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[00:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:09] <exec> 08└─I didn't say that the UK doesn't have a bail system. Can't you read?
[00:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:10] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile the British taxpayer has paid a fortune to keep the Ecuadorian embassy under 24 hour surveillance for several years.
[00:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:12] <exec> 08└─Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy because he was afraid that the UK was about to hand him over to the US (and from there a 1-way ticket to Gitmo). The Australian government would be no less likely to roll over and have the US tickle its tummy than the UK. No point in seeking protection from the...
[00:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:15] <exec> 08└─The problem here isn't the UK; it's Julian Assange's unwillingness to accept responsibility for his decision to breach the conditions of his bail.
[00:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:17] <exec> 08└─> I don't think they have done that for any other suspected or alleged rapist or bail jumper. Bail jumping is what the British are leaning on. Technically that's all they have. But the large smear campaign depends on bald face lies, which are common enough that some repeat or imply them. Some becaus...
[00:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:53] <exec> 08└─European cities have population density, as well as a different cultural imperative around smaller vehicles. It seems, from reading soylent and elsewhere, that many/most/lots of Americans believe: 1. They will need to drive 500 miles at the drop of a hat, despite not driving more than 50miles a day...
[00:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:16] <exec> 08└─...and the shark is riding a tsunami: Car buying service TrueCar ends its relationship with the NRA [thinkprogress.org] Two national moving companies cut ties with NRA [thinkprogress.org] Telemedicine company Teladoc confirms it's no longer in partnership with the NRA [thinkprogress.org] Home securi...
[00:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:18] <exec> 08└─You're attempting to be literal with words when that's not apt. Capitalism displaced Feudalism. Feudalism replaced slave economies. Look up those economic models and stop embarrassing yourself with nonsense definitions. ...and Socialism is on its way to replacing Capitalism. Milwaukee and Madison, W...
[00:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:20] <exec> 08└─I believe by exploitative, socialists describe the monopsony effect on the working class. If each person in the working class bargains individually, they will all find themselves in a race to the bottom. One can see this demonstrated in the West in the past 40 some odd years. By working class, I mea...
[00:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah. There's a lot of that going around. Poll: 67 percent of gun owners say NRA "overtaken by lobbyists" [politico.com] 88 percent of gun owners polled said they support requiring a permit for individuals to carry a concealed gun in public, and 80 percent said they support mandating a background ch...
[00:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. has 62nd Ranking in LTE Speeds in the World, about 1/3 the Speed of Singapore - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:07] <exec> 08└─I think "series of contracts" guy has finally lost it after enough people rejected his crap, now he's on to just ranting angrily. I mean this rant here, just free market apologetics or actual shill. Not quite the right tone for just a simple troll.
[00:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. has 62nd Ranking in LTE Speeds in the World, about 1/3 the Speed of Singapore - 2949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:08] <exec> 08└─Moderators very busy on this one! And a lot, a lot of them "voting," they're thinking, oh he's trolling, he must be trolling! I don't blame them. Because they don't understand. Because they're too young. Or too DUMB. They remember, they have to remember, Crooked Hillary, how I ran against her -- ver...
[00:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. has 62nd Ranking in LTE Speeds in the World, about 1/3 the Speed of Singapore - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:11] <exec> 08└─Edgar is that you?
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[00:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:33] <exec> 08└─12V has a couple of things going for it -- as long as there are lower cost cars using incandescent light bulbs, the 12V filaments are thicker and more vibration resistant than higher voltage bulbs. Also, 12V switches don't arc, but special switches with arc extinguishing are required over ~30V DC......
[00:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:34] <exec> 08└─How does this story relate to Politics, by which I mean how does it affect the Money to which I am entitled? There will be no technical comments here, for this is ShitStainNews, all Politics all the time. God bless Money.
[00:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:36] <exec> 08└─The article explains they will be utilizing a dual voltage system, 12 and 48 on different circuits. This is probably specifically for the low power stuff like lights, instrument cluster, cabin lights, aux power and what not.
[00:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:39] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about boats. Your garden-variety Party Barges run from 12 volt marine batteries, then you throw an inverter in there, and now you can operate test equipment in the field and yet still have a wide latitude for Jerry-rigging in emergencies. But back to car motors, American (and other) aut...
[00:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─Will they get away with thinner wires? Also why would they need spark arrestingly switches? There are plenty of spark sources in the typical car. Not to mention cigarette lighters.
[00:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:56] <exec> 08└─The plan is to link it to a smartphone, I think. And it is more convenient than cash, because you don't need to take out your wallet or count your nickels.
[00:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:57] <exec> 08└─Uh -- you know I'm not Chaldean, right? I have moral standards, and at least here cashiers have the right to refuse service to anyone. People do beer-runs from my store but the shrink is relatively small compared to what I've seen over by San Diego State. For example, one time I was doing some groce...
[01:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:26] <exec> 08└─> So what? That does not preclude the right to self defense against arbitrary authority. We need to stop sanctifying the state. The right to self defense is absolute. It's not absolute. The UK is just wrong on this. So are you. The UN formally found in February 2016 that Julian Assange is unlawfully...
[01:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:27] <exec> 08└─Why shoud he just go to jail? He's not done anything except be illegally detained by the UK. That is on the UK not him. http://www.scribd.com [scribd.com] Now he is an Ecuadorean citizen and would be able to go to Ecuador right way if the UK were not harassing...
[01:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:30] <exec> 08└─Bail for an illegal detention? Consider it void.
[01:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:08] <exec> 08└─European cities have population density, as well as a different cultural imperative around smaller vehicles.
[01:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the response. Under capitalism, what you call "labor" is indeed "capital"; your labor is a resource with well-defined ownership, and it is a resource that can be incorporated into contracts. That is to say, I dispute the premise on which "socialists" seem to base their arguments. Secon...
[01:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:37] <exec> 08└─Gun free zones are erected where extra protections from violence are deemed neccessary for the weak protectees.
[01:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:39] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956 has a journal entry about what the deputies did on the scene. That famed "Thin Blue Line" [soylentnews.org] The douchebag who was assigned to the school stayed outside the building. The 3 "backups" who showed up then hid behind their cars. Standard issue for Broward County Sheriff person...
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[01:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:39] <exec> 08└─> why would they need spark arrestingly switches? An arc across the switch points quickly erodes the contacts and destroys the switch -- instead of thousands of uses (over the life of the car), you might get a hundred or something. Arc welding voltage is ~30V DC, anything higher than that will maint...
[01:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:40] <exec> 08└─Merit to the switch argument but incandescent is old tech anyway, new cars are moving to LED lighting anyway.
[01:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:42] <exec> 08└─What car makers want to do is include even more electronic driver aids, such as electric turbochargers that reduce turbo lag – that ever-so-slight moment of hesitation at the traffic lights that hits a turbocharged engine when the slow-speed spin of the turbo can’t force enough air into the engi...
[01:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:45] <exec> 08└─Forklifts have been using 36-48 volt systems for years. You don't have to step up to 48v for everything as batteries are all 6 voltage cells chained together. One battery at 48 volts can have a 48 and a 12 volt ouput without any sort of fancy hardware.
[01:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:47] <exec> 08└─12V car battery gave me more jolt than I can handle when I first started mucking with cars. 48V? Yeah, a real good time to come.
[01:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:49] <exec> 08└─American drivers like their power.
[01:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:52] <exec> 08└─How? By putting your tongue across the terminals? 12V batteries seldom provide more than a slight tingle, and that only if you use a more sensitive part of your body than your hand. For example, touching the positive battery terminal while leaning the inside of your forearm on the body. Now, do ever...
[01:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:54] <exec> 08└─There will be warning labels, "No user serviceable parts under this hood, keep your dick skinners out!" Of course, no one will heed those warnings.
[01:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:56] <exec> 08└─Human body, 70% water, is helluva conductor. How old are you?
[02:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:13] <exec> 08└─Here in China, almost all transactions were cash until recently when Alipay and WeChat Pay filled the gap that credit cards fill in other countries. There are also cashier-less stands which only accept these payment methods, the building is maybe 30 square meters with convenience store items for pur...
[02:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:14] <exec> 08└─The plan is to link it to a smartphone, I think. And it is more convenient than cash, because you don't need to take out your wallet or count your nickels.
[02:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:16] <exec> 08└─The real value of cash is that you can be anonymous. I'm in no hurry to be tracked by the likes of Amazon.
[02:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Intensifying Battle for Africa’s Burgeoning Tech Landscape - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:08] <exec> 08└─I can assure you the fiber optic service I enjoy in America is excellent and better than anything wireless.
[02:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Intensifying Battle for Africa’s Burgeoning Tech Landscape - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:10] <exec> 08└─Well.. the # of baby pics is gonna skyrocket.. on the bright side, or may much much worse, the pet pics will be more than just cats & dogs..
[02:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:29] <exec> 08└─The biggest truck they have is this: https://www.streetscooter.eu [streetscooter.eu] Limited to 85kph or 52 mph and 960kg or 2116 lbs. With a whopping range of 130k or 80 miles. This might work fine for the post office, but not an actual parcel delivery truck. Heck I remember getting V8 ca...
[02:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:00] <exec> 08└─Gun free zones are the locations for 98% of mass shootings in the US. It is approximately 3% of our population causing 50% of our murders. It is not gun safety or gun access at the root of our problem here. The NRA are the opposite of terrorists here! They work to defend an essential right, and make...
[02:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:01] <exec> 08└─The immigration situation in Europe is a DISASTER. As everyone knows. But we're having a terrible, terrible time here. So many bad hombres crossing our VERY WEAK Border. And some terrific people. But a lot of criminals. We need to Build the Wall. Because without a Wall, we don't have a Border. And w...
[02:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:03] <exec> 08└─Didn't even read your own TFA, now did you? In 2004, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired. It was not renewed
[02:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:06] <exec> 08└─Chicago, they had so much "carnage" going on. It's a gun-free zone. But every day they had so many people getting shot. And getting shot to death. They did the gun control, it didn't work. So I told the Mayor, stop that "carnage"! Or I'll send in the Feds. And finally, he did something. Obama, suppo...
[02:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:08] <exec> 08└─"labor" is indeed "capital" No, nitwit. All capital is derived from labor, [google.com] but the terms are NOT interchangeable. You are attempting to present yourself as an intellectual, but you don't have the knowledge base to pull that off. capitalism is the only philosophy that explicitly embraces...
[02:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Removes VR Shooting Game From its Booth at CPAC - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:22] <exec> 08└─I agree - we should be deleting these posts. They serve no purpose other than to drive readers away from the site. However, the site has repeatedly held itself up as a bastion for the 1st Amendment, and has repeatedly stated that it will never delete a post. We have a problem. The 1st Amendment wasn...
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[02:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:33] <exec> 08└─Stolen paintings are not marketable, but they can be ransomed. And here it looks like one was paid. Customs agents "just happened" to search that bus. A likely story.
[02:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:34] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they have taken the other suitcases (one at a time) and found out who owned them? By process of elimination they *may* have been able to find the thief. It would also help if the driver remembered loading more than one suitcase for any one passenger (or how many passengers didn't have anyt...
[02:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:56] <exec> 08└─This is probably specifically for the low power stuff like lights, instrument cluster, cabin lights, aux power and what not. Why would you need 12V for any of that stuff? Lights are LED now, cabin lights should be if they aren't already, the instrument cluster has been using LEDs and other stuff for...
[02:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:57] <exec> 08└─what LED runs on 48 volts? might as well move to HPS cabin lights
[02:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:00] <exec> 08└─The "70% water" in the human body is contained in a bag called skin. Your inside has low resistance but the skin has a resistance of about 10s of K Ohm. Touching the battery with dry hands will not result in enough current to feel anything. Wet hands is a different story though. By the way, there is...
[03:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:02] <exec> 08└─what LED runs on 48 volts?
[03:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:04] <exec> 08└─What LEDs run on 12V? Answer: none of them. LEDs operate on less than 1V. To make them useful on any normal power supply (12VDC, 110VAC, etc.), you either need to use a voltage regulator circuit, or as a quick hack, daisy-chain a bunch of them in series and then add a dropping resistor. The latter i...
[03:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:06] <exec> 08└─>batteries are all 6 voltage cells chained together. depends on the battery chemistry
[03:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:09] <exec> 08└─And how old are you? I suppose me and all the other dopes who got zapped trying to jump a car are all some weird-ass special physical anomalies?
[03:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:11] <exec> 08└─He's either not that old and think he sounds cool with insults like that, or he really is old, but he's incredibly stupid (smart old people know from experience how limited their knowledge is). Touching a 12V battery with wet hands is unlikely to cause you any more than a mild electric shock. There...
[03:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:13] <exec> 08└─12V filaments
[03:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:33] <exec> 08└─if you compare these payment systems to credit cards, I start to see some benefit.
[03:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:34] <exec> 08└─i dunno about you, but in this neck of the woods, even self-checkout counter can have a queue - and more often than not I run into problems with the weight scale and have to hand wave a store rep over. With the amazon app you can see exactly what you're charged if you want to in the app and get a re...
[03:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:36] <exec> 08└─Sure, they'll be a proportion of society that will cheat and con. They business question is then does the cost savings in automating away the legacy workforce & overhead, cutting out the payment middleman like credit cards and increase legit customer's satisfaction (due to time savings and less fric...
[03:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:39] <exec> 08└─You speak of cash as though all other forms of payments are upgrades. Cash is to sysvinit as credit card is to systemd. If I have a credit card, MasterCard or Visa can prevent me from paying any vendor they don't like, and I have no recourse. When Amazon accepts bitcoin (openrc or runit), I might co...
[03:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:50] <exec> 08└─Every car and light truck has enough brakes to lock the tires, this has little to do with engine power. The "stopping" part of start-stop operation is probably what wears the tires out so quickly. Even when it doesn't feel like the tires are slipping, there is a "tire slip ratio" created when accele...
[03:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:52] <exec> 08└─14 miles one way from UPS distribution center to my house in an outer ring suburb (medium sized metro area).
[03:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:54] <exec> 08└─> Americans believe: 1. They will need to drive 500 miles at the drop of a hat We did something close to 400 miles yesterday to attend a lecture and also drop off 17 boxes of donations to a specialized library. I'll be doing the same thing a few more times this year.
[03:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:56] <exec> 08└─Who can afford one of these? What do trades-people charge in Europe?? 46350 Euro equals 57081 US Dollar -- that's about double the cost of a US tradesman van (no windows or seats).
[03:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:58] <exec> 08└─You win today's "I'm exceptional!" award. The first-year results of the American Driving Survey revealed that: Motorists age 16 years and older drive, on average, 29.2 miles per day or 10,658 miles per year. Women take more driving trips, but men spend 25 percent more time behind the wheel and drive...
[03:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:34] <exec> 08└─Regardless of your feelings about gun control, what you propose is just insanity. I doubt you were completely serious, but whatever. Their policies are directly responsible for the death of thousands of Americans every year.
[03:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:35] <exec> 08└─Crooked Hillary said that I want guns brought into the school classroom. WRONG! I don’t want to have guns in classrooms. Although, in some cases, teachers should have guns in classrooms. I’m not advocating guns in classrooms. In some cases -- and a lot of people have made this case -- teachers s...
[03:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 1643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:37] <exec> 08└─"My point is that gun free zones made those vulnerable areas even more vulnerable." More vulnerable to mass shooting incidents like this, yes, i think you are correct. But because its a gun free zone, the only way a gun gets onsite is pre-meditated intent to commit a crime with a gun. That eliminate...
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[03:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:37] <exec> 08└─Why do agents board buses and then search the luggage to begin with? That sounds quite authoritarian.
[03:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:39] <exec> 08└─Bus passengers tend to travel light, so many may have nothing but carry-on. Then there would have been other passengers with more than one piece of luggage. Busses (and trains) also tend not to have cargo manifests like air-craft. They just take whatever you leave in the 'cargo' area and put it in t...
[03:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:41] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they have taken the other suitcases (one at a time) and found out who owned them?
[03:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:43] <exec> 08└─That's probably the best idea. The only improvement I can think of, is IF they happened to have a GPS tracking device at hand, they could have plopped that into the suitcase. I don't suppose that a small group of customs agents are likely to have a suitable device at hand though.
[03:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:46] <exec> 08└─No, it sounds like a tip off. Or a paid ransom resulting in a anonymous phone call.
[04:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:15] <exec> 08└─The selection of 48 volt LEDs is just as expansive as that of 12 volt LEDs: None.
[04:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:17] <exec> 08└─What LEDs run on 12V? Answer: none of them.
[04:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:19] <exec> 08└─.or more expensive solid state switches.
[04:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:21] <exec> 08└─If you're not careful with cars (specifically: spark plugs) you can get some very memorable jolts from them. 12 vs 48V? Meh. I'd actually prefer the lower amperage fuses/breakers that come with a 48V line, 20A (common in 12V systems) can cook a wire quickly, 5A is quite a bit more tame.
[04:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─Kids, listen to this guy. Grab the two terminals, especially with the engine running and the alternator charging the battery. Fun times. Do it.
[04:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:26] <exec> 08└─I've worked on boats/small ships that had a mix of DC available - 36v for the navigation lights, 24v for the radios, refridgerator, and sewage pump, and 12v for the cheap, non-essential DC stuff. Keeps life interesting, especially when the installation tech taps into the wrong point in the battery b...
[04:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:28] <exec> 08└─>>batteries are all 6 voltage cells chained together. >depends on the battery chemistry With lead acid type car batteries being about 2 volts a cell.
[04:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. The only downside with lighting for moving to 48V is that you wouldn't be able to use off-the-shelf parts already in your supply chain; you'd have to get your suppliers to make new 48V parts instead. But once that's done, it's no big deal. Automakers have to get lots of parts redes...
[04:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:33] <exec> 08└─Cost. The 12v rated contacts in all the switches won't stand up to 48v at all. All of the off the shelf motors, switches, etc are 12v. Those instrument clusters all run on 12V. Basically, adding a voltage converter will be a LOT cheaper than redesigning all of that and totally replacing all of those...
[04:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:35] <exec> 08└─It's the current that's more dangerous than the voltage though. I've been told scuffing your stocking feet across a carpet and touching the doorknob is a shock of over 10kV, but the current is so low as to be negligible. Besides which, your skin is a pretty good insulator, isn't it? Assuming the sam...
[04:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:37] <exec> 08└─if you really think 14.4V is going to hurt you, you're a fucking idiot.
[04:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:01] <exec> 08└─If you look at how these stores work [techcrunch.com] there is none of the issues you worry about. Everything you pick up and put in your cart is instantly on your phone with no need to do any math, or even scan it with your phone. Just shop till you have what you want or approach your limit and wal...
[04:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:03] <exec> 08└─See my comment below regarding Self-checkout and booze sales in California. If you don't mind me asking, you're not from these parts, are ya?
[04:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:05] <exec> 08└─Always interesting to hear from the People's Republic of California. In my neck of the woods, booze and cigarettes (and cough syrup, apparently) require the cashier to scan their badge and approve the sale. One cashier handles 6 express lanes or 4 grocery lanes.
[04:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:07] <exec> 08└─They won't be able to cut off the c/c business. OK, within the Amazon property employees can buy with automatic link to their salary. Even that has specifics, given the taxes. But once these stores go forth and multiply, their customers won't be limited to Amazon workforce. The newcomers sure as hel...
[04:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Intensifying Battle for Africa’s Burgeoning Tech Landscape - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:02] <exec> 08└─Some parts of africa killed all the white people, took their land, mismanaged their land...and are now starving.(where they were formerly food producers of fairly epic proportions) but I lumped killing each other into war crimes.
[04:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:26] <exec> 08└─Not everyone lives in suburban/rural areas. Here are a few examples: Millions live and work within a 50 mile radius of this UPS distribution center [google.com] At least a million people live/work within a 50 mile radius of this UPS distribution center [google.com]. At least 5% of the US population...
[04:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:28] <exec> 08└─Just wait until you have to ship cross border. Friends don't ship to Canadian friends using United Parcel Smashers. In the early 2000s they found they couldn't compete on price and customer service up here so they sued Canada under NAFTA for daring to have a national postal service. The tribunal eve...
[04:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:07] <exec> 08└─It's as though somebody needed this school to be shot up.
[04:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:08] <exec> 08└─if you want to have a rational discussion, instead of the trolling you so obviously intended
[04:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:10] <exec> 08└─So its more vulnerable to a pre-medicated attack
[04:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. has 62nd Ranking in LTE Speeds in the World, about 1/3 the Speed of Singapore - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:59] <exec> 08└─I'm in rural Canada and have a fixed mobile (LTE) connection. It'd be nice if it was faster, especially in the evenings when the network is really overloaded. Just tested, 2.5 Mbs down and 3.5Mbs up, for close to a hundred bucks a month. Still beats dialup though.
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─Has it occurred to you yet that when you stoop to the level of a monster you become a monster as well? I could definitely kill people, but not torture them; one single clean shot to the back of the head level with the brain stem.
[04:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:54] <exec> 08└─Jesus, who pissed in *your* whole-grain Oaty-Os this morning?
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[04:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PastTense [6879] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:41] <exec> 08└─In the United States it is very doubtful that the average customs agent would have recognized this as valuable: probably would think this was just a cheap reproduction.
[05:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:23] <exec> 08└─Thinner wires but thicker insulation due to safety regulations. Arresting the spark isn't due to fire hazard, it's so the switch contacts don't pit and erode. They need the switches to hold up until the warranty is expired.
[05:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:24] <exec> 08└─Mostly wrong. 1. Instrument clusters: no one reuses instrument clusters. Every car has a different one, and every car gets a completely different one when it's redesigned for a new generation. You have to redesign your instrument cluster every 3-6 years anyway, so designing it for 48V is no extra co...
[05:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:26] <exec> 08└─Can you please explain why engine running and alternator charging the battery will change anything. And please no insults, they really do not contribute to the discussion. And kids, don't listen to the anonymous coward either. Do some research and make an informed decision. Random people on the inte...
[05:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:29] <exec> 08└─That would present a problem with uneven charge in the cells. You would end up saving on a voltage converter only to spend at least the whole savings on a more sophisticated charge controller.
[05:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:31] <exec> 08└─Apparently so. Or you're just over-sensitive to a mild tingle when your hands are wet.
[05:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:33] <exec> 08└─Battery holds only so much charge, it's basically a slow-discharging capacitor. Alternator is an electrical generator - it uses engine power to generate continuous electrical power. Battery gives you a short jolt, alternator/generator keeps feeding the current that can fry you.
[05:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:35] <exec> 08└─The cluster itself may change from year to year, but the parts that make up the cluster don't. Perhaps going away, but far from gone. in the same volume with the same available data on lifetime, 48v motors would be cheaper. But 12v motors for automotive applications are in volume production and have...
[05:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:38] <exec> 08└─If you got an actual shock with a 12V battery, you must have been stupid enough to do it in the rain.
[05:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:40] <exec> 08└─LEDs operate on less than 1V
[05:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:42] <exec> 08└─all the other dopes who got zapped trying to jump a car
[05:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:45] <exec> 08└─That's not how electrical current works.
[05:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:47] <exec> 08└─Some times I despair, when things like using Microserf Woerd is called "Computer Science, but the so-called STEM techies are ignorant of the most basic facts of physics. Batteries, hm, alternator!! Running car, with power! So you will get fried! Please, spare us. Interesting story, however. I knew...
[05:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:49] <exec> 08└─And kids, don't listen to the anonymous coward either. Do some research and make an informed decision. Random people on the internet are usually NOT a good source of information.
[05:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:17] <exec> 08└─I currently use my credit card for everything. However, I am considering going back to cash. It has ruined me. I have lost touch with the value of what I am buying. It has become a score card of golf where I keep it as close to 0 as possible. Instead of looking at a 10 dollar purchase as something I...
[05:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:49] <exec> 08└─Than k you, I needed a good laugh.
[05:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:50] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I thought it was only because Ecuador wanted him out of the embassy and ran out of all other options. My reading of that is that there are more risks being outside of that building for Assange than not, right? Couldn't USA assassinate him in Ecuador? It is not really a legal paradise! Or Ecuado...
[05:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:52] <exec> 08└─You may be right. Though I would like not to believe it. There ought to be something more that he is seeing. Or maybe he is paranoid. Being stuck inside a building for such long time can do that.
[05:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:42] <exec> 08└─That price is for the biggest van and includes taxes. Probably those can be removed if bought for working. In some countries they allow 50% or 100% depending in things like kind of vehicle, proof of usage or visible logos. So the price could easily be ~20% lower.
[05:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:44] <exec> 08└─Obviously, UPS doesn't know where their vehicles go. No, sir. The company that saves in all kind of ways from planning their routes has no idea at all about when the trucks will run out of electricity. Soylentils don't read the article, not even the summary saying "the trucks will first enter testin...
[05:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:25] <exec> 08└─Na, im known for my inability to spell https://ucr.fbi.gov [fbi.gov] From 2013 but when looking at overal...
[05:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:27] <exec> 08└─The mechanics inside the ar15 are still limited by physics, and when not limited by physics you have to deal with 100rd pain in the ass to change drums that jam. You could have a bunch of 20rd mags but need to train at not fumbling them. Looked up some vids, if it doesnt jam you can do 100rd in 15 s...
[05:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:29] <exec> 08└─Anyone who has a round in the chamber, and the safety off deserves to be shot adjusting their holster.
[05:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/ [amren.com] And you may disapprove of the messenger, but that doesn't change the numbers. Same with "mass shootings": https://herestherealnews.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
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[05:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:32] <exec> 08└─You'd think they'd have done this sooner, esecially after this incident [bbc.co.uk] (more details here [dailymotion.com]). We work with some really dangerous stuff, so it behooves us to make sure it's as safe as possible.
[05:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Provocateur [6855] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:33] <exec> 08└─I for one, vote Atlanta as the new location for the CDC containment facility, but have not nominated anyone as a voluntary test subject. It's be kind to animals week.
[05:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:35] <exec> 08└─If the CDC doesn't have proper facilities, it should simply destroy the horrible pathogens it's hoarding.
[05:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03buswolley [848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/25/a-cdc-researcher-left-work-sick-two-weeks-ago-then-vanished/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_cdcmissing-920pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.8df8e18027a9 [washingtonpost.com] feel free to speculate
[05:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:52] <exec> 08└─I doubt they are paid to look out for artwork, as long as its not drugs, guns, plants and animal products, it gets a pass.
[06:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:47] <exec> 08└─It's the current that's more dangerous than the voltage though.
[06:01:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:42] <exec> 08└─The problem here isn't the UK; it's Julian Assange's unwillingness to accept responsibility for his decision to breach the conditions of his bail.
[06:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:27] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America [wikipedia.org]
[06:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:28] <exec> 08└─We are no longer speaking of safety, but rather of removing dangerous weapons from the hands of people who are likely to be a risk to society. The problem here is that you aren't speaking of firearm safety, but rather of removing a lawful right from many tens of millions of people "for the children"...
[06:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gives Award to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai while Facing Public Outcry after Parkland, Florida Attack - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:30] <exec> 08└─Your ignorance is showing, and/or you didn't actually read what you quoted. Assault rifle = automatic/selective automatic fire. Assault weapon = made-up term for scary looking semiautomatic that has no actual legal classification. I stated that assault rifles are already banned. They are and remain...
[06:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Removes VR Shooting Game From its Booth at CPAC - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:46] <exec> 08└─We have a problem. The 1st Amendment wasn't written with trolls in mind. It's a fine ideal, however deserves scrutiny in this context. Of course, soylentnews isn't the government, so can do whatever it likes with the posts on this site. Perhaps it's time for a poll (no ACs) to determine whether obvi...
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[06:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:36] <exec> 08└─Like for the Russian nukes, you'd be left with only the military planners in charge. While they are more reasonable than many elected officials, they still have a certainly biased approach towards usage and prioritization of their tools.
[06:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:38] <exec> 08└─It's not as much those pathogens as the pathogens found freely out in nature, such as Ebola which caused so much panic recently. However, that situation was from tne set of politicians who worked very effectively to cut funding for the CDC and were on their way towards eventually eliminating it. Whe...
[07:00:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1020 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. The only downside with lighting for moving to 48V is that you wouldn't be able to use off-the-shelf parts already in your supply chain; you'd have to get your suppliers to make new 48V parts instead. But once that's done, it's no big deal. Automakers have to get lots of parts redes...
[07:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:49] <exec> 08└─They can also move the power supplies out of the LEDs; one common source for various E and I needs would be much more cost effective. No reason 12v devices wouldn't still be in the loop, either – the current crop of entertainment systems, for instance. The important stuff here, as you note, is the...
[07:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:50] <exec> 08└─Once again Runaway is triggered, and starts talking about his ass, and trucks, and the day his mom got out of prison. David Allen Coe [youtube.com] And we end with a Chevy ad? Offtopic does not begin to cover this! Mine was always a Ford family, so I must despise you from a distance, Runaway. Thank...
[07:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:52] <exec> 08└─The cluster itself may change from year to year, but the parts that make up the cluster don't. They absolutely do: every new cluster means you need an all-new PCB designed. If you're going to redesign the PCB, you might as well redesign the power supply on it. Why on earth would you stick the same 1...
[07:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:55] <exec> 08└─Thinner wires but thicker insulation due to safety regulations. Doubtful. Typical wire jackets can already handle hundreds of volts (probably 600V), so 12V -> 48V isn't really a change, unless the OEMs are getting special wire with thinner insulation than usual. (i.e., If you go out and buy some wir...
[07:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:57] <exec> 08└─Next you'll be telling us how Alex Jones, Rush, RT, The Daily Stormer and Breitbart are honest brokers of information, right? WTF? Rush is a great band; what are they doing in this list? Some of Neil's views are naively libertarian, but otherwise they have a lot of great songs.
[07:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:59] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking more for mechanical requirements rather than electrical.
[07:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 2791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:02] <exec> 08└─Well, the 100-Watt LED chip arrays normally run on around 32-34 Volts. The 10-Watt LED chip arrays I have seen run on around 10 volts, although I have a couple that also want to see about 30 volts. The voltages are predicated on each blue ( white if phosphored ) LED chips having a Vf of about three...
[07:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:04] <exec> 08└─My first car was 6v, positive ground. Also had left-hand thread lug bolts on the driver's side. something left over from wagon axle nuts. But I converted it to 12v neg ground, to keep up the the times and to avoid having the jumper cables attached incorrectly by young 'uns. Problem was, I had to go...
[07:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:06] <exec> 08└─Because you already need the 12V converter, so it comes "for free"
[07:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:08] <exec> 08└─(How old is he, anyway?)
[07:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:37] <exec> 08└─My first reaction is to be very resistant to using these services. However, if you compare these payment systems to credit cards, I start to see some benefit. Particularly compared to magnetic stripe and sign, which thankfully is on the way out.
[07:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Intensifying Battle for Africa’s Burgeoning Tech Landscape - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:36] <exec> 08└─Ho hum, the big money boys are scuffling to see who can best exploit a gazillion illiterate jigaboos. The impact of this on the rest of the world? None.
[07:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AnandTech Interview With the CTO of GlobalFoundries: 7nm EUV and 5 GHz Clock Speeds - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:24] <exec> 08└─The positive counterpart (which is not technically an Obvious Rebuttal), is that they addressed a lot of bottlenecks in the meantime. Going from 4GHz to 6GHz in 2005 would have just meant dissipating a lot more heat while the CPU NOPs, waiting for spinning rust, small cache, and DDR-not-much to catc...
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[07:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:30] <exec> 08└─Second, replacement smartphone users are choosing quality models and keeping them longer, lengthening the replacement cycle of smartphones
[07:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:32] <exec> 08└─The shell game that is the conspiracy of apple and samsung to keep physical keyboards out of the market can only last so long. I myself have used a BlackBerry priv with a physical keyboard for a number of years and see no reason to sell my soul to the slow typing on screen keyboard yet. It is still...
[07:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:34] <exec> 08└─Society is about allocating resources to this or to that. Large organizations comprised of tens of thousands of people (and vastly more if you consider shareholders, etc.) have allocated resources to gearing an industry for rapid turnover of smartphones. Yet, now the data is in, and that data shows...
[07:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:36] <exec> 08└─users preferring to buy quality feature phones There are a lot of use cases where a touch screen is a disaster, or cameras are forbidden. There are plenty of people who actually value battery life over social media (or, indeed, ANYTHING over social media).
[07:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:38] <exec> 08└─A lot of feature phones have cameras too. I guess the kinds of places that ban cameras would also ban cell phones in general.
[07:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:51] <exec> 08└─Well, except for some anthrax that got mailed to a member of congress awhile ago. That turned out to have come from a military bio-warfare lab...but it caused quite a bit of stir for awhile, and got a few of the recipients a bit more subdued.
[07:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:52] <exec> 08└─Three years seems like a pretty optimistic timeline for a BSL4 facility. I wonder if NIMBY public opposition will cause delays like the ~10 years for the NEIDL. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:14] <exec> 08└─Another thing is that the day of the mechanical switch is fading. It won't go out, but MOSFETS are making great inroads as they can easily be controlled with much smaller signals, like a relay, and can be tailored for controlled ON and OFF time. One thing I am looking forward to is the elimination...
[08:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:15] <exec> 08└─I just hope they don't start using aluminum wire! Looked at any modern washing machine motors? Aluminum wire! With orange lacquer so it LOOKS like copper. I found that out when I decommissioned a machine with a rusted out tub. While I did recover several handfuls of nice colored wire for my projec...
[08:01:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:59] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile the British taxpayer has paid a fortune to keep the Ecuadorian embassy under 24 hour surveillance for several years. I don't think they have done that for any other suspected or alleged rapist or bail jumper.
[08:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS is Working on a Fleet of 50 Custom-Built Electric Delivery Trucks - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:12] <exec> 08└─Don't have any of those. Can't think of any Canuck business with whom I have ever done business either. Yeah, if your stuff is crossing borders, USA's Postal System shouldn't be your first choice. That seems painfully obvious. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[08:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:44] <exec> 08└─First, upgrades from feature phones to smartphones have slowed right down due to a lack of quality 'ultra-low-cost' smartphones and users preferring to buy quality feature phones
[08:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:46] <exec> 08└─But they never did
[09:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:16] <exec> 08└─Cheap Plastic Imitation of the Amulet of Yendor
[09:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:24] <exec> 08└─12V filaments ...this technology is on its last legs anyway. Not really a current factor.
[09:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:26] <exec> 08└─48 volts is pretty risky stuff in the great wet outdoors. Even 24 can give you a tingle when your hands are all sweaty and you bump into a hot wire
[09:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:28] <exec> 08└─Either learn the most basic fundamentals of electricity or get a lot better at bullshitting. You're awful at both.
[09:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:30] <exec> 08└─According to my mechanic, it takes 15 minutes of driving to recharge the battery after starting a car. That's 15 minutes for the alternator to supply the amount of power to the battery, that the battery supplied to the starter motor in a couple of seconds.
[09:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:33] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping the newer 48 volt car batteries will be lithium
[09:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:43] <exec> 08└─In that case you need to get it, like the rest of the ocument, reworded, without the "reasonable" weasel-wording.
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[09:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:34] <exec> 08└─If your system of governance is endangered by Facebook ads, then your system of governance needs to be replaced. I nominate capitalism instead.
[09:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:35] <exec> 08└─Please. PLEASE! Trump won at a fraction of the cost of the Clinton machine. Those who have functional brains can read this [bloomberg.com].
[09:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:37] <exec> 08└─You want to replace bourgeois liberal democracy with a bourgeoisie dictatorship? As expected of the quality American education system.
[09:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:40] <exec> 08└─I bet the TV ads cost a lot more than Facebook ads.
[09:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:42] <exec> 08└─More or less, your purchasing power is based on how useful you've been to society (an heir to a fortune represents the person who bequeathed that fortune). A democratic vote, in contrast, is given away for free to any moron; it's worthless—it means nothing.
[09:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:44] <exec> 08└─At least now WIRED is admitting it wasn't Russians. To say the ads were "problematic" is to admit you were "With Her". No, they weren't problematic. They were efficient, helping to save us from ruin even though she and her minions spent twice as much.
[09:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:46] <exec> 08└─> your purchasing power is based on how useful you've been to society I find doctors to be vastly more useful to society than footballers, but I'm pretty sure their respective purchasing power doesn't reflect that. It takes only a moment to think of how your suggestion doesn't work. Perhaps put (mor...
[09:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:49] <exec> 08└─Doctors are useful, sure, which is why they are highly compensated (and which is why their educations are so incredibly expensive). However, it turns out that the common man lives for Monday Night Football (or whatever). For so may people, the footballers are why Joe Plumber gets his ass out of bed...
[09:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:51] <exec> 08└─Thank you, THANK YOU! That's another great article. It says I did very well in the digital, because of my cyber savvy. That's so true. And let's thank Dan Scavino, Jr. Strategic Media Services. And Cambridge Analytica. Great work, everybody!
[09:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks Vladimir.
[09:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:56] <exec> 08└─So, ads are sold by clicks rather than views, and as a result ads which are more likely to get a click are priced lower. Based on the way it is sold, the pricing model makes sense. But it is an absolutely terrible idea to sell it that way. They are encouraging the worst possible ads! Is that really...
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[10:00:09] <exec> 08└─All you could ever do on these things is what some 20-something-year-old imagined, and then restricted by corporate bean counters.
[10:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:10] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of people who actually value battery life over social media (or, indeed, ANYTHING over social media).
[10:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:42] <exec> 08└─And working is art and good business is the BEST art. The impressionists are worth a MINT. Degas, OK, some people like him. But I love Renoir, I have so many Renoir paintings it's unbelievable. Would love to get my hands on some Van Goghs at a good price!
[10:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:56] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be Rush Limbaugh instead of the Canadian band?
[10:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:57] <exec> 08└─And I feel a bit wiser after I have read his posts.
[10:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:01] <exec> 08└─This keeps being repeated, but the UK-US extradition treaty would make it effectively impossible for the UK to extradite Assange to the US (it requires, among other things, that the crime be a crime in both states and that there be no chance of the death penalty being applied, for example). That mea...
[10:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One-Stop Counterfeit Certificate Shops. For All Your Malware-Signing Needs - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:01] <exec> 08└─So, even malware authors get certificates easier than a home user with a private web server, who doesn't want to pay a fortune to a CA or run suspect software implementing deliberately over-complicated protocols for the purpose of getting people to running their software, such as letsencrypt. IMHO,...
[10:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. has 62nd Ranking in LTE Speeds in the World, about 1/3 the Speed of Singapore - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:37] <exec> 08└─That level of service can be had for about 10-15/month in Europe. How are the prices justified?
[10:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:16] <exec> 08└─You let them have the word "responsible" when they came up with "responsible disclosure", and now they have found another use for it: "Responsible encryption". What did you expect? Responsible disclosure: Letting the bad guys get six months to abuse a security hole, before you tell the victims "oh,...
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[10:08:17] <exec> 08└─Most sane, rational people don't want killers, rapists and other scumbags to walk free, but that's not a reason to violate *anyone's* civil rights.
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[10:59:34] <exec> 08└─An obese man with a bowl haircut sat on a couch in an ordinary living room. Rolls of fat on his face, neck, and body jiggled whenever he moved. The man's name was Jackson. As Jackson was lazing around, his doorbell rang. "I wonder who that could be..." Jackson muttered. Jackson waddled to the door a...
[10:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:52] <exec> 08└─We used to be educated in the use of critical thinking skills. We were taught how to analyse literature and poetry as teenagers. We also read 1984 and some of George Orwell's essays. I was in the debating society. This was all at a state run comprehensive secondary school. For many years now this ha...
[10:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:53] <exec> 08└─Edgy, but I don't buy it. Empowering impressionable idiots is part of the reason democracy works so much better than the alternatives. Disempower the unthinking masses (which appears to be what you're suggesting) and your system is going to be far worse than democracy. I nominate capitalism instead.
[10:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:56] <exec> 08└─That's all there is: The allocation of resources to this or that. Socialists end up allocating all available resources to futile bread lines.
[11:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:11] <exec> 08└─I think that's a natural evolution of technology. When a technology is in its infancy, it will improve rapidly, and therefore new generations will be much better than previous ones. This favours rapid turnover. But eventually, the technology will approach a sweet spot where it essentially provides e...
[11:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:57] <exec> 08└─Aluminium is less ductile and less dense than copper, but per linear mass is both stronger and a better conductor. Per unit volume copper is almost twice as good as a conductor, but is three times heavier. Fixed wiring as in a motor probably should be aluminium, it would reduce the total weight. One...
[11:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:58] <exec> 08└─The CCA on a starter battery is usually around 500 amps. A good alternator will put out 50 amps at 14 volts. Unless you are simultaneously running every electrical gadget in the car a few seconds of cranking the engine is going to be repaid in less than a minute of running. Your basic point is corre...
[11:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:03] <exec> 08└─He was worried they were going to ship him to Sweden, who would have handed him straight over to the USA. Now the brits are pissed because he disrespected their courts and has made them look like petty idiots. He is not a UK citizen, and there is no reason they wouldn't deport him to a USA 'friendly...
[11:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Intensifying Battle for Africa’s Burgeoning Tech Landscape - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:30] <exec> 08└─Except when you leave your house/basement... :-)
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[11:59:54] <exec> 08└─That's all there is: The allocation of resources to this or that.
[11:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:55] <exec> 08└─Capitalism has never been implemented. Unless you use it for a generic "might makes right" philosophy, in which case it is always eventually implemented so no effort is needed.
[11:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:57] <exec> 08└─Obama sold HOPE and CHANGE. Trump just said "see?" to those who got no hope and change for the worst. Wired can retroactively come with all the theories they want, they are not falsifiable. Trump is likely another puppet anyway.
[11:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:59] <exec> 08└─It is as if FB and Youtube wanted users to LOSE TIME on their platform. I add youtube because promoting videos whose thumbnail is not part of the footage and clearly altered is otherwise retarded. Do you believe retards rule the world? think again.
[12:00:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:35] <exec> 08└─Stolen paintings are not marketable, but they can be ransomed. And here it looks like one was paid. Customs agents "just happened" to search that bus. A likely story.
[12:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:04] <exec> 08└─Please look up on wikipedia how electricity works. For your own sake. Few people have already told you that you are wrong and not a single person is agreeing with you. Just think about it for a few seconds before you write another comment. And stop insulting people, that puts you in the troll catego...
[12:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:34] <exec> 08└─I haven't been able to find documentation online how the communication occurs, but what I observe in person is the smartphone presents a barcode/qr code to identify the user. The vendor scans the code which calls home and presents the user with the sale, which then is confirmed in the app. I agree w...
[12:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:11] <exec> 08└─Is there any legal precedence of UK promising not to extradite someone? UK in general is very resilient in extradition, legally speaking, due to historical reasons (they wouldn't allow a UK citizen to be tried anywhere except UK, not even in British colonies).
[12:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Removes VR Shooting Game From its Booth at CPAC - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:13] <exec> 08└─... is the notion that Facebook has 'respect' for anyone.
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[12:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Keen Sense For Molecules - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:32] <exec> 08└─Knocking. Thomson heard a knocking sound from outside his front door. What he found strange was that the knocking almost sounded "fleshy," for lack of a better term. Thomson decided to open his front door to investigate. Thomson had always been a staunch feminist and a believer in the notion of equa...
[13:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, you won... barely... yet you lost the popular vote. Why?, How? Because South Park's vision of the election between a turd sandwich and a giant douche came true. There were as many democrats that hated Hillary as there were Republicans that hate trump. Who lost? The american people... regardless...
[13:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:16] <exec> 08└─He was worried they were going to ship him to Sweden, who would have handed him straight over to the USA
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[13:03:17] <exec> 08└─Correct. The UK has not received an extradition request from the USA and so can't rule out complying with a legal extradition request if one is delivered in the future. He has the same guarantees that everyone has in the UK with regards to extradition to the USA, including that the US prove that the...
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[13:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:37] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know if his "Christian convictions" were paid for by the extraction industry.
[13:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:38] <exec> 08└─If the Bible doesn't justify the harvesting the natural resources, then it also doesn't justify cutting up the sexual organs of completely healthy boys. Yet, I doubt the Jews media will agree.
[13:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:41] <exec> 08└─??? The sentence appears to be grammatically correct parallel construction, but I see zero logical connection between the two clauses.
[13:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:43] <exec> 08└─To be put in charge of creation means being responsible about the squandering of resources, so environmentalism is not an interfering mindset, in fact it is a logical consequence. Whether the left elevated the planet to the rank of a god is the left's problem, not Christians'.
[13:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:45] <exec> 08└─American evangelicals, who largely have not embraced the basic concept of thought FTFY
[13:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:47] <exec> 08└─You may be a Christian, but presumably not the American Fundamentalist kind.
[13:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:50] <exec> 08└─All "things that get turned into religions" are self serving. Christianity, Leftist progressivism, its all the same. BTW this is being demonized as being Satanic but I'm not seeing the problem: arguing that the economic consequences of increased regulation would outweigh their benefit
[13:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:52] <exec> 08└─Yesterday, a man by the name of Eric Vorgond was found not guilty in a sexual assault case. The man was accused of raping a person in a park in the middle of the day. Despite countless witnesses seeing the defendant rape the person and video footage proving that the event took place, he was found no...
[13:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:54] <exec> 08└─The Bible can be used to justify any prejudice and hypocrisy you like, there's a Bible quote for everything. Could someone who's more familiar with it than I am perhaps cite the ones supporting being careful with the environment and not destroying it, i.e. the opposite of what Pruitt is saying?
[13:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:57] <exec> 08└─Well, my contempt for Evangelism just went up a bit more. Willfully ignorant fools.
[13:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:59] <exec> 08└─to truly bless our fellow mankind
[14:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone should point him to the following Bible verse, especially the last eight words: Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and sm...
[14:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:03] <exec> 08└─"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Whoever said that was right.
[14:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:06] <exec> 08└─It was an extravaganza. Many respected philosophers were present for this event, which occurred only once a year. Food, fun, and intelligent discussion awaited those who attended. Besides offering an excellent selection of exquisite food, there were the games. One game had players throwing darts at...
[14:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Keen Sense For Molecules - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:14] <exec> 08└─The bot posts rubbish, you plebs downmod it, and then SoylentNews marks the IP address as a spammer. Of course, the IP address in question is undoubtedly that of a Tor exit node; the result is that people using Tor may no longer comment easily, as so many exit nodes are marked as spammers.
[14:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Keen Sense For Molecules - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:17] <exec> 08└─Are you in the habit of posting through Tor? If not, why do you care (I'd like to know).
[14:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Keen Sense For Molecules - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:19] <exec> 08└─Why do dissenting voices post through Tor? Well, because their legitimate comments get downmoded, too. Leftists use every means to shut down dissenting views—it's the digital equivalent of "disappearing" someone to a "re-education" gulag. How would a Leftist combat these Tor users? Simple. Make a...
[14:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:51] <exec> 08└─You know how you get people to feel enfranchised? Voluntary trade; capitalism.
[14:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:08] <exec> 08└─There's more than one market segment. Look at automobiles - some people always want a new vehicle and replace often while others hold on for 10, maybe even 20 years. Some lease theirs, others buy, and many buy used. They're getting more reliable and safer and most people who want one already have on...
[14:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:10] <exec> 08└─less innovative
[14:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:12] <exec> 08└─A topic no one has mentioned yet is software upgrades and the likely impact on this issue. Google is the best in the business AFAIK and I currently use google FI and a two year old Nexus 6P and google promises OS upgrades for only 2 years and security patches for only 3 years. So my nearly two year...
[14:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:43] <exec> 08└─"The suitcase with the stolen painting? That's my suitcase, officer! Can I have it back, with the contents of course? So sorry for the mix-up!"
[14:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:02] <exec> 08└─To actually put some numbers to this, something like #6 THHN good for 75 amps current sells retail by the foot (most expensive way to buy stuff) for about a buck a foot. Likewise there's bazillions of switching power converters but a 7812 drop in switching replacement from CUI like the V7812W-500 in...
[14:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Woosh [6715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:33] <exec> 08└─With home delivery services and Wal-Mart's curbside pickup I don't see the appeal. Home delivery services can get pricey but Wal-Mart's curbside service is free. You can already pick your Amazon orders up at a local Whole Foods. Maybe there is a market somewhere I'm missing?
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[14:59:46] <exec> 08└─"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Whoever said that was right.
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:49] <exec> 08└─The Bible can be used to justify any prejudice and hypocrisy you like
[14:59:50] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:51] <exec> 08└─Well, I think you're looking for the concept of "steward". https://tifwe.org [tifwe.org] And, I'll point out immediately that the oil company's concept of "mineral rights" and "ownership" contrast with the idea that "The earth is the LORD’s, and everything...
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:53] <exec> 08└─The problem with patriots today is they make sweeping generalisations about people they disagree with.
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:56] <exec> 08└─There you go: http://www.landoverbaptist.net [landoverbaptist.net]
[14:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:58] <exec> 08└─All "things that get turned into religions" are self serving. Christianity, Leftist progressivism, its all the same.
[14:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:00] <exec> 08└─You are a walking, talking, typing endorsement for the chopping away of sexual organs. Someone should have taken your parents in hand before you were conceived. Either your daddy was shooting faulty loads, or your mama didn't catch the full load. If there was a "best part" of you, it ran down somebo...
[15:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah or maybe just toss that shit out.
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:05] <exec> 08└─Please read the linked article as it explains the connection between contempt for science and protecting the environment and the beliefs of evangelicals.
[15:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─So how long is it before these nutjobs realise that the very book they are quoting actually contradicts them, and they decide it's time to re-write the bible? In fact, they wouldn't even need to do any writing. A quick google image search for "Republican Jesus" with the irony filter switched off wou...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:10] <exec> 08└─Wrong, Obama is a Muslim so he doesn't carry a cross. Checkmate athiest scumbag.
[15:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:12] <exec> 08└─What's the difference? It's all mythical bullshit.
[15:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:14] <exec> 08└─The irony is its attributed to Huey Long (Democrat) and Sinclair Lewis (anticapitalist far leftist) who were both actively trying to bring fascism to the US using propaganda and judges robes instead of flags and crosses, and five minutes of googling discovers neither ever said or wrote the quote but...
[15:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:17] <exec> 08└─The Bible can be used to justify any prejudice and hypocrisy you like
[15:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:19] <exec> 08└─Yup, that's it, thanks!
[15:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:21] <exec> 08└─I know, those poor Christian Evangelicals :)
[15:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:24] <exec> 08└─Agreed, AC, the only time you see propaganda worship of the free market in legacy media is from someone trying to protect a price gouging monopoly. With a side dish of someone trying to protect a rigged market. Outside legacy media, far enough away from monopoly problems, there are some genuine beli...
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[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─The fascists usually portrayed themselves as a necessary response to Soviet communism. The argument amounts to: "You tolerate our atrocities, or Stalin will get to commit his atrocities." Stalin, for his part, justified his atrocities on the grounds of "You tolerate our atrocities, or Hitler will ge...
[15:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Keen Sense For Molecules - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:36] <exec> 08└─> legitimate comments get downmoded I normally browse at -1, so I see all the comments that are posted. Perhaps once a week I see something that looks like a legitimate comment to me, but was down modded. I give it a + vote like "underrated. I believe that others here do the same. Whatever you are c...
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[15:00:38] <exec> 08└─This will ultimately be used for more invasive drug testing, and by health insurance companies to deny coverage and raise rates on "risky" clients. Congrats, scientists, on your lucrative discovery!
[15:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:47] <exec> 08└─Does this work on all strains of flu? If this drug could be distributed and applied worldwide in a massive global effort, maybe we could finally send influenza to join smallpox in extinction. A quick google says that the global annual cost of influenza is around $10b. Let's imagine that's our budget...
[15:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:49] <exec> 08└─Key words: "contain flu symptoms" Mm hmm... if you want "contain flu symptoms" then take 2 hyrdocodone. I guarantee you will be feeling all better in less than an hour.
[15:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but Quickly killing the virus could reduce its contagious effects, Shionogi said.
[15:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:09] <exec> 08└─Art theft could be made obsolete. We'd still have the problem with historic paintings, might never be able to scan them in sufficient detail to recreate them perfectly. Yet scanning is the best tool we have to preserve valuable paintings against time and chance. With a quick search I found two small...
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[15:02:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Because if no one spoke up to claim it, they didn't have the ability to dust the case for prints / take prints of everyone on board? (And the answer might be that the suitcase wasn't printable due to construction...) Makes much more sense that they were operating on a tip.
[15:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:13] <exec> 08└─Thomas Crown [wikipedia.org]!
[15:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, in the same way that theatre is now obsolete because you can video and put anything online. I agree with you that photography and digitization, as well as other forensic recording techniques, do bridge a gap that just because something is stolen doesn't mean we can't know what it was. But even...
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[15:02:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:40] <exec> 08└─what LED runs on 48 volts?
[15:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:44] <exec> 08└─Assange wants to be treated like a princess when he comes out so he can lord it over "the system" that he defeated. I think he needs a few more years in the embassy, at least long enough to see out Trump's term. A suitable exit would be him smiling like a madman, dressed in a straight-jacket covered...
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─The cartels aren't selling guns to the US yet. They're still buying them. I sincerely doubt they're behind any large scale grow ops in the US either, that bs brickweed still sells in places that don't have medical and have to import it at high cost from medical or recreational states.
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[15:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:35] <exec> 08└─An obese man with a bowl haircut sat on a couch in an ordinary living room. Rolls of fat on his face, neck, and body jiggled whenever he moved. The man's name was Jackson. As Jackson was lazing around, his doorbell rang. "I wonder who that could be..." Jackson muttered. Jackson waddled to the door a...
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[15:59:37] <exec> 08└─Microsoft will only need to use a European partner (say, Accenture [wikipedia.org]?) to operate the Irish cloud and provide the OS-es and know-how to them, and receive ... mmm... royalties?
[15:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:39] <exec> 08└─while ensuring that privacy and civil liberties are respected."
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[15:59:41] <exec> 08└─"The Act also creates incentives for our foreign partners to enter into bilateral agreements that will facilitate cross-border criminal investigations, while ensuring that privacy and civil liberties are respected."
[15:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:44] <exec> 08└─Time was, spying was high treason punishable by summary execution. Then we started flying planes so high that they (usually) couldn't be shot down, and not much later flying satellites over foreign soil which could (by informal account) read the nametag of a soldier in the field in Vietnam. Spying i...
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[15:59:46] <exec> 08└─attorneys general of 35 US states
[15:59:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:57] <exec> 08└─American evangelicals, who largely have not embraced the basic concept of thought FTFY
[16:00:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:19] <exec> 08└─The Bible can be used to justify any prejudice and hypocrisy you like
[16:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:25] <exec> 08└─the opposite of what Pruitt is saying
[16:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:27] <exec> 08└─If you want to belong to the Harry Potter book club, then fine. Go meet with your friends at the library every week and have fun. Cosplay, re-enact scenes from the book, write fanfics, pull apart words from the book to find deeper meaning, use some of it to fill voids and influence your life. Fine,...
[16:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:29] <exec> 08└─Most Bible-thumping Christians I've met are more interested in holding that book of theirs than they are in opening it and actually reading it. And when they do, they are usually reading what us modern Americans would consider a confusing and archaic translation from the original Hebrew and Greek, n...
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[16:00:31] <exec> 08└─Yet the total number of independent leftist atrocities, aside from uncle joe, over the course of the century is staggering; I don't know, hundreds of millions killed at least? And to this day the standard reply to any right wing response against leftism is a rather tepid "remember that one time the...
[16:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:34] <exec> 08└─The Hindu stories generally have much healthier portrayals of sexual relationships than the other 3 you mentioned, namely that the major gods actually tend to support their consorts and vice versa, and they actually seem to enjoy each other's company. Compare that to the sex in the Bible (including...
[16:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:36] <exec> 08└─A technology for manipulation of public opinion, via guidance of metaphysical philosophy, implementing near total social control was invented about 2000 years ago, spread like wildfire across multiple continents, and has been in continuous control over a significant fraction of the worlds population...
[16:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:38] <exec> 08└─Source: https://www.snopes.com [snopes.com] Though we have found passages by other authors that share certain words, phrases, and sentiments in common with the quote attributed to Lewis, we have not found an exact match anywhere. We came across this bit, for example, in co...
[16:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:41] <exec> 08└─There are two parts: The Old Testament and The New Testament. Pruit is rambling on about stuff found in the Old Testament. The Old Testament is about providing context for The New Testament and showing how things used to suck even worse before Jesus helped out. A lot of Jesus' life and actions were...
[16:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:43] <exec> 08└─Does it help to be contemptuous, no matter how deserving? We're stuck with somewhere between a quarter and a third of the population being ripe for exploitation because thinking is hard work and they'd rather someone else do it for them. For them, the world is a scary place, full of enemies. It's a...
[16:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:05] <exec> 08└─Provided it really does quickly make people non-infectious, and doesn't suppress the symptoms so people can go to work and share their virus around... Plus, if it does work, I bet they'll charge whatever they can get for it. Think of the cost to the honey & lemon-flavoured placebo industry if flu an...
[16:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:07] <exec> 08└─The smallpox has a severe weakness that we exploited the crap out of, it wasn't a zoonotic*. Influenza (especially H7N7) is a zoonotic. (* able to jump species) You know how we call it "avian flu" and "the swine flu" that is in which host animal it mutated into a form that leaped to humans, and that...
[16:01:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:25] <exec> 08└─We used to be educated in the use of critical thinking skills. We were taught how to analyse literature and poetry as teenagers. We also read 1984 and some of George Orwell's essays. I was in the debating society. This was all at a state run comprehensive secondary school. For many years now this ha...
[16:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:47] <exec> 08└─Fixed wiring as in a motor probably should be aluminium, it would reduce the total weight. I doubt that. Motors have two main parts: the windings and the core (this applies to both the rotor and the stator, though some motors omit windings in the stator and use permanent magnets). The core is usuall...
[16:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:48] <exec> 08└─What do you need the 12V converter for? No, it's really not "free": adding more 12V loads means your converter needs to be upsized, and you need heavier-gauge copper wiring to these loads where you were too lazy or stupid to just modify the design for 48V operation when you were redesigning it in th...
[16:04:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:45] <exec> 08└─Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy because he was afraid that the UK was about to hand him over to the US (and from there a 1-way ticket to Gitmo). The Australian government would be no less likely to roll over and have the US tickle its tummy than the UK. No point in seeking protection from the...
[16:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:01] <exec> 08└─I think this is probably an automatic wrong answer, as it wouldn't surprise me if diplomatic staff and visas have to be issued before a person enters the country. But aside from that, could Ecuador appoint Assange as technical staff to the embassy, giving him diplomatic immunity? If it worked, all t...
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. has 62nd Ranking in LTE Speeds in the World, about 1/3 the Speed of Singapore - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─Telephone companies justify it with large stacks of money under their pillows at night.
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[16:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:32] <exec> 08└─The blockchain bros [nytimes.com]. At least they'll know where to find them [google.com].
[16:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:34] <exec> 08└─http://fortune.com/2018/02/06/bitcoin-stock-volatility-vix-sec/ [fortune.com] SEC Chair pointing out that bitcoin is less volatile than the stock market.
[16:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:36] <exec> 08└─Oh well. Shitcoin had a good run. Bros, let's innovate another scam, dude bros.
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[16:59:38] <exec> 08└─They called him Little Timmy. He was a kind, caring, and curious young lad around the age of 9. Everyone who knew him knew that his favorite colors were black & blue; he made sure of that. Everyone also knew that he was quite the artist. Today, Little Timmy was creating another work of art featuring...
[16:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:51] <exec> 08└─Link to the actual letter https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov [utah.gov] which some how went 404 from the Register's site. Yup, even Washington State's AG selling Microsoft into slavery.
[16:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:52] <exec> 08└─I know there are some Aussies and Brits around the site. I’d love for any of them to get a judge in Australia, Britain or anywhere else for that matter, to serve an order to release data stored in a server in the U.S. without going thru the U.S. judiciary. But I would love the most to hear what ou...
[16:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:54] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't hold my breath, if I were you.
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─Time was, spying was high treason punishable by summary execution.
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─In effect, it means the FBI can ask, say, a California court for a subpoena to obtain files from a San Francisco upstart's servers hosted in France, sidestepping French privacy laws and legal system. The act's wording also does not limit the Feds to serving orders for communications on US companies...
[17:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:47] <exec> 08└─The problem with patriots people today is they make sweeping generalisations about people they disagree with, [added:] or don't understand.[/added]
[17:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:48] <exec> 08└─There is a symmetry in that leftist/progressive/marxist thinking works the same way with their masses. Its really opposite sides of the same coin. As a general rule across political boundaries, even across civilizations, all functionally illiterate populations naturally evolve a charismatic leader t...
[17:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:51] <exec> 08└─It's hard to gauge exact numbers when it comes to this sort of thing, but I'm guessing part of why you think that is that you aren't recalling many of the rightist atrocities. I'm not talking about just Adolf & company, there are such incidents as: - The Armenian Genocide - The many atrocities of Fr...
[17:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:53] <exec> 08└─You may be a Christian, but presumably not the American Fundamentalist kind. There really isn't any other kind in America any more, except maybe the Catholics (and even they seem to be adopting a lot of the fundamentalist political stances). The liberal, non-fundamentalist sects are literally dying...
[17:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:55] <exec> 08└─Putting it into computing terms, the New Testament deprecates the Old Testament and Pruit is citing deprecated material.
[17:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:57] <exec> 08└─Christianity is about Christ (Jesus)
[17:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:00] <exec> 08└─There is a symmetry in that leftist/progressive/marxist thinking works the same way with their masses. Not really: there's no "holy book" here, just whatever line of thinking is currently popular. That can change, and it's open for debate, so over time it does change. With religion, you're always st...
[17:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:02] <exec> 08└─Iron knee.
[17:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:04] <exec> 08└─I see your analogy but disagree. John 3:16 deprecates the OT. That is rather the kernel of the NT. The OT is a mixture of a lot of things but it is deprecated so to speak. Otherwise he might as well be quoting the jollier parts like Ezekiel 23:19-21
[17:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:06] <exec> 08└─Notice I didn't actually put anybody's name with that quote. The murkiness of its origin is why I didn't.
[17:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:09] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention their primary argument: "Because God said it was OK!"
[17:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:11] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that the same people who thought Obama was a Muslim also thought he was a stooge of the thoroughly Christian Jeremiah Wright. It's almost like the religious angle wasn't the problem they had with him.
[17:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:13] <exec> 08└─Bizarrely, most people understand "Harry Potter" is not real, yet somehow this 2000 year old book of wang gargling gets a free pass. Harry Potter probably isn't the greatest analogy here. A better one is The Iliad and The Odyssey. Back in Homer's day (assuming there really was a guy named "Homer" wh...
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[17:01:16] <exec> 08└─God left Adam and Eve to tend to the Garden and the Animals. He didn't intend for us to kill the planet and it's animals. Twisting what the Bible says is a time honored tradition among those who want the Bible to say what they want it to say. Politicians definitely aren't an exception.
[17:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:18] <exec> 08└─Is this guy married? Does he have daughters? 'cause if they are there maybe we should make use of them until THEY are all used up. Does this guy have an arse? Maybe we should make use of.....blah blah blah.... Can i have this guys' oxygen? God says i can. Gimme gimme gimme. The guy is an idiot. I.D....
[17:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:20] <exec> 08└─Some I won't contest but the numbers are still lower; order of magnitude lower. Many in your list are apolitical. The remainder are mostly civil wars and those are historically bloody regardless of politics because they often turn, if not racial, into regional battles. The Armenian Genocide, Japan's...
[17:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:22] <exec> 08└─or don't understand
[17:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:25] <exec> 08└─God likes to clean up after us. It makes him feel useful. All that smiting gets real tiresome after a while.
[17:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 3901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:15] <exec> 08└─Our Constitution is great. We defend our Constitution, and we believe in the wisdom of our Founders. They worked very hard on that one. They were very smart guys, they put a lot of thought into it. Into, should we have elections. And how should our elections work. All in the Constitution. And they s...
[17:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:16] <exec> 08└─Not sure if I should mod this insightful, but you're correct on that observation. Like it or not, footballers are demonstrably more highly valued by society than doctors. An individual doctor may be extremely valuable at any given moment to somebody who's sick, but a footballer is valuable to millio...
[17:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:33] <exec> 08└─Well, there you have it: a reason why new cars have to be serviced at the dealer, a reason why a $3 toggle switch can now be billed out at $87. Solid state has nothing to do with that. A switch at the dealer is going to be expensive regardless, because it's a product with no competition, as each one...
[17:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:35] <exec> 08└─CCA Jumper cables, yeah those cheating fuckers need a few CCA's through their privates. Aluminium wire will crack if repeatedly flexed as happens to jumper cables.
[17:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:37] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be Rush Limbaugh
[17:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:39] <exec> 08└─Here again, you're not making much sense. They *already* use a particular amount/type of wire insulation in cars for mechanical reasons, rather than electrical, because cars are a harsh environment (lots of vibration), and the voltage is extremely low. Changing to 48V isn't going to affect that sign...
[17:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Woosh [6715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:11] <exec> 08└─You should probably stop using the term "white" neighborhoods to denote middle class families. Describing a neighborhood by race doesn't help anyone but drive a wedge.
[17:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:13] <exec> 08└─At a cashless inconvenience store, the transaction won't be concluded until after I walk out, after the store bills me, and I won't be sure what amount I was charged until after I check my bank account to see exactly how much the inconvenience store actually took from me.
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[17:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:38] <exec> 08└─Dear Fine and Honorable British MPs, You cannot "regulate" cryptocurrencies. You can either ban them or suffer their existence. And don't try to buy a large stake in them now in order to manipulate their values at a later date. You are not welcome in our sandbox. Signed, The Future
[17:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:39] <exec> 08└─I'd like to purchase exclusive mining rights to your personality. People overlook common commodities, but there is a lot of money to be made in salt mining. Mining, not just for dude bros!
[17:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:58] <exec> 08└─that if the French server operator allows this transfer of information, they lose the right to process personal data, AND they face a fine of up to € 20 000 000 or 4% of total annual worldwide turnover, whichever is *more*.
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:59] <exec> 08└─I'll take it seriously when they start enforcing the law against their American overlords, rather than stitching up a deal giving the US everything they ask for, with nothing in return.
[18:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:02] <exec> 08└─If Tin Star Sheriff gets a subpoena against a European, they can argue that their data is stored in Europe (per the app's legalese to avoid trouble with the personal data export directive). If the data is released, it would be easy to attack it in court (though US courts tend to be sympathetic to US...
[18:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:04] <exec> 08└─Time was, spying was high treason punishable by summary execution.
[18:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:06] <exec> 08└─Should have named it the "Himmler Act".
[18:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:09] <exec> 08└─What, and blow their cover?
[18:00:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 881 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:48] <exec> 08└─If you want to belong to the Harry Potter book club, then fine. Go meet with your friends at the library every week and have fun. Cosplay, re-enact scenes from the book, write fanfics, pull apart words from the book to find deeper meaning, use some of it to fill voids and influence your life. Fine,...
[18:00:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:50] <exec> 08└─Most Bible-thumping Christians I've met are more interested in holding that book of theirs than they are in opening it and actually reading it. And when they do, they are usually reading what us modern Americans would consider a confusing and archaic translation from the original Hebrew and Greek, n...
[18:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:16] <exec> 08└─I thought they DID re-write the bible: they called it "Gilligan's Island".... but they found it didn't make anymore sense than the bible does.
[18:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:18] <exec> 08└─I just thought it was interesting. I wasn't familiar with the story before. Figured I might as well share it now that I found it. I don't blame you for not wanting to get into it. The point was still made.
[18:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:20] <exec> 08└─harry potter had 7 books, or is that not new testamenty enough? i guess we can divide it into chapters or just carve out sections we want to call a book.
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:22] <exec> 08└─First you say The Bible can be used to justify any prejudice and hypocrisy you like,
[18:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:24] <exec> 08└─I believe the total of all genocides from the 20th century amounts to approximately 120 million people. The USSR and China run a very close first and second, exceeding 20 million each. Nazi Germany lagged behind in third place. Japan's atrocities have had far less publicity in the Western World, but...
[18:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:27] <exec> 08└─The two leading genocides by far - exceeding 20 million each - were the USSR and China. No righties have had their act so together as those two.
[18:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:29] <exec> 08└─Most Bible-thumping Christians I've met are more interested in holding that book of theirs than they are in opening it and actually reading it.
[18:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:31] <exec> 08└─Come on man, racial to the core.
[18:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:34] <exec> 08└─Jesus warned us about people like you. Just try to change one letter of the law and you'll find yourself in hell and those of us in heaven will consider you the least.
[18:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:58] <exec> 08└─No. The drugs are antivirals, influenza spreads before people are symptomatic, and there are many animal reservoirs (mainly birds, but also pigs and horses).
[18:02:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:37] <exec> 08└─users preferring to buy quality feature phones There are a lot of use cases where a touch screen is a disaster, or cameras are forbidden. There are plenty of people who actually value battery life over social media (or, indeed, ANYTHING over social media).
[18:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:47] <exec> 08└─Hell, T9 is better than touchscreen. I've owned one Android phone in my lifetime, and that was because I wanted to see what it was all about. It failed to wow me, and it ran slow as shit despite being a quad-core supercomputer. So I upgraded to a feature phone with physical buttons. I've been extrem...
[18:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:49] <exec> 08└─The only reason I have a smart phone now is that my old phone was dying and I needed a replacement quickly. When I replace it, it won't be with a smartphone unless they've **dramatically** improved as phones.
[18:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:51] <exec> 08└─I was reluctant to switch from a phone with a physical keyboard (used an LG ally, then Motorola Droid 3 for 3-4 years), but I eventually switched to a Galaxy Note 2 for the stylus. It doesn't feel as nice, but my message speed actually increased (predictive text and swiping combined with a screen th...
[18:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:05] <exec> 08└─add "round the leadership up and execute them", and you've got my vote. fuck the big pharma shills at the CDC.
[18:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:07] <exec> 08└─Jessica Fletcher was really probably the most diabolical and beguiling villainous mastermind ever portrayed in a movie or TV show. Not only did she murder, premeditatively and in cold blood, countless people in her small hometown in Maine (making it per-capita by far the murder capital of the world)...
[18:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Woosh [6715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:28] <exec> 08└─I agree a little. Cash has benefits. For example lower income families can more easily control their budgets when they have cash. If you have $20 in hand and the bill is $20.01, you put something back. On debit/credit you you pay $20.01 plus interest, overdraft fees, etc. However card service compan...
[18:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:30] <exec> 08└─It's beyond me how each component in the stack can be more or less insecure and then the combined sum somehow be treated as secure.
[18:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─If for a moment we suspend belief that he will be illegally extradited to US
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[18:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:34] <exec> 08└─Never send anything outside your country that you can't afford to lose, especially when the destination country is somewhat backwards.
[18:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:35] <exec> 08└─What's the appropriate punishment for this? Blacklist the criminal state of Australia forever?
[18:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:38] <exec> 08└─The man was proud of himself. He had done it. His RPM score was far higher than anyone else's in his city, and he had actually set a new record. Thanks to this, the man was to receive a prestigious award from the city government. Indeed, achieving such a high Rapings Per Month score was extremely co...
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─Basically, yes: don't ship any more extremely valuable scientific or cultural artifacts there. They've proven they can't be trusted with them. It's just like loaning your tools to your neighbor: if you loan a nice cordless drill or air wrench or whatever to your neighbor, and he completely wrecks it...
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─It's probably worse than that if it is part of the general trend towards uneducated, unknowledgeable, and undertrained staff I am seeing in recent years. It's a real bite but there might be few places remaining where even a motivated young person can get a proper education any more. A number of them...
[18:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:45] <exec> 08└─Bureaucrats: even more dangerous than Australian wildlife.
[18:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dtremenak [1051] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:47] <exec> 08└─Actually...yeah, basically. If you loan a few books or tools to a friend, and they don't come back, you stop loaning them things, right? Especially when it happens more than once (a rare lichen collection from a New Zealand museum was also incinerated by Australia last year). And let's see what happ...
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─I once ordered some books from USA to Germany and it was held in the custom. I had to go there and open it to show them it wasn't containing god knows what they thought heavy thick books could be. Brick, may be?
[18:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─What's funny is the shameless defense - that the sticker price said $2 beside 'museum artifact' hence it was deemed useless enough to be incinerated. I mean, they are actually complaining about losing out some moolah! Surreal.
[18:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:54] <exec> 08└─Considering Napoleon's army is responsible for blowing the nose of the Sphinx and the time period of collection, I'd say turnabout is fair play.
[19:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:45] <exec> 08└─These are people that actively supported, and continue to support, on Christian religious grounds, a guy who exemplifies at least 6 of the 7 Deadly Sins (gluttony is up for debate, sloth, wrath, pride, lust, avarice, and even envy are pretty much his defining characteristics), and has broken at leas...
[19:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:46] <exec> 08└─To summarize: All generalizations are false.
[19:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:48] <exec> 08└─Shirley you have heard of "False Flag" operations.
[19:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:51] <exec> 08└─your side completely and totally owns the entire legacy media and academia and half the government.
[19:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:53] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that the same people who thought Obama was a Muslim also thought he was a stooge of the thoroughly Christian Jeremiah Wright.
[19:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:55] <exec> 08└─Regarding Homer's works, I think it's worth noting that they were elevated by many ancient Greeks to roughly the level of their holy texts. For example, when you read Plato's dialogues, written at least 300 years later, the philosophers are quoting the Iliad to each other in the same sort of tone Am...
[19:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:57] <exec> 08└─Racism is a right-wing idea.
[19:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:00] <exec> 08└─Revelation 11:18 I was about to post that one, and have posted it before. I would also point out that strip mining resources irresponsibly is not "stewardship" of the Earth's resources. There are far more versus in the Bible about helping orphans and widows (that is widows and the fatherless). Yet m...
[19:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:02] <exec> 08└─I think it takes quite a bit of thought to contrive some of the mental gymnastics and contortions they come up with to lead to a conclusion they want. Conclusions are the end point. Not the starting point.
[19:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:04] <exec> 08└─"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Whoever said that was right. Wrong, Obama is a Muslim . . .
[19:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe, instead, stop the advertising for all these super-ultra-strength flu-suppressants that suggests that it's your duty as a good worker to dose yourself up and turn up at that "important" meeting like one of the living dead and give the gift of flu to your colleagues... I'm sorry, I think this i...
[19:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:31] <exec> 08└─To discover a few years later that one of the the treatments has a small side effect - death, for example. And all humans on Earth had been treated.
[19:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I surf the Play store for something of interest every once in a while. I seldom find anything, maybe some music, that goes direct to google cloud. I've been shedding apps. Not because of lack of room, but aging (non trivialy replaceable) battery. Its a 2014 phone. Just having rarely used apps...
[19:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:24] <exec> 08└─or cameras are forbidden.
[19:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:27] <exec> 08└─> use cases where a touch screen is a disaster If you want to teach some colorful swear words to your children, put them next to my dad when he's forced to use a touch screen.
[19:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:29] <exec> 08└─As explained in TFS, the bulk of growth is in emerging markets. At the same time, premium phones keep getting much more expensive, without adding significant usage improvements. 100 million smartphones per month is pretty much where you have to start your exponential slowdown to plateau, because tha...
[19:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:46] <exec> 08└─I really can't think of any other characters who come close to approaching this level of sheer evil.
[19:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:09] <exec> 08└─In the United States it is very doubtful that the average customs agent would have recognized this as valuable
[19:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stolen Degas Painting Recovered After French Customs Agents Search Bus - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:11] <exec> 08└─We'd still have the problem with historic paintings, might never be able to scan them in sufficient detail to recreate them perfectly. Yet scanning is the best tool we have to preserve valuable paintings against time and chance.
[19:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:36] <exec> 08└─And if you use a smaller gauge wire, you have to replace that with something.
[19:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:55] <exec> 08└─The country you live in is irrelevant. I have no regard for the arbitrary capricious laws of man. The right to self defense is absolute, as is any law of nature. Now, the ability to protect that right is still up for grabs. It is clearly a case of might makes right, but in reality, that is all we ha...
[19:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:56] <exec> 08└─Not fair! When he went in the embassy, he was being pursued for a very serious and a very fake (re-opened) crime committed into a foreign country which was demanding extradition. Currently he is wanted only for a very simple offense (bail jumping) that cannot be argued away, but can be potentially c...
[19:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dtremenak [1051] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Intensifying Battle for Africa’s Burgeoning Tech Landscape - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:25] <exec> 08└─The numbers in the summary aren't penetration numbers and can't be quickly converted into them without knowing the sizes of both populations, because they're both relative. If you're looking at the ratio between them, it's just a normalized benchmark (which tells you only that Africa is substantiall...
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[19:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:25] <exec> 08└─If it was racist to notice and comment on immigrant criminality before, does that mean the Swedish government is full of racists now?
[19:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─Napoleon's army did not blow the nose off the Sphinx. A sketch from 1737 (32 years before Napolean was born) shows the nose is missing.
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:44] <exec> 08└─Your own linked story at foreign policy.com calls the whole incident into question. Customs seized and disposed of fresh cut green bamboo, a notoriously invasive plant. Those were packed in different luggage than the flutes, which customs said they didn't touch. So at best this is a he-said she-said...
[19:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe they wanted you present when your shipment of Cuban Cigars was opened?
[19:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:48] <exec> 08└─That doesn't, technically, prove the french didn't replace the nose to blow it off again...
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:51] <exec> 08└─It was Muslims. https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org [smithsonianjourneys.org] Maybe .
[19:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, if the picolo player - errr, flute player - had been allowed through customs, he may well have planted his picolo - errr, FLUTE, I mean - and started another invasive species growing. Just look at this article, then try to imagine picolo bushes growing all over America - https://en.wikip...
[19:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:55] <exec> 08└─Wait - the drop bears have taken over the bureaucracy?
[19:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:58] <exec> 08└─Yes. Until Australia passes laws that respect the scientific and cultural values of other people's property. This happened because of fucking ridiculous policy carried out by corrupt and inept politicians. No art, no science, no nothing. Australia, deeply, deeply, deeply, DEEEPLY, fucked up here. I...
[19:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:00] <exec> 08└─As long as they aren't slapped down, hard - they'll try for more the next time. Such is human nature.
[20:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:02] <exec> 08└─From the update in the Foreign Policy article: If both claims are true, it remains a mystery as to what actually happened to the flutes and why they didn’t show up in his luggage.
[20:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:05] <exec> 08└─They did not have a backup in tissue culture or high-resolution scans and DNA records?
[20:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:07] <exec> 08└─The actual cause: Cheech and Chong were working as customs officials, and, well, you never know till you try it.
[20:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:20] <exec> 08└─Of course, that prohibition created organized crime on a continental scale, and then a global scale. Governments can wreak havoc trying to control people, so don't be so smug.
[20:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:21] <exec> 08└─I haven't understood all the nuances of that article you linked, but frankly, it doesn't pass the smell test. Just looking at the graph of "Daily Percent Change in Prices of Bitcoin, Gold, and S&P 500 Index" makes it clear that Bitcoin is FAR more volatile than stocks as a whole. Anecdotally, when t...
[20:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:46] <exec> 08└─No, not in between each request for data. But maybe before French Cloud even signs the contract with App Company: https://ec.europa.eu [europa.eu] f...
[20:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:15] <exec> 08└─I would add that it should be amazing for someone claiming to be a Christian to propose rewriting the Bible given the warning in Rev 22:18-19 [biblegateway.com].
[20:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:17] <exec> 08└─Surely it can't be twisting the bible to simply change the position of a comma? /s Let him who stole steal no more, let him labor with his hands . . . Let him who stole steal, no more let him labor with his hands . . .
[20:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:19] <exec> 08└─I think I got a bit off-topic; but chapter 2, paragraph 66-67 of the encyclical contains an interpretation of the Genesis story, and a refutation of that "dominion theory" that Pruitt quotes.
[20:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:21] <exec> 08└─I'm suddenly thinking of the story of Lot...
[20:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:24] <exec> 08└─Matthew 22:36-40
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─What the fuck has anything you posted had to do with anything related to this topic? You sound like some kind of alt-right Markov chain that got fed the entirety of Breitbart. Though it could be worse, at least your input text wasn't infowars.
[20:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:28] <exec> 08└─OK, so better mythical porn content makes it any less mythical bullshit?
[20:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:30] <exec> 08└─Careful what you ask for... that rewrite will just codify all the things that jingoistic evangelicals already believe.
[20:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:33] <exec> 08└─Most Bible-thumping Christians I've met are more interested in holding that book of theirs than they are in opening it and actually reading it.
[20:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:00] <exec> 08└─So if the treatment kills the viruses within 24 hours as claimed, why not use it profilactically?
[20:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Rewards Provocative Ads - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:29] <exec> 08└─You know how you get people to feel enfranchised? Voluntary trade; capitalism.
[20:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:03] <exec> 08└─People expect the aux power socket (the "lighter") to provide 12V at a decent amperage. After-market equipment is expected to just work. EVENTUALLY, the 12V will go away entirely. I think you way under-estimate how much carry-over there is from year to year in design. Automotive engineering is quite...
[20:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is conservative and a lot of parts are carried over, but that does not include instrument clusters (they're always updated with new generations, and sometimes in the middle of generations too), nor does it extend to circuit designs. As I said before, it would be completely idiotic to design...
[20:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:07] <exec> 08└─Just looks at how long a set of points will last on a 64 ford pickup and you'll get an idea about how arcing kills contacts. One was lucky to get 3000 miles before you had to file the points contacts.
[20:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:09] <exec> 08└─Why are you so argumentative on this topic? If you use a smaller gauge wire, you just use a smaller gauge wire. They already have small-gauge wires in cars (for ultra low-current signal lines); it's not like they have to go find something new. They have a whole range of wires they already use, now t...
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[20:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:35] <exec> 08└─Islamophobic agitprop right here on SoylentNews? Would you not prefer a nice, soothing aristarchus submission?
[20:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:37] <exec> 08└─It seems like that's an important question.
[20:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:39] <exec> 08└─TFS doesn't say that this is racial crime, but that it is gang related. During editing, I changed the title in the submission to the same as the source material. The submission also made the same assertion that you have - that this is due to migrants. I wonder if you are the same AC that made the or...
[20:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:41] <exec> 08└─Why? It is totally irrelevant to the story, which is about the fact that some doubt the police's ability to cope with the high level of crime and might need reinforcing with Military Aid to the Civil Power (MACP). MACP is something that many countries consider including the US and most of Europe. Fo...
[20:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:43] <exec> 08└─One day, maybe we'll be able to figure out whether these gangs are comprised of Swedes of an ancient lineage, or "Swedes" of some other kind of lineage. One day, Science will solve this enigma.
[20:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:46] <exec> 08└─That makes a pretty big difference on tolerance of the use of military force against the peoples involved. If many of them are illegal immigrants then they would fall into either of the first two groups, which while still maybe frowned upon depending on laws in Sweden, probably would be endorsed by...
[20:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─If the degree of correlation between immigration and crime in Sweden existed in the global warming debate, the science would be settled already.
[20:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:50] <exec> 08└─Probably some sort of Viking. The good news for Sweden is that the won't need to upgrade their Caroleans to Great War Infantry because the "march" promotion enables them to heal each turn. To be fair, Sweden has researched Artillery so these barbarians shouldn't be much of a problem.
[20:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:53] <exec> 08└─See Posse Comitatus Act [wikipedia.org] American governance is extremely leery of the Federal Government; after all, the American Revolution was fought to free the colonies from a far-off, centralized military power that had little respect for representing citizens.
[20:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─A nation state does not define a people's values; rather, a people's values define a nation state. When you change the people, you change the nation state.
[20:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:57] <exec> 08└─Because, Janrinok, the lameness filter would stop his post if he said "figures, a bunch of sandn*ggers getting up to their usual shit again," with a side of "hahahaha told you fuckin' stupid libtards."
[20:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─Go soak yer head, it's looking a bit dry and puffy.
[21:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:02] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I can't tell.
[21:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:04] <exec> 08└─Would you not prefer a nice, soothing aristarchus submission?
[21:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:06] <exec> 08└─Geats, you damned traitorous Frisian! ÐA wæs onburgum beowulf scyldinga leo(... leod cyning longe þrage folcum gefræ 10 ge fæder ellor hwearf aldor ofear de oþ þæt him eft onwoc heah healf dene heold þenden lifde gamol 7guð reouw gl...
[21:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:09] <exec> 08└─And the fuck tards wonder why they got called deplorables. CAUSE YOU'RE AMERICA'S ISIS CONSERVATIVE DICKBAG!!! Literally the people most likely to kill me for my beliefs and not someone from the Middle East. /rant
[21:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:11] <exec> 08└─should be heavily condemned by everyone, since it sets a bad precedent towards using the military against civilians in other circumstances,
[21:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:13] <exec> 08└─So in the US the National Guard are not used to help during regional disasters? That is MACP, it doesn't seem to be too outlawed there. Any time that military personnel are used at the behest of local or regional government in any task other than war fighting, it is usually under MACP. I suspect if...
[21:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:16] <exec> 08└─If it was racist to notice and comment on immigrant criminality before, does that mean the Swedish government is full of racists now?
[21:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:18] <exec> 08└─Wrong. America routinely use military servicepeople in a police capacity. If you'd like to see it today, go take a trip to New York City. You'll most likely see armed troops in BDUs in the Port Authority Bus Terminal and in the weird shopping mall next to the 9/11 memorial and Freedom Tower. The Pos...
[21:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:20] <exec> 08└─Please, read the whole linked article for a pretty good picture.
[21:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, come now! The Swedes did not invite in the Nazis during the last war. You must be thinking of the Norwegians. Or the Bloody Brexit Brit Racist Nazi Sympathizers (BBBNRS, as we used to call them).
[21:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:25] <exec> 08└─Not only are the National Guard units of a State sourced from citizens of that State, but also the Governor of the State is the one who deploys and ultimately commands them. It's not that the military is helping the States via the National Guard, but rather that the States are helping the military v...
[21:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:27] <exec> 08└─See Posse Comitatus Act [wikipedia.org]
[21:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:56] <exec> 08└─This is an absolute travesty and disaster. In defense of the Australian bureaucrats, I'm not 100% convinced I'd have done anything different. Put yourself in their place. Somebody hands you a package labeled "museum samples, valued at about $2." It's now been over 2x as long as the official hold-tim...
[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:58] <exec> 08└─So Australia is still living up to its cultural tradition :- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like 2 countries fucked up royally here...
[21:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blockchain Nears Peak Hype: UK Politicos To Probe Crypto-Coin - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:14] <exec> 08└─Properly I don't think they can even ban them. They can only prevent their purchase with and conversion to currency of the realm. And even then there shalt be bootleggers - send me a wire of pounds or mail me some cash or physically courier it over to me.... I'll convert it to bitcoin for you and se...
[21:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:40] <exec> 08└─What about the anonymous users? Or how does it handle the case where the user's nationality isn't yet precisely determined? Or what happens if they make a mistake? Though while I'm sure whoever makes the request will push for "They aren't known to be a US citizen, so give me their data." so are we l...
[21:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:42] <exec> 08└─On August 19, 1960, Powers was convicted of espionage, "a grave crime covered by Article 2 of the Soviet Union's law 'On Criminality Responsibility for State Crimes'". His sentence consisted of 10 years confinement, three of which were to be in a prison, with the remainder in a labor camp.
[21:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. law to Snoop on Citizens' Info Stored Abroad - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:44] <exec> 08└─If you want to write your autobiography go get a fuckin' blog.
[21:02:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:31] <exec> 08└─Does it help to be contemptuous, no matter how deserving? We're stuck with somewhere between a quarter and a third of the population being ripe for exploitation because thinking is hard work and they'd rather someone else do it for them. For them, the world is a scary place, full of enemies. It's a...
[21:02:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 1453 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:34] <exec> 08└─It's hard to gauge exact numbers when it comes to this sort of thing, but I'm guessing part of why you think that is that you aren't recalling many of the rightist atrocities. I'm not talking about just Adolf & company, there are such incidents as: - The Armenian Genocide - The many atrocities of Fr...
[21:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:22] <exec> 08└─A better one is The Iliad and The Odyssey
[21:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:23] <exec> 08└─Does this have any more credibility than "Car Mechanics, June 1972, Page 17"?
[21:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:25] <exec> 08└─He didn't intend for us to kill the planet and it's animals.
[21:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:28] <exec> 08└─Does it help to be contemptuous, no matter how deserving? We're stuck with somewhere between a quarter and a third of the population being ripe for exploitation because thinking is hard work and they'd rather someone else do it for them. For them, the world is a scary place, full of enemies.
[21:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:30] <exec> 08└─"Meet my father, also my grandfather, my uncle, and his own father in law!" "Is that why they call him Odd Lot?" -- with apologies to the Cartoon History of the Universe :D
[21:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:32] <exec> 08└─Less, because we see cars every day. It's always funny to watch people with different versions of The One Truth sling shit at one another though.
[21:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Burz [6156] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:34] <exec> 08└─And just about every policy decision made by Victorian Britain can be considered right-wing, which perpetrated a whopping load of atrocities. This was an empire that outlawed (blockaded) famine relief to India and Ireland expressly to maintain ideal free-markets.
[21:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:37] <exec> 08└─Actually the story of Adam and Eve is way older than 2,000 years. And has its antecedents in Sumerian and, later, Babylonian literature. I can't help but notice that no one commenting on this thread seems to know the sources of these stories, or that many of them were lifted in part or wholesale fro...
[21:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Approves Single-Dose Flu Treatment - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:05] <exec> 08└─There are already strains of influenza that are resistant to Tamiflu and it would be incredibly unlikely that this other drug would be targeting a region of the virus that is present in all strains and that wouldn't be able to mutate. The drug itself is an inhibitor and will not "kill" the virus, so...
[21:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:02] <exec> 08└─GOOD /grumpycat.jpg I hate the fucking things. They're spy devices pretending to be phones but which are actually locked-down-to-shit computers.
[21:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:15] <exec> 08└─LEDs generally last the life of the car.
[21:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:16] <exec> 08└─Those things all apply to incandescent bulbs too. LEDs remove the biggest failure point: the bulb itself, plus they eliminate the crappy connection at the bulb itself: with LEDs, you use a much more modern automotive connector to interface the wire harness to the lamp module, instead of being stuck...
[21:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:18] <exec> 08└─Define significant... I've definitely seen half-functional LED lamp modules driving around.
[21:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:55] <exec> 08└─The nickname... So ironic.
[21:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:56] <exec> 08└─Easier, steal rich person's phone, immediately visit Amazon store, grab everything. No cashiers, so wear a ski mask to hide your face from cameras, don't have to touch anything except the phone and stuff in the cart so no prints except the easily wipeable cart handle.
[21:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work like iun the movies. The host country has to accept the appointment of someone as a diplomat for diplomatic immunity to kick in, and it is usually done before they even arrive in the country.
[21:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:43] <exec> 08└─It's called a surety in the US too. For example, I got sent to jail awaiting trial on 100k cash assurety. Unless otherwise specified, only 10% of this amount needs to be posted. The 10% is "bond". If "no 10%" is specified, it's just a surety. Easiest way is to just call everything bail.
[21:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:45] <exec> 08└─They tried this approach but the UK government has to accept the diplomatic staff request (which they did not) so they could not get him out with that immunity - back to the holding pattern basically.
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[21:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:32] <exec> 08└─Needs a really loud alarm at 9,999 years to scare the fuck out of whatever is left of humanity at that time.
[21:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:34] <exec> 08└─$42 million is a hell of a lot of money... for a clock
[21:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:36] <exec> 08└─Consider this: 10,000 years ago, our ancestors had barely begun making the transition from hunting and gathering to simple agriculture
[21:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:38] <exec> 08└─And it will probably be pilfered just as were the ancient Egyptian tombs. Probably sooner rather than later if history is any guide. As the nation crumbles the drilled out cave will become some factions hole in the wall, change hands by force, stripped of titanium, and trade goods. Bezos can't build...
[21:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:41] <exec> 08└─Bezos is the world's richest man, at least when his Amazon stock is counted.
[21:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─-ne? How much of the code we write today will still be in use ten thousand years from now? The vast majority of code that I've written in three decades won't even run on today's computers. Let's start with small steps: How much of your code will still be in use in ten years? There's lots of ten year...
[21:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:45] <exec> 08└─The Great Pyramid was once clad in white marble.
[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of an episode of Futurama in which 'Great Pharaoh' Bender has his giant statue constructed. "Remember me"
[22:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Governor commands them.... and then allows direct Federal control of them when FEMA assumes command of a situation under Title 32, again at the Governor's request. Not to mention Defense Support of Civilian Activities, where Federal troops may provide support roles as well. https://training...
[22:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what your point is.
[22:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:24] <exec> 08└─Replying to myself but I know Ari will appreciate this: There are well understood socio-economic studies predicting exactly what would happen with massive low skilled migration. [youtube.com]
[22:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:26] <exec> 08└─Your comment and the necessary reply have both already appeared in this thread. Your comment is redundant.
[22:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:28] <exec> 08└─In spite of the name, the National guard is under State Government control when deployed as a police force in the US. Perhaps that's a distinction with out a difference in your mind.
[22:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─No, you'd still stick to the propaganda being shoved down your throat cause you just love that hard sweaty propaganda.
[22:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:33] <exec> 08└─Not at all irrelevant! Sweden went from a peaceful civil society of very few local sub cultures to a dangerous country full of unemployable middle eastern immagrents invited in by their government over the objections of the citizens. What an astounding turnabout in just three or four years. It i...
[22:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:35] <exec> 08└─Soylentnews forgets what hard tech is and what a good article about technology is. Instead, soylentnews uses click-bait articles about highly-charged and emotional issues like politics, religion, environment, and sexuality. Fortunately for us, their subscribers are all experts in these areas and hav...
[22:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:38] <exec> 08└─The Swedes are presented with a situation that they hope to be temporary, so they use a resource that's available to deal with it. European countries don't have gun-toting cops at every street corner. They also don't have gung-ho brainwashed military nutjobs (exceptions happen) who only know their w...
[22:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:40] <exec> 08└─Soylentnews forgets what hard tech is and what a good article about technology is.
[22:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:42] <exec> 08└─Ironically, your comment adds the least to this website.
[22:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:44] <exec> 08└─Because maybe, just maybe there are certain policies which lead to the rise of crime that, if addressed, will reverse the trend of one of the formerly most peaceful societies in the world now considers military interventions to deal with rampant criminality. You know, treating the disease rather tha...
[22:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:47] <exec> 08└─It is the new "first post" of political stories.
[22:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:49] <exec> 08└─Migrant areas of Sweden are not becoming war zones because of centrists or people on the right.
[22:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:51] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with this Malmo place that makes that article read like a world war 2 battle?
[22:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:23] <exec> 08└─The policy had nothing to do with Australian politicians, they would not have been notified, as this would be an entirely operational matter. It might be hard for people living outside the Antipodes to understand, but we guard our biosecurity very jealously here, as we depend very heavily on agricu...
[22:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:25] <exec> 08└─Occam suggests that these flutes were mistaken for live bamboo, and therefore the musician denying the existence of live bamboo, customs denying the existence of flutes, and the confiscated flutes not being in luggage all make sense. Anecdotally, I can see where an overzealous goon could mistake a N...
[22:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─Mindset understood. Assurances won't trump it. Permanent sample timeout is the only way to prevent this. That says that for future comparisons, folks in Australia need to travel to where the samples are instead of asking for them to be shipped to them. Given the mindset, seems like a reasonable way...
[22:02:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:17] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know if his "Christian convictions" were paid for by the extraction industry.
[22:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:55] <exec> 08└─Derpy 13:37
[22:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:56] <exec> 08└─Quoting the bible is pointless; quoting it back at someone quoting the bible is a good way to point out the first quote was pointless.
[22:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:58] <exec> 08└─Here is Obama slipping up, mentioning his Muslim faith: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] That said, I think it is more realistic to think that he is an atheist with strong positive feelings for Muslims, which is bad enough. His father was Muslim. (actually supposed to qualif...
[22:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:25] <exec> 08└─Nexus 6P. Google and Huawei have not totally locked that device down, so it is perfectly possible to install any number of third-party firmware bundles when Google eventually stops making official firmware updates for it. The big problem is that stupid built-in battery. I lucked out this time becaus...
[22:07:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:02] <exec> 08└─It's the current that's more dangerous than the voltage though.
[22:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:40] <exec> 08└─I'm replying because you're replying. Why are YOU so argumentative on this topic?
[22:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:42] <exec> 08└─As opposed to now where someone could plug something into the lighter socket and the whole electrical system is dead? Or more likely in both cases, a fuse blows and life goes on.
[22:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:44] <exec> 08└─An incandescent oven light is desirable for me, as I bake bread and make yogurt often. A little extra heat in an out of the way place is nice to have.
[22:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:46] <exec> 08└─Why would you need 12V for infotainment? Infotainment systems are electronic, so they run on something like 3.3V, not 12V, and perhaps some other odd voltage for the LCD panel, and probably something else odd (and higher than 12V) for the audio amplifiers. When a new generation of cars with 48V buse...
[22:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:48] <exec> 08└─Hooked up the wrong terminal first? Dumbass! If you get zapped jumping a car, you have no business popping the hood.
[22:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:51] <exec> 08└─Depends on the LED. If you're talking about a simple indicator LED, those are usually 0.7-1V. The ultra-high-brightness ones are probably a little higher, but I've never heard of any diode that had a 2V Vf rating.
[22:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:53] <exec> 08└─Because you keep coming up with things that aren't really problems with converting to 48V and claiming that they are, that's why. The ideas you have are simply wrong: wiring insulation is not a significant factor, redesigning parts and intentionally sticking with 12V when it's no extra work to desig...
[22:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:55] <exec> 08└─Well in that case, it sounds like the individual diodes failed, rather than there being a problem with the wiring, connections, etc. LEDs do age and fail over enough time (less if the LED is driven closer to its limit).
[22:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:57] <exec> 08└─And then there's the equivalent in small ocean going yachts that have all that plus 120/240 60/50 Hz systems capable of jacking in to any dock plug in the world. Conversion would be straight forward but apparently these people need to be able to buy electric toys in the local market and power them t...
[22:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:00] <exec> 08└─Huh? The heat produced by an oven light is nothing compared to that produced by the oven's heating elements. An LED light in an oven would be nice, as it would be much whiter and could be brighter than standard oven bulbs. But we don't have other lighting technology that works all that reliably at 5...
[22:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:38] <exec> 08└─When I say credit card I meant physical cards. The CC comps are still there linked to Amazon pay, much like how they are linked to Paypal. That is already available long before Amazon Go came about. I would disagree that there is no problem needing a solution. From my perspective as a retail buyer I...
[22:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:39] <exec> 08└─Haven't had the pleasure of using Amazon Go yet, since there's none available in my neck of the woods.. but I'd think they would ask for some authentication like finger ID or pin on the app before entering the store? Otherwise yea that would be dumb.. this would be an area they'd need to fix. Keep i...
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[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─The central insight of, among others, Buddhism, is that all conditioned ("contingent" might be a better word here) things are not first-order phenomena, and therefore destructible. All that has form will cease to exist someday. Don't fret over it; even the fretting is one of those conditioned things...
[22:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:47] <exec> 08└─It's called a sundial. Pretty accurate too. Built out of proper materials it should easily last 10,000 years... or until the Taliban blow it up, whichever comes first.
[22:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─that's what i was thinking when i read the summary: bullshit!
[22:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:52] <exec> 08└─only a super rich dumbass would spend so much money for something so stupid. you could start a project to start community gardens or some shit and feed millions of people, but nooo, lets build a fancy clock.
[22:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:54] <exec> 08└─Would that be accurate in 10,000 years? That's a long time, even continental drift would be a factor. It seems from this image [wikimedia.org] that North America is moving left / rotating counter clockwise, so it would probably be a little off by then ...
[22:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, but instead of being a clock, let it be a countdown timer. As it starts to wind down in the last few days, start some rotating symbols on the clock. At the very end, send out a large mechanical Cucko from the face of the clock.
[22:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:59] <exec> 08└─If they installed it in Texas they need to set it back twenty years.
[23:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Clock Being Installed in Texas - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:01] <exec> 08└─Well, given 10,000 years, that's just $4200 per year. ;-)
[23:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 3503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:51] <exec> 08└─The article in the link is a tad short, and short on information to say the least. When they talk about sending in the Army (or the military) they are not talking about going in to do some kind of purge with special forces or just the army, even tho there are probably people that wouldn't mind that....
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:52] <exec> 08└─. Unfortunately, there's no way to stop the violence from escalating.
[23:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:54] <exec> 08└─reality check
[23:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 1977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:57] <exec> 08└─Three things: * "Are refugee men over-represented in Swedish crime" is he wrong question. The correct question is whether people of non-Swedish, and even more markedly non western-European origin are over-represented in crime statistics, to which the answer is a resounding "yes, very much so". The n...
[23:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:59] <exec> 08└─Ummm.. in the article in the very first link. first this... most violence in Sweden can’t be linked to asylum seekers
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:01] <exec> 08└─oh heaven's no, it's "gang violence". not "immigrant violence".
[23:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:04] <exec> 08└─SD are most certainly not neo-nazis, nor any other kind of nazis. When the party was founded there were people from the scene involved which has led to this stamp being applied by opponents. Those opponents tend to ignore the fact that the Social Democratic party actually sympathised with the nazis...
[23:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:06] <exec> 08└─because you goofy bastard. people are sick of the covering up of the goddamn rapes and shit these stupid monkeys are committing. why are you running interference for propagandists who enable rapists?
[23:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:08] <exec> 08└─People used to think that a $5 trillion national debt was a serious problem in the 1990s; now, the national U.S. debt is $20 trillion—the 90s don't look so bad...
[23:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:11] <exec> 08└─Of course they are comparable, having the same nature (as opposed to apples to oranges). If you have something to say otherwise, by all means table it.
[23:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:13] <exec> 08└─Infowars devotee?
[23:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:15] <exec> 08└─Which of course in no way applies here, because Sweden isn't the USA. That said, I'm not convinced the US response to bad guys with military firepower has been much better. If your problem is "criminal gang with enough weaponry to outgun your police forces", which seems like the least-bad choice: A....
[23:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:51] <exec> 08└─There's a current story about car imports to New Zealand being infested with stink bugs; the cargo ships are just sat waiting, unable to offload the cars, as NZ can't risk the damn things going native. I vaguely remember reading that the best chemical to kill them off is also guaranteed to destroy t...
[23:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:52] <exec> 08└─Oh god, not this myth again.
[23:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:55] <exec> 08└─i've seen the simpsons australia episode and figured this was bio pigs doing what bio pigs do.
[23:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:57] <exec> 08└─It's always Queenslanders embarrassing Australia, fucking Queenslanders
[23:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Botanists Around the Globe Floored by a Priceless Collection Gone Up in Smoke - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:59] <exec> 08└─Yup, those countries sure screwed up, not having DNA analyzed and 3D scanned their 300-year-old specimens. What kind of terrible collector doesn't do that after bagging and tagging, and before putting them in storage?! Those 300-year-old botanists should be exhumed and tried for their crimes!
[23:03:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Scott Pruitt Cited the Bible to Defend his Oil-friendly Policies - 754 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:58] <exec> 08└─These are people that actively supported, and continue to support, on Christian religious grounds, a guy who exemplifies at least 6 of the 7 Deadly Sins (gluttony is up for debate, sloth, wrath, pride, lust, avarice, and even envy are pretty much his defining characteristics), and has broken at leas...
[23:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Slip For First Time Ever - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─I know plenty of "normies" that run out of space. Pictures, and auto-downloaded email attachments they don't know how to delete. A selfie addict will fill a phone very quickly.
[23:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CDC Plans New Atlanta High Containment Lab - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:16] <exec> 08└─In the real world, people and businesses need to plan and budget for these type of investments. It's just like saving to buy a new house or building. It irritates me that government entities refuse to plan for major investments, then cry to congress because of their poor planning and need for a shin...
[23:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:24] <exec> 08└─Well, the 100-Watt LED chip arrays normally run on around 32-34 Volts. So what voltage you have to start off with is really a tiny consideration. Many designs are extremely tolerant of quite wide input voltage range. We have made some extremely clever innovations in SwitchMode power conversion in t...
[23:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:25] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping the newer 48 volt car batteries will... standardize on a public interface.... personally I would love to see them interface as an isolated SPI. So I would get serial clock and data ( incoming and outgoing ) data, and a "Yes, I am talking to You" Chip Select line.... If I had my druther...
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Blames Britain Over Julian Assange Impasse - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─When directly asked whether the UK have already received an extradition request, the government have consistently refused to confirm or deny. Given they won't tell us whether a request has already been received, my guess is "Yes".
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[23:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$8.5 Billion Expansion Planned at Chicago's O'Hare Airport - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:35] <exec> 08└─It's wrong to put a train in between the airport and downtown; this transport function should be reserved for taxi cabs. Just ask NYC.
[23:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$8.5 Billion Expansion Planned at Chicago's O'Hare Airport - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:36] <exec> 08└─They could invest a fraction of the cost of a new line into making the Blue Line faster and more comfortable. It's otherwise a pretty fast and reliable way to get straight into ORD (looking at you, dumb LAX). The other place to invest money to help accessibility would be a solution to ease congestio...