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[00:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:53] <exec> 08└─There's a narrow street like that near my workplace, that was recently turned into a traffic jam escape route by real-time satnav apps. The street has been closed off to non-resident traffic and marked as such in the online maps (and for the obstinate drivers who know the area and still use it, the...
[00:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:54] <exec> 08└─Several years ago, on vacation in Blowing Rock, NC (a mountain village in Pisgah National Forest), I left my motel hungry, trusting the GPS to find me food. It did so, but at one point, it took me down what was basically a single-lane driveway that connected to different roads on each end of a small...
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:56] <exec> 08└─This is what a "smart" city looks like. Once you give decision making to algorithms, you'll get stupid unintentional and emergent behaviours, that human intuition would have excluded. 10x worse when you throw in machine learning, which will always have artefacts in its pattern recognition. It's goin...
[00:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:59] <exec> 08└─we're happy, and so are the locals because we don't make any noise. Must be some unique demographic, because most Americans absolutely despise cyclists, believing them to be some kind of insult to their religion, which says that people who God loves the most drive the biggest SUVs they can find.
[00:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:01] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is that the civil engineering utterly failed, otherwise the nav apps *would* route the traffic on the main thoroughfares instead of these tiny residential roads. Either the main roads are so poorly placed that driving through some slow-ass residential road is faster (which it shouldn...
[00:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:22] <exec> 08└─BLT?
[00:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:23] <exec> 08└─Men want sex, sex, sex Women want conversation, cuddling, a listener. Gay guys get sex Lesbians get conversation, cuddling, a listener. What's so hard to figure out?
[00:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:26] <exec> 08└─I am dubious about this study, because... car analogy time. An interesting conversation I had with a car repairman was about the satisfaction people communicated about costly, mercedes class, cars. He posited that luxury cars have their share of problems, but buyers, having invested a lot in the car...
[00:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 1738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:28] <exec> 08└─With straight marriages there have also been a historical expectation. Whether to get married in spite of affection for the person, or to rush said marriage and get to having kids so your parents could have grandchildren. Take either or both of those out of the equation and there is a lot more room...
[00:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:30] <exec> 08└─What's so hard to figure out?
[00:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:32] <exec> 08└─It says usual thinking. What you're talking about it doesn't involve any thinking.
[00:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:11] <exec> 08└─Microsoft refers to a lot of their software as "open source" The correct term is "open core". In order to run their "open" stuff, you will need to pay M$ for -something-. Typically, that's a Windoze license at a minimum. ...and any time you go to get their "open" stuff, take note of the PATENTS.TXT...
[00:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:13] <exec> 08└─At the time when much of the kernel was developed, GPLv3 didn't exist. In order to change to GPLv3, he would have to get the consent of EVERYONE who contributed code--or rewrite that code. Stallman is an ideolog. Torvalds is a pragmatist. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:15] <exec> 08└─Or he could have done what almost everyone writing GPL software did (and still does), which is license under GPL 2 or newer. Instead he chose GPL 2 only.
[00:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:17] <exec> 08└─In order to get a copyright, shouldn't you have to publish that work? ...or at least make that text available to all? sane [...] patent terms The terms are quite clear: If a 7 year old could come up with the same process, what you have done (1-click) is not patentable. The problem is the revolving-d...
[00:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:19] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what you're on about. I don't think you do either. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:38] <exec> 08└─Your first observations is correct. And, back in the day when job openenings were either word of mouth, or in print, it was perfectly acceptable to post job openings at the college, especially in the spring. This is different, because the job openings were targeted at a specific demographic - and th...
[00:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:27] <exec> 08└─True story: Many years ago, before my tenure, our facilities manager thought it would be a great idea to play christmas music over the loud speakers. So they hooked a radio tuner to the PA amp and mixed in the christmas music. Well, the only thing our senior engineer hateed more than the beatles is...
[00:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:29] <exec> 08└─Likewise, for years. It wasn't too loud, but one day a tune began running through my head -- and that tune came up next on the Muzak. OK, coincidence...but not long after, it happened again. Over the next week or so, it became obvious that I was imprinted with the song rotation. Creepy.
[00:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:31] <exec> 08└─Most atheists, myself excluded, make no significant effort to oppose horrible religions. If anything, they enable such religions by putting most effort toward opposing popular mild religions like Christianity.
[00:20:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 1542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:48] <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...
[00:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─...and this has what to do with my post and the summary?
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[01:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:57] <exec> 08└─I was about to submit this myself before I noticed Fnord beat me to it. Newsweek clickbaited the headline to what I'm sure will be hilarious effect but the story looks solid. Here are some choice bits from the original source: In the Seattle area, brothels even advertise their proximity to Microsoft...
[01:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:58] <exec> 08└─Some seem's
[01:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:00] <exec> 08└─Here all this time I thought it was us normal users getting fucked, and having to pay for it too.
[01:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─$50,000 per year on sex workers is immoral. Get a Ferrari, Lambo, whatever. That gives you pussy AND you can have fun driving, too. Of course some of these guys are responsible for windows 10 so I don't expect good judgment from them.
[01:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─It's not stupid. What's stupid is the decisions made by humans in the city governments; if it weren't for their mismanagement, we wouldn't have most of these traffic problems. You seem to be assuming that humans are capable of better decisions than algorithms. Where did you get this crazy idea? What...
[01:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:16] <exec> 08└─Is there some kind of college degree needed to get onto city council
[01:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:18] <exec> 08└─The answer probably is that there are good - rich areas where taxes built good roads - and poor bad ones. Similar to schools.
[01:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:44] <exec> 08└─Just to add to you excellent comment, it used to be that one - man's - income was enough for a family of four. The income, which did not change much, is still counted for this model family while it takes two to earn the money. That's the whole explanation to why modern families are more miserable.
[01:19:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ramze [6029] 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 2026 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:06] <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...
[01:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:30] <exec> 08└─One big problem with the Free Software movement is the quality of the software and the design choices made. I think GNOME 3 epitomizes this problem, and the lack of adoption of Linux on the desktop can be directly traced to this DE.
[01:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:50] <exec> 08└─This really just exposes the fundamental problem with targeted ads. Targeted ads are discriminatory ads. Can you imagine if we had this tech in 1900? You’d have agencies targeting every minor race based on stereotypes. Doesn’t matter that it wouldn’t be the most effective strategy; they’d do...
[01:20:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 1806 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:30] <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....
[01:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:42] <exec> 08└─Brew your own coffee at home or in the office, take it with you in a leak-proof travel mug. Then you don't need to go to the coffee shop and hear their music. If you must buy coffee there, take it in a paper cup and go sit in a place called, "outside." There are parks with benches for that purpose....
[01:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:44] <exec> 08└─Your comment is a good example of Trump's stream-of-consciousness(??) word salad. Short sentences. No words longer than 3 syllables. Use the same words over and over. Donald Trump Has The Vocabulary & Grammar Of A 4th Grader and He Hates Reading [alternet.org] Former Wharton Professor William T. Kel...
[01:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:46] <exec> 08└─If you haven't yet experienced it, you'd get a charge out of a performance/demonstration by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, [google.com] featured in What Would Jesus Buy? [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:23] <exec> 08└─That's another excellent example. Should we all make ablutions and say prayers of forgiveness every time we cause electrons to race around and do work for us in our computers and appliances and lights, because they're driven by the agony of coal miners the world over? (We very well could, because co...
[01:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:25] <exec> 08└─It depends what level you want to live at. The closer to the bleeding edge of technology and convenience you want to live, the more compromises you'll have to make. That stands to reason. But most of us can be much more independent, DIY, than we've been taught to believe we can be. In the Golden Age...
[01:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side Of The Electric Car Revolution - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:27] <exec> 08└─That's how to do it if you don't want to bother with animal husbandry. In many parts of the world in the past, and now, people build fish traps or weirs and bait them. Easy protein. My mother gets a dozen deer in her yard because she puts out oats; she does it because she loves seeing them and the p...
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:12] <exec> 08└─Car companies wanted to sell vehicles with bad mileage (great for gas consumption)
[01:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:44] <exec> 08└─This is great news. I'll make use of these sites for sure!
[01:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: tar and curl Support is Coming - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:22] <exec> 08└─I have not upgraded any Windows machine to that spyware infested Windows 10. I will put Linux on them first.
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[02:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─Use your big words, bro.
[02:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:06] <exec> 08└─Between 0.1% and 0.2% of Microsoft employees in Seattle used company email to solicit prostitutes. An unknown percentage of those prostitutes were trafficked. From these two questionable numbers, the conclusion? the tech industry is a "culture that has readily embraced trafficking." Actually, those...
[02:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─It is a non harmful activity by consenting adults. Like pot, just legalize it, tax it and regulate it. That solves most of the problems associated with illegal prostitution like human trafficking, women getting robbed who cannot go to police, women who get beaten / being 'pimped', sickness without g...
[02:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─Well, here's an industry-specific data point [theonion.com].
[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:12] <exec> 08└─It's wrong because it's illegal. You need to decriminalize the most of the wholesome aspects.
[02:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:27] <exec> 08└─Closed to Non-Residents means it has become a private street, and the residents then become responsible for maintenance, repaving, etc. You have a traffic problem because you have inadequate traffic control devices. Or your city allowed a sub standard street to be built. Put in stop lights that make...
[02:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:28] <exec> 08└─He said it was a single lane driveway. That would suggest it was not a public street. So you can't blame the city engineers. Lazy or cloud Mapping companies, perhaps? Waze was famous for this, because one guy would find this route and report it, and that's all it took. Originally nobody even checked...
[02:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:31] <exec> 08└─And, what if I'm there to visit one of residents? What if a delivery goes there? The police may or may not believe you — which has near-100% correlation with whether they're currently prowling for fines (even if your host is there to defend you, the cop will quote letter of the law). Also, if such...
[02:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:33] <exec> 08└─If cyclists had their own lane, where they can separately go a third of the speed of normal traffic, and they also followed the same laws then I'd have no issues coexisting with them. But they seem to want it both ways. They want to be permitted on automotive roads but don't want to follow the same...
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:35] <exec> 08└─Those residents pay taxes to build roads too. They may not have even voted to change the rules. It may be that the extra services to deal with the inevitable accidents were costing the local government more such that this particular mitigation effort simply returns things to the status quo. You seem...
[02:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:37] <exec> 08└─Europe has had this policy for decades. Streets that provided a shortcut path were walled off in strategic places, or signed with "No powered vehicles" + "except residents" signs that provided enforcability. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic would be let through the walls. Later on, streets that couldn...
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[02:18:48] <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...
[02:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:06] <exec> 08└─I expect it's at least partially because lesbians are quite a bit more likely to either be on the giving or receiving end of domestic violence. Kind of puts a lie to the rosy picture painted in this study.
[02:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:08] <exec> 08└─I expect it's at least partially because. . .
[02:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:54] <exec> 08└─One of the problems with "or newer" licensing is that you have no control over what that might be. There's absolutely nothing stopping Stallman (or whoever it is that has the authority to update the GPL) from releasing GPL v666, aka "everything belongs to me now and I can do whatever I want with it"...
[02:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:10] <exec> 08└─I'm an atheist, but damn it, I acknowledge that Christianity is the bedrock of western civilization.
[02:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:11] <exec> 08└─Christianity is the bedrock of western civilization Actually, the foundation of all civilization is superstition nonsense. The latest installment of The Jimmy Dore Show traces Christmas and Santa Claus from an ancient pagan holiday to the modern conglomeration of myths and commercial nonsense. ~35 p...
[02:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:13] <exec> 08└─Did they have a license to do that? ASCAP/BMI gets pissed if you don't pay them. Years ago, after dance class, a group of us would go to a local coffee shop. The place was a local hole in the wall startup. They played recorded background music. One week, we came in and the recorded music was off. In...
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[02:21:15] <exec> 08└─Most places that have speakers in the ceiling also use that as a public address system. ...and if you did want to disable a speaker, most ceilings use removable tiles. Lifting the tile and disconnecting the speaker|snipping the wire would be even more effective without costing anyone a cent in repla...
[02:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:18] <exec> 08└─What's the outside temperature in NYC right now? Brew your own coffee It seems so obvious. The cost of 2 trips to the coffee shop should pay for a thermos. ...and the stuff should still be hot for your afternoon break. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─The number one problem in society is not internal politics. It’s how you deal with outsiders. And this guy seems to have thrown his hands up in the air and said “Immigrants? What immigrants? It’s not like anybody will want in on my perfect society!” Without a plan for dealing with this funda...
[02:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Text-Only News Sites Are Slowly Making a Comeback - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:17] <exec> 08└─I see that https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] is still functional. I wonder if that is buried anywhere in the public slashcode. I remember using that for a brief period on a Nintendo DS with the Opera Browser card [wikipedia.org] (complete with 8MB expansion pack) when both my laptop and deskt...
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[03:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:53] <exec> 08└─I figured it was just a cycle like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:55] <exec> 08└─Is the climate model really the issue? Isn't it more like there is no real sense of distance, time and space in the show. People move by the blink of an eye (or cut of a scene) seemingly since we don't know how much time really passes from one end of the world to the next. So they sitting around chi...
[03:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:57] <exec> 08└─Me too!
[03:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not an astrophysicist, so I'd love to hear a theory from one of them, but in my opinion, there's two important points here: George RR Martin seems to me to be a little bit sloppy with a lot of more-technical things; for instance, he obviously didn't think that much about the languages in this fa...
[03:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/07/20/game-of-thrones-home-world-could-actually-exist-says-science/ [forbes.com]
[03:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─They do attempt to portray journeys as taking quite some time, they just don't show it much. When Eddard and Co. traveled from Winterfell to King's Landing in season 1, I'm pretty sure they explicitly said it would take a couple weeks or something like that, and they showed the incident with Hound k...
[03:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:06] <exec> 08└─This post shows why we need a new -1 mod, for "uses mobile Wikipedia link". Stop doing that; it's fucking annoying.
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─Actually, another solution, since the source code is well within the control of the mods, might be to simply automatically alter any Wikipedia links to eliminate that fucking ".m".
[03:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:10] <exec> 08└─Tolkien didnt invent languages for his stories, he invented stories for his languages because no one would care about them otherwise. The stories were an afterthought.
[03:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:26] <exec> 08└─criminal enforcement activity related to a brother engaged in prostitution.
[03:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:27] <exec> 08└─Child Pornography on the Internet [warplife.com] "We have our own orphanage!" -- Russian kiddieporn site
[03:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:30] <exec> 08└─A protected class of illegal immigrants, since otherwise they are looking at getting deported, in some cases back to countries or debts which will just see them shipped off to some other worse country than the US to 'pay back their debt'. Having said that, prostitution definitely needs to get legali...
[03:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:32] <exec> 08└─The tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny
[03:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:34] <exec> 08└─Free is almost always more expensive.
[03:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:36] <exec> 08└─It's ok to group all people in the tech industry, but not ok to group people by religion, gender, sexual identity/orientation, race. Why do people continue to think that painting broad strokes on any group is bound to get it wrong?
[03:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:38] <exec> 08└─"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." This sword cuts both ways. Ultimately, trying to remove CP from the Internet is unfeasible, it will always be there unless we are willing to destroy the Internet by giving absolute control of our digital lives to the powers that be.
[03:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:41] <exec> 08└─Interesting too that many of the high flying rockstar tech bros at M$ and Amazon can't get free nookie.
[03:18:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 1238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:50] <exec> 08└─Several years ago, on vacation in Blowing Rock, NC (a mountain village in Pisgah National Forest), I left my motel hungry, trusting the GPS to find me food. It did so, but at one point, it took me down what was basically a single-lane driveway that connected to different roads on each end of a small...
[03:18:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:53] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is that the civil engineering utterly failed, otherwise the nav apps *would* route the traffic on the main thoroughfares instead of these tiny residential roads. Either the main roads are so poorly placed that driving through some slow-ass residential road is faster (which it shouldn...
[03:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:05] <exec> 08└─the main roads are so poorly placed
[03:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 3950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:07] <exec> 08└─If cyclists had their own lane, where they can separately go a third of the speed of normal traffic, and they also followed the same laws then I'd have no issues coexisting with them. I'm sure 99.9% of the cyclists would love this too. But they seem to want it both ways. They want to be permitted on...
[03:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:09] <exec> 08└─The answer probably is that there are good - rich areas where taxes built good roads - and poor bad ones. Similar to schools. Honestly, I doubt this. Money isn't a guarantee of competence. Places with local governments with more money have more resources to take advantage of, true, but that doesn't...
[03:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:39] <exec> 08└─Like Saw, but I gotta dig the key out of my dick? Ouuuuuch!
[03:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:41] <exec> 08└─I've asked. Religious types say things like "It's a sin" or "It's against God's plan" or "The Bible says that it's an outward sign of inner corruption" or whatever else. Conservatives usually talk about "traditional Judeo-Christian values," which is the same thing. But they'll also talk about "norma...
[03:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:28] <exec> 08└─I understand quite well. As for you, I've already explained it. If you can't figure it out from that, you aren't trying.
[03:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:30] <exec> 08└─There is that risk, but it's pretty minor in practice. First, the FSF is about as trustworthy as you can get. But even if they turn evil at some point, it's not really a big problem for a living project. Suppose GPL3 is the last good version, and GPL4 is evil. You could just license all new code und...
[03:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:50] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're doing higher-class gigs than the ones I had in mind: My experience has been more with bar gigs and such, where I've had to work with sound people who literally could not hear my instrument acoustically, at all.
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side of the Electric Car Revolution - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─My neighbors put out corn, we've got a regular herd of about 9 does and 3-4 bucks that come through several times a week. There are also 100 houses in the neighborhood, and 400 houses in the next neighborhood over - probably 3-4000 houses in the deer's range, so... if everyone takes one doe as neede...
[03:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:46] <exec> 08└─NO. It asks the question. It poses the question. It presents the question. It does NOT beg the question. "Windoze is the most secure operating system." (No evidence presented.) Later: "So, as Microsoft makes the most secure operating system..." THAT is begging the question. [wikipedia.org] -- Origin...
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[04:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:09] <exec> 08└─That's very interesting, but the problem with that is that the characters never talk about the huge gas giant and its companion planet taking up much of their sky, and they're never shown on-camera even though they'd be impossible to miss. Perhaps the planet is tidally-locked to the binary pair (tho...
[04:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:10] <exec> 08└─Not sure why this got modded funny. This is what he says in the preface.
[04:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:35] <exec> 08└─“She’s as close to perfect as I think they get made,” one man said, describing one of the Korean women. “Right after K-girls, I’ve always had this thing for Eastern Europeans,” another said. “Like Czech, Hungarian, anyone from a war-torn country. Anything with ‘will work for food.’...
[04:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:36] <exec> 08└─If you're searching for kiddieporn at bing it suggested ten or so alternative keywords for each keyword you search for. Try searching google for kiddieporn at google it won't offer any suggestions at all.
[04:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:38] <exec> 08└─It is a non harmful activity by consenting adults. Because the religious nuts in this country don't believe this, and think it's morally wrong and must therefore be banned.
[04:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:40] <exec> 08└─The tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny, but a recent Newsweek report highlights another problem.
[04:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:43] <exec> 08└─Microsoft employees are people too (crazy, I know) What? That's total bullshit. The beings that came up with Windows 8/10 cannot be classified as "human". (Or if they are, then that really means that humans are a horrible species that deserves eradication.)
[04:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:45] <exec> 08└─The world's oldest profession meets the youngest. Sex has always been a transaction, and tech people might grasp that.
[04:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:47] <exec> 08└─If you truly think sex is nothing but a transaction, I pity you immensely. That kind of zero-sum thinking is corrosive to the soul.
[04:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:49] <exec> 08└─It's illegal because people don't typically choose to go into prostitution. This whole happy hooker libertarian bullshit needs to die. Seattle stopped prosecuting prostitutes years ago and focuses all attention on the Johns, pimps and others involved in the exploitation of prostitutes. Situations li...
[04:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:52] <exec> 08└─Hey, come on. Flatworms can be people too!
[04:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:15] <exec> 08└─I love cyclists. They're worth 75 points! [youtube.com]
[04:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:17] <exec> 08└─Blowing Rock? Was the city founded by crackheads?
[04:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:50] <exec> 08└─He's not wrong actually. We have the highest reported rate of domestic violence, though honestly I suspect it's higher among gay men but they simply don't dare report it. I had an abusive ex, though to be fair she's bisexual, not lesbian. I've made it a point only to date rock-solid gold-star lesbia...
[04:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:51] <exec> 08└─Women want sex too, don't be fooled. Some of us have "manly" sex drives. No, not me, but I do want it a couple of times a week minimum. It's just not polite or "ladylike" to mention, you see. I've been told, BY a man, that men are much less complicated about sex, that it all happens in one place and...
[04:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:53] <exec> 08└─"Purely geometric reasons." That's almost cute, Bot. This will probably come as a massive unexpected double-free fault to you, but most women don't rank intercourse or other penetrative sex anywhere near the top. Expound all you want on form following function or, heaven help us, "telos," but it won...
[04:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:56] <exec> 08└─A deeply flawed text. Hundreds of examples of self-contradictory nonsense. Bible Inconsistencies - Bible Contradictions [infidels.org] This stuff was known LONG ago. Self-Contradictions of the Bible -- William Henry Burr, 1819-1908 [google.com] If somebody gave you a Science textbook filled with so...
[04:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:58] <exec> 08└─it all happens in one place Supporting diagram. [blogdailyherald.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 1399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:07] <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...
[04:20:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:35] <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?"
[04:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:48] <exec> 08└─"Computer programs without the code is like a car where you aren't allowed to lift the hood for any reason, and could be sued if you tried to tinker with anything. Even if the problem was that your car was busted and you needed to fix it." An interesting point is that one population that understands...
[04:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, the risk is not of code being locked up, but of code appropriation. And it is true that there are currently outstanding cases of illegal code appropriation - but unlike the case of "evil GPL" the distribution of such programs are in fact ongoing crimes, and it is almost certain that the source...
[04:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:11] <exec> 08└─Yea, they used a local radio station as music on hold when I first got there. Got them to switch to Muzak for hold music and then they had a service make a custom recorded voice over talking about the company with prerecorded music. Looks like a little car stereo amp with a thumb drive plugged into...
[04:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side of the Electric Car Revolution - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:53] <exec> 08└─Our grocery store charges nearly 100% premium for "feel good" products, sometimes more. Regular milk: $3.79/gallon, Organic: $6.99 Regular eggs, somewhere around $1.29 a dozen, Cage Free: $2.50 all the way up to $4.79 per dozen. Grass fed beef is one of the bargains at $7.99/lb while equivalent grou...
[04:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─There's something about Debian, and therefore Devuan, that just really puts me off about it. The package manager output is ugly as sin, apt at the commandline is flabby and ugly and verbose, things feel like they take way too long, and there's the same weird feeling of "We know what's best" I get fr...
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[05:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Reel Shows CG Tricks Behind Bleak Landscapes - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:00] <exec> 08└─It's not shocking that some scenes are entirely CG
[05:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:18] <exec> 08└─You don't think the great man ever made a funny?
[05:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:20] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_stream [wikipedia.org] https://phys.org [phys.org] http://www.redorbit.com [redorbit.com] Although, this suggest other possibilities like mountain formation...
[05:18:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:45] <exec> 08└─“She’s as close to perfect as I think they get made,” one man said, describing one of the Korean women. “Right after K-girls, I’ve always had this thing for Eastern Europeans,” another said. “Like Czech, Hungarian, anyone from a war-torn country. Anything with ‘will work for food.’...
[05:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:54] <exec> 08└─Mainly because it's still majority male and tends to pay well. Accusations like this are the ones that feminists used to chase men out of primary and secondary education.
[05:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:56] <exec> 08└─It's illegal because people don't typically choose to go into prostitution.
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[05:19:22] <exec> 08└─The town was named for an adjacent geological feature. Blowing Rock (land feature) [wikipedia.org] The prevailing wind blows through the gorge toward Blowing Rock. There, at the end of the gorge, the wind's path of least resistance is up the steep slopes surmounted by the outcropping, resulting in a...
[05:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:24] <exec> 08└─The ultimate answer is exactly what you yourself said in your first line: give cyclists their own lane, or better yet their own road.
[05:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:02] <exec> 08└─http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/11/two-income-trap/ [motherjones.com] "Middle-class parents are stretched thin these days. Between health care costs, child care hassles, looking for a home in a good district, and paying for college, raising a child is becoming increasingly expensive. Little...
[05:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:53] <exec> 08└─The correct term is "open core".
[05:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:55] <exec> 08└─One of the problems with "or newer" licensing is that you have no control over what that might be. There's absolutely nothing stopping Stallman (or whoever it is that has the authority to update the GPL) from releasing GPL v666, aka "everything belongs to me now and I can do whatever I want with it"...
[05:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:17] <exec> 08└─> The outside speakers. We got complaints now and then about people trying to sleep. Senior residence next door to my parents used to have an outside PA speaker, in a doorway where the smokers congregated. Woke me up, I called the owner in the middle of the night and woke him up (he didn't have an u...
[05:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:18] <exec> 08└─Ramones, "I Want to be Sedated" was playing on the Muzak(?) when I walked into the grocery store this morning. Does that help to sell food?
[05:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Sheets Could be Used in Bulletproof Vests - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:46] <exec> 08└─People *do* get 'knocked down' or 'knocked over' but not with anything like the frequency and ferocity people that don't understand the third law as it applies to recoil imagine. A jolt which you can easily handle directed into your hand or shoulder when you expect it can still be a very punishing b...
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[05:23:47] <exec> 08└─Buy 1 million vests. Buy 100 million bullets. Shoot shoot shoot!!! Magic tonage of diamond loot! Profit(???) Once around the park James and home.
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[06:17:52] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate freedom?
[06:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:53] <exec> 08└─People have always sought out other people for the sole purpose of sex. Recreational sex. Not exactly the same thing the GP poster said, but there is some truth in what he said, in that FREQUENTLY it is transactional or at least selfish.
[06:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:55] <exec> 08└─One MS employee was even caught using a Mac.
[06:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:57] <exec> 08└─I see that Microsoft offers a superior search engine.
[06:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:25] <exec> 08└─Lazy or cloud Mapping companies, perhaps? Waze was famous for this, because one guy would find this route and report it, and that's all it took. Originally nobody even checked to see if it actually existed. I doubt they have even fixed that yet.
[06:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:26] <exec> 08└─This works pretty well in the country. Put up a big gate, along with cattle bars. Keep a really big, really angry bull on the other side of the gate. Optionally with a few signs reading: NO TRESPASSERS THIS PROPERTY PROTECTED BY SMITH & WESSON NEVER MIND THE DOG, BEWARE OF OWNER The ones stupid enou...
[06:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I'm in it for the music, so I'm cautious / choosy. I don't think I've ever done an actual bar gig. That said, I'd love doing bar gigs for a wide range of music genres, but not the typical rock bar bands. Some of them are pretty good, but life's too short, even if the pay was good. I like mix...
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[06:23:03] <exec> 08└─Honestly, this is a labor issue, and it probably is foolish to expect it to be completely solved by the actions of someone from the investment and entepreneurial class. He can certainly offer some charitable help, but perhaps the best thing he can do is allow folks like the IWW and other labor activ...
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[06:24:22] <exec> 08└─Remember when your OS couldn't fuck up your BIOS or hardware? Those were the days...
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[07:17:55] <exec> 08└─Just a note to the eds, in this holiday season. Seems submissions are sparse. But there are a couple of fine ones by aristarchus! I, for one, would love to see the furry piece on the Mainpage, if only to see a furry piece on the Mainpage. CAD? Proprietary? Lawyers call stuff like this "billable hou...
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[07:18:03] <exec> 08└─I am shocked that the eds are not posting any of the fine submissions by aristarchus. Most of these ones are getting like one, or two, comments. Aristarchus submissions are good for far more comments that that, even at Christmas Holidays time. Just saying.
[07:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:24] <exec> 08└─It is possible, that prior to The Iron Throne, they were ruled by Republicans, who denied science in favor of profit from Petrochemical Corporations and White Wraiths and Khallows, and sent the entire seasonal basis of their planet all akimbo. And gave rise to Dragons. According to the "Reign of F...
[07:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:03] <exec> 08└─But I'm not sure it needs to be legalized in a "free enterprise" mode. Yes, legalize it, but have lots of inspections to ensure that the participants are willing and healthy.
[07:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:04] <exec> 08└─"Or if they are, then that really means that humans are a horrible species that deserves eradication." We're working on it (global warming, nuclear war, and so on).
[07:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, it *is* true that the tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny. Consider who are most of the participants... the guys who couldn't get a date in high school. The ones who were too shy to approach a girl. Those with a tunnel-vision interest in tech that didn't look outside o...
[07:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:36] <exec> 08└─Didn't stop Andrew Sachs, but he paid the price.
[07:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:16] <exec> 08└─Just FYI, 'gold-star' has a particular meaning in that statement (I think). Not sure if 'rock-solid' is also comparable argot.
[07:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:17] <exec> 08└─We have the highest reported rate of domestic violence, though honestly I suspect . . .
[07:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:19] <exec> 08└─What's so hard to figure out?
[07:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:12] <exec> 08└─We're very close to agreeing. You say "available"; I say "mandatory". Without the payware, you can look at the code all you want but it won't be able to actually do anything useful for you. It's the reason that a new term needed to be invented. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:24:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:59] <exec> 08└─If we want the Western world to overcome war, avarice, and poverty, all we need to do is redesign the culture.
[07:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Santa's Reindeer: Missing Facts - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:33] <exec> 08└─...Methane Rose too.
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[08:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:51] <exec> 08└─I just looked out of the window and saw something, I could not identify - an UFO. Now gimme $$$$ to investigate this.
[08:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:53] <exec> 08└─At least the eds are not accepting any of that liberal SJW aristarchus's submission, so instead we get truly interesting and scientific stuff like this, that is news for nerds, and the previously abducted. The probed me, all the way through. They said, I was nothing but meat. [youtube.com]
[08:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 3799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:03] <exec> 08└─MDC: I don't know why they are doing this... The business model they were offering was why I went with EAGLE in the first place. Before then, I was an ardent FutureNet / PADS PCB user. Both of which I have perpetual licenses and operational systems to run same - even to this day, I can still pull...
[08:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Reel Shows CG Tricks Behind Bleak Landscapes - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:13] <exec> 08└─I'm Making America Great Again. Including NASA. With my Space Policy Directive 1. Very soon, NASA is going to be showing a lot of new Moon landings. The best Moon landings this world has ever seen, great production values. They're going to look beautiful, folks. CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, washpost and nyti...
[08:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you haven't actually read a Tolkien story.
[08:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:16] <exec> 08└─People don't typically choose to collect trashcans, or clean sewers. Should we make those jobs illegal as well?
[08:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:17] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the early stone age tribes didn't have a concept of transaction. Yet there's overwhelming evidence that they did have sex (indeed, every single human on earth today is evidence for that).
[08:19:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 3950 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:40] <exec> 08└─If cyclists had their own lane, where they can separately go a third of the speed of normal traffic, and they also followed the same laws then I'd have no issues coexisting with them. I'm sure 99.9% of the cyclists would love this too. But they seem to want it both ways. They want to be permitted on...
[08:20:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:02] <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.
[08:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 1421 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:06] <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...
[08:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 1934 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:12] <exec> 08└─I am dubious about this study, because... car analogy time. An interesting conversation I had with a car repairman was about the satisfaction people communicated about costly, mercedes class, cars. He posited that luxury cars have their share of problems, but buyers, having invested a lot in the car...
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:46] <exec> 08└─Most small bands (ie, one or two singles, maybe an album, some radio play) can't afford a sound guy. Most bars that have that sort of band insist on the house sound guy. Rarely is that guy (yes, always a guy) any good. When a band gets big enough to be able to afford a dedicated sound guy, they also...
[08:24:50] <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
[08:24:50] <exec> 08└─if you suffer from haemophobia... With fuck yous to ubuntu, intel, uefi
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[09:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:56] <exec> 08└─Your dad has prostate cancer and he's going to die soon. Sorry, dude.
[09:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:58] <exec> 08└─But he's a former head of a Pentagon program. That should make him untrustworthy as part of the conspiracy. So we have to conclude that UFOs don't exist. No wait, that's what they want us to think by that move, so they actually do exist. But then, they probably anticipated that conclusion, so this i...
[09:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:00] <exec> 08└─The man doesn't seem to address the issue with much authority. He isn't pointing to any incident, and telling us, "We're sure" or "We're certain that this was an alien spacecraft." It seems to be the same kind of "feeling" that many of us laymen have. To put that feeling into words, "There have been...
[09:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:11] <exec> 08└─Yup. I'm not surprised to see you in this (meta)thread. We've discussed EAGLE and Cadsoft's business model before. [soylentnews.org] Multiple times, in fact. I noted that the original company had invoked an occult DRM mechanism in order to deal with pirates--and made that a collective punishment thi...
[09:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:13] <exec> 08└─Oops. That was in a related page. EAGLE: One Year Later [hackaday.com] 102 comments to date. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:16] <exec> 08└─ECAD - Electronic Computer Aided Design, as opposed to CCAD - Clockwork Computer Aided Design???
[09:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:18] <exec> 08└─I think most people designing clockworks don't need the aid of a computer to do it.
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[09:19:31] <exec> 08└─It's called Cultural Marxism. Pick on a minority group, even if it's a hopelessly unfixable one, and use it against the majority to disrupt and degrade it. In this case, male dominated tech industry. Put a bunch of girls in it and productivity will plummet. Yeah I know politically incorrect but who...
[09:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:32] <exec> 08└─Let's face it. It's Marxism. Feminism is just another kind of Marxism. Ban the fucking commies. Fuckers that they are.
[09:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:34] <exec> 08└─Of course those people are going to have a high level of sexism and misogyny.
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[09:20:46] <exec> 08└─"I've been told, BY a man, that men are much less complicated about sex, that it all happens in one place and emotions don't play much part in it. That's...hard to comprehend, for me. I couldn't ever have sex with someone I don't at least care very much for, if not someone I'm actually in love with....
[09:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:40] <exec> 08└─GUIs have a syntax? How so?
[09:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:42] <exec> 08└─I use tabs a lot, and yet I often do use the click link/back button interface (well, except that instead of using the button, I use the keyboard shortcut). Because in some cases it simply is the most efficient. And in the rare cases where I misjudged and find only afterwards that I want to have both...
[09:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:44] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there are only two possibilities to make something happen: Either you force everyone to comply with it through absolute control, or you try to convince people of it. The first option, even if one actually happens to be able to pull it off, should be off the table for anyone ethic...
[09:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:46] <exec> 08└─In order to get a copyright, shouldn't you have to publish that work?
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[09:24:42] <exec> 08└─Right, you don't just want your armor to prevent the bullet from passing through. You also want the energy the bullet has to be applied over as large an area of your body as possible.
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[10:18:05] <exec> 08└─... the absurdity of the Courts of Law.
[10:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:07] <exec> 08└─Next step, he changes his name to Fox Mulder.
[10:19:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting too that many of the high flying rockstar tech bros at M$ and Amazon can't get free nookie.
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[10:19:38] <exec> 08└─No, it's not Marxism. Karl Marx advocated for a society in which all people have equal standing in society. Modern Feminists advocate for a society where one's standing in society is based on morphological traits, in other words a caste system.
[10:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:10] <exec> 08└─And they wonder why housing is unaffordable and people do not have children.
[10:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 4795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:12] <exec> 08└─> Europe has had this policy for decades. Streets that provided a shortcut path were walled off in strategic places, or signed with "No powered vehicles" + "except residents" signs that provided enforcability. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic would be let through the walls. Where in Europe did you see...
[10:21:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:43] <exec> 08└─"Computer programs without the code is like a car where you aren't allowed to lift the hood for any reason, and could be sued if you tried to tinker with anything. Even if the problem was that your car was busted and you needed to fix it." An interesting point is that one population that understands...
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[11:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:54] <exec> 08└─Russianspaceweb [russianspaceweb.com] has a more detailed, multi-part article that discusses the technical aspects of the satellite, geopolitics surrounding the program, and lotsa pictures.
[11:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:02] <exec> 08└─it will no longer archive every one of our status updates, opinion threads, and "big if true"s
[11:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:16] <exec> 08└─Just a tip: aliens are immune to iocane powder.
[11:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:18] <exec> 08└─So if this has been "proved beyond reasonable doubt" then why can't we see the proof? And who, besides Mr Former Government Man, gets to decide that this is enough proof?
[11:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:20] <exec> 08└─Next step, he changes his name to Fox Mulder.
[11:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:22] <exec> 08└─People have already had the "Aliens are real, folks" by some ex KGB in the nineties and no civil wars erupted (why should they). But there are problems. UFO sightings badly correlate with the amount of personal recording devices available to people. But that can be rationalized, however I don't get...
[11:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:24] <exec> 08└─Given we are on soylentnews, I bet that your UFO sighting is about that thing called "the sun".
[11:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:27] <exec> 08└─Rather than HRC and Trump, most people would have voted Ridley Scott's Alien
[11:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:40] <exec> 08└─As opposed to CAD *for* Electronics. Lots of them already: CADE Computer Aided Document Engineering CADE Computer Aided Design and Engineering CADE Controller/Attitude-Direct Electronics (NASA) CADE Computer-Aided Data Entry CADE [thefreedictionary.com]
[11:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:42] <exec> 08└─cmn32480 is posting today. He is a windows user. 'nuf said.
[11:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Reel Shows CG Tricks Behind Bleak Landscapes - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe they were shut down for the holidays?
[11:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 2532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:14] <exec> 08└─Other than portentious sunrises and sunsets, how many works of fiction set on Earth can you name where the characters have a lengthy discussion about the typical size and colour of the sun, except when it's some end-of-world style plot point? If you're looking to astrophysics for an retconned answer...
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[12:18:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:21] <exec> 08└─Next step, he changes his name to Fox Mulder.
[12:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:25] <exec> 08└─Faux News.
[12:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:27] <exec> 08└─I don't buy it. Yes, there are things flying in the sky that are unidentified, but that doesn't automatically make them aliens from outer space. If they were aliens from outer space that would have huge implications for the laws of physics. Given what we currently know about the laws of Nature, the...
[12:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:43] <exec> 08└─I think most people designing clockworks don't need the aid of a computer to do it.
[12:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 2062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:44] <exec> 08└─I knew, years ago, that there was no decent CAD software that was FOSS. Last time I fooled with AutoCAD was the early 90s, when it was on release/version 12 as I recall. I was stunned by how primitive and awful AutoCAD's user interface was. At start, it showed a top level numbered menu of about 8 op...
[12:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:46] <exec> 08└─FreeCAD. And dont dismiss BrlCAD. Sounds like its too complex for you.
[12:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Reel Shows CG Tricks Behind Bleak Landscapes - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:57] <exec> 08└─Having a lot of comments -- when they're in cyber they're called tweets -- uses up a lot of cyber resources. Cyber currency, which is made from Gigawatts, and cyber space, they call it Terabytes. My Library of Congress was trying to "archive" (steal) the tweets from Twitter, but they don't have the...
[12:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Reel Shows CG Tricks Behind Bleak Landscapes - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:58] <exec> 08└─The original was 'real', and did just fine. Doing it in CG is just laziness.
[12:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:08] <exec> 08└─Even in the stone age, people said to each other: You give me this and I give you that.
[12:20:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 597 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:16] <exec> 08└─There's a narrow street like that near my workplace, that was recently turned into a traffic jam escape route by real-time satnav apps. The street has been closed off to non-resident traffic and marked as such in the online maps (and for the obstinate drivers who know the area and still use it, the...
[12:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:42] <exec> 08└─There's also corruption. I know, I know, Hanlon's razor. But there is plenty of corruption, and it warps a lot of decision making. A whole lot of people get screwed a little bit with a decision everyone knows is slightly suboptimal, so that a few can rake in the big bucks, and kick a little of that...
[12:20:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:53] <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.
[12:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 2094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:25] <exec> 08└─Having known about the details of vaginal intercourse (is that relevant to the geometry of it all?) and having met couples that almost carried a "I'm homo, AMA" sign, I am not really recalculating, after your objections, it does not matter if the obstacles the couples have are objective, external, i...
[12:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:24] <exec> 08└─I was thinking specifically how M$ makes claims that someone reused some of their copyrighted code but didn't pay them. Without a copy of that code on file somewhere where it can be compared against, it's impossible for someone outside M$ to determine the veracity of their claim. Pretty sure that's...
[12:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:25] <exec> 08└─Sure. Pull-down menus for example. You have to click Edit, or View, or Search (verbs) before you can make another choice. In EAGLE, you have to specify what object(s) you want the action to affect before you select a verb. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side of the Electric Car Revolution - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:35] <exec> 08└─So I'm dropping by soylentnews every few months to check the state of the site and holy crap, there's a guy trying to justify child labour and getting upvoted... no wonder this site's commenting population has a reputation for being edgy lowlifes.
[12:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side of the Electric Car Revolution - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:37] <exec> 08└─You could raise chickens, rabbits, or guinea pigs for food (a staple in the Andes they call cui). Or you could do like this prof and raise tilapia and salmon in a trash can [nytimes.com]. I saw a talk of his on Governor's Island and he raised so many salmon and tilapia in a large pair of garbage can...
[12:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:32] <exec> 08└─Except that he can outbid you and outcompete you for essential resources.
[12:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:33] <exec> 08└─Closed borders breed contempt, and soon enough the centralized economy would be focused on keeping them out and exterminating the ones already inside that look like those bad guys out there.
[12:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:35] <exec> 08└─Big vehicles can carry a lot more high profit options than small ones. Your Prius isn't going to be able to run the same level of gear that your monster SUV is, and still retain the fuel economy advantages that are its selling points. So heated seats, power-everything, power sucking huge entertainme...
[12:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:37] <exec> 08└─it is a mathematical certainty.
[12:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Venus Project and the Quest for a Socially Engineered Future - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:40] <exec> 08└─Los Angeles had excellent public transit, it is now a hell hole of traffic THANKS FORD/GM!
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[13:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:24] <exec> 08└─But little green men, not so much.
[13:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:26] <exec> 08└─Indeed, highly unlikely. I'd love to verify the proof he's talking about. I would sooner believe that they're time travelers from the future, wondering about all the stupid decisions from the current era.
[13:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:28] <exec> 08└─Here's a happy thought for the festive period: they're not time travellers from the future because the human race wipes itself out with WW III before it can invent time travel.
[13:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:30] <exec> 08└─Given what we currently know about the laws of Nature, the distances between stars, the amount of energy required to travel those distances and the times involved make such travel prohibitive.
[13:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:32] <exec> 08└─wondering about all the stupid decisions from the current era.
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[13:19:26] <exec> 08└─I agree mostly. Latest season has not followed the travel-takes-time logic.
[13:19:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:57] <exec> 08└─If you truly think sex is nothing but a transaction, I pity you immensely. That kind of zero-sum thinking is corrosive to the soul.
[13:20:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 932 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:07] <exec> 08└─Actually, it *is* true that the tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny. Consider who are most of the participants... the guys who couldn't get a date in high school. The ones who were too shy to approach a girl. Those with a tunnel-vision interest in tech that didn't look outside o...
[13:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:16] <exec> 08└─Not every sex worker is trafficked. They just focus on the ones who are because more people think of that as wrong.
[13:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:18] <exec> 08└─They do. In NYC Dept of Sanitation jobs are highly sought after because of the generous benefits and retirement package.
[13:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:20] <exec> 08└─No, it's not, except by illiterates and ignoramuses. "Marxism" is not a catch-all scary word to attach to anything you vaguely dislike. It is a specific and very detailed theory that a very smart guy named Karl Marx spent a lot of time and words to construct. It's a theory with a fatal flaw, but nev...
[13:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:22] <exec> 08└─I'm with you. There ought to be a way to teach oafs like this a lesson. Maybe we should bring back the pillory. There are places where prostitution is legal, such as Nevada or Amsterdam. I've seen stories done on brothels there and the women seem like they choose to do that work. Is that all bullshi...
[13:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:25] <exec> 08└─This story reminds me of the cobalt mining one and smacks of a PR or journalist hit piece designed to make a splash. Oh, so the Wall Street banker bros and salespeople in any industry out partying on the company dime aren't the ones blowing money on coke and hookers? It's actually the quiet nerdy gu...
[13:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:59] <exec> 08└─You have to wonder about some of these places [facebook.com], I will agree, but Blowing Rock has an explanation in that there is a big rock there sitting in the prevailing winds. When I was last there, it was snowing a few flurries, and they highlighted the wind flow; it was pretty neat looking.
[13:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:00] <exec> 08└─Once you give decision making to algorithms, you'll get stupid unintentional and emergent behaviours
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[13:21:45] <exec> 08└─and children artificially grown and then raised by the government.
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[14:18:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:19] <exec> 08└─But he's a former head of a Pentagon program. That should make him untrustworthy as part of the conspiracy. So we have to conclude that UFOs don't exist. No wait, that's what they want us to think by that move, so they actually do exist. But then, they probably anticipated that conclusion, so this i...
[14:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, also this conclusion might have been anticipStack overflow.
[14:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:37] <exec> 08└─Faux Mulder?
[14:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:40] <exec> 08└─Clinton might be best likened to Carter J. Burke from the move Aliens. Awful, but at least their spit won't eat through the floor.
[14:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:42] <exec> 08└─U means "unidentified". It doesn't mean "space aliens". Lots of people have seen things and can't figure out what they are, and some of those things are up in the sky.
[14:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:01] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer-aided_design_editors [wikipedia.org] Several *n?x-compatible things and blue rectangles (FOSS). Recommendations from a (now retired architect): FOSS mechanical CAD offerings [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [linuxmint.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylent...
[14:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─5 Autocad Alternatives for Linux user - June 2016 [linuxlinx.com] . Softpedia's last item on the CAELinux live distro was in 2013. [softpedia.com] comes with Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and simulation (CAE, FEA / CFD) [...] The CAD / CAM support includes a number of very prolific...
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[14:19:39] <exec> 08└─Game of Thrones is based on medieval England. Apart from the weather oddities, such as long summer/winter and Land of Always Winter, the geography is basically similar to what the English thought the world look like: 1. North is cold 2. (Middle-)East is mystical (Asshai) and full of magic. 3. There...
[14:19:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:49] <exec> 08└─Here all this time I thought it was us normal users getting fucked, and having to pay for it too.
[14:19:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:50] <exec> 08└─$50,000 per year on sex workers is immoral. Get a Ferrari, Lambo, whatever. That gives you pussy AND you can have fun driving, too. Of course some of these guys are responsible for windows 10 so I don't expect good judgment from them.
[14:19:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:55] <exec> 08└─Well, here's an industry-specific data point [theonion.com].
[14:20:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:26] <exec> 08└─Of course those people are going to have a high level of sexism and misogyny.
[14:20:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 750 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:31] <exec> 08└─No, it's not, except by illiterates and ignoramuses. "Marxism" is not a catch-all scary word to attach to anything you vaguely dislike. It is a specific and very detailed theory that a very smart guy named Karl Marx spent a lot of time and words to construct. It's a theory with a fatal flaw, but nev...
[14:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:35] <exec> 08└─The simple solution here is to legalize prostitution. Then the "will work for food" schtick will be just another game like "naughty student".
[14:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:37] <exec> 08└─A protected class of illegal immigrants
[14:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:39] <exec> 08└─It's illegal because people don't typically choose to go into prostitution. This whole happy hooker libertarian bullshit needs to die.
[14:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:16] <exec> 08└─but at the top of a mountain
[14:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:17] <exec> 08└─Hanlon's razor
[14:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:03] <exec> 08└─Out of analogy, people who enter a difficult kind of relationship, be them same sex, or with class difference, or with age difference
[14:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:04] <exec> 08└─This will probably come as a massive unexpected double-free fault to you, but most women don't rank intercourse or other penetrative sex anywhere near the top. Expound all you want on form following function or, heaven help us, "telos," but it won't change that fact. After a few inches in there aren...
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─If you sue, you must prove. So if MS does not have that code on file somewhere, they better have some other very good evidence that the code is theirs. No evidence, no chance at court. At least assuming the courts work as they should (but if not, even the best law won't adequately protect you).
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:06] <exec> 08└─As bad as Gnome 3 was, I cannot see in which way it was worse than Metro. And thanks to Open Source, we got Gnome 2 forked as Mate. What did we get on Windows?
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─Let's see. I want to copy text. I select the text (object), and then I select "Copy" (verb) from the menu. Doesn't fit your description, does it?
[14:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:35] <exec> 08└─Also, a little background noise hides the many sounds that people make(not joking here, but farts, coughs, throat clearing, ect.)
[14:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS Breaks Laptop BIOSes, Intel Kernel Driver Fingered - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:43] <exec> 08└─> Remember when your OS couldn't fuck up your BIOS or hardware? Those were the days... So that's sometime before, say, the Commodore PET and "killer-poke" then ? In fact did the PET even predate BIOSes? Well, yeah I do remember back that far, trouble is I don't remember any computers before then. No...
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[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:58] <exec> 08└─it was just a giant block of text, like if they only provided it because they spent too much money recording the video and getting the ad network set up for the videos to care at all about people that prefer to not annoy their coworkers and consume video bandwidth at work that site is going to go ou...
[15:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:43] <exec> 08└─After the singularity, all important decisions will be made by one or more AI's, who may want to learn from the past for a change.
[15:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:45] <exec> 08└─what i thought that giant glowing orb was a light bulb. huh. are all of them "the sun"? I have a lot down here in the basement; i never changed to flourescent because my mom wouldnt let me
[15:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:47] <exec> 08└─all this time I thought he was talking about illegal aliens and that they needed more funding to build a wall. i mean those things from space dont have citizenship and they might already be H1Bs so you can never be too careful.
[15:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:49] <exec> 08└─After I look at them for a few seconds they inevitably become identified flying objects, balloons, insects, aircraft, birds, etc.
[15:21:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:47] <exec> 08└─Just to add to you excellent comment, it used to be that one - man's - income was enough for a family of four. The income, which did not change much, is still counted for this model family while it takes two to earn the money. That's the whole explanation to why modern families are more miserable.
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 1809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─> "Would you buy a house without its blueprints?" > "Of course not." Umm, what? I have no blueprints for my current house, in fact it was built before blueprints were even invented (I think, it's close). In fact I have never been offered plans or blueprints for _any_ house I have looked at buying, e...
[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <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
[15:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side of the Electric Car Revolution - 1832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:24] <exec> 08└─I was trying to remember the movie I just watched with pigeons being kept in cages in the city as a backup food source - it was a documentary: Cuba and the Cameraman. Island life tends to include free roaming goats and chickens, which are a sort of natural welfare system: anybody hungry enough can c...
[15:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cobalt Mining: Dark Side of the Electric Car Revolution - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:26] <exec> 08└─How about reforming the existing industry to be less hazardous to the workers? Kids wanna work in mines? Fine, let the kids work in the mines - that's a choice. Mines wanna operate hazardously? Not so fine, let the mines charge a little more for their ore so they can operate without being a serious...
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[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─Aaaayyyyy, nice job!
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Coolest Chip Runs at Near Absolute Zero - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:58] <exec> 08└─I'd rather listen to Hot Chip.
[16:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─... So no video and no transcript... and ARS is looking to lose more people like me... But the reason for the post... Does the article only mention Ultima Online??? I ask because in computer years, Ultima Online is ancient news with Richard Garriot. After he left EA, (after selling Origin to them a...
[16:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:13] <exec> 08└─And the transcript window is an abomination. Down with video!
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─Contact lost soon after deployment
[16:18:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:48] <exec> 08└─Given we are on soylentnews, I bet that your UFO sighting is about that thing called "the sun".
[16:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:05] <exec> 08└─Why so many disbelievers on SN? I bet you guys don't believe in the flat earth either, although there's so much factual evidence supporting it, somewhere, in the internets
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:07] <exec> 08└─They won't be doing that to discover how stupid people are now. As I already said, if you have to wonder if something was stupid, you haven't advanced much.
[16:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:09] <exec> 08└─+1 sarcasm that is actually funny.
[16:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─I guess they live among us. Someone here seemed to already know about dad's prostate cancer and found the info -1 redundant. Damn aliens git outta pa's butthole!
[16:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:13] <exec> 08└─They're gray dummy, don't you keep up with the latest canon?
[16:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed. In the last two years, the West has set itself on course for a return to the 19th Century, particularly the UK and USA. I really don't have much hope for the human race.
[16:19:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 3799 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:25] <exec> 08└─MDC: I don't know why they are doing this... The business model they were offering was why I went with EAGLE in the first place. Before then, I was an ardent FutureNet / PADS PCB user. Both of which I have perpetual licenses and operational systems to run same - even to this day, I can still pull...
[16:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─There's no good definition of "open source" which is why RMS hates the term.
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, this is not true in this case. The "or later" clause specifies that the version of the license chosen must be "published by the Free Software Foundation", and the articles of incorporation (or whatever the non-profit equivalent is) for the FSF was specifically crafted with the "evil replic...
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:07] <exec> 08└─The piped music is the reason we don't eat at Buffalo Wild Wings anymore. We couldn't even talk to each other, so we stopped going.
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Backlash Against Piped Music - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:09] <exec> 08└─MostCynical, you're upholding your username spectacularly! I respectfully disagree with many of your points, mostly on grounds of over-generalization. Most small bands (ie, one or two singles, maybe an album, some radio play) can't afford a sound guy.
[16:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:26] <exec> 08└─Did you even read TFS? 1) impaired control over gaming (e.g., onset, frequency, intensity, duration, termination, context); 2) increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities; and 3) continuation or escalation of gaming d...
[16:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder" - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:27] <exec> 08└─So if the victims are cherry picked to be generally more successful than gutter alcoholics and crack whores, then its kind of a tautology that the victims will then be more successful in life than alcohol or heroin or meth addicts. Maybe not superhero successful or even standard boring middle class...
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[17:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Coolest Chip Runs at Near Absolute Zero - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:01] <exec> 08└─Physicists want to reach absolute zero because....
[17:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06World's Coolest Chip Runs at Near Absolute Zero - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, mistaken. Have to reread the article for precisely what they met.... they want the chip in the 1mK limit, not microKelvin range, though the electrical connections were 150 microKelvin. My bad. Fascinating stuff, still.
[17:18:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 1655 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:16] <exec> 08└─... So no video and no transcript... and ARS is looking to lose more people like me... But the reason for the post... Does the article only mention Ultima Online??? I ask because in computer years, Ultima Online is ancient news with Richard Garriot. After he left EA, (after selling Origin to them a...
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─The communications system consisted of one bongo drum, but they forgot to send the operator.
[17:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:34] <exec> 08└─It's really curious that they decided to do this during a presidency that communicates to the public largely via Twitter. Is this intended to provide an historical smokescreen against public reaction to Trump's tweets? Or is that just incidental? I'd really like to see some rules about this selectio...
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:15] <exec> 08└─You think they don't know we have recording devices? For all we know there have been UFOs for thousands of years or more, and they've become less frequent because of the likelihood of producing evidence of their own existence. As for the focus on nuclear facilities and power plants, isn't it obvious...
[17:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:37] <exec> 08└─For simple 2D, there is LibreCAD. I had to do a steel case for a large desktop device (about 60cm wide, 40 deep, 20 high) this year. The sheet metal company wanted DXF for direct import into their CAM. The case in the end consisted of 10 sheets, some rather irregular shaped, with lots of folds and h...
[17:20:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:25] <exec> 08└─Between 0.1% and 0.2% of Microsoft employees in Seattle used company email to solicit prostitutes. An unknown percentage of those prostitutes were trafficked. From these two questionable numbers, the conclusion? the tech industry is a "culture that has readily embraced trafficking." Actually, those...
[17:20:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:33] <exec> 08└─The tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny
[17:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─It's not introversion directly (or entirely), but that is one component. The main component is thwarted "desires". (Desire is a bit too weak, but anything else that I can think of is too active.) This doesn't always lead to blaming the focus of desire, but often does. If you doubt this, watch the fa...
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:11] <exec> 08└─Sex is a biological transaction. In the case of humans it is tainted by sentience. It becomes a control transaction. That is most of what you need to know about sex.
[17:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:50] <exec> 08└─As usual, a shorted sighted knee-jerk response to a problem with roots that are far more fundamental. There are too many cars. Too many people driving. There is not enough road for all the traffic. It's as simple as that. North America needs to get it's head out and realize that their precious car c...
[17:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:52] <exec> 08└─Just last week, I even saw a guy bike straight into an intersection on a red light with oncoming traffic. He just expected other drivers to stop for him.
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─My Chinese friend told me a story the other day. Suppose one accepts an IT employment at a Chinese corporation. The first talk with HR looks like this. "Does your wife work? Yes. How much does she make? ... We are offering you half her income salary increase if she quits immediately".
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─marriages with self, for instance.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─Religious types say things like...
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─As bad as Gnome 3 was, I cannot see in which way it was worse than Metro. Metro wasn't a product of the Free/open-source community (or its corporate patrons/overseers), so you can't blame FOSS for Metro. The way that Gnome3 is worse is that it IS a product of FOSS, and one of the goals of FOSS for a...
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:50] <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...
[17:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:52] <exec> 08└─Even that's not the whole story. A lot of proprietary software projects include libraries that are licensed under specific terms and so you'd also need to acquire your suppliers' suppliers (for example, when Sun open sourced Solaris, they had to strip out the locale code from libc, because they had...
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[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─Eh...I agree in general regarding supply vs demand for labor, but I'm not sure that's the only factor at play here. If you're advertising on Facebook, expanding that demographic costs money. So they won't do it unless they expect it to result in more responses. How many people over 40 are applying t...
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[18:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─Now we have earthquake proof buildings made out of rubber. And if we don't, we should!
[18:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─That would be cool... Until the rubberband snaps back and shoots you 30 miles into the next county.
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:00] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately all the inhabitants died from blunt force trauma as their building shook them and their belonging around like a bounce house in a tornado. The buildings, however, survived and are expected to have plenty of office space and apartments available as soon as the blood is all cleaned up.
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─Interesting. But only 100-years seems short vs. geologic timescales. Did not RTFA (requires $) but curious if they tried applying their model backwards several hundreds / thousands / millions of years to see it it matches up with the available data.
[18:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:05] <exec> 08└─It's their fault, isn't it?
[18:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:39] <exec> 08└─Or that's what they want you to think...
[18:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:40] <exec> 08└─This is a good start, but Angola needs to establish its own space agency, so they can join the ranks of nations like Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, UAE, Costa Rica, Mongolia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Uruguay, In doing so, they'll be far ahead of Australia, which still ha...
[18:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative.
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─Probably a coincidence, but it is an interesting concept. Of course, they never had to take all tweets in the first place, but since they started I wonder if anyplace else is trying something similar (Internet Archive? Something else?) I'm sure they'll have standards and if researchers are actually...
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─The synopsis says: Starting on Jan. 1, 2018, the U.S. Library of Congress will only archive Twitter selectively, instead of nearly completely:
[18:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─Trump is a perfect organism?
[18:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:39] <exec> 08└─U means "unidentified". It doesn't mean "space aliens".
[18:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:41] <exec> 08└─You're assuming that there isn't some unknown part of physics that allows you to travel faster-than-light. This isn't even impossible by current physics: Einstein postulated the possibility of wormholes, called Einstein-Rosen bridges, which could be used for FTL transit. You're also assuming that al...
[18:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─This article isn't about mechanical design CAD, it's about PCB design CAD. You've never noticed probably because you never designed PCBs. I've been using KiCAD for many years now; it works great, though the libraries need help. I used EAGLE before that, but switched to KiCAD early on, since EAGLE wa...
[18:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:05] <exec> 08└─The business model they were offering was why I went with EAGLE in the first place. What makes you think a company is going to stick with a business model forever? I hate being cornered into someone else's business model which likely includes planned obsolescence. Then you should try to avoid compan...
[18:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:07] <exec> 08└─I've seen lots of hobbyists and engineers on their own time using EAGLE, despite the availability of KiCAD and gEDA. I used EAGLE many, many years ago, but quickly switched to KiCAD because of the lock-in and EAGLE's terrible limitations on the free version: why bother with that, and have to pay for...
[18:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Reel Shows CG Tricks Behind Bleak Landscapes - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:20] <exec> 08└─Anyone worth a damn probably migrated to a less shit planet. The world did seem to have a lack of automation though. Almost intentional like an architectural style. Brutalist architecture is the unfinished poured concrete look. This is like a finished building with consciously absent human assistanc...
[18:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Climate Model for the Odd Seasons in "Game of Thrones" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─Not quite. Dorn is in Westeros, but far south, and there's no place in England that looks like that; it's nearly tropical.
[18:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─There are places where prostitution is legal, such as Nevada or Amsterdam. I've seen stories done on brothels there and the women seem like they choose to do that work. Is that all bullshit? Is it advanced play-acting for the cameras? Are the same criminal dynamics and exploitation at work there too...
[18:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─Because government has demonstrated over and over again that it can be trusted with the indoctrination of the next generation of sheeple, amirite? Depends on the government. The US government seems to be pretty incompetent these days, but some other governments are not. The Norwegian government woul...
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─ome do also have long term partners as well, but as they are honest about having "open" relationships in that way. Also very common with homosexuals. I hardly ever heard about an open straight relationship, but many open homosexual relationships. Not sure why. I guess straight relationships are supp...
[18:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:03] <exec> 08└─One big problem with the Free Software movement is the quality of the software and the design choices made. I think GNOME 3 epitomizes this problem, and the lack of adoption of Linux on the desktop can be directly traced to this DE.
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─I forgot to add that while Metro is indeed awful, Microsoft has a LOT of room to make mistakes and to force bad design choices on users because of their dominant position. People will generally use whatever crap that MS shovels at them. FOSS doesn't have that luxury. And instead of exploiting this g...
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─It goes beyond this I think. The fact gnome remained the flagship DE in just about every distribution's main branch despite it being unanimously loathed says a lot about the current ecosystem and the mindset driving it.
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─PS: If failure and delivery of poor quality has no repercussions at all it will be repeated. They really should've had their collective asses roasted by distro maintainers, at least that would've been a bit harder to ignore than the lowly userbase.
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[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─It's time to outlaw fidget spinners. How does a planet temporarily slow it's spin?
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder who's pushing this dung, I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:09] <exec> 08└─Your mom's enormous arse.
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─A useful subject of wide interest paid for by university and then hidden behind a paywall. To top it off, one of the author's topics of interest ins educating folks on these hazards. The authors are working hard to negate their efforts. So if there were going to be an interesting discussion here, wh...
[19:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:14] <exec> 08└─Came here to say this. Isn't it rather like measuring Earth's temperature over a tiny fraction of one glacial cycle then doing a straight-line extrapolation?
[19:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:16] <exec> 08└─Khepri [wikipedia.org], the god of flaming balls of shit?
[19:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. F*ck the authors for not posting on arXiv.
[19:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:43] <exec> 08└─I clicked through and saw the video and it was, while a little slow to develop, mildly entertaining - if predictable. Incase you're too paranoid to consume the content but still interested in the message, it's this: Players kill everything. No amount of "rebalancing" or "incentivizing" could change...
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:44] <exec> 08└─I had to copy-paste the whole thing into another window just to read it too because they decided to fuck up the scroll bars on the transcript window...the video refused to load too, but I was actually happy about that particular issue...
[19:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:08] <exec> 08└─I'm glad we could get official confirmation from the well-known government representative "stretch611". Your confidence in our government to do the right thing sets my mind at ease. And by extending this logic, I can be sure that the "selective" archive will include all citizen responses and referen...
[19:19:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─Given what we currently know about the laws of Nature, the distances between stars, the amount of energy required to travel those distances and the times involved make such travel prohibitive.
[19:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:55] <exec> 08└─Very true. It wasn't that long ago people "knew for a fact" that it was impossible to fly to the moon, or fly faster than sound, or achieve heavier than air flight etc. Sufficiently advanced technology = magic.
[19:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:21] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't do much CAD, but when I do I absolutely love OpenSCAD [openscad.org]. It's not really a typical CAD software though, and not loaded up with a ton of features either although it doesn't necessarily have any use for a ton of toolbars and utilities*. Essentially it works by programming a...
[19:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:22] <exec> 08└─My OP was intended to be a joke
[19:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:24] <exec> 08└─It looks like KiCad has recently taken some action regarding their libraries. We'll how that holds up over time. :) http://kicad-pcb.org [kicad-pcb.org]
[19:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:04] <exec> 08└─I am so very glad my theory of mind is failing me here. Every parse attempt gets uglier before heap overflow. And while I'm sorry that your existance is miserable, that it is is not my fault. So, no, I'm not paying for your therapy.
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─Either the main roads are so poorly placed...
[19:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:49] <exec> 08└─In some cases, the supplier provided a binary-only blob and has subsequently gone out of business and the receivers lost the code.
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[20:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:58] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Toyota engineers are not that stupid after all...
[20:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─What's the energy efficiency? Since there are no numbers given for this, not even an estimate, should I assume that it isn't significantly greater than current electrolysis methods? If so, YAWN!
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─If you spend enough money on something not outlawed by physics, you will eventually get something out of it.
[20:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:20] <exec> 08└─starting in 2018 as well http://notrickszone.com [notrickszone.com] We might get tough times and not where propaganda makes believe.
[20:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:21] <exec> 08└─This is to appeal to those of us who believe that paid stuff is better than free stuff. Most of us here already know that. And judge things by truth, not price. This is executive clickbait. Profitable. Note Frojack above took one look at it and posted the query about conservation of momentum. For fr...
[20:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:49] <exec> 08└─My youth was not wasted on this enterprise. I had more fun in that game then just about anything else in life, though it may not be as rewarding as some other things (fatherhood mainly), it has given me more enjoyment than I can put into words. Too bad there is not enough nostalgia to bring it back...
[20:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:50] <exec> 08└─Firstly, I agree with everyone else about the crappy interface for the transcript. Their ecology system sounds cool. It sounds like they needed a larger gaming world so that the players became more sparsely distributed compared to the herbivores but I guess the servers of the time just weren't up to...
[20:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:14] <exec> 08└─Thank you! I told my guys in Congress, why are you keeping VERY OLD tweets? That's a huge waste of cyber, Very expensive. And who goes to your library to read tweets? They go to the Internet. Somebody wants to look at a tweet that's more than a couple days old, there's something wrong with that pers...
[20:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you would say that, wouldn't you -- mister "I'm not accountable for anything I've said or done in the past."
[20:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:17] <exec> 08└─Follow me on Twitter and find out how I'm Making America Great Again! @realDonaldTrump [twitter.com] 🇺🇸
[20:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:20] <exec> 08└─Social media is fungible drivel. We don't need to archive it because we can easily make more.
[20:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─I ain't clicking on that shit
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─Fingers are a lot better for G-spot orgasms--assuming you can have them, because not everyone can--than toys. No one's really sure about the anatomy there either; some people say they don't have a G-spot for example. I'm one of the lucky ones, I guess :)
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[21:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─I mean 100 80 70 64 50 90 72 66 BTC is really generous!
[21:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─Sometimes they do a pledge drive and someone offers to match donations 2 or even 3 to 1 (give $25, they get $100). (No, not applicable to this big donation.)
[21:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:58] <exec> 08└─Either way, I'd cash these bad boys out, pronto.
[21:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:08] <exec> 08└─Whole thing reads a little junk-science-ish if you ask me. The "Following Story" link does show some diagrams, but their lab looks like this was a nano-scale test environment, seems unlikely to scale. 1.9 L per hour at a cell voltage of 1.5 V at 700 °C, (no amperage given, and no indication of how...
[21:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:10] <exec> 08└─If you absolutely need hydrogen, this might be portable enough that you could pour in a gallon of water and plug it into the mains and get a few liters an hour. Continuous production eliminates a lot of storage issues. If you were looking for a general purpose fuel: forget it.
[21:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:31] <exec> 08└─There is link buried in TFA: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] But seriously now, The NY Post and The Guardian?
[21:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 7299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:01] <exec> 08└─00:00 Through the 20 years that we were creating Ultimas, 00:04 we were simulating the Dungeons & Dragons social 00:08 experience that we would have at home on the weekends. 00:11 And so we were motivated, and were constantly looking 00:14 for how and when we would make 00:16 what we originally call...
[21:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:14] <exec> 08└─What I learned is that Angola lent its name to this project, and nothing else. The most telling line in your link was: extensive political, economic and military ties between Russia and Angola dating back to the Soviet period
[21:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:31] <exec> 08└─If you are collecting knowledge, then I guess you probably don't need to include any tweets at all.
[21:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:18] <exec> 08└─You're assuming that there isn't some unknown part of physics that allows you to travel faster-than-light.
[21:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:47] <exec> 08└─I agree with your general sentiment. Yeah, the longer you stay with a proprietary app and its closed file formats and maximize-profits model, the deeper you allow yourself to sink into the ooze and the harder it is to get yourself out. IIRC, it was Protel (another proprietary app) which many folks l...
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─I've been told one of the major crime families, the Bonnanos IIRC, run most of Vegas' prostitution. There's always going to be an element of criminality here because of how intimate this is; you simply cannot give up your body and control thereof to a perfect stranger without experiencing some kind...
[21:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, it means "absolutely positively never have, does not, and never will have sex with men." Basically, I look for people who are as sure that they are gay as I am--and this from the woman whose reaction from her mother on coming out was "No shit, I've known since you were four" followed by turning...
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─That is a *lot* of words to say "I'm an asshole, but also too much of a coward to do anything about it aside from allude to it on the internet. Please, please, please kick me in the nards so hard that *both* my grandpas feel it all the way down in Hell."
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─> No. The license determines what one can do with the software code, No. The licence determines if and how you may distribute the code. It grants additional rights that you wouldn't otherwise have because of copyright (which is still upheld, it doesn't just evaporate). > thus the license is what one...
[21:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:18] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how many companies won't challenge the big dog and instead just pay the geld. This gets into the (bogus) software patents thing too. M$ typically claims a bunch of infringements (and they won't supply the ID numbers of those) and if you balk at 1 of those in the process, they'll tro...
[21:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:20] <exec> 08└─Because "or newer" is insanity. GPL5 could include a clause about sacrificing your first born.
[21:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:23] <exec> 08└─If you interpret "get" as "register", then his question makes sense. However, if he doesn't understand the difference between registered and unregistered IP, he's out of his depth. (Little things like punitive verses compensatory damages upon proven violation, etc.)
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[22:17:51] <exec> 08└─BEHOLD:
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─Parent post will make no sense when MDC changes sig. Disregard MDC sucks cocks.
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:54] <exec> 08└─Starting to get the realm of copyright violations. The publishers have obviously decided that you're not allowed to load the article without ads. It's one thing to selectively not load part of the content (legal adblocking), but quite another to modify that content or alter it. The latter is copyrig...
[22:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─Would it be too schadenfreude if I wished that all the early bitcoin millionaires donated their bitcoins to worthy and effective charities and causes, who then cashed them in ASAP, leaving Wall Street speculators holding the bag if/when it crashes? No, that's bad, and I should feel bad. At least a l...
[22:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:08] <exec> 08└─If the donor were to sell his coins so he could donate cash he would have to pay capital gains tax But if he donates assets the charity reaps the profit which is not taxed The FSF is set up to accept bitcoin and one or two other cryptos
[22:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:10] <exec> 08└─I found this explanation the other day: Bitcoin was allegedly invented by Satoshi Nakamoto which could be a pseudonym of a man or a group of people, suspected to live in the US. “Nakamoto’s” identity is believed to be commonwealth origin, due to the vocabulary used in his writings. One of his...
[22:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─So if there were going to be an interesting discussion here, what is it that makes the Earth sometimes rotate slower?
[22:19:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:06] <exec> 08└─it was just a giant block of text, like if they only provided it because they spent too much money recording the video and getting the ad network set up for the videos to care at all about people that prefer to not annoy their coworkers and consume video bandwidth at work that site is going to go ou...
[22:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:15] <exec> 08└─It is made for tablets Format is fine on an ipad, but I did have to change my user agent back to "ipad" Everything Conde Nast does "online" is made for tablets.
[22:20:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 966 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:05] <exec> 08└─I don't buy it. Yes, there are things flying in the sky that are unidentified, but that doesn't automatically make them aliens from outer space. If they were aliens from outer space that would have huge implications for the laws of physics. Given what we currently know about the laws of Nature, the...
[22:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:32] <exec> 08└─Trump is a perfect organism?
[22:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 2583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:33] <exec> 08└─Do you know how big a wormhole is, and what the tidal forces are like? Very small and very large respectively. Maybe, but again you don't know what's possible, and considering E-R bridges were thought of perhaps 80 years ago, and we still have never seen a wormhole, there's no telling what's possibl...
[22:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:35] <exec> 08└─nobody is mad at them for charging for their work. we're mad at them because they are too stupid, lazy or evil to use a business model and license that doesn't victimize their customers. they can charge for convenience without enslaving their users.
[22:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:36] <exec> 08└─it's not *universally* loathed, obviously. ignorant/trolling windows users and curmudgeonly greybeards not withstanding.
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[23:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:56] <exec> 08└─It's only infringement if you redistribute. And patches are generally not considered derivative works unless they contain context from the original source.
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─>Being this confused about copyright Sorry brah, but click-though EULA aren't enforceable in Europe.
[23:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:00] <exec> 08└─Behold what? a) Some people don't see sigs b) www.hosted-pixel.com doesn't exist anyway
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:02] <exec> 08└─Parent post makes no sense as I have and always will leave signatures disabled. They add nothing but useless noise.
[23:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:04] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just serve ads from their own servers? Ad co's can give them kits to automate the process of refreshing and serving the ads.
[23:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:06] <exec> 08└─Once your computer (server) sends me some data it's mine to do whatever I want with it as long as I don't redistribute it to anyone else in an unauthorized way. I have no obligation to run every piece of code that every site I visit sends to my browser.
[23:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:09] <exec> 08└─We want to [enable] adblockers to bypass state-of-the-art anti-adblockers.
[23:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:11] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just serve ads from their own servers?
[23:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:13] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to selectively not load part of the content (legal adblocking), but quite another to modify that content or alter it. The latter is copyright infringement
[23:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:15] <exec> 08└─So if I have my wife rip all the adverts out of our newspaper before I read it, does she commit a crime or do I? When I Pay my neighbor to do the same, then what? When I pay the guy down at the news stand to the same on the paper I am about to buy, then what? When buy down at the news stand offers f...
[23:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─Since I've been in Portland it's been at Hawk's PDX
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:20] <exec> 08└─Adblockers are getting fancy enough to detect these as well. How? Well the advert generally is there to draw customers to another site, and these links are easy to spot in the html regardless of where it is hosted.
[23:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:22] <exec> 08└─Because serving ads isn't as simple (anymore) as simply including a banner from your sponsor. The ad network holds an auction with whatever it knows about the visitor, and the timing for auctioning off peoples personal data and showing the winning ad within a few hundred milliseconds is actually qui...
[23:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:24] <exec> 08└─Blocking things because a new algorithm enables you to do so to is much, much less certain to be good thing.
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─Because that's not at all compatible with how internet advertising auctions and targeting work. Imagine a human centipede of marketing companies 100 deep all shitting in each others mouths until finally shitting all over your browser. It's insanely obfuscated by design, because if anyone ever truly...
[23:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:39] <exec> 08└─The problem with wall street crashes is that the idiots in the financial institutions don't remove themselves from the gene pool for the benefit of mankind, instead they simply get bailed out from taxpayers wallets by corrupt governments.
[23:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─It's time to outlaw fidget spinners.
[23:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:16] <exec> 08└─How does a planet temporarily slow it's spin?
[23:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:18] <exec> 08└─> How does a planet temporarily slow it's spin? https://upload.wikimedia.org So day-to-day it's occasionally possible, but in the long term friction always wins.
[23:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Coolest Chip Runs at Near Absolute Zero - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:28] <exec> 08└─For those too young to get the cultural reference: "The Fonz" [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:20:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:00] <exec> 08└─This is a good start, but Angola needs to establish its own space agency, so they can join the ranks of nations like Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, UAE, Costa Rica, Mongolia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Uruguay, In doing so, they'll be far ahead of Australia, which still ha...
[23:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:03] <exec> 08└─You managed to leave out a giant piece of the picture. South African Border War (1966 - 1990) [wikipedia.org] largely fought in neighbouring states [Aggression by apartheid South Africa, outside of its borders.] [...] South African tactics became increasingly aggressive as the conflict progressed. T...
[23:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Angola's First Communications Satellite Lifts Off from Kazakhstan - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:05] <exec> 08└─Note how far it is from South Africa's border to Angola. [amazonaws.com] What South Africa was after (besides White rule in the region): Angolan exports: crude oil, petroleum products, diamonds, fish, fish products, coffee, sisal, cotton, lumber -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:23] <exec> 08└─Citizens are not the president, so their responses don't matter. Do you think future historians really care about the ramblings of assorted transexual millennial SJWs? No. What matters is what the president tweets because he's more important.
[23:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─Prime example: "He is a good provider."
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