire, and instinctively stamps it out. *That's* why the bag is set on fire? I always assumed that the fire makes it stink worse or spreads the smell faster. Huh. Modded +1, Informative.
[09:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:05] <exec> 08└─Or, after posting dozens of hard-to-resist URLs to the IRC channel, all of which were phishily similar to real news sites, a correlation was drawn between the connecting IP addresses and the times you were on channel, and the times you weren't. Which proves nothing, but if user agent sniffing shows...
[09:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:53] <exec> 08└─Your "we must destroy this other thing" rant *PROVES MY POINT*. Society, education, and technology should advance so that members of all religions look at us and say "fuck this shit, I don't like being backward", in contrast to the current "Fuck those idiots, I'm proud to be different". Change from...
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[10:17:53] <exec> 08└─The latest Ubuntu is a rushed out trainwreck. This is completely unsurprising.
[10:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:55] <exec> 08└─PS: This particular issue has been reported to Ubuntu in October but they apparently chose to ignore it and ship it out anyway.
[10:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:06] <exec> 08└─...brought to you by your friends at Microsoft.
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[11:17:49] <exec> 08└─It should be called Diamondium [theinfosphere.org]
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[12:17:49] <exec> 08└─Right now, is there anything better than kevlar that's within the price range of mere mortals? The ceramic-composite plates can be impressive but they seem too fragile to be relied on in the field. Any gun-geeks doing any cool experiments?
[12:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:51] <exec> 08└─Any gun-geeks doing any cool experiments?
[12:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:53] <exec> 08└─Are usually an additional measure on top of kevlar to help reduce ballistic injuries. If this stuff really works as well as they claim, then multiple paired layers of it sandwiched between other materials like ceramics or steel, might make an excellent lightweight composite armor for tanks, undercar...
[12:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:05] <exec> 08└─The broblem is more Ubuntu than either Linux or Intel, in my eyes./quote? Interesting typo! Related to Bromance or Bronies?
[12:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:07] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "Least (sic) the Linux fanbois think we're picking on them...
[12:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:18] <exec> 08└─Yes and I remember this one too: [In June 1999] Bob Metcalfe predicted that Linux would fizzle against Windows. His reasoning? Open-source ideology is balderdash and Linux is 30-year-old technology.
[12:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:19] <exec> 08└─You could've had these on Windows back in 1998. Cygwin and gnuwin32 have been around for a while.
[12:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:21] <exec> 08└─Bob "I invented Ethernet" Metcalfe says a lot of crazy shit.
[12:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:24] <exec> 08└─10 pounds is a rounding error against the hambeasts you pick up on dating sites.
[12:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:43] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. One of the funny things about all your silliness is, you have no idea how abnormal YOU are. All that you're doing is projecting your own abnormalities on me.
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[13:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─It is a problem only when the game sucks. If the game is good, gaming disorder is like preferring a ride on a Ferrari to washing dishes. Quite understandable really. Ditch your stupid console controllers, get back at the PC, and run some open source quake knockoff fragfest. After 30 mins you should...
[13:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:15] <exec> 08└─Since when does an update/upgrade make changes to the BIOS? Since when does any distro make changes to the BIOS settings? Many users are reporting issues with BIOS corruption with 17.10. This seems to stem from enabling the intel-spi-* drivers in the kernel, which don't appear to be ready for use on...
[13:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:17] <exec> 08└─It's just The Reg being The Reg; I wouldn't read too much into it. IMO, they lost the writers that could come up with genuinely witty stories and original gags that made it perfectly clear that they were mocking the style of the Red Top gutter-press of the UK a long time ago. At this point I'm not e...
[13:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:19] <exec> 08└─I don't think ubuntu or other linux distros generally want to touch the bios any more than necessary. Efibootmgr is used to add linux to list of bootable partitions, like it was meant to be used. According to discussion, the problem stems from poor quality intel spi driver. Possibly because both EFI...
[13:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:21] <exec> 08└─Although I consider myself to be "Linux apologist" I believe Canonical should be blamed for shipping experimental software that was not intended for shipping. They did that many times in the past.
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[14:17:54] <exec> 08└─Extra Credits did a series of videos about this topic awhile back which is interesting from the perspective of players and game designers. Their head writer prefers the term "video game compulsion" though the videos are labeled "Game Addiction". First one is here: https://www.youtube.com
[14:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:56] <exec> 08└─Books? TV? Games? Sex? Anything. Go boating every weekend? Snow skiing every weekend? Hell my wife walks 2-4 hrs a day 4-5 days a week. Probably addiction! Anything you enjoy is bad. You are an addict. Bills paid. Family taken care of. Time to enjoy. NO! That is addiction! I get it some might have t...
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[14:17:58] <exec> 08└─The critical paper is pretty good but poltically constrained. The problem with video games is it skews white straight male and that demographic is hated by the left, so gaming is getting the SJW treatment with weird entryism and trying to define it as a disease. So the criticism paper can not talk a...
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[14:18:08] <exec> 08└─Is this new material specially good at stopping penetration? In terms of body armor, there is still the question of the max acceleration delivered to the human, a massive enough shell is going to kill you, even if it doesn't penetrate the armor. Then there is also the question of flexibility--if thi...
[14:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:10] <exec> 08└─Sounds promising. I am looking forward to the studies on what happens to the body when this shatters and pieces are embedded into the wounds. How does it compare to other materials currently in use?
[14:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:12] <exec> 08└─Over the life time of kevlar in law enforcement several officers around the nation have succumbed to being beat to death. Most were from automatic weapons [uzi] that cause the heart to stop or rupture blood vessels and then bleed out. SCIENCE ALERT - Do Not Read If You Do Not Believe In Science ! Ex...
[14:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:30] <exec> 08└─A bug in the firmware has been suspected so this may not be Ubuntu's fault but the fault of the firmware maker Insyde Software or Lenovo for having non-standard behaviour. Also, the drivers that are utilized are open source. There are features in UEFI that allow the operating system to set BIOS sett...
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[14:18:32] <exec> 08└─More like touchscreen phone smart keyboard related, when it tries to correct my English against my own native language spelling.
[14:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:34] <exec> 08└─This doesnt mean Linux is at fault. Linux is following the UEFI standard. Its possible that the firmware does not properly support the standard and that the Windows driver was written to work around the firmware bug in some way. So, Insydes UEFI implementation is probably broken and that the Windows...
[14:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 1981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─This is likely a window into the future. People make bios changes to control their machine, this change changes it for you for whatever reason... and clearly it implemented something not very consumer friendly. The most visible problem is that USB booting was disabled -- as if the secure boot had be...
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[14:18:39] <exec> 08└─If they don't have the resources to test on every model they surely can provide a list of models that passed all QA unit tests on which they produce can be safely installed and/or pop up a warning during installation you're about to install on an untested configuration.
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[14:18:55] <exec> 08└─Just read tfa -- toward the end the author connects the dots to a variety of prior art. For example, Savanna GA was originally designed to promote similar ideas that could not be easily implemented in England back then (and originally did not allow slavery). Also there is a Facebook employee attendi...
[14:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:18] <exec> 08└─There were general news on the WWW in 1992?
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[14:19:55] <exec> 08└─Is Microsoft fixing their OS to just work with open source stuff, or are they modifying the OS stuff to fit their view of the world? If things worked well, I could just move the binary for curl from Linux to Windows. It shouldn't require a big effort on Microsoft's part. Hopefully it doesn't and thi...
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[14:21:02] <exec> 08└─After all, the legend isn't that his nose is red, it's so red it glows. And quite brightly since it can pierce a foggy night.
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[15:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:54] <exec> 08└─Is where cobalt comes from really a big issue? Is it something that people buying a car or some new piece of electronics really think about? "Oh I would totally buy this car (or product) if it wasn't cobalt mined in Congo by little children that was made to make the battery". Has anyone sane ever re...
[15:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:56] <exec> 08└─Environmentalists have said that climate change will affect the poorest in the world first/more. Is it better to have the poor children dig up batteries to save their future, or another poor child's future? Which is the lesser of two evils?
[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:58] <exec> 08└─1. Set up a company that buys cobalt at 10% above market rate and insists all should be free of child labour 2. Promote this heavily 3. ???? 4. Bankruptcy (In case anyone wonders - yes. 3 is "realize that people care more about 50 USD on their car purchase")
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:00] <exec> 08└─People want cheap fun stuff and Ethical issues are left to the ivory tower elites.
[15:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:02] <exec> 08└─3. Is more like: 7 year old kids can't get money anymore, so they starve and die, or go into child prostitution and die of HIV, or otherwise find some even worse way to end up dead, then 11 years later there's no new 18 year old miners left alive to work in the mines. The way to really do it is to m...
[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:05] <exec> 08└─Yep. The children mining cobalt and diamonds are doing so because it is the best and safest income available to them and their family. Often, after being "rescued" by western charities, these children jump on another truck and go right back to work at the mine. If it weren't for the mine, many of th...
[15:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─The usual NIMBY issues on a personal level often appear, or a giant case of "Do as I say and not as I do". But I do agree with that it's usually quite funny cause whatever their cause and beef is one is almost always sure to find that they break their own rules all the time.
[15:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:18] <exec> 08└─Anything you enjoy is bad. You are an addict.
[15:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:19] <exec> 08└─South Korea used to have Starcraft as a national pasttime. Then there were a few cases of people dying after 24+hr binges in internet cafes so the government decided they needed to regulate everything related to gaming and the internet. It turned out badly. [archive.is]
[15:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I qualify as an addict in this study. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that I have other mental issues and/or problems too. HOWEVER... I am not out drinking to excess and then creating a driving hazard that will kill innocents. I am not getting high on crack/opiates/coke/pyshcotics/meth...
[15:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:23] <exec> 08└─but I'm a realist. And this sold called disorder is not a disorder, it's laziness and people wanting to check out of reality. Just like "reality tv" has nothing to do with real life. "Gaming disorder", ADD, ADHD, all made up and designed to shift the focus from the real problem.
[15:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─So bulletproof vests might be made out of diamonds? Isn't this like strapping cash or gold bars to your chest (only lighter and hopefully more bulletproof). People will shot to kill for them ...
[15:18:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:44] <exec> 08└─What impression do you get when you read this article - and particularly its snarky subtitle "Free as in thank God I'm not paying for this"? That Linux is free, you get what you pay for and you should stay away from it. Nevernind that the problem comes from an Intel binary blob, and that the lesson...
[15:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─You're either grossly underestimating the amount of variability in the PC hardware ecosystem, or overestimating the amount of testing that Ubuntu can do. Even two laptops with the same exact model number can have significant hardware differences under the hood. Meanwhile, Microsoft is every bit as g...
[15:19:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:15] <exec> 08└─My driver will go to my client's customers in a few days. Once they all sign off on it I get a big paycheck.
[15:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:20] <exec> 08└─What makes you think you an Alpha, Delta boi?
[15:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─arranged in concentric circles so as to resemble the structure of an atom
[15:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:24] <exec> 08└─There was an article on the amanita muscaria and santa and christmas a few days back. That's your Soma; if you don't take so much that you are made ill (or unable to function because of the visions), then you are doing it right. It is a fantastic tonic, so to speak... similarly to how some people sa...
[15:19:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:33] <exec> 08└─It's not fair, I won't be able to concentrate unless there's flashing gifs and page activity when I move the mouse cursor and automatic audio/video and pop-ups and punching the fucking monkey. How will I punch the fucking monkey???? My news EXPERIENCE will be ruined.
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─CNN [...] we have 3 stories bashing accurately reporting on Trump
[15:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─The layout [of SN] also makes proper use of the full width of the screen
[15:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:34] <exec> 08└─Someone is getting coal in their stocking.
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─Corporate advertorial dying legacy media OKCupid invites users to answer questionnaires, build elaborate profiles, and describe themselves thoughtfully.
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─Always interesting to compare FB's real names weirdness to claims that voter ID laws are immoral and you shouldn't be expected to carry a drivers license when you drive yourself to a voting place, and so forth. Tells you whats really important to the powers that be.
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OkCupid Adopts "Real Name" Policy, Anger Ensues - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─Unemployment marketplace is like that too. "We'd like an upper class Ivy league grad genius with decades of proven experience... that or a really cheap H1B". "And what do you bring to the table" "Well we offer lower class salary with minimal bennies and a work environment right out of a 1800s sweats...
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[16:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─FSCK music, when is the backlash coming for Goddamn TVs everywhere? Noise I can tune out, TV in my peripheral vision I can't.
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─Ethical issues are left to the ivory tower elites
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:06] <exec> 08└─Unlike underpants gnomes, the answer is obvious... #3 is Watch China buy all the cheap Cobalt from Congo and undercut everyone else's prices.
[16:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:08] <exec> 08└─Cobalt is one of the key ingredients added in electric batteries, and more than half of it is currently mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Amnesty says children as young as seven work in dangerous conditions in Congo cobalt mines.
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:11] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. So wildly vastly incorrect. The CEOs are the ones who care about 50 USD savings while charging the customers the exact same price. Your consumer position theory works better for groceries where you have two near identical items on the exact same shelf, but even then people are sometimes c...
[16:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:13] <exec> 08└─There is suffering, cruelty, and despair bound up in many of the things we associate with civilization. The shiny new widget you just got for Christmas yesterday was quite likely produced in China by prison labor or children or workers who are so miserable the factory puts nets around the building t...
[16:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:15] <exec> 08└─So, if Elon can sell the new model for $35K, could he bump that up to $36K and use the extra 3% to do something about the conditions in the Congo? Something like, oh - selectively sourcing Cobalt from the mines that treat their workers the least shittily? The proposal I see implied here is to just c...
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:17] <exec> 08└─Unless Elon himself makes sure the little miners get their cash, and are not forced to hand them over once he is gone, I doubt the extra $1k would really do anything. It wouldn't reach the right people. It's not like he buys the Cobalt from the miners so if he wants to give the seller and extra buck...
[16:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:20] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I like Tantalum capacitors, Cobalt in my batteries, and Aluminum in my metal frames, and I can't DIY source ANY of those things. I can DIY source wood, Saw Palmetto berries, drinkable water, and the occasional game animal - which is a whole lot better than most city dwellers, but the...
[16:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:35] <exec> 08└─If you live for the Weekend, you too might be addicted to Weekends.
[16:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:36] <exec> 08└─If your “addiction” isn't causing harm to yourself or others then you aren't an addict. To count as having a disorder, your life needs to actually be out of order. Of course, there is a grey area of exactly how “harm to yourself” is defined (e.g. if it's considered okay to have almost no in-...
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:38] <exec> 08└─Meh, addiction and racism are two very different things. I will agree that some accusations of racism / sexism / ageism / politicism go overboard but welcome to humanity you narcissistic ostrich. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and please PLEASE stop pretending like conservatives are now...
[16:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:40] <exec> 08└─Look, just do us all a favor and drop the tired SJW crap. Today's liberal SJWs are yesterdays religious moralizers, a small group of vocal criticizers that shouldn't be getting so much free press :P Other than that you make some really good points :)
[16:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:43] <exec> 08└─I'm so fucking addicted to my job, I spend the majority of my waking life building digital widgets! Someone please help me!!! I want to get this monkey off my back so I can live a peaceful life and have time to actually help my community.
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:45] <exec> 08└─^ reality is often boring with few opportunities for doing things outside of your job. Live in a city? There is probably zero space outside of the home where one can do a project. Socializing with other people has definite limits, and quickly turns into "I dunno what do you wanna do?" What is truly...
[16:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:00] <exec> 08└─A 45 ACP was designed to take a say 6' 250lb male charging you and literally knock then back and flat on their back.
[16:19:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:43] <exec> 08└─arranged in concentric circles so as to resemble the structure of an atom
[16:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:45] <exec> 08└─If we want the Western world to overcome war, avarice, and poverty, all we need to do is redesign the culture.
[16:19:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03optotronic [4285] 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:55] <exec> 08└─I checked out both the links, and I think they're great. I would expect a large percentage of Soylent News readers to agree. It's as if a feature of the internet that I thought was lost forever has been reborn. Some marketers must be having fits. Am I feeling some respect for CNN again??
[16:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:12] <exec> 08└─(the Frozen musical is one of *the* events to look forward to in 2018)
[16:21:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:03] <exec> 08└─With a 50 million dollar home, why would they WANT to get out? Ask Jeeves to open another bottle of wine and stop whining.
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[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─An OK piece, the last paragraph was a bit annoying. "We’re so cyber-spatially-oriented now"... is a wordy way of saying we have our faces in our phones all the time.
[17:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:08] <exec> 08└─You could wear AR glasses to filter out all television screens.
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─Just wait until VR reaches its first billion users. That will be the beginning of true cyberspatial orientation.
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─Hacking augmented reality vr headset zebra line recognition software would be awesome, bro.
[17:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:15] <exec> 08└─65 db the level of "white" pumped into my office. People just yells over it. I wear earplugs like guys on stamping machines to protect my hearing. Yes I am older but still have great hearing. I can even hear people talking 50 ft away in my office through the noise with the earplugs. I wish these pl...
[17:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─Backlash? What backlash? 43% of people polled dislike it. It didn't say they are so fed up with it that they will do something about it. The club has 2k people across the UK? That's nothing. And they want to get rid of all music except live. Personally, live is the worst. It's always way too loud....
[17:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:39] <exec> 08└─Well, nothing really prevents Tesla from putting a "ethical cobalt: +50USD" option in their extra-lists, and it would be in line with they other extras
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:40] <exec> 08└─You mean kinda like buying 75% of the world supplies of ore and producing 49% of the refined cobalt? Like they are already doing since a couple of years ago. (Seriously - cobalt use in batteries is small compared to in steel)
[17:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:43] <exec> 08└─Let us not pretend Elon can sell a model3 for 35k at a profit... he's unable to sell a 100k modelS or X at a profit. by all appearances they need the deposits for the roadster and semi to fund current cash burn (deposits are refundable if cancelled eventually, but they're in Tesla general bank accou...
[17:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:45] <exec> 08└─You can prolong the life of your tools, fix them if possible when worn or damaged. Buy used stuff. Recycle.
[17:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:47] <exec> 08└─It would perhaps make the Tesla loyalists think that Tesla doesn't do everything in the most ethical and green way by default, which is why the most ethical consumers are now on their 4th or 5th brand new Tesla in the same number of years, saving the planet... (or because it takes so long to get a T...
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─I do not know the answer, but did the british care when they were importing goods from america made in factories by children?
[17:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─Then the real solution is to offer a better choice, not to ban the existing one, and leave them to whatever the worse option is.
[17:19:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:02] <exec> 08└─The critical paper is pretty good but poltically constrained. The problem with video games is it skews white straight male and that demographic is hated by the left, so gaming is getting the SJW treatment with weird entryism and trying to define it as a disease. So the criticism paper can not talk a...
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe boomers just fucked the country up so bad that for a portion of the population the only way to escape the worthlessness that is our lives (excessive debt, lower standard of living, impossibility of buying a home) is to lose themselves in video games until their hearts gives out. Fix the proble...
[17:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:29] <exec> 08└─Calculate the kinetic energy between any grain-weight of .45ACP bullet (typically 230gr) and the kinetic energy of a "charging" 250lb human being to realize what a foolish statement that is.
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:17] <exec> 08└─Haha you are clueless. That may represent a few people on here, but the majority are techies of various sorts, just semi-irregular people. That credo you mention is simply the result of a very small subset of this community, however they are overwhelmingly more vocal on here. Personally I suspect sh...
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[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─Meh, what a stupid comment. I don't recall him saying anything along those lines unless it was snarky, and lately he's seemed much more like a typical pro-capitalist techie.
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:20] <exec> 08└─A lot of the problems being solved are things human beings are perfectly capable of. The current "problem" is allowing unlimited amounts of wealth to be sequestered in VERY small pockets of humanity. Fix that and humanity is pretty good at making successful communities. Oh, it just occurred to me, w...
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:22] <exec> 08└─Blergh, I'm forced to agree with khallow. Yes, the pure engineered society removes the tangible rewards that we primates really enjoy. It could be done, but removing money overnight would absolutely destroy a lot of good human activity. Counterpoint: we need restrictions on wealth inequality, the si...
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[17:21:53] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the rich just got $6 tn in tax cuts that are funded by $4.5 tn in tax increases to the lower and middle class with the balance being placed on the national tab before they ultimately slash more social programs and things that benefit the lower and middle class that created all that wealth in...
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[18:17:57] <exec> 08└─FSCK music, when is the backlash coming for Goddamn TVs everywhere? Noise I can tune out, TV in my peripheral vision I can't.
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[18:18:03] <exec> 08└─Backlash? What backlash? 43% of people polled dislike it. It didn't say they are so fed up with it that they will do something about it. The club has 2k people across the UK? That's nothing. And they want to get rid of all music except live. Personally, live is the worst. It's always way too loud....
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[18:18:06] <exec> 08└─You shut your mouth how can you say I go about things the wrong way I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does
[18:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:08] <exec> 08└─I'll admit, I didn't, and probably never will, read the article. But one incident is a backlash. Oh My Goodness!
[18:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:10] <exec> 08└─I'd rather we just dialed back on the Christmas music. All of the music people pipe in for Christmas is same-y, even more than the regular stuff- soft nostalgic solos about snow or love, fake hip-hop "christmas is cool" nonsense, joke songs played and replayed since the 80s or longer, etc etc. I hea...
[18:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:12] <exec> 08└─Go home. Or open your own damn coffee shop and do what you want.
[18:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:14] <exec> 08└─There was a sandwich shop that opened near me a while back, I went there once, and the music was so deafening, I couldn't even hear the people at the counter. Resulted in some bad service too, but either way I have no intention of ever going there again. Observing similar loud music at several other...
[18:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:17] <exec> 08└─How about this one [youtube.com]? Certainly nobody would find it annoying after a few plays.
[18:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:46] <exec> 08└─well this is unfortunate. i get all my cobalt from the pharmacy. mostly it's ingested in the form of supplements in the vitame B12 class. i didn't know you could also just drive a electrical car do get your daily dose of brain-damage preventing B12?
[18:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:47] <exec> 08└─if you dont kill all the game, but feed them "somehow" then you dont even have to hunt them much. also if the other game doesn't see it, then the dinner murdered behind the shed will still consider you a non-treat ... just saying.
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─The dark side of wanting heat and energy as inexpensive as possible
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─Well bears, big cats and wolves generally don't eat humans, but hey anything you can do to not appear like a savory treat is probably a good thing!
[18:19:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I qualify as an addict in this study. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that I have other mental issues and/or problems too. HOWEVER... I am not out drinking to excess and then creating a driving hazard that will kill innocents. I am not getting high on crack/opiates/coke/pyshcotics/meth...
[18:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:54] <exec> 08└─The latest Ubuntu is a rushed out trainwreck. This is completely unsurprising.
[18:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, the pure engineered society removes the tangible rewards that we primates really enjoy. It could be done, but removing money overnight would absolutely destroy a lot of good human activity.
[18:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:22] <exec> 08└─Pointless piece about some dumb project, but I found the publisher more interesting. The magazine is backed by some foundation ("Social Justice Foundation") run by one McCune, some Santa Barbara socialite. Their website notes all the awards she won, but none about how she made the money to set up a...
[18:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_journalism [wikipedia.org]
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[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─What's next, discrimination against dummies? If companies want to hire young fools, so be it.
[19:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─Liquidate them so I can get a job before I'm a dotard.
[19:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:54] <exec> 08└─Discrimination based on anything at all. Facebook has demonstrated that they can discriminate based on criteria that they approve of. The exact same technology can discriminate against Jews, Asians, White, Black, aboriginals, gays, Christians, short people, tall people, fat people, on and on and on...
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─The age targeting us something FB offers, but Verizoff's use of it in employment ads is more problematic. Would it be illegal if they advertised in FinanceBro magazine, knowing that only 25 to 40 year old finance bros read it?
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─All hail the Holy Algorithm. The Algorithm has decided who we should be interested in hiring. Do not question the Algorithm! Also, don't look at the Algorithm, it will burn your eyes! This most certainly is not discrimination. If we had put "if you're older than 30, we are not interested in you", /t...
[19:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:19] <exec> 08└─There is nothing quite as blood-boiling as being stuck in the middle of shopping at Publix just before Crassmas when they start playing some religious music. Some child-raping shit singing that everyone is supposed to worship their imaginary god. Even putting aside the fact that there is NO SUCH THI...
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:21] <exec> 08└─May God bless you
[19:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:23] <exec> 08└─But how are you going to know what to think if you don't always have Fox News blaring at you?
[19:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:25] <exec> 08└─All that goodness, but bad spelling and grammar
[19:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:27] <exec> 08└─I swapped the tape in the on hold music from Pat Boone to Twisted Sister.
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─I doubt people worship frosty the snowman as a god. Are you a future archeologist overinterpreting trinkets?
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─We are so very sorry that we didn't post a trigger warning. It was nothing but neglect on Staff's part. Our data mining software indicates exactly how sensitive you are to Christmas music, but we failed to take proper notices. Please open your CD ROM tray, and find a handful of Prozac. Take them wit...
[19:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:34] <exec> 08└─I used to work in a cube farm that had Muzak piped in. Oh fucking shit, it was so annoying. Not only was it distracting, it wasn't my taste and it repeated every few hours.
[19:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:07] <exec> 08└─So... Want a spin and profit... Let's see. "Extra childfriendly production: 100USD" and then only bump the mining surplus by 5% and pocket the remaining 75USD. Or they could introduce a new trademark "Coral Cobalt" and charge 100USD and only source from australian mines (costs as much, less children...
[19:19:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:16] <exec> 08└─Books? TV? Games? Sex? Anything. Go boating every weekend? Snow skiing every weekend? Hell my wife walks 2-4 hrs a day 4-5 days a week. Probably addiction! Anything you enjoy is bad. You are an addict. Bills paid. Family taken care of. Time to enjoy. NO! That is addiction! I get it some might have t...
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:11] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu shouldn't catch all the blame for this. Nor Lenovo. This is manufacturers once again putting anti-social, anti-consumer, anti-competitive measures ahead of reliability. I'd say this is mostly Intel's fault. Intel is not the worst, but they've been pulling more crap than usual lately. Their wo...
[19:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:39] <exec> 08└─And overpopulation, the true problem is improving. The world's population is still growing, but the population growth rate has declined since the 1950s.
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─I remember in 1996, on CompuServe, I bought a program that would dial in at 4AM (non-peak hours,) auto crawl the top US, State, Local stories, sports, weather and weather map, and reformat it all offline into a framework resembling a standard newspaper, then you clicked on headlines or zoomed in/out...
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:10] <exec> 08└─The timeline is not entirely clear on that page, but it says that the first online news on the World Wide Web was Nando. And on the Page about Nando [wikipedia.org] it says the web site was added in 1994. Thus I conclude that in 1992 there was no general news on the WWW. Also note that WWW != Intern...
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[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. The best way to explain free software to people is with case studies of vendor lock-in. “We need our software to do x.” Well, that's great and all. If you have free software, the response from IT is “Sure, we need t amount of time and a budget of $amount” and then it's simply a...
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─So I opened TFA and the nine examples there always end with this: Why do people put up with this? Because they are so poorly educated about computers that they cannot imagine anything different.
[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─"educate people about computers" Impossible "Computers are very interesting so it should be worth their while." The masses disagree so strongly with this, that they don't even want computers. They want phones with a 1-finger interface, and "internet connected appliances" that can respond to their ma...
[20:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 2247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:06] <exec> 08└─There was this one guy with diabetes, pale thin skin, a weak voice, and a weak gait. As soon as I met him, I said to myself "This guy isn't long for this world." and sure enough, he didn't last a year. He was death walking. That wasn't worse than the perfectly healthy wingsuit BASE jumper who turned...
[20:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:07] <exec> 08└─Software isn't becoming hostile to humans. Hostile assholes are just adding it to their arsenal. Their primary tool has always been the willingness to fuck you over for a cut of the take. After that, it's all just tools for the job. Just because someone is a hostile asshole doesn't mean they can't f...
[20:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:36] <exec> 08└─But how are you going to know what to think take on faith if you don't always have Fox News blaring at you?
[20:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:37] <exec> 08└─And, you couldn't figure out how to destroy the speaker? All it takes is a thin, narrow blade. Or an ice pick. Just insert it through the face of the speaker, and fish around until all that paper-like material is turned into confetti. It makes no more sound. YAY!!
[20:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:39] <exec> 08└─Why choose? You could have used this [youtube.com]
[20:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:42] <exec> 08└─I guess if he wanted to lose that job, there were easier ways to achieve that than destroying the employer's property. Especially if he wanted to get another job later.
[20:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:44] <exec> 08└─"There is a club if you'd like to go, You could meet somebody who really loves you, So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, And you go home and you cry and you want to die." People always forget the best verse of that song :) (and since it is after the first long break in the...
[20:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:46] <exec> 08└─https://store.hplhs.org/collections/filk [hplhs.org] -- Their Solstice-albums, it is Cthulhu-themed rewrites of christmas songs, just memorize them and have their lyrics running in your head and it becomes bearable with christmas-songs.
[20:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:48] <exec> 08└─Personally, live is the worst. It's always way too loud.
[20:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:51] <exec> 08└─Fox was barely right of center at the best of times. It takes strong corporate leadership to do that when your employees are mostly journalists who live in New York City. The leadership has changed due to death. The new leaders are not putting in the effort required to keep Fox on the right, and so...
[20:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:53] <exec> 08└─You seem to be lumping all religion together. There is a difference though, with "child-raping shit" being legit in exactly one mainstream religion: the one founded by a guy who married a 6-year-old and then placed his penis between her thighs regularly until, at age 9, he managed to have sex with h...
[20:19:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:07] <exec> 08└─Ethical issues are left to the ivory tower elites
[20:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:48] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with wanting to check out of reality to begin with.
[20:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:50] <exec> 08└─Will surely make an interesting case study, and I am looking forward to their analysis.
[20:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:33] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, this isn't the first time Ubuntu knowingly shipped broken software. Last time I tried to install Ubuntu (one or two years ago) I got hit with the same thing -- was reading reviews for over a month indicating the installer was broken, figured I'd try it anyway because those were mo...
[20:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─I'm just as well fed and sheltered, if Bill Gates is worth $50 billion as if he is worth $50 million.
[20:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:04] <exec> 08└─Hfdghih fddgh hhfg
[20:21:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Wikileaks Doubles Down on Cryptocurrencies to Thwart US ‘Financial Censorship’  - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:40] <exec> 08└─If paypal and all the others didn't cut support to wikileaks, which BTW is one of the most shameful things you can conceive according to western values, Assange would not have gotten bitcoins at peanuts compared to the current price (unless it crashed while I was writing this, which is not impossibl...
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─Wow, like, tar and curl...as if I couldn't get those binaries for windows 10 already....if I actually ran Windows 10, that is. As it stands, the Win 7 and XP boxes have had both these (and loads of other unix commands) for quite.some.time.now. Hell, back in Win98 days I had tar on the boxes, ok, so...
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[20:22:42] <exec> 08└─Lynching is too kind. I'm thinking something more along the lines of that one scene from Fargo, with more of a Mortal Kombat deathtraps feel to it.
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[21:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─My mother is understands my explanation of open source but I have so far been unable to explain free software to her
[21:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:55] <exec> 08└─Technology companies have taken advantage of this lack of education to brainwash people into accepting absurd abuses of their rights.
[21:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:58] <exec> 08└─"Computer technology is complicated and new. Education about computers is extremely poor among all age groups. Technology companies have taken advantage of this lack of education to brainwash people into accepting absurd abuses of their rights." I'll grant you the second sentence (in bold) but the f...
[21:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:00] <exec> 08└─Some claim the the Linux kernel is free software because it has the gpl license. It's not: Linus has made clear that it is open source It's not the license that counts but the reason the license was chosen. Richard confirms this
[21:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:02] <exec> 08└─Coders should ask their aged grandmothers to test their UI
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─That is the position people don't understand. Yes, I'm a programmer. No, I cannot do what you want me to do with this software because what I would need to do is ILLEGAL.
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─then write it. Don't be mad at companies that profit off of other's laziness (not wanting to learn how to build hardware, program computers and software, etc.). If you want software that is free or open source, then you're going to have to make it. Don't expect Apple, MS, etc. to give it to you. Mak...
[21:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─Does advocating for sane copyright and patent terms count as complaining?
[21:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:11] <exec> 08└─I'll grant you the second sentence (in bold) but the first is utter nonsense.
[21:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:13] <exec> 08└─Linux is Free Software because it respects the users' four freedoms. The difference between a Free Software advocate and an Open Source advocate, however, is that Free Software advocates necessarily maintain that it is unethical for software to not respect users' freedoms.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, don't you dare complain about how we live in a world filled with computers and yet so many of them are essentially just black boxes that may or may not be doing nefarious things under the hood. That is actually a very dangerous situation and you're extremely short-sighted if you think the probl...
[21:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 2026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:18] <exec> 08└─No. The license determines what one can do with the software code, thus the license is what one uses to make that determination. The reason the license was chosen makes no difference whatsoever. RMS likes "free software" as in GPL2, GPL3 because the user can see the code, modify the code, and be he...
[21:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:20] <exec> 08└─Depends on the intended circle of users. The GUI of Photoshop is complex enough to repel most grannies, and still it is good and efficient in hands of a professional.
[21:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:22] <exec> 08└─It's worse than that, it's Un-American Communism(TM).
[21:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:24] <exec> 08└─Any technology that is mere decades old compared to centuries or millenia old really is new. Even the word technology hails from Ancient Greek, that is from 9000 BCE. This newness of computers is reflected by the poor understanding of them by politicians and the general public. To the vast majority...
[21:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:27] <exec> 08└─Without having to have any understanding of how it works behind the scenes. Basically they want the Wizard of Oz, without having to poke their head behind the curtains to see how he does his job. The majority of people are lazy, but the majority of people have enough money to override the will of th...
[21:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:29] <exec> 08└─Probably, but define sane. I believe sanity is based on frame of reference. My sanity is probably not the same as yours. But I could write books on my sanity (or lack there of, if based on your reference)
[21:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, somehow government-granted monopolies are considered an example of the free market by some people.
[21:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:33] <exec> 08└─Although Linux is under the GPL, because Linus does not enforce it, in practice the kernel may as well be under the BSD license, or public domain. First he didn't care about binary drivers, which may have been good at the beginning to help gain acceptance of the kernel, but today it's counterproduct...
[21:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:36] <exec> 08└─Then define your perfect world and government and make it happen.
[21:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:49] <exec> 08└─Is this any different than a company running ads on college campuses? Age discrimination would be refusing applicants who don't match their criteria, running advertisements for specific groups is just trying to attract that group to the job posting
[21:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:50] <exec> 08└─Companies discriminate this way because they can substantially narrow the demographics for a position and still find plenty of qualified candidates. Facebook, Verizon, and so forth wouldn't do this if they had a hell of a time finding qualified employees at prices they're willing to pay. I don't kno...
[21:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:53] <exec> 08└─If the candidates they aren't interested in still had a means of seeing the ad, i.e. it is not expressly hidden from them, then there would be no difference. But good luck trying to see something on the FB that you're not supposed to see... So yes, this is discrimination!
[21:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:55] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is the Myth of the Rockstar Developer. People outside of a certain age group (or demographic, to make it more generic) certainly aren't "Rockstar Developers" anymore and never will be. We only want these rockstars to work for us because we are rockstars too, and we only mingle with o...
[21:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, I am from 2000 years in the future trying to unravel some mysteries. From the ancient sacred book of Walmart, it states that "Frosty" Olaf the snowman came to life to battle the evil anti-consumerism Jesus. But in the battle he killed Kenny and became a bastard. Who exactly was this Kenny? I pr...
[21:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:34] <exec> 08└─This AC's ideas need to be published in all the atheist's publications. Maybe we can get him some talking time at the universities as well. That old saying, "nature abhors a vacuum" is bullshit, because there's a helluva lot of vacuum in this universe. But mankind certainly abhors a vacuum. Leaders...
[21:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:36] <exec> 08└─As a part-time "sound guy" I'll tell you the reasons for loudness are almost infinite. Sometimes it's up to me, sometimes someone is telling me what to do, sometimes due to other factors explained below. I've done shows where some dude tells me he's the "big boss" and I'm ordered to make it louder....
[21:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:38] <exec> 08└─I guess I can get away with stuff, because I'm expected to be anywhere at anytime. Our place doesn't pipe music, but we have PA speakers. The damned things blared like they were competing for decibels at a football stadium. I figured out how to turn most of them down, turn a couple off - and one I j...
[21:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/TV-B-Gone-Universal-TV-Control-Keychain/dp/B0006GD9CE [amazon.com] Problem solved.
[21:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:15] <exec> 08└─Whether profit or loss at $35K, each model including a 3% "don't be a colonial asshole" tax should have minimal net impact on sales (some loss due to increased price, some gain due to feel-good PR), but _could_ change behavior of the mine operators. I'm not suggesting that the miners themselves will...
[21:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:16] <exec> 08└─See below, it's not about handouts, it's about giving business to businesses that don't send children to die for the chance at a days' wages. And, with any luck, continuing to improve the workers' conditions by continuing to select the mines that offer the best conditions to their workers - making t...
[21:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:41] <exec> 08└─Welp team, good effort, but we couldn't fully infiltrate and destroy from within. Move on to demonize. Kick out some pseudo-scientific "social sciences" papers about how gamers are mean boys who just need to grow up and conform to our wishes and desires. They cannot control their demonic, anti-socia...
[21:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 2030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe rather than creating all these new addictions, they should start looking at the root cause. Most (not all!) addictions are caused by stress in life. As a result of said stress people find outlets. Some of these outlets are recreational drugs (booze, cigs, caffeine, marijuana all go here, as we...
[21:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:45] <exec> 08└─A lot of families no longer have 'community building' because some or all of the family members are trying to one up each other, or take what they can from others. I was just having a long discussion with a family member about this. While rows between family members have always happened, usually the...
[21:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:28] <exec> 08└─Most of Linux has jumped the shark. Stick with Void, Slackware, Artix, Gentoo if you have the time and patience, or even jump ship to one of the *BSDs. Computers are hard and expecting a hand-holding solution with all the bells and whistles up front is a fool's game...especially from a corporation....
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─If sites go to the trouble to flow text into columns of reasonable width, that's fantastic! I absolutely agree that it's more pleasant to read large chunks of text in 80-column format. That said, for what's commonly a single paragraph, I, personally, much prefer to get the full use out of the width...
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, I know precisely how abnormal I am, and I am *proud* of it. Have you seen what passes for normal these days? You're way more "normal" than me in social terms in at least half a dozen ways I can count, not least of which is your complete unthinking instinctual selfishness. Keep 'em coming, Runawa...
[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kiss of Death for Prostate Cancer - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying that asocial assholes are "normal" these days? Or, are they merely more normal than you?
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[22:17:51] <exec> 08└─Well, we'll fix that, won't we.
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─I ragged on you whole lot, but you are manning the station when, I assume, everyone is off for the holidays. Thumb up. Credit where it's due, and happy holidays to you and your family.
[22:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:54] <exec> 08└─In same sex relationships, it is likelier (though not a given) that there are no children and both partners are working. That means more money and, therefore, fewer fights over money. Financial issues are one of the greatest causes of marital friction. Lessen those and you will have happier marriage...
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:56] <exec> 08└─if your relationship takes effort, just to appear in public, dealing with discriminatory sh!t from homophobes just for being yourself, it makes sense that you are, effectively, not taking your relationship or your partner for granted.
[22:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:59] <exec> 08└─Researchers Francisco Perales and Janeen Baxter said that the conclusion of their study is a strong counter-narrative to the usual thinking that same-sex relationships are conflictual, unhappy, and dysfunctional.
[22:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:29] <exec> 08└─Well . . . yeah . . . but - if people WERE educated enough to understand how they are being led by the nose - don't you think they would object to having a ring in their noses? Look at politics. It has taken many years of mindless brainwashing to re-educate our population into two factions. The soft...
[22:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:30] <exec> 08└─How do you make "perfect" happen? Perhaps a philosopher could explain?
[22:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:32] <exec> 08└─It needs to make sense to a graphics professional because it is well designed for a graphics professional though, not necessarily to someone who is a professional user of that specific software, which just means they're used to the bad UI. I see a lot of people confuse the concepts. Case in point: D...
[22:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:35] <exec> 08└─My wife is considered the 'tech' person at her school because she knows enough to wiggle or push in the mouse connection to the computer if the mouse stops working.....but ask her to open up a tab in her browser and wtf? She still uses the click the link then click the back button to go forwards and...
[22:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:37] <exec> 08└─show them the articles on some of the Business Software Alliance raids Some examples of bullying by proprietary software vendors and their proxies: Ernie Ball, Inc Had To Pay $100000 In Penalties After "Buying" Proprietary Software [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [active-technologies.com] (An unannou...
[22:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 845 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:46] <exec> 08└─Discrimination based on anything at all. Facebook has demonstrated that they can discriminate based on criteria that they approve of. The exact same technology can discriminate against Jews, Asians, White, Black, aboriginals, gays, Christians, short people, tall people, fat people, on and on and on...
[22:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:57] <exec> 08└─There have always been job openings for fresh college graduates. How is this any different? So it's ok to have openings for people 1 year out of college, but not 15 years?
[22:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:39] <exec> 08└─Black hat makes people walk into walls *really* black hat makes people walk under buses. Grey hat makes people walk into their store..
[22:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:42] <exec> 08└─Or maybe people just like playing video games. What's wrong with that?
[22:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:44] <exec> 08└─If you are gaming it is making up for something missing in your normal life
[22:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:29] <exec> 08└─At first I was curious how you came up with that odd list, but then it hit me right away: all your nominations do not use systemd. Good list. Though perhaps Devuan should be named too.
[22:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gift-Wrapped Manure Causes Bomb Scare at Steven Mnuchin's House - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:38] <exec> 08└─it's a lot safer and profitable to prey on the weak or servile.
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[23:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:00] <exec> 08└─Can we all say "Propaganda"? Thought so. Remember kids, what is Law #1 of SJWs? This isn't even a hard call, we can believe this improbable propaganda claiming that busted, dysfunctional people suddenly flip their statistical tendency toward shortened lives and horrible ends by getting "fake married...
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─Excellent insight and I think this is likely one of the reasons. I've been down that road myself: financial issues are indeed relationship-killers. For that reason, I think it's best if no one has any children, because they're a financial drain and a huge risk. Instead, the society depicted in Aldou...
[23:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:03] <exec> 08└─Depends on who you ask. If you ask the conservative and religious types, they'll usually repeat this claim, because they're desperate to "preserve the sanctity of marriage" and thus they need to convince people that only monogamous, religious-based marriages can possibly make people happy.
[23:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:05] <exec> 08└─Plus, no homosexual marriage has been a shotgun wedding, so they're less likely to be in a committed relationship for the wrong reason.
[23:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:08] <exec> 08└─Study obviously rebuttaled. Just look at jmorris. Definitely not happy. Guess he should have married a SJW, variety is the spice of life, they say!
[23:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:10] <exec> 08└─no homosexual marriage has been a shotgun wedding
[23:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 1421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:12] <exec> 08└─Raising children well is one of the most difficult and demanding jobs in the world. Not only does it cost a lot of money and stress, but the pay off is almost entirely emotional, especially in modern society where the elderly are near-disposed of. If we are considering child-rearing a full-time job...
[23:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:15] <exec> 08└─What is it that a man/man or woman/woman (of any sexual orientation) find in each other in different kinds of relationships -- acquaintance, friend, buddy, comrade, partner, lover? And similarly for woman/man? I bet it ranges widely but clusters differentially at least in some areas, possibly also b...
[23:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:17] <exec> 08└─Most of the time I never hear about personal happiness from those types, I hear about "right" and "wrong," "right" often being the more difficult option of the two.
[23:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:52] <exec> 08└─Instead of saying it's flat out illegal, say everything has a price. If the client is willing to pay billions of dollars to acquire a controlling stake in the publisher of the relevant piece of proprietary software, it's not illegal. So quote the client the publisher's market capitalization as part...
[23:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─"Would you buy a house without its blueprints?" "Of course not." "Then why do you buy an app without its source code?" "Imagine if there were only one plumber or electrician legally allowed to work on your house. Now imagine that plumber or electrician going out of business. Now what do you do?"
[23:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:56] <exec> 08└─I was talking to the medical tech who runs the periodic check on my pacemaker and the subject of what FOSS is came up. I gave him the example of the guy who bought a "bargain" monitor then found that his video card didn't support that resolution out of the box. With EULAware, he would have been SOL...
[23:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:58] <exec> 08└─Yup. I've got an item in the Pending Stories queue about Cadsoft EAGLE. ISTM that it was first developed under DOS. It has a noun-verb UI (where Windoze and other modern GUIs have a verb-noun syntax). New users find EAGLE to be bass-ackwards. Folks who have used it for a while have gotten used to it...
[23:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:59] <exec> 08└─Did the guy who runs the realDonaldTrump account here forget to log in?
[23:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was a contractor, and this was during the depression of the early 2000s. I ended getting fired anyway after refusing to leave (unpaid) after four hours of work to come back in the evening for another four hours.
[23:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:03] <exec> 08└─I honestly want to get high with the dude behind the account and pick their brain. With a spoon of course, because I'll be doing bath salts. Or just plain weed. We'll see.
[23:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:05] <exec> 08└─>Just wait until VR reaches its first billion users. That will be the beginning of the Matrix. FTFY.
[23:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:07] <exec> 08└─All that spelling and grammar is nonsense. Just look at Donald Trump. Very good with words. Uses few words and gets his point across. He is the president. How could he have bad grammar and get that job? He couldn't if he were dumb. He is a billionaire. Billionaires are smart people. Believe me, I kn...
[23:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:44] <exec> 08└─I await your socially conscious ideas to give these children gainful employment. /snarc
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