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[00:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:50] <exec> 08└─Marine Biologists are frilled at this new discovery.
[00:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:03] <exec> 08└─Being proud of these resourceful fellow Italians, I'll proudly wear one of their T-shirts. A bootleg one, of course.
[00:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:04] <exec> 08└─So what are the idiots on eBay hocking beat up old Macintoshes for over 9000 times what they are worth going to use to describe their products now? "Priced to sell!11!1! Powered up and fan spins, don't know any thing else at all!! See the dark blurry picture for more details! Local pickup only. A++...
[00:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. I see what you're doing, Nintendo!
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─At the Santa Cruz Goodwill Bargain Barn. There was quite a long time when possession of just one Mac SE was something I could only dream about. Get This: One of them had a 40 MB hard drive that still worked just fine.
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:11] <exec> 08└─They'll probably call it "Vaffanculo Mela"
[00:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:25] <exec> 08└─Este cobarde anónimo es bastante hijo de puta.
[00:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 1361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:00] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, I think I did most of my work on a IIgs and already a Mac Plus back then, I got hold of a handful of phased-out Apple //c. Eventually, I started to tinker with one of them. I looked at how the RamWorks III (iirc) card was mapped, and designed a decoder logic from 4 TTL chips, handwi...
[00:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry to break your dream, but there were plenty of disk, communication, display, processor cards etc. for Apple IIs. Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:03] <exec> 08└─The Mighty Buzzard must be off fishing. About this time, he usually mentions Calculate Linux, a Gentoo fork with pre-compiled apps by default. . Whenever I install a new MS OS At that point, I ask myself "What's that guy doing that can't be done without Redmond's malware magnet?" -- OriginalOwner_ [...
[00:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you for that tip. Rolling release, systemdless, awesome. The only drawback, and I know I'm getting backed into a corner, is Void needs a minimum P4. I still support some live servers running P3 cpus. Don't laugh- they're fast at everything but php, and low power, and it's not my choice, but I...
[00:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:08] <exec> 08└─You need a Ferrari F430.
[00:20:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:43] <exec> 08└─Yup, it's classic Republican politics: 1. Break things. 2. OMG, these things are broken, we should get rid of them! The requirement to fund retirement 75 years in advance means the USPS is currently required to pay for pensions for employees whose are at least 5 years from being born. No other organ...
[00:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─Moral and intellectual bankruptcies count.
[00:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:58] <exec> 08└─Cheap crap from China, and the yankees pay for it when they ship with USPS between them or to other countries (just in case you wondered why posting boxes goes up every now and then). https://www.washingtonpost.com
[00:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:00] <exec> 08└─UPS has a service called UPS Innovations. They carry the box the long distance, then use USPS for the local delivery. That way they save in staff and trucks. USPS staff make their part to keep the market competive... the boxes arrive, but really late, later than USPS own. Time to call the Pinkertons...
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[01:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:54] <exec> 08└─Stay away from those marine biologists. A good half of them are evil overlords. And don't even ask about the bad half...
[01:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:55] <exec> 08└─So they're fighting over whether two identical octopi are different species, while no one can save [zapatopi.net] the pacific northwest tree octopus [wikipedia.org]? Pah! What biologists are they?
[01:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:07] <exec> 08└─Wasn't aware Arch uses runit. It's one of my personal favourite init systems and it gets frequently used at $work in our embedded Linux projects. I'll keep Arch in mind should Devuan go off rails, thanks for the info!
[01:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:08] <exec> 08└─If you want Windows 8+ to be less excruciatingly user hostile you can start by installing Classic Shell (or one of the various similar apps)
[01:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:10] <exec> 08└─Not beautiful, but really fast is my ancient FinalWord II word processing software running on a Win 7 laptop under the DOSbox emulator. Later versions were called Borland Sprint wordprocessor. Scroll top to bottom of medium sized docs, 100 pages, 50 lines on a "VGA" screen page, is effectively...
[01:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:12] <exec> 08└─No, Arch uses systemd. Void.
[01:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:15] <exec> 08└─P3? That's close to 20 years old! What kind of services are they doing? I have a Katmai in storage ... Kept it as gold.../1999, still work fine. Cheers.
[01:19:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06SoftBank Acquires 20% of Uber While Massively Devaluing It - 968 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:22] <exec> 08└─Lets face it, the sooner that the Uber board transitions power away from the older board member including Kalanick the better it is for Uber. (ARS recently put Uber on their 2018 deathwatch [arstechnica.com]. IMHO, complete removal of the old board including Kalanick would be best for the company. L...
[01:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06SoftBank Acquires 20% of Uber While Massively Devaluing It - 986 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:24] <exec> 08└─It's not worth 48bn, let alone 70bn. "On a global basis, the privately-held company lost $2.8bn last year as revenues climbed to $6.5bn" Even if it DOUBLED revenue, without costing a penny more, it would take $3.7bn - that means they just paid for over ten years of double-revenue profits on a compan...
[01:20:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:30] <exec> 08└─Why is the United States Post Office (...) making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?
[01:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:08] <exec> 08└─How naive. Do some basic research and see how often a 'successful' entrepreneur fails before launching their *first* successful business.
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the police are not willing to risk their lives to reduce the possibility of a false positive. In addition, an obvious course of action in this particular case would have been to call the home at the given address to verify that it was the location of the caller.
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─>"The reaction of the police is a direct result of the moronic gun culture in this country." No, the reaction of the police was the direct result of being told that an armed man had shot someone and was holding two others hostage.
[01:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:01] <exec> 08└─>"Police followed procedure." True, but the procedure is wrong, and gets innocent people killed.
[01:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:03] <exec> 08└─>"The article I added mentions caller ID spoofing." This is a fundamental problem. Caller ID spoofing should not be possible. It is only possible because our politicians are negligent and corrupt.
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[02:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:00] <exec> 08└─> frilled giant Pacific octopus" has been right under our noses the whole time - mistaken for the giant Pacific octopus It's OK, as long as they stay pacific.
[02:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:18] <exec> 08└─I envy any place that has a Goodwill that resells computers at all. The ones around here send all computers to the crusher to keep Michael Dell's goons from breaking their legs.
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 2495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7n2s34/iama_survivor_of_stalins_communist_dictatorship/?sort=top [reddit.com] https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Stalin ruled by power and murdered millions for little more than the serious heinous crimes...
[02:18:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:42] <exec> 08└─When I tell people this they look at me like I'm crazy, but it's true. The sheer unresponsiveness of today's computer systems is maddening, and there's absolutely no excuse for it. The hardware has only gotten faster, but the programming has only gotten sloppier and lazier.
[02:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:10] <exec> 08└─"That's why numerous attempts to privatize the Post Office failed - nobody wants it." There's also the little matter of Article 1, Section 8, #7 of the U.S. Constitution.
[02:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─Does swat often train where the person in the house is just an average clueless, harmless guy? Or are most of the scenarios bad guys? What are the statistics on an average swat call? Under stress, you revert to doing what you trained. Was this unfortunate outcome a case of folks doing what they were...
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[03:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Captures Planetary Nebula NGC 6326 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:56] <exec> 08└─Let's get some more confirmed exoplanets around the Alpha Centauri stars already. And get TESS [wikipedia.org] up already. http://earthsky.org [earthsky.org]
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─So when are they going to name the jewish species? That species looks human at first sight, but a trained eye can recognize it. It is seen eating human babies, running banks, causing financial crises, genocide, wars, illegal sanctions, controlling all medicine, ... ... and using everything they have...
[03:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:26] <exec> 08└─When you spend money and time on trademark "battles" instead of producing something innovative the world needs, you know it is time to drop the jewish tv subscriptions and stop watching the damn thing.
[03:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:27] <exec> 08└─Moore's Law: Every 18 months, the speed of hardware doubles. Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
[03:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:29] <exec> 08└─Some people say USB keyboards can't do more than 6 keys at a time... wrong. That is USB in BIOS compat mode. USB HID supports N-key rollover fine. Look for keyboards that show two interface descriptors, one of them "huge" to fit a full key mask (for example "bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Sub...
[03:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:31] <exec> 08└─Oh, wow, you still have running PIIIs? Coolness. I built my first machine right when the P4 and Thunderbird CPUs came out (and thankfully I went Socket A rather than 462, eeeesh...). For a while the PIII was outperforming the P4 clock for clock, so if yours still work I can see them being suitable f...
[03:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:33] <exec> 08└─That is really all, most idiots can throw together something for code dot org especially with abstracted languages, like java or rust, but it will slow and slow the further away programmers get away from the hardware, learn assembly FIRST then C then other things
[03:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:29] <exec> 08└─I ragged on Killery the other day. It's Drumf's turn today. Where Trump used the name "Crooked Hillary" (an accurate description), Ralph Nader suggests "Cheating Donald" for The Orange One. Cheating Donald [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [commondreams.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:21] <exec> 08└─Lesbians have the highest *reported* rate of domestic violence. Reported does not necessarily equal actual. And I've had an abusive lover, but guess what? She's bi, not gay, and has had more men than women. I'm with a perfect gold-star girl now and we get along wonderfully. Don't break your neck sho...
[03:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:23] <exec> 08└─Kurenai, for the last fucking time, I am one of the ones who's on your side. Your constant, borderline-schizophrenic ranting not only does you personally no favors, but pushes the stereotype of transwomen as unstable crazy drama queens into the spotlight. You are harming other transwomen, do you und...
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[04:18:37] <exec> 08└─Either you are brainwashed or do not know much about Nazism. Nazis despised Jews for their lack of creativity as can be seen in the documentary The Eternal Jew. Nazis celebrated their own achievements in science, technology, arts, literature and so on. Nazism is a beautiful system designed for the g...
[04:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:26] <exec> 08└─Dual CPU! 2003 vintage. One machine runs WordPress on LAMP for Internet, Samba for LAN, etc.; another runs Windows Server 2003, right now just file sharing CIFS, but used to run print and IIS (sometimes I turn ftp on).
[04:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:28] <exec> 08└─Not personally- they're running a tiny hosting company I admin. Dual CPU Dell PE2450. I just published another post saying one runs LAMP, another Win 2003. There are several other machines, not running, that used to run mail host, more Apache stuff, test/development for asp.net, etc. Parts machines!...
[04:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:22] <exec> 08└─The only reason the Post Office is reporting an annual Loss is because the US, Republican Congress passed a law requiring them to pre-pay the retirement benefits for 75-years, in 10-years. This created a massive, unique financial debt.
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[04:23:31] <exec> 08└─(((Google))) was always evil. Just that in the beginning their service was designed to become the largest and biggest search engine. It used advanced algorithms and hardware that is 30 years more advanced than the fastest hardware we use today. Hence it won the race ... and then the censorship start...
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[05:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:00] <exec> 08└─The Romans were certainly not above having a few laughs, and the evidence of this is visible well before the third century CE. As we know from Pompeii's graffiti [pompeiana.org], to Petronius' Satyricon [tufts.edu], to messages for their enemies on sling bullets [mentalfloss.com]. As for physical pr...
[05:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:02] <exec> 08└─I mean any person before now is sub human and cannot be exactly as sociopathic as we are, that's just crazy talk
[05:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:04] <exec> 08└─Wait I meant to say that all people where sub human and there has never been a time when people should be created, since they are mostly sociopaths
[05:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:06] <exec> 08└─My problem with Marius' reforms had nothing to do with his policies and everything to do with his actions at social gatherings. As the saying goes it is all fun and games until someone ruins your toga.
[05:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:09] <exec> 08└─Someone seems to think that all fun started recently and humans used to be sad creatures until now. Fun is not the same as canned laughter at the teleprompter jokes read by the jewish actor or actress. Fun existed before jews existed and fun will still exist after jewish actors and actresses stop ex...
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[05:18:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw [youtube.com] You got what you wanted, Fascist violence I'll love you love you because the cops will kick in my door if I don't you liberals
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[05:19:04] <exec> 08└─People that are swatters, it's not a glorious job but neither was nurenburg
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[05:19:06] <exec> 08└─Check what topic you are replying to, jew. Your comment is off-topic, jew. Tell your JIDF masters not to send you here, jew. There are too many brainwashed morons here whose lives revolve around holocaust guilt, jew. Go away, jew. Jew begone!
[05:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:57] <exec> 08└─Many cases have them with passive heatsinks only.
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[05:19:58] <exec> 08└─You can do that with a T-series maybe, with their 35W TDP limit, but I wouldn't try that with the non-T ones. I specialize in SFF builds but avoid passive cooling like the plague.
[05:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:00] <exec> 08└─I still run a P3 in my router. As you say, they are good CPUs. The early Coppermine CPUs were under 10W at full load. That was far better than many CPUs that came after it during the MHz wars for many years. Of course, there's a lot more options now, but they are still plenty fast enough for many ta...
[05:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is the programming, so stop using proprietary, user-subjugating software. Then if the problem is still the programming, fix it and contribute.
[05:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:05] <exec> 08└─You're going to have a conniption when I say this, but Rust is very promising to help developers write multi-core applications and operating systems more safely. It feels a lot like C with RAII.
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the police are not willing to risk their lives to reduce the possibility of a false positive.
[05:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:57] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest the root of this goes beyond the police to the 2nd Amendment flag waving, gun loving US subculture.
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[06:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry it's not troll to call out people for there sociopathic behavior and the jew hatting swatters are fair game, but I guess that is what happened with karma on the green site so welcome to the internet
[06:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Captures Planetary Nebula NGC 6326 - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:08] <exec> 08└─"Planetary nebulae are one of the main ways in which elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are dispersed into space after their creation in the hearts of stars" Interesting factoid about what is produced when two neutron stars collide [businessinsider.com]: "Observations revealed the event f...
[06:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:20] <exec> 08└─From my experience most are girls trying to get their dive license while satisfying their family's expectations that they get an advanced degree.
[06:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:54] <exec> 08└─so stop using proprietary, user-subjugating software
[06:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:56] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Every improvement in processing power in the last 40 years was gobbled up by look and feel. Oddly, they could get away with it because the processing power available when you simply stopped dicking around with the screen for 10 seconds was sufficient to meet all or our actual computational...
[06:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:53] <exec> 08└─How naive. Do some basic research and see how often a 'successful' entrepreneur fails before launching their *first* successful business.
[06:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:01] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that you have to respond to all calls as if they where true.
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[07:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, as with most funny Roman things, this is Greek in origin! It is called a Pythagorean Cup [wikipedia.org] after its inventor, Pythagoras of Samos. You may have heard of him? They still make them to this day, in clay, on the Isle of Samos, and sell them to tourists. Romans really have little...
[07:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:04] <exec> 08└─Found the Transcript. http://snltranscripts.jt.org [jt.org] Evidently there was no means of recording video in 1979. Interesting trivial, the Vandal delinquent in this skit is played by Al Franken.
[07:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:33] <exec> 08└─and refused the Wright Flyer for many years
[07:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:06] <exec> 08└─We need a website we can visit that will tell us if our machine(s) are compromised...
[07:21:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:43] <exec> 08└─No, Postal Service is not "like any other". Postal Service is required to deliver mail anywhere even if it is economically not feasible. That's why numerous attempts to privatize the Post Office failed - nobody wants it. What happens now is that if say Amazon wants to deliver a package to an unprofi...
[07:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:56] <exec> 08└─As for the gamer who called in the SWAT raid defenitely deserves some consequences. Maybe not manslaughter - if the police were competent, no one would have died - but at a minimum he abused emergency services and knowingly endangered people.
[07:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:57] <exec> 08└─"It would just be like a prankster reporting a fake fire at someone else's address. " Neither your example or this incident qualifies as an innocent prank. The prankster reporting a fake fire is putting other people at risk. For one, while firemen are going to a fake destination, people could be d...
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[08:17:56] <exec> 08└─The patch was part of a December release of five fixes that included two bugs rated high and one rated moderate and another low.
[08:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:12] <exec> 08└─[…] really have little sense of humor. Even less than Germans.
[08:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:07] <exec> 08└─If it is really just a compiler parameter away, what stops you from taking the source code and compile it with that compiler parameter?
[08:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:09] <exec> 08└─You should RTFA, because it actually explains a lot of the delay. First, keyboard scan rates are actually lower. The Apple IIe keyboard gave you a delay of about 8.6ms, whereas a modern keyboard gives you closer to 18ms (purely from scan speed, ignoring the USB overhead). At the other end, the Apple...
[08:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:09] <exec> 08└─Eats, shoots & leaves?
[08:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, your point is not relevant. Even if the call had been genuine they should not have shot. It is not usually the hostage taker who answers the door. They had no knowledge of the role of the person who answered the door.
[08:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:11] <exec> 08└─It was still an unacceptable reaction. Had the call been genuine then the person answering the door would be more likely to be a hostage than perpetrator.
[08:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:13] <exec> 08└─No. The cops are solely to blame for the killing. If the cops weren't so crappy and dangerous nobody would have been killed.
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[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─Waco, Branch Dravidians.
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[09:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Acquires 20% of Uber While Massively Devaluing It - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:21] <exec> 08└─You could be right, but then people said the same thing about Amazon: they were making a loss on each sale, but making it up in volume. Uber is similar to Amazon in this way, they may not be the best taxi service, but they're convenient and they work almost everywhere. They've basically been spendin...
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[09:20:47] <exec> 08└─They can always lift considerably more by not reusing the first stage cores.
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[10:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:33] <exec> 08└─you are mistaking it for the jihadi moslem octopus
[10:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:11] <exec> 08└─Is this a detrimental comment against the layers of DRM in modern systems?
[10:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:49] <exec> 08└─The Smithsonian is not the private club it use to be.
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[11:18:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:50] <exec> 08└─Being proud of these resourceful fellow Italians, I'll proudly wear one of their T-shirts. A bootleg one, of course.
[11:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:54] <exec> 08└─He'll probably land it on the moon, and drive it around remotely for a million miles on solar power.
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[12:17:52] <exec> 08└─consequences of these changes. That 20 year revolution idea that Jefferson wrote about, which never came to pass, will be impossible when you deal with a minority controlling mostly-automated infrastructure like this. Even if the line soldiers started to rebel, without C&C access to equipment like t...
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[12:18:06] <exec> 08└─Bad journalism. The fifth is the critical buffer overflow mentioned. Also https://www.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[12:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:23] <exec> 08└─> romans were originally a bunch of bandits > sons of lupa, female wolf, PR symbol of a whore > had to kidnap Sabine women cause not enough oF their own (kidnap=raptio, hence the word rape) > graffiti on other people's houses were ok > the criticizing people about the way they read verses, accents a...
[12:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:25] <exec> 08└─Bah. German humor is roughly analogous to British haute cuisine or French chastity. The Germans are funnier than the Finns, who have biologically evolved to have no laugh reflex, but not as good as the Swedes who don't seem to take anything seriously.
[12:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 2417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:24] <exec> 08└─I wish people would stop misrepresenting Gentoo, it's not like that at all. If we need a car analogy... You go shopping for a car. The first dealership sells the Windows SUV. There's only one model. It weighs 9000 pounds, gets 8 MPG, goes 0-60 in 24 seconds, and it won't move on Tuesdays unless you...
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[12:20:26] <exec> 08└─Being a little more on topic - computers are faster and compile times are shorter. And the package management system is MUCH better than it was ten years ago. If you ever use any other Linux distribution, and you want to do something that isn't exactly what they imagined you'd do, and you have to fo...
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[12:20:28] <exec> 08└─Why would low-speed vs. full-speed possibly matter for a keyboard? Can someone type a million characters per second? Latency isn't different by more than a few microseconds. Only difference is probably just the version of the protocol implemented by the interface chip, and has no impact on performan...
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[12:20:30] <exec> 08└─Best solution to this would be to implement a virtual keyboard in suitable hardware (an Arduino for example). Then you can send a real start signal on a GPIO pin concurrently with the keypress being sent to the host. Of course if you use the same keyboard for all computers, the relative effect will...
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[12:20:32] <exec> 08└─Sort of like how George R.R. Martin writes on an old mechanical typewriter, if I ever wrote a book, I'd use AppleWorks on my old //e. Mine only had the usual 128K though - not really enough to run the later versions well. Maybe I can find a 1MB expansion card somewhere. I don't think an emulator wou...
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[12:20:34] <exec> 08└─but the keyboard would be a lost cause
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[13:18:23] <exec> 08└─You make a unique observation regarding a show called "Saturday Night Live" and expect that the few people that had VHS recorders of the era had taped, kept in working condition, and then later took the effort to pass them through an Amiga 500 or perhaps a modern contraption with a toaster equivalen...
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[13:18:45] <exec> 08└─... paid for and trained by the jewish zionist israeli rats and 'murricans. The mistake that happened in human development over the millennia is jews (the children of satan) happened.
[13:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:29] <exec> 08└─As he discovered, but many gamers already know, without driver tweaks there are roughly four frames of latency between an application sending a frame to the GPU, and it actually being sent to the monitor. Monitor display lag [displaylag.com], which runs anywhere from 1/2 frame average up to three or...
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[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─That's why banks charge extra interest. Debt has nothing to do with morality, unless you borrowed from family or friends. Lying is a different issue.
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[13:25:14] <exec> 08└─ARE YOU SAYING THIS SPACESUIT MAKES ME LOOK FAT????!!!
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[14:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:12] <exec> 08└─What the heck is an email client doing using a 3D rendering library?
[14:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─It allows you to see your emails from a different perspective. ;-)
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[14:20:38] <exec> 08└─And it's pretty clear that he still doesn't really know what he's talking about. At 144 Hz, each frame takes 7 ms. A change to the screen will have 0 ms to 7 ms of extra latency as it waits for the next frame boundary before getting rendered (on average,we expect half of the maximum latency, or 3.5...
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[14:20:40] <exec> 08└─I still have an operational, and functional, backup server. It is a quad processor 200mhz Pentium Pro Compaq Proliant 5000 circia 1996. The only thing that has gone wrong is that mice got inside and smoked. I had to make some functional sacrifices -- but I don't need more than 512MB of RAM in it any...
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[14:21:20] <exec> 08└─The thing is, if they don't try to recover the first stages at all, then they don't need to reserve propellant (and may be able to shave other weight from the first stage as well) for the purpose. It just costs a bunch more to do that.
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[15:20:40] <exec> 08└─Yes TFA is about keyboard delay. However, that is only of the extra delays these days. Look and feel bling is another, official spyware another, Javascriptcrap on the internat another.
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[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Do police have binoculars?
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[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─These protests have been consistently aimed not at the elected portions of the government (President Hassan Rouhani and the legislature) but at the theocrats (Ayatollah Khameini and the like). And the elected portions of the Iranian government have been pretty reasonable ever since Rouhani took over...
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:59] <exec> 08└─These protests are over food price inflation and seem organised as they sprung up in multiple cities simultaneously. As you know, the clerics are massively opposed to Rouhani's reforms but it seems unlikely liberal, anti-theocratic actors are behind these latest protests.
[16:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─Revolutionary Guard. If the RG feels threatened or is ordered to do so, these demonstrations will be crushed with a ruthlessness not seen since Mao's Great Leap Forward. Also, any reference to "Arab Spring" is mortally insulting to Persians.
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─Also, any reference to "Arab Spring" is mortally insulting to Persians.
[16:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Robotics Company Vying for Billion-Dollar Army Contract - 2522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─From http://www.pdfernhout.net [pdfernhout.net] Recognizing irony is key to transcending militarism Military robots like drones are ironic because they are created essentially to force humans to work like robots in an industrialized social o...
[16:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:28] <exec> 08└─Given that Thunderbird is also a feed reader, it oftentimes displays HTML content (for example, the full HTML contents of an article). The bug seems to concern WebGL content. Mozilla's WebGL implementation relies, at least in part, on DirectX in Windows (as described in the bug). I always thought th...
[16:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:30] <exec> 08└─Firefox has very recently started doing what all of the other major web browsers have done for about a decade: splitting the browser into less privileged processes for isolation. On macOS, the WebKit framework does this for anything using WebKit, so when Mail.app renders an HTML email, the dangerous...
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[16:25:08] <exec> 08└─Do they have gun sights?
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[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─I worry whenever someone uses the word "Leveraged" in place of the 100% compatible equivalent "Used", whether perhaps it is someone who wants to appear smarter by using big words. So: management, marketing, CxO, MBA... folks like that. Another bloatword, almost as bad as "Leveraged" is "Utilized". "...
[17:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:05] <exec> 08└─And that makes it less inappropriate...how? Persians have always held Arabs in a sort of benign contempt, like uncivilized barbarians.
[17:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─The Chinese have held the whole world in a sort of benign contempt, like uncivilized barbarians. The Persians can complain about what they want to call it after they finish overthrowing their government. Until then, they're just losers.
[17:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─Food price inflation = people are starving. Which means that if you have to choose between someone in an ivory tower who thinks nothing is wrong, and a guy who says "You all elected me to help reform this country, and I have a plan to make sure you can eat", guess which one you go with?
[17:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:11] <exec> 08└─They can have their own country with laws, customs, whatever they need. Pick a country, fence or nuke out a border, move them ALL in and let them sort it out amongst themselves.
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─Conveniently, the Americans have held the whole world in a sort of benign contempt, like uncivilized barbarians.
[17:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:15] <exec> 08└─Also, uncivilized barbarians have held Americans in a sort of benign contempt, like uncivilized barbarians. What have we learned here?
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Robotics Company Vying for Billion-Dollar Army Contract - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:25] <exec> 08└─The answer to all your what-if's: Some people are more concerned about making sure those other bastards are unable to live long and prosper than ensuring their own long life and prosperity. And this isn't cultural, either: You can see it among 2-year-olds who would rather break a toy than share it w...
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[17:19:03] <exec> 08└─You seem to have a problem with jews. Why?
[17:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:26] <exec> 08└─Didn't jesus save us or was that some other cephalopod?
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[18:17:53] <exec> 08└─You know how many of these articles I go through? My feed reader is crashing trying to delete old RSS items. If you want to pick the headline, you should submit the story.
[18:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:55] <exec> 08└─By saying "leverage", they are emphasizing the fact that they can make use of existing technology in a novel way to get a high rate of return (quantum computing). Sounds like a decent word choice to me. A lever provides mechanical advantage - it's a force multiplier.
[18:18:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 965 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:03] <exec> 08└─These protests have been consistently aimed not at the elected portions of the government (President Hassan Rouhani and the legislature) but at the theocrats (Ayatollah Khameini and the like). And the elected portions of the Iranian government have been pretty reasonable ever since Rouhani took over...
[18:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:14] <exec> 08└─Also, any reference to "Arab Spring" is mortally insulting to Persians.
[18:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 2783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:16] <exec> 08└─Wow, people always going on about Russian shills and here we have an Iranian spokesman. Rouhani is good cop to Khameini's bad cop, nothing more. If he weren't he wouldn't have been permitted to run. Remember, you need the clerics' approval to appear on the ballot in Iran. As for "working with Kerry"...
[18:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:18] <exec> 08└─Too bad Iran is next on the list of countries for regime change. PNAC was held back after it became clear Syria will remain free. Now they are moving forward on the list. North Korea is now basically sanctioned to the near maximum and they can expect to be murdered once more if they disarm themselve...
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Americans do plenty to deserve their benign contempt. :)
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Robotics Company Vying for Billion-Dollar Army Contract - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─Nuclear weapons are ironic because they are about using space age systems to fight over oil and land. Why not just use advanced materials as found in nuclear missiles to make renewable energy sources (like windmills or solar panels) to replace oil, or why not use rocketry to move into space by build...
[18:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Robotics Company Vying for Billion-Dollar Army Contract - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─autonomous vehicles that will carry ammunition and supplies into combat with Army ground forces
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─[1] You do not seem to have a problem with jews. Why? You fail to understand the jewish question. You fail to see jews everywhere. If you mention jews, you are called anti semitic, even when you did not say anything bad about them or questioned anything. Merely mentioning the jews makes you a target...
[18:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Pacific Octopus Described - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:36] <exec> 08└─You need to stop taking religious dogma literally. Put down the holy book* and restart your brain. * this does not apply to jews, who worship baphomet and are the creation of satan himself.
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[18:21:25] <exec> 08└─Almost every linux distribution in the wold is dropping 32bit versions. Virtually nobody will release a linux kernel for 4.12. For no good reason, mind you. A 32bit OS is usually just a compiler parameter away using any modern source language.
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[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─From the Satellite Today link, > Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said this week that the spacecraft’s azimuth coordinates were programmed for a launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome, not Vostochny. Roscosmos, however, rejected Rogozin’s claim, stating that the accident was caused by “a...
[19:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:22] <exec> 08└─Agree. Arabs are the toothless Kentucky hilljacks of the middle east.
[19:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─Like a bunch of goddamn Mongols :) The Mongols meanwhile have been mostly minding their own business stuck between Russia and China and slowly being corrupted to the capitalist ways, their former method of land (dis)ownership giving way to a more traditional form of land ownership, the kind that is...
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Robotics Company Vying for Billion-Dollar Army Contract - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:36] <exec> 08└─I think that's a little harshly worded but accurate. Some people greatly enjoy forcing others to do their will. It's the most basic expression of power. This goes across the political spectrum, male, female, races, age. What infuriates these people most is seeing a free man. Someone going about thei...
[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─No one looked at the 3D printer design and noticed that all you have to do is put a finger over the hole in the bottom? This may be a practical joke for some, but I'll just stop the flow and enjoy the wine, filled to the top.
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[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Now they're going to use it to do even more haxxoring! They're the most dangerous country in the world and anyone that talks to them is treasonous!!* *offer only applies to non-Democrats
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Restores Contact With AngoSat-1 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─I hate it when tech goes wonky, so I'm happy for Angola (and the Russian engineers) that they were able to establish contact. Now let's see if they can put it into the orbit it's supposed to be in...
[20:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:04] <exec> 08└─I worry whenever someone uses the word "Leveraged" in place of the 100% compatible equivalent "Used"
[20:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:06] <exec> 08└─So, presumably, they'd need to count the number of defects they had on their silicon wafer and possibly adjust the structure or configuration of the surrounding circuitry accordingly. What about if quality was running a bit high and they weren't getting enough defects? Or the wrong sort of defects?...
[20:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─I need a +1 (or +0?) Pedantic for you. I suppose the terms are only 100% compatible in one direction.
[20:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair, you were just quoting the language used in TFA.
[20:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:12] <exec> 08└─"MOSFET was neither fully turned on nor off" - IOW, it was operating in the linear region. "Making a fully functional quantum computer will require connecting huge numbers of qubits—of the order of a 100 million or more." - So we should be able to milk decades of research grants with no actual res...
[20:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:14] <exec> 08└─So we should be able to milk decades of research grants with no actual results.
[20:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/world/asia/kazakhstan-cowboys.html [nytimes.com]
[20:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:39] <exec> 08└─Throw the Jews in with 'em.
[20:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─DirectX is how you draw on windows. They deprecated GDI and the other methods iirc, so if you want to put pixels on the screen it's DX or OpenGL.
[20:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:33] <exec> 08└─No way you're putting your finger anywhere NEAR the hole in my bottom!
[20:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:35] <exec> 08└─Nazism is a beautiful system designed for the greatest benefit for the individual and the state.
[20:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:37] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Coward wrote [soylentnews.org]: I think we could be looking at spectrum worth $50,000,000 being swiped from adjacent operators who have paid for legal operation. (swiped via interference, spilling over in multiple ways)
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[20:21:49] <exec> 08└─it used 5 different processors (separate audio, video, UI, game physics, etc) that all talked to each other in a bank of shared memory.
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[21:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:53] <exec> 08└─It sounds more like a school administrator winning the rubber spine award by scapegoating the teacher. Why would the teacher telling a bunch of 5th graders to act more mature about minor nudity in classical art even be a problem? I remember in the 6th grade a teacher saying very much the same thing...
[21:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─Pretty typical. Replace this teacher with a radical feminist demonstrating how the female form is superior and berating half the class for not being lucky enough to be born with those body parts, and it's a-ok! Hell, why not throw in some extra credit opportunities where the teacher makes it explici...
[21:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─Does the school stock any National Geographic in their library? Because if you're offering that to children of all ages, you really can't fire someone for doing the same thing.
[21:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:59] <exec> 08└─WHERE, where but here have Pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage, To shake their wicked sides at youth Restraining reckless middle-age.
[21:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:01] <exec> 08└─A painting of a semi-nude human can get a teacher fired... But hell, allow us to take a movie laden with violence and killing a dozen people or more, and we slap a pg rating on it. Showing the human body as something of beauty is discouraged, while blood and gore is tolerated... what kind of screwed...
[21:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─According to TFA, the teacher checked the art cards out of the school library.
[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─I see why you hang around here, you resonate with certain aspects of the dominant culture.
[21:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:08] <exec> 08└─Better to show some scenes of biblical carnage, like any of the many times the hebrew god strikes entire cities or armies dead just for being on the Other Side, or smites the firstborn son of every family because of something the Pharaoh didn't do quickly enough. Oh, and... "There's nothing wrong wi...
[21:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:56] <exec> 08└─the state department of the usa complaining about corruption in iran has to be to 10 pot/kettle events of 2017. they gonna put comedy central out of business.
[21:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:58] <exec> 08└─Says the russian shill. Can you make a New Year's resolution for a 1 year vow of silence? Think of it as charity for everyone else on earth.
[21:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:53] <exec> 08└─In fact, the episode is available on youtube, but ya gotta pay! It's from somebody called "NBC", I guess they had tapes. This is, however, what the Romans have done to us: the legal doctrine of paterfamilias, the Father as the sole proprietor of the family, and thus its legal owner. Under Roman law,...
[21:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Captures Planetary Nebula NGC 6326 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:02] <exec> 08└─We should pack the jews in a rocket and send them to the next neutron star collision. That way they can have all the gold, silver and platinum for themselves.
[21:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:11] <exec> 08└─Try plugging in a good ols PS/2 keyboard if your mobo still supports it and watch the latency go away.
[21:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─Cores may increase throughput but still increase latency/delays. It's like assigning 72 people to answer 72 different questions that are given on a single sheet of paper. And then somehow getting the answers onto that same sheet of paper. Compared to just one person reading those questions and writi...
[21:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:14] <exec> 08└─Throw some High Bandwidth Memory on top!
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[22:17:58] <exec> 08└─A painting of a semi-nude human can get a teacher fired... But hell, allow us to take a movie laden with violence and killing a dozen people or more, and we slap a pg rating on it. Showing the human body as something of beauty is discouraged, while blood and gore is tolerated... what kind of screwed...
[22:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:02] <exec> 08└─But hell, allow us to take a movie laden with violence and killing a dozen people or more, and we slap a pg rating on it.
[22:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:04] <exec> 08└─So what are you trying to say? Double standards are absolutely fine as long as they're in the favor of womyn-born-womyn and against men? Elementary schools have a huge problem with sexism and misandry.
[22:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─It's the system preferred by a majority of US citizens.
[22:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:09] <exec> 08└─It's required of bellicose cultures (nb: USA counts here) to ingrain in its participants, and especially its warriors, an abhorrence of nuanced enjoyment of the body. Rape? OK. Fucking? Sort of OK, but only in prescribed circumstances. Making love? Fuck that I kill you for talking me down as some pa...
[22:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─They don't drink so they need something else to do.
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Didn't The originl Robocop get edited to ensure no boobs were shown, to get a lower censorship rating? Body parts flying off all over the place were okay, proving the ratings systems was broken.
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:15] <exec> 08└─I think you need to look up the word "dominant". When you control nearly every form of media and education, you don't get to play the poor, downtrodden underdog anymore.
[22:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:18] <exec> 08└─For those interested in scholarly research, the classic works of art featuring boobs or bare bottoms that were included in the postcard set, and reported as objectionable in the Fox 13 Salt Lake City piece mentioned in TFS, are as follows: Modigliani - Female nude (Iris Tree) [wikimedia.org] Franço...
[22:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─Better to show some scenes of biblical carnage, like any of the many times the hebrew god strikes entire cities or armies dead just for being on the Other Side, or smites the firstborn son of every family because of something the Pharaoh didn't do quickly enough.
[22:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─You seem to really take these summaries to heart, likewise criticism of same. I think I speak for most here when I say that we appreciate what you do, we thank you for both tfh and tfs, and when we engage in [warranted|petty|pedantic|right|wrong] criticism of the subject matter or its words, it's no...
[22:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:46] <exec> 08└─Anyone selling leveraged cars?
[22:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:13] <exec> 08└─You are showing off your ignorance. The entire middle east is considered "Arab". Now if you have some trollish reply that you were setting up such as "well they're all toothless rednecks then!" then you're more of an idiot than people think. May you win that Darwin award you've been coveting.
[22:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:15] <exec> 08└─It is an interesting phenomenon with you libertards. You push the "free speech" envelope as heavily as possible in some attempt to assert your right to speak any kind of garbage you feel like. The very real blowback is that your methods create a false sense of urgency against such "hate speech" sinc...
[22:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:17] <exec> 08└─the state department of the usa complaining about corruption in iran[:] pot/kettle....
[22:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:19] <exec> 08└─The two largest ethnic minorities, Azeris and Kurds, most likely agree with the Persians. Arabs are scum.
[22:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:15] <exec> 08└─... Sub Ubi. Ha!
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Alpine might be up your alley. It was designed for routers and the like, but it runs well as a desktop distro. Arch-descended packaging system, very light, very fast, runs well on any hardware and has some interesting tools.
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[23:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:10] <exec> 08└─It's required of bellicose cultures (nb: USA counts here) to ingrain in its participants, and especially its warriors, an abhorrence of nuanced enjoyment of the body. Rape? OK. Fucking? Sort of OK, but only in prescribed circumstances. Making love? Fuck that I kill you for talking me down as some pa...
[23:18:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:14] <exec> 08└─I think you need to look up the word "dominant". When you control nearly every form of media and education, you don't get to play the poor, downtrodden underdog anymore.
[23:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─Laws against nudity do not extend to art, we've always celebrated the human form. Why are those complaining not being referred to a local psychiatric institution?
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:20] <exec> 08└─This is a case where the context is all important. On one hand, classical nude painting shouldn't ruffle feather. I mean, it's not like porntube all-out gynocological/proctoligical gangbang, is it. On the other hand, it's elementary school. What the hell are you doing showing nude paintings to the k...
[23:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:22] <exec> 08└─Well, the US won its independence by fighting, unlike France, where nipples played a central role [louvre.fr] in toppling a king ... I guess?
[23:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:24] <exec> 08└─So do you want to be a woman or not, Kurenai? Because if you hate us so bad, maybe you should keep your current shell. We don't need another self-hating woman in the ranks, thank you all the same. Unfuck your head before you complete transition, please.
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the contortions apologists go through when I talk to them about that would be hilarious, except that the shit they say is utterly horrific. It boils down to "because what the fuck are YOU gonna do about it, huh?!"
[23:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:29] <exec> 08└─Well, those *do* clearly depict nude, or essentially nude, female human forms. Only one of them seems to be intended to be erotic, and even then only mildly. Compare them to things easily accessible on the internet today, and you realize just how stupid this action was. Mind you, I would count this...
[23:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:31] <exec> 08└─if he escapes this situation without being forced to register as a sex offender.
[23:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:33] <exec> 08└─Reading between the lines there, I get the impression that it is an entry point for NAMBLA.
[23:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:36] <exec> 08└─"If God wasn't a dick, we wouldn't worship him!"
[23:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pr [5942] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:38] <exec> 08└─No sarcasm, straight from the heart : it seems like you guys are making some possibly interesting points. I just don't understand what you mean exactly. Can we improve the quality of the debate by being more explicit? PR
[23:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:40] <exec> 08└─Because "youcantbetoosafethinkofthechildrenpollywannacracker". It's a good thing this art wasn't some modern stuff that questioned the existence of their imaginary god. Then they would have had to burn this teacher at the stake.
[23:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:42] <exec> 08└─Most kids are only as fragile as they're raised to be.
[23:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:44] <exec> 08└─Hmmm might be because I am french, but we went to see a play with my class in the 90s when I was 12 years old where two actresses and one actor were completely naked on stage at one point, and yeah there was snickering, but nobody was shocked and there was no complaint. As for the type of artwork th...
[23:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Restores Contact With AngoSat-1 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:55] <exec> 08└─Experts from the Energia Corporation have received telemetry data from the AngoSat satellite launched by the Zenit-3SLBF space rocket from the Baikonur spaceport on December 26.
[23:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:44] <exec> 08└─What have we learned here?
[23:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:45] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that Muslims cannot get along with Jews and other sects of Muslims? Bigot! Racist!
[23:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:47] <exec> 08└─You are showing off your ignorance. The entire middle east is considered "Arab".
[23:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:50] <exec> 08└─Shut up, Donny! Remember that thing we talked about? You're doing it again.
[23:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:52] <exec> 08└─..A democratic Iran could actually be a pretty good ally of the US in the region.
[23:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:54] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that Muslims cannot get along with Jews and other sects of Muslims? Bigot! Racist!
[23:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Maine Robotics Company Vying for Billion-Dollar Army Contract - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:07] <exec> 08└─These things are perfect for martial law. Either moving down city alleys or through the woods where those evil White Iraq War veterans are hiding with their racist buddies and black automatic heavy assault rifles. This was something that I, being an employee of Boston Dynamics, alluded to in my earl...
[23:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Robotics Company Vying for Billion-Dollar Army Contract - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:08] <exec> 08└─The terrestrial scraps that USA.gov has gotten itself into for 3 decades (over petroleum, which is rapidly becoming less important), have been in deserts. These "planners" aren't even "fighting the last war"; they're still fighting the thing before that (y'know, the one they lost), which ended in th...
[23:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Ancient Artifact Proves the Romans Were the Original Pranksters - 2281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:54] <exec> 08└─If you need to ask what the problem with jews is, you need to wake up. Maybe you need to clarify what that problem is exactly? I mean I don't see mr heebowitz holding a gun to my head to watch tv or film. I also don't see him picking my pocket (unlike some others). But you know who does hold a gun t...
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:22] <exec> 08└─I have to admire how much of a prick Bezos is, he doesn't bother to spout "diversity" bullshit and is well-known even in the U.S. for his plantation-like warehouses. And before that he was known for suicidal salaried employees and horrible morale. Oracle is known for having software UIs that are gua...
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