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[00:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:11] <exec> 08└─So no, that wouldn't help with already infected cells. Supposedly a while back there was experimental treatment using ultrasound waves (like for imaging a fetus in a pregnant mother) that with the proper pulse frequency/power was triggering flushing activities or breaking up the proteins without dam...
[00:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:53] <exec> 08└─They are actually still 'smart tvs' under the hood, but AFAIK have no wifi or other provisions for network access. They DO however apparently run linux under the hood based on research into them. They are both budget brands, may have dead/stuck pixels, but with 2160p at 250-500 dollars for 42->60+ i...
[00:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:20] <exec> 08└─How about my pressure cooker, which needs to finish cooking by dinnertime, and my visit to City Hall is going to take all day, meaning I have to keep an eye on it so that I can make sure the pressure release valve isn't sticking such that it might blow up my house or any peoples within it! :) Seriou...
[00:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:49] <exec> 08└─I second this. Libertarianism is not a popular theory in any other Western Democracy. Why? I suspect a combination of two reasons: The US government is demonstrably worse than most other Western governments at actually governingThe US has a far higher proportion of "Fuck you, I got mine" individuals...
[00:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:51] <exec> 08└─You win the internet today.
[00:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:53] <exec> 08└─I had mentioned prisons and threw padded cells in at no additional charge. We seem to do it today. We decide that someone should get a padded cell as an alternative to prison if they are doing things that the rest of the population they must live with thinks that their exercise of their freedom is t...
[00:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:55] <exec> 08└─My preferred solution is to allow Loot Boxes in games, even ones which can be classified as gambling. IF a particular game's implementation falls under the 'gambling' definition however, that game must receive an R rating to recognize the fact that it should only be played by those aged 18+. EA won'...
[00:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:57] <exec> 08└─Counterexample is Thatcherism. It's not libertarianism, but shares some features.
[00:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:59] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is not a popular theory in any other Western Democracy. Why?
[00:21:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not at all "dismissing the results," but isn't it logical that a "heat sink" would experience smaller changes and have significant lag? I have limited knowledge in this area, but I vaguely remember studying ocean temperature and CO2 dynamics nearly 20 years ago, and how they were predicted to la...
[00:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:04] <exec> 08└─Globalist Socialist: Obama, Bernie Globalist Capitalist: Romney, Bush Nationalist Capitalist: Trump Nationalist Socialist: Hitler
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[01:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:05] <exec> 08└─First, I was already stupid, antisocial and unhealthy! Then the internet made it worse! Your puny cell phone has no measurable effect on me!
[01:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:06] <exec> 08└─You have 1 new notification.
[01:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:08] <exec> 08└─... because I cannot stand these stupid devices, or the crap software that they run. I can look away for easily; indeed, it's difficult for me to find interest in them. Flashing lights, flying colors, and annoying sounds. Blech! You can keep it; it's built for dummies.
[01:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─Like the other AC said: They are built for dummies; they aren't tools to aid production, but rather constructs to ease consumption. Total trash. That's why nobody calls them mobile "computers". The corporate overlords know that such a term is tainted by the notion of personal computing.
[01:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:13] <exec> 08└─doesn't this happen with everything new? If we reserve judgement until after a generation has grown up with smartphones, people will probably have gotten over them.
[01:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:06] <exec> 08└─But this isn't a neutrality issue, if you actually look past the clickbait headline. If you violate their ToS they may throttle all your traffic equally, which may include traffic for any IoT crap you may use. It is an argument for more competition though.
[01:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:08] <exec> 08└─Most of appliances have computers inside and computers don't have on/off switches for a long time already. Besides, it's unethical to kill our new AI masters.
[01:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:10] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he would understand consequences of creating and enslaving Frankenstein's children without proper authority?
[01:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:12] <exec> 08└─That sounds clever... until you think about it. As an example, I find playing board games fun. However, I frequently don't smile when doing it. Likewise if you looked at the audience in a (non-laugh-out-loud-comedy) movie, how many would you find smiling? How about most of the audience of a sports a...
[01:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:13] <exec> 08└─The collectible card industry (baseball, Magic, Pokemon, etc.) is based on the same premise as loot boxes, except that loot boxes are even cheaper to manufacture.
[01:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:15] <exec> 08└─So it's gambling if you roll to hit?
[01:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:18] <exec> 08└─You've got that backwards. Only libertarianism embraces the reality that men are not angels, and the self-interest is the root of all motivation—your altruism, too, is selfish. If you ignore this fact, as all non-libertarian philosophies do, then you are doomed to construct a naive form of society...
[01:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:22] <exec> 08└─I'll notice your argument suffers from the same problem: you assert that the level of taxes paid by Google is generous without bothering to determine what an appropriate level of taxes. Subjectivism all the way down, each one choosing the view they prefer.
[01:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─I just want to say that you post a lot of things that I disagree with on this site, but that I agree with the first four paragraphs of this completely and could not have expressed what you said better. Regarding the last paragraph, I don't know if I'd agree with that as a serious proposal, but I agr...
[01:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:26] <exec> 08└─I'll notice your argument suffers from the same problem: you assert that the level of taxes paid by Google is generous without bothering to determine what an appropriate level of taxes.
[01:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:56] <exec> 08└─Ditto.
[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─Ok, then it sounds like it's time to dust off the SPARC architecture and bring it back. I always liked those SPARCstations anyway, plus the keyboards were pretty nice, a lot better than the garbage we have now.
[01:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:10] <exec> 08└─You know, if all you have is a tu quoque argument, you might be better off remaining silent.
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[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:11] <exec> 08└─True but it's a lot of work to round up and euthanize an entire generation.
[02:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:13] <exec> 08└─About 1/month I have a need and borrow the one my GF has.
[02:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:15] <exec> 08└─my GF
[02:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:17] <exec> 08└─It also has given me enough education in the span of a year to start two side businesses which will most likely eventually let me quit my day job and retire 20 years early (thank you Optimal Living Daily and related). I wonder how the study results would come out if they controlled for nutrition. Fo...
[02:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:19] <exec> 08└─I blame democracy for our shortage of Archdukes.
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:22] <exec> 08└─It's a fair swap, about 1/month she wants to ride a bicycle and I loan her one of mine (which I maintain for her).
[02:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:24] <exec> 08└─It's a fair swap, about 1/month she wants to ride a bicycle and I loan her one of mine (which I maintain for her).
[02:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:26] <exec> 08└─Please don't reply to trolls. SN has too many. They need to starve to death.
[02:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:28] <exec> 08└─I'm much healthier since I began my hobby of war-walking for open wifi. It's like wardriving except I walk everywhere instead of driving. I've already lost 50 pounds of body weight from the exercise.
[02:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:40] <exec> 08└─oh fuck that is sad
[02:18:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:48] <exec> 08└─The East Coast company stated: "Please be advised that this may affect other services which you may have connected to your internet service, such as the ability to control your thermostat remotely or video monitoring services."
[02:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:26] <exec> 08└─No, you're absolutely right. It's not even a reasonable point of discussion. They should be and must be regulated for the internet to work. You don't let power companies come into your home and drill down into your daily life and habits. You don't let libraries follow you home and watch he reads the...
[02:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:28] <exec> 08└─I got a Samsung TV about 3 years ago. It was the last dumb model on the shelf. I actually bought it from a Best Buy! The salesman there was shocked that I didn't want the smart TV version. Why would I want to pay more for a laggy java shit interface and spyware? puzzling. It hasn't gotten really bad...
[02:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:30] <exec> 08└─I imagine they can infer quite a bit by the statistical data of your packets: time, frequency, size, rate. All without even looking at destination addresses. I'd recommend running openvpn on a vps or at least getting a vpn account just to give yourself a slim margin of privacy (from your ISP only th...
[02:21:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:29] <exec> 08└─My preferred solution is to allow Loot Boxes in games, even ones which can be classified as gambling. IF a particular game's implementation falls under the 'gambling' definition however, that game must receive an R rating to recognize the fact that it should only be played by those aged 18+. EA won'...
[02:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:37] <exec> 08└─And you are happy to let your underage kids gamble because this makes them happy? Because those loot boxes are sold to kids - some would say, mainly to kids.
[02:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:12] <exec> 08└─I'm more interested in how they determine which oceans are the mean ones.
[02:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:48] <exec> 08└─How about this; socialists should pay 90% tax and capitalists 10%.
[02:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:19] <exec> 08└─Let me speculate why... When OpenVPN misbehaves and leaks a few packets they are nicely recorded by NSA and... nothing... for now. When similar thing happens in China, the authorities disconnect the whole building or a village and report the offending IP to the population. It conveniently happens du...
[02:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─The version I heard the glaziers would benefit and some boy wanted to break the window. The effect is the same. Society as a whole is worse off while a small group benefit. The users not so much. But it is not like we are going to collectively stop using computers. We will want our computers fixed....
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[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:07] <exec> 08└─White people cannot be native Americans, not ever, not even when whites are born on American soil.
[03:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─Out in the country, far from a highway There is this land here, and it is my way Don't ever come here, or you'll be sorry This land was made just for me This land is my land, it isn't your land I got a shotgun, and you don't got none If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off This land was made j...
[03:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:11] <exec> 08└─Let me guess...you are squatting on federal grazing land and not paying rent, amirite?
[03:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─You pay my rent into the one armed bandit.
[03:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:36] <exec> 08└─Massively improved inspection reporting, inventory tracking, financial tracking, navigation, portable video camera, audio recording, IR cameras, sleep sensors, levels, light meters, noise meters, reminders, reusable check lists, 3D scanners, etc... They're only non-productive if you use them like an...
[03:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:37] <exec> 08└─You should try dumpfeeding. All you have to do is find a dumpster and hope people wasted perfectly good food.
[03:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:40] <exec> 08└─I don't need to eat out of dumpsters because I know which places give away free food before they throw it away.
[03:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:42] <exec> 08└─I'm much healthier since I began my hobby of war-walking for open wifi. It's like wardriving except I walk everywhere instead of driving. I've already lost 50 pounds of body weight from the exercise.
[03:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:44] <exec> 08└─I ache for you to fill my negative cavity with your positive rod!
[03:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:46] <exec> 08└─doesn't this happen with everything new?
[03:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:48] <exec> 08└─Let's feed the trolls. Feed the trolls to each other. Suck my cock and I'll suck yours. Let's get a little 69 going on. Better yet you bring a friend and I bring a friend and we get some 138 action in here.
[03:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:51] <exec> 08└─Of course these devices are useful to corporations; they have the money to get other corporations to produce useful, application-specific devices for their drones in the field. I'm talking about personal computing, where a whole world of productivity was open to anyone who bought a computer to own;...
[03:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:53] <exec> 08└─People commonly misuse hammers, screwdrivers, saws of various types, television, telephone, you name it. So, those little personal mobile computer/communication devices are used in ways that are generally wasteful, and unhealthy. Mmm. Let me get excited.
[03:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:55] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that. I got a cell phone originally because I wanted some way to call for help if I were stranded anywhere. I refuse to use phone directions; maps are irreplaceable (yet next to useless when cached in the app's hobbled storage). Nothing extra really appealed to me despite having dece...
[03:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:57] <exec> 08└─They're computers, by every reasonable definition of computer. Even an iPhone can, if you jump through some hoops and pay a fee, run your own code. Too onerous? Get an Android phone with root access. It's a Linux computer, you can open up a terminal and it's going to feel completely familiar to any...
[03:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:10] <exec> 08└─That's my understanding too. I heard it described this way on a recent episode of Fresh Air On why the onset of Alzheimer's is often described as an "attack" In Alzheimer's disease, there is a huge buildup of these sticky clumps of proteins that we call plaques and tangles. In an Alzheimer pat...
[03:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:11] <exec> 08└─"We come down quite strongly in favor of the idea that tau is starting in one place and moving across neurons and synapses to other places," says clinical neurologist Thomas Cope, one of the study's authors.
[03:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:13] <exec> 08└─Instead of cutting, I'd recommend MRI monitored fiber optic delivered laser thermal ablation... yes, that's a thing, and it's damned good at killing specifically targeted brain tissue.
[03:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:31] <exec> 08└─against unreasonable searches and seizures,
[03:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:32] <exec> 08└─Makes me want to wear Google Glass every time I walk into a post office, just to piss them off...
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:22] <exec> 08└─There could be good reasons to throw their bikes in the creek. For example you're a Google mechanic and tired of fixing POS Nexus hubs. Or some Google jerk left the bike on your property, and you don't want to do anything except get rid of it. Or you're a self-driving car and fed up with vehicles th...
[03:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:39] <exec> 08└─Rooftops seem like a better place to start. At my latitude, 1 sq.m produces 1kW on a sunny day. ...and I'm in favor of anything that gets us away from digging up sequestered carbon and putting that into the atmosphere. Short-haul electric stuff, powered by renewables, is already a no-brainer here. -...
[03:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:41] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much it was the pilot and how much it was the computer or dumb luck that they landed on a busy waterway without hitting any boats? Hmm reading wiki, it seems it was all the pilots decision with the fly by wire system first helping the glide and then stopping the pilot achieving maximum...
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[04:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:15] <exec> 08└─"[This is] the first direct evidence of the initial founding Native American population," Potter says. "It is markedly more complex than we thought."
[04:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:49] <exec> 08└─It's about ongoing stimulation, just like thrill sports or gambling or lots of other activities and/or drugs. Humans aren't designed for this, any more than they're designed for continual food availability (especially high sugar) or continual long days (thanks to artificial light). Some of us get ho...
[04:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:51] <exec> 08└─Something something oblig XKCD extrapolation.
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[05:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:30] <exec> 08└─"Polynesians found South and Central America" "other people found their way here by different routes." "There is nothing to indicate that all Native American's ancestors came across from Siberia." At this point there's a fairly strong absence of evidence argument. Of course it's perfectly possible t...
[05:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:06] <exec> 08└─Or don't, because that's not a privilege, but a failing. What a filthy normie.
[05:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:08] <exec> 08└─time spent rock-and-roll, drugs, "open" sex, video games, is not wasted time , itis quality time
[05:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:10] <exec> 08└─1. sexting while underage 2. texting while driving 3. recording police 4. inciting border guards to detain you until you reveal the password 5. trespassing in search of Pokemon Go creatures I guess playing violent video games and pirating music is passe.
[05:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:12] <exec> 08└─Mostly, I agree with you and my comment is not against your opinion, but against the way these devices are manufactured and marketed. A “regular” computer is something I can build from parts, even if some of those parts are buggy (i.e. Meltdown or Spectre) or infect by some TLA, I get to choose...
[05:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 4541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:10] <exec> 08└─From the TFA: The main problem with this divide-and-conquer strategy is that while it’s easy to split a big number into small numbers, the reverse is trickier — it’s hard to fish out the right small numbers to recombine to give you the right big number. Imagine, for example, that your data st...
[05:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:11] <exec> 08└─OK - I read the details on the bloom filters and agree, on the surface it seems similar to me as well. My original thought was this 'best' algorithm reminded me of pointer and bytes.
[05:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─Anything "easy" should be banned. If you act like that, the world ends up like that. It starts with you. Think about it.
[05:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:32] <exec> 08└─https://remineralize.org/ [remineralize.org]
[05:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:00] <exec> 08└─Quite. With the added benefit of having the fuel tank constantly (slowly) refill as you glide. And self-powered takeoffs would certainly add a great deal.
[05:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm willing to bet electric saves a whole lot of headaches, especially during landing. But I also suspect that aspect of the takeoff and landing would already be the easiest to automate. It's the rest of it, especially in adverse conditions or the occasional, inevitable, emergency landing, that...
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[06:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:27] <exec> 08└─The term Native American needs to die in a fire. It's fucking retarded. Anyone born here is a native American. We're fucking Indians. Why Indians when it's just as wrong as Native Americans? Because it's wrong because a white guy was stupid and we get to laugh at him instead of being wrong because s...
[06:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:07] <exec> 08└─The nature of these devices, being highly miniaturized and integrated, makes modularity difficult if not impossible. When it comes to software, you do have a choice for the main operating system. You'd probably want something like Replicant [wikipedia.org]. So choose hardware that supports what you...
[06:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:25] <exec> 08└─There is this: https://www.sciencenews.org [sciencenews.org] which provides some hope assuming it also translates to humans from mice.
[06:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, I remember when they livestreamed JFK's brain surgery.
[06:21:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 987 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:51] <exec> 08└─As someone who had to deal with the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, yes, these can be classified as a game of chance. If the game's only means of progression is through some random process, it's a game of chance. Being dealt cards, rolling dice, spinning a Big Six or a roulette wheel, or t...
[06:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:30] <exec> 08└─Kids gamble daily with the choices they make. Will mom and dad be happy? Will I get in trouble? Did I do it right? When they are old enough to make their own money, they can then be taught how to spend it. Then they can make their own decisions.
[06:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─It's mostly the psychological tricks around it. EA, who's the source of this, locked expected features (playing as Darth Vader, for example) behind loot box mechanics. They designed the entire game around pushing the loot boxes as hard as possible, and they don't eliminate duplicates so it's entirel...
[06:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:07] <exec> 08└─That's partially what the article is about.
[06:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:46] <exec> 08└─Google's whole purpose, as I see it, is to do crazy stuff. Advertising is just a means to fund that. Things like AlphaGo, Guetzli (35% better JPEG compressor), Maps, Earth, Tensorflow, Go, Loon, Wing, Translate, Search, Waymo are all funded by the ads money printing machine. What, you thought cuttin...
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[07:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:08] <exec> 08└─See subject. It's a nasty, ugly custom, sorta thing that leads to "give her a 20 and slap her bottom" sorta shit.
[07:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:09] <exec> 08└─Unless they have some seriously exotic payment equipment, lines now move slower. I swear, credit cards must go over a 50 baud modem to a 386 running Windows 95 that runs an S/360 emulator. The real reason is one or both of: 1. tracking customers in a giant database 2. keeping out the riff raff undes...
[07:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:11] <exec> 08└─I was hesitant to use Apple Pay, but now when stores don't accept it I get annoyed. I do carry cash for emergencies and small tips but I hate having to use traditional cards or cash. Making change is a plague, how many man-hours does it waste every day? It's especially bad because of our horrible co...
[07:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:14] <exec> 08└─I mostly don't patronize the sorts of places where I might be expected to tip. When I do, I still don't tip. The corrupt nonsense won't end until... we just end it. Stop tipping. Just don't do it.
[07:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:16] <exec> 08└─Did the submitter actually read the Wikipedia link? Especially the section on the U.S.? If someone goes into a restaurant and orders something and is served and tenders cash when presented with the bill, it must be accepted or the debt must be excused. Now maybe if there is a clear and very obvious...
[07:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:18] <exec> 08└─Unless they have some seriously exotic payment equipment
[07:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:20] <exec> 08└─Sorry, not NFC, RFID.
[07:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:23] <exec> 08└─I think it is due to the chips on cards. Each transaction has to be validated, rather than batch processing them. It's quite noticeable that the chip-and-pin cards are processed much faster in the UK, where I believe batch processing is still allowed.
[07:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:25] <exec> 08└─Tipping is sexist now. Peak SJW reached.
[07:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:44] <exec> 08└─But what about that "lost tribe" of Israel that sailed from Egypt to the New World and build paramids to God under their leader Nephi and his bothers until they all fell away from the Heavenly Father and got turned Red because Lamanites, and then got all saved by a bunch of white people with Golden...
[07:18:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:52] <exec> 08└─First, I was already stupid, antisocial and unhealthy! Then the internet made it worse! Your puny cell phone has no measurable effect on me!
[07:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:27] <exec> 08└─3. recording police
[07:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:28] <exec> 08└─People misusing tools is not a proper analogy. Indeed, if they used them more often, they would likely get better at it. If it doesn't end up making them smarter, it is certainly not going to make them stupid or antisocial. Unhealthy perhaps if they really misuse them, but that is still not a meanin...
[07:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:30] <exec> 08└─A recent commercial about a "device" ends with a parent asking "What are you doing on your computer", with the absent minded kid replying "What is a computer" ? If your kid is on a "device" all day and is catatonic to the point of not knowing what a computer is, it might be time to pry it off its t...
[07:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:37] <exec> 08└─There are still power supply units that have a power switch. Granted, it's in an inconvenient position (since it's part of the PSU), other than the prominent standby button on the front.
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:54] <exec> 08└─And you are happy to let your underage kids gamble because this makes them happy?
[07:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:55] <exec> 08└─How dare you speak that way to an expert on happiness? Smiling == happy! Experts know that!
[07:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:58] <exec> 08└─Or play Bridge. Not really feeling the laser focus of these regulations.
[07:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:11] <exec> 08└─I'll notice your argument suffers from the same problem: you assert that the level of taxes paid by Google is generous without bothering to determine what an appropriate level of taxes.
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[08:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:06] <exec> 08└─[...] McAdams, a tenured professor then in his 41st year at Marquette and a conservative who blogs about the school's news, emailed Abbate seeking her version of the episode. Without responding to him, she immediately forwarded his email to some professors. She has called McAdams "the ringleader" of...
[08:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/20/marquette-u-grad-student-shes-being-targeted-after-ending-class-discussion-gay [insidehighered.com] But the facts reported are the same.
[08:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:10] <exec> 08└─Results-oriented people create successful businesses. They don't discriminate based on political view. They hire, fire, and promote based on skill. SJWs hire and promote other SJWs, while firing anybody in opposition. Sometimes, a SJW will happen to have skill. This can put them in a position of pow...
[08:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:12] <exec> 08└─This is a Catholic university. The student expressed a belief that is 100% in keeping with Catholic belief, that same-sex marriage should not be permitted. It's even a belief that was approved by ballot measure in California. Yes, really, in California! It's a belief that Hillary Clinton expressed n...
[08:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:14] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "SJW", it is a creation of the alt-right, just like "alt-right" itself. And this is exactly why McAdams had to go, he was a right wing academic troll, probably with his pack of the dozen or so White Male Conservative students let in on affirmative action, looking to stir up...
[08:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:16] <exec> 08└─Catholic Universities are Universities first, and Catholic second. Just ask them! "Liberty" or "Bubba Billie Bob Jones", not so much.
[08:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:19] <exec> 08└─Cheryl Abbate's version of "ethics", that she was supposedly teaching, was not in keeping with the Catholic faith. It was closer to the "ethics" of another ethics professor, Eric Canton, who tried to murder Trump supporters by bashing their heads with a U-lock. The solution really is simple for a Ca...
[08:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:35] <exec> 08└─But if someone loads up a shopping cart and shows up at the register, there is no debt yet, thus no obligation for the merchant to settle with cash.
[08:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:36] <exec> 08└─... I will laugh at the clerk and leave the store... If you don't take actual currency, or I suppose, perhaps allow some kind of barter for precious metals or other services, then I will not do business with you. Full stop.
[08:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:38] <exec> 08└─Financial domination is acceptable.
[08:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:41] <exec> 08└─"Great story, daddy! So did you at least get my insulin prescription back from the pharmacist? I'm starting to get a little shaky."
[08:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:43] <exec> 08└─Making change is a plague, how many man-hours does it waste every day? It's especially bad because of our horrible coin denominations. We still have a penny, for fuck's sake. If we had sensible increments it wouldn't be so bad.
[08:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:45] <exec> 08└─Unless they have some seriously exotic payment equipment,
[08:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:47] <exec> 08└─You have about 10-20 years before you won't be able to pay for anything, anywhere then. Cash is dying, except for anonymous transactions. I have now met any number of other people who are like myself and literally carry no cash. When we need it, it's a massive hassle if you're not already carrying i...
[08:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:52] <exec> 08└─I've got a feature phone. In theory it can go to the internet, but that functionality is broken. Apparently I could get an update that fixes it, but only using Windows. But I don't need that functionality urgently enough (it would sometimes be nice for checking bus timetables in advance). It's nice...
[08:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:53] <exec> 08└─One is subject to the manufacturer’s crap and then the phone company crap
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[09:18:23] <exec> 08└─One? "Catholic"? Evidently you do not know what the word means. And remember, always remember, "Abstinence makes the Church Grow Fondlers". It is nice that Mel Gibson is posting as AC on SoylentNews, now. Hey, how's about the return of the Latin mass, and some good, old-fashioned Catholic anti-semi...
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[09:18:46] <exec> 08└─Federal minimum wage is NOT $7.25. It's actually $2.13. [google.com] If you are at one of the chain restaurants and you don't leave a tip, it's likely that that is what your server is getting for the hour after working for you. I mostly don't patronize the sorts of places where I might be expected t...
[09:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:48] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, won't someone think of the children? To answer this childish (lol) hyperbole I pose an answer: sheep. Get one, take out its vital bits, process its pancreas into insulin and eat the rest of the critter. See, now you both have insulin for your child *and* you can feed the family. You can ext...
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[09:18:50] <exec> 08└─1. Stop accepting cash as a business 2. Announce it to the world 3. Grow the brand name... A business not taking cash sounds a bit crazy, even a tad unpatriotic, until you remember that Amazon and every other eCommerce site has the same policy (sans gift cards).
[09:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:52] <exec> 08└─"...or take lessons in what it requires to be a proper human being." When business owners take those lessons first and actually pay a proper salary, I'll feel guilted into doing so. Remember tipping started because business owners deliberately started paying their staff too little, expecting the cus...
[09:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:55] <exec> 08└─Longest is when you are required to enter your PIN
[09:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:57] <exec> 08└─It was either Albertson's or Safeway. The coins drop out of a machine. You can then grab them or not.
[09:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:59] <exec> 08└─If you are at one of the chain restaurants and you don't leave a tip, it's likely that that is what your server is getting for the hour after working for you.
[09:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:01] <exec> 08└─The ideal minimum wage is negative infinity. Some people are worth less than zero because they harm the business, but maybe they need the learning experience or just need to have an activity to keep them busy. The de facto minimum wage may well be negative, particularly with illegal aliens and other...
[09:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:22] <exec> 08└─In Canada they seem to prefer the term "first nation"
[09:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should stop calling them "smartphones" and instead start calling them what they are, "spyphones", as in being tracked and spied upon as one uses it.
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[10:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoPro Cuts 20% of its Workforce as It Exits the Drone Business - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:07] <exec> 08└─Hostile regulations like... only allowed to fly if doesn't lose power mid-flight and drop out of the sky
[10:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:22] <exec> 08└─what one would expect of every person at any Catholic institution
[10:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:24] <exec> 08└─> Cheryl Abbate's version of "ethics", that she was supposedly teaching, was not in keeping with the Catholic faith. It was closer to the "ethics" of another ethics professor, Eric Canton, who tried to murder Trump supporters by bashing their heads with a U-lock. And the version of "ethics" that she...
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[10:18:26] <exec> 08└─Why post actual information when you can post inflammatory clickbait? Seriously, all the facts were removed and all the inflammatory garbage was left in. Even by SN standards this is a truly terrible summary. According to the article, John McAdams, a tenured professor, was fired after refusing to ap...
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[10:18:37] <exec> 08└─Did the submitter actually read the Wikipedia link? Especially the section on the U.S.? If someone goes into a restaurant and orders something and is served and tenders cash when presented with the bill, it must be accepted or the debt must be excused. Now maybe if there is a clear and very obvious...
[10:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:57] <exec> 08└─I hate parking and then finding the meter, can only be used, once you have signed up, phoned up, downloaded and entered your Car and plate details. And none of them are the same. I remember the good old days when you had cash stash in your car, but you hardly ever used it because as you entered the...
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[10:18:58] <exec> 08└─cash [...] must be accepted or the debt must be excused.
[10:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:01] <exec> 08└─The pertinent part: There is no federal law stating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins for payment. Private businesses are free to create their own policies on whether or not they accept cash, unless there is a specific state law which says otherwise....
[10:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe he's black. Don't be racis, y'all! Many states have their own minimum wage, which is usually higher. Washington and some other states [dol.gov] also don't allow employers to count tips to be toward wage.
[10:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:10] <exec> 08└─that's exactly what the current gen would say about smartphones :)
[10:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:48] <exec> 08└─Or they didn't appreciate his facial expression... The CBP works in mysterious ways.
[10:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:38] <exec> 08└─There might be something there worth exploring, but as you say, it's not exactly libertarianism.
[10:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:39] <exec> 08└─I've never seen loot boxes that give literally nothing, but the value of the items in them varies a lot and often the most common items are nearly worthless to anyone but beginning players. The high variance in the value of the reward is what makes both gambling and loot boxes addictive to some peop...
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[10:23:41] <exec> 08└─Back when I played Magic, each booster would contain the exact same number of rare, uncommon and common cards. That is not the case with most games using loot boxes: items of the highest rarity levels will appear at random in a small number of loot boxes.
[10:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:44] <exec> 08└─Only libertarianism embraces the reality that men are not angels, and the self-interest is the root of all motivation
[10:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:20] <exec> 08└─If water has ice in it and then you add heat to it, the ice will melt while the water's temperature remains constant. It is only after all the ice melts that the temperature goes up.
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[11:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 4859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:07] <exec> 08└─> You have about 10-20 years before you won't be able to pay for anything, anywhere then. > Cash is dying, except for anonymous transactions. I very strongly doubt that is the case. Cash will stay for a long time to come. Perhaps not in dystopian police states (or ones on that path) like the UK, but...
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[11:19:08] <exec> 08└─Usually added to whenever…people give me cash (e.g. friends to pay their halves of meals, etc.)
[11:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. But there are a few wrinkles with cash. The debtor has to offer legal tender in the amount of the debt or greater. The creditor is not required to have change. Friend of mine would fill his truck with gas at these stations that say they won't accept any bills larger than $20. Sometimes he had o...
[11:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 5726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:13] <exec> 08└─"(The French, Germans and Swiss are still big on cash, and that is just in the EU)" I have travelled through all three of those, for months on end, without a single cash-related problem. "I don't trust my phone with my basic details, and you think I am now going to hold money and/or do financial tra...
[11:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks for contributing to our mass surveillance society. Your masters are grateful.
[11:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:18] <exec> 08└─Or PayM. Or PingIt. Or Paypal, even. Loads of places do that and most only need a mobile phone number or email or similar to send money to people. I mean "those friends who only have cash", and things like work colleagues who don't want to faff about adding you for a single payment and happen to hav...
[11:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:40] <exec> 08└─Literally, yes, you're quite right. Same goes for indigenous. Aboriginal, then? Pre-columbian settlers? Give the beast a name, it doesn't really matter. Because native Americans are a subject of study (in various fields, not just snowflakeology) it's quite useful to define terms. We use a lot of te...
[11:22:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:59] <exec> 08└─There is happiness in gambling in the same way there is happiness in alcohol. Or drugs I suppose. It makes you feel great for a short time. Then the alcoholic wakes up in vomit, and the gambler wakes up in debt -- possibly to some bad people. My advice to the alcoholic: Alcohol won't solve your prob...
[11:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:00] <exec> 08└─(First off - I've upvoted you. I didn't think that 'Flamebait' mod was fair.) libertopia is the voluntary exchange amongst individuals, which comprises the very phenomena that actually make society productive, and on which every government attaches itself like a parasite
[11:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─More like the USA has a higher proportion of stupid ignorant people. For example, the healthcare thing. If you were one of those who had to pay taxes, universal healthcare would still be the cheaper option for you. Even a selfish but intelligent sociopath would realize that lots of OTHER people woul...
[11:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:39] <exec> 08└─You're being inconsistent. First you say that volcanoes couldn't cause the warming, then you say maybe the Deccan traps could. I noted that there actually hadn't been such a volcanic event recently.
[11:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:09] <exec> 08└─Food aid works in the short term but if you don't address the issues all that means is more people survive then you need to give even more food the next time round. I've seen people complaining about why they keep having to give to [insert world aid organization] here, and they were cheated because...
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[12:18:35] <exec> 08└─Why post actual information when you can post inflammatory clickbait? Seriously, all the facts were removed and all the inflammatory garbage was left in. Even by SN standards this is a truly terrible summary. According to the article, John McAdams, a tenured professor, was fired after refusing to ap...
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[12:18:37] <exec> 08└─Funny. And insightful!
[12:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:19] <exec> 08└─Parking meters are a much older scam than those red light cameras. The city is really hoping that they can bust owners of parked cars with huge fines for expired meters, and have been known to fiddle with the timing to make the meters expire too soon. Enforcers hover over nearly expired meters, with...
[12:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:20] <exec> 08└─What do they do when the cashless payment system goes down? At least if they still accept cash, SOME customers can still help keep money coming in and help resolve the splh (sales per labour hour) where it should be. Or should the store send people home hoping the system doesn't come back up? Close...
[12:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:22] <exec> 08└─Wendy's used to have them as well, here in Canada at least.
[12:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:45] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the Polynesians that crossed the Pacific and the North-Asian people that crossed the Bering strait (probably around the same time, 15,000 BCE) be quite similar, genetically spoken?
[12:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:47] <exec> 08└─Why this one? Because it sounds retarded and was created for nonexistent hurt feelz. I don't give a happy damn if a term isn't precise so long as it doesn't hit those criteria as well. African American annoys me as well, though it does make me laugh when the media has to figure out how to not say "b...
[12:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:49] <exec> 08└─Better but then they probably don't play Cowboys and First Nationals as kids up there what with no serious history of cattle ranching.
[12:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:38] <exec> 08└─I have porn and Java in my pocket. What more does a person need?
[12:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:50] <exec> 08└─That's right, but it only works in the *local neighbourhood* of the interface layer between water and ice. If you put water and ice in your bath (0°C) but you pour a fresh kettle in at the foot end (100°C), the water/ice at the head end stays 0 for a while even while the ice at the foot end is all...
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[12:27:03] <exec> 08└─Original AC here - yes this was the same in Mint and I consider it to be broken. Grandma ain't going to be adding lines to no ovpn file.
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[13:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:15] <exec> 08└─That's a tidy sum when you're not serving shareholders. https://finance.yahoo.com [yahoo.com]
[13:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:17] <exec> 08└─Barnes & Noble Customers Donate Approximately 1.6 Million Books to Children in Need Through Holiday Book Drive
[13:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:19] <exec> 08└─I don't see how private bookstores can last much longer. The business model of selling dead tree copies is horribly inefficient compared to downloading ebooks. I saw B&N has set aside a few rows for vinyl LPs of all things. I can't believe that's a lasting trend. Has to be a fad. Why interest for th...
[13:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:21] <exec> 08└─Look at this picture of the Barnes & Noble "flagship" store in New York [fortune.com]. If you can, pretend that you don't know what store it is, what business they are in, and try to deduce this from the products on display. Chips, cookies and snacks. Are those bags of coffee beans? Some sort of box...
[13:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoPro Cuts 20% of its Workforce as It Exits the Drone Business - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:30] <exec> 08└─So, the MBAs thought that by being a newcomer in a field already well populated by cheap chinese commodity brands, they could be more successful than they are in a field where they almost dominate. I really like my current pie, therefore getting new pies is good. That's the limit to their logic. The...
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[13:18:48] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter so much if it's an extreme viewpoint, it matters if it's a defensible viewpoint. Especially Jesuits (the "soldiers of Christ") are (in-)famous for how good they are at argument and discussion. So I'd expect the students there to be well-trained in academic debate. It seems that the...
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[13:18:50] <exec> 08└─Damn, I should have given Torquemada as example, not Qutb ;-)
[13:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:52] <exec> 08└─Your version makes much more sense. I just looked at the website of Marquette University, and they are indeed Jesuits like Pope Francis. I've NEVER heard of a Jesuit that shuns debate or academic speech so this McAdams seems 100% in the spirit of his employer's mission statement.
[13:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:54] <exec> 08└─There's another reason he's trying to bypass the appeals court besides publicity: Judge shopping. Specifically, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is a fairly conservative body elected on a state-wide basis, while the appeals court is a fairly liberal body elected by the citizens of metro Milwaukee. He's a...
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[13:19:39] <exec> 08└─In Europe cash is and remains king. There are however a few exceptions: Nordic countries, UK and Ireland are less cash heavy than other EU Countries. As I Belgian there are certain groups I want to know as little as possible about my or anyone's finances... Namely the state((s), both Federal, provin...
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[13:19:40] <exec> 08└─There's nothing corrupt about tipping, you're just an idiot and a douchebag. Wait staff who are good at their jobs make more than those who are not, so there's your idiocy for opposing meritocracy. Wait staff who are good at their job also make a damn sight more than the management would be willing...
[13:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:42] <exec> 08└─This varies a lot for place to place, where I live the more typical is not that they do not accept large bills but that they offer a maximum of possible change. Basically in one concrete place if you offer a 200€ bill for a 160€ purchase they accept it but they don't accept a 100€ bill for a 2...
[13:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:44] <exec> 08└─What you should hate is the assinine law that lets some businesses ignore previously agree-upon laws regarding fair payment of workers. "Serving staff get tips, therefore they don't need the minimum wage" is pure unadulterated bullshit, and it *obliges* the underpaid staff to hawk for tips, which pe...
[13:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:10] <exec> 08└─LOL sure, and next you'll be saying Jesus wasn't blond and white skinned!
[13:20:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 1479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:44] <exec> 08└─They're computers, by every reasonable definition of computer. Even an iPhone can, if you jump through some hoops and pay a fee, run your own code. Too onerous? Get an Android phone with root access. It's a Linux computer, you can open up a terminal and it's going to feel completely familiar to any...
[13:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:01] <exec> 08└─Hey, you kids: get out of my basement. --Mom and Dad.
[13:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:02] <exec> 08└─A 'joystick' to use with the porn. :)
[13:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:04] <exec> 08└─There's nothing in the essential nature of these computers that's stopping you from using them in life-affirming ways instead of degenerate ones.
[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─Dooood! What's mine say? Sweet! What's......
[13:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:18] <exec> 08└─Certainly, human pilots tend to have more experience and data input sources (primarily visual scanning field) than autopilots and autopilot software authors do today.... However, we are quickly approaching the cusp at which autopilots will have more data input sources that they can process - more th...
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[14:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─"a test flight at CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 8." Don't leave us hanging - how did it go - where's the vid? (And this is aimed at Workhorse.com, not SN, their site still has nothing.)
[14:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 2001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:24] <exec> 08└─You can notice this trend among a lot of stores that are on their way out. Our local Dixons/Currys (large white-goods suppliers) did the same for many years before one went bust, the other got subsumed, etc. And things like Maplins (the nearest internationally-familiar equivalent would be Radio Shac...
[14:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:26] <exec> 08└─It is 50% nostalgia, 25% novelty, and 25% playing music that isn't easily available in other formats; this is approximate based on my friends that are into it. Might flip novelty/nostalgia for millennials.
[14:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:57] <exec> 08└─Thank you! I read the summary twice and couldn't even figure out why a lawsuit was even initiated against the university.
[14:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:58] <exec> 08└─Stop it stop it! You are HARMING him!
[14:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:48] <exec> 08└─the almost-countryside burb
[14:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, and vinyl will be dead by the year 2000.
[14:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:51] <exec> 08└─My enjoyment in a restaurant is far more likely to be improved by the attention to detail of the kitchen staff than the front of house staff. In some places in the USA (New York, for example), it is illegal for front-of-house and kitchen staff to pool tips. In other places, it may be legal but it is...
[14:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:53] <exec> 08└─> Go through London, and you no longer ever have to ask "Do you take cards?". I used to have to ask all the time. In taxis? If so, things have changed in the last 12 months.
[14:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:55] <exec> 08└─It's quite noticeable that the chip-and-pin cards are processed much faster in the UK, where I believe batch processing is still allowed.
[14:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:58] <exec> 08└─> it's usually free ... because it's a service provided by the banks What kind of perverted banking system do you have over there?!?! I pay for them to look after my money. I pay for them to accept more of same. I pay for them to give some of my money back to me. I'd pay even more for them to lend t...
[14:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:00] <exec> 08└─> What do they do when the cashless payment system goes down? Guessing, just guessing, they'll accept cash. Principles are only worth so much, and cash is worth more.
[14:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:02] <exec> 08└─What do they do when the cashless payment system goes down?
[14:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:04] <exec> 08└─>> "(The French, Germans and Swiss are still big on cash, and that is just in the EU)" > > I have travelled through all three of those, for months on end, without a single cash-related problem. Really? You can't even pay for public transport e.g. in Hamburg (or pretty much anywhere else) without cas...
[14:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:07] <exec> 08└─That is precisely what I want to know. Recently, I had dinner with a friend and as we left, their credit card system was down. There was a huge line of people trying to pay their bills. Normally, I carry almost no cash, but I happened to have money on me at the time. I'm sure there were people with...
[14:21:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:04] <exec> 08└─People commonly misuse hammers, screwdrivers, saws of various types, television, telephone, you name it. So, those little personal mobile computer/communication devices are used in ways that are generally wasteful, and unhealthy. Mmm. Let me get excited.
[14:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:25] <exec> 08└─Why bother to troll SN? Trolling Breitbart or HuffPo, sure. You'd get all kinds of reaction there. But here?
[14:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:27] <exec> 08└─Preach, brother! Preach!
[14:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:29] <exec> 08└─Less java.
[14:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 2370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:31] <exec> 08└─Is it the cellphone that is causing all that, or is it the social media addiction that the phone is an umbilical cord to? Like Julian said downthread, a smartphone is a computer, and is as useful as a computer if you use it that way. If you don't use it that way, and only as a Pavlovian trigger, the...
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:41] <exec> 08└─We need the Soylnet. Come on TMB! Soylnet? Soylentnet? Intersoyl? Peoplenet!! Supposably? Supposably. Someone ate Ethanol-Fuelled and spontaneously combusted? Supposably!
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[15:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Young, a Pioneer Who Flew Four Different Spacecraft, Died This Past Friday at the Age of 87 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─From the xkcd link: The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
[15:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:19] <exec> 08└─If this is what flying cars are going to look like, I think I'm fine if they don't ever happen.
[15:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:21] <exec> 08└─Ok, who wants to place bets on the over/under in decibels? It will be exponentially worse than the ultralights, which at least have to keep a safe distance. If you thought that Cuban embassy stuff was bad, wait until you hear this thing!
[15:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:24] <exec> 08└─400 pounds for up to 70 miles is 181 kilograms for 113 kilometers Courtesy of GNU units.
[15:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:36] <exec> 08└─My generation has aged. I pick up a book, skim over the title, intro, whatever pictures, get to the first chapter, and start reading - except, I can't see shit. Depending on how you define the boomers, maybe I'm the very last of them, or maybe I'm whatever came right after the boomers. But, it's ver...
[15:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:38] <exec> 08└─I'm mid 50's and have neck and joint pain. anything I do, these days, often has some bit of pain to it (arthritis never goes away once you get it). holding a book, moving my neck or even my bad eyes to read the thing takes effort and at the end of the day, I'm tired from the day job and reading pape...
[15:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 2715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:40] <exec> 08└─Not really. Dead tree books still make up the vast majority of sales of books. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] https://www.npr.org [npr.org] , for example. Eboo...
[15:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:13] <exec> 08└─Freedom of Religion is also, perhaps primarily, Freedom *from* Religion. That means that the government who define what is and isn't a marriage, both in terms of the requirements from the participants - number, age, gender, race, prior commitment, cosanguinuity, mental incapacity, et al. - and in te...
[15:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:14] <exec> 08└─I found it rather difficult to summarize the article in such a way that the interesting bits were still the focus. It was my intent to make sure anybody arguing the facts was arguing all the facts, which requires a lot of context. I initially included more of the facts, but pared it down because it...
[15:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:16] <exec> 08└─Dafuq he say? Oh, never mind - he doesn't know what the hell he said either. He was just looking for a frosty piss. Congrats, AC, drink your favorite beverage, then make yourself scarce.
[15:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:19] <exec> 08└─As the editor of this story, your feedback has been, well, at least read. Check the original submission. By the time I got to it, there was already an editor's comment saying ~"we can't post this as it stands, it's been too heavily edited". I had to add stuff back. Notice in particular that I change...
[15:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:21] <exec> 08└─Marriage preceded any of today's governments. No, governments don't get to define marriage - the churches have far more right and authority to do so. And, by "churches", I mean far more than Catholicism. Find a real church that encourages "gay marriage". Even the Greeks didn't go that far. Marriage...
[15:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know about any of that, but you would go down on Adolph, if he could still get it up.
[15:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:26] <exec> 08└─It was a *terrible* article to summarise. It was poorly structured in almost every possible way (didn't pyramid; sentence structure was often sloppy; paragraph flow was choppy; it was a mess). In the future, can you minimise the invasiveness of your edits. Less can actually be more. Feel free to sel...
[15:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:28] <exec> 08└─Here, basic facts probably could be found more compactly in other news sources (good habit to develop is to look for other articles on the same story in case they say it better). Then the opinion piece doesn't need to carry the load and you can use it to for the opinion alone.
[15:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:30] <exec> 08└─Governments certainly can and do get to define what marriage is. It is also civil commitment. Historically has paved the way for creating the next generation who will support the current one when it can no longer support itself, plus provide bodies to be ground up in war. Also, were it not a governm...
[15:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:29] <exec> 08└─I tip. Sorry, I disagree about the strip dancer vibe.
[15:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:30] <exec> 08└─Nearly 90 percent of customers
[15:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:32] <exec> 08└─The UK guarantees all current account deposits up to ... is it £80k per person?
[15:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:59] <exec> 08└─Well, of course they would. I've been told that the most dissimilar people on earth have more in common that they have differences. We share 99+% of the same genetic material, and so on. I guess when you get right down to it - it doesn't matter if one group or another dies off. There's someone almos...
[15:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:56] <exec> 08└─On an Android phone, you can run your own code without having root access, and without paying any fees or getting anyone's permission. (Unlike Apple) The development tools run on Linux / Windows / Mac. All you have to do is go to your phone's settings and enable developer mode and allow installing a...
[15:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:58] <exec> 08└─You can always buy one of these devices and use it without a cellular connection. It's functionally no different from a laptop.
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, it makes sense: if it spreads, it could be cut out, through neurosurgery. Affected parts of brain should be extracted to stop the spreading of disease. All that provided that we are now certain that the protein is not just a symptom, but also a damaging agent of disease, of course.
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─You are so old then ... maybe you don't really remember, but instead already have Alzheimer's?
[15:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─Doesn't have to be pure libertarianism. You claimed zero traction while we see that wasn't the case.
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:38] <exec> 08└─If you were one of those who had to pay taxes, universal healthcare would still be the cheaper option for you.
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[16:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:14] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>I demand that this failed spy satellite be replaced, forthwith!! My continued health and welfare absolutely depend on the spy's capabilities to spy on me!! </sarcasm> (gotta see what happens with that sarcasm tag . . . )
[16:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:16] <exec> 08└─"OMFG it's not where we told everyone it was supposed to be!" . . . because it's somewhere else, maybe? because the announced mission profile was misdirection? How about putting up a satellite and having it go totally dormant for a while, so that it's harder for opposition to trace? If you're not t...
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─Satellites are really easy to track by amateurs. It's a reasonable assumption that if it was actually still in orbit, someone would call them out.
[16:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:20] <exec> 08└─That's what's so funny! I switched spy satellites when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool!
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:38] <exec> 08└─caint wait for them thar kintukky rednecks to shoot one down.
[16:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:54] <exec> 08└─Generation X still reads, a lot. But we grew up during the computer boom and screens began to displace books for some. So now most have switched to e-book but a friend is still an avid dead tree collector and reader.
[16:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:56] <exec> 08└─I don't see how private bookstores can last much longer. The business model of selling dead tree copies is horribly inefficient compared to downloading ebooks.
[16:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:39] <exec> 08└─That's what I've been saying all along. None of that stuff is the government's business. Separations, divorces, and marriages are the province of the church. Gubbermint got involved for the express purpose of eventually creating gay marriage. That was the plan, all along. The IRS was just one of the...
[16:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:40] <exec> 08└─Precedent is irrelevant. All institutions will eventually be replaced by hopefully-better-functioning alternatives, some many times, marriage is no different. And within the isolated and recent context of your country, at no point has religion defined the legal state of couples - to do so would be u...
[16:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:42] <exec> 08└─You're suffering from Runaway brain there. Who wants this as their .sig? "The IRS was created for the express purpose of instigating gay marriage." - Runaway1756
[16:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:44] <exec> 08└─Take any beating like a man and do go for useless ad hominems next time.
[16:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:47] <exec> 08└─Precedent is irrelevant.
[16:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:49] <exec> 08└─Don't get derpy on my Runaway. That's precedent *within* the legal system. Precedent from without is *irrelevant*.
[16:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:51] <exec> 08└─No. Fucking exists "for the (primary) purpose of procreation". Marriage is a man made institution meant to instill a morality around what would otherwise be animal rutting by homo sapiens. If gays want to marry, there's no moral position to prevent it since marriage doesn't control who can fuck and...
[16:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:53] <exec> 08└─There are only two "[...]"s, and they are at the end and beginning of paragraphs. I opted to "select whole paragraphs" and that, combined with the poor structure of TFA, seems to be why the summary turned out poorly. Funny thing - I was so surprised to see this side of the argument coming from the W...
[16:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:56] <exec> 08└─*And* I was editing on my phone where I couldn't even see the full width of the text entry box I was editing in.
[16:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:58] <exec> 08└─...nevermind my previous comment about the [...]s. I did not realize that the summary above is not the one that I wrote. Shows how good my memory is. I can't seem to find any discussion about edits to the summary before it was posted; maybe this is only visible to editors.
[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─Move to a civilized country. The American tipping system is there to encourage a separation between the rich and the peasants. By forcing you to tip "the help", they encourage you to feel a degree of entitlement. It's all part of a messed-up system that discourages people from recognizing their actu...
[16:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/03/all-london-black-cabs-to-take-card-payments-from-october [theguardian.com] October 2016.
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─There's a legal difference between "goods and services" and a "debt." No US business may refuse to accept US currency to pay a debt. (Well, they can, but that effectively discharges the debt, unpaid.) The currency says, "legal tender for all debts public and private." Any business MAY refuse to acce...
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:07] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, because I've done it. My ex-gf makes pottery. She was talking about selling it, I bought her a iZettle reader for her phone. Does chip-and-pin, NFC, Apple Pay, etc. You could either pay £49 for the fancy bluetooth standalone reader, and a smaller commission charge. Or £0 and a large...
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─"Thus costing them whatever they could have possibly saved in change time a thousand times over." Only if you represent even 10% of their customers. Otherwise your refusal is lost in the noise of 90% of their customers coming back every time and paying by card (possibly without even realising they d...
[16:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 2020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:12] <exec> 08└─UK banks - I pay my bank nothing. There is a "premium" account that you do pay and get discount travel insurance, etc. but the numbers don't add up enough for me to bother. They keep trying to con me into it, I keep saying no, like most people I know. No charge for a card (Visa/MasterCard). No charg...
[16:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:14] <exec> 08└─Ledow wrote :- Unixnut wrote :- "Best bit is, the interest earned on loaning your money out to them is, well, nothing. Now they want you to pay to loan the banks money.""
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─Not to mention hammers are not designed to abuse you, unlike "smart"phones.
[16:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know that a pirate would necessarily be familiar with it, but publishers were already abusing the term "pirate" more than two hundred years ago, for example using it in reference to Scottish publishers legally printing copies of books protected by copyright in England.
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03doc_doofus [6746] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─Common mistake. A cannon is classified as "armament" vs a rifle which is "arms." It is the right to keep and bear "arms." Only the government can keep and bear "armaments." Thanks for playing.
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─Interesting perspective I had not heard before. I'm willing to learn more... but presently unconvinced. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A weapon, arm, or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage
[16:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:26] <exec> 08└─Even a selfish but intelligent sociopath would realize that lots of OTHER people wouldn't be able to tolerate hospitals that intentionally shove the poor out of ER to die in the streets because the poor couldn't pay for treatment.
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[17:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:18] <exec> 08└─jesus you musk apologists
[17:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:20] <exec> 08└─If i had a new fancy expensive super secret spy satellite I would tell people its broken too. Super serious its broken definitely not watching you walk your dog at 123 evergreen terrace road, and not that I would know but you might want to get that mole on your shoulder looked at.
[17:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─Agreed - to my layman's understanding, there really isn't much of a reason to try to hide a satellite. Russia, China, the EU ground based radar can track anything larger than a baseball, and amateur satellites can track basketball sized items, so unless this billion-dollar satellite was composed of...
[17:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:24] <exec> 08└─I guess you need better calibration procedures. The mole is on my butt.
[17:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─mp3 players. not sure what the purpose was to launch them into orbit, but I guess they just didn't sell well down here.
[17:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:29] <exec> 08└─It did not separate and fell into the ocean? Maybe it did. Or maybe that's what they want you to think. Or maybe they were deliberately vague (or deceptive) on when the payload fairing separated. Maybe it separated later and they put it into a different orbit than anyone thinks. This is a friggin' s...
[17:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:31] <exec> 08└─If the de-orbit burn for the upper stage was normal [soylentnews.org], I strongly doubt there was trouble with detaching the satellite. First, if they had problems detaching, I would expect them to leave the whole upper stage in orbit for several orbits trying to correct that problem. And second, ev...
[17:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:33] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to hide a satellite. Impossible? Idk, I read a conspiratorial comment over on Ars...
[17:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:36] <exec> 08└─Spy satellite != stealth satellite. Unless it does. In updating the story I came to the conclusion that Northrup Grumman is probably at fault (if there is in fact a fault) for a few reasons: 1. SpaceX is acting like everything went fine (on their end) and is now preparing for Falcon Heavy instead of...
[17:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:38] <exec> 08└─Can you hide a satellite? Stealth equipped? I dunno... serious question. Is it possible? Can you hide it this way and keep it dormant so it can't be tracked by emissions and then activated when needed? Seriously. Possible?
[17:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:40] <exec> 08└─and all the atari shit https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Young, a Pioneer Who Flew Four Different Spacecraft, Died This Past Friday at the Age of 87 - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─Sadly, this leaves Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, David Scott, Charlie Duke, and Harrison Schmitt as living astronauts who have walked on the Moon, according to Wikipedia. Again from there, eight of the twelve additional who orbited the Moon are still living (Command Module Pilots and the crew of Apollo 13...
[17:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Young, a Pioneer Who Flew Four Different Spacecraft, Died This Past Friday at the Age of 87 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─And it's sadly no big feat to predict that they will all die before anyone else sets foot on another moon or planet.
[17:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─I saw B&N has set aside a few rows for vinyl LPs of all things. I can't believe that's a lasting trend. Has to be a fad. Why interest for that obsolete format has grown still puzzles me. Is it to avoid the loudness wars? Is it mp3s from terrible quality mp3 encoders still hanging around? It's probab...
[17:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:21] <exec> 08└─I am a Generation X person that spends most of my time in front of a computer screen (I am a sysadmin). I like e-books due to the portability of them (1000's on a single device), but I still read a lot of physical books.
[17:19:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1374 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:48] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter so much if it's an extreme viewpoint, it matters if it's a defensible viewpoint. Especially Jesuits (the "soldiers of Christ") are (in-)famous for how good they are at argument and discussion. So I'd expect the students there to be well-trained in academic debate. It seems that the...
[17:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:14] <exec> 08└─That all sounds good to me. If a Catholic university is going to promote those standards, they might as well do it wholeheartedly. They should go even further IMO: not only should they require attendance at mass, they should monitor students to make sure they're attending, and that they're going to...
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:15] <exec> 08└─governments don't get to define marriage - the churches have far more right and authority to do so
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─As long as the government gets to give tax incentives for people who are married the government gets to decide what marriage is. If you want to take the government out of marriage then we need to remove the tax incentives and various other federal benefits to being "married".
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:20] <exec> 08└─Erm, why did you just repeat what I just said?
[17:20:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 4859 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:55] <exec> 08└─> You have about 10-20 years before you won't be able to pay for anything, anywhere then. > Cash is dying, except for anonymous transactions. I very strongly doubt that is the case. Cash will stay for a long time to come. Perhaps not in dystopian police states (or ones on that path) like the UK, but...
[17:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03doc_doofus [6746] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:29] <exec> 08└─Until you remove any and all percentage based charges added to a bill/invoice, you will need pennies. So, you will never get rid of pennies, because the governments will always require taxes be charged to the consumer, collected by the retailer and submitted to them.
[17:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:30] <exec> 08└─I usually pay cash, because it seems difficult for the bank, government, etc. to simply twiddle a few bits and make my cash disappear. When cash no longer exists, any undesirables can simply be digitally vaporized: no notice, no trial, no recourse. Anyway, back on topic for this thread... I recently...
[17:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:32] <exec> 08└─Shaving that kind of time doesn't make Bluestone more money. In fact, it's more expensive to be cash-free because of the additional debit and credit card fees tacked on to each transaction. Debit cards charge a flat fee of about a quarter per transaction, while credit cards range between 2 and 5 per...
[17:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:35] <exec> 08└─(The French, Germans and Swiss are still big on cash, and that is just in the EU)
[17:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─And the other 85% of the country that isn't London? And the minicabs?
[17:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Outline How the Citric Acid Cycle Could Have Developed Before Life on Earth - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:44] <exec> 08└─Orange swamp beings. Now where have I heard that before?
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─"Smart" literally means surveillance. Try it.
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─You mean, the hammer is not designed to hit your thumb?
[17:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:22] <exec> 08└─Instead of cutting, I'd recommend MRI monitored fiber optic delivered laser thermal ablation... yes, that's a thing, and it's damned good at killing specifically targeted brain tissue.
[17:23:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:40] <exec> 08└─You mean they make an exception for those who only pirate excellent stuff? :-)
[17:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─We need an Open Source, Citizen's alternative to corporate-controlled networks.
[17:24:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 753 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:13] <exec> 08└─No, you're absolutely right. It's not even a reasonable point of discussion. They should be and must be regulated for the internet to work. You don't let power companies come into your home and drill down into your daily life and habits. You don't let libraries follow you home and watch he reads the...
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:22] <exec> 08└─Most likely they're not smart enough to think that someone could possibly use file-sharing services for legal things.
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:24] <exec> 08└─Does it have a true off switch? That is, not just a standby, but a real off which actually physically cuts the power?
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[18:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:43] <exec> 08└─someone didn't update their windows defender signatures over at space x. tisk, tisk.
[18:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:44] <exec> 08└─And use explosive bolts this time!! Lowes does not sell them, no matter what you been told!
[18:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:46] <exec> 08└─It easy hide. Just park it behind another satellite. It works is babies!
[18:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:48] <exec> 08└─No, but Lowes charges aerospace space-qual rates for the bolts they sell. Fucking $1 for a little baggie of six bolts. I got one of those baggies of wood screws from HD, and one of the screws didn't even have any slots in the head for a screwdriver. It was smooth across. Before the box stores pushed...
[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:51] <exec> 08└─I should think so. If you can stealth an airplane a satellite should be easy.
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─Unlikely, but not necessarily impossible. Rockets are loud and bright, and launches tend to show up on seismic sensors.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─You ain't seen nothin' til you've carefully measured a failed bolt, shopped around, and found that it was going to cost $50 or more. Sometimes, it's cheaper (and faster) to get the toolmakers to cut a bolt on the lathe, then throw it in an oven to harden it. But, our toolmakers aren't expert at hard...
[18:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:57] <exec> 08└─In space no one can hear Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen".
[18:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:18] <exec> 08└─When's the last time a redneck shot at a helicopter? Last Thursday?
[18:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:39] <exec> 08└─There is something kind of elegant to a record player. Maybe, it's pure nostalgia, but there's probably quite a bit of that to go around for some time.
[18:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:40] <exec> 08└─The keywords are "aggressive expense management program," which translates to "lowering" the cost of employees, and closing and downsizing stores.
[18:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─What do you think of "Civil Unions"? Not a "real" marriage in the eyes of many but grants equal legal right to same sex couples as mixed sex marriages. Or do you think some people should not get the same legal rights and protections as others due to who/what they are?
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 8114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:40] <exec> 08└─So, I spent a few minutes skimming the court complaint, the letter the university sent to the professor to terminate him, and a few other accounts. It sounds like there was a bunch of bad behavior from a lot of perspectives. First, the student. Something left out of a lot of reporting is that this s...
[18:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:43] <exec> 08└─I would be perfectly fine with that. I offered that often, in discussions in the past. But, the same SJW's who insist there is no difference between males and females demanded that there be no difference, even in terminology, between gays and straights.
[18:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─when someone thinks you got married, they think you had a wedding, with a priest/pastor and the whole nine yards
[18:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:47] <exec> 08└─The teacher shut it down before debate could happen. A student came forward and complained to the teacher about this, and after she dismissed said student, the student went to another teacher, based on his tenure a well respected member of the faculty to bring up the issue. Said teacher in doing his...
[18:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the comments are for editors' eyes only. There are no hard and fast rules about submissions, it falls onto the editors shoulders to finally slap a story into some kind of shape. Different editors have different preferences what that means. I prefer to leave the summary shorter, as I want to en...
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[18:20:51] <exec> 08└─demanded that there be no difference, even in terminology, between gays and straights
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:54] <exec> 08└─In Islam, a divorce is pretty simple. "I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee." May or may not be followed by the beheading of the ex-wife.
[18:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:56] <exec> 08└─There's no scandal unless people give a damn. I don't give a damn who might be offended, so there can't be any real scandal. I certainly won't call a gay couple "married".
[18:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:58] <exec> 08└─I can't see any of what you see there. I see an activist working hard to brainwash a class full of students to her own way of thinking. She should be punished. Hanging, then gibbeting would be suitable, IMO.
[18:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─In Canada, they DID get rid of the penny: if you pay cash, the decimal is rounded up or down (2cents or under, rounded down/3cents or over, rounded up IANAL/Financial accountant, your penny rounding may vary i have no idea, really... just pulling numbers out my ass). You either pay 0cents or 5cents,...
[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:14] <exec> 08└─The company that employs the people that produce the meal is responsible for paying them all a fair wage. They get paid a proper wage even if the restaurant has only one customer that evening.
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─I can see the pros now: $20 for a blow job if you pay cash...$25 for a card. :)
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─The entire purpose of moving to EMV cards was to provide an offline validation mechanism at the point of sale. It took off in Europe because the online infrastructure at the time was more spotty than it is now. Telephone line service (POTS) was widely available in the US and good enough for online v...
[18:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:21] <exec> 08└─In a small organization, yes. Maybe. In a larger store: if it happens in the morning, do you wait to see if it comes back (here in Canada, you have to pay people for at least 3 hours wage unless you tell them ahead of time and they stay home (although Wynne/Whine (whatever her name is in Ontario who...
[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─Just make the tip mandatory and then everyone wins!
[18:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─Systems still down but may come back up ANYTIME NOW. What do you do.
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─Resume for Mr Rich T. Higherup 2016-2018 Bluestone Lane Cafe - "Improved user experience" by going cashless. - Increased hipster status by over 9000 percent. - Spawned viral Internet media campaign. - Solved the problem of poor blacks coming in.
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─oh that's hilarious. "squatting" on county or state land in a county and state your family helped build that some thieving feds now say is theirs.
[18:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─every time these jackasses find something they "rewrite history" with more asinine assumptions and PC lies. how about just publishing the finding without all the BS?
[18:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:25] <exec> 08└─Heat capacity of water is huge, compared to almost anything else we know [wikipedia.org], so small increase in ocean temperature stands for great amount of thermal energy absorption. The impact is shown when temperature of air above water drops bellow the temperature of the water: the air then gets...
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[19:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Key CRISPR Gene Editing Methods Might Not Work for Most Humans - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:13] <exec> 08└─This should also hinder lab-escapes from running rampant in the human population....
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Assembles Engineering Group for Lunar Activities and the Deep Space Gateway - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:21] <exec> 08└─Hopefully the DSG is in a polar orbit so the moon doesn't eclipse line of sight to earth based antennas... I'm curious what they're doing for crew protection since they are operating outside the Van Allen belts? One fun solution would be to collect asteroids and build a rocky shield: artificial cave...
[19:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Assembles Engineering Group for Lunar Activities and the Deep Space Gateway - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:23] <exec> 08└─Officially, Moscow has been on a path to put a human on the Moon since 2013, when President Putin approved a general direction for human space flight in the coming decade. The program had been stalling for several years due to falling prices for oil, the main source of revenue for the Russian budget...
[19:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─Change site from red to green.
[19:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:03] <exec> 08└─Are you saying we can literally see your asscrack from space?
[19:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─There should be a vid if it did work. Most likely it's just "Pie in the sky someday" like this guy: http://moller.com [moller.com]
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─So, it's not a two passenger craft for average American adults, then.
[19:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:29] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't need to shoot this one, a short length of chain into the props would be nasty and effective.
[19:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─$200,000 is too much. You could buy 10-20 conventional helicopters for that price.
[19:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─records have a warm sound and tapes are tough.
[19:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:01] <exec> 08└─The thing which decides my taxes, my rights to residency, my inheritance rights, etc., and how they relate to my chosen life-partner bonding, is *the government*.
[19:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:02] <exec> 08└─No, she shouldn't be killed. She should be fired though, because her mindset is incompatible with the sort of open debate that a university is intended to foster. Period, full stop. Then there is the side issue of it being a Catholic university, if they weren't suffering through a string of feckless...
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:05] <exec> 08└─Precedence is the fact that the government already defines marriage.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─What do you think of "Civil Unions"? I think when people say thing are "separate but equal" they're usually lying.
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─No, you're not allowed to destroy pennies, either. Those 51-cent machines don't actually stamp your penny - they just have a supply of blank copper pieces and stamp those, and keep the penny.
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─What the fuck, buzz? Bad argument! The employer is an EMPLOYER, not a contractor. The moment when waitstaff are independent agents who get a commission or whatever for every client they serve, sure. Until then... I know! Here's the thought experiment for you! I get hired as a waiter, by a restaurant...
[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─Friend of mine would fill his truck with gas at these stations that say they won't accept any bills larger than $20. Sometimes he had only a $50 bill, and he would offer it for nearly $50 worth of gas, and often they would refuse to take it until he explained that they weren't required to give him c...
[19:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:35] <exec> 08└─"I'm not poor, I'm just temporarily not rich, but I will be soon". Incisive insight into the US mentality. Thank you!
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's a reason it's a "gray area," because it's not as clear as you make it out to be either. Yes, you're correct that if someone refuses to pay after a debt is created, and they decided to sue you to recover the debt, they must accept any legal tender in court or whatever. But things are a l...
[19:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Outline How the Citric Acid Cycle Could Have Developed Before Life on Earth - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─Zapping these chemicals and blending them together in tanks until RNA appears or something? "demonstrate that key chemical reactions that support life today could have been carried out with ingredients likely present on the planet four billion years ago." Wouldn't this appear to be the case given li...
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─why are they called feature phones? what features do they have if you just described a considerable lack of features? It seems that it makes phone calls, but that you cannot connect it to a computer to transfer the camera pictures and sounds you might record with it though. So what you have is a 'mo...
[19:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:13] <exec> 08└─yeah guns don't kill people, people do. few people wish to take responsibility for their own actions, though. As a result, others that see this try to take the resposbility away from them. we're in the stage of shaming people but before long we'll have to enact laws that maintain social order and th...
[19:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─brought to you by the social security administration. no checks for you fuckers!
[19:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:41] <exec> 08└─The Deccan traps wasn't just "a" volcano, it was essentially a range of volcanoes going off all at once. I suspect that it was caused by a giant meteor impact on the other side of the planet, but the volcanoes are what left evidence. And that kind of event has only happened a couple of times in the...
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[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─You use immunosuppressing drugs while administering treatment, which should only have a few hours/days to operate, then wean them back off when your treatment is finished. Given that many of the diseases which CAS9 treatments would be intended to treat involve immunocompromised individuals (whether...
[20:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Key CRISPR Gene Editing Methods Might Not Work for Most Humans - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:12] <exec> 08└─If you are desperate enough to be editing your DNA, it's a small addition to temporarily drug the immune system out of existence.
[20:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Key CRISPR Gene Editing Methods Might Not Work for Most Humans - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:14] <exec> 08└─On the positive side, this means that code injection attacks might not work on humans. ;-)
[20:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Assembles Engineering Group for Lunar Activities and the Deep Space Gateway - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:24] <exec> 08└─You can't put off D-SG1. Noooo!
[20:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─AoE was shit. WarCraft defined the genre, with unique units and easily discernible buildings. AoE was muddled browns with crap graphics that required clicking on every building again and again just to figure out what it was. WarCraft: 1994 AoE: 1997 StarCraft: 1998 At some point AoE became half-dece...
[20:18:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 893 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:51] <exec> 08└─Spy satellite != stealth satellite. Unless it does. In updating the story I came to the conclusion that Northrup Grumman is probably at fault (if there is in fact a fault) for a few reasons: 1. SpaceX is acting like everything went fine (on their end) and is now preparing for Falcon Heavy instead of...
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─And nuclear armed countries tend to tell each other when they're launching a rocket just to avoid any embarrassing city-vaporizing mistakes.
[20:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:07] <exec> 08└─The whole argument about nuclear war with Kim is a cover-up so that the US can test nuclear weapons, and launch spy satellites, without domestic consequences.
[20:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─A reasonable assumption is that most stealth satellites share launches with decoys. The decoys could be useful themselves. Stealth satellites have been seen due to operational mistakes. For example, a satellite can be stealth when seen from one direction but not from another. Canadian amateurs spott...
[20:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:12] <exec> 08└─"Can you hide a satellite? Stealth equipped?" So-called "stealth" technologies in current use provide camouflage from radar. Could you add that to a satellite? Sure, but it'll mean leaving something else off to make weight. And it won't keep amateurs with telescopes from tracking it. Visible light....
[20:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:14] <exec> 08└─And it won't keep amateurs with telescopes from tracking it. Visible light.
[20:19:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 2715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:53] <exec> 08└─Not really. Dead tree books still make up the vast majority of sales of books. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] https://www.npr.org [npr.org] , for example. Eboo...
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:02] <exec> 08└─B&N Membership: $25. Benefit: 10% off books. Break Even Point: Spend at least $21 per month for a year. ... for a grand total savings of 20 cents. Wooo Hooo. I miss Borders.
[20:21:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 8114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─So, I spent a few minutes skimming the court complaint, the letter the university sent to the professor to terminate him, and a few other accounts. It sounds like there was a bunch of bad behavior from a lot of perspectives. First, the student. Something left out of a lot of reporting is that this s...
[20:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:15] <exec> 08└─It is common for an instructor to give a bad grade to a student who is known to be conservative. This isn't new. It happened about 60 years ago to my father, a baby boomer in college. The assignment was to write about nuclear war or weapons or something like that. My dad wrote a paper that concluded...
[20:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:16] <exec> 08└─Agreed. If you want to get Equal Protection Under the Law OUT of marriage then you need to attack the root and get Law OUT of marriage. The Equal Protection bit isn't optional once Law is involved.
[20:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:19] <exec> 08└─But, the same SJW's who insist . . .
[20:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:21] <exec> 08└─Evidently, neither jmorris nor Runaway1966 have ever attended college. They are, however, very useful at parroting right-wing hit pieces like this one. The real reason that there are no conservative faculty members on campuses is that a "faculty" is supposed to be "collegiate", and McAdams obviously...
[20:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe so. But I got this very nice message from an ed about my very balanced, clearly based on reality submission. We're sorry, your submission "Former Google whiner asks to be fired again! " was declined for the following reason: "Former Google whiner asks to be fired again!", "how stupid white con...
[20:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:25] <exec> 08└─In my personal opinion if the government is to mandate any sort of "marriage" it should be a simple "civil union" in all cases or better yet handled like a LLP. If folks want to go ahead and get "married" by their religion of choice that is totally up to them, folks of course could not force/coerce...
[20:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:28] <exec> 08└─and then things get a little more heated when the issue of whether discussion of the issue might come across as "homophobic" comes up. The instructor repeatedly asks the student for evidence and the studies to back up his position (and makes reference to a previous conversation -- so it sounds like...
[20:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:30] <exec> 08└─The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:32] <exec> 08└─It is common for an instructor to give a bad grade to a student who is known to be conservative.
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:34] <exec> 08└─Marriage was between a man and a woman, for the (primary) purpose of procreation.
[20:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─You forgot the cameras in the confessional.
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─You could either pay £49 for the fancy bluetooth standalone reader, and a smaller commission charge.
[20:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─That's why they have a certain rule, though. You must pay in so-much a month, each month, even if you immediately spend it.
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─Ummmm let's see: emergency room, government funded (or US style, insurance funded or rich people funded) doesn't matter and they take CASH! My own business....if I don't take cash.... Get a reality check. Go be stupid somewhere else.
[20:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─That’s even worse than destroying pennies! Do you realise how many adventurers are eaten by gelatinous cubes every year getting those copper pieces?
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:12] <exec> 08└─Lots of credit cards go over satellite link - especially those at gas pumps. The new "smart chips" seem to both be 3x slower than the old swipe system and also have been passed through an anti-user-experience design process making sure to require the card to be inserted when the user would naturally...
[20:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:15] <exec> 08└─Denmark did this ages ago to their 5 and 10 ore coins, though before they did they had the cutest little copper coins about 15mm in diameter... https://en.numista.com [numista.com]
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Outline How the Citric Acid Cycle Could Have Developed Before Life on Earth - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─The enzymes that catalyze the reactions definitely did not exist back then.
[20:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid, Antisocial and Unhealthy - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:52] <exec> 08└─why are they called feature phones?
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[21:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Key CRISPR Gene Editing Methods Might Not Work for Most Humans - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─Well it won't work against those patched against the specific exploits at least.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Key CRISPR Gene Editing Methods Might Not Work for Most Humans - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:15] <exec> 08└─creepy first line quote: "improve birth rates" - really? Improve birth rates of who? Is improving increasing, decreasing total? Total viable? Total viable to 2y, which in Ye Olde Times was a majority of the infant mortality zone, and still is where infant mortality is high? Total "high quality" birt...
[21:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:34] <exec> 08└─There's maybe one ok story in the 4-pagelet-chunked article. Basically: they had everyone including artists playtest every single day once, with a suitable 'watcher'. Vote: bad, would have preferred a one line 'hey cool story bro, did you know one of the AoEs they had every single person from artist...
[21:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:35] <exec> 08└─I cannot find the specific article I remember, but the development of the Forgotten mod and the evolution to the re-release of Age of Empires II on steam is really inspirational. The quick version is that modders struggled to add new content to the game and found some clever tricks to make it happen...
[21:18:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:45] <exec> 08└─"OMFG it's not where we told everyone it was supposed to be!" . . . because it's somewhere else, maybe? because the announced mission profile was misdirection? How about putting up a satellite and having it go totally dormant for a while, so that it's harder for opposition to trace? If you're not t...
[21:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:15] <exec> 08└─Actually I'd probably disguise is as some ordinary satellite, where some of the instruments "fail" directly after launch. The still working instruments give a perfect explanation of the satellites purpose, while the "failed" instruments were never there, but instead were placeholders for the secret...
[21:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah black paint won't help. What they detect visually is when the satellite moves between the observer and a star.
[21:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:05] <exec> 08└─The people in upper management for very large operations don't see a store floor and the perpetual battles for retail share from the front lines. They see spreadsheets with numbers. They have to take pains to keep their perspective in check, and not forget what it's like out there on the sales floor...
[21:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoPro Cuts 20% of its Workforce as It Exits the Drone Business - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:14] <exec> 08└─So true. There are so many players entering the drone space that the profit margins must be minimal. GoPro already has a strong name in the action camera space and they can maintain premiums for their products. Perhaps they will migrate to this business model in the future.
[21:20:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:49] <exec> 08└─Governments certainly can and do get to define what marriage is. It is also civil commitment. Historically has paved the way for creating the next generation who will support the current one when it can no longer support itself, plus provide bodies to be ground up in war. Also, were it not a governm...
[21:20:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 1234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:51] <exec> 08└─Precedent is irrelevant. All institutions will eventually be replaced by hopefully-better-functioning alternatives, some many times, marriage is no different. And within the isolated and recent context of your country, at no point has religion defined the legal state of couples - to do so would be u...
[21:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:31] <exec> 08└─Nice Poe. I modded you up because I'm sure this is going to make a few blood vessels burst in peoples' heads who are slower on the uptake than me :D
[21:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:32] <exec> 08└─Eliza and I may just track you down and send you a wedding invite :) You know, just to piss you off. 'cause hey, guess what, asshole? You don't get to define reality. Sure, maybe it won't be a church wedding on account of me being some sort of Deist and her basically an atheist, but hell, we can go...
[21:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:35] <exec> 08└─He doesn't give a shit. By his own admission he's "asocial" and proud of it, and one of the knock-on effects of that is that, much like our demented Oompa-Loompa in Chief, he trusts his own "expertise" (aaaaaahahahahahaha) above such irrelevant mundanities as truth, history, facts, and logic. Please...
[21:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:37] <exec> 08└─The problem with purging heretics and blasphemers, dear J-Mo, is that at some point YOU are the blaspheming heretic. I realize this never did and, indeed, cannot possibly, occur to you, but i'll leave it here for posterity.
[21:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:39] <exec> 08└─What if you go one step further: abolish "marriage" from the legal lexicon - only have "civil union." So gay or straight, you need a "civil union license" from the court, and then frolic off and do whatever ceremony with whoever you want but turn in your damn signed paperwork and enjoy filing your t...
[21:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:41] <exec> 08└─That guy is so bullheaded. Once he gets fixated on something, well, you can't Torquemada nuthin'...
[21:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:43] <exec> 08└─WTF? Are you really this dense? The official State Religion of the United States is Cultural Marxism / Progressivism. I wake up every single day knowing I'm a blaspheming heretic. That is what this is all about, me and mine trying to overthrow your successful coup. To restore reason and learning to...
[21:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:46] <exec> 08└─Per _The Princess Bride_: "If you didn't say it, you didn't do it!"
[21:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:48] <exec> 08└─No, I didn't "assume" that. I don't feel like going back and finding the quote now, but where I read about it, it said the student himself basically admitted his work was poor. I don't remember who reported that the student said that, but the student's own reported assessment of the rationale for hi...
[21:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:50] <exec> 08└─Come, now, jmorris! The fear that possesses you is obvious to all and sundry! Brainwashing. The ChiComs in NK used to -do this, right? All's it takes if for some freedom loving partiotic American to be exposed to some actual ideas, and poof! Brainwashed! This is why conservatives, and the not so s...
[21:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─If an employer cannot pay a livable wage they should not be allowed to operate their business. Either their business is not worth having around, or they are so bad at it someone else should take over their customers.
[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 9783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─> I have travelled through all three of those, for months on end, without a single cash-related problem. Yes, because they are not "cash only", they will happily accept card payments. Very few places are "cash only", and usually because they want to keep money off the books for tax purposes. However...
[21:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:28] <exec> 08└─Also depends where you live. If the USA stopped adding the tax after advertised price or adopted Swedish rounding, change would be a couple of bills and people wouldn't need to fish a penny out of their pocket.
[21:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:30] <exec> 08└─FDR is dead and your 20th century New Deal fantasy is dead. We live in the 21st century now when social media tech bros are billionaires and selfish sacks of rotting pigshit like Buzzard are mighty successful. The Great Depression is repeating and the Gilded Age is repeating and stupid shit like Buz...
[21:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:32] <exec> 08└─I think that interpretation gets trumpeted a lot by people playing at being a lawyer (with the caveat that while I'm not a lawyer, I'm at least capable of critical thinking). If a company sues you for damaging their one of a kind MacGuffin, they must accept US currency, cash, to settle that debt. Th...
[21:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Outline How the Citric Acid Cycle Could Have Developed Before Life on Earth - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─I think what they meant was that these would have existed in the absence of life.
[21:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─"We don’t think Elba would be an amazing just because he’s African American—although you have to admit it’d be nice to finally have a James Bond whose skin tone isn’t somewhere between “Irish pale” and “translucent.”" -- Eric Spitznagel, /Men's Health/, October 9, 2015, https://www...
[21:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:35] <exec> 08└─I have a hypothesis, and as someone who isn't formally educated in medicine, this may be way off...but...bear with it for a moment: Do you suppose that some combination of diet, environmental factors, and plain old aging is degrading the amount of energy total in the cells' mitochondria, and being s...
[21:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:30] <exec> 08└─No, as in the blower would run too fast with a normal thermostat (instead of variable speed controlled), causing condensation on the evaporator coils to splash up in to the ductwork, where loads of mold then grew and made me very physically ill.
[21:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:03] <exec> 08└─You have very strange notions about how primates learn and organize information, and jack shit about how they respond to rewards. Sure, the kids might "know" perfectly well that the loot boxes might have something valuable in it, but if they chance upon one such early on, they'll forever spend every...
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[22:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:10] <exec> 08└─Australians are worth $29 AUD($22.79 USD) https://www.itnews.com.au [itnews.com.au] And Europeans are worth more than Americans: https://qz.com [qz.com]
[22:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; Axovant Sciences Abandons Intepirdine - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:18] <exec> 08└─Research group asks: what were we thinking? Dunno, I forgot.
[22:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; Axovant Sciences Abandons Intepirdine - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─re-allocate [spending] to those areas where we have strong scientific leadership
[22:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; Axovant Sciences Abandons Intepirdine - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:22] <exec> 08└─Self-replying cause I'm kinda pissed right now... Forgive me... If I have to listen to another shill claiming the reason US drug makers need a privileged market position preventing import of cheaper drugs from abroad is that they need to make all that money so they can reinvest it into treatments th...
[22:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; Axovant Sciences Abandons Intepirdine - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:25] <exec> 08└─A relative is a Parkinson's patient, takes Levidopa (with Carbidopa to ease stomach distress) 5 doses per day (every 4 hours, skip overnight). This stuff is metabolized very quickly...and this is in the form called Rytary which is a time release. Before they switched to Rytary, they were taking pill...
[22:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; Axovant Sciences Abandons Intepirdine - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─Way bigger that the title suggest. GSK will halt all neuroscience discovery and early development efforts except for a drug that have completed phase iii trials and they will continue to support for Lyrica (work to extend the patent protection of that blockbuster)
[22:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Assembles Engineering Group for Lunar Activities and the Deep Space Gateway - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:49] <exec> 08└─Home already up there. Don’t drop it the sea in 5 yrs park it around the moon or load it to the gills and send to mars. Either way save the once.
[22:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Assembles Engineering Group for Lunar Activities and the Deep Space Gateway - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:50] <exec> 08└─I'll submit an article about that later. It would be interesting to hear the arguments against pushing the ISS into lunar orbit.
[22:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:01] <exec> 08└─AoE distinguished itself by having multiple factions, broader resource selection, troop formations, espionage/sabotage, age development mechanics, and the world wonders. To me, it felt like a RTS of Civilization. As for RTS mechanics, yes, it was an iterative advancement over WarCraft 2 and yes, the...
[22:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:03] <exec> 08└─AOE2 multiplayer was fun back in the day and the game was about as good as it never needed to be (in terms of subtle improvements over AOE1, like the ability to walk over farms). The new expansions are pretty good but there are some bad bugs remaining. The late game performance is too slow on my 201...
[22:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:05] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_2 [wikipedia.org] is where all the excitement is at!
[22:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─The article is mostly about AOE1, but also discusses AOE2, Age of Mythology, and AOE3. AOE2 has aged really well and been improved by 3 modern expansions. Age of Mythology has a new expansion I haven't played yet that adds Chinese Gods. But I did like the game and its graphics hold up. I played AOE3...
[22:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:13] <exec> 08└─"It was meant to be a bold display of a transportation utopia. Instead, it rained - ever so slightly - and the whole thing was called off. " http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] Oh, well... might put a dent in the next round of VC sourcing.
[22:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:14] <exec> 08└─Prototypes tend to be expensive.
[22:20:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 1060 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:25] <exec> 08└─Look at this picture of the Barnes & Noble "flagship" store in New York [fortune.com]. If you can, pretend that you don't know what store it is, what business they are in, and try to deduce this from the products on display. Chips, cookies and snacks. Are those bags of coffee beans? Some sort of box...
[22:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:40] <exec> 08└─All it takes is one digitization and some unscrupulous sharing for a vinyl to be easily available, universally, globally, in an infinite variety of digital formats (including spectrogram jpegs, if you're into that). Digital audio is completely superior to analog. There isn't even a shred of argument...
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─A Civil Marriage isn't what one typically thinks of when one thinks "Marriage".
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[23:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:17] <exec> 08└─Offer and demand. Databases of Americans' private data get breached every other day. And when it comes to credit cards, Americans have a much higher turnover, so the numbers are more likely to be obsolete,
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─The inclusion of the biometric data could make this database a little more unique and valuable than most.
[23:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:21] <exec> 08└─Name: Shkjhksjhfdui "Doug" Patel Profession: IT Contractor Education: Masters Eyes: Brown Complexion: Brown Hair: Black Height: 5' 3" Shits in the street: Yes
[23:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8 - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:23] <exec> 08└─It's hardly surprising that these leaks continue to happen weekly. All it takes is one or two bad actors in the right position (which is usually not that high up). It's why I've been avoiding iCloud for my Apple devices - eventually that nut will be cracked and it will be open season on everyone's d...
[23:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:25] <exec> 08└─Education: "Masters" FTFY
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─Why then to use a device that doesn't fit your needs? Apple has no control over me, for example... I do not care about their (or anyone else's) fantasies about the almighty Cloud.
[23:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; Axovant Sciences Abandons Intepirdine - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:39] <exec> 08└─Billions have been spent on the Alzheimer's problem with little to show for it so far. Pfizer may be better off letting someone else do the work if it turns out something more complicated than a drug is needed to treat or reverse Alzheimer's. Such as a biologic [wikipedia.org] or nanobot. AFAICT mos...
[23:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Assembles Engineering Group for Lunar Activities and the Deep Space Gateway - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:04] <exec> 08└─If Moon's lower gravity would allow that, I'd not just investigate the possibility of sending it in lunar orbit, but also disassemble it in smaller pieces, land them using reusable thrusters coming from Earth, then reassemble it to be a lunar base. It sounds crazy to me too, but who knows...
[23:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:20] <exec> 08└─Even Dune 2000 played better than AoE -- as you could tell apart the various units and buildings at a glance. YMMV. I don't replay any game because the graphics were awesome. My favorites being, CIV IV, Dune 2000, Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, Dungeon Siege I & II, Final Fantasy Tactics, Hexen, King of...
[23:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:21] <exec> 08└─I picked up AoE II HD, AoE III Complete, and Age of Mythology, on July.04th 2016... haven't found the time nor inclination to play them yet though heh. Such as it goes with huge swaths of one's Steam and GOG libraries.
[23:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of the Age of Empires Series - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure an experienced AOE player can tell the units apart. Playing many hours of LAN multiplayer certainly helped.
[23:19:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 1014 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technologies/secret-zuma-mission-lost/ [spaceflightinsider.com] On Tuesday, Jan. 9 SpaceX released the following statement from the company’s Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell: “For clarity: after review of all data to date,...
[23:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rumors Swirl Around the Fate of the Secret "Zuma" Satellite Launched by SpaceX - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:04] <exec> 08└─The problem was the name, if they'd called it Ramaphosa instead of Zuma it wouldn't have failed.
[23:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:33] <exec> 08└─I think not. [owlcation.com]
[23:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hybrid Octocopter at CES - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:34] <exec> 08└─Out of modpoints for the day - thanks for the update!
[23:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:01] <exec> 08└─Do they have to tax you before the 10% discount is applied?
[23:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Revenues Down - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:03] <exec> 08└─Ah dunno, I never got the B&N membership. Borders was free. At my peak-reading (in adulthood) I didn't average more than a couple soft-covers a month. The B&N membership would require you to buy at least 3-4 non-hardcovers a month for it to be remotely feasible. IIRC most of those discounts were pre...
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academic Censorship on Trial in Wisconsin - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─Only someone so completely up his own asshole he could see the cheeseburger his daddy had at the 1968 Memorial Day barbecue could say that. Jesus motocrossing Christ, you don't even know what the fuck half those words fucking *mean!* I bet you even think Marx was a postmodernist.
[23:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:20] <exec> 08└─If you can't make more than your employer would pay you for waiting tables off of tips, absolutely fuck you. Your dumb ass just failed at smiling and keeping glasses from running empty. If I can do a job involving constant interaction with other people well, anyone can do that job well if they make...
[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight... It's perfectly fine for wait staff to be paid less than they make now so long as the money passes through the employer's hands on the way to theirs? You are a fucking moron and an asshole.
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─Not everyone deserves to make a livable wage for waiting tables. Some people are so shitty they deserve less than they're being paid by their employer even.
[23:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Outline How the Citric Acid Cycle Could Have Developed Before Life on Earth - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:34] <exec> 08└─"demonstrate that key chemical reactions that support life today could have been carried out with ingredients likely present on the planet four billion years ago." Yes, that's obvious, assuming the hypothesis that life originated on earth instead of being transplanted here, as some suspect. Consider...
[23:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:54] <exec> 08└─That's just it. Your idea of "government' does not solve any of the problems you worry about. Your house is built on sand.
[23:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:56] <exec> 08└─... compared to the ones in the field. However, he was still a slave.
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