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[00:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 23011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─Geoff Whitman was the star quarterback at West Hills Central High School. In West Hills, Mississippi, a rural town with about 3000 people, high school football was about the most exciting thing going on. Geoff's family had lived in the town for about 200 years, and his family had owned the land they...
[00:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:31] <exec> 08└─Stupid Russian shills, its "Build That Wall!". With that kind of ability you will never be able to pull off altering the results of the midterm elections!
[00:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:32] <exec> 08└─But did it still exist after it was torn down? And if so, will it ever cease to exist?
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/05/newly-discovered-berlin-wall-segment-to-get-protected-status.html [foxnews.com] BERLIN – A recently discovered remnant of the Berlin Wall from the heavily fortified border's early days is being given protected status. Monday's announcement by the city govern...
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:37] <exec> 08└─Whose dumb idea was it to put West Berlin inside East Germany anyway.
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:39] <exec> 08└─But did it still exist after it was torn down?
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:41] <exec> 08└─Now start: "Mr Trump tear down this wall!"
[00:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:44] <exec> 08└─Did your Russian immigrant neighbour disregard the boundaries when he put his fence up?
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─the world would be pretty blocky
[00:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:12] <exec> 08└─Laser directly into your retina, what could go wrong?
[00:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:14] <exec> 08└─I have zero interest in getting phone notifications right in my eyeball.
[00:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:16] <exec> 08└─Same here, but.... at greater resolutions some pretty neat things are possible. That being said, it either requires a camera, sending very precise telemetry to Intel, or a very powerful localized mobile computer. I'd like to see augmented reality like that where a red path winds off into the horizon...
[00:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:18] <exec> 08└─"I mean, IME aside, Linux basically Just Works with Intel's stuff." I mean, sure, it's built on a sandbar, but what a pretty house! Don't you love the trim?
[00:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:21] <exec> 08└─smartglasses smartasses. FTFY
[00:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:38] <exec> 08└─The phrase "cannot not be tried.." appears to be a typo by the original submitter. It makes no sense, runs contrary to the headline claim and a google search finds that phrase only on Soylent news.
[00:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber Jury Trial Begins - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:48] <exec> 08└─You can't call it a trade secret if it isn't secret. Obviously, this secret is out of the bag. The recipe/formula for Coca Cola is a pretty secret trade secret. I guess Kentucky Fried is still kinda secret. Uber and Waymo have very few, if any secrets.
[00:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber Jury Trial Begins - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:51] <exec> 08└─Popular Science ran this article on the UrbMobile in Oct 1967...this might be the first PRT (personal rapid transit) concept? https://books.google.com [google.com] Many features from this concept have been picked up by newer PRT designs.
[00:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:47] <exec> 08└─Both are hilariously scary. Extract from FOOF [sciencemag.org]: And he’s just getting warmed up, if that’s the right phrase to use for something that detonates things at -180C (that’s -300 Fahrenheit, if you only have a kitchen thermometer). The great majority of Streng’s reactions have sure...
[00:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:49] <exec> 08└─Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Appeared to be rather uneconomic in the end. Cuban was said be run by the Ferrari F1 team before the designer fuels were outlawed after the refueling mechanics started to die off. Even more expensive than the other stuff: I once read th...
[00:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:16] <exec> 08└─Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands and every other country with some form of single-payer health care [wikipedia.org]. I'm sure I left out a bunch, like Germany [cjr.org], France and others. Yes, I know. Western Europe [statisticstimes.com] is a third-world shithole, with each one of the above...
[00:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry but I have to double reply here. I can't stand by and let a slight on Groucho go. He was quite possibly the funniest man who ever lived, even if Harpo's "hold my leg" gag always makes me laugh the hardest.
[00:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:19] <exec> 08└─I made a lifelong feminist laugh her ass off at a poundMeToo joke yesterday. You just only ever see through a very narrow window into the hilarious awesomeness that is me.
[00:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:22] <exec> 08└─You're misusing the word now to support a failed point. Socialism has a fixed and very definite meaning. Come up with a new word if you're wanting to support a word, because socialism does not encompass anything and everything that has ever been described as "social".
[00:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:24] <exec> 08└─Let me know how the unicorns thing turns out. The Roomie's little girl would kill me if they started giving them out and I didn't get her one. Yes, even if it turns out to be a goat with only one horn.
[00:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:26] <exec> 08└─I most assuredly know the difference and stand by what I said.
[00:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:28] <exec> 08└─I'm a capitalist. Capitalists believe in competition. Anything that harms or prevents competition over the long term is not my friend.
[00:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:35] <exec> 08└─And for good measure, causation.
[00:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:36] <exec> 08└─I can.
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:39] <exec> 08└─You can see up the comment tree, I list (formal) logic along with statistics as 2 most important areas to learn concepts from these days, so I agree with you on that. The trouble with elementary logic is, it's not what most people would describe as elementary. The thought process of a logician is al...
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[01:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:20] <exec> 08└─Looking into Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance - references [wikipedia.org], I'm seeing quite a large span of time in the published papers on the subject. What makes this "extended evolutionary synthesis" more special than "transgenerational epigenetic inheritance", so that it requires anothe...
[01:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:21] <exec> 08└─There are examples of acquired characteristics being inherited. These are called epigenetic inherited traits. They usually disappear after a few generations. OTOH, just what gets inherited is a bit peculiar. It's not necessarily anything that's at all advantageous, and frequently the thing that gets...
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:23] <exec> 08└─... for example the children of parents who experienced starvation are more likely to be overweight.
[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─IOW, I may well have over-read certain reported studies, and exaggerated what they really show. But epigenetic inheritance is real.
[01:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 2562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:47] <exec> 08└─I was an exchange student in West Germany when the Wall came down. It was an incredible moment. I was in Cologne with my host family but my friend's parents were Berliners, so a week after the first moment when people climbed over the section at the Brandenburg Gate we drove out to stay with his fri...
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─I doubt you can claim that. Berlin has not existed for billions of years, and it would seem highly illogical for something to be named as the "Berlin" wall before there is even a "Berlin". We're splitting hairs though. Which I guess it's nicer than splitting atoms.
[01:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:22] <exec> 08└─Just make sure you use the eye drops [youtube.com].
[01:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:23] <exec> 08└─the spectre of my eyeballs meltingdown encourages me to leave intel outside.
[01:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:42] <exec> 08└─I write letters to prisoners and conditions in American federal prisons are not all that bad from what my prisoner correspondents tell me. Furthermore, Lauri Love's fear of being held in solitary confinement are likely unfounded. I doubt he would be housed in a supermax; his crime is just not one th...
[01:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds good in principle, but how will San Fran police it for wrong-think? Just leave it to Facebookm Twitter, and Google to provide the necessary censorship and denial of access?
[01:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:34] <exec> 08└─Asks about scientific terms and concepts then goes on a mathematics rant. Really spreading any scientific concept at all would be a good start. Maybe the scientific method? Maybe start with highschool science teachers who actually seem to be loser arts students who couldn't hack it in the job market...
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[02:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Broadcom Raises Bid for Qualcomm to $121 Billion - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:14] <exec> 08└─Let's see if the next offer is one he cannot refuse...
[02:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom Raises Bid for Qualcomm to $121 Billion - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:16] <exec> 08└─"Quala, I want you to be mine!" "But Broady, I'm not sure, You just wave money around. I'm not that kind of woman." "You are right, Quala. Money is no object for you. I just got a tax cut, have another 16 billion!" "Oh Broady ... You're so appealing right now!!!" Will she? Won't she? Will Aplo step...
[02:17:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 1339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:26] <exec> 08└─There are examples of acquired characteristics being inherited. These are called epigenetic inherited traits. They usually disappear after a few generations. OTOH, just what gets inherited is a bit peculiar. It's not necessarily anything that's at all advantageous, and frequently the thing that gets...
[02:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:30] <exec> 08└─Well this could have been traced to dna damage of the gametes, or fetus. This is quite different than a learned fear triggered by a smell.
[02:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:32] <exec> 08└─What makes this "extended evolutionary synthesis" more special than "transgenerational epigenetic inheritance", so that it requires another name and another "fight for recognition"?
[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:35] <exec> 08└─I guess even a pseudoscientist is right twice a day: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:37] <exec> 08└─Why does it need to be a new theory instead of adding/correcting the previous one? It's not like the case of "relativistic vs classical" mechanics.
[02:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:00] <exec> 08└─Trump: "Can I have the Berlin wall? Putin told me he's not using it right now."
[02:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:55] <exec> 08└─By that logic, pretty much the entire population of US and Europe should be extradited to Saudi Arabia/China/Russia/Thailand/etc.
[02:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:56] <exec> 08└─He did what he did in his own country, not in the US.
[02:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:58] <exec> 08└─This guy was neither an American citizen nor in America when the supposed crime was committed, unlike in your example where you would still be a citizen of the country of the person you wronged. The US simply has no jurisdiction here.
[02:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─In the past you have said that you favored "waterboarding". Does that mean it is ok with you if Mueller "waterboards" you?
[02:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I [youtube.com]
[02:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:46] <exec> 08└─I'll bite. In this case there is a natural monopoly that exists. There are very high costs for the physical layer. So you won't get reasonably full competition. So for a functioning free market you need to isolate the natural monopoly into a heavily regulated company/utility. That physical layer com...
[02:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Creating Huge Virtual Power Plant - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:59] <exec> 08└─They built a terrible Grid, it failed very badly before Hurricane Maria even came. And it's still in terrible shape. We did so much to help them. I suspended the Jones Act for 10 days. At horrendous cost to our American shipping industry. And I went to Puerto Rico personally, I handed out paper towe...
[02:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:58] <exec> 08└─Because entropy. It melts ice cream and makes beer warm.
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[03:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom Raises Bid for Qualcomm to $121 Billion - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:26] <exec> 08└─Some sources are calling it $146 billion after $25 billion of Qualcomm's debt is accounted for. http://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com] https://www.ft.com [ft.com]
[03:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom Raises Bid for Qualcomm to $121 Billion - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:27] <exec> 08└─That's what I'm concerned about. Whether you love Obama or hate him, he let a LOT of manufacturing companies that are absolutely CRITICAL to national security become almost entirely bought out by the Chinese, and if you care about "Russian Hacking" but not "Chinese Hacking" you would be a hypocrite.
[03:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom Raises Bid for Qualcomm to $121 Billion - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:29] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Broadcom is aware of the optics: Broadcom Offers $105 Billion for Qualcomm; Moves HQ Back to the USA
[03:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:45] <exec> 08└─Why did you call it pseudo? For example, Lysenko was training potato to resist frost bites. How is it different from making mice afraid of almonds? The real difference was philosophical. Communists rejected genetics because they feel genetics invalidate their belief that humanity can be changed so t...
[03:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:47] <exec> 08└─Well this could have been traced to dna damage of the gametes, or fetus.
[03:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:49] <exec> 08└─Why does it need to be a new theory instead of adding/correcting the previous one?
[03:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:51] <exec> 08└─What communists? By 1930-s they were mostly gone. Lysenko was not the first to use the power of his office to gain privileges and money. Yakovlev in 1940-s was suppressing competitors as well. There were very few communists that would pass a test today or even then. They had awfully bad education; L...
[03:18:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:02] <exec> 08└─The wall was a lesbian. The place between the two barriers was called "no man's land", and much blood was spilled there. [ducks] On-topic: dang, we're getting old fast!
[03:18:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 2562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─I was an exchange student in West Germany when the Wall came down. It was an incredible moment. I was in Cologne with my host family but my friend's parents were Berliners, so a week after the first moment when people climbed over the section at the Brandenburg Gate we drove out to stay with his fri...
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:17] <exec> 08└─But did it still exist after it was torn down?
[03:19:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:05] <exec> 08└─> He could have avoided being tried in the US by not committing a crime in the US. How is this always a one-way street? By that logic, pretty much the entire population of US and Europe should be extradited to Saudi Arabia/China/Russia/Thailand/etc. If he broke British laws by cracking those website...
[03:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:14] <exec> 08└─This guy was neither an American citizen nor in America when the supposed crime was committed,
[03:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:28] <exec> 08└─Jonathan Swift didn't need an '/s', and neither does anybody else.
[03:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, failure is the best teacher. Which makes me wonder why we're letting people who know and understand fuck-all pass in our schools. Nevermind. Forgot for a moment that schools are about indoctrination rather than education nowadays.
[03:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:06] <exec> 08└─Yup, that was more or less my take on it. I'm just extremely skeptical that SF can pull off being good capitalists.
[03:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─I am unaware of *any* "social ownership" or "democratic control" of the means of production *anywhere* in the US Here's one, typical of the lot: New Era Windows, LLC [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [libcom.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─Nah, failure is the best teacher.
[03:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:13] <exec> 08└─Darlin, you're not saying anything I don't already know. I'm a capitalist. Capitalists believe in competition. Anything that harms or prevents competition over the long term is not my friend.
[03:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:15] <exec> 08└─Forgot to include the other link. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ...and here's New Era in their own words: Our Story [newerawindows.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:17] <exec> 08└─You're misusing the word now to support a failed point. Socialism has a fixed and very definite meaning. Come up with a new word if you're wanting to support a word, because socialism does not encompass anything and everything that has ever been described as "social".
[03:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:20] <exec> 08└─Figures, go suck an egg. It is your deal not mine, and obviously your subconscious knows you have no ground to stand on.
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[04:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:15] <exec> 08└─I would rather have a basket with tulips. I can plant them, and they look nice. Can't imagine what all those "investors" are going to do with the numbers. The prices are falling as Sun rotates, people wake up and realize that they had been had in an old pump-and-dump.
[04:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:16] <exec> 08└─Not the Sun, of course - the terminator.
[04:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:19] <exec> 08└─HODL HODL LDOH
[04:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:21] <exec> 08└─realize that they had been had in an old pump-and-dump
[04:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, is it? I wasn't aware the guvernator being in a constant state of rotation.
[04:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:25] <exec> 08└─I bet they will be calling it "BitCon" now.
[04:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:28] <exec> 08└─Oh no! What does this mean for Michael David Crawford's cryptocompany, Soggy Blockchain?
[04:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:30] <exec> 08└─I got a bitcoin (actually .9986 BTC) back in 2010 when it was "worth" about $4, hardly worth thinking about cashing in. Then in ~2013, it was spiking around $200, so I bothered to figure out how to get somebody to give me spendable money for this bunch of numbers in my computer. Whoever paid $200 fo...
[04:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:32] <exec> 08└─With all that confirmation lag in the network, how fast can the price drop? It is faster to drive to a gold coin dealer, wait for the store to open, buy some gold eagles, and drive home with a meal stop than to buy these bitcoins.
[04:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:34] <exec> 08└─That's just it: There has almost never been a currency based on intrinsic value. It's almost always based on social value, because the whole concept of currency is a social concept. Yes, even when it's been based on precious metals. Gold and silver have substitutes that aren't as good as gold and si...
[04:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:37] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else read Cringely's prediction? https://www.cringely.com [cringely.com] The problem with Cryptocurrencies, and the reason why their prices (and implied underlying value) are so volatile, i...
[04:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:39] <exec> 08└─BitCon, where the fact that you were being had, has been immutably recorded in the blockchain forever...
[04:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Broadcom Raises Bid for Qualcomm to $121 Billion - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:51] <exec> 08└─[wikipedia] Singaporean Avago bought 'Broadcom' for $37 billion less than 3 years ago, with an estimated merged value of $77 billion. It sounds like funny money but let 'em crash and burn. I'd be very nervous as an investor as to (a) how NXP can value-add within Qualcomm (b) how these entities mesh...
[04:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom Raises Bid for Qualcomm to $121 Billion - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:52] <exec> 08└─Let's see if the next offer is one he cannot refuse...
[04:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:13] <exec> 08└─Because they'd rather have their own new "brand name" than be associated with the previous stuff that got a lot of bad press: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Even though they're basically talking about the same thing which has now been backed up by experimental evidence.
[04:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:31] <exec> 08└─I agree with RedBear's analysis [soylentnews.org]. Only in textbooks are things as black and white as you're making them out to be.
[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:32] <exec> 08└─I don't need reminding but you're welcome to it. Why do you think I argue so much about things that matter to me? The smartest people I know either fail to provide a convincing argument to the contrary, in which case I'm further assured that I'm correct, or they succeed and I get to be correct inste...
[04:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─A single philosophy based on individual liberty is always correct. Anything else is just making excuses for your own moral failures.
[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:37] <exec> 08└─No, I'm simply being pedantic about definitions at the moment. Get with the program.
[04:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:39] <exec> 08└─See above. Pick whatever word you like for "social" things that fall outside the definition of socialism but don't use "socialism". It's already taken.
[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:41] <exec> 08└─I don't need reminding but you're welcome to it.
[04:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:53] <exec> 08└─The Founding Fathers obviously had a good grasp of probability. Today's law enforcement, not so much. I would like to see citizens, police, lawyers and judges able to explain, with mathematical reasoning, how they arrive at the conclusion that probable cause exists, in court hearings. I want to see...
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[05:17:14] <exec> 08└─I can't wait their high-impact low cost awareness campaigns using Facebook and Twitter... (grin)
[05:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:16] <exec> 08└─The things that could be done with that money! It's so strange to me that someone thought it would be a good idea to spend millions of dollars on this. I suppose the key word here is "lobbying". Someone wants to pull the levers of governmental power, but what is the real motive?
[05:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:18] <exec> 08└─but what is the real motive?
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:20] <exec> 08└─100% think they are self aware. 10% are. 1% of internet posters are self-aware. 0.1% of internet posts are self-aware.
[05:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:33] <exec> 08└─Lauri Love has never visited the United States.
[05:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:34] <exec> 08└─It isn't in this case. He is subject to UK law and will have to face the consequences in the UK. But in general, just how many sets of kooky national laws do you think the whole world should memorize? People should be subject to the laws of their home country and to some degree the country they are...
[05:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:37] <exec> 08└─The servers were in the US therefore, that's the proper place to consider the crime committed. Making the crime where the perpetrator is, makes it basically impossible to enforce computer crimes as many countries won't prosecute their own citizens for crimes committed against foreign bodies.
[05:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:40] <exec> 08└─You just memorize the laws for the server you're breaking into. Or, better yet, you don't break into servers. If you want to post something defaming the Thai king on servers outside of Thailand, that's your own business and likely legal. But, if you post those defamatory comments to a server in Thai...
[05:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:42] <exec> 08└─So if you make any comment on a website that turns out to be physically in Singapore, you won't mind being extradited to face trial for insulting the king, right?
[05:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:44] <exec> 08└─It's also not like the server necessarily has a domain name that reflects the country it's located in. A lot of U.S. servers have a .fm domain, for example. Many servers around the world have .com addresses.
[05:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:15] <exec> 08└─Two points: 1. The question was the downsides of trying this as a prophylactic, which means there is no cancer. That would mean that you are running the risk of getting an autoimmune problem when there isn't a cancer to treat. 2. Assuming you have cancer and it has gotten to the point where it has s...
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[05:21:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.drfuhrman.com/learn/library/articles/29/the-healthiest-anti-cancer-foods-g-bombs [drfuhrman.com] "”G-BOMBS” is an acronym that you can use to remember the best anti-cancer, health-promoting foods on the planet. These are the foods that you should eat every day, making up a significan...
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[05:25:34] <exec> 08└─"personal home system" - apparently even after the analogy and explanation you still don't understand. This is why I like reading your posts. it's very entertaining. so, for driving to work, you looked at a moped and a car, and you picked the car because the moped was overpriced for what it was. you...
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[06:17:21] <exec> 08└─My nutsack is the only thing that's truly self-aware. Shhh, baby, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
[06:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:22] <exec> 08└─You're off by 3 levels of magnitude. 100% believe they think. 10% are actually able to think and only 1% are doing it. 0.1% think they are self aware. 0.01% are. 0.001% of internet posters are self-aware. 0.0001% of internet posts are self-aware.
[06:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─"Why are you a bank robber?" "I rob banks because that's where the money is."
[06:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:27] <exec> 08└─It's a no-brainer. They just need to take it to the next level to turn this into a win-win situation. The best practice is to get rid of the low-hanging fruit first. Set an agenda so we can go flag up on this thing
[06:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:29] <exec> 08└─Preemptive strike against government regulation. Now they can quietly design algos to monitor your mouse movement and ban their competitors at the same time. All that while keeping government away? That's 3 birds in a stone.
[06:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:31] <exec> 08└─... because that's where the money is.
[06:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:50] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin, like other currencies, had value because people believed it provided a functional means of exchange that got around issues presented by conventional currencies. At this point, just about all of those issues are worse with Bitcoin than they are with other currencies (it's slow, it's expensiv...
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[06:17:52] <exec> 08└─You sound like you're thinking of a price drop the wrong way. When the price is falling, it's not necessarily being transacted at each step along the way. Someone is making an offer to sell, and then before it is purchased, someone makes another offer, lower. Meanwhile, sales aren't going through, o...
[06:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─I thought derivatives were supposed to help prevent wild swings in underlying financial instruments. Do these not exist or is this not happening for bitcoin?
[06:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:56] <exec> 08└─gold and silver have value because they don't degrade. "noble" metals they are called, because they generally don't do chemical reactions. this makes them ideal for coins because the coin won't change much over a hundred years or so.
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[06:19:56] <exec> 08└─The sooner Americans get the notion through their head that the world is not our jurisdiction, the better off the rest of the world will be and the better off the American populace will be because all that money we burn up creating terrorists by randomly bombing schools, hospitals, and weddings, cou...
[06:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 2480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Around 2000, at a SSI Space Manufacturing Conference, I spoke with two older guys from NASA who bemoaned how NASA could not get many good rocket scientists anymore because, essentially, kids had no experience playing with explosives like they used to on farms such as using dynamite to blast...
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[06:21:31] <exec> 08└─Again, I was surprised not to find any "injected outside any tumor" control. However: Neither of these two quotes directly touches upon the necessity of activation inside of a tumor.
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[06:23:03] <exec> 08└─Too bad capitalism is orthogonal to individual liberty.
[06:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:08] <exec> 08└─Getting to "orbit" "height" is much easier than getting to orbit speed. It's quite trivial to get something to "orbit" "height". Obligatory xkcd What If? https://what-if.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
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[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─I was mentally preparing and structuring my rant as I was reading TFS, then.... this God bless China for showing the U.S. the way to protect its people.
[07:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─The Citizen Score has been in the works there since 2014 and will be fully mandatory in 2020. There was another presentation on it at CCC recently, 34C3, about it covering its adoption and the effects of its adoption. gamefied control [media.ccc.de] There are some audio problems with the presentatio...
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[07:17:17] <exec> 08└─The scientist told the woman that he wanted to conduct an experiment, and that in order to do so, he needed her to give birth to 7 babies. Instantly, 7 babies appeared and the scientist responded as though the woman had given birth to them naturally. At last, there were enough resources to begin the...
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[07:17:19] <exec> 08└─http://craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom.pdf [craphound.com] http://www.gutenberg.org [gutenberg.org]
[07:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:22] <exec> 08└─Prescient fiction..
[07:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:38] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they figure out if Tech Addiction is anything beyond the current version of "the young generation is going to hell in a hand basket" before the start assigning an IDC Code and forming committees to "fight" diseases that don't actually exist?
[07:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:40] <exec> 08└─Also, 2 wrongs don't make a right, or something.
[07:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:42] <exec> 08└─Someone wants to pull the levers of governmental power, but what is the real motive?
[07:17:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 1051 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:57] <exec> 08└─That's just it: There has almost never been a currency based on intrinsic value. It's almost always based on social value, because the whole concept of currency is a social concept. Yes, even when it's been based on precious metals. Gold and silver have substitutes that aren't as good as gold and si...
[07:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:38] <exec> 08└─Ouch! That was the example I was trying to remember, too.
[07:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:04] <exec> 08└─Now, this is something to work for. I doubt though that it will be as easy as German reunification had been.
[07:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber Jury Trial Begins - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:20] <exec> 08└─Trade secrets obviously have to be protected in some way, and that's what this case is about. Misappropriation of trade secrets is a crime that could put someone behind bars for up to ten years (18 U.S.C. § 1832) or be liable for statutory damages of up to $5 million, and there's punitive damages t...
[07:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:17] <exec> 08└─Again, you have that all out of order. "Happiness" shouldn't be in that list, because the other three things are your (perceived...) ranking of what *makes* you happy. Which also, in the order you posted them, has the odd consequence that being dead and liberated (?) makes you happier than being ali...
[07:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:19] <exec> 08└─Where are all you middle-age white mediocrities getting this undeserved self-esteem from? I've never understood how people can have such an outsized estimation of their own skills or value.
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[08:17:16] <exec> 08└─The scientist told the woman that he wanted to conduct an experiment, and that in order to do so, he needed her to give birth to 7 babies. Instantly, 7 babies appeared and the scientist responded as though the woman had given birth to them naturally. At last, there were enough resources to begin the...
[08:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:17] <exec> 08└─Western liberals like to claim we have a rape culture... and then they want to import a real no-nonsense actually serious rape culture. WTF? If you swapped people between Japan and Iraq, which country would have a rape problem? It should be obvious. A country is not merely a chunk of land. It isn't...
[08:17:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 1092 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:26] <exec> 08└─The Citizen Score has been in the works there since 2014 and will be fully mandatory in 2020. There was another presentation on it at CCC recently, 34C3, about it covering its adoption and the effects of its adoption. gamefied control [media.ccc.de] There are some audio problems with the presentatio...
[08:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:31] <exec> 08└─The moment Japan surrendered, the USA got China as part of the deal. We barely paid any attention to China, so they became a dystopia with nukes. In more recent decades, we handed over our technology and regulated our own factories out of existence.
[08:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:34] <exec> 08└─The scientist told the woman that he wanted to conduct an experiment,
[08:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:53] <exec> 08└─This could be true. While the nonfree software is not the only cause of the popular system's addictiveness and maliciousness, it is a major enabling factor. If spy-phones, for example, were built with a free stack, then users would promptly get the tools to disable any feature they didn't like, whi...
[08:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:55] <exec> 08└─We're talking about Facebook/Twitter.
[08:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:57] <exec> 08└─They must be aware that a free+libre phone together with ubiquitous anonymous-friendly wireless coverage would make it practically impossible to extract information beyond what users themselves provide.
[08:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:59] <exec> 08└─They are going to make this shit even more annoying?
[08:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:22] <exec> 08└─Weren't derivatives the source of wild swings ever since the Great Depression? Also, was it a coincidence that the Bitcoin course went wild right after Bitcoin futures were allowed on Wall Street? Anyway, currently we don't have a wild swing, but a very steady downwards trend since roughly the begin...
[08:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:23] <exec> 08└─Given that in December it peaked at above $20000, yes, $8000 is down. OTOH if you've bought earlier last year, you're still up.
[08:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:26] <exec> 08└─Of course numbers don't degrade either. The medium they are stored on can, of course, but you can back it up. If you desire so, you can even engrave your offline wallet in stone. However, unlike gold, you'll need a working infrastructure (electricity, internet) to spend your bitcoins.
[08:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:59] <exec> 08└─OK, so they miniaturized an imager from a virtual-boy https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], but managed to make the resolution suck more... oh, boy. The VB imager was from the now long defunct Reflection Technologies product, private-eye. I got to use one, it was ok by late 80'...
[08:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:31] <exec> 08└─Paraphrased "You judge a civilization by how it treats its weak and its prisoners"...
[08:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe it depends on the state the prison is in. The people I met that had worked inside the big houses as guards or social workers were really tough people but described the job as witnessing hell on earth. Waking up with knot in the stomach every workday was a hardship that went away when jobs chan...
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[09:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:16] <exec> 08└─If you swapped people between Japan and Iraq, which country would have a rape problem? It should be obvious.
[09:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:17] <exec> 08└─If we are going to profile immigrants/visitors based on rape statistics, then how about also profiling on assholativity. Then we can boot your Nazi ass out. QED.
[09:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:19] <exec> 08└─What are you rambling about? Republicans are from the US, not some foreign country, and they are already *here*
[09:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:22] <exec> 08└─The man couldn't believe what he was witnessing. A fecal sow. A genuine fecal sow. It was his. He must have it. He charged. He charged in faster than he thought possible to satisfy his desires. His fetid little friend shot into your rancid, feces-filled rectum at the speed of light! Mushy feces hugg...
[09:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:24] <exec> 08└─For anti-rape shorts, they're kinda hot...
[09:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:26] <exec> 08└─They must be. If nobody attempts a rape, how could those shorts prevent it?
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[09:17:28] <exec> 08└─s/t
[09:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:31] <exec> 08└─What people seem not to get is that when you import people from such locations you're not just moving them geographically but also temporally. That is, you're importing people from the early iron age.
[09:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:45] <exec> 08└─Anything that tracks individuals outside of criminal investigations is distasteful and should be abolished if we want to continue humanity along a path of freedom.
[09:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:46] <exec> 08└─Citizen scores are a government's wet dream. I'm sure this will spread to other developed countries in some form or another. Black Mirror s03e01 explored this idea.
[09:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:11] <exec> 08└─Name one person who doesn't claim to be self aware. Everyone can think and actually does think (and believes they think)--unless you're in a coma or something.
[09:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:38] <exec> 08└─It goes right/down/backwards HODL O D LDOH
[09:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:39] <exec> 08└─HODL OHLD DLHO LDOH
[09:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:41] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a lot of chat about this new HODLCoin - where can I buy some, I'm done with bitcoin.
[09:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:48] <exec> 08└─And the people who saw those drawings of the Prophet Mohammed were in Saudi Arabia, and thus everyone who posted those drawings are just as guilty of breaking Saudi laws against "making available". Whether we are talking about attacking a server or posting a picture, it's all communication. Communic...
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[10:17:30] <exec> 08└─It's magic dirt theory [urbandictionary.com], of course. If you take a barbarian, and plant him on Western soil, he magically acquires Western morals and standards of behavior [independent.co.uk]. Every good SJW believes this, so should you.
[10:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:32] <exec> 08└─When I saw the headline, for some reason I envisaged they would have a special paint on them that would indelibly mark any assailant with a unique signature for easy identification. A bit like that anti-vandal paint you see advertised sometimes.
[10:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:34] <exec> 08└─You're confusing the pants with the dye pack suppositories. The dye packs explode to release indelible dye and pepper spray when triggered.
[10:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:42] <exec> 08└─You don't get much more derivative than VIX - how stable was that yesterday? (87% swing according to some reports)
[10:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:44] <exec> 08└─It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few months. Personally, I expect that this is just a "correction". I mean, Bitcoin is currently down at the same level it was two entire months ago. Really, that's not any sort of big deal. The reason for this seems to be the recent spate of new...
[10:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:46] <exec> 08└─> Bitcoin course went wild right after Bitcoin futures were allowed on Wall Street? Quite the opposite, the way I look at it - it had started going parabolic (log curve has +ve 2nd derivative) before futures appeared. The futures did appear to temper the growth. I presume that was because some were...
[10:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:48] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with HODLCoin: Nobody will sell it to you, they are all HODLing it.
[10:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:51] <exec> 08└─Just reading that, it increased in value!
[10:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:26] <exec> 08└─Why does it need to be a new theory instead of adding/correcting the previous one? It's not like the case of "relativistic vs classical" mechanics.
[10:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:27] <exec> 08└─If you are not a biologist, you'd be forgiven for being confused about the state of evolutionary science. Modern evolutionary biology dates back to a synthesis that emerged around the 1940s-60s, which married Charles Darwin's mechanism of natural selection with Gregor Mendel's discoveries of how gen...
[10:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:53] <exec> 08└─But we have so many decades more experience of international relations fuckups to repea^H^H^H^H^Hlearn from.
[10:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:54] <exec> 08└─A very good point well made!
[10:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:28] <exec> 08└─The Founding Fathers obviously had a good grasp of probability. Today's law enforcement, not so much.
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[11:17:17] <exec> 08└─Is there a transcript available?
[11:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Personalized Monetization AI / iCrack Dealer - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:19] <exec> 08└─He didn't understand. He didn't understand. He didn't understand. Why did it fall silent? Why? He needed it. He needed to hear it. All he did was hit it with a hammer. He wants more. He wants more screaming. Why did the baby die!? Another. Find another...
[11:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:39] <exec> 08└─See Nipples and Dye.
[11:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:41] <exec> 08└─That Independent article describes a single case. Not very informative.
[11:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:43] <exec> 08└─What? Sounds interesting but I'm missing the reference.
[11:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:45] <exec> 08└─http://www.roguery.com/cities/naples/mystery/seenaples/ [roguery.com]
[11:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 1938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:47] <exec> 08└─If you pick any country with moslems you will see their behaviour in direct proportion to their presence. Any news against Merkel's agenda is hardly ever syndicated and stays only in local papers where it vanished from the front page in hours. Try poking round a little if you are serious and not jus...
[11:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:50] <exec> 08└─Or at least link to well known troll sites, like breitbart.com, we'll now how much shit we can give about the Fucking Article. Don't try to slip these faeces under the guise of Radio Free Europe [wikipedia.org] or the "Voice of America", it is neither of the two. First google search page include: Vo...
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[11:17:52] <exec> 08└─It's actually bullshit [soylentnews.org]
[11:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:54] <exec> 08└─Well I think this will be a better solution than the "rape bracelets" that they tried. In the long run bringing in immigrants can be helpful when you have jobs that need filled, but there is downside of the period of time it takes for them to adjust to your culture. The west has typically brought in...
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[11:17:57] <exec> 08└─!!!!
[11:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:59] <exec> 08└─That Independent article describes a single case. Not very informative.
[11:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:01] <exec> 08└─That Independent article describes a single case. Not very informative.
[11:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:17] <exec> 08└─Private "citizen scores" already exist. They are just named differently, e.g. credit score.
[11:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:16] <exec> 08└─The value isn't the price of the last transaction, it's the price of the next transaction. If no one wants to buy at any price, then the value drops to zero instantly.
[11:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:18] <exec> 08└─The price went up so fast in the past few months, it was hard to safely trade against that. Now the price is dropping it's IMHO much easier to make money out of it and the huge volatility is awesome. All the fear that it causes with the wanted-to-get-rich-quick-crowd is a bonus.
[11:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:40] <exec> 08└─"Happiness" shouldn't be in that list, because the other three things are your (perceived...) ranking of what *makes* you happy.
[11:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:42] <exec> 08└─See, this is why the Tide Pod Challenge doesn't bother me. Anyone stupid enough to eat one absolutely should.
[11:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:44] <exec> 08└─I know it'll be a foreign concept to you but I'll go ahead and tell you anyway: we earned [dictionary.com] it. Click the link after that word confuses you.
[11:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:46] <exec> 08└─But everyone's favourite alt-wrong stupid signaller, Nigel Farage, says that all those countries are part of a Liberal Metropolitan Fascist Elite and on the verge of collapse along with the EUSSR.
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[12:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:14] <exec> 08└─Well of course it's a pipe dream. Any form of utopia is always going to be. Even fishing on the lake in your own boat has its down sides. That said, a pipe dream on a Caribbean island is still generally going to be better than a pipe dream most other places. Plus the island certainly could use the e...
[12:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:16] <exec> 08└─And double-check the sources for AC submission under the risk of being trolled with non-stories from bullshite sites [soylentnews.org]
[12:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think it will work very well, personally, but I'm more than happy to see someone test this theory. At least in future we'll be able to point at these guys and say "look, it does / doesn't work!" One more data point in the search for a better economic / social model than the one we have now....
[12:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:22] <exec> 08└─As opposed to being trolled by non-stories from mainstream sites?
[12:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and it'll totally suck for the folks doing the building of their city and supplying the materials. I mean, who the hell wants to earn good money when your island just got shat upon by mother nature? That's not the time to be deserving what you receive, that's the time for accepting handouts!
[12:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:27] <exec> 08└─A fool and his money are soon invited places.
[12:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:30] <exec> 08└─And these men — because they are almost exclusively men
[12:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Personalized Monetization AI / iCrack Dealer - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:39] <exec> 08└─Is it possible to get a comprehendible summary?
[12:17:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:49] <exec> 08└─If you swapped people between Japan and Iraq, which country would have a rape problem? It should be obvious.
[12:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:11] <exec> 08└─And an AC made a sucker from every Soylenter [soylentnews.org], thanks to the lack of attention of a certail editor that shall be remain unnamed here. We've been trolled.
[12:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:12] <exec> 08└─Join us as we discuss gender relations and sexual politics in Europe from a pro-male and anti-feminist perspective.
[12:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:15] <exec> 08└─The problem with the Sharia-type countries you mention is their culture. Islam is anti-rape and does not support rape and there are laws against rape: Islamic law about rape [thoughtco.com] Rape is completely forbidden in Islamic law, and is a crime punishable by death.
[12:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:17] <exec> 08└─if only ones political "vote" were as well protected ...
[12:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:21] <exec> 08└─You're saying my favorite ball cap may not prevent tiger attacks then?
[12:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:23] <exec> 08└─I prefer an anti-rape-45. They're proven effective.
[12:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:26] <exec> 08└─You may disagree with their politics but to infer that debates that begin by rejecting the prevalent dogma of our time are inherently bigoted is a non-sequitur.
[12:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:43] <exec> 08└─Western governments probably already have this. If not now, soon. It is certainly not going to happen any slower...the difference is, here it will be top secret. And we will be told, by some magic unknown algorithm*, that someone is dangerous (based on the secret score). Since people blindly trust "...
[12:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:43] <exec> 08└─The Chinese are hard at work trying to make a global sino-dollar(?). From start to possible finish this will take 50 years. Backed by the second biggest economy in the world. They want it to rival the dollar mind you. So trade is done worldwide in sino-dollars. Many countries have local currency tha...
[12:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:48] <exec> 08└─It's Fox News, so I didn't expect much detail, but how do you find 80 metres of wall in the middle of a city that no one has noticed for almost 30 years? Is this the setup for a Monty Python sketch?
[12:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:49] <exec> 08└─At the end of the WWII around 1945 the allied forced occupied Nazi Germany. The Soviet area [1] later became East Germany. The little grey blip inside the Soviet zone is West Berlin, which was further divided among the WWII winners [2]. East Germany built a wall around the non-Soviet zones of Berlin...
[12:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:28] <exec> 08└─> > Everything I say is False. > True, but paradox is not the same as contradiction Really not true. Sorry about that.
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[13:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:32] <exec> 08└─At least they are sites everybody knows about? You want fresh sites blood? Really? I think I might be able to help with that, but don't cry if the quality of S/N goes haywire after that.
[13:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:33] <exec> 08└─*sigh* I wasn't actually talking about the construction, I was talking about what society will look like after the building projects are complete. But anyway, while we're here... How can you be sure they will be earning "good money"? If the labour supply far outstrips the available work (which is no...
[13:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:36] <exec> 08└─> "everything should be organized by contracts, not government" Isn't that the cyberpunk future?
[13:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 2133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:38] <exec> 08└─The only reason why contracts have any force is because there is a government out there to help enforce them. If two people make a contract, and one of them violates the terms of the agreement, what recourse does the other one have? A society with a functioning government sets up courts of law, and...
[13:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:40] <exec> 08└─I dunno. The only form of *punk I recognize as anything but lameass posers is hardcore punk.
[13:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:43] <exec> 08└─You want fresh sites blood? Really?
[13:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:45] <exec> 08└─How can you be sure they will be earning "good money"?
[13:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:48] <exec> 08└─> and start doing their jobs correctly again "again"?
[13:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─No, I wanted to mock our mainstream media.
[13:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:53] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, if people are poor and desperate and hungry, that makes it absolutely fine to exploit them.
[13:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Personalized Monetization AI / iCrack Dealer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─The answer to that appears to be "no." However this may be useful to you: https://imgur.com
[13:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:42] <exec> 08└─I don't see it as racist at all. It's simply human nature, in both directions. As a Westerner, I like Western culture. I personally believe it is better than anything else around. Someone from another culture undoubtedly believes their their culture is the best. It's what they have, it's what they k...
[13:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─I provided you with the link you like, so go read it and spare me of non-sequiturs.
[13:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:46] <exec> 08└─Rape is completely forbidden in Islamic law, and is a crime punishable by death.
[13:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:48] <exec> 08└─I prefer an anti-rape-45
[13:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:06] <exec> 08└─... you need to hear about what happened to my friend, Lacey Pound. Well, she's not my friend any more now, obviously, but...
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[13:19:07] <exec> 08└─if we want to continue humanity along a path of freedom.
[13:19:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:16] <exec> 08└─I can't wait their high-impact low cost awareness campaigns using Facebook and Twitter... (grin)
[13:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:35] <exec> 08└─This is a great idea, money well spent. Since people by the Billions are using social media without obviously understanding the Faustian bargain they make people desperately need to be educated. Surveillance capitalism is not in your best interest.
[13:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, it exists all right. I was reminded of that this morning when yet another woman wheeled her baby out into the middle of the road in front of my car while face down in her phone. Once again I chose not to run them over, like every other morning, so far.
[13:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:14] <exec> 08└─To get a trading price of 20, somebody (with a lot of faith) was buying, it's a volatile issue and now its down to 8... that's kind of par for the course in volatile issues. The number of 0s following the prices doesn't change the volatility at all.
[13:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:15] <exec> 08└─... way before the internet or smartphones, we had these things called John Bull printing sets. They were fun. You had a little rack and rubber letters that you could slide in and make your own badges with a stamp pad; the bigger ones even had pictures you could print too. One day we had the bright...
[13:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:18] <exec> 08└─this makes them ideal for coins because the coin won't change much over a hundred years or so.
[13:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, segments of it are still standing
[13:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:00] <exec> 08└─it's always "in focus", such as it is, regardless of your prescription, until you turn blind.
[13:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─> For starters, I don't recognize any lord of anything, not even the lordy-dude who made this decision. You do realise that Lord Chief Justice is an appointed position? In the same vein, the Prime Minister is "First Lord of the Treasury".
[13:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:51] <exec> 08└─You're boring, same old crappy arguments, same old blindspots.
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:53] <exec> 08└─Pathetic
[13:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─Why are you projecting Twitter/FB's bullshit on to SF?
[13:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:57] <exec> 08└─Weaksauce. Troll harder.
[13:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:59] <exec> 08└─You know, it's a sad thing when the quality of your trolling does not measure up to that of Ethanol-Fueled on a bad day. You should practice more over on Twitter then come back and try again.
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[14:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:19] <exec> 08└─Why send boring concrete when you can send a car! I love it.
[14:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:20] <exec> 08└─The Verge says the Falcon Heavy launch to carry two paying customers around the Moon is likely cancelled in favor of using the BFR. They're not too clear about it though. Does the rocket even need to get approved for human spaceflight in the case of private passengers? SpaceX will demonstrate a new...
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[14:17:23] <exec> 08└─is a nice name for a rocket
[14:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if you've got F-you money like Musk, why not do it occasionally. Assuming the cameras and stereo are running off the original Roadster battery pack, how long will they stay on?
[14:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:27] <exec> 08└─Its stereo system will be playing David Bowie's Space Oddity.
[14:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:30] <exec> 08└─You could probably hear it if you put your ear directly on the car. But you would freeze.
[14:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those guys rocked hard back in the 70s. The only surviving member, Jethro Scudbucket, is still touring at the age of 76 and, since his hip replacement surgery in 2015, has even resumed his legendary "self-immolation stage dive" stunt at every gig.
[14:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:34] <exec> 08└─Comparison term - ISS mass in 2016: 419,725 kg [nasa.gov] - so 3 LEO trips with the same rocket will be enough to put an ISS-worth of mass on LEO. Took ISS 13 years (between 1998 and 2011). This may not happen if SpaceX decides to focus on the BFR instead, which as planned would be able to launch 15...
[14:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:37] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk: 'If we are successful with this, it is game over for all the other heavy lift rockets'
[14:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:03] <exec> 08└─No, I'm saying supply and demand make shitty pay into excellent pay when nobody else is getting paid at all.
[14:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:04] <exec> 08└─Well, they were relatively passable until around Y2K anyway. Not great but they'd do until something actually good came along.
[14:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:06] <exec> 08└─Already accomplished. Check the updated story content on the rape-pants story.
[14:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:09] <exec> 08└─Sincere congrats to the editor for the reaction.
[14:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:11] <exec> 08└─Operation Mockingbird was long before Y2K
[14:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─Utopia is easy when the price of entry is >$10M per head.
[14:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:16] <exec> 08└─No, shitty pay is shitty pay. It might be better than nothing, but it's still shitty. And people being desperate doesn't justify paying them shitty pay.
[14:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:18] <exec> 08└─When you live on an island and most food and other essentials of life are imported, shitty pay is shitty - it still won't buy enough food for the table, insect screening for the blown out windows, etc.
[14:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:20] <exec> 08└─I think they'll die out of douchebag-itis long before then.
[14:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:23] <exec> 08└─In the distant past there were enough people out there who had more than a shred of decency who banded together and formed a government. And, when the collective governments of the world manage to muster more than a shred of decency toward each other - that's peace. When a bunch of guys fall into a...
[14:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:25] <exec> 08└─No, shitty pay is shitty pay.
[14:18:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 1327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:00] <exec> 08└─Or at least link to well known troll sites, like breitbart.com, we'll now how much shit we can give about the Fucking Article. Don't try to slip these faeces under the guise of Radio Free Europe [wikipedia.org] or the "Voice of America", it is neither of the two. First google search page include: Vo...
[14:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:17] <exec> 08└─What else could explain their promotion of a conservative Christian view of European society that would have been considered centrist and mainstream just two decades ago?
[14:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:19] <exec> 08└─Sincere congratulations, that is. [ I still say you should have blamed it on Russian hackers. --TMB ]
[14:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:39] <exec> 08└─You only have to look at the wrong thing on the Internet to be considered dangerous.
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─But in general, just how many sets of kooky national laws do you think the whole world should memorize? People should be subject to the laws of their home country and to some degree the country they are physically in.
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[15:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:18] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember some non-tipping shitstain arguing with me that wait staff should be paid entirely by their employers rather than getting the majority of their pay through tips. Care to rethink that now that you have actual researched numbers up in your face instead of just my anecdotal informati...
[15:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:19] <exec> 08└─Even when paying with a card, I try as hard as I can to leave the tip in cash. It's a freakin' gift from me to the wait staff, not something for the owner or government to have any opinions about. Yeah, the "market" could sort things out if shit gets bad enough. In related news, wild boars have also...
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:21] <exec> 08└─Our big companies and corporations are SHOWERING their workers with bonuses. This is a phenomenon that nobody even thought of, and now it is the rage. The absolute RAGE. That’s because of what we did. Who wants just the tips, when all that gold is coming down?
[15:17:23] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:24] <exec> 08└─As a person living in Australia, I see mandatory tipping as a shitty cultural tradition. Wait, that's even worse, it's not even cultural, it's socio-economical. Listen, if it's me to bear the responsibility of paying the waiter, then I should be allowed to bring my own employee to serve me in your r...
[15:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:26] <exec> 08└─Showering and gold. Gold and shower. Mmm... I think I see what you did here.
[15:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:28] <exec> 08└─WTF are you going on about, something on Brietbart got you riled up this morning? I tip every time, at least 10% even if the service is shitty, and more if its better. Its not uncommon for me to give a delivery driver a 10 dollar tip on a 25 dollar order. But yes, the employer should pay every part...
[15:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:30] <exec> 08└─Work as wait staff in the US and then tell me that. Not a single competent waiter or waitress would ever take flat pay over minimal pay plus tips. It would be a huge pay cut.
[15:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:33] <exec> 08└─Show me on the doll where the mean words hurt you. But yes, the employer should pay every part of their damn salary, and quit expecting me to make up the difference.
[15:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:35] <exec> 08└─It's a freakin' gift from me to the wait staff, not something for the owner or government to have any opinions about.
[15:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:37] <exec> 08└─Work as wait staff in the US and then tell me that.
[15:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:40] <exec> 08└─Anyone who thinks that this administration has any consideration for workers is about as sane as our resident stable genius.
[15:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:42] <exec> 08└─Then I guess it's OK to "pool" the tips into the job-creators pocket and pay minimum wage to the staff.
[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─if you put your ear directly on the car. But you would freeze.
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 1410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:59] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't worry about that one iota. United Launch Alliance will always have a seat at the table because the U.S. Air Force wants redundant capabilities, and because Congressmen like pork. We'll be extremely lucky if even the SLS pork rocket gets cancelled. As for the world, countries like China wi...
[15:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:01] <exec> 08└─In space, no one can hear your car stereo.
[15:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:03] <exec> 08└─It will only be a monoculture if SpaceX's fat competitors don't get more lean and mean. They are not hungry and driven like a real business should be. They are too reliant on the government teat to always be there. Too dependent on being in bed with congress critters rather than innovating. I'm not...
[15:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:41] <exec> 08└─> ...trolled by non-stories from mainstream sites? This is the AC submitter, slept in and didn't get here when the story hit the main page. I had my doubts about the NY Times reporting. Before submitting I looked up the main character in the story -- at least to this level https://en.wikipedia.org
[15:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:43] <exec> 08└─You believe pay should be based on need rather than market value of the work performed? Idiotic thinking like that is what has created the race to claim the most oppression among the regressive left in the US. It was also spelled out exactly how and why it destroys any nation it infects decades ago...
[15:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:45] <exec> 08└─What's good or bad for pay for a job is entirely determined by cost of living
[15:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:47] <exec> 08└─I think you got a page or two stuck together. We were talking about the other story. Offtopic, yes, but not that confusing really.
[15:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:49] <exec> 08└─race to claim the most oppression
[15:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:52] <exec> 08└─thwy may make things work well for themselves. ftfy. thats the whole point of contract law. the main goal ts to be the one writing...er, defining the conditions and terms, in the proto-contract, the one that becomes the basis for all the other contracts.
[15:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:54] <exec> 08└─...just because a place has been hit by a hurricane, it doesn't mean the cost of living there will be low.
[15:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:56] <exec> 08└─In 1976 Ayn Rand enrolled in Social Security and Medicare.
[15:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─You think that's hyperbole? Have you not been paying attention for the past twenty years? There were actually feminist groups trying to silence or kick white women out for being too privileged just in the past year. FWIW, Ayn Rand was a delusional fantasist hypocrite with incredibly simplistic ideas...
[15:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:01] <exec> 08└─> ...is entirely determined... Beware of absolute statements. The world is a gray zone, very rarely are sweeping generalizations completely correct.
[15:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:03] <exec> 08└─Aren't you one of those folks who'll scream to the top of their lungs that Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements but things you've paid into and are simply getting your returns from? Me, I think they're ponzi schemes but that doesn't excuse you from making your arguments jive with each o...
[15:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:05] <exec> 08└─anyone with the tools and the skills to (re)build things is going to make a fuckload of money. Anyone with only the skills will make almost as much. Anyone willing to quickly acquire the skills is going to make significantly better money than most.
[15:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:08] <exec> 08└─I'm very proud of what we've done in Puerto Rico. Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened in Puerto Rico, with really a storm that was just totall...
[15:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:10] <exec> 08└─Ummm...? Because some crazy people don't understand feminism, paying a living wage is oppression. You might have to walk me through that one. And I can only assume you think I haven't read any Rand because if I had, then it's shining logic would have instantly converted me to your viewpoint. Haha. I...
[15:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:12] <exec> 08└─One data point does not a valid trend-line make.
[15:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:14] <exec> 08└─If a person eats pork, I have no problem with that. I happen to eat pork myself, from time to time. If a person spends the best part of his life telling other people that eating pork is evil, that eating pork will destroy society, that pork-eaters are the enemy within... and then goes on an all-pork...
[15:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:17] <exec> 08└─You're slipping. Trump would never call Katrina a "real catastrophe", since it was mainly black people that died / suffered. Try Hurricane Sandy.
[15:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Personalized Monetization AI / iCrack Dealer - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:27] <exec> 08└─The video links to a set of screengrabs of the presentation this covers: https://imgur.com [imgur.com] TL;DR version is that "For each running game then collect in game information. Combine this with of game info from social media, and any other information you can get on this player (includ...
[15:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:12] <exec> 08└─They're also not exactly new, these things have been around since the middle ages [livescience.com].
[15:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:13] <exec> 08└─We need some empirical data.
[15:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:15] <exec> 08└─The German newspaper is just called "Bild", without "Das".
[15:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:36] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, our dear government would never abuse us based on what we do [wikipedia.org] and much less on who we are [wikipedia.org]...
[15:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:38] <exec> 08└─So great leader and his minions will have scores ? they will algorithmically cheat and make top score and no wrongdoing will affect it.
[15:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:45] <exec> 08└─the point is that it's a reasonably small thing that can be easily exchanged between people, and it will stay more or less the same for generations. and you can make a crown from gold and then it will be the same crown "forever". as well as various religious stuff.
[15:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:47] <exec> 08└─In doing so, you probably learned more about how money works than most other people.
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[16:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:21] <exec> 08└─Cool, a self-replicating harem.
[16:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:22] <exec> 08└─My guess is that these have a high chance of becoming an invasive species.... so, how do they taste?
[16:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:24] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new arthropod overlords. Quote paraphrased from this movie [imdb.com].
[16:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:27] <exec> 08└─Alex Jones is gonna have a field day with this one... :facepalm:
[16:17:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:43] <exec> 08└─Work as wait staff in the US and then tell me that.
[16:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:46] <exec> 08└─You think there is any situation where you dine in a restaurant anywhere on earth where you are NOT paying the waiter? It's just more transparent here and you have the option to decide how well they did and show it in their tip.
[16:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:48] <exec> 08└─Why should it be illegal for an employer to have any tip policy they please? Would implementing a "shared pool" system not cause good waitstaff to head to employers who do not have such a system, leaving the greedy owner with the worst employees? If ensuring fair compensation only occurs because the...
[16:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─Not a single competent waiter or waitress would ever take flat pay over minimal pay plus tips. It would be a huge pay cut.
[16:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:53] <exec> 08└─I am firmly in the camp that having a $3 per hour minimum wage for wait staff is criminal behavior. Either get rid of it entirely or make it the same as the normal minimum wage.
[16:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:55] <exec> 08└─Pay your god damn employees instead of guilt-tripping your customers, dickhead.
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─I tip extra when tipping on the card. I don't often carry much cash, so I just pay out enough to make it worthwhile.
[16:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they have no incentive to check and see if you need you're drink filled.
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─I think he's confusing gold shower with cold shower. Which is what metaphorically lower-paid workers get as a bonus.
[16:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:04] <exec> 08└─That's a relief. At least they're not right-wingers or left-wingers.
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:07] <exec> 08└─Then the employer just fires anyone that taddles on them for stealing tips. Your invisible hand of the market only jacks off the owners while fisting the workers. (how's that for a free market analogy?)
[16:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:09] <exec> 08└─As someone who lived in England in the sixties I can assure you we Americans have no idea what bad service is.
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:11] <exec> 08└─No. He is making reference to the Russian hookers golden showers Trump has enjoyed.
[16:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:14] <exec> 08└─If I give a tip, it is because I believe the waitstaff served me well. It is between me and them. If the owner pockets it, it is theft as far as I'm concerned.
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:16] <exec> 08└─Go to an all-you-can-eat buffet like a real American (where drink refills are meant to stop you from getting a twenty-third plate of food).
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─Now explain to me how your money going into the employer's hands, getting a big chunk skimmed off of it, and then going to the staff is better than it going directly from you to the staff.
[16:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:21] <exec> 08└─If you think people will work for you for $3 an hour or less with no tips, your bad sense will soon find your business with zero work force. There's a few restaurants here in Chicago that have no tipping because they pay their workers a full wage with benefits. I'd rather pay $2 extra for my food kn...
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─Because a tip is something I choose to give to the waiter/waitress personally. I didn't give it to the restaurant, it's owner, or anyone else there. It is MY money to give or not to anyone I choose. If the person I want to tip isn't allowed to keep it, it will stay in my pocket or I'll give it to th...
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:26] <exec> 08└─If you think people will work for you for $3 an hour or less with no tips
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:28] <exec> 08└─Except for the fact that repeated studies have shown that waiter performance actually has almost no impact on how much they get tipped - that's basically random. About the only thing that *does* correlate with tip amount is the patron's wealth - wealthy patron generally tip substantially lower than...
[16:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:30] <exec> 08└─no kidding, i can't tell if he or I or you or all of us are very confused about TMB's stance on this. he seems to be arguing for what we're saying should have happened and is coming across as aggressively ignorant of the cause of the argument. there is no argument between us. TMB, did you read the a...
[16:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:32] <exec> 08└─Blarg. Disregard previous; sorry. The American federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees that receive at least $30 per month in tips.[4] If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any week, the employer is required to inc...
[16:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:35] <exec> 08└─You think there is any situation where you dine in a restaurant anywhere on earth where you are NOT paying the waiter?
[16:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:49] <exec> 08└─Now how about addressing the point you so cunningly diverted us from about four posts ago?
[16:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:50] <exec> 08└─True. I simply expect anyone here to be smart enough to spot when I'm using a broad generalization and understand that's all it's meant to be.
[16:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:52] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Claiming oppression is claiming need. Can you figure it out from there or do I really have to type it all out?
[16:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:55] <exec> 08└─Flawed analogy. Rand was forced to pay into those programs whether she liked it or not just like everyone else. Explain to me how getting her own back in any way negates anything she ever said.
[16:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:57] <exec> 08└─Who said anything about local government or elected officials? As I understand it, within their own city borders, these billionaires effectively WILL be the local government.
[16:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:59] <exec> 08└─Well yeah. If someone is oppressed, then they have a need. A need to not be oppressed. What's your point?
[16:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:01] <exec> 08└─Because by her own loudly-opined standards1, being reliant on welfare makes her a worthless, useless drain on society and a failure of a human being who should just do the world a favour by quietly starving to death. Why should anyone listen to the rantings of a failure? 1Not mine, hers.
[16:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:04] <exec> 08└─I see you're learning what its like to discuss anything with tmb. He is always right, your points are stupid and irrelevant, and the whole exercise is pointless.
[16:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─I don't get the oppression - need part, please explain.
[16:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:08] <exec> 08└─So taxes aren't theft, we are getting the value we pay for. Thanks for clearing that up.
[16:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─I think that they have a plan for that. I suspect that they are hoping that the island will be full of desperately poor women who are also hot.
[16:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:13] <exec> 08└─Oh dear! How far back [thoughtco.com] should we go [mentalfloss.com]? I'm sorry sir, but you are going to have a hard time convincing me we are up against anything new and/or different. Speed? maybe. But content? Nah... "The petty thieves support Vatia for aedile"
[16:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:15] <exec> 08└─Nope, not even. You didn't have any alternative sources of news to compare to so you didn't know how much of the "news" was fake. But by the open of the 21st Century you had Fox, Drudge and a thousand other sources to allow anyone with eyes to see that ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN was only telling a small curate...
[16:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:13] <exec> 08└─Twenty-some-odd years, zero tiger attacks whist wearing said hat.
[16:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:15] <exec> 08└─Humor's in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. I certainly would have laughed.
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─02:35AM here, that's my excuse.
[16:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:19] <exec> 08└─That's just one city. Pick one. Then pick a day.
[16:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:42] <exec> 08└─That's the public but state approved version. The public governmental versions are "security clearance", "do not fly list" and "concealed carry permit".
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─These include those of the Dutch famine of 1944–45, wherein the offspring born during the famine were smaller than those born the year before the famine and the effects could last for two generations.
[16:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:10] <exec> 08└─Whether we are talking about attacking a server or posting a picture, it's all communication.
[16:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:11] <exec> 08└─I think tourists should be cut a little slack in cases where they inadvertently break the law IF their actions or inactions would have been legal in their own country. In general, allowances need to be made for the significant difficulties presented by a trial under an unfamiliar justice system an t...
[16:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─The sooner Americans get the notion through their head that the world is not our jurisdiction
[16:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─But in general, just how many sets of kooky national laws do you think the whole world should memorize? People should be subject to the laws of their home country and to some degree the country they are physically in.
[16:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:37] <exec> 08└─It's probably all their White Privileges—you know, the ones that allowed Whitey to get ahead of everyone else and colonize all their countries.
[16:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:38] <exec> 08└─Since you're all pedantic about definitions try looking up "internet troll". EF and others are trolls, simply describing your performance is not.
[16:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:40] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaaaaaaahahahaha--oh wait, you're serious. Hang on, let me laugh harder: AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!
[16:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think AC was trolling, just stating the facts. Really, your entire worldview comes down to "Got mine, fuck you," with some, as you put it, "weaksauce" attempts to bolster it through saying you "earned" everything you have. Sure ya did, buddy. You popped out of the womb with a full time job a...
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[17:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:26] <exec> 08└─There is that higher reproduction rate though. I think such a problem would resolve itself via disease. That's probably why we see less such cloning in the natural world in the first place. It'll probably turn out that crayfish and related species have been able to switch to a "clone" mode for some...
[17:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:27] <exec> 08└─I believe Crayfish already are considered an invasive species in some areas. And the last time I ate some they tasted a bit like lobster, though not quite as sweet. You can already get packages of crayfish tails in some super markets if your curious, just use a recipe that calls for lobster meat, li...
[17:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:30] <exec> 08└─The name as given in the summary is grammatically incorrect.
[17:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:32] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call them "female" (as implied by harem). TFA Another intriguing fact, says Frank Lyko, who led the study, is that marbled crayfish are triploid, meaning they have three sets of chromosomes. Most crayfish—and most other animals—have two sets, one inherited from the mother and the othe...
[17:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:34] <exec> 08└─We may need to take some lessons from Klingon history and go on a Great Crayfish Hunt. The real trouble with tribbles is that they don't go well with any BBQ rubs or sauces. I am confident that our advanced state of BBQ technology will enable us to be successful.
[17:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:37] <exec> 08└─I think such a problem would resolve itself via disease.
[17:17:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─Anyone who thinks that this administration has any consideration for workers is about as sane as our resident stable genius.
[17:17:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─Not a single competent waiter or waitress would ever take flat pay over minimal pay plus tips. It would be a huge pay cut.
[17:18:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:01] <exec> 08└─Pay your god damn employees instead of guilt-tripping your customers, dickhead.
[17:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─I loved the analogy. May I quote you?
[17:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:24] <exec> 08└─(yeah, naaah, mate! I do agree with your point, but I deliberately put it this way to emphasize the cognitive dissonance in TMB's argumentation. I know well his battle cry of "Socialism is theft" and yet in this instance he shows quite a decent understanding of waiter's positions, to the point of sa...
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─Surely, you tip the kitchen staff in addition to the wait staff, correct? No? You're a non-tipping shitstain as far as I'm concerned.
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─wealthy patron generally tip substantially lower than most.
[17:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:30] <exec> 08└─Now, why the hell should I do that? I mean, this whole world doesn't start nor finish with US.
[17:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 1853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:33] <exec> 08└─The system stinks, so I try to avoid it by eating at restaurants that don't have wait service and tipping, or just eat at home. I hate being guilt tripped into leaving generous tips to make up for the cheap ass, scumbag owners who won't pay their staff enough. Even worse that this is enshrined in la...
[17:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:35] <exec> 08└─Hmm... YMMV, but in the U.S. unless I'm eating at a fancy restaurant or ordering alcohol (which waitstaff know will inflate your bill), my experience is that only about 50% of waitstaff actually seem to check and see if I need my drink filled. If I'm drinking water or something with free refills, ma...
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:37] <exec> 08└─"Why should it be illegal for an employer to have any tip policy they please?" Fine, so long as it is absolutely clear what that policy is and waiters are both allowed and required to explain the tipping policy when you sit down. Because I'm sure if people are told "Good evening sir, typically a tip...
[17:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:40] <exec> 08└─This doesn't make sense. Any place of business that has customers want to provide good customer service. If they do not, the customers may go somewhere that does. The employer has an incentive to fire bad wait staff. Even if the wait staff is being tipped by customers, a manager will still fire bad...
[17:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:42] <exec> 08└─Well, they should all quit and go on strike, and by strike, I mean the kind we haven't seen in 100 years. That's just me though. Fuck the greedy employers as usual. I never tip off my card, and I always *hand deliver* the tip to my waiter. That way they can discreetly palm it and hide it in their po...
[17:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:44] <exec> 08└─Where I live (Switzerland), tipping is entirely optional, because restaurants actually pay their employees a real wage. So, instead of being left to the vagaries of random customers, they actually earn a living like anyone: being paid by their employer to do their job. Tips here play the role they s...
[17:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:46] <exec> 08└─I agree completely. I have no problem with people who are genuinely moved to tip because someone went "above and beyond." But the expected tip creates an even worse issue: the implicit threat. If you don't tip 15% or whatever, it's effectively perceived as a punishment. But if you truly receive serv...
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─Yup. It's the classic privatize profits and socialize losses.
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─Watch out for India though, I hear they can be a bit aggressive. https://www.geek.com [geek.com]
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:17] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. PR is a one party Democratic shithole. If anyone thinks any deal with the territorial government is going to be binding after the concrete sets up they are utopians who will learn a practical lesson soon enough. The local government will welcome them with open arms, help them bu...
[17:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─Not all rich people play well together. You also need plebs to do the needed maintenance tasks of a society, at least until self-maintaining robots can do it all.
[17:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─the island will be full of desperately poor women who are also hot. Wait, are we talking about Manhattan? Yeah, I think Mick mentioned something about the Puerto Rican girls...
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:23] <exec> 08└─When a bunch of guys fall into a giant pile of money and decide to take it to a tropical tax haven, that's hardly news. That's right. It's exactly what the colonists did 500 years ago. And "America"? It is most famous for being the "Land of Opportunity" 9 out of 10 conspiracy theorists agree, that h...
[17:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:25] <exec> 08└─So, they are saying: "Hmm, look at these vast tracts of land, that are cheap because of this huge natural disaster. This is the perfect place for me to build a community! What could possibly go wrong?" Perhaps they are literally building tax shelters? Shell buildings that they can claim as their res...
[17:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:27] <exec> 08└─A couple of quotes from Benjamin Franklin: “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ― Benjamin Franklin “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” ― Benjamin Franklin
[17:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:30] <exec> 08└─There are already plenty of ultra-rich gated communities in PR. Private security forces, private and secured water and electricity generation. Nothing new here. Reading through these comments though it is really strange hearing people sperg out calling these people essentially socially-retarded base...
[17:21:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:18] <exec> 08└─I prefer an anti-rape-45. They're proven effective.
[17:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:34] <exec> 08└─Western liberals like to claim we have a rape culture... Well we are talking about grope-proof pants here. It's funny everyone is blaming Muslims considering who our president is....
[17:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─So, stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
[17:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:54] <exec> 08└─I would like to see your rendition of "The TIde Pod Challenge!" I will forever be in your debt if you do...
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[18:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:14] <exec> 08└─The term "BPA-free" implies that the plastic is the same, but it just doesn't have BPA. But BPA is often a necessary component. So when you see BPA-free, you should ask "what did they replace the BPA with?" Unfortunately it varies based on the plastic, and we don't always have good information about...
[18:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:15] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen many problems with polypropylene [wikipedia.org] or polyethylene [wikipedia.org].
[18:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:36] <exec> 08└─What do you mean you haven't seen anything like it? There was an entire movie about it! http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[18:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:37] <exec> 08└─cook em like a cajun and they are delicious.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:40] <exec> 08└─They lay eggs, how much more female can you get?
[18:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:42] <exec> 08└─Sing it with me: "Yes, we have no Bananas!" (Inspired by the Central American banana blight of the early 1920s.)
[18:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:44] <exec> 08└─So, Jurassic Park was on the right track, then? " Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man…woman inherits the earth. "
[18:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─Unlike normal females, the eggs are fertile without the presence of a male. So it should be beyond more than (beyond of) a normal female, especially with a triploid genome.
[18:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:49] <exec> 08└─Forget Alex Jones, Jeff Goldblum is all geared up to say "I Told You So"
[18:18:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:20] <exec> 08└─If I give a tip, it is because I believe the waitstaff served me well. It is between me and them. If the owner pockets it, it is theft as far as I'm concerned.
[18:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:47] <exec> 08└─Sure, but I can't possibly be the first person to think of it. There are a lot of dirty minds on the internet.
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:48] <exec> 08└─Because wait staff are so ubiquitous that even he understands the situation. I'm waiting for his mental gymnastics routine where he defines everything in such a way that he doesn't need to budge his world view. Ironically such feats of delusion are what he accuses of anyone who went to college. Damn...
[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSj5stmFkQ0 [youtube.com]
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─It's too bad this article was held until today. Granted, it was submitted at the last minute. There was a public comment period until February 5. Yesterday. On the other hand ... we all saw how well that played out with the FCC.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─Stealing a server's tips is a surefire way to destroy his or her incentive to give good service. It also deprives the customer of a useful feedback mechanism for a particular server. In Japan you don't tip at all, but their culture has a notion of service and politeness built in so the incentive mec...
[18:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─oh yeah, the wealthy are wealthy b/c they are soooo fucking smart. more like stingy sell-outs most of the time.
[18:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─??? Really? That is the excuse you want to give rich people?
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:02] <exec> 08└─it was probably a concession to get min wage laws passed in the first place.
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:05] <exec> 08└─Hmm..., lets see here, most populous countries. Well there's #1 China, #2 India, and who's #3? Oh, yeah, the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Then you have these kinds of numbers: "Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than...
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:07] <exec> 08└─nobody said anything about taddling to some "authority". he said FREE! that means you leave like a free person would do, not whine to some Grand Overseer slug.
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:09] <exec> 08└─and that's called theft by fraud and is actually in the legitimate purview of government to prosecute.
[18:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─Excuse? It's just a hypothesis.
[18:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:14] <exec> 08└─The issue in the US is that tipped workers have a minimum wage that's less than half of the regular minimum wage. Restaurant owners started pulling the trick of underpaying their servers and demanding their customers make up the difference with tips back in the 1930's, and have never gone back becau...
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─Not quite, repeated studies have shown that tip amount is largely based on sex of the wait staff and if they draw hearts on the receipt.
[18:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─I would have sent a Yugo.
[18:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:38] <exec> 08└─Should Aliens encounter the car is the middle of nowhere, would you like them to think we have decent taste, or is it preferable to have the plausible deniability that we wouldn't target them with such an ugly thing as a Yugo? There are tradeoffs, for sure. Musk chose to have the fun of claiming his...
[18:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:41] <exec> 08└─United Launch Alliance will always have a seat at the table because the U.S. Air Force wants redundant capabilities,
[18:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:56] <exec> 08└─You also need plebs to do the needed maintenance tasks of a society
[18:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:57] <exec> 08└─Like this, you mean? http://www.angryflower.com [angryflower.com]
[18:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:00] <exec> 08└─I'm predicting Lord of the Flies. The rest of us should set up cameras all over that place and turn it into a reality series.
[18:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:02] <exec> 08└─"What's going to make this attempt at utopia immune to graft and corruption? Their enthusiasm?" it's called FOSS and a smart contract. :)
[18:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:04] <exec> 08└─phase two of puertopia: exterminate local gov officials.
[18:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:07] <exec> 08└─i'm sure they have already been tapping into that local resource.
[18:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:09] <exec> 08└─the point of a smart contract is that it enforces itself.
[18:21:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 1238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:58] <exec> 08└─I don't see it as racist at all. It's simply human nature, in both directions. As a Westerner, I like Western culture. I personally believe it is better than anything else around. Someone from another culture undoubtedly believes their their culture is the best. It's what they have, it's what they k...
[18:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:14] <exec> 08└─Problem is depending on where you live carrying that could earn you some shiny bracelets to wear, absolutely free of charge, and government housing with an ironically higher incidence of rape. Even if you live in a more civilized area, often there is quite a bit of bureaucracy involved. Secondary is...
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─n=1
[18:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─Lacie Pound's desperate need for approval shows up in most of humanity. That Black Mirror episode has technology placing a digital score on what many do on a daily basis. Think it's interesting this site allows others to score ones posts.
[18:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:41] <exec> 08└─Great leader is the 100% score, no one else can reach 100%, all others will be scored based on their distance from the ideals given by the great leader.
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─People get beaten all the time with "Offtopic" So, stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─By this masterstroke they have actually killed even proprietary software, as the only way for a lot of these "services" to make money is via collecting and selling user data. What we are seeing is a formation of cartel. See, who are we but plebs? By this move they have just moved the date of eventua...
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─There should be +0 weep for humanity mod.
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─Not quite right. Currency has value because people believe that they can exchange them for real goods and services at some later date. It's not some blind belief in a social idea. They work how much faith they have that the currency will be worth goods and services into their valuation of the curren...
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Recent Slide -- Harbinger of Cryptocurrency Problems in General? - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:57] <exec> 08└─Nope. It's not misunderstood. Saying a currency is "backed by XXX" is just a factor into each individual's calculation of how probable it is they can exchange it for real goods and services in the future. It may stabilize the value over time, which makes them somewhat more sure that they can get a d...
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[19:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:28] <exec> 08└─I would also suggest not ingesting glass. That would be much worse for your health than the side effects from the BPA in the plastic.
[19:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:30] <exec> 08└─Once again, we see the xenophobia inherent in contemporary science.
[19:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:32] <exec> 08└─They replace it with BPS https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and from the same page, In a study of human urine, BPS was found in 81% of the samples tested. This percentage is comparable to BPA which was found in 95% of urine samples
[19:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:34] <exec> 08└─"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ended its authorization of the use of BPA in baby bottles and infant formula packaging, based on market abandonment, not safety.[4][dead link]The European Union and Canada have banned BPA use in baby bottles. The FDA states "BPA is safe at the current...
[19:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─we won't know for sure for another decade.
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:04] <exec> 08└─Come on, they went from not female to super female. If this logic was a continuous line I would say MVT proves my point, as is I don't think that will work. While we are at it, what sex is attributed to the well known parthenogenesis lizards (amongst other species)? What exactly do you require to us...
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─There is that higher reproduction rate though. I think such a problem would resolve itself via disease. That's probably why we see less such cloning in the natural world in the first place. It'll probably turn out that crayfish and related species have been able to switch to a "clone" mode for some...
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:08] <exec> 08└─Cloning is one thing, but the last thing we need in a situation like this is cooking advice from cannibals!! (How do you cook cajuns, anyway? Just curious.)
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─the eggs are fertile without the presence of a male.
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─The eventual die-off
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─Because a tip is something I choose to give to the waiter/waitress personally.
[19:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─I knew about the causes (and understood them**), thanks for the historical details, I wasn't aware that the "custom" is that old (and thus much harder to normalize). ** with the - maybe unnecessary - note that "understanding != acceptance"
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─oh yeah, and if you're the government and want it taxed, make the owner pay it out as salary, on the books. Anything I'm giving in cash, directly to the waiter, is underground economy, and that's where it rightfully belongs!
[19:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─The point is that the system in the US is bad and should be different. The opinions of waiters in the US were developed in the context of working within the broken system. They have developed biases that are based on getting the best they can out of a bad system, rather than implementing a better sy...
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─As others have pointed out, the tipping incentive doesn't make much difference. Some people leave crappy tips, some leave none, and no amount of good service is likely to sway them. There was an article about some restaurant that went with a living wage and no tips, turns out it was very successful.
[19:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:35] <exec> 08└─The kitchen staff get as least minimum wage. The waitstaff don't. While I certainly would have appreciated tips when I was working in the kitchen, it was less critical for me than the folks in the front of the house.
[19:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:37] <exec> 08└─yeah, the United States has a big voice, because it is one of the largest and most prosperous nations on Earth.
[19:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:39] <exec> 08└─Why does the US allow an exception to your employment laws specifically for gastronomy?
[19:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:42] <exec> 08└─Not a single competent waiter or waitress would ever take flat pay over minimal pay plus tips. It would be a huge pay cut.
[19:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:44] <exec> 08└─Not true. In the USA, the most competent waiters work at the very best restaurants where they are paid a salary and have benefits. There is no tipping at these restaurants, service is included. Restaurants like The French Laundry (Napa), Benu (SF), Alinea (Chicago), and 11 Madison Park (NYC.)
[19:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:08] <exec> 08└─delayed to 2:20 PM EST https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:09] <exec> 08└─Runway to orbit makes more sense than keeping a rocket fueled and on hold for weeks.
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:11] <exec> 08└─But I think they're playing the wrong song. Surely it should be /Radar Rider/? http://youtube.com (And yes, I know I suggested Don Felder's /Takin' a Ride/ the other day, but that's because it's a way better song - it's the visuals that are a better match this time.)
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:14] <exec> 08└─ITYM "that would be impressive". That value is for a hypothetical future launch vehicle, and therefore deserves the conditional future tense.
[19:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:16] <exec> 08└─Delayed to 3:45 PM EST.
[19:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 1:30 PM EST (6:30 PM UTC) Today - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:18] <exec> 08└─Though he could send Boring [boringcompany.com] concrete if he wanted to.
[19:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:41] <exec> 08└─And these men — because they are almost exclusively men — have a plan
[19:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:42] <exec> 08└─Contracts pre-date government enforcement of contracts. OTOH, if you don't have government enforcement of contracts, then you're depending on some other form of enforcement. When there were fewer people, and people were less mobile, then reputation made a reasonably good enforcer. That doesn't seem...
[19:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:44] <exec> 08└─For that matter, official currency was invented by the Lydians back during the Classic age of Greece, as a mechanism for guaranteeing the purity of traded gold. The Lydian monarchs had tiny bars of gold of "known purity" embossed with their seal as a statement of purity. This greatly increased the v...
[19:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:47] <exec> 08└─Imagine an entire society, as volatile as the stock market, a kind of libertarian "bubble" as it were, where once the shorts on the contracts start being called, the entire thing devolves into a blood bath. Hobbes was right!
[19:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─> And for the men that took the risk and didn't become billionaires? What will we give them? Even higher taxes, and more social burdens? At least that seems how it works based on my experience...
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is time for a quality aristarchus submission?
[19:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Personalized Monetization AI / iCrack Dealer - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─I'm so excited to play this game! It sounds like all the fun of actuarial tables combined with Orwell's 1984. Sign me up!
[19:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─no, they're not trying to be polite. are you really that brainwashed? they are purposely covering up the truth for their political agenda(or what they think their political agenda is). this is typical NWO strategy. cause trouble to gain control.
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─Everybody leaves off the beginning of the Trump quote. He says "They let you". Well yes. Women get turned on by rich and powerful men. Women can be horny. Women do in fact like to be grabbed by the pussy.
[19:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─> The relevant question is whether they're committing more crimes than the locals, and you've shown me nothing that indicates the affirmative. And you won't get it packaged for you in a single article unless you go to reprehensible far right sites, none of which I'm willing to link to. The main reas...
[19:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed it does; but if you're new, it only allows you to score them upwards. Waiting for Russian hackers to plant a 'dislike' button...
[19:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:30] <exec> 08└─I had the same thought, but a credit score doesn't look at your political views. Interestingly enough, in 2015 they did look at your Facebook friends, but they dropped it in 2016 (or so they claimed) because it didn't work. And FaceBook started banning the practice - perhaps related to the FTC warni...
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, unfortunately, even if a robust consumer protection law is rolled out tomorrow, and companies all over are practically prevented from distributing nonfree software, and the software+hardware ecosystem gets user-friendly and healthy all of a sudden, we'll still have the user problem you are all...
[19:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Technologists Form Group to Fight Tech Addiction - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─That is not e definition of an addiction.
[19:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Possible? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:26] <exec> 08└─We still have to discover if, and if then how, such an adaptation can result in "hard" genetic change.
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─breaking into Department of Defense computers in another country and making off with data, isn't one of those things. That would be near universally considered a crime.
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:13] <exec> 08└─Committing crimes on US soil, even when you're in another country when you do it
[19:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─Nope, you can't have it both ways. How can one both "commit a crime on US soil" and "not be in the country"?
[19:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─For example, how many USians think the NSA accessing Merkel's phone data was criminal?
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[20:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─touché!
[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:29] <exec> 08└─Drinks just plain taste better in glass containers, without straws. Next best is a wax coated paper cup. I have always been able to taste the plastic when drinking from a plastic cup, and I think most people can. It's very faint, but it is there. Aluminum cans also impart a taste, from the plastic l...
[20:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─What exactly do you require to use the term female?
[20:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─It's a disaster for genetic diversity though, before that disease wipes them out. Interesting to watch, but I'm concerned since some of the culinary advice indicates it's not as good as the crayfish it replaced. If they taste good, we can greatly help with the overpopulation via hunting, but if they...
[20:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:25] <exec> 08└─The obvious thing here is that there is some pay level where you would not be taking a pay cut and I've always gotten the best service in countries with no tipping. I tip extremely well. Before I was married I considered 30% personal minimum tip. But it's just because I don't want to have to gauge y...
[20:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:27] <exec> 08└─I've often thought that TMB shows bad logic but sometimes took into account that we may just not see eye to eye. His logic is clearly selfish in nature. He remembers his time as a tip earner and could hardly give a fuck about customer service. The level of service that I get ordering a cup of ramen...
[20:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:29] <exec> 08└─If that were the case, why do I hear so many bitching about sub-minimum wages? Please make my day and double down on that declaration that every single person who is unhappy with the current system is incompetent.
[20:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:32] <exec> 08└─but at many places its not just the waitress that dips into that money--the bus boy, the cook, other waitstaff... all get a part of that. there are places that the tip goes right to the waitperson, but many others divide that up among the people responsible to make the food get it to the table and e...
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:34] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter whose hands to what. You pay your staff good and pass the expense on to me. Don't turn me into your fucking accountant and don't make me stare into your waitresses's soulless eyes as she tries to flirt an extra buck out of me. "Any more refreshments for this handsome gentleman"
[20:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:36] <exec> 08└─Conveniently skipped over the second half of my post, you did. At least 50% of the world doesn't care, because they are in abject poverty. Also, Surprise! The other 50% of the world doesn't agree on everything. So, your 4.5% of the world isn't disagreeing with 95.5% of the world. World leaders are l...
[20:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:39] <exec> 08└─It is not tipping if it is mandatory. OTO(mechanical)H it is not tipping if the employer pockets it. Getting paid by tipping was a mistake IMHO, but now that it is a tradition, keep it unless there are very good reasons not to (meatbags running out of money for instance).
[20:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:41] <exec> 08└─when you talk to me like a gameshow host, flirt with me, and laugh hysterically at every fucking thing I say
[20:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:11] <exec> 08└─Apologies for not being versed in the subtleties of English language during (and after) a sleepless night. Other than that... I may be tempted to invoke the excuse of SpaceX being the (one and only) Musk enterprise that manages to hit the targets they announce, thus the conditional future has credib...
[20:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:13] <exec> 08└─It looks like a penis and balls.
[20:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:15] <exec> 08└─230 foot tall long
[20:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:17] <exec> 08└─Seems to be going forward, launch webcast to start at 3:25 PM EST.
[20:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:20] <exec> 08└─so 3 LEO trips with the same rocket
[20:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:48] <exec> 08└─"The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged are two books you can give a 15-year-old that will change his life forever. One will draw him into a fantasy world where people who are losers in real life can become heroic captains engaged in a timeless, righteous struggle against evil. The other is about...
[20:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:49] <exec> 08└─It's a favorite SJW ad hominem
[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Personalized Monetization AI / iCrack Dealer - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─Do they cover when the customer actually has any fun when being forced to doing all of this? What do they do if the user decides to stop participating in this personalized dystopian future and unplug the tv and not recharge the phone? Or what if they don't... use social media, or gasp, have a differ...
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─"According to Islamic law, rape victims are often punished by Islamic courts as adulterers. According to sharia, rape can only be proven if the rapist confesses or if there are four male witnesses. Otherwise, rapists are never punished. Women who allege rape without providing four men as witnesses a...
[20:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:30] <exec> 08└─How about focusing on making a processor that can be trusted?
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[21:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─What's different about the 14% who don't have BPA in the body?
[21:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:41] <exec> 08└─BPA exposure - sleepless night and all that, it sounds like "British Paedo Association exposure" (grin)
[21:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:43] <exec> 08└─Breast fed longer?
[21:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:17] <exec> 08└─Did you happen to notice that while I did cherry pick the whiptail lizards, the paragraph you are referencing actually directly contradicts you. In polyploid obligate parthenogens like the whiptail lizard, all the offspring are female.[19]
[21:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─Who is Alex Jones?
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─You start with your holy trinity--that's mirepoix, but it's onions, bell pepper, and celery--and get it nice and sautee'd up on medium heat, then add your meat...you know where this is going.
[21:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:23] <exec> 08└─And here I thought you just boiled 'em up, rip off the heads and suck out the juice!
[21:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:54] <exec> 08└─In places where tipping is discouraged, the wait staff will in fact be insulted if you tip them, because they will not be perceived as anything but professional. It is their job to be prompt and courteous. Tipping asserts a class dominance that prompt and courteous professionals would rather not be...
[21:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─it's not even cultural, it's socio-economical.
[21:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:58] <exec> 08└─I have never really understood this mentality. I interact with the wait staff at a restaurant, but really, it's the kitchen staff that ensure my meal is tasty and not full of salmonella or other bacteria. It's the kitchen staff that are most important for my enjoyment of a meal. Why tip the wait sta...
[21:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:00] <exec> 08└─Say... what? Is this indeed what's expected from the "successful tip receiver" waiting staff in US?
[21:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:02] <exec> 08└─Completely agree with this. In Australia, the tip generally goes to more than just the wait staff, so the restaurant experience comes off more like a team effort. It pisses me off no end when I'm in some small establishment in the USA and it feels like a union demarkation dispute will erupt if I ask...
[21:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:05] <exec> 08└─I'd rather cost of having servers be included in the price I'm charged along with all taxes. If a waiter isn't good enough that they deserve the money, then the owner should fire them and get somebody that is. Tips just make it hard for waiters to know how much they're going to make while putting th...
[21:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:07] <exec> 08└─Well the other option is to get rid of tips, raise all prices ~30% across the board (because now you have to cover the tip income plus additional employment taxes), and hope that the wait staff see all of that increase.
[21:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:42] <exec> 08└─Watch out: the documentary Heavy Metal prophesized a Corvette bringing the evil Loc-Nar to earth: https://en.wikipedia.org(film) [wikipedia.org] https://images.duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
[21:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:44] <exec> 08└─With a little work, and lots of money, a scaled up Virgin could be runway to orbit in less than 30 minutes
[21:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:46] <exec> 08└─Well, then, we'll just have the classic Austin Powers joke [youtube.com].
[21:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:48] <exec> 08└─A somewhat more creative dilemma would be do we launch a life size statue of jar jar binks, or a really nicely painted army of warhammer 40K minis? Whats a bigger war crime, "It would be a shame if our Necron army awoke on your planet..." vs "let me give you the good news of our lord and savior jar...
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:50] <exec> 08└─I'll predict 2 boosters land properly, and 1 crash lands. 2 minutes, 45 seconds to launch!
[21:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:53] <exec> 08└─Everything seems to have gone very smoothly. The boosters landed properly, and the first stage was headed to the right place when signal was lost. Good job, all involved! The "DON'T PANIC" sign on the dashboard of the payload car was a nice touch.
[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Set for 3:45 PM EST (8:45 PM UTC) Today - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─The webcast went split screen four screens and the bottom two showed the same feed if you watched carefully whereas I'm sure the intention was left would be left and right would be right. A pity. The synchronized landing was insanely cool. The coverage of the launch was nice, very unlike American sp...
[21:22:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:58] <exec> 08└─See Nipples and Dye.
[21:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:38] <exec> 08└─When I saw the headline, for some reason I envisaged they would have a special paint on them that would indelibly mark any assailant with a unique signature for easy identification.
[21:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─Rape is completely forbidden in Islamic law..
[21:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─can blue lasers make a blue screen the last thing you ever see?
[21:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 1499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─How many Americans are extradited to shithole countries around the world? If I hack an Iranian site, and I'm exposed, is the US going to send me to Iran for trial? I don't think so. How many Americans have been surrendered to the World Court for alleged "War Crimes"? (Jesus H - that would be a real...
[21:27:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─The sooner Americans get the notion through their head that the world is not our jurisdiction, the better off the rest of the world will be and the better off the American populace will be because all that money we burn up creating terrorists by randomly bombing schools, hospitals, and weddings, cou...
[21:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:54] <exec> 08└─Since he has never been to the USA I find it hard to believe he broke into anything there. He may have sent messages to a server in the the USA but that is just communication. Just like sending images of Mohammed fucking the Thai king would be illegal in Thailand and SA. That those messages caused t...
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─Since he has never been to the USA I find it hard to believe he broke into anything there.
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[22:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form of Ice Thought to Exist in Uranus and Neptune May Have Been Created in the Lab - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:20] <exec> 08└─The triumph of the internet is we can learn about such things. The tragedy of the internet is that nobody born after 1970 or so is gonna click on a link to a picture of Form of Ice Thought to Exist in Uranus
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Form of Ice Thought to Exist in Uranus and Neptune May Have Been Created in the Lab - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:21] <exec> 08└─Men who stare at goats?
[22:17:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─In space, no one can hear your car stereo.
[22:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:04] <exec> 08└─I'm about done updating the story. It will cruise through the Van Allen belts for hours before doing a final burn. Still don't know what happened to the center core that attempted landing on the drone barge.
[22:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─showed the same feed if you watched carefully
[22:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:08] <exec> 08└─I usually don't catch these live, but today I made sure to set aside some time. Very exciting and also moving to see the humans making progress.
[22:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:10] <exec> 08└─it's perfectly clear it's already here. Stock market dropped 666 points the other day.
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Not only did the launch go without a hitch, but they have a beautiful, choreographed landing of the two side cores at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX did a remarkable job today.
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:15] <exec> 08└─A girl should be able to rendezvous at any universal docking port she consents to verbally and in writing.
[22:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:17] <exec> 08└─I think it was the same feed. Both screens seem to show the same landing pad. https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[22:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─I heard them say that too, but watching closely it looked like one could see the other fire up right before touchdown, but the other showed the same flame. So I'm not sure what that flame was, or if they both showed whichever was slightly behind.
[22:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:22] <exec> 08└─I concur with AC, early in the coverage it was creepy that the maneuvering thruster firings and views were utterly identical even apparently digital artifacts looked the same to me; perhaps if the remaining fuel was identical deep in the decimal places, but I donno. Yet later on near the landing the...
[22:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:24] <exec> 08└─Congrats to SpaceX on a great launch... how long before we get solid news about the central booster's fate on the Drone ship?
[22:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─How many casual tourists can a single BFR roast ferry to LEO at one time?
[22:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:29] <exec> 08└─They are not the same feed. As demonstrated by your own link - they're jostling differently, and angled differently. I'm guessing they behaved basically identically because they were programmed to behave identically.
[22:19:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:48] <exec> 08└─Showering and gold. Gold and shower. Mmm... I think I see what you did here.
[22:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:14] <exec> 08└─Except for the fact that repeated studies have shown that waiter performance actually has almost no impact on how much they get tipped - that's basically random. About the only thing that *does* correlate with tip amount is the patron's wealth - wealthy patron generally tip substantially lower than...
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:14] <exec> 08└─The trick is to hire good employees and value the service they provide to you, their employer. That would entail good customer service. Pay them well. What we have here though, is not a situation where the employees needs are of paramount concern, and they should be because without them you have no...
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─Even when paying with a card, I try as hard as I can to leave the tip in cash.
[22:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:17] <exec> 08└─Conveniently skipped over the second half of my post, you did.
[22:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:20] <exec> 08└─The waitstaff are paid 3 dollars an hour and the kitchen staff 9? That's a damn good reason right there, jackhole.
[22:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:22] <exec> 08└─Yes! The best food (and service) is usually from the small mom and pop restaurants. This one place I went to had the BEST 'spaghetti/meat' sauce with just the right amount of chili heat! They, I left tips for because I always had over-service, lol Owner died, (wife retired) and now we got McDoo-Doos...
[22:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:24] <exec> 08└─Man, you REALLY know how to get a conversation started, don't you! :) (Looks down at devastation below).
[22:21:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 1225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:42] <exec> 08└─*sigh* I wasn't actually talking about the construction, I was talking about what society will look like after the building projects are complete. But anyway, while we're here... How can you be sure they will be earning "good money"? If the labour supply far outstrips the available work (which is no...
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─The Mafia or other organised crime syndicate in certain cases acts essentially as what Hobbes calls that "common Power to keep them all in awe". They essentially have the ability, normally monopolised by the government, to use force. In certain places and times they actually held have the monopoly o...
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, TMB weighs in with his cultural judgments. Listen up everybody! Blade Runner is trash! Steam Punk is worse than trash!! Only stuff from TMBs formative years have any value whatsoever.
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─Haha, I guess even the "millenial snowflake" is nothing new. Just generations judging each other, for better or worse.
[22:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:01] <exec> 08└─Wooow, some insane speculation going on there pal. There is more than one party and the country wasn't a shithole. Probably a bit of one now, but I think it is excusable. PR is a territory and I'm pretty sure just seizing people's assets would open them up to lawsuits and other troubles. While I can...
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:03] <exec> 08└─Haha, I give most of them one year before they move back.
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─I know next to nothing about Europe, do you?
[22:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─Right, because if you don't control/limit/throttle it, they'll keep their inferior culture and not assimilate. You acknowledge you each naturally have a preference for your own culture, but insist that if they want to live in your country they need to assimilate your culture against their own wishes...
[22:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:47] <exec> 08└─too-big-to-fail
[22:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Surveillance State and "Citizen Scores" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:49] <exec> 08└─That article on COINTELPRO is a real eye opener. The various organs of the US state seem to have been pretty good at preventing change so far, but I had no idea they were so murderous within the actual US.
[22:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─Note what I said though. Love IS being held responsible. He will be tried in the U.K. and is found guilty will serve his time in the U.K. He isn't getting away with anything. Being tried in a foreign country with an unfamiliar legal system and subsequently serving time outside of one's own society a...
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[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Form of Ice Thought to Exist in Uranus and Neptune May Have Been Created in the Lab - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:18] <exec> 08└─Nice try pedantic primate, but "form" of ice. Not THE ice from another planet.
[23:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form of Ice Thought to Exist in Uranus and Neptune May Have Been Created in the Lab - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─Can't speak for Neptune, but as for Uranus let's just say there are pictures from my past I'm not proud of.
[23:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:16] <exec> 08└─Yugos are not safe! (Granted, it's an unmanned mission, but it's best to start off with a good safety culture.)
[23:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─The synchronized landing was insanely cool.
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:20] <exec> 08└─It is the same feed, unless you think the rockets are programmed to produce identical flames. One image is very slightly delayed compared to the other, so they sometimes don't show the same frame, but they usually do.
[23:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:22] <exec> 08└─It's the same feed with one side occasionally showing a slight delay.
[23:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:25] <exec> 08└─Probably several hundred people, vs. just 100 for a journey to Mars. https://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] Much less cargo for a manned mission only going to LEO instead of Mars.
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─That was the best part. I forgot what I exclaimed, but I exclaimed it out loud.
[23:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:29] <exec> 08└─A rocket needs to be able to launch to a station, receive a payload, land back on earth, and only then if it so chooses decide the payload received was done so without consent.
[23:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:32] <exec> 08└─Commentators can be mistaken. It was the same feed. The boosters are not so similar that they produce identical flames.
[23:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:34] <exec> 08└─Haven't seen anything about it yet: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[23:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:36] <exec> 08└─There is an old saying: "He who is hungry, is always thinking of bread"
[23:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:38] <exec> 08└─A geosynchronous space station would be interesting.
[23:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:41] <exec> 08└─I'd be keeping an eye on England if I was worried about competition. I hear they've made great strides in the field of extended length ladders this past decade.
[23:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:43] <exec> 08└─don't tell my wife and daughter
[23:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch Successful (So Far) - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:45] <exec> 08└─That's definitely going into my top 10 coolest things I've ever seen list, right after watching a freaking car spin slowly in orbit above the earth. I had to keep reminding myself this wasn't CGI but real life.
[23:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:16] <exec> 08└─Still breast feeding while a teenager may be a bigger problem than BPA exposure, a problem for the teenager and the mother.
[23:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:17] <exec> 08└─Drinks just plain taste better in glass containers, without straws.
[23:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Propagating Crayfish Clones Spreading Around the World - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:57] <exec> 08└─You want a polyploid that breeds true
[23:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:43] <exec> 08└─And in the end, every conversation has either Hitler or Gaaark in it! NIIIICE Gaaarkwin!!!! :)
[23:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:44] <exec> 08└─I always tip in cash as well *because* I know that servers are paid far less *because* they get tips. And once you put the tip on a credit/debit card, you need to rely on the restaurant owner doing the honest thing and passing those tips along to the people they are already underpaying. That's a rec...
[23:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:47] <exec> 08└─Correction: a tip is something you're socially pressured into giving to the waiter/waitress because people in your country are OK with the employer not paying the staff a living wage.
[23:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:50] <exec> 08└─Like most of this world does.
[23:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─> Blade Runner is trash QFT
[23:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:27] <exec> 08└─You're just jealous that TMB has an opinion, whereas you need to be spoonfed opinions. What a douche!
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:29] <exec> 08└─> > "everything should be organized by contracts, not government" > Isn't that the cyberpunk future? It's a future where someone will say "Wait a second, you didn't fulfill your side of the contract - you took from me my consideration, but you gave me no consideration of your own. I'll sue you!". To...
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is time for a quality aristarchus submission?
[23:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Well Funded Crypto Utopians Setting up in Puerto Rico - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, not to worry, Runaway, I never go to the alt-right sites! Would not want to give them the clicks! And, it is getting harder to keep up with where they are, what with being banned as pariahs and deplorable right-wing violence types. I just look for news about the alt-right, and share it here so t...
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Rape Pants Sell out very Quickly [Updated] - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info... corrected!
[23:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:23] <exec> 08└─Bob is angry at me and I feel his anger is misplaced and invalid. Babe the pig really enjoys life. Joe the farmer feels like eating porkchops. Lupus the wolf enjoys being one of the apex predators. Humans feel Lupus and family would be better in a more docile form. Huh, sure seems that how we feel c...
[23:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:12] <exec> 08└─What I may or may not realize about appointed positions has no bearing on my contempt for the use of the word. I recognize only one Lord, and he would be the Lord of Creation. And, I have my doubts about him sometimes.
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