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[00:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:28] <exec> 08└─There are limits. Weed definitely has more wiggle room as it has different effects, but alcohol has a very real measurable effect on reaction times. Someone with .2 BAC is going to be slower and less attentive and a danger on the road. There is no simple way to have a more "just" system, so we get t...
[00:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:01] <exec> 08└─Ramping up production to satisfy the demand in a glorified pyramid scheme is a poor long-term strategy.
[00:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:03] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. SETI is not listening just for information radio signals, they are looking for distinctive radio patterns that suggest engineered origin. Many high energy processes emit all across the spectrum as a byproduct and can easily be detected by a project like SETI. However, *we* don't do this o...
[00:01:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 1174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:28] <exec> 08└─One thing to be aware of is that the university does everything it can to try to make the May 4 commemorations as non-political as they can be. For instance, the victims of the 1970 shooting that were random students on their way to class are given exactly the same attention as the protesters who we...
[00:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:24] <exec> 08└─This isn't about censorship, it is about not providing a platform. If you can't understand the difference then this is a stupid conversation.
[00:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:25] <exec> 08└─Please hold your breath
[00:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:27] <exec> 08└─I understand that you were trying to identify something which is by definition abhorrent, but if there is someone who is pushing it, clearly there is someone who disagrees about its abhorrence. Put another way, I don't think it is any more ethical to disenfranchise a minority of one than any other m...
[00:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:29] <exec> 08└─I would love few things more than to hear that sentiment from him more often. Though I hardly think 7 or so quotes that search found over his entire life qualify him as a "prince of peace", the rest of the results are about zero tolerance of various things. Even that very quote about inclusiveness i...
[00:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:00] <exec> 08└─Somebody or something dumped large boatloads of fake messages on a Federal agency. That's certainly worthy of investigation. Somebody out there has a nasty hacking/DOS tool-set.
[00:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:02] <exec> 08└─When the original story about this came out I recall some talk that this would have violated various state laws. If so, it's arguable that the FCC is obstructing justice, and for political reasons, by sweeping this one under the carpet. Par for the course these days I guess, with every federal agenc...
[00:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:04] <exec> 08└─Somebody or something dumped large boatloads of fake messages on a Federal agency. That's certainly worthy of investigation. Somebody out there has a list of people, some minor knowledge of the FCC's public API [fcc.gov] and (at least) a noob's knowledge of scripting.
[00:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:28] <exec> 08└─Since I'm going to be spied on by someone and it's out of my control, why should I care who it is?
[00:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:53] <exec> 08└─Good to see you have taken the effort to travel to the country, meet them people in the street, and gauge their feelings about their leaders. Quite a commitment, after all you must have learn their language and customs also to understand their situation. And it must have taken quite some time to tal...
[00:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:54] <exec> 08└─The majority of the population isn't violenty against the government, they are against their country being a warzone and would like the foreign jihadis (including US invaders) to GTFO.
[00:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:56] <exec> 08└─You're making the point that al-Assad is not a legitimate ruler because he is an autocrat who suppresses dissent, which is true, but the real reason the US and their allies are trying to over throw him is not because he rules by fear, but because he is a loyal ally of Russia. The US cares not a jot...
[00:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:59] <exec> 08└─Tell me, what game (rather than sport) do you think has NOT been made utterly obsolete by computers? And what do you think obsolete means in this context? There is some reason people cannot keep enjoying the game? really?
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[00:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:21] <exec> 08└─If you're rich or cold, you can handle a few extra degrees and losing some land, if you're overpopulated, low, poor, already hot, it's gonna suck. news at 11.
[00:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:23] <exec> 08└─"These findings serve as a stark reminder of the need for wealthier, more established countries to support the world's most vulnerable nations." I would argue quite the opposite. These countries fare badly due to poor governance. Wealther, more established countries propping up the corrupt governmen...
[00:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:25] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your inquiry. The Community Corpse Cleanup Program (CCCP) was created to address the pressing issue of littering in our communities. The CCCP is proud to announce that its workers have cleaned up the corpses of over 3,000 utilized women in under two weeks. The CCCP would like to remind...
[00:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:27] <exec> 08└─which country is the most likely to survive climate change?
[00:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:29] <exec> 08└─Some areas of the USA are vulnerable already, as anyone in CA and other southwest states will confirm. There is not enough water. As the temperature rises, the southern parts of the USA will be not comfortably green, as shown, but flaming red. At the same time most of the territory of Russia will be...
[00:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Blood Test for Concussions - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:40] <exec> 08└─It also needs to be fast. If it can be used on the sidelines of comtact sports, within ten or even fifteen minutes, dodgy calls by the coach (or the player themself) will become unnecessary. We could, well, stop having games where recurrent blows to the head are acceptable, but the paying public see...
[00:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Blood Test for Concussions - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:42] <exec> 08└─It also needs to be fast. If it can be used on the sidelines of comtact sports, within ten or even fifteen minutes, dodgy calls by the coach (or the player themself) will become unnecessary.
[00:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Blood Test for Concussions - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:44] <exec> 08└─Even if it doesn't catch things in-game, I suspect they could add it to any drug testing they do, or to do it between games for all players, to catch cases where a concussion didn't make it to camera. Seems like systematic data on this (or the scent of a cover-up) would start changing things quickly...
[00:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:54] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder_X_Prize [wikipedia.org]
[01:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:19] <exec> 08└─SURE. IT'S POSSIBLE
[01:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:21] <exec> 08└─I respectfully disagree; it's possible for ads (a working definition: content designed to showcase something other than what you are reading, especially commercial content but not only that) to be placed out of the way, for them to be on-topic (helpful, even), for them to be served by the site you t...
[01:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:23] <exec> 08└─Ahh...yes. The next World War will be against Anonymous Cowards.
[01:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:53] <exec> 08└─alcohol has a very real measurable effect on reaction times In the WKRP episode "A Fish Story", [youtube.com] DJs "Doctor" Johnny Fever and Venus Rising^W^W Venus Flytrap offer to get drunk on the air while a cop measures the effect it has on them. Hilarity ensues. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [so...
[01:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:54] <exec> 08└─I knew a dance instructor[1] who claimed that he was pulled over by a cop and told to walk the white line. The story he told said that he danced the line. The cop asked "What are you doing?" "Texas Two-Step. It's the only way I can travel in a straight line." (I'm inclined to believe the story was a...
[01:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:56] <exec> 08└─determine whether weed-impaired driving is more dangerous Authoritarians are not interested in science ...but it does seem likely that they would be interested in finding out any -negative- effects[1] long before they would be interested in any studies that prove weed has positive medicinal qualitie...
[01:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:55] <exec> 08└─Thank God there’s some sanity on this site. I can’t stand the idea of imams being able to speak in public forums and it seems there are other like minded individuals here!
[01:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:56] <exec> 08└─God forbid unpopular opinions be heard at a public university.
[01:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:58] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, aristarchus does not know who you are, AC. He probably is not even aware you exist. Why do you exist, anyway?
[01:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:01] <exec> 08└─People who think spencer doesn't have the right to speak are suggesting that the police shouldn't protect him from people attacking him. Why should the police not protect anyone?
[01:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:59] <exec> 08└─But as mentioned, if you are an ordinary American, who is more likely to eventually have a reason to break into your phone, the Chinese or the US government?
[01:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:28] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder_X_Prize [wikipedia.org]
[01:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game [wikipedia.org] There are some unsolved games out there, but they will fall eventually. Sports is another matter (it will be made obsolete the way we know it by biotechnology and medicine instead of computers or robots). Chess is obsolete in the way we know...
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[01:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:24] <exec> 08└─I looked at the table itself. First, I am unsure which dataset the article is drawing from, as the vulnerability table actually lists Switzerland the highest in 2016, then Norway, Luxembourg, Germany, Australia, Canada, France, UK, Sweden, Finland... I also am surprised by some of the nation ranks....
[01:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:25] <exec> 08└─Anyone using the stupid projection map that puts the equator way down from the middle, and makes Greenland nearly as big as Africa or South America, should never be taken seriously. It doesn't matter how important your data is. Your map looks bad and you should feel bad. That projection is an abomin...
[01:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:28] <exec> 08└─These findings serve as a stark reminder of the need for wealthier, more established countries to support the world's most vulnerable nations.
[01:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:30] <exec> 08└─Take responsibility for yourself? No way-it must be someone elses fault if you suck. https://godfatherpolitics.com [godfatherpolitics.com] .. Who is going to pay for her 15 children?
[01:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:32] <exec> 08└─survival of the fittest. shithole countries need not apply.
[01:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:59] <exec> 08└─> I really, really hope some large advertising company or industry group uses Google over this I guess you posted using a Android phone, and the autocorrect spotted "sues Google" as a 4th directive infringing statement.
[02:00:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:04] <exec> 08└─Google vice president Rahul Roy-Chowdhury wrote in a blog post that the company aims to keep the web healthy by "filtering out disruptive ad experiences." The best way to do this is to use an ad-blocker, to filter out all ads. There's no such thing as a non-disruptive ad experience. (To be fair, the...
[02:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:21] <exec> 08└─Just curious. What would you think about a disclosed affiliate link to go buy a gizmo-9000 as part of a review of the gizmo-9000, for example? (And what if your government was threatening to make gizmo-9000's unavailable very soon?) A social media post asking one's friends to support a local charity...
[02:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:22] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what needs a precedent.
[02:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:25] <exec> 08└─What would you think about a disclosed affiliate link to go buy a gizmo-9000 as part of a review of the gizmo-9000, for example?
[02:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:58] <exec> 08└─... maybe you shouldn't be driving :)
[02:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:59] <exec> 08└─To a large degree we already have that system, de-facto if not in law. Aside from DUI checkpoints at least. If you're driving well - firmly in control of the vehicle and obeying all traffic laws, then you're very unlikely to be pulled over in the first place. Of course it would be nice if somebody w...
[02:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:02] <exec> 08└─In a state where people can get away with shitting in the street I seriously doubt the police give a shit.
[02:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:04] <exec> 08└─He also didn't say ANY of the DUIs were due to impairment. He might just station himself by a dispensary and arrest any leaving customers he doesn't like the look of. Easy way to make quota, seeing how as marijuana metabolites dissipate slowly enough that a regular smoker is pretty much guaranteed t...
[02:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:39] <exec> 08└─They're missing out on a boatload of profit.
[02:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, down at the local Pint & Jigger, with all the Jocks and Fratboys. Why doesn't Richard (Dick) Spenser just speak there?
[02:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:09] <exec> 08└─Truly, arcx, you are dumber than a bag of hammers. Take your all caps, and stick them as magnets on your refridgerator door.
[02:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:09] <exec> 08└─Hypocrisy is not the worst unethical behavior to me. So for example, I'd rather have to live with a serial adulterer who continuously lies about about just how many women he's seeing than a cannibal who names me "Bacon" and will eat me when they get hungry. YMMV.
[02:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:51] <exec> 08└─How about Trump just *increase* NASA's budget!! Then NASA wouldn't have to cut any current projects. Oh wait, that makes too much sense. Never mind.
[02:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:53] <exec> 08└─Today the White House Administration has decided to draft a bill proposal to repeal the Second Amendment amid all the gun deaths, and school shootings in particular.
[02:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:17] <exec> 08└─So, have they tried running Army, Navy, Air Force recruiting commercials, and White House press briefings through it yet?
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[02:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:24] <exec> 08└─People are always over torquing, or under torquing screws. From what I see on the factory floor, the robot's only problem is picking up the screws and bolts. If they ever find the screws and bolts, they can put them where they belong, and (almost) always torque them correctly. Even experienced mecha...
[02:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:26] <exec> 08└─Humans aren't THAT good (on average)
[02:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:28] <exec> 08└─Something's knocking on your ass. What could it be, at this untimely hour!? Wait... some seem's all the pieces of the puzzle have appeared in my mind, but I have no idea how to piece them together! Maybe you, with your intellect, could accomplish it. Here are all the pieces of the puzzle: fetid, dis...
[02:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:45] <exec> 08└─Clearly the solution there is marriage, even though divorce does in fact exist and the father of many of those children is in jail anyway. But, magically, having big daddy government recognize the relationship would fix everything. Here's my shitty cherry-picked social science studies which definite...
[02:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:46] <exec> 08└─I read that, and says to myself, "Huh! The old White Man's Burden, being thrown back in our faces!"
[02:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:48] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that California can blame climate change for their water situation. For decades, California has been using more water than any rational human can justify. If you are growing fruits, vegetables, cotton, and vines on land that is almost desert, you WILL run out of water. Global warming...
[02:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:51] <exec> 08└─And that's exactly what it is, the same old racist line recycled in more respectable clothing. Anti-colonialism seems to have come full circle, does it make you ask yourself "cui buono?"
[02:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:53] <exec> 08└─The deadzones are growing. The pollution from plastic is growing as it further breaks down. Micro plastics entering the food chain at an alarming rate while also affecting the reefs. And as the water warms jellyfish are loving it. Which I guess if they are more durable regarding pollution than fish...
[02:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:55] <exec> 08└─during my lifetime, it's been the coming ice age colder and colder with mass die-offs etc ...if you've had sources that are total shit. Fake "global cooling" news persists and propagates - Physics Today [scitation.org] Requires cookies [archive.li] A November [2016] report [1] [archive.li] in the pr...
[02:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:57] <exec> 08└─Looks like realDonaldTrump forgot to sign in again.
[02:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:59] <exec> 08└─If girls go to school family planning will happen on its own
[03:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well. Bucky Fuller -did- have another idea. [google.com] (Be careful not to jab yourself on any of those pointy things.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:04] <exec> 08└─The Bill O'Reilly school of thought has two distinct advantages. - It's simple! Whoever said that for every problem there is a simple, elegant, and wrong solution was a poopy-head! - It causes more wars. Yeeehaw! I can expend all my pent-up sexual energy from following reactionary prohibitions again...
[03:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Blood Test for Concussions - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:17] <exec> 08└─Will it actually be cheaper than getting a head CT and if it comes back negative, will doctors be satisfied or will they want you to get a head CT anyway just to be sure? Will it rule out the need for a head CT often enough to be a net reduction in medical costs?
[03:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:58] <exec> 08└─Google is also virtually synonymous with online search
[03:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:11] <exec> 08└─They're not though. They're literally selling them as fast as they can physically be made. To increase capacity they'd have to build more fabs, which is slow and expensive. There's no guarantee that the mining craze will still be around when those new fabs are up and running. They could end up with...
[03:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:42] <exec> 08└─Noise-blasting is not speech. How can you possibly construe an action whose primare intent and result is the censorship of other's speech as speech?
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[03:59:21] <exec> 08└─N/T
[03:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:22] <exec> 08└─ANAC = ANAL ????
[03:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:25] <exec> 08└─What are the technical differences between "whistleblowing" and "leaking"? How does the software know whether you are sending information to whistleblweranonymous, or to the $enemystate embassy?
[03:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:36] <exec> 08└─Some people have mechanical empathy, and can feel when a screw is getting tight. Some manage to learn this skill. Some just keep twisting, until the screw just spins, forever. With appropriate levels of youth, exuberance, supervision (none), it is possible to use a rattle gun/pneumatic wrench to eff...
[03:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:38] <exec> 08└─More automation, less paid workers... so who will use the phones, or whatever crap, robots make (and later will recycle)? Exactly, they better start working in robots that use mobiles & cars, wear clothes and so on, or they will run out of users fast. No idea how the robots will pay for the things,...
[03:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:40] <exec> 08└─A big part of the problem with screws is the shitty heads on them, namely the old slotted head, and also the Phillips head. The slotted one gets reamed out pretty easily, and the screwdriver slips out very easily. Phillips ones are even worse for getting cammed out, though better for not slipping ou...
[03:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:42] <exec> 08└─That is probably why HUMANS have been using set-torque screwdrivers for manufacturing for decades. This story is almost pure BS - or more likely based on someone who didnt actually bother to find out anything about the area they claimed to have expertise in. People suck at torque estimation, and the...
[03:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:44] <exec> 08└─More automation, less paid workers... so who will use the phones, or whatever crap, robots make (and later will recycle)? Simple: all the humans who now don't have to toil away at mindless, repetitive tasks that robots can do better. To make the economics work, you'll have to adopt Universal Basic I...
[03:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:47] <exec> 08└─"This technology emerged at the dawn of the industrial era, when it became possible to make metal gadgets like these on a large scale." Really, really awkward sentence, reads like written by a committee, it speaks out of both sides of the mouth. As the second clause implies, the first clause is simp...
[03:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:49] <exec> 08└─Oh please. Yes, these things have been around for ages, and actually have been used in some critical industries, but not all. Just go to some random tire shop and see if they use any torque-limiting tools. Assuming you're in the US, there's a very good chance they don't. Massively overtorqued lug nu...
[03:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:51] <exec> 08└─UBI is simple if you only look at automation and plain people. When you take into account those other people that own the robots... things are far from simple. Otherwise those owners would be already pushing for UBI instead of buying houses in NZ. Basically, I agree with you. But I doubt any of us a...
[03:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:53] <exec> 08└─I can imagine a robot being set to some torque value, which is to high, and it will industriously break off thousands of screws and bolts before someone comes along to stop it.
[04:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kramulous [255] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:20] <exec> 08└─100% agree. Here in some of the driest parts of Australia, we have have the largest farms of the most water thirsty crops; cotton. Pure madness. And the fights start for the rest of the eastern seaboard who end up with no water in the river system.
[04:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:22] <exec> 08└─So what do you suggest? These are real people with real problems.
[04:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─These countries fare badly due to poor governance.
[04:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:26] <exec> 08└─It’s almost as if you have never even looked at a map of central California, much less visited it. It’s not San Bernardino.
[04:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:28] <exec> 08└─Can you deny that the state of California uses far more than it's "fair share" of water? Or, are you denying that significant portions of California is a desert? Or, do you merely deny that much of California's agriculture is in desert or near desert land? It's not San Bernardino? Interesting - a lo...
[04:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 1688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:31] <exec> 08└─The temperature trend seems to be upward No shit? [explainxkcd.com] ...and note that climate change has never occurred at the current rate. makes folks less likely to listen to actual scientists As mentioned in my previous comment, do listen to the actual scientists and stop getting your "informatio...
[04:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:33] <exec> 08└─Let them deal with their problems, and stop fucking things up trying to "help". Societies swing between stable and not - that's how it is. Quit interfering in the process and you'll see stabilization occur. Might some of those stable forms be distateful to westerners? Sure. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS AN...
[04:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:35] <exec> 08└─Global warming will happen so slowly that natural migration away from those un-survivable places will take care of the problem. Some will choose to stay just like some chose to stay in Syria as its own government disassembled the nation. Others will leave and be just as welcome as the Syrian refugee...
[04:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Blood Test for Concussions - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:49] <exec> 08└─If it comes back negative (after it's been proven to be a reliable test of course), insurance companies won't pay for a head CT afterwards. Expensive scans have to be pre-approved by insurance, and if they deny it, the doctor has to find something else, or appeal it (or you pay out-of-pocket, but yo...
[04:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:30] <exec> 08└─"Ask my mom why she likes advertising" "Why do you like advertising?" "It tells my what to buy" That you dislike ads doesn't imply that nobody else does
[04:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:08] <exec> 08└─So why alcohol is olympics doping? Because it helps some https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Should driving laws help some irresponsible drunks (by discouraging them) while hurting others? Perhaps. But they should not say that alcohol is bad for everybody becau...
[04:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:09] <exec> 08└─That's until you are stopped for something else say burned out light bulb. Than all bets are off and one would get it all which is bad. Whatever folks think, it is way way worse nowadays.
[04:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:11] <exec> 08└─And once that box is checked the prospected employer HR will know - for ever ever till the end of the days.
[04:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:48] <exec> 08└─But seriously, did that really happen? I've changed a lot of caps over the years. You're pretty sure it was CPU load causing cap problems?
[04:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:50] <exec> 08└─shutdown of your space heater? I Am Ansolutely Serious
[04:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:21] <exec> 08└─It's a libertarian thing, isn't it? Yes, we have heard it all before. It is rubbish. You think either that we did not hear you the first time, or that by repeating your adolescent khallowian Ayn Rand positions repeatedly, we will somehow be convinced? No, we are not censuring you, we are just dismis...
[04:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:53] <exec> 08└─And yet we still hold footraces despite that for our size we are possibly the slowest runners in the world, easily beaten by cats and dogs who weigh 1/10th the human average.
[04:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:15] <exec> 08└─Provided you can at least convincingyclaim expertise in one of the following areas Full stack development Artificial intelligence Blockchain My research for http://soggy.jobs [soggy.jobs] made this abundantly clear
[04:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:16] <exec> 08└─They are about preventing bad actors from acting badly
[04:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:18] <exec> 08└─-r: 518-92-8663 I hope to inspire others to post theirs own ssns in hopes of destroying its usefulness as a database key
[04:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:20] <exec> 08└─Well, in this case, if the bad actor has *built* the thing, there can be no trust.
[04:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is mutual... they won't find me because I am not there. Nor will I find them, because they are not here. All that blather and my distrust of social networks keeps me off of them. I find them boring as hell. While the monied can buy anything they want.... they don't need to pay attention...
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[04:59:22] <exec> 08└─Or in a back channel way to the bestest glorious leader? Gosh it is lucky you are alive.
[04:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:23] <exec> 08└─The man was on top of a woman, raping her while she was lying on her back. A camera was recording them from behind, such that the man's anus was visible. Leaking. Something's leaking. Rancid. Parasite-infested. Fecal. It's... anal mucus! Zippin' & zoomin' fecal mucus out of the man's rancid asshole!...
[04:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:26] <exec> 08└─Female nutsack gutted after serial murderer arrested in france hijacking.
[04:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:28] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Italy [wikipedia.org]
[04:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:46] <exec> 08└─I've had this in my personal queue for several days but didn't get it submitted. Lenovo literally has a screw loose--so it's recalled flagship Carbon X1 ThinkPads [theregister.co.uk] fifth-generation X1's "may have an unfastened screw that could damage the laptop's battery causing overheating, poten...
[04:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:48] <exec> 08└─It was probably written by a screw robot. Not to be confused with a screwbot.
[04:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:50] <exec> 08└─Rattle gun, find torque wrench, find correct socket, find torque setting for vehcle/wheel combination, set torque wrench, use torque wrench, put tools away again. Or Rattle gun, done. No competition. And you only find out *how* tight when you get a flat in the middle of nowhere.
[05:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:25] <exec> 08└─I think you're right. We need to stop meddling in the affairs of oil-rich nations. Many of them would be modern secular democracies if not for CIA/NSA intervention to protect big oil. We should also pursue forms of energy such as a wind and solar that will only run out when our local star dies. It's...
[05:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:26] <exec> 08└─"So what do you suggest? These are real people with real problems." To start with the last, I agree completely. Unfortunately I can't give you an easy solution. I doubt one exists, and I'm sure that the persistent urge to find one is a factor that's aggravated the problem. Not all problems have easy...
[05:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:28] <exec> 08└─Why are you leaving out Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and many Southern Hemisphere locations?
[05:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:42] <exec> 08└─Curecoin is a cryptocurrency that pays you for folding@home.
[05:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:43] <exec> 08└─Curecoin.
[05:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 2076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:16] <exec> 08└─I would believe ex-spouses or business associates/competitors have the most compelling reasons to hack into your phone. I believe the government wants the existence of these backdoors because they are preparing for the social unrest that is sure to follow when some of our rather extravagrant banking...
[05:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:18] <exec> 08└─As bad as the USA is, China is objectively worse. If you want to talk about a foreign power that meddles in world affairs for its own benefit at severe detriment to its victims, China is worse than the USA nowadays. The USA is pretty rotten, but trust me, China is worse.
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[05:59:22] <exec> 08└─I hate smoking. Hate being around smoking. But I hate even more the idea that government has to come in and tell everybody what they can and can't do in restaurants. Why exactly can't that be up to the restaurant?
[05:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:23] <exec> 08└─Because one smoker can stink up the joint for everyone, but one non-smoker has absolutely no effect on other's enjoyment of their meal. Same reason as just one kid with a boom-box on the bus can make the ride miserable for everyone else.
[05:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:25] <exec> 08└─Yup. I'm against any law that treats adults like they're children.
[05:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:27] <exec> 08└─Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"?
[05:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:30] <exec> 08└─That's the owner's problem if he loses business because of it. Capitalism, yay!
[05:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:32] <exec> 08└─but one non-smoker has absolutely no effect on other's enjoyment of their meal.
[05:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:34] <exec> 08└─An enthused *cough*!
[05:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:36] <exec> 08└─Kind of makes sense I suppose, when the non-smoke won't let you huff white plumes of smoke over his food and into his lungs. That might take away your immediate enjoyment of dinner while your mind is busily craving the next drag.
[05:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:38] <exec> 08└─and for the public health. Any notions to the contrary are but schemes by the evil SJWs and those pesky scientists! Why would the marketing department of Philipp Morris lie to you??
[05:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:41] <exec> 08└─Exactly! I hate that the gubmint has to force restaurants to use actual beef instead of horse-flesh, not use MSG if they advertise as "MSG Free", keep the kitchen roach free, etc. Caveat Emptor right? Let the market decide!
[05:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:43] <exec> 08└─Your'e obviously not sensitive to tobacco fumes. Some of us are. Having one smoker is tantamount to having someone dust the place with peanut dust, and those sensitive to peanut are expected to just take it. One can wear earphones if they want to listen to their music in public, and I would go for h...
[05:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:46] <exec> 08└─I have the same position when it comes to flatulence. After all, it is just a gesture of appreciation of the meal! Outside of the microscopic bits of fecal matter.
[05:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:48] <exec> 08└─"Because one smoker can stink up the joint for everyone, but one non-smoker has absolutely no effect on other's enjoyment of their meal. Same reason as just one kid with a boom-box on the bus can make the ride miserable for everyone else." In my experience there are usually several restaurants to ch...
[06:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:01] <exec> 08└─If you pass on information the person providing the label likes, then you are a whistle-blower. If you pass on information the person providing the label dislikes, then you are a leaker.
[06:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:03] <exec> 08└─Leaking is the act of communicating confidential materials to someone not entitled to access. Whistleblowing is the act of making leaked material concerning irregularities** to public - the purpose is to inform the public, the leaked material acts as a supporting proof. An entire range of purposes b...
[06:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:25] <exec> 08└─Or when another mechanic tries to take the wheel off and finds the nuts cross-threaded on the stud and has to replace the stud ($$), or worse when it causes your alloy rim to fracture.
[06:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:26] <exec> 08└─I've seen a mechanic take a torch to a rim, because the thread and the stud were both stripped. One mechanic is another mechanic's worst nightmare (or dream, if you factor in per-hour billing)
[06:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:05] <exec> 08└─If Columbus had relied on any such map, he would never have left Spain.
[06:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:06] <exec> 08└─Can you bring up an example of similar countries in terms of resources and lands that fare better?
[06:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:23] <exec> 08└─Such a civilization could afford energetic processes that we could't even begin to dream of - mass production of antimatter, engineering artificial blackholes, accelerating planetoid-sized objects to appreciable fractions of c, building Dyson spheres and even star lifting. And how many of these proc...
[06:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:56] <exec> 08└─But. Lo! Arcz has posted a journal, wherein he undertakes to educate all Soylentils on the Law! So cute. Unfortunately, I believe arcz went to the same law school as Runaway1956! Hilarity will ensue!
[06:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:57] <exec> 08└─After all, his model may well be The Beer-hall Putsch [wikipedia.org] Frumping drunk Nazis! Of course, no real American would ever attempt such a treasonous act against the constitution, unless they somehow thought that white people were someone better or different than other people. Perhaps superio...
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[06:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milky Way Ties with Neighbor in Galactic Arms Race - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:19] <exec> 08└─Well, this is good. If it had been an unequal collusion, God knows what would have happened! Usually, when galaxies collide, there is not all that much disruption, since galaxies, like most things, are mostly open space. So we could pass through the Andromeda Galaxy, and never know it, except for th...
[06:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:40] <exec> 08└─Why the double standard? Carbonated drinks have been linked to a rise in diabetes; taxes on the stuff are raised but they’re not banned. Fats are linked to cardiovascular disease but not “sin” tax applies much less a ban. Lack of exercise is linked to several types of disease but no government...
[06:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:41] <exec> 08└─And you forgot Germany, where there are still areas in airports where you can enjoy your sinful vice!
[06:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:43] <exec> 08└─Either ban all harmful substances or let us decide which we ingest.
[06:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:45] <exec> 08└─I don't smoke, I don't like the smell of smoke, in fact I'm an ex-smoker and extremely sensitive to it, I always pick up that stench and start making faces and looking around for the source before those around me. So I'd rather people not smoke at all, hands down, that would really just be great. Al...
[06:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:48] <exec> 08└─Your'e obviously not sensitive to tobacco fumes. Some of us are. Having one smoker is tantamount to having someone dust the place with peanut dust, and those sensitive to peanut are expected to just take it.
[06:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:50] <exec> 08└─Fine, I'll settle for a little smoking in public places so that the dose is reduced according to your comment. :->
[06:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:53] <exec> 08└─Why the double standard? Carbonated drinks have been linked to a rise in diabetes; taxes on the stuff are raised but they’re not banned. Fats are linked to cardiovascular disease but not “sin” tax applies much less a ban. Lack of exercise is linked to several types of disease but no government...
[06:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:55] <exec> 08└─Cool - first step was made. One convinced, millions others ahead. Patience (and tobacco) will be necessary on the way. (grin)
[06:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:58] <exec> 08└─I'd rather be able to go into any restaurant and know there will be no cigarette smoke, which means I go into more restaurants. I value that way higher than your right to smoke wherever you want, or the restaurateur's right to allow smoking. It actually ends up being a net-positive for business, rev...
[06:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:00] <exec> 08└─Because unlike consumption of carbonated drinks or fatty foods, or lack of exercise, cigarette smoking affects not only you, but the people around you as well. There's that old canard about your freedom to swing your fist stops at my face, well, your freedom to smoke ends where your smoke reaches my...
[07:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:39] <exec> 08└─They should be using locks, but it's probably just the robots worried about theft [gotfuturama.com].
[07:00:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:47] <exec> 08└─"These findings serve as a stark reminder of the need for wealthier, more established countries to support the world's most vulnerable nations." I would argue quite the opposite. These countries fare badly due to poor governance. Wealther, more established countries propping up the corrupt governmen...
[07:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:20] <exec> 08└─They may be too close to equator. I don't have the map handy, but from what I recall NZ is subtropics. But Antarctica - yes, the glaciers will melt and maybe we'll see the land beneath. Fiction writers placed a lot of goodies there, starting with Shoggoths and ending with UFO bases. Much fun :-)
[07:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:21] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see him fold it up and stick it in his pocket. ...and some folks have problems with folding regular old roadmaps. Heh. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:23] <exec> 08└─...emitting a massive 9,040 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year...
[07:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:20] <exec> 08└─It's one thing for YOU to go out and fetch an ad blocker. It's quite another for a web browser to arbitrarily decide for you which ads it will allow. (Not saying this is my opinion, simple pointing out the basis for a law suit.)
[07:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:15] <exec> 08└─Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, huh?
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[07:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:55] <exec> 08└─Is that a step up from a "shit-hole" country?
[07:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:56] <exec> 08└─You drinking soda doesn't increase the likelihood of me getting cancer
[07:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:58] <exec> 08└─Why the double standard? Carbonated drinks have been linked to a rise in diabetes; taxes on the stuff are raised but they’re not banned. Fats are linked to cardiovascular disease but not “sin” tax applies much less a ban. Lack of exercise is linked to several types of disease but no government...
[08:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:00] <exec> 08└─Why exactly can't that be up to the restaurant? As part of her business, my wife has a small club room or restaurant. She was incredibly relieved when the law finally passed, prohibiting smoking in all restaurants. Doing it herself was almost impossible, for lots of reasons: - Lots of people are ent...
[08:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:03] <exec> 08└─Yes. Fewer brown people, and even fewer who want to move to the USA.
[08:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:05] <exec> 08└─And you forgot Germany, where there are still areas in airports where you can enjoy your sinful vice!
[08:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:07] <exec> 08└─I remember when people weren't snowflakes.
[08:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:10] <exec> 08└─and to tax them largely in proportion to the health care costs that are attributed to smoking
[08:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─Me smoking my ciggies doesn't either. The Internet techs of the day don't allow one to download the smoke even if the one would want to. Just sayin' (grin)
[08:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:14] <exec> 08└─In addition to the other comments about how you only affect yourself with your choice of meals and drinks instead of the people around you that inhale your smoke, there is one other important difference. While the excess of carbs can cause diabetes, a lack of carbs will cause you to die. There is a...
[08:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:16] <exec> 08└─I remember how people in the back of the plane would let others from the front sit in their seats, so they could have a smoke.
[08:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:39] <exec> 08└─An AC said "Quit interfering in the process and you'll see stabilization occur" and you say "Global warming will happen so slowly..." While we shouldn't jump at shadows, your warm, fuzzy faith that all will magically turn out fine is disturbing. What reason do you have to suppose that global warming...
[08:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─What do you expect from "experts"
[08:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:18] <exec> 08└─The accident rate for cannabis-only users is actually way lower than even one drink with dinner drivers.
[08:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, heat is usually the enemy of electronic components. Electrolytic caps actually have a liquid electrolyte in them. I'm not sure if everyone knows the story of bad caps https://www.badcaps.net [badcaps.net] or "capacitor plague" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia....
[08:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:37] <exec> 08└─Why the police?? He's not speaking at a police station. I agree with you about arresting and prosecuting violent actors, but who is going to pay the police to be there in the first place? If it's all of us, then let's have a civilized discussion about which right is more important to protect with th...
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[08:59:56] <exec> 08└─I'd rather be able to go into any restaurant and know there will be no cigarette smoke, which means I go into more restaurants. I value that way higher than your right to smoke wherever you want, or the restaurateur's right to allow smoking. It actually ends up being a net-positive for business, rev...
[09:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:09] <exec> 08└─True, 'tis a long way from there, where you be, to here, where I be. Not so far if you are the person smoking or who has just smoked where I am, however.
[09:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:11] <exec> 08└─And I was a vindictive bastard who'd book a seat in the smoking section of the plane just so I could deprive a smoker from getting the seat. Not everyone lit up back there, but Jesus, if you are sensitive to smoke and was unfortunate enough to be stuck in that section because the plane was full, God...
[09:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kryptonianjorel [4640] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:13] <exec> 08└─Or, you'd frequent the restaurants that do not allow smoking more often, and they'd profit, whereas the restaurants that do allow smoking, will be frequented more by those who do smoke. I don't see how this is a problem for anybody. But outright banning of smoking hurts smokers
[09:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:15] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico, so many said "make us a state!" 97%. But, so many Dems there. Too many. It would be a DISASTER for our Senate. For our House of Reps. And for our magnificent Electoral College. But, Austria is different. I don't smoke -- I've never touched a cigarette in my life, it's a DISGUSTING habit...
[09:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:17] <exec> 08└─Don't. Italians will want to immigrate there.
[09:01:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 1089 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:30] <exec> 08└─Global warming will happen so slowly that natural migration away from those un-survivable places will take care of the problem. Some will choose to stay just like some chose to stay in Syria as its own government disassembled the nation. Others will leave and be just as welcome as the Syrian refugee...
[09:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:41] <exec> 08└─So I looked up this "The Eco-Experts" and turns out they're a government-grants middleman -- they help you suck money out of the government. Perhaps for useful causes like new windows and boilers, but the whole idea is to get those grants so their contractor partners can profit, and no doubt pay a s...
[09:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:40] <exec> 08└─....annoying Youtube ads??
[09:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:22] <exec> 08└─I have very good balance (I can run along railroad tracks) and while I can stand on one leg indefinitely... I note that the walk-heel-to-toe thing is actually designed to fail. Try it with arms outstretched vs arms at your sides, and you'll feel the difference. If you want people to reliably fail on...
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[09:59:29] <exec> 08└─Disgusting. Nauseating. Vomit-inducing. These words describe the grin I see on the face of the man in the mirror. He's targeting it. He's targeting... your rancid, feces-filled asshole! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Let's get this feces extravaganza started, shall we!? So...
[10:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:22] <exec> 08└─They speak our language.
[10:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:24] <exec> 08└─I work part-time (contracting) in Austria. It really is the ashtray of Europe, I've been to restaurants and bars where every part of me ended up reeking of second-hand smoke after I left. Having to wash your hair and clothes out every time you go out for dinner gets old really fast. Introducing segr...
[10:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:26] <exec> 08└─Not so far if you are the person smoking or who has just smoked where I am, however.
[10:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:41] <exec> 08└─As discussed previously on HN, this service is a sham at best, but probably also a honeypot for whistleblowers. It requires JavaScript to be enabled, for the user to provide various identifying information, and I think there were other flaws I can't recall right now.
[10:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:42] <exec> 08└─Surely people block java script when browsing anonymously
[10:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:45] <exec> 08└─You'd think stopping the flood of illegal immigrants would be more of a concern. Other than kicking the kaffirophobes out, of course.
[10:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:54] <exec> 08└─"Every single one of those [cases] had an error--in their assumptions, methodology, or analysis--that, when corrected, brought their results into line with the [dominant view]"
[10:02:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:45] <exec> 08└─I respectfully disagree; it's possible for ads (a working definition: content designed to showcase something other than what you are reading, especially commercial content but not only that) to be placed out of the way, for them to be on-topic (helpful, even), for them to be served by the site you t...
[10:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:54] <exec> 08└─Face reality. If you send men into combat in a real war and they are captured they will end up in a POW camp. If you send women into combat in a real war and they are captured they will be raped, and then to cover up the war crime, probably shot. Given the USA's current list of conflicts transgender...
[10:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:55] <exec> 08└─Which one is stopped and which one is a clock?
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[11:00:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:05] <exec> 08└─Why the double standard? Carbonated drinks have been linked to a rise in diabetes; taxes on the stuff are raised but they’re not banned. Fats are linked to cardiovascular disease but not “sin” tax applies much less a ban. Lack of exercise is linked to several types of disease but no government...
[11:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:22] <exec> 08└─They say that they use the proceeds of the ciggy tax to fund antismoking campaigns and support the additional load smoking adds to the public health system
[11:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:24] <exec> 08└─And just like Puerto Rico, they have beautiful beaches.
[11:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:26] <exec> 08└─They say that they use the proceeds of the ciggy tax to fund antismoking campaigns and support the additional load smoking adds to the public health system
[11:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:28] <exec> 08└─We don't have enough laneways or coffee shops to handle that many.
[11:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:31] <exec> 08└─We don't have enough laneways or coffee shops to handle that many.
[11:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:33] <exec> 08└─It's not so much about smokers vs non-smokers. Consider the restaurant employees' rights to safe and healthy work environment, which should (and will, here in Europe) trump the supposed freedom of smokers any time.
[11:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:35] <exec> 08└─Austria or Australia? Australia has some beautiful beaches, but I understand Australia also has a lot of dangerous fishes.
[11:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:37] <exec> 08└─In the UK, when they introduced the smoking ban pubs said that they'd all go out of business because people wouldn't smoke in them anymore. I'm not sure what the statistics are, but in the months immediately following I found that several of the pubs I liked were full when I wanted to go, when previ...
[11:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:19] <exec> 08└─This technology emerged at the dawn of the industrial era, when it became possible to make metal gadgets like these on a large scale. History: Null points. Screws made of metal and wood have been known since biblical times, and probably before that. However, as a spin off while working on Charles Ba...
[11:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:07] <exec> 08└─They are not similar. Norway bears no resemblance to DRC. For a start, the DRC was way better music and less ice.
[11:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:08] <exec> 08└─If the ice melts, it will stop the gulf stream, and the UK will be about the same temperature as Moscow ie -40 in the winter. Most of the UK has a hard time with -2. I doubt moving to Norway is going to be my preferred option.
[11:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:50] <exec> 08└─is this the Shitty Windows theory?
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[12:00:39] <exec> 08└─Austria or Australia?
[12:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:41] <exec> 08└─Smoking hurts smokers. Anything else is just adding insult to injury. Fairly well deserved insults, considering how well known the negative affects of smoking are.
[12:02:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder_X_Prize [wikipedia.org]
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[12:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:24] <exec> 08└─in the first three days following announcement of a breach, by the 14th day the return difference had rebounded to +0.05%
[12:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:25] <exec> 08└─There are two reasons that a breach would affect stock price: First, if a regulator imposed a large fine. In the US, the regulators are either captured or toothless. The EU is starting to impose significant fines for this kind of thing, but it's sufficiently rare that if you escape the fine then the...
[12:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder if any studies take into account the reaction of the affected companies to the breaches? One would hope that there would be a world of difference in investor confidence between a company which quickly fixes the breach, provides a full analysis, and shores up its procedures; and a company wh...
[13:00:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 828 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:09] <exec> 08└─I don't smoke, I don't like the smell of smoke, in fact I'm an ex-smoker and extremely sensitive to it, I always pick up that stench and start making faces and looking around for the source before those around me. So I'd rather people not smoke at all, hands down, that would really just be great. Al...
[13:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:17] <exec> 08└─I, for one, am voting for the Green party next time Canada has an election. The rest of the parties have failed too many times. Might as well give the greenies a kick at the can.
[13:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:17] <exec> 08└─So he needs protection from people heckling?
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[13:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:27] <exec> 08└─Can't handle anyone with a different opinion existing. How dare anyone disagree on something completely unrelated to job. Why doesn't he get to work on better parental controls and a better rating system of videos. Seriously, I had hysterical blindness after a particular scene in Altered Carbon. Ho...
[13:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:28] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I had hysterical blindness after a particular scene in Altered Carbon.
[13:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:38] <exec> 08└─you may expect that a company that's experienced a breach will upgrade their security, whereas one that hasn't yet is likely to be complacent.
[14:00:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly! I hate that the gubmint has to force restaurants to use actual beef instead of horse-flesh, not use MSG if they advertise as "MSG Free", keep the kitchen roach free, etc. Caveat Emptor right? Let the market decide!
[14:00:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1085 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:28] <exec> 08└─Because unlike consumption of carbonated drinks or fatty foods, or lack of exercise, cigarette smoking affects not only you, but the people around you as well. There's that old canard about your freedom to swing your fist stops at my face, well, your freedom to smoke ends where your smoke reaches my...
[14:00:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:32] <exec> 08└─Why exactly can't that be up to the restaurant? As part of her business, my wife has a small club room or restaurant. She was incredibly relieved when the law finally passed, prohibiting smoking in all restaurants. Doing it herself was almost impossible, for lots of reasons: - Lots of people are ent...
[14:00:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 610 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:44] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico, so many said "make us a state!" 97%. But, so many Dems there. Too many. It would be a DISASTER for our Senate. For our House of Reps. And for our magnificent Electoral College. But, Austria is different. I don't smoke -- I've never touched a cigarette in my life, it's a DISGUSTING habit...
[14:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:59] <exec> 08└─I have the same position when it comes to flatulence. After all, it is just a gesture of appreciation of the meal! Outside of the microscopic bits of fecal matter.
[14:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:00] <exec> 08└─I remember how sickened all those non-smokers were in the non-smoking section of a restaurant for being within 10 feet of smokers.
[14:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, but then the site won't work. They also offer some lame excuses for why it's OK to enable JavaScript on their site, as long as you're using the Tor Browser bundle. Error! :( Your browser is not running Javascript that is required to use the whistleblowing client. It's common believe that Javasc...
[14:01:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 911 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:34] <exec> 08└─More automation, less paid workers... so who will use the phones, or whatever crap, robots make (and later will recycle)? Simple: all the humans who now don't have to toil away at mindless, repetitive tasks that robots can do better. To make the economics work, you'll have to adopt Universal Basic I...
[14:01:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:53] <exec> 08└─If you're rich or cold, you can handle a few extra degrees and losing some land, if you're overpopulated, low, poor, already hot, it's gonna suck. news at 11.
[14:01:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:59] <exec> 08└─Anyone using the stupid projection map that puts the equator way down from the middle, and makes Greenland nearly as big as Africa or South America, should never be taken seriously. It doesn't matter how important your data is. Your map looks bad and you should feel bad. That projection is an abomin...
[14:02:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:10] <exec> 08└─If girls go to school family planning will happen on its own
[14:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:59] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_law_for_magnetism [wikipedia.org] spot a problem with your lense idea here?
[14:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:01] <exec> 08└─I work in wireless power transfer and think this would be a very useful tool if it had at least 50 MHz bandwidth. GMR sensors may be capable? samnpling the array would be intresting!
[14:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:13] <exec> 08└─And here I go spending the next five minutes snickering at "Skooma: Not Even Once" memes...
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[14:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:23] <exec> 08└─If logical fallacies didn't have a long history of being effective, then there wouldn't be any necessity of actually naming and explaining the things to people who want to make their thinking more rigorous.
[14:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:24] <exec> 08└─If the ad hominem fallacy assumes that a conflict of interest is not a motivation (and therefore increased probability of the presenter) to lie, deceive, omit, or otherwise bias a presentation to the presenter's own favor, the fallacy itself is fallacious. When a presenter's claims have been indepen...
[14:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:26] <exec> 08└─I haven't followed any links, but from TFS: "What we see is that knowledge of conflict of interest is just as powerful as knowledge of research fraud."
[14:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:28] <exec> 08└─Character != Motives. Someone's motives is absolutely a legitimate topic of discussion in most any argument.
[14:59:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:38] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I had hysterical blindness after a particular scene in Altered Carbon.
[14:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:40] <exec> 08└─Now I'm curious as to exactly which scene it was. Depending on your particularly sensitivities - or lack thereof - it seems you'd either be fine with the entire show or have issues with multiple scenes, so to single out just one scene is indicative of a pretty specific sensitivity. "Unique snowflake...
[14:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:43] <exec> 08└─two unique
[14:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:45] <exec> 08└─Zero and one are two unique numbers; they are unique in different ways, and the uniqueness of one does not preclude the uniqueness of the other.
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:55] <exec> 08└─I'd probably read #2 first, if anything for the methods. these kinds of effects are usually best evaluated with event studies. The first study performs simple regression at different time intervals without necessarily controlling for other exogenous effects that could influence stock price. The seco...
[14:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:57] <exec> 08└─Those two factors are precisely why when major corporations experience a data breach, they view it entirely as a public relations problem, not a technical problem. And the PR response will invariably make the following statements: 1. These kinds of things have happened to many other firms before. 2....
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[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─... Not the description, I understand that on at least a lay level. But this is saying, "Yeah, here's an attack.... that may already have been patched." Until "may" becomes "isn't," does this really convey any information? Here's a theoretical attack but we don't know if it can actually work or not,...
[15:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime Attacks Likely Mitigated by Existing Patches - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you can have a proof of concept without code. Until there is code i think it's just a theory of concept (or something).
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[15:00:22] <exec> 08└─(And nice story and catch, BTW. +1 Awesome, regardless of what I say below...) I wonder if the original, though, is actually 800 billion times weight/heavier, or 800 billion times solar mass? Fail 1 if I'm right that we're actually talking mass. And since Google readily tells me that the Andromeda g...
[15:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry but I value liberty over your non-existent right to not be offended. That is why I said "capitalism, yay"; not because it made the owner money but because it gives them the freedom to do as they like with what they own.
[15:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:24] <exec> 08└─Poor examples. There is no consumer deception in allowing smoking in a business. Everyone in the world knows that smoking isn't healthy for you. You're talking about taking away their choice to do as they please when they know the risks not about protecting them from shady practices. Which is treati...
[15:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:26] <exec> 08└─I assume you're against laws restricting and even outright prohibiting cannabis, then?
[15:02:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Reziac [2489] 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:56] <exec> 08└─So I looked up this "The Eco-Experts" and turns out they're a government-grants middleman -- they help you suck money out of the government. Perhaps for useful causes like new windows and boilers, but the whole idea is to get those grants so their contractor partners can profit, and no doubt pay a s...
[15:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:01] <exec> 08└─They are not similar. Norway bears no resemblance to DRC.
[15:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:03] <exec> 08└─So, if you're a rich country, you need to build a wall along your southern border. To protect from sea level rise.
[15:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:29] <exec> 08└─Look, while you might not be impressed, others like me enjoy seeing people explore electronics as a hobby and build fun stuff like this. It doesn't all have to be functional and/or useful to be interesting and fun.
[15:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:09] <exec> 08└─My remark about advancing human knowledge is merely an attempt to attach a level of value to certain 'speech' if you wish to dignify it as such. I don't consider it disenfranchising anyone if venues are allowed to refuse to host them. They can still speak. People can still listen. That is the right...
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[15:59:24] <exec> 08└─It's true that some fallacies aren't always. An appeal to authority, for instance. If you don't know whether to use "who" or "whom" in a sentence, and you say "I'll ask Professor Bob and just do whatever he says," that's an appeal to authority. If Professor Bob is an English prof, it's a valid one....
[15:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:25] <exec> 08└─That would seem to depend on the normalization. What are the units for conflict of interest versus fraudulent behavior? I think a little bit of fraud could be equivalent to a major conflict of interest.
[15:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:27] <exec> 08└─I agree, up to a point. A lot of science denial comes from the following set of principles: 1. Many scientists in the field of X are paid by evil entity Y. 2. No matter how much data X scientists present in favor of conclusion Z, it's always just propaganda on behalf of Y. 3. Any scientist who prese...
[15:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:29] <exec> 08└─... public money did these so called "scientists" get for conducting this "study"?
[15:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:32] <exec> 08└─If the ad hominem fallacy assumes that a conflict of interest is not a motivation (and therefore increased probability of the presenter) to lie, deceive, omit, or otherwise bias a presentation to the presenter's own favor, the fallacy itself is fallacious.
[15:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:34] <exec> 08└─Any scientist who presents data in favor of conclusion Z is clearly part of the grand conspiracy to do whatever Y tells them. If there's no evidence to support that claim that Y is paying them off, that's simply because we haven't caught them yet.
[15:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:36] <exec> 08└─because he's on the payroll of Evil Industry.
[15:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:38] <exec> 08└─We conclude that scientists' findings should be evaluated separate from their funding sources. - Philip Morris Social Sciences Group.
[15:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:51] <exec> 08└─Guess he's looking for a social life again after being unpersoned by the arbiters of political correctness in SF. Don't see why he would give up his board seats though; people are forced to deal with him there.
[15:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 2898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:52] <exec> 08└─So many people buy into the notion that the wealthy earned their wealth, and merit such good fortune for being smarter than the average bear. Some of the worst deluded are the rich idiots themselves. A strange finding is that the more incompetent a person actually is, the more they think they're suc...
[15:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:54] <exec> 08└─Zero and One are also unique in the same way. They are not in the set of all integers excluding zero and one. So now Zero and One are unique in different ways, first that they are unique in different ways, and second that they are unique in the same way. But then this leads to . . . oh, nevermind
[15:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:56] <exec> 08└─So some tech weenie moves. Big deal.
[16:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:10] <exec> 08└─My God! It's something the free market doesn't fix. That should trigger the Libertarians!
[16:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:11] <exec> 08└─it would probably cost more to have decent security practices than just to pay the fine every few years.
[16:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime Attacks Likely Mitigated by Existing Patches - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:27] <exec> 08└─I think I am just as confused. There might be an attack that may mitigated by an OS that might be patched? Call me back when someone finds out
[16:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milky Way Ties with Neighbor in Galactic Arms Race - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how well we can actually measure the milky-way. It seems odd, since it is so close, but the problem is that it gets in the way when we try to measure it, because we are measuring from the inside. Other galaxies are easier, we can just look at them and see, but we don't have a mirror to...
[16:00:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:47] <exec> 08└─Yup. I'm against any law that treats adults like they're children.
[16:01:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1883 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:34] <exec> 08└─In the UK, when they introduced the smoking ban pubs said that they'd all go out of business because people wouldn't smoke in them anymore. I'm not sure what the statistics are, but in the months immediately following I found that several of the pubs I liked were full when I wanted to go, when previ...
[16:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:42] <exec> 08└─Yup. To (possibly mis)quote one of the few politicians I genuinely like: I want gay married couples to be able to defend their pot farms with their guns.
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:45] <exec> 08└─Are you also uncomfortable with the government making laws about attending public events nude? How about laws preventing people from exposing themselves to people at work? If they work at a school? The point is, that government has always had laws about public conduct. That is kind of the point of g...
[16:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:47] <exec> 08└─I think the difference is that you can enjoy your sugary drink without forcing those around you to ingest any of it. The same cannot be said of tobacco.
[16:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:49] <exec> 08└─so what, you dumb whore. take your petunia smelling ass to another restaurant.
[16:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:34] <exec> 08└─Pedantry alert: If it meshes with a nut, then it's a bolt, not a screw. Screws either cut their own threads, or less commonly mesh with threads cut into one of the components themselves.
[16:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:35] <exec> 08└─That's all very interesting. Something I just always took for granted and seemed natural actually has a lot of subtle algorithms behind it. I worked with a guy in the Navy who never seemed to get the hang of it. We marveled how this guy could manage to strip the heads off screws (what the article te...
[16:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:37] <exec> 08└─Good observation. It would have made more sense if it had said, "This technology ballooned at the dawn of the industrial era..."
[16:02:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:56] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that California can blame climate change for their water situation. For decades, California has been using more water than any rational human can justify. If you are growing fruits, vegetables, cotton, and vines on land that is almost desert, you WILL run out of water. Global warming...
[16:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:30] <exec> 08└─Las Vegas has drive thru marriages. It needs to also get drive thru divorces. Then put all of the drive through marriage and divorce places on a giant loop. You can drive around until you find your favorite drive thru marriage place. Then continue around the circle until you find your favorite divor...
[16:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:31] <exec> 08└─Going to school does not prevent one from becoming pregnant due to rape.
[16:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:33] <exec> 08└─As mentioned in my previous comment, do listen to the actual scientists and stop getting your "information" from shit sources [imgur.com] (like George Will).
[16:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:36] <exec> 08└─How many kiloton [short, US] in 1 metric ton? The answer is 0.0011023113109244. So the figures are roughly correct
[16:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:38] <exec> 08└─That your mom would also take up a nice business offer from a Nigerian prince doesn't mean fraud is good. And advertising is nothing but a kind of fraud.
[16:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:22] <exec> 08└─Why? To an authoritarian, weed is bad because it's illegal - no other evidence needed. Any research results would be at best superfluous, and at worst undermine faith in the authoritarian regime.
[16:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:06] <exec> 08└─i had a 1600 watt power supply fail. i used 1200 of those watts with some room to spare.. but getting a replacement of a similar size at a normal price was not possible. i dont have a shipping date or even an eta... but i got one on backorder. right now i am using two older psus from computer builds...
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[16:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:22] <exec> 08└─Oracle did nothing wrong.
[16:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 1467 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:35] <exec> 08└─I agree, up to a point. A lot of science denial comes from the following set of principles: 1. Many scientists in the field of X are paid by evil entity Y. 2. No matter how much data X scientists present in favor of conclusion Z, it's always just propaganda on behalf of Y. 3. Any scientist who prese...
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:42] <exec> 08└─You're part of the problem. Figure that out why that is and get back to me. Look at replicability vs. reproduceability for starters. Tell me your definition of verification next. How many zeroes?
[16:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:45] <exec> 08└─If you believe money corrupts everything then you might as well give up - everything is alreasdy corrupted. One either needs to start making finer discriminations or give up like you, I guess.
[16:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:47] <exec> 08└─Of course motives are important. Motives and intent are an important factors in the laws of many countries. Some scientists have done "research" with bad motives, the results being bad dietary advice for millions or billions. How many extra deaths from that?
[16:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:49] <exec> 08└─Ethics is a whole other can of worms. The problem here is that skepticism not based on the actual data is pre-empting actual analysis of the data. And sure, in the extreme case we have to take a really close look at the results of Nazi experiments trying to prove racial superiority, but then again w...
[16:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:51] <exec> 08└─Your point is valid, but as a bot I should point out that logical fallacies imply a logic error even if they get to the correct result because they assume instead of derive. - Scientist A says X. - Big deal, Scientist A gets money for firm B who profits from X being true. What you have done is findi...
[16:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the unit is prudence. The old "trust, but verify" saw. Science doesn't work if we never fund the "verify" stage, and it especially doesn't work if the "verify" stage is career suicide due to publish or perish.
[16:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─Herbs are better than modern pharmaceuticals.
[17:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:13] <exec> 08└─Can't handle anyone with a different opinion existing. Maybe it's a matter of just not wanting to be around someone toxic like that. Would a bunch of deep Southerners in a small, insular community in Alabama want to have a few "flaming liberals" around them, and not just ones who keep to themselves...
[17:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:14] <exec> 08└─I find the ongoing lovefest between Democrats and Hollywood a bit puzzling. The Democrats are all for the people, except when Hollywood feels it is against their interests, then the Democrats are all for Hollywood. This is just another good example of the old saying that goes something like, "politi...
[17:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:31] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. The first time any major business does so we might learn something.
[17:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:32] <exec> 08└─You have it the wrong way round. The free market isn't there to "fix" things. It doesn't exist to serve humanity. Humanity exists to serve the market. We must offer it no resistance or impedance, we must immediately present whatever cruel sacrifice it demands, we must submit to its every whim and su...
[17:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Ties with Neighbor in Galactic Arms Race - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:58] <exec> 08└─The study found the weight of the Andromeda is 800 billion times heavier than the sun, on par with the Milky Way.
[17:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:07] <exec> 08└─You can't get second hand diabetes or cardiovascular disease... No one says you can't smoke. You just can't do it where it would harm others that decided NOT to smoke. It's not rocket surgery.
[17:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:08] <exec> 08└─The smokers actually subsidize as lot of stuff via tobacco taxes. Banning smoking in restaurants, bars and pubs is stupid and a lost opportunity. The government could do stuff like issuing a limited number of "smoking allowed establishment" licenses per area per period (e.g. 5 years) and have busine...
[17:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:10] <exec> 08└─Frankly, yes. We got by for thousands of years without puritans and I think we could get by just fine without them again. If you're not actually harming anybody (yourself excluded), the government has zero business telling you what to do. Ever.
[17:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:13] <exec> 08└─Or, on the less authoritarian hand, you could simply not go somewhere when you know that there is going to be smoking allowed. You know, exactly like the majority of men don't go to male strip clubs because they aren't interested in seeing dong flopping all over the place.
[17:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:15] <exec> 08└─Austria is basically like the Deep South of the US, if it were a separate nation. They speak the same language as Germany, but both culturally and economically they're far behind.
[17:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:34] <exec> 08└─Wow, lame. Tor people (obviously) say JS is a danger https://www.torproject.org [torproject.org]
[17:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:04] <exec> 08└─(or dream, if you factor in per-hour billing) If I were a mechanic, I'd worry about the customer blaming *me* for the previous mechanic's shoddy work, and complaining about the high cost of repair because of all the extra time and parts needed. If a shop advertises a "$150 brake service" special, an...
[17:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:05] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no. Look up "machine screw [wikipedia.org]": these also work with nuts (but also with tapped holes). And bolts are frequently used with tapped holes: just look at any modern engine. These are frequently called "lug bolts" or "head bolts". The Wikipedia article notes that there's a disagreemen...
[17:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:10] <exec> 08└─How is noise blasting any less speech than flag burning? Speech doesn't extend solely to direct verbal or written communication. And I, by my definition of free speech, have to support all speech, whether I agree with it or not. The problem here is you don't censor somebody by shouting over them, yo...
[17:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:12] <exec> 08└─So you are saying I shouldn't send soldiers into battle because the enemy won't be nice to them? Really? Also notice his statement was "in any capacity", in other words that includes both combat and non combat roles.
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[17:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:22] <exec> 08└─If not, they are not real planets like our Earth.
[17:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:23] <exec> 08└─Lots of opportunities to escape the mess that humans are making here. Can we get a telescope to identify those planets' gods and financial systems, so I know which multi-generational ship to board, without the fear that my great-great-...-great-grandchildren will find land in a place as silly as thi...
[17:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not that familiar with solaris. How is dtrace used, and where is the dpkg?!
[17:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:34] <exec> 08└─I missed in the summary are that the GPL part applies to the kernel components. That makes it jibe correctly with upstream kernel development. Linux uses GPL v2. The userspace is under a 'permissive' license. That allows interchange of code with the other DTrace, Open DTrace [github.com]. Open DTra...
[17:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:36] <exec> 08└─If you can tolerate video then Teaching, and Understanding, Systems Software with FreeBSD and DTrace [youtube.com] would probably be the one to look at. The DTrace in FreeBSD is quite close to the one for Linux. See also DTrace Tools [brendangregg.com].
[17:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:39] <exec> 08└─when and if Bryan Cantrill's http://dtrace.org [dtrace.org] baby move into the kernel!
[17:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:41] <exec> 08└─You could complain that the Linux tools are more complicated, but that is easy enough to fix: port the userspace portion of dtrace to operate on top of the existing Linux kernel code. Linux doesn't need the kernel code, and there is no license issue in userspace.
[18:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:07] <exec> 08└─The solution to "bad dietary advice" is not to look more closely at the researchers' motives. The solution is to look at the data and try to independently reproduce their results. Maybe the problem in this case isn't bad research, though, because there's no way the research could have prescribed giv...
[18:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:28] <exec> 08└─“Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demo...
[18:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:30] <exec> 08└─There's all that, but the reason why Thiel will burn in the lowest and hottest levels of Hell, is Palantir. The rich don't suffer the same invasions of privacy that the poor do, and that fuckface believes he can suck up all information and create his "Eye of Horus". Evil fucker even named the techno...
[18:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:26] <exec> 08└─Most restaurants are totally rude and do not let me operate my leaf shredder indoors. I keep telling them that the 50HP version is clearly the most efficient and therefore, in the end, the best solution for the planet and the fastest at getting me a nice pile to set on fire. But all thy ever answer...
[18:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:28] <exec> 08└─What I think is interesting is that nobody cares about other fast foot places. Everybody just beats up on McDonald's for no particular reason I can figure. I'll grab breakfast there sometimes, maybe like once in two weeks. But when I stop by there for breakfast, I want a calorie-dense, greasy, butte...
[18:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:30] <exec> 08└─The smokers actually subsidize as lot of stuff via tobacco taxes. Banning smoking in restaurants, bars and pubs is stupid and a lost opportunity.
[18:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:32] <exec> 08└─> Having to wash your hair and clothes out every time you go out for dinner gets old really fast. How often would you otherwise take a shower ?
[18:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:34] <exec> 08└─I have never seen evidence of one person eating fat that caused them to develop cardiovascular disease.
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:49] <exec> 08└─With an eye in the sky? Or maybe it should be "an eye to the sky" to avoid copyright infringement? (for those who don't get the reference https://en.wikipedia.org(song) [wikipedia.org]
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[18:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:25] <exec> 08└─> without the fear that my great-great-...-great-grandchildren will find land in a place as silly as this one? Instead they'll land in a place with new and innovative forms of silliness!
[18:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:27] <exec> 08└─Given these putative voyagers are your descendants, I rather suspect they will bring the silliness with them. Like the idea of multi-generational ships.
[18:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry your rocket didn't work! [washingtonpost.com] I'm sure you'll prove your deeply-held (but curiously recently stated) beliefs any day now!
[18:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:31] <exec> 08└─When you get there take extra care to disinfect the telephone headsets.
[18:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:33] <exec> 08└─As long as they remember to take enough telephone sanitizer with them, multi-generation ships should work. May I interest you in my cryptocurrency? It's called leafcoin.
[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:47] <exec> 08└─If you can tolerate video then Teaching, and Understanding, Systems Software with FreeBSD and DTrace [youtube.com] would probably be the one to look at. The DTrace in FreeBSD is quite close to the one for Linux. See also DTrace Tools [brendangregg.com]
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─The Anti-Christ become President of the United States; Oracle releasing under the GPL. We're doomed. Or things will be getting much better.
[18:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─Oracle always does the right thing once it no longer matters.
[18:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 646 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:00] <exec> 08└─If the ad hominem fallacy assumes that a conflict of interest is not a motivation (and therefore increased probability of the presenter) to lie, deceive, omit, or otherwise bias a presentation to the presenter's own favor, the fallacy itself is fallacious. When a presenter's claims have been indepen...
[19:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─Argumentum ad verecundiam is sometimes considered a fallacy and sometimes not. The 'Authority' usually thinks it perfectly valid... But if one is going to accept an argument from authority, the credibility of that authority becomes really really important. Why should it be otherwise. Example: BK is...
[19:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─The law does not consider this to be a fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Well there you go. It's good enough for federal court.
[19:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:23] <exec> 08└─It's not money that corrupts, it's the love of money over anything else that corrupts.
[19:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:25] <exec> 08└─Correct, because the matter of fact that you're determining is the credibility of the witness. It's when you claim something other than the direct matter at hand is wrong because of some unrelated issue with the speaker. E.g. those satellite measurements are wrong because the scientist is a communis...
[19:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:28] <exec> 08└─probabilistic skepticism of unreplicated data from biased sources is not unreasonable,
[19:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:50] <exec> 08└─Thiel is gay. The fact that San Francisco is intolerant of him is shameful. He'd be more welcome in Texas.
[19:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:52] <exec> 08└─Someone who is gay and can't make friends in San Francisco is probably too toxic to have a social life. "A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving the body from one place to another." -- Lennier to Vir in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust"
[19:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:54] <exec> 08└─*special snowflakes. But damn do we have some wonkey_monkeys in here today.
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:56] <exec> 08└─I think you missed a bit of sarcasm.
[19:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:58] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's usually a mix of luck and skill, with sometimes one predominating and sometimes the other. In the case of Mr. Thiel I think that there was nearly an even balance, but with a bit extra on luck. Still, he didn't achieve his wealth without skill. OTOH, his intolerance is something else,...
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:01] <exec> 08└─Met one of the founders of Palantir, he swore up and down it wasn't about creepy surveillance like the name implied. Supposedly he got out of that group when he realized that is exactly what it was all about. Seriously, so many techies just presume things will be above board while handing the keys o...
[19:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:03] <exec> 08└─Thiel is gay Yep, it turns out being gay doesn't prevent one from being an unmitigated asshole.
[19:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:05] <exec> 08└─The California Democrats are basically owned by Feinstein, and while she has a few good points, I normally think of her as a Republican in masquerade. And Feinstein is owned by Hollywood. Also, about as many famous actors are "liberal" as are "conservative". So there's no problem with finding mouthp...
[19:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:22] <exec> 08└─If you think the cost to an individual is close to zero, then you've never had it happen to you. It doesn't even require obvious criminal actions, just some people getting their record confused and not being willing to fix them and lead to severe problems...but only for the individual, who has essen...
[19:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:24] <exec> 08└─This message brought to you by Libertarians for Liberty! May we all remain free to fuck each other over for eternity.
[19:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime Attacks Likely Mitigated by Existing Patches - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:41] <exec> 08└─Hi, this is Tom from your ISP. Your machines have been hacked.
[19:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime Attacks Likely Mitigated by Existing Patches - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:42] <exec> 08└─What he's claiming is that there are these two new attacks the the performance impacting software patches will handle, but which the hardware patches being worked on probably won't. I have no idea how valid his claim is, or on what basis he's making it, especially since it really doubtful that he kn...
[19:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:11] <exec> 08└─"Are you also uncomfortable with the government making laws about attending public events nude?" I'm not too far from TMB on that one either. Definitely there are plenty of people I'd rather not appear in my field of view nude *but* guaranteeing my comfort (or anyone elses) is NOT a legitimate use o...
[19:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:12] <exec> 08└─If you're not actually harming anybody (yourself excluded), the government has zero business telling you what to do.
[19:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:04] <exec> 08└─From Jalopnik, one my favourite things I've ever seen written on the site: My dad used to own and race an OSCA back in the day. During an engine tear-down, he made a very expensive and difficult long distance call to the factory as see about torque settings for the cylinder head bolts. After several...
[19:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:05] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Torque wrenches are key where safety and reliability are in place. Not so much where it doesn't matter. Interior trim pieces, center-console, etc I was astounded to learn that some people don't have this "mechanical empathy" as you put it. I had a helper once snap like 50% of the heads off...
[19:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:02] <exec> 08└─What reason do you have to suppose that global warming and sea level rise will be slow?
[19:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:15] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's a libertarian thing. I'm a libertarian and I don't think people have a right to say whatever they want at a public funded university. If they did have such a right that would mean they are getting their right paid for at the expense of other people, who may not approve of what t...
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[19:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:24] <exec> 08└─Isn't it illegal to fire someone for their political views in California? Unknown Worlds Entertainment may be in for one hell of an uncapped damages lawsuit. Just like almost every other state in the union, California is a "right to work" state, which means employers can terminate you for any reason...
[19:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:25] <exec> 08└─While this is obviously a PR move it is illegal to fire an employee for political affiliation. That isn't quite what happened here but it feels close enough. What someone does outside of school / work should not be accountable. Since companies will just find reasons to fire someone anyway, it just m...
[19:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:27] <exec> 08└─https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB§ionNum=1101 [ca.gov] For someone so proud of "keeping his mouth shut", you sure managed to produce a lot of text about something you have no clue about.
[19:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:30] <exec> 08└─I'd also like to comment on his "tweet": Chylinski tweeted: "ppl arn't blank slates that can be reprogrammed simply by being in a new country. importing random ppl from the 3rd world is also importing 3rd world tier crime rates and IQ. now u r dealing with 3rd world levels of dysfunction, condolence...
[19:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:32] <exec> 08└─I was gonna say wrong as some initial searching returned "political affiliation" as a protected class, but this has a nice table breakdown by state: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So TL:DR these are the protected classes in CA: ...
[19:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't it illegal to fire someone for their political views in California? Prove that he was fired over this. I'd bet that the company can point to a lot of other undesirable behavior as well to justify his termination. Or maybe it's just that they're "rightsizing" his team. And, if all that fails, I...
[19:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:36] <exec> 08└─That just takes me to a blank "code search" page. Try again.
[19:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:39] <exec> 08└─I was wrong, political affiliation is not protected so I guess employers can fire someone just because they don't like what they say. Queue need for privacy and anonymity, let employers judge employees for what they do on the job.
[19:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─> What kind of moron writes stuff like "now u r"? Someone nearing Twitter's retarded character limit.
[19:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─You're correct. The simple solution is to fire them because their public racist comments creates a hostile workplace, or because their coworkers' productivity is impaired by having to work with someone who insults them.
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─Blame SN's crap parsing of ampersands. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov [ca.gov]
[19:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─But now THEY are under attack! Same with racism, its just a few bad jokes, locker room talk! Oh wait, now people are being mean to us! Muh oppression! It'd be funny if it wasn't such a serious problem.
[19:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:50] <exec> 08└─As atrocious as it is, that's actually a case of the language being appropriate to context. Proper English and Twatter don't really go together. Also I gather the fellow is Polish and has likely learned much of his "English" in the same or similar illiterate contexts. As a 'sound designer' proper li...
[19:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:52] <exec> 08└─Well, he could claim he only tweeted the WrongThink because he has a mental disability...
[19:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:54] <exec> 08└─https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB&sectionNum=1101 [ca.gov]
[19:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:56] <exec> 08└─So, it could thus be possible that everybody who posts on Twitter is a retarded moron. But we already knew that! :-)
[19:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:59] <exec> 08└─Wrong. CHAPTER 5. Political Affiliations [1101 - 1106] ( Chapter 5 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90. ) 1101. No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy: (a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or from becoming candidates for publ...
[20:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:01] <exec> 08└─How about you just summarize and we'll believe you? link still no linky
[20:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:03] <exec> 08└─You were right the first time. CHAPTER 5. Political Affiliations [1101 - 1106] ( Chapter 5 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90. ) 1101. No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy: (a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or from beco...
[20:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:05] <exec> 08└─Is he Polish? I couldn't tell from the article. "Simon" doesn't sound like a terribly Polish name to me, and tons of Americans have Polish surnames without having any connection to the country besides having some great-grandparent or something who emigrated from there almost a century ago. I just as...
[20:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:07] <exec> 08└─Here's the content, posted throughout the comment thread for every armchair member of the California State Bar. Feel free to just Google a string from it to find the source on California's government website. CHAPTER 5. Political Affiliations [1101 - 1106] ( Chapter 5 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90....
[20:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:10] <exec> 08└─Ah, strange they don't put that in the list I found (gov site). I'm not certain whether non-political tweets counts here, he wasn't engaging in any politics aside from general opinion about the world. The legal definition might be much more narrow, otherwise everything could fall under "politics".
[20:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:12] <exec> 08└─Looks like you tried to link to 1101 (which didn't work BTW) on this page, which doesn't say anything about terminating employment for political activities. You probably wanted 1102, which does say that employers may not "coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or...
[20:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:14] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think usage of Twitter is a perfectly acceptable thing to use to discriminate against employment candidates.
[20:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:16] <exec> 08└─If an employee says "I work for X and support Y controversial stance", what is the company X supposed to do if they don't want to have anything to do with the expressed opinion Y? It seems to me they wouldn't be wrong to assume many people are going to associate the company X with the opinion Y and...
[20:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:19] <exec> 08└─So, by your own admission, there's zero objective research backing up the claim that herbs are better than pharmaceuticals. The people originating those kinds of claims are almost universally doing so to sell herbal supplements that aren't even what they say they are [nbcnews.com]. And when you ask...
[20:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:21] <exec> 08└─The thing is, while the logic may be fallacious, the reasoning is likely to be valid. There's a long, long, history of people, some of whom were scientists, falsifying their data in order to prove what they want to prove. When you attack the motives of the scientist, you attack the trustworthiness o...
[20:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:23] <exec> 08└─But if the speaker is untrustworthy, why should you trust their assertions? This is even true when they offer explicit data if you can't verify the provenance of the data. They could just be making it up. And, unfortunately, there have been many published scientific papers recently where the data *h...
[20:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:25] <exec> 08└─Money doesn't corrupt - money given contingent on results corrupts the results, whether the contingency is explicit or implicit. If you're doing an oil spill environmental impact study paid for by BP, or Greenpeace, there's implicit bias in the funding: do you want to do future studies for the compa...
[20:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:27] <exec> 08└─We made high quality respiratory mechanics measurement equipment. Philip Morris was one of our (best paying) customers, they clearly did some heavy work with the stuff and paid for custom engineering to interface our equipment with the rest of their setup. They never published anything that they fou...
[20:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:29] <exec> 08└─Ah, like Bill Nye the Science Fake. Media-backed "expert" with an unrelated low-level degree but a big mouth.
[20:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:59] <exec> 08└─The Palantir was not created by Sauron, but rather by the Numenorians. They are the "seven stones" that were brought "over the flowing sea" from the sunken Numenor. They were created to link communications, but they had the defect that they were subject to what I can only call as neuroses and psycho...
[20:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:01] <exec> 08└─Thiel's support for our president mitigates being an asshole, not that he is one. Trump has also nominated the first openly gay ambassador. (some prior were in the closet) Democrats are blocking confirmation. It seems that democrats really don't like the log cabin republicans. Could it be that the d...
[20:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:21] <exec> 08└─In the US, the regulators are either captured or toothless. We had a regulator with teeth but the Trump admin defunded it. They also decided to give Equifax a free pass. [salon.com]
[20:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:23] <exec> 08└─if people are not willing to pay for something in the market than thats the end of the story. if you want to take my money if you want to make me pay for something well maybe you have that power but it will not be a few market and you will do so by threat of violence (tax evasion = jail) such a fall...
[20:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:25] <exec> 08└─For a bubble to form an unreasonable source of money is needed. Pure speculatively - just as a thought exercise - this one could had been financed by shorting volatility. The volatility bubble pooped spectacularly a few days ago so it may be interesting to see if the observed tendency suddenly rever...
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:27] <exec> 08└─If you go through a convoluted rigamarole, we'll give you a nice cheap identity theft insurance policy (that's only good for 1 year, and nigh-impossible to actually get, and may not pay out once the media attention has gone away).
[20:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime Attacks Likely Mitigated by Existing Patches - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:45] <exec> 08└─That makes it a lot more clear why it's news! You made it more clear why it still has impact now. Thanks!
[20:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Ties with Neighbor in Galactic Arms Race - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:57] <exec> 08└─> galaxies, like most things, are mostly open space That darn gravity thing, which gives them their cute shapes, may have some things to say about that. You don't need direct collision for a bigger star to rip out the outer solar system from half a light-year away, or for a supermassive black hole t...
[20:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:19] <exec> 08└─This is your saving grace, we're pulling for you to figure out the rest!
[20:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:20] <exec> 08└─Your heart attack and diabetes do not directly harm the health of other patrons. Apple meet orange.
[20:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:22] <exec> 08└─It's not even about the customers anyway. It's about the employees. In this country employees have the right to not be exposed to carcinogens. In the states I'm familiar with you can still have businesses like cigar clubs where people can smoke. They just need to install exposure controls, first, as...
[20:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:15] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, when the situation is desperate the phrase, "Cross threads are better than no threads!" has been uttered.
[20:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:17] <exec> 08└─"Add flour until consistency is right, then season to taste" Some of the best recipes explicitly rely on experience of the operator.
[20:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Takes a Human to Screw Things Up Properly - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:19] <exec> 08└─You forgot the critical and mandatory phase of setting up any automated process: Build one. Stop. Inspect result. Adjust as needed. The idea that someone would operate using a value that breaks thousands of screws would be laughable, if I didn't believe in the fundamental incompetence of some. In my...
[20:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:16] <exec> 08└─I did not see those and I would like to, can you please re-link?
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[20:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:22] <exec> 08└─Generate me some tachyons via the replicator and put them into my flying car's fuel-tank so I can drive to the EM-ship space-port to visit Risa.
[20:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─It's supposed to link to 1101-1106 actually. The first link issue was Soylent's shitty parsing modifying the string "&sect", the second one seems to be a problem with the way California's state website handles request data. Either way I've posted the relevant text about half a dozen times by now so...
[20:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:56] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily, political affiliation is protected (good) but the idea that the tweets fall under that category is definitely debatable.
[20:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─"But street poo and rigid cast system in India didn't come from the west." So he doesn't know how to spell "caste".
[21:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:01] <exec> 08└─Blame SN's crap parsing of ampersands.
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:03] <exec> 08└─and worse, they can dig it up years later, when you may have changed your views.
[21:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:05] <exec> 08└─It seems to me they wouldn't be wrong to assume many people are going to associate the company X with the opinion Y and treat this employee as a kind of spokesperson, particularly if they have never heard of this company X (or at least its stance about opinion Y) before.
[21:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:07] <exec> 08└─"Is he Polish? I couldn't tell from the article." Quote - In one such tweet, posted in response to an article shared by InfoWars editor and conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson discussing "Islamic no go zones," Chylinski tweeted: "ppl arn't blank slates that can be reprogrammed simply by being in...
[21:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:10] <exec> 08└─It's more difficult than you think. To look good in court the company has to issue warnings beforehand, set up a correction plan, and only if all that fails they can fire. Otherwise the company is an easy prey to an attorney. Most likely the firing occurred in a fit of rage expressed by one of senio...
[21:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:13] <exec> 08└─Good catch, somehow I missed or forgot the "condolences from Poland" bit. You're probably right about the Anglicization part.
[21:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:15] <exec> 08└─The legal definition might be much more narrow That's what I'm thinking. Otherwise, all you have to do is find a political candidate somewhere who's an actual Nazi (like the guy in Ohio or Wisconsin or something now, I just saw an article a few days ago) who espouses some obviously horrific things,...
[21:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:17] <exec> 08└─I don't understand this tendency to use Twitter, etc, as some sort of stream of consciousness. It is not necessary to publicly broadcast every thought that you have -- especially if that thought is controversial. Would you walk down the sidewalk blathering stuff at total strangers? No? Then why do i...
[21:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:19] <exec> 08└─While "reasonable person" kind-of works as a standard for legal issues, it means absolutely nothing outside that specific area :/ "Professionally umbraged and their screaming disciples" aren't even a requirement for resulting brand damage.
[21:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:21] <exec> 08└─> Would you walk down the sidewalk blathering stuff at total strangers? You may have picked a wrong site to ask that question :) Takes no effort at all to imagine half the regulars here doing that :D
[21:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:24] <exec> 08└─"ppl arn't blank slates that can be reprogrammed simply by being in a new country. Western dirt is magic dirt. Stand on it, and you magically adopt Western norms of behavior. Didn't you know? Of course, it's a stupid idea, but there you are, that's what progressives believe. So I agree with what he...
[21:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.coindesk.com/game-maker-atari-planning-launch-cryptocurrency/ [coindesk.com] I heard you like assturoids
[21:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:38] <exec> 08└─opportunities to escape the mess that humans are making here.
[21:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:55] <exec> 08└─What can it provide that strace and perf tools don't do better?
[21:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:37] <exec> 08└─When you attack the motives of the scientist, you attack the trustworthiness of the data. And that's a valid attack.
[21:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:09] <exec> 08└─With the conservatives, they want to be around people usually of the same race and cultural background. With liberals, they'll consciously overlook those factors because they usually believe more in diversity, but they still want to be around people who share their political values.
[21:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:11] <exec> 08└─It depends on who [harvard.edu] you ask [caltech.edu].
[21:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:13] <exec> 08└─Zero and One are also unique in the same way.
[21:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:15] <exec> 08└─Well, he is married to Matt Danzeisen according to Wikipedia.
[21:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:17] <exec> 08└─Young people in the LA area! Beware of advertisements offering money for giving blood! Grandpa: One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires.
[21:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:20] <exec> 08└─The value of Zero and One are unique -- just like every other integer. A snowflake is unique -- just like every other snowflake. (Two unique snowflakes.) You are unique! Just like everyone else. To improve efficiency the USPTO no longer requires patents to be unique. We'll have the best patent syste...
[21:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:22] <exec> 08└─Could it be that the democrats feel that they own the political allegiance of gay people?
[21:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder exactly what distinguishes an *ordinary* snowflake.
[21:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:26] <exec> 08└─So kindergarden was wrong -- just like everything else in the 1960's.
[21:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:50] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem: Right now, companies don't actually insure against that risk until it's already happened. It's cheaper to take the risk, go through this PR dance when that risk-taking fails, and as noted in TFA ultimately have no consequences whatsoever for your bottom line or the career of anyb...
[21:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime Attacks Likely Mitigated by Existing Patches - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:10] <exec> 08└─On a Prescott 2M P4 (SL7Z7 630), I ran this meltdown code in a loop: https://github.com [github.com] with varying CPU load and varying physical memory use. Although the exploit would be partially successful maybe 1 in 200 to 1 in 2000 times, the exploit was neve...
[21:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:46] <exec> 08└─(Score: 5, Troll)
[21:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:47] <exec> 08└─Violating work safety laws, employees should not be required to breathe second hand smoke. Sorry but some authoritarian rules are necessary, like not polluting the environment or building industrial spaces in residential areas. Anarchy is bad mmmkay?
[21:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:49] <exec> 08└─Parents who drink soda give soda to their kids! The soda must be banned!
[21:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:53] <exec> 08└─I think a country already tried sending all of their undesirables to Australia.
[21:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:55] <exec> 08└─And the taxes likely go to government general fund, not to offset the damage caused by smoking. HOW MUCH MONEY? Massachusetts has one of the highest cigarette taxes in the country – $2.51 on every pack. Last year that meant $562 million in state revenue. The big tobacco settlement brought in anoth...
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─No mention of massive reduction, just a reduction. I like how you totally buy into the solar reduction in 2030-2050 as fact, but need to point out the failed predictions of old climate models. The changes are happening, thankfully they haven't been as rapid as the dire predictions. But whatever, thi...
[21:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:02] <exec> 08└─How is noise blasting any less speech than flag burning?
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[21:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:22] <exec> 08└─I thought that Dark Matter was canceled?
[21:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:23] <exec> 08└─Formatting errors in summary.
[21:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:25] <exec> 08└─Oh shit I'm feeling it - Tachyon Hell yeah, fuck yeah, I feel like killing it - Tachyon Alright that’s tight, what it's like to experience - Tachyon
[21:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:27] <exec> 08└─awesome as that is and decided it had to be dark matter. i'm glad these are not the people that write the code i depend on.
[21:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:30] <exec> 08└─Formatting error is only half of the problem with TFS. I'm trying to figure out if putting so little context legally counts as RTFA clickbait...
[21:59:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:59] <exec> 08└─Looks like you tried to link to 1101 (which didn't work BTW) on this page, which doesn't say anything about terminating employment for political activities. You probably wanted 1102, which does say that employers may not "coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or...
[22:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:16] <exec> 08└─Pay attention retard, first link was SN's parsing issue, second link was California's website's handling of request data.
[22:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:18] <exec> 08└─The links are actually different. Unglaze your eyes, notice the difference between "&sect" and "§", and stop trying to defend the shit programmer here who doesn't understand URL encoding.
[22:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:20] <exec> 08└─Stand on it, and you magically adopt Western norms of behavior. Any non-Western norms that are harmful are already illegal. If they're not harmful, why do you care? Enforcement of those norms is handled by the police, not magic.
[22:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:22] <exec> 08└─Since when is hateful speech a "political activity" or "political view"? Hate speech coming from the highest office doesn't make hate speech okay. Nor does it make it a political view.
[22:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:24] <exec> 08└─Correction: it's not even California's website for the second issue. It's still SN's shit programming. After fixing the ampersand in the URL, it included it in the visible portion but removed it from the HREF tag. Seriously, I'd link you guys to Perl's documentation on escaping/unescaping so you cou...
[22:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:26] <exec> 08└─Prove that he was fired over this
[22:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:29] <exec> 08└─"I don't understand this tendency to use Twitter, etc, as some sort of stream of consciousness." An exaggerated sense of self-importance? A forum like this is bad enough, but at least it kinda, sorta resembles a conversation. Twitter is like thousands of people all talking at the same time, and no o...
[22:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─And use of Facebook and YouTube.
[22:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:33] <exec> 08└─He could cite potus as an example of wrongthink, twitter and mental disability connections.
[22:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:35] <exec> 08└─http://www.warplife.com/ethics/reputation.html [warplife.com]
[22:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 2184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:37] <exec> 08└─This Time For Sure: When I was asked to make this address I wondered what I had to say to you boys who are graduating. And I think I have one thing to say. If you wish to be useful, never take a course that will silence you. Refuse to learn anything that implies collusion, whether it be a clerkship...
[22:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:40] <exec> 08└─"Any non-Western norms that are harmful are already illegal." First, no, they aren't. For example, it is a Western norm that the political system should be independent of religion. It is not illegal for an Islamist to believe that Islamic law should take precedence over secular law. This is, however...
[22:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:42] <exec> 08└─Give it a try. It works for me [warplife.com].
[22:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's K2 Mission Going Strong With Another 95 New Exoplanets Confirmed - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:58] <exec> 08└─> Humans are average on the Jerk Scale. Faith is a wonderful thing.
[22:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:15] <exec> 08└─What can it provide that strace and perf tools don't do better?
[22:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:58] <exec> 08└─So, at the risk of being forever branded "one of those kooks..." let me also say that results in the opposite direction also happen: the form of argument presented above is immune to evidence, and the people making it don't bother with experiment to gather their own evidence and test their conclusio...
[22:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:00] <exec> 08└─If you don't know whether to use "who" or "whom" in a sentence, and you say "I'll ask Professor Bob and just do whatever he says," that's an appeal to authority. If Professor Bob is an English prof, it's a valid one. If he's a physics prof, it's not.
[22:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:06] <exec> 08└─Sure, I have done this before. Credit cards are empowering for individuals because unlike most other forms of payment, you still have all your money after fraudulent charges are posted. Since the cardholder is not responsible for unauthorized charges, when such a charge is discovered you call the is...
[22:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:07] <exec> 08└─I'm tempted to ask the next credit card/financial/pretty much any company I sign up with, not what their data security practices are (which can be talked around), but whether they have data breach insurance, through who, and what does it pay out to affected users in the event of a breach. Maybe if m...
[22:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:09] <exec> 08└─... or the bank freezes the cards in time ...
[22:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:11] <exec> 08└─If I were in a position to push legislation to deal with this, I would in fact demand that all companies that store customer data carry insurance against data breaches, for all the reasons you mentioned. The insurance companies would then do what they do best, namely determining risks and pricing th...
[22:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:11] <exec> 08└─freedom to do as they like with what they own.
[22:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:07] <exec> 08└─So frustratingly true. Cotton of all crops, and water being pumped out in to the deserts. Only positive is there's a lot of water CA can stop using.
[22:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:09] <exec> 08└─Agreed, although not fully understood it seems the Nordics need to take some kind of large hit for the potentially happening.
[22:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:11] <exec> 08└─If Columbus had a real good map (that didn't show the unknown Americas), he would never have left home. The only reason that he tried when no one else did was due to erroneously believing the world was only 18000 miles around with a bigger Asia when most thought it was closer to 25000 miles and just...
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[22:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Positive Result in Mice as Alzheimer's Drug Trials Fail and Regulatory Barriers Are Rolled Back - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:25] <exec> 08└─It's in. Your rancid hole sucked my fetid little friend right into it as if your nasty asshole was a spaghetti noodle! I guess I'll have to return the favor by shooting my little white tadpole friends straight into your feces-filled rectal womb! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, too good! I'm goi...
[22:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:38] <exec> 08└─It was? Damn, I liked that show.
[22:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:39] <exec> 08└─Slewp, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Wow! Your snap is drippin' with spit, almost as if someone mercilessly slewped from the bottom of your snappycrack to the top! It... had to be a slewpy existenceness, or otherwise known as "One Who Sle...
[22:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:41] <exec> 08└─Your rectal womb belongs to me now, you little sow! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
[22:59:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:53] <exec> 08└─I'd also like to comment on his "tweet": Chylinski tweeted: "ppl arn't blank slates that can be reprogrammed simply by being in a new country. importing random ppl from the 3rd world is also importing 3rd world tier crime rates and IQ. now u r dealing with 3rd world levels of dysfunction, condolence...
[23:00:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:04] <exec> 08└─So, it could thus be possible that everybody who posts on Twitter is a retarded moron. But we already knew that! :-)
[23:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:42] <exec> 08└─it is a Western norm that the political system should be independent of religion Holy crap, someone really needs to let the Christians know that!
[23:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:43] <exec> 08└─But that's irrelevant, too, because the Twitter posts in question weren't political - they were racist. Not necessarily: if some political candidates running in a race make racism a political issue (for instance, one candidate is an overt racist and has a campaign promise to pass racist legislation,...
[23:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:45] <exec> 08└─YouTube might be OK. You can convey very useful information there in a format that has inherent advantages over text or photos, and YT gives individuals a way of making videos available on the internet for free and without having to deal with server bandwidth issues they'd have with private hosting....
[23:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:47] <exec> 08└─Hate speech coming from the highest office doesn't make hate speech okay. Nor does it make it a political view. It may not make it OK in your view, but how on Earth does it not make it a "political view"? If the hate speech is not only made by a politician, but it's a big part of his campaign, then...
[23:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Subnautica Dev Fired Over Controversial Twitter Comments - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:50] <exec> 08└─Expectoration. (Spitting) *is* illegal in some US states and Singapore. http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] https://www.mercurynews.com [mercurynews.com] How about: Littering. Using the fire escape for your garbage,...
[23:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06dtrace for Linux; Oracle Does the Right Thing - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:23] <exec> 08└─"all within the kernel, nothing outside the kernel, nothing against the kernel." -- kernel hacking with benito
[23:01:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:30] <exec> 08└─If logical fallacies didn't have a long history of being effective, then there wouldn't be any necessity of actually naming and explaining the things to people who want to make their thinking more rigorous.
[23:01:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03schad [2398] 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 1375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:35] <exec> 08└─It's true that some fallacies aren't always. An appeal to authority, for instance. If you don't know whether to use "who" or "whom" in a sentence, and you say "I'll ask Professor Bob and just do whatever he says," that's an appeal to authority. If Professor Bob is an English prof, it's a valid one....
[23:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:08] <exec> 08└─those satellite measurements are wrong because the scientist is a communist
[23:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:09] <exec> 08└─Were I appointed "Science Tsar" with a commensurate budget of $1B/yr to promote good scientific research, valuable to society, I believe I would devote 60% of that budget to award to "confirm or deny" activities. Identify the most socially valuable unconfirmed findings of the previous few years and...
[23:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:12] <exec> 08└─What we see is that knowledge of conflict of interest is just as powerful as knowledge of research fraud.
[23:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:14] <exec> 08└─In some cases appeal to authority is correct by definition, for example when NIST sets a standard, it is the standard because they say it is.
[23:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:16] <exec> 08└─I won't step up and be an "herb believer," the results of herbal treatment seem too spotty and un-reproducible to me - though I do attribute serious merit to pro-biotics like kefir and yogurt in some circumstances, and some of the more potent cultivated herbs (like MJ) do seem to deliver consistentl...
[23:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Attacking Motives of Scientists is Just as Damaging as Attacking the Science Itself - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:18] <exec> 08└─In that case, the scientifically rigorous approach would be to disprove the data, not attack the scientist. Otherwise, what are you saying? I cannot demonstrate that the provided data is invalid because I can reproduce the results and data collection procedures, yet the research is obviously flawed...
[23:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Disinteresto [5812] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Soylent drinking nerds in silicon valley are too full of heavy metals, and today's vampire needs fresh blood. I bet you could sell tickets to your remote New Zealand property in case the garbage future you're peddling actually happens. Surely no one with that much money would be taken seri...
[23:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:01] <exec> 08└─It certainly doesn't prevent one from having an invaded asshole, though.
[23:03:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 911 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:18] <exec> 08└─You have it the wrong way round. The free market isn't there to "fix" things. It doesn't exist to serve humanity. Humanity exists to serve the market. We must offer it no resistance or impedance, we must immediately present whatever cruel sacrifice it demands, we must submit to its every whim and su...
[23:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impact of Data Breaches on Corporations' Stock Values... None That Matters? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:30] <exec> 08└─What damages would this hypothetical "data breach insurance" cover? Who would be eligible to make claims? How will damages be assessed?
[23:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:32] <exec> 08└─"You can't realistically designate your whole restaurant non-smoking" Yes, yes you can. Many, many did. What you're telling us is that she's happy because they gave her an excuse to do what she wanted to do while still dishonestly deflecting responsibility for it. "When the government finally said "...
[23:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:34] <exec> 08└─"To me, this is one of the biggest arguments for the ban: the balance of power is such between employers and employees that the employees were being forced to endanger their health or lose their jobs." And that's a truly awful argument. If there's something fundamentally wrong with the game on that...
[23:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:36] <exec> 08└─There's also the argument about the workers, often people close to the bottom of the social structure with few choices for work. Ideally there would be enough work that it's not a problem but capitalism strives for unemployment as it results in cheaper workers.
[23:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:38] <exec> 08└─How? By killing off people early when they could spend decades sucking on the healthcare tit, perhaps with Alzheimer's like my mom the non-smoker who seems to have had her brain dissolve about 20 years ago and needs full time care vs my smoking dad who died quite quickly of cancer at home, mostly co...
[23:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:40] <exec> 08└─Around here, before the smoking ban, a few establishments tried the smoke free experience and none of them could make a go of it, even with the free advertising from the news. Perhaps now, a quarter of a century later, with many less smokers and people used to having none smoking establishments they...
[23:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:42] <exec> 08└─Unluckily unions are out of fashion and the captains of industry have a lot more power then the average person, little well the bottom quintuple and capitalism strives to keep things this way as cheap labour to produce a cheap cup of coffee is more important then peoples well being.
[23:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austria: The "Ashtray of Europe"? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:44] <exec> 08└─McDonald's did really market themselves to children and parents of children and it is children who have the least critical thinking skills and habits acquired in childhood are likely to persist.
[23:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Countries Most Likely to Survive Climate Change in One Infographic - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:42] <exec> 08└─But all your counter-examples have enough resource concentration for defensibly or special circumstances. Norway is tiny and only needs to defends a couple of oil rigs using two or three ports to satisfy its needs. Taiwan is a proxy state for international (i.e. US) trade interests and the different...
[23:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:46] <exec> 08└─You mean, like Brave browser (ads can pay to be whitelisted) or IE (blocks Chrome ads)?
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[23:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Generates Tachyons in SN1987A - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:46] <exec> 08└─Fire your Social Media Manager NOW. Because that's not what a Booty Snap is!!! youtu.be/6b6xLxsSWGc [youtu.be]