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[00:00:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 469 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:38] <exec> 08└─First off, junkies are not people. They might have been at one time but they aren't now. Junkies will lie, cheat, and steal even from their own mother. Junkies will shit and piss on everything - your stuff, their own stuff, it doesn't matter. Junkies will curse you and spit on you for wrecking their...
[00:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:41] <exec> 08└─Then there's "Life in Arkansas". No parole, no reprieve, no pardon, no commutation. And most of the inmates do not even realize it is a prison! They think, "At least were not in Kansas anymore", or "Thank goodness we don't have to live in Wyoming." But still, meets the Constitutional definition of...
[00:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:43] <exec> 08└─Had my brother just been written off and thrown away, as you suggest, it would have cost society tens of millions of dollars in economic activity, five fewer quality members of our society would not be contributing positively to our society.
[00:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:46] <exec> 08└─Very few people, if any, can be credited as 'being indispensable for this world' - one more reason to require an unconditional level of respect that is due to anyone just for being a biological human, even for junkies.
[00:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:48] <exec> 08└─Even Kansas City got the fuck out of Kansas.
[00:01:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:00] <exec> 08└─If you want anything resembling secure elections, you use paper and marker. This electronic crap is snake oil. If a human can't read it without assistance, it's no damn good. Use of unneeded technology for frivolous purposes does not make you more "advanced". It just means you'll buy anything.
[00:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:20] <exec> 08└─The challenge as I see it with that style of anonymity is ballot box stuffing... all too easy for a local official to "vote for" a bunch of people who were forced to stay home by threat of death to their familes, or something.
[00:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:12] <exec> 08└─Tri-weekly Try weekly Try, weakly
[00:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 3127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:13] <exec> 08└─Proposal for 18USC63 [cornell.edu] Submitted as HR666 by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan. Bill Titile: Fight Unwanted Creeps, Kooks, Tramps, Homeless, Effing Punks, and Obsequious, Obtuse Retards (FUCKTHEPOOR) Act of 2018. New section 1352: Whoever commits fraud against the United States by being shiftle...
[00:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:16] <exec> 08└─The modern human came to prominence through collectivism; only the very top of the social hierarchy could get away with being "anti-authoritarian". Hitherto, it has been common, acceptable practice for anti-authoritarians in the lower ranks to be culled unceremoniously, thereby selectively breeding...
[00:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. Taking zinc tablets the day before helps. Can help make lots more gunk to eject. Have to be careful with zinc though. Can't take too much. I used to get myself off 4 or 5 times a day. 8 or more on bad/good days. Strangely, a good roll in the sack with a girl could set me right for two or three...
[00:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:20] <exec> 08└─I've hit 40. It would be 3 or 4 times a day if I didn't exercise self control. When I can exercise self control. Fine. If I didn't work in a place where getting time and privacy is rare.
[00:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:22] <exec> 08└─This is really depressing. It fairly much describes my life. I will never go in to get psychiatric help with a mental issue. The stigma is too much.
[00:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:25] <exec> 08└─Man, you haven't lived til you've done it 3 times in a row as fast as you can: it gets you down to expelling nothing but the intensity goes waaay up. Then you do it later.
[00:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:27] <exec> 08└─That's the actual problem: Parents interpret their kids as being themselves, or at least being their possessions. The powers that be should do more to teach parents (and adults in general) that each child is an individual who is in need of being guided into adulthood, not reconfigured physically or...
[00:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:29] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's me! Aced the math and science portions of the test, sucked up English and history, graduated with a 2.75. Got accepted to Berkeley's high energy particle physics program, but gpa was too low for financial aid. $40000 per semester was out of my range. Been working at a gas station for the...
[00:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:32] <exec> 08└─We did the same — but I clearly remember one boy in elementary school who was still constantly getting into trouble because he was hyperactive, had virtually no impulse control, and couldn't focus on anything for more than a minute or two. In retrospect, I feel sorry for him; he was often very fun...
[00:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:34] <exec> 08└─From this perspective, three defining features of ADHD emerge that explain every aspect of the condition: 1. an interest-based nervous system 2. emotional hyperarousal 3. rejection sensitivity
[00:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:13] <exec> 08└─With electricity, every house-hold or commercial building already have that [infrastructure]
[00:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:57] <exec> 08└─What if it's a Nazi with a pointed stick?
[00:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:59] <exec> 08└─You know the protocol? What's the frequency, Kenneth!!!
[00:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:01] <exec> 08└─You did not view the wounderful Youtube video of the "not White Power" AC, who was there. He was in prison, you know.
[00:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:03] <exec> 08└─I repeat, Runaway, shut up now! You are repeating things that are not true that have been inserted into your rather small American mind by Information Warfare operations you cannot comprehend! Nazis, Runaway, full-on anti-semitic, Pole-killing Nazis. These are your friends, now?
[00:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:06] <exec> 08└─Stay away from crazy people holding a weapon?
[00:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:08] <exec> 08└─jmorris, you are such an idiot! You know nothing about guns! Antifa guys who were chasing Fields with AR-15s,
[00:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:10] <exec> 08└─The AC. He is*everywhere*
[00:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How do Tactics Spread? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:12] <exec> 08└─I was real? What am I now, chopped liver? In any case, you know what they say: Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Unless it is the disease-like spread of a tactical meme. Nothing like an argument you could drive a truck into.
[00:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Exposure and Heart Disease Linked - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:23] <exec> 08└─No, as I told elsewhere, I'm just tired and 'mis-spelled' mercury. Brain farts when you're old can be devastating.
[00:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Gauntlet" Predecessor "Dandy" Source Code Released - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:37] <exec> 08└─One of my strong memories of playing multiplayer Gauntlet at the arcade with friends was when we played levels that announced "Shots now hurt other players". One of our 'friends' used to take the opportunity to target us instead of the monsters. This would usually end up with us ganging up against h...
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[00:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:40] <exec> 08└─Democratic decision-making gives an equal voice to unequal people. If the power to vote is given out freely, it cannot be worth much—especially when one's current vote is essentially independent of the outcomes of one's previous votes.
[00:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:42] <exec> 08└─If you want to win the bills, you got to have the skills [wired.com] in the Great White North.
[00:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:44] <exec> 08└─I hate those people and want them dead. The trouble is that I have to live among them. They are all over the place. Their stupidity is revolting.
[00:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:46] <exec> 08└─"2 + 2 = 5." - Winston S. Churchill
[00:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:49] <exec> 08└─The problem, historically speaking, is that means to triage the voters tend to be misused for disenfranchising people for reasons other than their actual competence. A lot of people think that's a worse problem than some poorly reasoned votes. Although considering congress, the executive and the jud...
[00:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:51] <exec> 08└─Wasn't "2 + 2 = 5" an Intel Pentium patent? For suitably large values of 2 of course.
[00:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:53] <exec> 08└─But what, truly, is a "high" number? Which is bigger: "point nine percent" or "point sixty-four percent"? And are those numbers "higher" than, say, "one third"? Bet you could even get a lot of college grads with questions like that, if they weren't already on the alert for a trick. Anyway, litres (U...
[00:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:56] <exec> 08└─The trouble is that I have to live among them. They are all over the place. Their stupidity is revolting.
[00:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:58] <exec> 08└─If you don't use certain skills often enough, they atrophy. I forgot the Pledge of Allegiance and long division (by hand), for example. And different people forget different skills at a different pace. Yes, some of these are obvious, but what is "obvious" is a matter of perspective.
[01:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:01] <exec> 08└─There is a certain logic in what you say. However, dumb people are generally just as good (or better) at dragging your ass into the street and beating the shit out of you. Probably better to stick with one vote per person that to argue this one out.
[01:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know where these "math literate" people shop, but around here you can't buy 1/3 of a liter. If you wanted to ask, "what's one third of $3.15" then you should have asked that exact question. Prices are whatever the store sets them at. A 7.5 ounce can of Coke is probably priced higher then a 1...
[01:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:05] <exec> 08└─Simple solution: People come to vote, and at the top of the ballot, there are 5 random questions taken from the 100 in the booklet that foreigners applying for US citizenship have to learn. Those are very basic questions about the functions of government, and rights. Answer at least three questions...
[01:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:21] <exec> 08└─It's a mixed bag, some articles are very good, but anything controversial tends to attract bias, and the system that was supposed to police that was broken down entirely and taken over by hostile forces years ago. Climate change articles are a good example, there are several people getting paid quit...
[01:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I wasn't clear. I wasn't commenting about Wikipedia's gentle request for support. I thought it odd that The Register acts like a near-crime has been committed here, when they could well be guilty of the same offense: using the HREF tag as designed.
[01:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:25] <exec> 08└─They could stop deleting pages, for a start. Notability is nonsense. If I go to wikipedia searching for a brand, person or concept then the mere fact that someone has bothered to search for something makes it notable. Worst are the red-links where someone has cited X as some valid example of an idea...
[01:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:27] <exec> 08└─Which is what he meant, at least that's how I understand his remark.
[01:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:29] <exec> 08└─The media are currently promoting the idea that the word "globalist" is an anti-semitic slur. [youtube.com] Which is interesting since I recall anti-globalisation protesters in the run up to the occupy movement being almost exclusively left wing. Perhaps the next move will be for the media to admit...
[01:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:32] <exec> 08└─Text STOP to opt-out.
[01:00:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Bulgarian "Treaty Brides" Have Unusually Elongated Skulls - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:40] <exec> 08└─"France! We come from France!"
[01:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Phase-Grating Moiré Neutron Interferometer Can Scan Inside Large Solid Objects - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:53] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought too, but I guess if the neutrons are low energy and the exposure is short then it's OK. They're not talking about shooting neutron beams at people, just objects. I would think that they'd have some general idea that the beams would not result in the object becoming excessiv...
[01:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps "tens of millions of dollars" was a bit hyperbolic, but so what? Sometimes it's useful to use a little hyperbole to drive a point home.
[01:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/three-arkansas-teens-face-cor1poral-punishment-participating-gun-control-walkout/ [rawstory.com] That'll larn 'em!
[01:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:27] <exec> 08└─Even Kansas City got the fuck out of Kansas. That's how shitty it is.
[01:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:00] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is only to ~160GB so far
[01:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:03] <exec> 08└─Anxiety is the first time you can't do it a second time Panic is the second time you can't do it the first time.
[01:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:04] <exec> 08└─Women are counter-revolutionary
[01:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:07] <exec> 08└─What's an ACT?
[01:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:09] <exec> 08└─I dunno about that but they're damned sure counter-intuitive.
[01:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:11] <exec> 08└─Read the article. Interest-based focus is probably the single most defining characteristic of ADHD.
[01:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:14] <exec> 08└─Mouthwash [actoralcare.com] that doesn't taste like you just licked a chemical spill. Oh, it can also refer to a college acceptance test too but the mouthwash is more useful.
[01:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:16] <exec> 08└─Depends on your age mostly. At fifteen a guy'd be pretty sore after eight times but it'd absolutely be doable. Not so much at thirty.
[01:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:56] <exec> 08└─> Most other "commercial buildings" do not have enough space even for their own workers, This is one of the biggest differences between UK and USA, in terms of what I've seen when driving around--outside large city centers. Most places in USA you are not allowed to build a commercial/industrial buil...
[01:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caught Mining Bitcoin at Work - "Florida Man" Style - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:03] <exec> 08└─Where I work now, personal phones are strictly verboten. But going into the restrooms, because of the way the lighting is laid out you can see the shadows of forearms and thumbs twiddling phones cast across the floor, and you don't need to be creepy or nosey to see how obvious it is. Although it's n...
[01:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caught Mining Bitcoin at Work - "Florida Man" Style - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:04] <exec> 08└─I've seen people print entire color booklets for things unrelated to work. Recreational groups associated with ladies, mostly, but most notably stuff from the Vietnamese guy who went crazy. He would print huge half-ream tomes of barely-Romanized moon-runes and with shifty eyes hold them tightly agai...
[01:06:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] 02 - 06Game Developer Embraces Modding Community So Much They Made Those Guys' Work An Official Release - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:19] <exec> 08└─A better way to do it is by Microsoft, which officially hired the modders of Forgotten Empires [forgottenempires.net] then released it as offical update of Age of Empires II.
[01:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on sale now at $35 - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:38] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. But there's this thing called Defense In Depth. Even if it IS pwned, perhaps I don't want it to phone home. I can physically control and see where the wired connections are going. With wireless, I just have to hope the manufacturer isn't incompetent, or out to get me, or I didn't scre...
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[01:59:57] <exec> 08└─* they get paid more than you * they get laid more than you
[01:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:58] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. Either that, or the problem is one of education. If one believed in the power of voting, then the result is our fault. Otherwise, it's swine that walk on two-legs, that also believe they're unequal to most, that control the state of education today. Gee... that's awfully hard to figure out h...
[02:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:01] <exec> 08└─Well, like all skills, they get dull if you don't use them on a regular basis. I found this out the hard way during job interviews. I recognized the submission department formula instantly as the arc-length formula and can do your basic exponential/logistic-curve linear homogenous differential equat...
[02:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:03] <exec> 08└─Soylent readers are probably in some form of STEM
[02:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:05] <exec> 08└─Some of us would like to think so, since a disproportionate amount of Soylent readers are probably in some form of STEMM.
[02:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:08] <exec> 08└─You darn kids with your crap music on your phones! Get off my lawn!
[02:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:10] <exec> 08└─> I hate those people and want them dead. Well, figuratively speaking, me too (I'm not planning any murders). This includes whoever wrote the "math" problem in TFA. Anyone that has been in a market and looked at bottled drink prices knows that if: > "...a litre of cola costs US$3.15." Then a third o...
[02:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:12] <exec> 08└─The headline could be testing us.
[02:00:14] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 804 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:15] <exec> 08└─$1.05 is the answer to "How much is the cost per 1/3 Liter?". The economically naive might think it is the answer to: "How much would you pay for 1/3 litre" but it is not. The actual cost to provide are influenced by: 1) Packaging costs. The cost of the liquid varies by volume but the packaging var...
[02:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, phrasing the question that way was probably deliberate because they knew that presenting problems in unusual formats tends to trip people up, something that has long been understood by people that set quizzes and want to throw a curve ball. Unfortuntely that just means that's the researche...
[02:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─Facts now "flamebait" [usdebtclock.org]
[02:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:22] <exec> 08└─I work at a college and this isn't just people who have been relying upon calculators since they graduated that have abysmal arithmetic, I see plenty of students that just graduated high school who basically can't even do basic algebra even though it was required to graduate. A large part of the pro...
[02:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:24] <exec> 08└─The woman walked into her counselor's office and sat down in a luxurious chair. The counselor greeted her and beckoned her to tell him her story. The woman hesitantly recounted the traumatic experience that befell her, and told him how it has affected her life ever since. The woman had been raped by...
[02:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:26] <exec> 08└─It probably wouldn't be like that, but I do see a bunch of deals at the local grocery store that are things like 10 for $10. Granted, that one is dead simple, but there's sometimes weird numbers like 4 for $2.99 which are somewhat more complicated. And if you look carefully the sign usually states t...
[02:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:29] <exec> 08└─Well since they asked, "How much would you pay?" my answer is 0. I don't buy cola or any sugared water for that matter.
[02:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:31] <exec> 08└─I think those questions are far too easy. They also have a bit of a leftist bias, particularly regarding choice of topics. Still, it'd be better than nothing. A nice question to ask would be about a statement similar to: "A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the r...
[02:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:33] <exec> 08└─What you do with the extra 2/3 of a liter is up to you, but you'll be paying for a whole liter. Soda might be sold as gas stations, but it doesn't come out of the pump.
[02:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:36] <exec> 08└─> Suppose, a litre of cola costs US$3.15. If you buy one third of a litre of cola, how much would you pay? It's a trick question, designed to detect tourists and immigrants. If you're paying in USD, the correct answer is, of course, "Litres? Speak American!"
[02:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:38] <exec> 08└─Algebraic. Fucking. Manipulation. That's all undergrad math is, to include math majors. Get a few gems like this one, [radartutorial.eu] and practice solving (isolating) for as many variables in those equations as you can. I don't share your gripes about multiplication tables, but definitely do wher...
[02:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:41] <exec> 08└─Right? My first thought of the answer to "How much does 1/3rd of a litre of soda cost if a litre costs $3.15" is $3.15 because the store doesn't sell thirds of litres.
[02:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:43] <exec> 08└─Very easy, they put the answer right at the beginning. You pay $3.15, you get your cola. And a little more than you wanted. Drink up!
[02:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:04] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia contributor Phoebe Ayers framed the issue more bluntly, commenting via Twitter [twitter.com], "It's not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor."
[02:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:06] <exec> 08└─Isn't it such a shame that Wikipedia propagates conspiracy theories [wikipedia.org] themselves?
[02:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:08] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, it's not the linking that's the problem, but the inclusion of scrapped snippets from Wikipedia. The issue is in making it available, but not editable. Wikipedia depends on "free labor", and every visitor is a potential editor; if you scrap content and post it elsewhere (espec...
[02:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:00] <exec> 08└─Page Not Found The page you are looking for doesn't seem to exist.
[02:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:01] <exec> 08└─You just made that up, spur of the moment, didn't you? I notice that you don't offer any citations at all.
[02:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:37] <exec> 08└─The Bitcoin blockchain should be used to settle a snapshot of the world's transaction history. The actual transactions should take place "off-chain", by other means, such as the decentralized Lightening Network. It's not helpful to be able to verify your coffee purchase for all time; however, it is...
[02:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:47] <exec> 08└─Nah, not really. I have a wicked case of it myself and I don't even mind talking about it here in the land of trolls and honey. Life really is much, much more bearable once you figure out a treatment regimen that works for you. Like I was on Adderall for years. Worked fantastically but eventually it...
[02:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're saying it's necessarily a direct result so much as a commonly occurring result. Side effect or direct effect is kind of irrelevant to the person concerned if common treatment handles all of the above.
[02:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:51] <exec> 08└─Truth of the matter is somewhere in the middle of your choices. If you don't pass your morals on to your child, it's entirely your fault when they grow up to be a worthless human being. Note that I said teach not indoctrinate. It's the difference between attending a debate and attending a lecture. W...
[02:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:53] <exec> 08└─In the US there are two commonly used standardized tests for getting into college. The more famous one is the SAT, but there's also the ACT. https://en.wikipedia.org(test) [wikipedia.org]
[02:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:55] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the stigma is the lesser of the two evils. But, it really depends upon the situation. I can't personally recommend people going unless it's a severe illness as the way that mental health professionals treat the mentally ill is shameful. ADHD in particular is an issue because there's so muc...
[02:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:58] <exec> 08└─The DSM-V – the bible of psychiatric diagnosis
[02:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:39] <exec> 08└─Sheep like you deserve to live in australia.
[02:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caught Mining Bitcoin at Work - "Florida Man" Style - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:48] <exec> 08└─x86 is a usually safe assumption, but you're absolutely right. Man, technology moved so much faster back then. Every year seemed like a quantum leap in processing power, graphics, sound, peripherals... by comparison it feels like we're stuck in a technological rut today.
[02:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on sale now at $35 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:22] <exec> 08└─These are slightly bigger [pcengines.ch] than an RPi, but way more powerful and quite capable of running pfSense with OpenVPN. I bought one from here. [nicegear.nz] Including a case, power supply and a 16GB mSATA drive I spend about $380 (Local money, about $US275 or so). It's about the size of a...
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[02:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:42] <exec> 08└─I've been asking for years why they need hard to get chemicals that need to be administered in a certain dose in a certain order, and still fail a lot? Why not just pump CO2, CO, or nitrogen into the chamber and let the prisoner go to sleep. Hell, do it while he's eating his final meal. He'll think...
[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:43] <exec> 08└─I want MDMA with my nitro.
[02:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:45] <exec> 08└─Every hear of a carbon monoxide detector? They exist because the human body doesn't rebel dramatically against the stuff. It just quietly goes to sleep (or continues sleeping). OTOH, the human body recognizes nitrogen narcosis and attempts to fight it. What you are planning to do is torture and viol...
[02:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:48] <exec> 08└─The firing squad is fine. Forget that nonsense with some rifles containing blanks. Let's just do a 12-gauge blank, pressed against the lower back of the head. The noose is fine. No, it doesn't matter how you tie the knot and it doesn't matter how far they fall. It's fine if they die of a snapped nec...
[02:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:50] <exec> 08└─This is why we need to bring back the guillotine, or firing squads. Not only are both a more stylish way to die, but quicker and less painful*. * In the case of the firing squad, we need to allow not just one but all snipers live bullets, but also with full-auto. If you've been sentenced to death, a...
[02:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:52] <exec> 08└─Uh, it does? Last I heard nitrogen was so dangerous precisely because we *can't* detect it in lethal amounts. It's CO2 that's cruel, as we have hypercapnic reflexes and the buildup of CO2 is what burns, rather than lack of oxygen.
[02:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:55] <exec> 08└─This may come as a surprise to you, Mr. Macho Man of Ultimate Manliness, but some of us would like to be *better* than the people we are ridding ourselves of.
[02:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:57] <exec> 08└─Disagree. Just like the American snipers in Vietnam and elsewhere allow their prey to finish their meals before death, you must allow the prisoner to finish theirs. It gives them more fuel and opportunity to make gloriously flippant and recorded-for-history remarks.
[02:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:59] <exec> 08└─Nitrogen narcosis happens to divers. It requires high pressure to drive excess nitrogen into the nerve cell membranes. Unless they'll be doing executions 100 feet under water, that doesn't apply. Nitrogen narcosis isn't even miserable. It's like taking heroin. Some prisoners would jump at the chance...
[03:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:02] <exec> 08└─This isn't narcosis. It's simple suffocation, but without the sensation of suffocation caused by excess CO2 in the blood. Using a breathing mask, you go from breathing air to breathing pure nitrogen in a single breath; consciousness lasts only seconds after that, and death occurs in minutes. All wit...
[03:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:04] <exec> 08└─How about anti-aircraft guns? I've heard they're a popular method of execution in some of the more enlightened areas of the world...
[03:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:06] <exec> 08└─Here on land, helium is the most humane option. You can go to your local grocery store and go out in a blaze of glory inflicting barotrauma upon yourself. And die with a chipmunk voice. Reciting Hilter speeches is a lot funnier at 8x the speed. Carbon monoxide works, sure, but that requires a setup....
[03:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:09] <exec> 08└─"Kill-roy" Smith
[03:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:11] <exec> 08└─Because it's more effective to go from air, to pure nitrogen, in as short a period as possible, and it's hard to change all the gas in a room from air to nitrogen in a short period of time. Americans buy billions of dollars worth of CPAP machines every year; every one of those would make for a cheap...
[03:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:13] <exec> 08└─The bastard earned a one-way ticket to eternity. I can't care much if he suffers on the way out. It takes a sick individual to torture the dumb bastard, but I can't really care that the prisoner might suffer some. Nitrogen sounds about as good as anything. Drugs were always stupid. Drugs are expensi...
[03:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:16] <exec> 08└─Don't kill them then. If you want to kill, don't be picky about it. Heroin as a lethal injection sounds good to me.
[03:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:18] <exec> 08└─Sort of, it's the reversal that's probably more helpful. You can displace the necessary oxygen with other gasses fairly quickly, but going back to an environment that prison officials can breath in is substantially easier if you're displacing the oxygen with nitrogen. Even better would probably be a...
[03:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:20] <exec> 08└─That's why I am always, without exception, against capital punishment in all cases. Any deviation from that standard of total prohibition will, eventually, lead to executing innocent people. The only acceptable number of innocent people murdered by the state is zero; hence, no death penalty--ever.
[03:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:23] <exec> 08└─Suppose we let people pledge money to use an anti-aircraft gun. It's only about $27 for each M-940 20mm MPT-SD round. Add a markup to make it $42 and require a multiple of 100, so $4200 minimum. Don't you worry, nobody in the whole country would think of paying that much for such a purpose. :-)
[03:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:25] <exec> 08└─man on earth, by luminousity. Although I've heard there is this orange guy who claims he glows the most better!
[03:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:28] <exec> 08└─It's not true about the nitrogen. As has been stated by somebody else, that only applies to individuals who have been pressurized and are brought back to normal pressure too quickly. In this context all that's likely to occur is for the individual to pass out quickly and die shortly thereafter. It's...
[03:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the human body recognizes nitrogen narcosis and attempts to fight it.
[03:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:32] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/I3s13jbmrn0?t=5m3s [youtu.be]
[03:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:15] <exec> 08└─I work at a college and this isn't just people who have been relying upon calculators since they graduated that have abysmal arithmetic, I see plenty of students that just graduated high school who basically can't even do basic algebra even though it was required to graduate.
[03:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:16] <exec> 08└─I'm terrible at math. I'm really terrible at math. I have no idea why my high school let me graduate with the math skills I had. Everything else had pretty decent grades, but math was always Cs and Ds. I never properly learned calculus, and I forgot all my geometry. That said, I can handle the four...
[03:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:18] <exec> 08└─No, they asked "If you buy one third of a litre of cola, how much would you pay?" 0 would only be the correct answer if you did NOT buy any cola. But since that was not the premise, 0 is not the answer. " I don't buy cola or any sugared water for that matter." Congratulations. You'd probably get alo...
[03:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:21] <exec> 08└─Dumb people are extremely easy to trap. They're extremely lucky that doing so is frowned upon, but that could easily change.
[03:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:23] <exec> 08└─The economically naive might think it is the answer to: "How much would you pay for 1/3 litre" but it is not.
[03:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:26] <exec> 08└─It's a trick question, designed to detect tourists and immigrants. If you're paying in USD, the correct answer is, of course, "Litres? Speak American!"
[03:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:28] <exec> 08└─But what, truly, is a "high" number?
[03:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:30] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, I inherited a mess. Big debt, terrible infrastructure -- look at what happened in Florida today -- crippling taxes. And I'm working with Congress to make it all so much better. We started with the taxes, we did the biggest Tax Cut in history. And now so many folks are getting bonuse...
[03:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:33] <exec> 08└─I went into politics instead of retiring. And I'm having a ball!
[03:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:35] <exec> 08└─A liter is what, 0.3579123928 of a good old American gallon?
[03:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:37] <exec> 08└─you could even get a lot of college grads with questions like that
[03:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:40] <exec> 08└─The big bottle you get from the vending machine is 1 liter.
[03:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:42] <exec> 08└─1/3 of a liter is 333 ml, and a standard 12 oz can is 355 ml, which is only slightly larger. Some stores do sell soda by the can, the going rate is usually 99 cents. With tax, about $1.06. So close enough ;)
[03:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:44] <exec> 08└─Really? That one is about as simple as they get. Add the reciprocals and reciprocate that. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, how naive. You think people in power will actually be inconvenienced by this kind of thing. Maybe one time, at which point whichever poor sap who does the inconveniencing gets his life destroyed and the politician loses a few minutes making angry calls.
[03:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:40] <exec> 08└─Still requires too much trust in the machine and the people who design, build, and maintain them, which just isn't necessary for this purpose. This is a system which must be totally open and transparent to everybody, not just the programmers and mathemagicians...
[03:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03paranoid1 [2904] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unprecedentedly Wide and Sharp Dark Matter Map - Subaru Telescope - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:58] <exec> 08└─Who's Eddy?
[03:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:57] <exec> 08└─If it works anything like it does for women: oxytocin. It's so so different doing it yourself with a vibrator compared to actually making love. I'd guess the same thing applies for f/m pairs too. The brain's the biggest sex organ after all :)
[03:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't have to be your house. The council can built it much like how they build parking ticket dispensers, not sure how the suburb councils work in the US, but that's how they work here in Oz. Of course folks that _do_ want to built it can, i.e. they may be net positive in their household power...
[03:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:42] <exec> 08└─Sheep like you deserve to live in australia.
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[04:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:09] <exec> 08└─The firing squad is fine.
[04:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:10] <exec> 08└─There are many ways to administer dihydrogen monoxide: 1. as a gas, it is very deadly, rapidly destroying tissue 2. it can be delivered as two separate precursor components, totally harmless, and then reacted in the lungs to produce the DHMO (my favorite method, because it goes KABOOM) 3. as a solid...
[04:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:12] <exec> 08└─The point of the blanks is to spare the executioners the knowledge that they definitely killed somebody. The executioners themselves don't know if they've got the live round or if it's one of the others and as such, they don't really know if they killed anybody. But, the trend towards more "humane"...
[04:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:15] <exec> 08└─It's hard to disagree - to my mind, there's a huge gap between "cruel and unusual" and "might cause some discomfort". "Cruel and unususal" is disemboweling an unsedated prisoner and watching them scream in agony until the lose consciousness from blood loss. Discomfort is insertion of an IV needle, o...
[04:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:17] <exec> 08└─I think we can find firing squad members who aren't a bunch of pussies.
[04:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:19] <exec> 08└─The death penalty really only makes sense in places and times where you can't ensure that convicted criminals will serve out their sentences without escaping. Back during the old west, where that was the case, having the death penalty was a practical necessity. But, the reality is that those days ar...
[04:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:22] <exec> 08└─I've always thought that an interesting death sentence would be one that is very indeterminate. A capital criminal is told "some morning in the next 365 days when you wake up you will be shot." It would be a little cruel, though not unusual if it became the norm.
[04:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─No, a pure nitrogen environment will cause no discomfort. The person will pass right out and then die shortly after. A CO2 environment would be excruciating, however. Nitrogen narcosis is what happens to divers deeper than 30m or so and is a very different phenomenon. Also, one of the dangers of it...
[04:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:26] <exec> 08└─You volunteer, I understand?
[04:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:29] <exec> 08└─Lifetime imprisonment.
[04:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:31] <exec> 08└─Heroin sounds pretty good to a lot of the inmates too. And we can't have that because they bad folks. Some states are even doing away with last meal requests.
[04:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:33] <exec> 08└─I suppose, if convenient to me, I'd do a few for free. I think most normal males would be willing. If I have to make a career out of it, moving my family and showing up every day bright and early, I'll be needing some decent pay. I'm sure there are cheaper people. But yes, basically.
[04:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:36] <exec> 08└─If you believe in Hell, they're going there anyway (and if they aren't, that's on God, and who are you to judge His decision). If you don't... well, they're gonna die, and that's it. Like taking out the trash, or putting a rabid animal under. Hell, exactly like that latter one. I've also always wond...
[04:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:38] <exec> 08└─The guilty doesn't find things out until they enter the room with the noose.
[04:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:40] <exec> 08└─Are you going to feed them and house them for life then? Why not do it to an entire population and call it socialism?
[04:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:43] <exec> 08└─Are you going to feed them and house them for life then?
[04:01:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:01] <exec> 08└─Simple solution: People come to vote, and at the top of the ballot, there are 5 random questions taken from the 100 in the booklet that foreigners applying for US citizenship have to learn. Those are very basic questions about the functions of government, and rights. Answer at least three questions...
[04:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:39] <exec> 08└─To get any cola, you have to buy the entire 1 liter bottle. The answer is $3.15. brown rice from the bulk section Yup. They need to get some people who aren't stupid and have them write the questions. You clearly make the short list. This stuff is why a generalized AI is difficult. (Watson blew Fina...
[04:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure its education. I bet most high school students could do this. It's just a skill people lose. And while they should not lose it, they just don't care enough. Of course you could argue that the failure was to ingrain in them the ability to realize simple math is a valuable skill...but I'd...
[04:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:43] <exec> 08└─Degrees F = (9/5*Degrees C)+32 Not hard to remember. 1 inch = 2.54cm 1m = 39.3 inches 1km ~= 0.68mi easy peasy 1l = 33.8 fl. oz no sweat 1kg=2.2 lbs 454g = 1lb 28.37g = 1 oz. Can of corn I'm an American and all of those came from memory. I learned that stuff in elementary school 40+ years ago.. WTF...
[04:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:45] <exec> 08└─When I read the start of this, I thought that as well. I thought the answer was going to be $3.15 and it was a trick question because you buy a liter, you don't dump out 2/3's of it then argue the price is $1.05.
[04:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:48] <exec> 08└─Actually, phrasing the question that way was probably deliberate because they knew that presenting problems in unusual formats tends to trip people up, something that has long been understood by people that set quizzes and want to throw a curve ball. Unfortuntely that just means that's the researche...
[04:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you George W. Bush and the bankster scum!
[04:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:52] <exec> 08└─Take my old friend... we'll call him Bill. Bill couldn't arithmetic his way out of a wet paper bag. I once referred to a "concubine" in a joke and he thought this meant some exotic form of orangutan. But if you drop Bill with nothing but lint in his pockets in any neighborhood, at any hour, anywhere...
[04:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:54] <exec> 08└─Or at the Dollar Tree/other dollar stores for the cheap brand sodas (full of yummy high fructose to keep the poor fat and unhealthy so they won't be in a position to rebel when the peasant purge comes!)
[04:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bulgarian "Treaty Brides" Have Unusually Elongated Skulls - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:29] <exec> 08└─Captured and permanently marked.
[04:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:08] <exec> 08└─Except that I CAN pay attention, and have no problem with focusing. I learned the material just fine, and I usually enjoyed lectures, I just didn't do the homework. I don't have issues doing what I'm required to do at work, even though it's boring stupid shit. No emotional hyperarousal, no RSD. I wa...
[04:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:53] <exec> 08└─I'll bet you won't be surprised to hear that in the US, we do residential electricity in a big way. 240V @ 100 A is minimum, and most new houses and upgrades go with 200 A, and more and more they're doing 2 200 A panels. Yes, 240 V x 400 A = 96KW. We don't like our lights dimming.
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[04:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:45] <exec> 08└─They are a debt swap company, trading old debt for new debt, at higher interest rates. What could possibly go wrong there? And now they will just walk away...
[04:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:47] <exec> 08└─There's one of their stations here that starts playing Christmas music even before Thanksgiving. I went to their site for their "playlist" page and it wasn't a what's-playing-now thing. If it was meant to be something like that, the latency was ridiculous. The company appears to be stuck in 1985. No...
[04:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I was thinking that a "radio" company would make equipment. {Straining hard to remember when that last happened in USA.} I was going to say they are a broadcaster, but you got even closer to the mark. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:51] <exec> 08└─It's the old Clear Channel gang. They were driving many local stations under by undercutting cost of ads then buying them out. Their programming pretty much consists of conservative talk shows and lousy pop music. One can only hope that them going under will lead to many local stations up for grab.
[04:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:54] <exec> 08└─In every deal there's a WINNER and there's a LOSER. If this deal goes through, the share holders don't get a lot. They get 1% of a company with big debt. Instead of 100% of a company with HUGE debt. Doesn't sound great, it's not great, it could be worse. Bankruptcy, sometimes the share holders get n...
[04:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:56] <exec> 08└─I know what you mean. It's Thanksgiving, you go to the website, you touch the Play button. It says, "Buffering, please wait." So you wait. And 2, 3 weeks later, out comes the Christmas music just in time. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! 🎅
[05:00:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:10] <exec> 08└─This may come as a surprise to you, Mr. Macho Man of Ultimate Manliness, but some of us would like to be *better* than the people we are ridding ourselves of.
[05:00:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:21] <exec> 08└─That's why I am always, without exception, against capital punishment in all cases. Any deviation from that standard of total prohibition will, eventually, lead to executing innocent people. The only acceptable number of innocent people murdered by the state is zero; hence, no death penalty--ever.
[05:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:44] <exec> 08└─Can't use CO2, because the subject would experience suffocation. Nitrogen or CO just put the subject to sleep.
[05:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:45] <exec> 08└─Erm... CO is not undetectable by the human body. It gives me one hell of a headache even in quite survivable concentrations. Try sleeping in a house that uses an old, poorly adjusted Dearborn heater for heating in the winter and you'll know exactly what I mean. Likewise, nitrogen narcosis is not cau...
[05:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:48] <exec> 08└─Sorry man, you're wrong. the only cure for the psychopath is death, the polar opposite of what we do with them now.
[05:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:50] <exec> 08└─If I would ever become convicted for life, I'd demand death. It's more humane.
[05:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:52] <exec> 08└─Anything less than headbutting a chainsaw is just a tree-hugging hippie bullshit way to die.
[05:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:54] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you but I'd have no problem putting two in the chest and one in the head of anyone who deserved it. There are absolutely lines for me that crossing means you cease to be a human being and become nothing but an animal that needs to be put down. I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over it...
[05:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:57] <exec> 08└─Making it prettier is in no way civilized, it's just cowardly. If you're not comfortable with putting a gun to their head yourself and pulling the trigger, you've no business on the pro side of the discussion. The death penalty should not be justice and it should not be vengeance. It should be the s...
[05:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:59] <exec> 08└─A .44 hollowpoint to the head is pretty inexpensive and more or less instant. No expensive apparatus, no suffering, just a loud noise that you may not even get the chance to hear.
[05:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, right now you elect them as presidents.
[05:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:04] <exec> 08└─So you're telling me they need high powered expensive lawyers too, sure I guess you could try to squeeze some money out of a dead man (even though somebody is ultimately paying for it). Why not just get it over with then? Isn't that the whole point of capital punishment?
[05:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm not remembering correctly. Cans (12 fl oz) are most common, followed by regular-size bottles (500ml). I could swear I've seen 1L bottles in vending machines before, but thinking about how big they would be, perhaps not. We Americans do love our carbonated corn syrup delivery vehicles. Thou...
[05:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:10] <exec> 08└─I would pay about $5. Want a bet it is the case? I am good up to 10K.
[05:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:12] <exec> 08└─Funny enough, so are smart people.
[05:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:37] <exec> 08└─Isn't it such a shame that Wikipedia propagates conspiracy theories [wikipedia.org] themselves?
[05:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:35] <exec> 08└─The Internet is full of links. And so many have mistakes. This one, you take out the second "1" and it works. Fun story about a school where they punished the kids for protesting our gun laws. The kids got to pick the punishment, -- they called it a punishment -- they said "please spank us." And it...
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[05:03:36] <exec> 08└─And a list of registered firearms in their home. And maybe a few choice comments they made about law enforcement to rile the cops up before you have them swatted :)
[05:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:38] <exec> 08└─In Canada, these lists are managed by the courts, at sentencing, if you deserve it, you get put on the registry, with deserving being things like rape, abusing kids and such, not sending a picture to your roughly same age girl friend or getting caught pissing where you shouldn't. Same with guns, mos...
[05:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unprecedentedly Wide and Sharp Dark Matter Map - Subaru Telescope - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:33] <exec> 08└─This is because we now know that nearly 80 % of the matter is an invisible substance called dark matter.
[05:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unprecedentedly Wide and Sharp Dark Matter Map - Subaru Telescope - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:34] <exec> 08└─Got a better theory that explains all these observations of something with gravity such as the lensing that this article is talking about having been observed?
[05:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:35] <exec> 08└─Good on ya then. It's not especially enjoyable.
[05:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on sale now at $35 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:03] <exec> 08└─It's about the size of a consumer ADSL router.
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[05:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:45] <exec> 08└─. Asprey is particularly fond of modafinil, which he calls "the Limitless drug" in reference to a 2011 movie in which Bradley Cooper finds a pill that makes him a genius.
[05:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:46] <exec> 08└─A prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition. Lucky for them, there's a sucker born every minute.
[05:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:48] <exec> 08└─Personally, I would suggest him go take some N,N-Dimethyltryptamine and talk to God for a while.
[06:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:01] <exec> 08└─With a name like that, they deserve to be bankrupt.
[06:00:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:31] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the human body recognizes nitrogen narcosis and attempts to fight it.
[06:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:59] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you but I'd have no problem putting two in the chest and one in the head of anyone who deserved it. There are absolutely lines for me that crossing means you cease to be a human being and become nothing but an animal
[06:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:01] <exec> 08└─It should be the same as shooting a rabid dog; simply necessary.
[06:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, and we should get people like you to clean up the mess afterwards...
[06:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:05] <exec> 08└─The "point" isn't capital punishment. We have a legal system where everyone is entitled to a fair trial with adequate representation and the right to appeal. The "point" is justice.
[06:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:08] <exec> 08└─I'm against the death penalty, but I've heard that one of the dangers of N2 in the industrial context is that it does not create air-hunger (that feeling of suffocation) and so people tend to just pass out and die without really every knowing what hit them.
[06:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:10] <exec> 08└─So you're telling me they need high powered expensive lawyers too, sure I guess you could try to squeeze some money out of a dead man (even though somebody is ultimately paying for it). Why not just get it over with then? Isn't that the whole point of capital punishment?
[06:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:12] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the human body recognizes nitrogen narcosis and attempts to fight it.
[06:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:14] <exec> 08└─So you're telling me they need high powered expensive lawyers too, sure I guess you could try to squeeze some money out of a dead man (even though somebody is ultimately paying for it).
[06:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 1579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:17] <exec> 08└─IIRC Nitrogen narcosis is also known as "rapture of the deep", and fighter pilots with hypo-oxygenation used to space out without even knowing it. All you need to do is reduce the oxygen levels below about 10% (might need to test that, but 5% would certainly work) and the folks will totally space o...
[06:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:19] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're going to go that route, why not just do a 10 quart blood donation? Nearly painless.
[06:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:21] <exec> 08└─of Western countries, this time. It's in such great company as China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:24] <exec> 08└─The only acceptable number of innocent people murdered by the state is zero; hence, no death penalty--ever.
[06:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:26] <exec> 08└─Well, that's reasonable if you can make certain to hit where you intend. And the guillotine was also quick and (nearly) painless. For that matter, ODing on heroin is also supposed to be painless...at least according the the people who didn't quite OD. And apparently its not difficult to get fentanyl...
[06:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:28] <exec> 08└─Do you ever tire of getting simple facts wrong, --gweg_? Is it physically painful to be so stupid and uninformed, yet so compelled to spew your idiocy on the internet? Who makes you be yourself, and why do you allow them to violate that cruel and unusual thing? -- OriginalOwner [soylentnews.org]
[06:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:36] <exec> 08└─Three people splitting the bottle is what I thought.
[06:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:37] <exec> 08└─You never split something with perhaps 2 friends?
[06:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:40] <exec> 08└─Sure, you, Tim and I will evenly split a $3.15 litre of soda and whoever is stupid enough to throw in $5...
[06:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:42] <exec> 08└─40 plus years ago there was a push to convert to metric. I remember in grade school in the mid-70s some of that and freeway signs showing distance in both mi and km. 30 plus years ago, that all went away.
[06:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:44] <exec> 08└─More's the pity.
[06:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:46] <exec> 08└─The problem is if a liter costs $3.15, it's probably true that a third of a liter costs $3.15. Most places aren't willing to split things like that.
[06:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe some maths questions too and some general history, make it multiple choice it's the USA after all. And maybe rather than simply selecting whether the vote counts, the answers should decide the weight of the vote. (maybe indeed down to zero)
[06:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:51] <exec> 08└─Do you believe that intelligence is entirely innate and fixed? All nature and no nurture? A person's IQ can vary by at least 20 points due to all kinds of factors. Poisoning, illness, old age, imprisonment, stress, low economic status, poor nutrition, and bad or no education are all things that redu...
[06:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:17] <exec> 08└─Of course, every Pokemon and Spongebob character has its own wiki entry.
[06:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:18] <exec> 08└─Whose remark, Susan's or Phoebe's?
[06:03:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:51] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make them not-people, sorry, and you don't get to absolve yourself of your shared humanity with them by saying otherwise. What it does make them is extremely damaged and sometimes dangerous people, whom you can't treat normally, but stop this life-unworthy-of-life rhetoric.
[06:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:53] <exec> 08└─Med Stackie. Med's a good guy. He told me that Sierra Leone is a genuinely good guy I wrote up a simplified explanation of blockchains: http://soggywizards.com [soggywizards.com]
[06:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:55] <exec> 08└─Med told me that Sierra Leone is a genuinely democratic country
[06:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:57] <exec> 08└─A blockchain can be tampered with if a majority of the hashrate cooperates This is a current concern because 30% of bitcoins hashrate is in the hands of just five individuals
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[07:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:04] <exec> 08└─We had Philco, Atwater-Kent, Emerson, Stromberg-Carlson, RCA, Motorola, oh and if I had my old green Radio-TV servicing manual I could look up a dozen more... but not a one of 'em still around. The latest radio I bought was a TECSUN, from China. ( nice radio, too. ). I'd go as far as saying all thi...
[07:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:05] <exec> 08└─Even the guy running a pizzeria gets nailed for having music in his place. While I still listen to radio, its mostly talk shows I will listen to.
[07:00:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:23] <exec> 08└─This isn't narcosis. It's simple suffocation, but without the sensation of suffocation caused by excess CO2 in the blood. Using a breathing mask, you go from breathing air to breathing pure nitrogen in a single breath; consciousness lasts only seconds after that, and death occurs in minutes. All wit...
[07:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:17] <exec> 08└─Are you also against any sort of possibly lethal military or police action? Unless you're deontologically opposed to all killing, there are thresholds of false positives that are acceptable. The society of the US tolerates a lot of killing of innocents who haven't even had the chance at due process....
[07:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:19] <exec> 08└─Nice try, but there was already a trial, it resulted in capital punishment.
[07:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:21] <exec> 08└─That would be the trial resulting in capital punishment as the verdict, or are you backing out now after condemning the guilty to death?
[07:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:23] <exec> 08└─More psychopaths would prefer the fame of a death sentence and execution than rotting in prison for life.
[07:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:25] <exec> 08└─CO2 would be an absolutely horrible gas to use. It is not a lack of oxygen that makes a person feel like they can't breath, it's the level of CO2. So using CO2 would be a very painful way to go - you absolutely would NOT just "go to sleep". You would choke and gasp and thrash. This is precisely why...
[07:02:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:19] <exec> 08└─you could even get a lot of college grads with questions like that
[07:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:42] <exec> 08└─An inch is too big, but there's nothing smaller, so we work in fractions. Feet and yards are fine, but then there's nothing up until a mile, which is 5280 feet (there's a nice round number for you).
[07:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:44] <exec> 08└─They also have a bit of a leftist bias,
[07:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:46] <exec> 08└─make it multiple choice it's the USA after all.
[07:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:48] <exec> 08└─One easy way to make people train their basic calculation abilities would be if at the shop they have to calculate the amount they will have to pay, and then they get told the true amount, but they have to pay the true price plus the absolute difference between both values (so they get to pay more b...
[07:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:50] <exec> 08└─However, dumb people are generally just as good (or better) at dragging your ass into the street and beating the shit out of you.
[07:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:53] <exec> 08└─I'm an American and all of those came from memory.
[07:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:55] <exec> 08└─When I was in elementary school, I was required to memorize the times table to 10x10,
[07:03:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:05] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem quite right to complain about being treated like a "resource with infinite free labor", when so much of its content was created by volunteers laboring for free.
[07:03:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03petecox [3228] 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:15] <exec> 08└─They could stop deleting pages, for a start. Notability is nonsense. If I go to wikipedia searching for a brand, person or concept then the mere fact that someone has bothered to search for something makes it notable. Worst are the red-links where someone has cited X as some valid example of an idea...
[07:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:26] <exec> 08└─You I guess?
[07:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:28] <exec> 08└─This is actually wrong.
[07:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:28] <exec> 08└─That statement presumes that this is a condition that develops in childhood, but never in grown adults. (Is that the case? I don't know myself.)
[07:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:30] <exec> 08└─Certain kinds of higher functioning girls and boys will be girls and boys. I knew quite a few girls with ADHD when I was a kid. The difference in treatment between the girls and boys however should not be overlooked.
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[07:59:54] <exec> 08└─"I'm here to make the argument that you have a moral imperative, if you're an employer, to hack your employees,"
[07:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:56] <exec> 08└─We must follow the Boss unto undeath! Long live the Boss! Long live us all!!!
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─I get Blues and Bluegrass from Pacifica's KPFT in Houston. Audio Archive [kpft.org] Playlists [kpft.org] I also like Lone Star Jukebox and their Americana thing. I once heard their Martini Time and thought that was fun. They just started carrying an hour of Baroque and Beyond. Not music, but somethi...
[08:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:29] <exec> 08└─Have you ever heard of appeals? If positive, do you think the appeals serve no purpose in your idea of society?
[08:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:30] <exec> 08└─1. They weren't innocent, they just didn't put their dick in the victim. They WERE part of a wild gang of around thirty who were running amok and harmed many other people. The testimony of the asshole who said he did it alone was oh so convenient to the prog narrative since he was already doing a li...
[08:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:33] <exec> 08└─Firing squad method can cause a fair bit of pain. Here's my proposal- wrap high explosives around the head of the person to be executed. Detonate to execute. With this method you can scientifically guarantee no physical pain because the explosion will travel much faster than nerve impulses. There wi...
[08:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:35] <exec> 08└─A .44 hollowpoint to the head is pretty inexpensive and more or less instant. No expensive apparatus, no suffering, just a loud noise that you may not even get the chance to hear.
[08:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:37] <exec> 08└─Then let's grant that wish.
[08:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 1620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─So? We kill innocent people all the time. How many lives could we save with a mandatory regulator to prevent cars from exceeding 25 mph? We decide the increased standard of living for the living outweighs the increased mortality. And so forth. We should kill monsters because we should be the sort of...
[08:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:42] <exec> 08└─Why would there be any appeal at all? You have just condemned a person to death as punishment. Do you think capital punishments are given willy-nilly?
[08:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:44] <exec> 08└─Solve the endless appeals on bullcrap grounds by disbarring lawyers who file several of them. Lawfare works because there is no penalty. Discourage the convicts from filing by making them pay a price. Take the sentence and you get a nice quick execution. Delay it a year or more with frivolous appeal...
[08:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:46] <exec> 08└─In enough many case, yes. Doesn't happen in the universe you live in?
[08:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:49] <exec> 08└─I wish you be convicted to 10 years in prison just-because without the ability to appeal. Maybe this way you'll learn that cheap!=fair.
[08:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:51] <exec> 08└─Here's my proposal- wrap high explosives around the head of the person to be executed. Detonate to execute. With this method you can scientifically guarantee no physical pain because the explosion will travel much faster than nerve impulses. There will be no brain left to receive any pain signals. T...
[08:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:53] <exec> 08└─As I said above, I just wish we had the wisdom to only execute the truly guilty, and not the legally guilty (who tend to mostly be black with crappy lawyers).
[08:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:56] <exec> 08└─Do you support prison sentences?
[08:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:18] <exec> 08└─True, dat. What are stem jobs, anyway? I have not seen any of them. My grandkids, and their grandkids, have not landed any of these jobs. Are you sure they actually exist? Or could it be that we are engaged in a massive "power of positive thinking" campaign, a sort of massive Potemkin village of ST...
[08:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:49] <exec> 08└─They will reap what they sew.
[08:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:50] <exec> 08└─If the conspiracy theories are so useless, why would someone waste time and money trying to give "alternative" views on things. If someone wants to believe or explore one thing or another, it is none of your business. But the conspiracy theories are real, aren't they? That is why you spend money try...
[08:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:51] <exec> 08└─Don't you have something in your constitution about cruel and unusual punishment? If you think your prison sentences aren't long enough then make them longer. Don't do this bullshit of putting them on a list. Once they've served their time you should treat them like a normal citizen, can vote etc. I...
[08:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caught Mining Bitcoin at Work - "Florida Man" Style - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:46] <exec> 08└─Very interesting post! Thanks!
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[09:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:17] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, it was common knowledge that the "labels" actually PAID our local DJ to spin certain records on the air In the late 1950s, there was the Payola Scandal. The problem wasn't that the DJs were taking money. The problem was that it was under the table and USA.gov wasn't getting its cut...
[09:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:19] <exec> 08└─The only problem is that if the iHeartMoney stations go under, there's very little chance that anyone local will pick up the slack.
[09:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:49] <exec> 08└─No, teenagers, women and tourists all face the death equally if convicted of a serious crime with capital punishment, with no possibility of appeal even if it raises a diplomatic row.
[09:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:50] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, it's not unusual if we do it always, so it can't be "cruel and unusual".
[09:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:52] <exec> 08└─The USA is not capable of keeping prisoners locked up for the rest of their lives if need be. All it takes is one judge saying the prison is too crowded, and hoards of criminals are set free upon our streets. All it takes is one clueless/evil democratic governor/president saying "they look like nice...
[09:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:55] <exec> 08└─If you wouldn't, what is wrong with you? Eh, perhaps you are excused if female. The guys in Saudi Arabia who chop off heads with swords are proud of their work.
[09:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:57] <exec> 08└─Rare mod! https://deathpenalty.procon.org [procon.org]
[09:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:59] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, it's not unusual if we do it always, so it can't be "cruel and unusual".
[09:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:02] <exec> 08└─The guys in Saudi Arabia who chop off heads with swords are proud of their work.
[09:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:04] <exec> 08└─Even a chemical mix that causes seizures after unconsciousness isn't a problem for me - I don't care what the body is doing once the brain has shut down.
[09:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:59] <exec> 08└─But the conspiracy theories are real, aren't they?
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[09:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:51] <exec> 08└─Publishers filter contents, and that's an important task. They don't accept crap, well, sometimes they do, but 99% of accepted papers are serious stuff. When you read one of this media you are certain in a 99% that it is a serious paper. Without publishers it would be like googling, you would have t...
[10:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.ft.com/content/0a5a4404-7c8e-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c [ft.com] Maintaining a SF tradition... San Francisco became the acid capital of the world in the 1960s, when hippies, inspired to alter their consciousness by Buddhists and Native Americans, ran wild. Now, the city is spearheading the m...
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[10:00:05] <exec> 08└─That might be the best thing Steve Jobs did: inspire a bunch of Silicon Valley misfits to do hallucinogens, as that place continues to worship him as a God and pore over every bit of wisdom He had to offer. Ride the blood unicorn, fellas.
[10:01:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:20] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you but I'd have no problem putting two in the chest and one in the head of anyone who deserved it. There are absolutely lines for me that crossing means you cease to be a human being and become nothing but an animal
[10:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:01] <exec> 08└─The only acceptable number of innocent people murdered by the state is zero; hence, no death penalty--ever
[10:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:02] <exec> 08└─Firstly that's cruel too. Secondly you'd need more complicated stuff and procedures to prevent things from going wrong. e.g. prevent immediate detonation while you are handing it over.
[10:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:04] <exec> 08└─And since nitrogen already composes nearly 80% of the air we breath
[10:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:07] <exec> 08└─If I would ever become convicted for life, I'd demand death. It's more humane.
[10:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:09] <exec> 08└─I suppose, if convenient to me, I'd do a few for free. I think most normal males would be willing.
[10:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:11] <exec> 08└─I think we can find firing squad members who aren't a bunch of pussies.
[10:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:13] <exec> 08└─I suppose, if convenient to me, I'd do a few for free. I think most normal males anonymous Internet Tough Guys who have no understanding of the psychological toll of taking another human life and / or emotional crippled sociopaths would be willing.
[10:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:16] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I'm more worried about having you loose on the streets than half the people on death row.
[10:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:18] <exec> 08└─1. They weren't innocent
[10:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:42] <exec> 08└─There is the lie that we have a capitalist/market economy. (note: your local ISP monopoly, rent control, welfare) There is the implication that we have "rule of law" ("Everyone Must Follow The Law","Leaders Must Obey The Law","Government Must Obey The Law","No One Is Above The Law") which Hillary Cl...
[10:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:44] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with running computations in a neural network. I bet if you asked them to apply a 50% reduction to a forecast of 150, they'd be able to give the right answer if you didn't prime them by associating the 50% with 100 and 150.
[10:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:46] <exec> 08└─No, they asked "If you buy one third of a litre of cola, how much would you pay?"
[10:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:48] <exec> 08└─11X 15
[10:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:51] <exec> 08└─It's not that democracy is a bad idea, the really bad idea is to allow the state to control the education system. The point of education as far as the state is concerned is to produce workers with just enough education to perform whatever tasks the state requires of them without having the ability t...
[10:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:53] <exec> 08└─Well, the litre certainly won’t cost $3.15, it will be $2.97 or something, and if the 1/3 litre option exists it will cost something like $1.29... A cynic might think that retailers were deliberately obfuscating things. At least, in countries that use litres, the sales tax is more likely to be rol...
[10:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:04] <exec> 08└─If done right yes. One way would be to generate random wallet IDs and handed out per person on election day once identity verification is complete.
[10:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:05] <exec> 08└─If you're exclusive, then you're centralised. Blockchain is decentralised. If you're exclusive, you don't need blockchain in the first place.
[10:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:08] <exec> 08└─Ugh. Computerphile is terrible. That vid is no better than the rest. Worst, he'd only need to change a few key words in order to go from totally wrong to spot on. (e.g. "different" to "unrelated".) Just like numberphile - never let a physicist try to teach correct maths. To them, mathematics is a to...
[10:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:10] <exec> 08└─> ... he'd only need to change a few key words ... Ugh, no, he gets worse. Just don't watch this vid, it's terrible.
[10:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:33] <exec> 08└─I have never really considered myself ADHD before, but after reading this, I'm pretty sure I must be. I'm not really hyperactive. Never have been. Not extraverted either. Not by a long shot. But interest-based nervous system? Check. That distinction explains a lot about why I procrastinate, and is r...
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[10:59:53] <exec> 08└─Allright, I'll bite that means publishing anything necessary for a third party to reproduce an experiment.
[10:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:54] <exec> 08└─Elsevier support some crap journals (publishing rings). I couldn't find a good reference; I recall reading about it a few years back, and have seen some evidence to support the case (same publication in two journals).
[10:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:57] <exec> 08└─Two replies to the same post, sorry, but I believe arxiv now require sign-off from a "wise person" before papers can be submitted.
[10:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─Quality is usually (but not always) helped by peer review. Whiłe there are plentyof journals that are open and peer-reviewed (yes, some have membership requirements), the problem is that *most* universities have "deals" with the profit-making journals, so the researchers don't really notice the cos...
[11:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:01] <exec> 08└─Whiłe there are plentyof journals that are open and peer-reviewed (yes, some have membership requirements), the problem is that *most* universities have "deals" with the profit-making journals, so the researchers don't really notice the cost. When all the universities say "no", things might change...
[11:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:04] <exec> 08└─I'm more optimistic. Hopefully we'll see a continuing rise of the open-access mandate. [wikipedia.org] Things are going in the right direction.
[11:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:21] <exec> 08└─So? We kill innocent people all the time.
[11:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:23] <exec> 08└─s/expect/except/
[11:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:54] <exec> 08└─When I was in elementary school, I was required to memorize the times table to 10x10, it would have been better to extend it to 12x12
[11:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:55] <exec> 08└─It was Saint [newrepublic.com]Reagan [vanityfair.com] that did in general use of metrics in the US. Eventually the few companies still doing manufacturing inside the US had to switch anyway [us-metric.org] for cost reasons. So the situation is more of a hyrbid model with a few areas, such as road si...
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[11:03:57] <exec> 08└─You got a better idea?
[11:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:00] <exec> 08└─> train their basic calculation abilities Easy to game this one. Pay for each item individually (with cash), takes longer but won't incur any penalty for adding mistakes.
[11:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:02] <exec> 08└─You definitely need a none-of-the-above option.
[11:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:04] <exec> 08└─Do you want to try explaining that system to people who can't work out that one third of $3.15 is $1.05 ?
[11:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:06] <exec> 08└─> but then there's nothing up until a mile, which is 5280 feet (there's a nice round number for you). Blame the Romans -- mile is English for mille which is 1000 -- 1000 double paces of a short Roman soldier. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:09] <exec> 08└─I had a graduate student - i.e. studying for a PhD, with a first class degree from a world-leading university - who could not do this sort of calculation in her head (she could with a calculator). I think it was trendy in the 90s not to teach arithmetic in the UK.
[11:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:42] <exec> 08└─This is indeed an issue. I created the Mindhorn article [wikipedia.org] (a British comedy movie which showed in cinemas and is now available on disc and Amazon Prime Video; it featured a few familiar actors). It took more than one attempt - my original effort (low effort that it may have been) was d...
[11:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:26] <exec> 08└─Yup. As far as I can tell, there's zero technical benefit to using blockchain here, it's purely trend-chasing. You still have to trust the voting machines. It doesn't answer the question of voter anonymity. These are questions that might have technical solutions, but I don't see how blockchain helps...
[11:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:27] <exec> 08└─Forgive me straying from the topic, but is that a JavaScript-free web-page? And they said it couldn't be done!
[11:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Disk Galaxies Rotate at a Rate of About Once Every Billion Years - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:14] <exec> 08└─> the authors think that there is a correlation between orientation, visibility and other selection criteria No, it means the authors cannot exclude such a correlation. They can't exclude such a correlation because they can't measure the galaxies that they can't measure.
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[11:59:43] <exec> 08└─If they described it accurately in the article, I'm not sure how copyright could apply at all. As I understand it, copyright affects the *distribution* of copyrighted works. It should only be a problem if I extract the copyrighted work then give it to a friend. It's not copyright infringement for me...
[11:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:44] <exec> 08└─In the corporate state of America, you do as you're told.
[11:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:46] <exec> 08└─From TFS, it sounds like they were planning on extracting the audio themselves and distributing it. That definitely would be copyright violation without even a decent argument of fair use. Now if they required the source files for the audio to also be in your possession and did the extraction at ins...
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[11:59:54] <exec> 08└─A good moment to become blind.
[12:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:14] <exec> 08└─Is every paper in arxiv published in one of the big ones?
[12:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 2000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:16] <exec> 08└─There are several things journals traditionally provide: They filter the incoming stuff. Some are better at it, some are less good at it, but all do it.They provide permanent storage of the articles (traditionally, by printing many copies).They provide authenticity of the articles (after they publis...
[12:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:18] <exec> 08└─Not that what you posted is badwrong, but in general if you have to resort to analogy to argue something maybe you need better arguments.
[12:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, and more importantly, if you understand the history of rods, chains, and furlongs, you'll also understand why a mile is exactly 5280 feet. (It's not just a random number chosen arbitrarily.)
[12:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:15] <exec> 08└─> Perhaps America is just unenlightened nowadays ... all those grenades and bullets refugees are tossing through their windows. I'm pretty sure European high schools are safer than US ones.
[12:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:17] <exec> 08└─If a litre costs $3.15, a third of a litre would not cost $1.05 in any shop I know of. More likely $1.99 or $2.49. I even see smaller packages costing more than larger packages. The supermarket is not a good environment in which to study maths or logic. Perhaps that's how most people get thier confi...
[12:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:20] <exec> 08└─Most likely $1.99 Businesses love slapping .99 on things. And they love overcharging on small items. So assuming the same brand of cola, the only reasonable price is $1.99
[12:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:22] <exec> 08└─Great. Longer line of people standing before you at any given time.
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[12:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:46] <exec> 08└─having installed copies of the two games and running a utility is not good enough for Bethesda's lawyers.
[12:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:47] <exec> 08└─I understand the impulse to use "the real thing", but it would be much cooler and more creative to do something along the lines of a live-cast reproduction, the way people do for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Someone let Simon Cowell know about this, and Twitch, and let them create an auditions sho...
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[12:59:50] <exec> 08└─The script is also copyrighted.
[12:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:52] <exec> 08└─This was on Slacker News a few days ago (like all the articles here ;), and the consensus was "it's legal, but Bethesda will get away with how much money they can drop into lawyers."
[12:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 1830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:54] <exec> 08└─> From TFS, it sounds like they were planning on extracting the audio themselves and distributing it. I didn't get that impression. They mention an "audio extraction tool", which would imply that you'd need to use the tool to extract data from the original game files by yourself. That redistributing...
[12:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:57] <exec> 08└─Performing rights [wikipedia.org], not duplication rights, which is still a part of copyright. The original voice actors would have been hired under a contract saying their voices could be used for Project A (Fallout 3). Project B (Fallout 4) comes along. To use Project A's performances of the voice...
[13:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:06] <exec> 08└─Trust me, you won't go blind. And you won't grow hair on the palms of your hands.
[13:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:08] <exec> 08└─This could be very useful for people with low vision... one of the biggest drops in perception for patients, is that the brain is unable to track fragmented visual fields, preventing "eye lock". Of course, these devices could make awesome games ;-)
[13:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:10] <exec> 08└─Will you grow hair on the top of your head?
[13:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:13] <exec> 08└─Awesome hentai games, you mean. I can't wait to be able to choke out a bitch in full Ultra Sonic HD, and then fuck her brains out with my invisible donger. [0] [lmgtfy.com]
[13:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of a Seasonal Water Cycle and Surface Changes Found on Ceres - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:20] <exec> 08└─Space nerds find intergalactic ice, cream pants. Nearby, a herd of fat, virgin women complain that pre-mature ejaculation is unmanly, and that cumming to Ceres is sexual harassment. One notably voracious (in all respects possible) cattle of the flock points out that Playboy bunny polo [editor's note...
[13:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:37] <exec> 08└─Call them publishers, editors, peer review committee, or whatever you want. Probably it needn't to be a private company, a group of academics could do it.
[13:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:39] <exec> 08└─Most importantly, what these journals provide is bragging rights for the people published in them. "I published 3 articles in Nature, so you should give me a tenure-track position or at the very least a raise." Since a substantial percentage of academic papers are never read after publication, that...
[13:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:41] <exec> 08└─Uh, just to be clear, a "group of academics" almost always DOES do it
[13:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 2003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:43] <exec> 08└─They provide an established name and branding. This may seem like marketing BS, but there is a big difference between, say, Journal of the American Medical Association or New England Journal of Medicine and Lawn's Huuuge Open Journal of Medical Stuffz!. (Yes, I have ones I can pick on. No, I won't.)...
[13:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 2330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:46] <exec> 08└─I agree with a lot of other comments here that journals mostly add only a content-filtering mechanism. But the research cited in TFA is fundamentally flawed, since it compares pre-print versions with final published versions of articles accepted for publication. Which means the accepted articles wer...
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[13:00:48] <exec> 08└─Oh and sorry for the self-reply -- but to make something explicit that was implicit in my argument: the study mentioned in TFA obviously doesn't account for articles sent to the journal but REJECTED. In the QA analogy, it's like an executive looking only at the products that made it through QA and s...
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[13:00:50] <exec> 08└─Once big publishers are taken down (the young can fight longer than the geriatric), nothing will be done of them. They'll continue living their wealthy lives in private, enjoying their time after having "paid their dues." So long as there is no threat of death, the cycle will continue, of organizati...
[13:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 2595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:04] <exec> 08└─Mostly its homeopathy. There's an aspect of the left wing religion that worships communal life above all else especially individualism. All innovation comes from teams and processes and similar non-reality based proclamations, no individual ever invented or did anything all that matters is the commu...
[13:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:05] <exec> 08└─FDA approval? Illangkoon responded with a not-fit-for-print suggestion for what could be done with the FDA.
[13:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 1979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:24] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I remember that going around, and wondered why it was such a big deal. When our local DJ was telling us about it, it sure seemed like an overkill... you know, like going after waitresses for tips. According to our DJ, maybe it was in the ten dollar range, but in those days, that was a...
[13:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:26] <exec> 08└─When applied to a company, what does largest mean? If they can suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke they couldn't have been that substantial. If they had 20B debt, then their worth was negative, of pity's sake. All they had was ephemeral influence, but it was all built on lies. Namely the lie that...
[13:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:57] <exec> 08└─> 1 + 1 = 3 (Score: -1, Flamebait) 1 + 1 = 3 - 1 Well, now everything's fine.
[13:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:41] <exec> 08└─There's approximately zero correlation between race/nationality and personality
[13:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:43] <exec> 08└─elementary schools eliminating morning 'snacktime' recess & P.E., severely cutting back lunchtime recess
[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:29] <exec> 08└─The idea of going through the hassle and time of hiring a larger vehicle every time I wanted to fetch some bricks (as Grishnakh has suggested here) or fence posts is simply a non-starter.
[13:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:30] <exec> 08└─And there you go, its been a law for decades now that no matter if its lead acid batteries with 40 mile range or a 400 mile Tesla, the standard anti-EV comment will be its never, ever enough. If you could sell a Mr Fusion with 200,000 miles of tritium pre-installed at the factory, someone on the int...
[13:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:33] <exec> 08└─Its a matter of time. I can't commute 2000 miles daily to work for sheer chronological limits. Likewise I just can't do major family vacation more than maybe once a year, although for practical reasons there's always something going on such that we'd be lucky at every other year. I think for the vas...
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[13:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:47] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has been trying to reinvent its brand for a few years now, including playing nice with open sores and Linux. I use Azure because I don't feel like I'm going to be robbed blind one day when my usage spikes "somehow." Cadavar and Alibaby have a lot of neat features, but the billing and suppo...
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[14:00:06] <exec> 08└─Also quite possible. Barring DMCA issues though and given the assumption that the user is the one doing the extraction, there shouldn't be any copyright issues for the modders themselves. I assume one of the above is the problem though or, as you said, Bethesda likely wouldn't have had issue with it...
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[14:00:07] <exec> 08└─That would be a problem if Bethesda or the modders were doing the extraction and distribution, yes. The ground gets much, much shakier for the copyright holder if it's an end user simply transcoding formats for use in a different method of playback.
[14:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:09] <exec> 08└─Seems inapplicable. Performing rights apply to live performances: >Public performance means that a musician or group who is not the copyright holder is performing a piece of music live
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[14:00:21] <exec> 08└─Now if there was a computer that could push 125FPS at that resolution with high graphics settings. (Out of my price range.)
[14:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:52] <exec> 08└─I don't see why being approved by a high-reputation refereeing service shouldn't give the same bragging rights as being approved by a high-reputation journal. And the ability of having several independent approvals of the same article just increases the bragging opportunities ("my article was approv...
[14:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:54] <exec> 08└─There was that editor of a medical journal who said they selected papers by throwing them down a flight of stairs and publishing whichever reached the bottom. Then for one issue they only published papers that failed peer review and nobody noticed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org(edit...
[14:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:56] <exec> 08└─Open Access does not mean the journal doesn't have a reputation to lose. If a journal accepts just anything, then publishing there will be no better than self-publishing. Therefore people will not be willing to pay for it (and author payment is how OA journals make their money). Indeed, OA journals...
[14:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:59] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless , it is nice to read that OMICS International [omicsonline.org] is getting momentum. Hopefully we won't have to wait so much years.
[14:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:01] <exec> 08└─I suppose that the protocol is: The journal receives a paper, reads it, decides after that first skim if it is worth and then sends to academics for a deeper verification.
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[14:01:10] <exec> 08└─A prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition. Lucky for them, there's a sucker born every minute.
[14:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:19] <exec> 08└─Fucking Indians. And more specifically, fucking people without any self-awareness, which greatly overlaps with Indians. This pajeet calls himself a polymath, a "serial entrepreneur," and "Dr. Grasshopper." How more delusional of your own grandeur can you get? I swear to god, I have had to call mysel...
[14:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there is a kinda late 60s thing going on in America as we approach the end of this decade. Will we get an "I am not a crook" too in a few years?
[14:02:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 469 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:03] <exec> 08└─Because it's more effective to go from air, to pure nitrogen, in as short a period as possible, and it's hard to change all the gas in a room from air to nitrogen in a short period of time. Americans buy billions of dollars worth of CPAP machines every year; every one of those would make for a cheap...
[14:02:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, right now you elect them as presidents.
[14:03:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:17] <exec> 08└─The guys in Saudi Arabia who chop off heads with swords are proud of their work.
[14:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:15] <exec> 08└─Well, they question said how much a liter costs, and asks how much 1/3rd of a liter costs. Which is a horribly stupid question, because 1/3rd of a liter would probably cost around $1.50 or even around $2 in reality. If you have a mathematics question, feel you have to wrap it in "everyday context" a...
[14:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that is not the way that the question is asked. Was this an oversight on the part of the test creator? Or a deliberate introduction of ambiguity between the different questions "divide by 3" and "guess the price of a 330 ml single-serve bottle"?
[14:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:18] <exec> 08└─That would have been an easy way to make a decently SENSIBLE question. Though I guess some people would say "but this guy, he always drinks so much of it, so he always pays $1.50".
[14:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:21] <exec> 08└─In the real world, nobody says "what's one third of the price", they might say "how much do we each chip in if we split it 3 ways". The question was phrased badly *either* way.
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[14:09:06] <exec> 08└─In the old days it was the midwesterner's SAT. In somewhat more detail: SAT came from ivy schools needing an IQ test to limit admissions that wasn't banned by civil right legislation banning IQ tests, and spread to most coastie schools. ACT came from early midwestern attempts at K12 public school te...
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[15:00:12] <exec> 08└─Which is why it is important to correctly position the purpose of a software product. They positioned the product as "Project B with the contents of Project A, imported through a utility". If they had instead used the position of "Project A that looks nicer if you happen to have Project B and a util...
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[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─I'd agree it gets stickier. Were I arguing it my claim would be that since Fallout 4 is obviously a different work, and since the audio is being incorporated into it by whatever technical methods, that still falls under being a derivative usage of the original audio. It is not the transcoding that i...
[15:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:16] <exec> 08└─Given the number of wacky copyright issues that are in the news on a continual basis, one would have thought that the very first thing these people did was consult with lawyers (particularly Bethesdas) about the asset copyrights before then even sat down and wrote their first line of code. And contr...
[15:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you are right. (Brain obviously not in gear). But there can be a mechanical royalty right identical to what I incorrectly described as a performance right. (Brain was thinking the rights of a performer and didn't read the links.)
[15:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:06] <exec> 08└─To be clear, I didn't say that peer review process is good. There in fact seems to be conflicting evidence of its value, and I know many studies question it. My point was that the research mentioned in TFA is a poor way to judge the potential value of the journal process. (That is -- just because we...
[15:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:08] <exec> 08└─My experience is that peer reviewers and journals are also unduly swayed by trivial considerations, that they, like everyone else, use mental shortcuts to evaluate a submission. For instance, does the layout, format, and manner of presentation fit with tradition? Of course that has nothing to do wit...
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─At least five states publicly display methamphetamine producers.
[15:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unprecedentedly Wide and Sharp Dark Matter Map - Subaru Telescope - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:02] <exec> 08└─And then, when we decide to keep an open mind, they berate us for being ignorant.
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[15:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─For so many years, people have spoken of the possibility of mankind having a much richer history than taught by the mainstream educators; those people have been utterly lambasted, and dragged through the mud in the most public and humiliating ways. And, yet, over the last 20 years, there has been an...
[15:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:49] <exec> 08└─In the 1950s, Homo Sapiens were the _only_ toolmakers, this was taught widely in schools. And Homo Sapiens tool making capability was max 50,000 years old. Somewhere in the 1970s, a few liberal school children started to question: what about beavers and birds and even termites, don't nest structures...
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[15:59:51] <exec> 08└─However, the socioeconomic policies of the Rift Valley drove away all of the innovators and "money" (the pre-merchant classes) to more equitable lands. Some say, these innovators found their way into new, and uncharted lands such as Europa and Asiana, where their enterprises could flourish. 320,000...
[16:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:23] <exec> 08└─Good. Slacker News would pay my legal bills if they just happened to be wrong? (Said bills would occur and be payable for both Bethesda and the modder, so long as a suit has any merit whatsoever and this obviously would, even if it is winnable?)
[16:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:24] <exec> 08└─If the voice actors have contracts that explicitly stipulate that their contribution was only usable in Fallout 3, then
[16:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:26] <exec> 08└─Since they had Liam Neeson and others in it. Honestly though, compared to Morrowind, I don't see Fallout 3 as being good enough for a Recreation unless they were redoing the map as well. I stopped playing it after trying to find my way to the congress building, finding a glitch in the geometry that...
[16:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:29] <exec> 08└─I could be completely wrong, but my take on it (above) is that it has to do with contracted rights of voice actors. The lawsuit would still come and be framed as, "Project B was modified to use the audio of Project A by a conduit. Project A had a contract with actors C, D, and E to use their voices...
[16:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:31] <exec> 08└─their voices could be used for Project A (Fallout 3). Project B (Fallout 4) comes along
[16:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:33] <exec> 08└─If you require my professional legal advice, I request that you write your inquiries in English. Or if you are unable, to locate the nearest English-speaker and ask them to help translate your thoughts into something that syntactically looks like English. Thank you. ---------------------------------...
[16:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:35] <exec> 08└─True *if* you are performing in public - I believe performance rights were expanded to include mechanical performances as well. But there's no public performance involved here. If you have a legitimate copy of a recording, you are allowed to play it in a private setting without restriction. And if t...
[16:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:38] <exec> 08└─Given the number of wacky copyright issues that are in the news on a continual basis, one would have thought that the very first thing these people did was consult with lawyers (particularly Bethesdas) about the asset copyrights before then even sat down and wrote their first line of code.
[16:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:40] <exec> 08└─In the present legislative climate, how would one go about "barring DMCA issues"?
[16:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:42] <exec> 08└─Per your request, here is my attempt to bring AYLALTU's comment [soylentnews.org] closer to standard English: "Good. But would Slacker News pay my legal bills if they just happened to be wrong? These bills would occur and be payable for both Bethesda and the modder, so long as a suit has any merit w...
[16:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:45] <exec> 08└─In Corporatist America, copyrights own you!
[16:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:47] <exec> 08└─But how exactly does that matter? No signatories to the contract are involved, so the contract is irrelevant. My signature on a contract cannot impose any requirements on you, only your signature can do that. Modder F is not distributing copyrighted works, so copyright law is inapplicable directly....
[16:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:49] <exec> 08└─they would include Bethesda in the suit as a named party
[16:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:02] <exec> 08└─The world's highest resolution (18 megapixel, 1443 ppi) OLED-on-glass display was developed.
[16:03:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:44] <exec> 08└─Do you support prison sentences?
[16:04:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:12] <exec> 08└─Democratic decision-making gives an equal voice to unequal people. If the power to vote is given out freely, it cannot be worth much—especially when one's current vote is essentially independent of the outcomes of one's previous votes.
[16:04:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:55] <exec> 08└─I went into politics instead of retiring. And I'm having a ball!
[16:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:12] <exec> 08└─That was precisely my point, I was agreeing with the above comment that blockchain size is an issue. I added the line about the fact that we are only to 160GB to show that even the most used and abused crypto the world has ever seen has a blockchain that fits in a SD card. Obviously scaling is impor...
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Symptoms of ADD Change The Way You Feel and Think - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that you know at most 1 person from each of the various ethnic groups you mentioned, and based on that ignorance fell back to thinking stereotypes were an accurate reflection of reality. Got it.
[16:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caught Mining Bitcoin at Work - "Florida Man" Style - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:40] <exec> 08└─It could if you're looking for reasons to deny unemployment or not in a right-to-work state. Misuse of equipment is certainly a disciplinable event.
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[16:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:46] <exec> 08└─Trusting someone else to secure your connection is a bug in-and-of itself. Trusting Hotspot Shield of all things, if a bug in-and-of itself of the brain.
[16:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but - if you don't trust ANYONE, you might as well just melt your computer down to slag. And, maybe yourself along with it. Using a VPN is alright, if people understand that the VPN is just one tool in the fight to secure your network, and/or to stay anonymous. The person who presumes that he...
[16:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:50] <exec> 08└─PIA is superior in many ways to all the half assed charlatans out there.
[17:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:01] <exec> 08└─And all they got in return for beginning earlier was the worm
[17:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:03] <exec> 08└─And, yet, over the last 20 years, there has been an exponentially growing body of facts indicating that they were correct.
[17:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:05] <exec> 08└─Mmmm. Funny, yet somewhat distasteful, and none of it untrue. We need to bludgeon the staff until they give us more mods to work with. What fits here, anyway? Damifino!
[17:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:08] <exec> 08└─should've listened to Robert Heinlein then :-) "those who want something else for breakfast, have to get up later" (IIRC)
[17:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, let's fix Microsoft's problems and make them richer! That would be smart! Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Microsoft. Say it with me: fuck Microsoft! Fuck Microsoft. So say we all.
[17:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:55] <exec> 08└─Certainly it's a derivative work - but it's a derivative work created by someone who already has a legitimate copy of the original, and isn't distributed. Generally speaking you're allowed to do anything you want with a work you own EXCEPT distribute it or make a public performance - both things tha...
[17:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:56] <exec> 08└─> Distribution rights are a thing. Very true - but where's the distribution? If the modders were planning to extract and distribute audio files, then yes, that's definitely a problem. But if they were planning to distribute an extraction and conversion tool, then there is no distribution involved.
[17:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:58] <exec> 08└─I will start off by saying thank you, for doing the community a service and helping the less abled. In return, may favorable verdicts come your way. As for finding facts in dispute, there would need to be sufficient and extensive evidence of differing realities. The modding team is heavily outmatche...
[17:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:01] <exec> 08└─By Bethesda no doubt, who dont seem to mind this mod, and was giving them a friendly warning about the voice actors.
[17:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:03] <exec> 08└─They can re-record all the audio and get around that particular issue.
[17:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:17] <exec> 08└─I am holding in my hands a canon 7d mk2 DSLR camera body
[17:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:55] <exec> 08└─American Medical Association is getting a lot of money for doing almost nothing, just sends papers for review (for free) to some of the same people that will read it latter. Why couldn't peers that review papers join in a association and do what they do for American Medical Association with much les...
[17:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:13] <exec> 08└─No, spoken like someone who believes using the word "hack" in every sentence is compelling marketing.
[17:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:15] <exec> 08└─This pajeet calls himself a polymath
[17:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:17] <exec> 08└─Polymathism is diagnosed after the fact. Like most things, if you say you are "X" (where X is a subjective quality) you are most likely the loosest acceptable definition of "X". In order for you to be "really" "X", you would have to be recognized by other people who say "yes, this man is definitely...
[17:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:46] <exec> 08└─probably to dumb whores like you.
[17:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unprecedentedly Wide and Sharp Dark Matter Map - Subaru Telescope - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:56] <exec> 08└─http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.ca/2018/01/how-qi-gets-rid-of-dark-matter.html [blogspot.ca]
[17:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt - Public Charging in the LA Area - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:53] <exec> 08└─The point being that there are alternatives. Internal combustion vehicles are still a great option. Even if every car was electric there would still be alternatives to electric charging stations...such as not driving, installing bigger batteries in your vehicle, stopping at a friend's house to charg...
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[18:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 3237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:03] <exec> 08└─I have a 'good guess' narrative that's a bit different. Sorry, it probably won't be as funny as yours. People spread out because of overcrowding. This is an extremely rich environment, warm, wet, fertile soil, and life everywhere you look. The food chain is densely filled, all the way from the grubs...
[18:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:04] <exec> 08└─Not only is there a indisputable site like the Göbekli Tepe, which has totally and indisputably thrown a wrench into the modern narrative, but there are also other kinds of populations such as the Denisovans, who seem to have had a much more advanced culture than was ever expected.
[18:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:06] <exec> 08└─Here's a question I grapple with: what is the most advanced technology that could have existed before the end of the last ice age without us having good evidence for it today?
[18:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:09] <exec> 08└─We don't know how certain works were achieved even in ancient society that is recognized. They don't teach that in schools. More than a continent's worth of coastal land (you know, where most people tend to live) has been swallowed up in rising sea levels in the last few 10s of the thousands of year...
[18:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:11] <exec> 08└─Many massive, important, influential ancient civilizations existed without gold-and-platinum-containing vehicles. As far as jewelry is concerned, though, what about the intricately curved Denisovan bracelet [wikipedia.org], wrought from the very difficult material jade? That has been dated, pretty...
[18:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:13] <exec> 08└─As has already been pointed out to you before, "indigenous" people of the Amazon have been linked by DNA [smithsonianmag.com] to the indigenous people of Australia. Also, elongated skulls of Peru have been associated by DNA to Europe. And, the ancient Egyptians have been associated by DNA with the p...
[18:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 3962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:16] <exec> 08└─"Here's a question I grapple with: what is the most advanced technology that could have existed before the end of the last ice age without us having good evidence for it today? On the far-out end, if we left modern vehicles in an area below the new water line would there be any evidence of them 11,0...
[18:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:25] <exec> 08└─"I use Azure" a pox on your house, sir! a pox!
[18:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:28] <exec> 08└─You don't know what an "MIT license" is, do you?
[18:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:25] <exec> 08└─The blurb mentions "Foveated driving logic for VR and AR applications was implemented." That means they are doing foveated rendering [theverge.com] to track your eyes and lower detail in areas of the screen that your eyes aren't looking at. That could have a substantial impact on the bandwidth and p...
[18:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:27] <exec> 08└─You know you want RapeLay [wikipedia.org] for the VR era.
[18:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of a Seasonal Water Cycle and Surface Changes Found on Ceres - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry but good trollish posts need to feature a gentle progression from normal to absurd or offensive, not a stream of consciousness summed up in the subject. The article is interesting because it confirms other studies where it was determined that indeed surface changes affect Ceres: the foam at th...
[18:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:56] <exec> 08└─how are small projects supposed to become notable when something like wikipedia won't let you create you damn article. they need to back the fuck off and let the visitors decide what is important. maybe after 2-5 years if you never grow they can cull you or something. i must be some sort of super ge...
[18:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─that's why these pigs are so worried about "correcting" them? because they want the masses to have the real story? are you vaccine damaged?
[18:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:00] <exec> 08└─google is just showing how disgusting they really are with the way youtube has gotten worse and worse. thanks for validating my suspicions when you bought the site. good thing we have things like LBRY coming up.
[18:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:02] <exec> 08└─I share absolutely nothing, not even humanity, with junkies. They are less than human. You don't have to be sorry about it. I'm not.
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[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─I own a Cardiology III, so I would look forward to comparing the two. :)
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─Excellent. Post or blog about it if you can. 3D printing is finally starting to become useful. As sintering and powder metallurgy become easier, it will be come more practical and more common to work in metals too. Already some car manufacturers 3D print rare spare parts for classics [arstechnica.c...
[18:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:59] <exec> 08└─They are features! Sorry, it just seemed to fit this time.
[19:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:23] <exec> 08└─It would have to be small and in isolation.
[19:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:25] <exec> 08└─A monolith can be a type of megalithic structure
[19:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, we *do* have global DNA spread, and it's quite old. This, however, is more a tribute to the spreading capabilities of DNA within a species than anything else. Very little DNA is specific to a particular area, though the proportion of the population presenting it is highly variable. That sa...
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[19:00:29] <exec> 08└─"On what exactly?" The loss of technology thing. Why would a population bottleneck necessarily result in loss of technology? Of course it's *possible* something is lost but typically the entire population would be expected to have nearly the entire existing skillset; it's not like there was this one...
[19:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:32] <exec> 08└─While the statement "We don't know how certain works were achieved even in ancient society that is recognized." is true, it's misleading. Usually we can think of several ways it it could have been achieved and can't validly choose between them. Usually when people say "There's no way they could do t...
[19:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:34] <exec> 08└─In the 1950s, Homo Sapiens were the _only_ toolmakers, this was taught widely in schools.
[19:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:45] <exec> 08└─No need for the imprecations, he is already sorely afflicted. Not open sores, but festering sores.
[19:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:46] <exec> 08└─It's worse than that. M$ uses GNU/Linux and OSS tools as bait to attract patent trolls. Software can be patented and there are many empty shell companies that, armed with a software patent or two, go after targets they think they can push over with the threat of litigation or with minimal litigation...
[19:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:48] <exec> 08└─Software can be patented in the US, not in most other parts of the world. It seems that the editing tool a word.
[19:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:48] <exec> 08└─Here's some more stuff: https://research.googleblog.com [googleblog.com]
[19:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:49] <exec> 08└─RapeLay is old news. The customization is too low, just like the polygons. What I really want, is RealPlay for the VR. Or for Illusion Soft to give VR Kanojo more of those rape scenarios the Nippon-enriched are so famous for.
[19:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/GearVR/comments/493zwm/optimum_ppi_for_vr/d0p9lhq/ [reddit.com] It's not over until we have 8 gigapixels across two VR displays (at least not according to that rando's estimate).
[19:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:54] <exec> 08└─I wonder who will be brave enough to submit the first VR hentai game review on here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:02:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:18] <exec> 08└─Call them publishers, editors, peer review committee, or whatever you want. Probably it needn't to be a private company, a group of academics could do it.
[19:03:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:26] <exec> 08└─Uh, it does? Last I heard nitrogen was so dangerous precisely because we *can't* detect it in lethal amounts. It's CO2 that's cruel, as we have hypercapnic reflexes and the buildup of CO2 is what burns, rather than lack of oxygen.
[19:04:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:11] <exec> 08└─It should be the same as shooting a rabid dog; simply necessary.
[19:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bulgarian "Treaty Brides" Have Unusually Elongated Skulls - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:37] <exec> 08└─It seems like tattooing or some other branding would be cheaper and more effective. I mean, they can just put on a hat and look mostly normal probably, but a slave tattoo on the face or hands is a lot harder to hide. OT but interesting - tattoos are looked down upon in many cultures because they hav...
[19:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Powered Elections - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:16] <exec> 08└─That my site looks the way it does is because many experts have that kind of design Bjarne Stroustrup for example
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[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─Unless you're including a chance to get a free $10 Amazon giftcard (surprisingly legit -- or maybe I was the only one who answered the surveys?), I don't think most people will bother. Recently, I've been getting a lot of government websites giving me the ole "do you mind if we record your session a...
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:50] <exec> 08└─Does it still hurt your ears to wear the thing? Thats what I don't get about these stethoscopes, why are they always so uncomfortable?
[20:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:31] <exec> 08└─"Göbekli Tepe merely indicates that stone working knowledge was more advanced in a single region than expected." That's not at all how I read it. Humans had already been working with stone for hundreds of thousands of years and made a wide variety of very effective everyday tools with it. Nothing t...
[20:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:32] <exec> 08└─For "advanced technologies" the problem isn't the existence of artifacts, but the traces of mining for the materials with which to make the artifacts. They could have had coal fires, but there's little advantage (and many disadvantages) for a stationary site when there's sufficient wood available. B...
[20:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:35] <exec> 08└─"Usually when people say "There's no way they could do that" they're either revealing their ignorance of technical approaches, or they're unwilling to accept that massive an amount of labor." This is without a doubt the 'secret' behind many ancient wonders. The willingness to invest incredible amoun...
[20:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:37] <exec> 08└─The statement that "humans were the only toolmaker" was correct as a statement about what was taught in schools. It's also what was preached in popular science texts and on TV. That professional scientists might have reserved a bit of judgment is possible, but from what I've read if some of them did...
[20:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:39] <exec> 08└─Except that stone isn't a simple thing. Different varieties of stone are useful for different things, and a lot of it isn't very useful for much of anything if you're a stone age technologist. So trade is important, and the tribes don't stay incommunicado, they're merely separate. The early Hebrews...
[20:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:42] <exec> 08└─In the 1950s, Homo Sapiens were the _only_ toolmakers, this was taught widely in schools.
[20:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:38] <exec> 08└─If you cannot understand what I say, why would I want your legal advice? And why would I trust Slacker News to know what the law is?
[20:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:40] <exec> 08└─Because I'm not schizophrenic and word salad doesn't affect me. ____________________________________________________ ALL CORRESPONDENCE ABOVE THIS LINE IS OFF THE RECORD ____________________________________________________
[20:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:42] <exec> 08└─Bethesda would, by being named, have to start paying lawyers to make filings on their behalf. Even if it was a single demand letter for removal from the suit. More likely, following what little we know of Bethesda's theory, it would begin with a demand letter of the voice actors to enforce action ag...
[20:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:44] <exec> 08└─Actors C, D, and E were signatories to a contract which specified how their voices could be used in what project. (Is my theory.) Modder F has no right to utilize their voices in a "new" project by trying to use the Fallout 4 engine to run Fallout 3 - and having to make modifications to do so. Actor...
[20:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:47] <exec> 08└─It's been a long long time since I used any modding, let alone tried to make one. (And that was more on "create your own level map" - not really modding as it is known today.) Aside from questioning whether the engines are truly a format shift which I think I could by noting that engines are not rec...
[20:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:49] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter - I can sign a contract that says I get all your stuff, but I don't actually get your stuff unless you sign too. Meanwhile, once that recording is given to a third party, copyright is the ONLY thing that limits what they can do with it, unless they themselves already signed a contract...
[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:10] <exec> 08└─Is this what the Silicone Titty types call "onboarding?" You'll get one once my post-ejaculation prolactin levels gives me erectile dysfunction, i.e soon.
[20:06:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06High Number of Adults Unable to do Basic Mathematical Tasks - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:35] <exec> 08└─They also have a bit of a leftist bias,
[20:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:44] <exec> 08└─Wow, I just checked out LBRY to see what it was. That site makes molasses look downright speedy.
[20:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bulgarian "Treaty Brides" Have Unusually Elongated Skulls - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.cactushugs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/aliens-guy.jpeg [cactushugs.com]
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[20:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:44] <exec> 08└─So what? Union of Concerned Scientists IS a hostile political organization who government workers should not be working with while on the clock. So if their firewall is blocking them it is functioning properly.
[20:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:46] <exec> 08└─whether the spammers pose as Nigerian princes or Concerned scientists
[20:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─A spokesman for EPA said it didn't make sense to him that employees would be afraid to fill out the survey since it is anonymous
[20:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:50] <exec> 08└─This is totally 100% obviously spam. Also, even if it isn't a computer security problem, it looks like one. Any employee who would answer it is an employee who would fall victim to phishing or click to install malware. Some of those employees can be trained to be a tad more secure, and some of them...
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:52] <exec> 08└─Also, Rosenberg sounds like a huge cunt to deal with.
[20:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, whoops -- I actually meant to refer to the Brian Melzian mentioned in the second paragraph. The guy who received the email and reported it, not the one who sent it.
[21:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:06] <exec> 08└─I've filed an issue about choosing a license [github.com], citing the summary of this story.
[21:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry, those results don't show what you think they show. In the linked article, for example, they explain the similarities between the native Australian population and the South American population by common ancestry from when the earliest humans migrated over to the New World. And the rarity of th...
[21:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:53] <exec> 08└─The climate of the region seemed to have encouraged it. Occupation was seasonal. Perhaps they migrated out during good foraging months and then stayed over in this area during the tougher part of the year. At that point, you would have had a high density of tribes in the area and a need to organize.
[21:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:56] <exec> 08└─Many massive, important, influential ancient civilizations existed without gold-and-platinum-containing vehicles.
[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:58] <exec> 08└─If it spread along the coasts, not necessarily.
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:00] <exec> 08└─Three generations, working diligently, if not on a daily basis at least a seasonal one, year after year, decade after decade, that was the true genius of the ancients that we have lost.
[21:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 2297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:03] <exec> 08└─As you say, it depends on what you're doing. For the most part stone was used to make tools. Hammer stones, grinding stones, many sorts of tools can me made from several different types of very common stones. Yes, some are better than others, but not enough you can't get over it. The paleolithic too...
[21:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:26] <exec> 08└─The people who were at the right age for '68 are now retiring, and many have money to spend. Subconsciously appealing to them can be highly profitable. > Will we get an "I am not a crook" too in a few years? Are you willing to wait, or will you take a "no collusion" today ?
[21:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:27] <exec> 08└─I'll go for real proof, not some dubious e-mails, and people who were rounded up for starting small protest events (on both sides of the political spectrum).
[21:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:49] <exec> 08└─The /company/ went broke. The /shareholders/ got screwed. I bet the C*Os got paid nicely though. Who cares if you lose 20 billion of other peoples' money? You made a few mil...
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[21:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:44] <exec> 08└─Neat as this is, I wonder how they printed the wooden roof structure, the window glasses, the plumbing... and whether any of that is included in the price tag. Laying the bricks is rarely the main cost driver in home building.
[21:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:46] <exec> 08└─Also, the video appears to have them start with an already poured foundation.
[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─For the rest of the world 800 square feet is about 74 square meters.
[21:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:50] <exec> 08└─My thought entirely. Sure, $4000 might get you a concrete shell, but how much will you add for plumbing, wiring, septic connections etc? Does four grand include the concrete pad, and the cost of hauling in, leveling, and supporting the 3D concrete shooter? Beyond that, does this really meet the buil...
[21:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:53] <exec> 08└─I know they have thought about it, and I see they have an interesting internal structure in the walls, but given no internal rebar or reinforcement I wonder how well the structure will hold up to the foundation settling or earthquakes? Depending upon how they answer that, looks like something I woul...
[21:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:55] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world sure is bad at math.
[21:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:57] <exec> 08└─Good points. I did see in the video that it had at least one channel filled with pipes and/or wiring, so am guessing at least some of that is covered in the build.
[21:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:00] <exec> 08└─There's a building tech called SIPS (structural insulated panel systems) that puts up the exterior cladding, insulation, and interior cladding as a single panel, typically 3' wide - so the whole building goes up incredibly fast, and small structures can get all their SIPS panels for $22 to 45 per sq...
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[22:00:13] <exec> 08└─I was referring to the same guy you thought you were referring to. I, however, mixed up his fucking name because of the vertigo-inducing quotation attribution. All I saw was " first being authorized and approved by EPA." Rosenberg said".
[22:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:15] <exec> 08└─Are you in the market for any of the following (check each that applies): * Russian bride * Flashlight * Cannabis Oil Do you get your tax invoices from Fedex, UPS, DHL, ABC News, or the IRS? Is there a warrant out for your arrest? If we wanted to sell you something, what would the best strategy be?
[22:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah I read the summary like 4 times before I could figure out what was going on either.
[22:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:19] <exec> 08└─of Trumpenfuhrer and his brownshirts.
[22:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:21] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to remember exactly who it was, I think it's from one of those history channel docus or something so maybe just nonsense, but I am remembering hearing that there was some evidence for a year-round custodial staff at the site. If that were true, it might have been the very first profession...
[22:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:35] <exec> 08└─To be clear, software that will run on a general-purpose machine is NOT patentable in USA. USAian courts have been striking down, left and right, patents of this sort that had been previously issued. The proper imaginary property protection for general-purpose software is COPYRIGHT. TechRights.org h...
[22:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:46] <exec> 08└─As soon as someone sends MDC a VR set? Or makes one that will repurpose his soon to be worthless miners.
[22:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:48] <exec> 08└─MDC's ASIC(s) will be broken [soylentnews.org] soon after the 6 month (no guarantee) warranty expires.
[22:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:28] <exec> 08└─Publishers filter contents
[22:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:52] <exec> 08└─If I ever worked for a company that encouraged me to take their own brand of Happy Pills, I'd start looking for another job.
[22:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:54] <exec> 08└─"Drink toe jam tea every evening at bedtime. It boosts the immune system and makes your farts smell great!"
[22:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:56] <exec> 08└─Just saying "Dude!" doesn't make you a surfer. Start by doing 500 push-ups-then-stand-ups every day. You have to be quick and precise to get a ride.
[22:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biotech and Biohackers at SXSW - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:58] <exec> 08└─After pointing out that smoking DMT was like smoking burning plastic, the DMT explained that he had the wrong number of arms, legs, fingers and toes. My schoolmate readily agreed yet was overcome with the worst kind of horror because he could not figure out why.
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:39] <exec> 08└─They will be more than inconvenienced in it gets on to the nets. People will believe, and that belief is as we've seen recently far stronger than reality. It was as if a billion souls all screamed out at once 'FAKE NEWS'
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─Hey you, behind the woodshed, "Stand still with it..."
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[22:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:47] <exec> 08└─Those fucking republicans always fucking things up.
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:48] <exec> 08└─If they pass such a law, sites like GitHub can simply block access to the EU, and developers will just have to use a VPN, or those get blocked, travel to countries like Norway or Switzerland to do their coding (since sites like StackOverflow will also need to be blocked since there's potential copyr...
[23:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:04] <exec> 08└─http://lmgtfy.com/?q=800+square+feet+in+square+meters [lmgtfy.com]
[23:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:05] <exec> 08└─Like so many "alternative" construction techniques, this one requires significant capital investment (in the printer) and, so, isn't going to be available many places anytime soon. I asked this same company about availability in Florida last time they hit the press maybe 6 months ago, they're not ab...
[23:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:24] <exec> 08└─The EPA is full of horrible people. Start with them being government workers who care about your success less than the workers at the post office, department of motor vehicles, or tax office at any level of government. These are people whose job is to be an impediment to getting shit done. This is t...
[23:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:28] <exec> 08└─For copper, there used to be quite a bit of it in the upper peninsula of Michigan, in the area known as "Copper Country" (the Keewenaw Peninsula). The natives used it extensively, but IIRC they didn't forge anything. I also recall being taught about Tenochtitlan being near a mountain of silver that...
[23:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:29] <exec> 08└─"For copper, there used to be quite a bit of it in the upper peninsula of Michigan, in the area known as "Copper Country" (the Keewenaw Peninsula)." That sounds right. The mississipians used cold-worked copper in burial goods, and they were still technically 'stone age' in toolkit though of course t...
[23:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:31] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's pretty much exactly how it worked (specialization). Pretty much everyone learned the basics, but mastery was generally left to the most skilled. When a bad arrow can make the difference between food or starvation, you let the best fletcher fletch and let the best hunters hunt. Every...
[23:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:34] <exec> 08└─From what I recall of "Michigan History" in school, the Keewenaw was notable for exceptional purity, basically as pure as copper gets out of the ground.
[23:01:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, let's fix Microsoft's problems and make them richer! That would be smart! Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Microsoft. Say it with me: fuck Microsoft! Fuck Microsoft. So say we all.
[23:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:51] <exec> 08└─All of the Open Source stuff that I have will do useful things without paying any money for anything. MSFT created the term "open core". That uses the word "open" in a deceptive way. It means that, for -part- of the required software, you are able to read the source code. In order to make that stuff...
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[23:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:44] <exec> 08└─It's EU leadership and Berne Convention pushers who are pushing this pro-copyright agenda. It was bad for society 100 years ago and it is bad for society now.
[23:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:45] <exec> 08└─I will dearly miss being able to find some idiot's fonts file or some idiot's business data, easily on GitHub. Both have been invaluable in enriching my wallet, and I'm sad to see the EU taking the media-industrial complex's cock up its ass, and money into its thong.
[23:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:48] <exec> 08└─Nothing but a bureaucrat's paradise. Oh well, the people have spoken... Free will and all that.