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[00:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─It's an anti competitive move. It doesn't help gamers at all. That being said, i can't find a liquid cooled AMD Vega 64 for a decent price anywhere. Don't think i ever will : / 1,200$ for a high end liquid cooled card is 400$ too much (1080Ti and Vega both).
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:51] <exec> 08└─It seems similar to Intel's processor lockout plans in the past. I wonder if Nvidia is taking a page directly from that playbook intentionally.
[00:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:54] <exec> 08└─And you can blame the cryptocash-thirsty miners for that.
[00:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:56] <exec> 08└─They (all of the manufacturers) seem to have been caught flat footed on the demand, either that or its the old artificial scarcity ploy all over again. That Ploy always ends when someone else enters the market, maybe samsung, or someone else, with a chip custom tailored to miners at a quarter of the...
[00:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─Don't blame me - I use an ASIC rig.
[00:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:00] <exec> 08└─http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/01/technology/samsung-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-mining-chips/index.html [cnn.com] "[Samsung] is well positioned to capitalize on growing demand for them. It just passed Intel (INTC) to become the world's largest chipmaker by revenue."
[00:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:29] <exec> 08└─To say that she was not responsible for her husband's evil is technically correct. She did, however, find him socially acceptable enough to marry. To say that she was not responsible for her son's evil is a lot more questionable. She did, after all, raise him in the way that she thought appropriate....
[00:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:31] <exec> 08└─I still didn't say it quite right. Let me try again: When I say "She didn't appear to try to be a net public benefit" I mean that judging her by her apparent beliefs, neither her goals nor her actions were attempts to benefit the public as she saw public benefit. Let me contrast this to Hillary Clin...
[00:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:01] <exec> 08└─Exactly my thoughts. Music works by itself. I doubt it has any effect on medicine uptake beyond what a simple dosage adjustment would do. Now Grapefruit, [mayoclinic.org] that's different. It can either enhance or depress medicine uptake and its pretty unpredictable which affect it will have on any...
[00:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:28] <exec> 08└─I would argue that the Stasi didn't just try, they succeeded. The ever truthful Wikipedia says the Stasi "has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed." And they did it before 1990, so without the aid of tech, as you poin...
[00:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:29] <exec> 08└─OK so now that we agree there were (very effective) bad people before technology, your thesis is what exactly? That it is OK for nerds (or more often their employers) to use technology to mass-attack billions of unsuspecting people -- some of whom (as discussed elsewhere) never even consented or use...
[00:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:48] <exec> 08└─IIUC it's got to be a close genetic match or you've got horrible rejection problems. So I doubt it. But since immuno groups don't pay THAT much attention of nominal racial groups, possibly.
[00:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:39] <exec> 08└─Why not the section of the Ankh-Morpork city guard headed by Vimes?
[00:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:07] <exec> 08└─Might be news to you but "rural states" often have cities in them : )
[00:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:23] <exec> 08└─Would it bother you if it was not?
[00:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:19] <exec> 08└─At 74, I have problems with bruising due to high-speed hand dryers. So in restaurants, I just grab a few napkins. elsewhere, it's wipe the hands on my pants.
[00:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:20] <exec> 08└─I'm embarrassed, it was too late at night and my brain was not functioning fully. I was stuck on vampires and lizards and needed to think more broadly. When you read the word "brain", did you salivate?
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[01:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:46] <exec> 08└─I guess he must think he needs the money more than the votes if he's pushing stronger copyright enforcement as a core issue.
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─What's his take on software patents? VLC Media Player contains oodles of patented algorithms. But that's OK because its developed in and distributed from France which strongly believes in software communism.
[01:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─You can leave any other major religion. You can argue over fundamental tenets of the religion. You can fork off your own sect. If you do any of that, you can tell others to come with you and they can do so. Try any of that with Islam, and you die. Islam has a built-in immune system that will stop yo...
[01:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:52] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion [wikipedia.org] The Thirty Years' War wrapped up in 1648. If Islam is about 600 years newer than Christianity, we could predict an end to Islamic religious turmoil by about the year 2250. That seems reasonable.
[01:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:54] <exec> 08└─Seems reasonable? And, tell us - what does reason have to do with religion? Your basic presumption, that Islam is comparable to Christianity, is flawed, and flawed badly. Christians kill people DESPITE the basic tenets of Christianity. Islam kills people BECAUSE it is a basic tenet of Islam.
[01:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:57] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing: There's actually a precedent for Islam as one of the most progressive forces on Earth. The Abbasid Caliphate, at least nominally in charge of the Muslim world for 5 centuries, established and kept funded the House of Wisdom in its capital city of Baghdad, which was the site many ke...
[01:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:11] <exec> 08└─The last time I bought a specialized video card it was Radeon based. They seemed to perform the same but to my eye had better brighter colors. The driver system was always more effort than NVidias, at least at that time. It has been many years since I used anything but a native chipset, or gamed in...
[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:13] <exec> 08└─The cryptocurrency market is very volatile and semiconductor manufacturing lines are really expensive. That's not a combination that makes it worthwhile investing in extra production capacity.
[01:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:46] <exec> 08└─My friend had two leathery old Igunanas who were ugly as fuck. One of them was named Barbara Bush, a true ugliness worthy of the surname "Bush."
[01:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:17] <exec> 08└─-eneration since the dawn of humanity. The ancient greeks did, I expect the romans and the babylonians as well.
[01:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:19] <exec> 08└─Apocalyptica is a personal favorite for that time of my night.
[01:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:21] <exec> 08└─lol you already noticed #sad
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[02:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:46] <exec> 08└─Hang on, those were chimps. As you were
[02:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:47] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would anyone cite PETA in any kind of a story? These are the people who will steal high profile animals to "rescue" them from "abuse", take the animals back to their lair, and kill the animals. I've often wondered if they perform satanic rituals as they kill the nuisance animals.
[02:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:49] <exec> 08└─Well, what did you expect from an organization calling itself "People for Eating of Tasty Animals"?
[02:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:52] <exec> 08└─Didn't anybody watch that movie?
[02:39:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 1409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:03] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing: There's actually a precedent for Islam as one of the most progressive forces on Earth. The Abbasid Caliphate, at least nominally in charge of the Muslim world for 5 centuries, established and kept funded the House of Wisdom in its capital city of Baghdad, which was the site many ke...
[02:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:05] <exec> 08└─Could you name a few of those patented algorithms "contained" in VLC? Do you mean things like MP3? Those are not "contained". VLC makes use of libraries, just like every other program in the world. If you have no codecs installed on your system, then VLC isn't going to play a lot of media.
[02:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:07] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Macron is an idiot who thinks that he can make his dreams come true. Reform Islam? Macron must believe that he is Christ returned from the dead or something similar.
[02:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:09] <exec> 08└─Only about 1% of Catholic adults aged 25 to 45 have 7 or more kids. Clearly, you're right about 99% of the Catholics. Let's suppose you are equally right about moslems. Only 1% of them bother to slaughter infidels. The other 99% of them are less faithful to their religion. That means only about 35,0...
[02:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:11] <exec> 08└─The latest of those ideas is this: that the best way to integrate Islam within French society is to promote a version of the religion "practiced in peace byievers who will not have the need to loudly proclaim their faith.
[02:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you suck at statistics. Big problem.
[02:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:16] <exec> 08└─it was legal to be Christian or Jewish
[02:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─That means only about 35,000 in the USA, and only about 10,000,000 in the world, who take violent action to exterminate people like me. Can you see a problem?
[02:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─Nope. Unlike most players, VLC bundles their own codecs, which they prefer to the ones you've installed unless you change an advanced setting. They also include their own DVD and Blu-ray implementations, including anti-DRM components.
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─VLC is statically linked on most any OS besides Linux/*BSD.
[02:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─Unless you're black, then statistically your biggest worry is other black men.
[02:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:27] <exec> 08└─Depends on your OS. The vlc executable on my system is a whopping 15KB because it uses shared libraries. Windows and Mac? A little over thirty megs.
[02:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─Moslems make more moslems, creating exponential growth. That 35,000 or whatever (calculation was 1% of 1% of the US population) is not static. It increases as the number of moslems increases, at least until we run out of infidels to be killed. Gun owners generally have small families. Guns themselve...
[02:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:31] <exec> 08└─You mean jizyah [wikipedia.org], by chance? Look, Trump promised he'll tale you only 20% or so tax. By comparison: Muslim jurists required adult, free, sane males among the dhimma community to pay the jizya,[5] while exempting women, children, elders, handicapped, the ill, the insane, monks, hermits...
[02:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:33] <exec> 08└─Somehow I doubt any significant muslim authority is going to take reform advice from a catholic, being the president of France won't score any browny points either nor will having been a banker for the Rothschild family. He could anoint his own mufti and that still would not matter. Their reformatio...
[02:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:36] <exec> 08└─Moslems make more moslems, creating exponential growth.
[02:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the jism tax - that's it. And, it doesn't matter that the tax might be a very small tax - no rat bastard has the right or authority to take my money because I believe differently than he does. Meanwhile - you're ignoring the fact that non-Abrahamic religions were converted or killed. They were...
[02:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:55] <exec> 08└─They are just about the worst chip manufacture out there when it comes to transparency and openness.
[02:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:28] <exec> 08└─That nasty bitch isn't worthy of the respect inferred by the title of "professor". I'm not one to start talking nice about a person, just because they have died. But dancing on the dead person's grave is something that a subhuman does. That "professor" is subhuman, and she has very publicly proclaim...
[02:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:30] <exec> 08└─Hold your horses buddy! My mom (may she rest in peace) tried to raise a God-fearing son and instead got an atheist engineer. Indeed I went to church until I was about 15, at which time somehow or other I found Russell’s "Why I Am Not a Christian" and turned against what she and my father (and most...
[02:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:32] <exec> 08└─'Appeared to be' based on what, though? While her husband was in office, she dedicated a surprising amount of time/effort to researching and promoting literacy (particularly adult literacy) as well as its role in homelessness and poverty. It's about as much as any recent First Lady has done, realist...
[02:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:50] <exec> 08└─OK, have one and I still don't know. The kit is very tightly wrapped, even has a custom pushbutton switch. My current impression is that the Vision Bonnet has the capacity to execute a NN but not to train it. I haven't even looked at the Android app host yet.
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[03:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I bet they regret holding a movie night for the baboon enclosure.
[03:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:57] <exec> 08└─They sure are smarter than humans, getting voters even.
[03:39:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:09] <exec> 08└─Seems reasonable? And, tell us - what does reason have to do with religion? Your basic presumption, that Islam is comparable to Christianity, is flawed, and flawed badly. Christians kill people DESPITE the basic tenets of Christianity. Islam kills people BECAUSE it is a basic tenet of Islam.
[03:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:27] <exec> 08└─Christian reformation will have to come from within, not proposed by the outside. But that probably will never happen since the Bible is without fault, its the actual word of God and not stories retold by others, and so to change it would destroy its foundation. What they might need is a good ol' ho...
[03:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the jism tax - that's it. And, it doesn't matter that the tax might be a very small tax - no rat bastard has the right or authority to take my money because I believe differently than he does.
[03:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:31] <exec> 08└─You pick any religion that is not completely pacifist, and I'll name an atrocity that people professing and citing that religion has committed. I can do the same for atheism, too: The Soviets in particular tried to kill off religious opposition. I'm not objecting to the claim "Muslims have committed...
[03:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:33] <exec> 08└─Let us discuss this again, right after the next Battle of Tours.
[03:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:35] <exec> 08└─Those Buddhist monks sure told those Christians how to let go of their karma!
[03:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:37] <exec> 08└─He's not that far off, you know. I disagree with him about Jesus, though; the guy was a nutter. Thing is, he was more of a harmless hippie nutter, compared to Mohammed who was a Charles Manson nutter. This makes a world of difference when one is the founder of a religion.
[03:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:30] <exec> 08└─That "professor" is subhuman
[03:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:32] <exec> 08└─No need. One need go no further than her mouth.
[03:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:34] <exec> 08└─I'm also not one to speak glowingly of someone JUST because they died. she was horrible, her husband and whole family are evil and I wish them nothing but badness in their life. they fucked over a LOT of people and they DESERVE lots of pain and suffering in their lives. look, evil people die, and wh...
[03:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:36] <exec> 08└─Some peoples' graves need dancing on. Now, I don't know if Barbara Bush is one of those people, but her sons, plural, most definitely are. She herself seemed to be a decent enough person as far as I can tell.
[03:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:37] <exec> 08└─It's not the technology, it's who's using it and for what. If one chooses to appear in public, it is legal to photograph them. It is not illegal to identify them. No permission or consent is required. I'm talking specifically about the U.S. I can certainly see how the government could use this techn...
[03:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:38] <exec> 08└─Facebook is like Whore of Babylon from Revelation. They trade in the souls of people.
[03:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:15] <exec> 08└─You're beyond redemption if you really believe this. The Democrat party is evil and getting worse, for sure, but they're nowhere near as bad as the Republicans now...and their evil stems from their move closer to Republican policies, after McGovern's loss to Nixon. And if you actually think McGovern...
[03:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:34] <exec> 08└─Also, there's some value in a paper towel's scraping action. I recall a study done on surgical scrubbing, that found for bacterial elimination the most important part wasn't the soap, or the washing, but the physical scraping action of the surgical-scrub-brush.
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[04:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:47] <exec> 08└─The population of the village of Lordstown is 3266. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:49] <exec> 08└─Everywhere I look, I see Trump's brand of capitalism tanking... It's almost as if.... wait for it.... capitalism always.... wait for it... wait.... fails every single time. When will Americans wake up and finally vote Socialist or other non-failing system? Why, why why???
[04:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:51] <exec> 08└─General Motors is unleashing a new round of attacks on autoworkers in North America as part of a global cost-cutting offensive against the working class.
[04:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:53] <exec> 08└─Summarized: Company selling less of specific model car. Company cuts car production staff at factory making that model. Company is an evil force attacking workers and this disproves overall economy trends. This logic doesn't make sense to me...."The World Socialist Web Site reports"....never mind,...
[04:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:56] <exec> 08└─It's clearly a public service on offer here. Post the nutty things that the socialist big thinkers say, out in the open for all the non-socialists to see, and plainly display how idiotic it is to people who didn't get the brain implants. Good job, Gewg, your capitalist overlords thank you. Excellent...
[04:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:58] <exec> 08└─Because that's never offered as a real option?
[04:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:00] <exec> 08└─And all those who pray to the capitalist God while not paying their own dues are purged from the system, along with their economic toadies in the management and working classes. It will be a blood climb back to relevance for America, and it is one I don't see happening before another repressive powe...
[04:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:02] <exec> 08└─The issue is always the same. Divide and conquer. They divide you. And then they conquer. No matter who they are or who you are. They divide and you are conquered. The only constant? The diversion must get you to divide. So what is our diversion? We are quite divided. Not without reason.
[04:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:15] <exec> 08└─And maybe one day one of them will steal an animal infected with Lassa fever, Ebola, or some other deadly disease. Hopefully the infection is localised to only those loons.
[04:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:17] <exec> 08└─See. Even our less-evolved cousins have figured out the cooperative thing. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:52] <exec> 08└─Nor do you mention that Muslims have always been permitted to steal the daughters of anyone living in or near Islam. We see that happening repeatedly in Africa today - Muslims show up at a girl's school, and steal girls by the hundreds.
[04:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:54] <exec> 08└─What the hell is "software communism" and how does this apply to VLC?
[04:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:12] <exec> 08└─Actually I was reminded to Microsoft's past tactics … well, let's just call it the evil tactics of dominant market players.
[04:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:14] <exec> 08└─I'm confused. At first, you seem to contradict the post you replied to, only to then basically say the same as that post: nVidia is the opposite of open.
[04:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:27] <exec> 08└─when the ass end starts slipping and sliding on the curves
[04:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:28] <exec> 08└─So now we know how Prince died. He had been taking medicines, had been listening to music (basically his whole life) and then somebody offered him grapefruit. Damn.
[04:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:31] <exec> 08└─Now Grapefruit, that's different. It can either enhance or depress medicine uptake and its pretty unpredictable which affect it will have on any given patient at any give time.
[04:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:48] <exec> 08└─There are several reasons why that is a non-issue. Let's say you give a $10,000 "First Home Buyer's Grant" - yes, the first thing that happens is the price of homes will rise by $10,000. Providing a Universal Basic Income won't have the same effect. Look at your weekly shopping - there's a vast vari...
[04:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:50] <exec> 08└─I worked with a piece of software that had exactly that issue. As the security log approached a certain size, the application would slow down and behave erratically. The solution; of course; was to delete the security log. When the application started up again, it would automatically create a new lo...
[04:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Re-Identification [wikipedia.org] It's a thing, obviously.
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[05:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:56] <exec> 08└─I expect that he'll run again in 2020
[05:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:58] <exec> 08└─on one hand, it is one factory, making one vehicle On the other hand, if sales are up for other models, are they hiring more elsewhere, or just making the rest work harder? Sack the workers. They cost money. Once they are all gone, we will make sooo much money!
[05:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:00] <exec> 08└─I feel the same way about socialism. It’s amazing that Venezuela fell whereas Chile is doing so well.
[05:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:02] <exec> 08└─Trotsky lives!
[05:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:05] <exec> 08└─The population of the village of Lordstown is 3266.By the end of June only 1,500 will remain.
[05:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the cars aren't selling, but dammit, they should keep on making them. Its there socialist duty to keep on delivering what the stupid consumers don't want. Maybe if Chevy's ads weren't so cringeworth they would sell more cars.
[05:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:09] <exec> 08└─"World Socialist Web Site" Need we say more? These people will almost certainly believe that: 1) the companies OWES them jobs, and its ONLY reason for existing is to give them as much money as possible no matter their efforts. 2)That all companies are evil, and the sooner they are all destroyed, the...
[05:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:11] <exec> 08└─Just what do you mean by "another repressive power..." . Don't you think the people will have had their fill from this current repressive power?
[05:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:14] <exec> 08└─Because nobody is as stupid as you, obviously.
[05:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:16] <exec> 08└─Or maybe also, if their cars weren't such cringeworthy pieces of crap they would sell more cars.
[05:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:18] <exec> 08└─We're not talking about Jericho here. There's not a wall around the town. It's easily assumed that there are|were workers from other nearby localities. Even then, when I was working, I would make stops on the way home. I can see food marts and drug stores and diners and such in the town taking a ser...
[05:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:20] <exec> 08└─vote Socialist or other non-failing system
[05:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:23] <exec> 08└─Company cuts car production staff at factory making that model That's what Capitalists do. You left off the part where they found work for those folks at another facility or revamped the facility. ...because they don't. I've mentioned the (Socialist) Mondragon cooperative many times before. When the...
[05:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:25] <exec> 08└─Once they are all gone, we will stop bleeding money. FTFY.
[05:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:27] <exec> 08└─Heh. Read TFA and see how many of their red-hot pokers I left out. ...then read my response to RandomFactor, up in the (meta)thread. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:39:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:58] <exec> 08└─it was legal to be Christian or Jewish
[05:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:18] <exec> 08└─Down this path, you may also encounter the next fall of Constantinople [wikipedia.org]. Are you sure want to follow it? On 29 May 1453, Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror", entered Constantinople after a 53–day siege during which his cannon had torn a huge hole in the Walls of Theodosius II. Istanbul...
[05:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:19] <exec> 08└─Agree. Tighten that up to 7 years (what USA's was back at the start). What has been done after that has been LOOSENING the damned thing. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:21] <exec> 08└─He was a gentle soul, according to the folks around West Hollywood. [google.com] (He just died a few months ago.) Word is, he was good with the laying on of hands thing (a part-time masseur). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:24] <exec> 08└─He's having a rough time right now, lots of strikes and protests, the season started early this year. He's grasping at straws for a diversion.
[05:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:26] <exec> 08└─This makes a world of difference when one is the founder of a religion.
[05:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:28] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. (yes, I know cases of Buddhism violence, but I'm not aware about violence against Christians)
[05:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:30] <exec> 08└─If you were Constantin, would you surrender?
[05:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:32] <exec> 08└─You think the Catholic church got changed from outside? Like some conqueror stormed Vatican and hanged the Pope above fire until he announces these changes? Not like the Church changed itself trying to catch up with social and scientific developments?
[05:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:52] <exec> 08└─Linux creator Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, the single worst company the Linux developer community has ever dealt with. -- https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[05:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:27] <exec> 08└─You are claiming that the food prices will not rise, but explaining this theory "because market." But market loves to rise prices. There is no reason why producers, distributors and vendors will not add a little extra price to the goods. The rule of the market is that everything costs as much as the...
[05:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:29] <exec> 08└─I own property. I'm willing to pay the additional amount from my income tax as property tax.
[05:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:31] <exec> 08└─The rule of the market is that everything costs as much as the customer is ready to pay.
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[06:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:47] <exec> 08└─The output is a square wave for 1, and nothing for 0. Maybe it worth building a quasi-quantum computer with it?
[06:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:48] <exec> 08└─Use more capacitors.
[06:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:51] <exec> 08└─As the comments to the article say, it's not a flip-flop, but a single-bit DRAM cell.
[06:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:53] <exec> 08└─Lose more time in delays. With the transistors so cheap, why use capacitors when you can etch transistors?
[06:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:55] <exec> 08└─A bit that takes a while to read.
[06:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:57] <exec> 08└─I get the challenge of designing a flop with only one transistor as a defined goal. It's clever. It's fun. However, practical chip level design is concerned with total area. This design uses three diodes. Three diodes is at least as big as two bipolar transistors. So, you are up to three transistors...
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[06:39:27] <exec> 08└─Socialist An actual Socialist wants a change in the ownership model. Cuba goes part-way by allowing traditional owner/non-owner employee businesses, but doesn't allow them to get too big e.g. no franchises or chain operations. That's still not Socialism. Socialism is where every worker is an owner o...
[06:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:29] <exec> 08└─Don't you think the people will have had their fill from this current repressive power?
[06:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:31] <exec> 08└─Once they are all gone, we will stop bleeding money. FTFY.
[06:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:33] <exec> 08└─Bernie is a Capitalist. He's a timid FDR-wannabe. Bernie has proposed a baby step in the right direction, but the problem is Capitalism. Until we get rid of that, things aren't going to change for the better. Every time The Working Class makes a gain, the Capitalist Oligarchs claw it back (via the l...
[06:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:35] <exec> 08└─Venezuela is Bolivarian (Anti-Imperialist) but calling it Socialist (worker-owned cooperatives) is a real stretch. The Capitalist Oligarchs still essentially run the country. (They have a problem similar to USA's" bought-off politicians.) While Venezuela has a nice little start on Socialism, but it...
[06:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:34] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point.
[06:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't it the police?
[06:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:38] <exec> 08└─2. Western governments trying to set up the political structures of the Middle East to suit their own purposes without regard for the people living there.
[06:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:40] <exec> 08└─You say "since the Bible is without fault, its the actual word of God", but no, Christians do not believe that each and every word is set down perfectly by god. There are many translations, and mostly we don't even have the original text. The Koran is seen as literal text from god. God made Mohammed...
[06:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:42] <exec> 08└─Christians kill people DESPITE the basic tenets
[06:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:44] <exec> 08└─Or you are a tribal member, when, well, you will probably be killed.
[06:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:47] <exec> 08└─Just wait until May (the 50th anniversary of the 1968 uprising). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:49] <exec> 08└─Really, Runaway, you need to just stop saying anything about Islam. You are being used, mislead (which is easy because you are both uneducated and not too bright), and weaponized by certain organizations who seek to overthrow the United States. Everything you say is incorrect, because of your source...
[06:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:49] <exec> 08└─"If I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse" --Henry Ford. George Washington could have said the same thing with "better king" for "faster horse".
[06:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:49] <exec> 08└─I grant that there are occasional exceptions such as a near monopoly or extreme information asymmetry, that might change that
[06:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:51] <exec> 08└─The way I see Universal Basic Income is that it is primarily about redistribution, not about injecting "extra money" into the economy. (Or dropping it from helicopters, although that would be a sight to behold!) A society takes all the money it spends on welfare and instead of grudgingly paying a pi...
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[07:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:48] <exec> 08└─more than 61,000 utility customers[PDF] haven't had electricity since last September, the US Department of Energy reported earlier this month.
[07:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:01] <exec> 08└─When I see "flip-flop", I think "bistable multivibrator". That typically has 1 connection each for power, ground, input, and output. It's sometimes used as a divide-by-2 element (e.g. to get octaves in electronic organs). FTFS: a clock signal What this thing is is a D flip-flop ("D" for "data"). As...
[07:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nutria [6911] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:38] <exec> 08└─Of course, the workers in Lordstown would have to want to move to where the other plants are, instead of sitting around getting Unemployment Insurance, whining and waiting.
[07:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:39] <exec> 08└─Well, frojack is. Just saying. Somebody had to say it.
[07:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:41] <exec> 08└─Don't come crying to me when you are the one attacked by a large corporation, have your "almost sustainable job" cut off at the knees, your pension revoked, your mortgage defaulted upon, the food taken from your children's mouths. It amazes me that anyone can not see that such an attack on someone's...
[07:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:44] <exec> 08└─Troksky created the Red Army. He said, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." And, he died in Mexico. What are you trying to say, fusta, I don't see the connection.
[07:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:46] <exec> 08└─^^^This! Is jmorris protecting his GM stock. What is good for GM is good for America! On a clear day, you can see General Motors. But now Detroit looks like Berlin after the war. And Flint, well they saved a ton of money by alt-sourcing their municipal water suppy! Sometimes I wonder if jmorris ma...
[07:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:48] <exec> 08└─he died in Mexico. I can think of worse places
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[07:39:50] <exec> 08└─Trotsky (watch your spelling|typing, you old fart) was all about "All power to the soviets".[1] It would appear that fustakrakich is not in favor of Democracy. [1] A soviet is a council (workers council, town council, whatever). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:40:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:38] <exec> 08└─He's not that far off, you know. I disagree with him about Jesus, though; the guy was a nutter. Thing is, he was more of a harmless hippie nutter, compared to Mohammed who was a Charles Manson nutter. This makes a world of difference when one is the founder of a religion.
[07:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:59] <exec> 08└─Still hurts, eh, c0lo? Ferking Frankish!! Which is, after all, a Germanic tribe.
[07:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:00] <exec> 08└─You know what hurts most? The Venetians, the mercantile bastards, they should have known better.
[07:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:02] <exec> 08└─But the culture of the Abbasid Caliphate has died long time ago. Today's "muslims" would be considered munafiqun [wikipedia.org] then. They most definitely shirked their duty to promote progress and knowledge. Their current stance on freedom of religion would sound insane to their ancestors who live...
[07:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:05] <exec> 08└─Agreed. But, you know, mercantile and mercenary derive from the same root. The root of all evil. And don't get me started on the Genoese in Greece!
[07:41:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:50] <exec> 08└─An awful lot of nonsense seems to be written about these sorts of people when they die. Especially someone like Barbara Bush, a child of wealth, who married into a family of wealth and political influence, and whose only real achievement over her life seem to have been to give birth to the next gen...
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[08:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:45] <exec> 08└─Solar panels (standalone, or on flashlights) and batteries are in constant use, but for a fridge... Just spent 9 figures blowing up three buildings in Syria, still leaving millions of citizens in the dark or at the mercy of a single mishap. I'm so glad we have such fucked-up priorities in the most p...
[08:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:46] <exec> 08└─In this day and age we can't distribute generators and string cable across the island in less than a month??! Where's the fucking military??! This is exactly what we are supposed to be using them for while they're up north taking pots shots at each other because they're going nuts! I guess they have...
[08:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:48] <exec> 08└─This means fat cat power corporations won't be paid. :)
[08:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:51] <exec> 08└─Compare to the reconstruction of the other Caribbean islands hits by the same hurricanes. Cuba, in particular. Those folks have their shit together. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:53] <exec> 08└─Guys, talk to your accountant & your tax attorney. Ask them about Act 20 & Act 22. Then pack your bags for Bitcoin City, Puerto Rico. Stay for 183 days, NO INCOME TAX, NO TAX ON DIVIDENDS & NO CAPITAL GAINS TAX!!!! 🇵🇷
[08:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:55] <exec> 08└─Bernie Sanders has proposed replacing their last-century stuff with renewables. the fucking military You have misunderstood the mission of USA's military. That is to blow up shit. ...and when the US Marines were sent to Haiti, they carried guns. Their mission was to make sure that The Oligarchs ther...
[08:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:09] <exec> 08└─Because hackaday wants to use a single transistor rather than flip-flops.
[08:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:10] <exec> 08└─Because you want many billion on one piece of Si, so anyone who opens the door to using less transistors is welcome. The next guy might refine this design and give us a significant step in memory density. Or it could be a dead end. But it's worth exploring, just in case.
[08:39:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:21] <exec> 08└─Summarized: Company selling less of specific model car. Company cuts car production staff at factory making that model. Company is an evil force attacking workers and this disproves overall economy trends. This logic doesn't make sense to me...."The World Socialist Web Site reports"....never mind,...
[08:39:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the cars aren't selling, but dammit, they should keep on making them. Its there socialist duty to keep on delivering what the stupid consumers don't want. Maybe if Chevy's ads weren't so cringeworth they would sell more cars.
[08:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:54] <exec> 08└─You'd never know that by looking at what the C-suite guys are pulling down. If some cuts were made there and that dough was spread around to some of the people who actually WORK for a living, that would improve things. (Y'know, give it to the folks who actually BUY stuff.) The execs could also stop...
[08:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:07] <exec> 08└─No, make Islam live up to it's name - it submits to our values.
[08:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:09] <exec> 08└─No, I'm saying the *exact opposite*. Church did some horrible things "in the name of God", and Bible is considered the literal and immutable "word of God", but in the end the Christianity reformed from the inside. I've replaced a few words to show parallels between Islam and middle-ages Christianity...
[08:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:11] <exec> 08└─You can go and look at pictures from Iran or Afghanistan in the '60s and compare with current pictures after resurgent Islam. 7th Century barbarism is not a civilising force and it's shocking that some on the left refuse to understand. Laying the blame for radicalism at the feet of Western intervent...
[08:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:13] <exec> 08└─Moslems make more moslems, creating exponential growth
[08:41:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06NASA's TESS Mission Set to Launch on Wednesday, April 18 - 1686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:40] <exec> 08└─They start out with a 2 year mission duration. A little less than a month looking at each of the 26 observation sectors. That will allow them to find many of the planets that orbit very close to their stars. These might not be the most interesting targets because they are generally scorched worlds,...
[08:42:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:10] <exec> 08└─I'm also not one to speak glowingly of someone JUST because they died. she was horrible, her husband and whole family are evil and I wish them nothing but badness in their life. they fucked over a LOT of people and they DESERVE lots of pain and suffering in their lives. look, evil people die, and wh...
[08:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:14] <exec> 08└─The full JFK assassination archives are supposed to be released soon. We'll see if CIA convinces Trump otherwise. GHW Bush (Bab's husband), later CIA Director and eventually President, is said to have been in Dealey Plaza November 22, 1963. Was he sightseeing--or did he have a mission? All just coin...
[08:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:16] <exec> 08└─Well, GHW Bush did call Reagan's shit "Voodoo economics". I'll give him a point for that. Of course, Daddy Bush did reverse his azimuth when he got the top gig. ...and I wonder if you know about Prescott Bush (GHW's daddy and Dubya's granddaddy) and his profiteering by financing the Nazis. -- Origin...
[08:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:42] <exec> 08└─I think you're being sarcastic. Maybe, probably, you're being sarcastic. Because everyone knows there was no team. There was just me. I donated very heavily to Crooked Hillary. As a businessman and a VERY SUBSTANTIAL donor to VERY IMPORTANT people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want t...
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[08:46:12] <exec> 08└─My dad loved Cadillac. And I love Cadillac, it's an American classic. I had one with a VERY SPECIAL license plate, it said DJT. People don't know, those are my initials. It was like I had it monogrammed!! Great conversation piece. It got me so much pussy. And nobody ever, ever called me a welfare qu...
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[09:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:46] <exec> 08└─Obviously she knew too much. What could be more convenient than a "random", wink wink, blade separation? Ya can't miss [wikipedia.org]!
[09:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:47] <exec> 08└─Thoughts & prayers w/the kids. Still one of the best and safest years on record! Because of me. Because I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation.
[09:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:50] <exec> 08└─He said metal fatigue is a major problem.
[09:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I've had a significant power cut in my life, unless you include the time that a house down the road caught fire and they turned off the power to the street (which, personally, I wouldn't count). The power was back on within the hour. I know that we don't really get the very bad weather...
[09:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:04] <exec> 08└─Even if there were generators to distribute, (there still aren't roads to every part of the country), there is no fuel, and no fuel distribution.. https://www.usnews.com [usnews.com]
[09:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:21] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly, but also you forgot the clock. Sure, you might have a clock anyway hanging around on a board but adding it to flip a single bit of storage seems a bit of desperation. The second transistor would be all around cheaper and more reliable.
[09:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:05] <exec> 08└─Bernie has proposed a baby step in the right direction, but the problem is Capitalism. Until we get rid of that, things aren't going to change for the better.
[09:40:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:28] <exec> 08└─I guess he must think he needs the money more than the votes if he's pushing stronger copyright enforcement as a core issue.
[09:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion [wikipedia.org] The Thirty Years' War wrapped up in 1648. If Islam is about 600 years newer than Christianity, we could predict an end to Islamic religious turmoil by about the year 2250. That seems reasonable.
[09:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:23] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, in the Christian world, if you weren't Christian, you were put to death.
[09:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:25] <exec> 08└─But that probably will never happen since the Bible is without fault, its the actual word of God and not stories retold by others
[09:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:27] <exec> 08└─Heck, Christians were killing each other over being the wrong kind of Christian as recently as the 1990's.
[09:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:29] <exec> 08└─Did you not read the old testament?
[09:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, a lot of native americans, in the East at least, were pretty horrible. Many didn't have a concept of "surrender", which led to some pretty horrific stuff going on in e.g. the seven years war where (mostly) the French used them as ancillaries.
[09:41:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:44] <exec> 08└─Don't blame me - I use an ASIC rig.
[09:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:35] <exec> 08└─Well, don't leave 'em hanging. On Larry King Live, the former first lady said, "I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful. And she's very happy in Alaska", Bush said, chuckling. "I hope she'll stay there." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[09:43:42] <exec> 08└─illegally
[09:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:38] <exec> 08└─My sons -- not Barron, my 2 oldest sons -- love to hunt. I'm not a believer in hunting. I'm a big believer in the 2nd Amendment. We must protect gun rights, that's so important. For self-defense, for so many reasons. But we (I) can't go back in time. 1986, great year. Before my first trip to Moscow....
[09:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:35] <exec> 08└─So true. People think Pennsylvania is nothing but farms. And it has so many! But it has the Harrisburg International Airport (they call it MDT). Tremendous airport. I fly in, I hold a rally -- I've done two rallies there -- and THOUSANDS of people show up. It's incredible. And they love me, no matte...
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[10:38:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:53] <exec> 08└─But, more to the point, is it a frequent problem in these circles?
[10:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:54] <exec> 08└─In order to improve efficiency, engines must be run at higher temperatures and pressures. Obviously, this puts more stress on the components.
[10:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:56] <exec> 08└─That's how Amazon runs its warehouses. The guys working there must carry around a bottle to piss in. Because they don't have time to take a bathroom break. Very efficient. But so nasty!!!!
[10:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:58] <exec> 08└─It's impressive that the pilots were able to land the plane and save everyone else. I hope they get the Christmas bonus to end all Christmas bonuses. The part of the story that caught my eye was that the passenger was partially sucked out through the shattered window. I thought Mythbusters had buste...
[10:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:01] <exec> 08└─mythbusters said that if you shoot a gun at at the airplane wall then there won't be an explosion, and nobody will be sucked out. as far as I can remember, they didn't talk about a window being shattered by shrapnel.
[10:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:32] <exec> 08└─You could argue that there's greater benefit when you need multiple flip-flops (all driven by a single clock), but the designer states (in the project discussion) that that's most likely to be useful if you're building your system out of vacuum tubes rather than modern transistors.
[10:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:34] <exec> 08└─Sure, but that's no excuse for not reading TFA!
[10:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:36] <exec> 08└─I read it. It's intellectually interesting, I can't find a use for it myself for the moment, good to keep a bookmark on it.
[10:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:38] <exec> 08└─Because you want many billion on one piece of Si, so anyone who opens the door to using less transistors is welcome.
[10:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:40] <exec> 08└─Because hackaday wants to use a single transistor rather than flip-flops.
[10:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:25] <exec> 08└─And all those who pray to the capitalist God while not paying their own dues are purged from the system, along with their economic toadies in the management and working classes.
[10:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:27] <exec> 08└─You seem to have a very warped, McCarthy-era-propaganda understanding of socialism. Hint: look at the socialist democracies of northern Europe instead. You even admit that what NK has is not socialism (immediately after proclaiming it successful socialism, but still). Yes, the implementation of soci...
[10:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:29] <exec> 08└─Venezuela is Bolivarian (Anti-Imperialist) but calling it Socialist (worker-owned cooperatives) is a real stretch.
[10:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:31] <exec> 08└─^this! You don't have workers earning, you don't have customers buying. So simple even a CEO or shareholder should be able to figure it out.....
[10:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:33] <exec> 08└─You're zero for 2. Yugoslavia had 3 decades of successful worker ownership of the means of production. USSR under Lenin was doing pretty good (despite constant military and economic harassment by USA and its allies). ...until Lenin died and Stalin decided he wanted to be a dictator. There has never...
[10:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:35] <exec> 08└─Don't come crying to me when you are the one attacked by a large corporation, have your "almost sustainable job" cut off at the knees, your pension revoked, your mortgage defaulted upon, the food taken from your children's mouths.
[10:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:38] <exec> 08└─So jmorris "protects" a stock by bragging on how it's only losing $4 billion? I'll need to build a wormhole to your reality - the drugs are clearly superior.
[10:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:40] <exec> 08└─Yup, I have to double check my thought processes to make sure I'm not just undercaffeinated when I agree with gewg_ but paying your workers what they're worth to you is an important part of capitalism. Keep the throat cutting where it belongs, on the store shelves.
[10:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:42] <exec> 08└─Excellent troll there. Thank you for showing the noobs how we do things around these parts.
[10:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:44] <exec> 08└─The company sold 450,000 fewer vehicles to dealers last year than they did in 2016
[10:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:46] <exec> 08└─You're closer to the mark than he is but you're still wrong. It's NOT socialist democracy[1], it's Liberal Democracy, sometimes called Social Democracy. There are even some parties that call themselves Christian Democrats. Some people see "social" and automatically go to "Socialist". That's WRONG. H...
[10:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:08] <exec> 08└─Bible is considered the literal and immutable "word of God"
[10:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:09] <exec> 08└─What is striking, to me, is the lack of detail on how Europe should reform. It is clear that without some form of reform, Europe is dead. So what? Needs detail rather than well-wishing and angst!
[10:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:11] <exec> 08└─WIth regard to Islam and the Reformation, I would gently encourage you to read and reflect upon this article: Why Islam doesn’t need a reformation [theguardian.com]. I don't think I would wish the consequences of such a reformation on people. Rather than a Reformation, I would fervently wish for a...
[10:42:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:20] <exec> 08└─ensure that gamers have full transparency into the GPU platform and software they're being sold,
[10:42:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06NASA's TESS Mission Set to Launch on Wednesday, April 18 - 672 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:40] <exec> 08└─The overlap at the poles might be enough to find exoplanets with longer orbital periods: http://www.latimes.com [latimes.com] Because of those tight observing windows, the spacecraft won’t be able to pick up planets with longer...
[10:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteorite Diamonds Point to Destruction of an Early Solar System Proto-Planet - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:28] <exec> 08└─For some reason I'm thinking that a violent impact could also create the diamonds, without necessarily needing planet sized bodies. Around impact craters or something. But I can't remember why that would be true/false
[10:44:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 285 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:17] <exec> 08└─East Germany and the Stasi tried all sorts of abuses. But they didn't have the tech to scale up to billions, almost effortlessly. When the next Stasi takes power, we are all pwned. And, well, you know the only way to get unpwned, right? Nuke and pave. You can't dig your way out of it.
[10:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:24] <exec> 08└─Except Copyright.
[10:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:22] <exec> 08└─Don't you see some asymmetry between a hungry man, who wants to eat, and a fat cat, sitting on sacks of food?
[10:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:24] <exec> 08└─you can do that through other taxes that are more optional like sales or fuel taxes.
[10:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:26] <exec> 08└─People are forced to sell their homes and move into tiny houses or rentals that are still cheaper, unless they have a wealthy relative who takes care of these expenses.
[10:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:28] <exec> 08└─Because THAT fixes everything.
[10:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:54] <exec> 08└─Israel, best place to be Jewish, right? I'm a big fan of Israel. But there's only an Israel because of the Nazis. And because of their wall. They were having a total disaster coming across and they had a wall. It’s 99.9% stoppage.
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[11:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:48] <exec> 08└─You may still have a chance to take back your country. It would be wise to use it.
[11:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:50] <exec> 08└─Now that there's ranked-choice voting, time to start the long process of cleaning house.
[11:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:52] <exec> 08└─I don't really care how they do the math in their voting (I don't live in or plan to live in Maine) as long as everybody gets to vote and their vote is worth the same as anyone else's. Good on the courts for upholding Joe Schmoe's rights over the interests of the major parties though.
[11:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:54] <exec> 08└─This is very important. The two party system is beyond broken, and we need to utilize voting systems that allow votes for 3rd(or 5th) party candidates while still allowing those votes to vote into more popular candidates in most elections. I'm not saying this system does that(it really doesn't), how...
[11:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:09] <exec> 08└─Well, the upshot is there is a job opening at Wells Fargo now. Let the massive resume battle begin because the job market is just so freaking great.
[11:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:25] <exec> 08└─Or...seemingly more likely, has everyone just moved out of the affected areas into places where power has already been restored?
[11:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:27] <exec> 08└─I lived through the blackout in 2003 in New York City. It was in August, so a good day to get free ice cream. One of the best cakes I've ever had, the Brooklyn Blackout Cake (think, "Death by Chocolate"), was invented by a bakery near me because they had to use all their perishable ingredients. It w...
[11:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:29] <exec> 08└─Super. More neighbors wrapping their cars in Puerto Rican flags, lolling out their windows screaming "Puerto Ricoooo!" for 3 days surrounding the Puerto Rican Day Parade, blasting music. Every year I wonder the same thing: What the heck is the source of the pride they have in Puerto Rico? The island...
[11:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:31] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about the time the Marines were sent to Haiti because of the earthquake, I can speak to that one because I was right in the middle of it. They were sent with guns because black marketeers were stealing all the relief supplies that the UN and everyone else were trying to send and di...
[11:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:33] <exec> 08└─And NO POWER for mining!
[11:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:55] <exec> 08└─Oh it's a dead end. It's a neat dead end though.
[11:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:57] <exec> 08└─Yup. It's not going to revolutionize anything but it's sure enough a neat hack.
[11:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:54] <exec> 08└─What things are you doing so that you and your coworkers become the owners of the means of production. If your answer is "None", then you aren't a Socialist. turns people away from the good effects of socialism I would be interesting in your opinion of what those are. As you apparently don't know wh...
[11:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:55] <exec> 08└─The new owners confronted the bank that held the deed to the property and didn't back down. The workers got repaid for the time that the means of production was idle. [googleusercontent.com] (orig; at about the 60 percent mark on the page) [dissidentvoice.org] the occupation got the workers the poss...
[11:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:58] <exec> 08└─Mondragon was founded in 1956 with 6 worker-owners. Currently, Mondragon has over 100,000 worker-owners in 40 countries on 5 continents. You wish all your "failures" went so well. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:00] <exec> 08└─So, every other attempt on the planet vs. one success story? You're not going to win any arguments like that.
[11:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:14] <exec> 08└─The barrels were in the enclosure because they are used as an enrichment tool for the animals
[11:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:27] <exec> 08└─Standard religious approach is to say that latter accepted writings supersede previous ones. In Christianity that means you have to throw out most all of the violence and even the negative emotions that might cause violence. In Islam it means you have to throw out getting along with people stuff and...
[11:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:28] <exec> 08└─Not remotely, no. Black men are only very slightly more likely to be shot by the cops during the commission of a crime than white folks. They're a hell of a lot more likely to be killed by another black man than any other form of non-accidental/natural death.
[11:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:30] <exec> 08└─> most Muslims really really hate the Islamic terrorist groups Are they prepared to tear out the pages that support ISIS from their korans? If they're not prepared to fix their religion, they're complicit.
[11:44:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:51] <exec> 08└─What idiot doctor gave antibiotics for a cold virus?
[11:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:43] <exec> 08└─And what is the problem with that?
[11:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:44] <exec> 08└─Say I retired in 1998 and my house was worth $400,000. It's 2018 and my house is worth $1,600,000. My income hasn't increased... the house hasn't improved... but property tax has quadrupled. That's the problem. If you're on the move and earning money you might be able to roll with the flow. Older p...
[11:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:33] <exec> 08└─It's not a difficult concept to grasp. The Douchebags want to take away more of the rights our founders guaranteed me than the Retards. Simple math if you value liberty over the illusion of security.
[11:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:14] <exec> 08└─Heh. Sometimes I call .@VP [twitter.com] Pence that, just to give him a hard time.
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[12:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:51] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't cooking kill off the salmonella?
[12:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:53] <exec> 08└─You're right, but this isn't about salmonella (it was probably the thing that got the investigation started). It is about food safety, the four page PDF report basically reads as a horror story for food safety. Eggs from that farm are more or less flagged Biohazard, that's why they are recalled.
[12:39:04] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:05] <exec> 08└─Now people can vote for a third party candidate without "throwing away their vote". That removes a barrier to entry and gives candidates from outside the political mainstream a fighting chance. It's no wonder that the Maine Legislature wanted to kick the can... into a black hole. With a clean house,...
[12:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, but I am not now nor am I likely to be in the future in the subset of "people in Maine". Nor do I expect what folks in Maine do to have any effect on the folks in Tennessee. The cultures aren't very similar except for both being known for enjoying fishing. Which is to say, good on em but I don'...
[12:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:08] <exec> 08└─You have the power to propose, write, and collect signatures for a similar ballot measure in Tennessee. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Just kidding, your state is fucked [ballotpedia.org]. Tennessee ballot measures come in only one variety: legislatively referred constitutional...
[12:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:10] <exec> 08└─With the current system, gerrymandering makes some people's, some families', some districts', votes worth nothing. This is a solid forward step towards introducing democracy to at least a small part of America, if it's taken. Indidentally, I analysed the results of the US 2016 election were each sta...
[12:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:13] <exec> 08└─I'm okay with that. We have lots of guns here if they annoy us too badly.
[12:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:15] <exec> 08└─Did they do anything about gerrymandering? I didn't see that bit.
[12:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:17] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the one where if you have three candidates, where half the population prefers candidate H and hates candidate T, and the other half prefers candidate T but hates candidate H, and the only one everyone can accept is candidate Q, Q will be eliminated first, and one of the two most hated can...
[12:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─I don't really care how they do the math in their voting (I don't live in or plan to live in Maine) as long as everybody gets to vote and their vote is worth the same as anyone else's.
[12:39:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:30] <exec> 08└─That's how Amazon runs its warehouses. The guys working there must carry around a bottle to piss in. Because they don't have time to take a bathroom break. Very efficient. But so nasty!!!!
[12:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:35] <exec> 08└─It's impressive that the pilots were able to land the plane and save everyone else.
[12:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:37] <exec> 08└─Government bureaucracy at the FAA just saved the lives of all but 1 of the people on that plane. Everybody involved followed procedures and training to a T, and if you listen to the radio traffic the level of professionalism across the board is impressive.
[12:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:58] <exec> 08└─> What the heck is the source of the pride they have in Puerto Rico? Dunno. Hamilton? (Both the dude and the musical.)
[12:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:59] <exec> 08└─I consider that a PLUS!
[12:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 3727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:02] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. But it's not that simple. For a start, I live in a country where solar /wind power, especially for heating, is so impractical as to be useless. Plus I don't own enough roofspace to make it viable even if I could afford the panels and was prepared to take the hit. Literally, I wouldn't be...
[12:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:25] <exec> 08└─Everybody--well, everybody except the recent bunch of Capitalists--knows that you **meet** demand; trying to *create* demand by overproduction is just stupid. That's why Capitalism is known for its boom-and-bust cycles. ...going into a slump on average every 4 to 7 years. ...with a complete craterin...
[12:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:26] <exec> 08└─That's why Capitalism is known for its boom-and-bust cycles.
[12:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:29] <exec> 08└─google.com/search?q=%22*.percent.of.businesses.fail.within.*.years%22 (I do wish the comments engine wasn't so phobic about quote marks in hyperlinks.) within the first 10 results yields: 25 Percent of New Businesses Fail Within the First Two Years Why 96 Percent of Businesses Fail Within 10 Years
[12:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:31] <exec> 08└─overproduction I assure you that "Supply-Side Economics" wasn't the invention of a Socialist. The notion of infinite growth (infinite consumption) in a finite world is strictly Capitalist in nature. (Obviously not saying here that all Capitalists are wise; many are simply stupid--but driven by insat...
[12:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:33] <exec> 08└─Lacking comparison, that is utterly irrelevant to anything at all.
[12:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:48] <exec> 08└─Biologically (technically), they are animals, and the Institute's statement makes repeated reference to "animal care". I guess they recognize the potential PR blowback of referring to a "research organism retrieval team".
[12:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:04] <exec> 08└─The people getting stomped on to make that happen turn to religion because it's the only structure they have with which to fight back.
[12:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:06] <exec> 08└─These days we call it "halal certification". Welcome to multi cultural Australia. Make yourself at home.
[12:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:08] <exec> 08└─Have you read the koran?
[12:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:10] <exec> 08└─The halal Paki's shop where I buy the lamb barbeque chops on my way home from the office is top quality and medium prices, thank you. Guess what? Unlike the previous owners, who closed at 17:30, they keep opened 'til 21:00 - of course they keep me as client.
[12:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:12] <exec> 08└─Your options are: 1) Be enslaved and raped, possibly to death or 2) Set yourself on fire Which do you choose with muslims outside your city walls about to come in? Sadly, the fate of civilians in war has often been harsh, perhaps even more so in the past. Men would invariably be killed, and children...
[12:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:14] <exec> 08└─Is Macron pro terrorism? Because trying to reform somebody else - in this case Islam - tends to piss people off, and terrorism is one of the available responses to this (and a popular response among Moslems). Just think back to when the German leader wanted to reform France or the UK. They weren't e...
[12:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:17] <exec> 08└─Buddhists and Bahai seem to have performed pretty well by that standard, though maybe the Bahai don't really count because they were never in charge of a large military power. Buddhists don't seem to have engaged in mass slaughter though, so maybe the original point about the character of a religion...
[12:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's TESS Mission Set to Launch on Wednesday, April 18 - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:46] <exec> 08└─https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/19/all-sky-surveyor-launched-from-cape-canaveral-on-the-hunt-for-exoplanets/ [spaceflightnow.com] SpaceX and NASA officials said the Falcon 9 rocket achieved an on-target orbit before deploying TESS less than 50 minutes after liftoff, while the spacecraft soared ov...
[12:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:22] <exec> 08└─My mother told me it was impolite to say bad things about someone who had just passed away. "Say only good", she reminded me. With that in mind here goes. She's dead, good.
[12:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:34] <exec> 08└─Why is the obvious solution, sell the house, supposed to be a bad choice?
[12:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:24] <exec> 08└─He did The Rest of the Story, so interesting! Always, always an amazing surprise at the end. After the commercials. He was so smart. Not an elitist -- that's so true. A humble guy that loved farmers. So much like me. He asked "why do we have our nuclear arsenal, but we don't use it?" I grew up in Ne...
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[13:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:52] <exec> 08└─Check out the sous-vide stuff, thats how I cook beef tenderloins. Delicious! Anyway 7.0-log-lethality for salmonella is a sliding scale of a bit more than a half hour at 135F up to a millisecond at 165F. Given the wide variation in times based on temp I wouldn't push your luck, assume the thermomete...
[13:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:54] <exec> 08└─"Employees were observed touching ... intergluteal cleft." Also what is with the (b)(4) images everywhere?
[13:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:56] <exec> 08└─When Austin (Jack) DeCoster and his son Peter went to jail, -- OriginalOwner_ was super chuffed. Two months later we have more so-called "bad eggs." Folks, the farmers aren't the problem. The chickens are the problem. #FreeTheFarmers [twitter.com] #SoGodMadeAFarmer [twitter.com]
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:58] <exec> 08└─The farming industry is highly subsidized by the government; free money means there's less risk born by the supplier. A farm should want to reduce its risk instead by purchasing insurance, and an insurance company would want to protect itself by ensuring that its clients aren't shitshows like the fa...
[13:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:00] <exec> 08└─the ultra-consolidated factory farm system can have major consequences for food safety.
[13:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:03] <exec> 08└─$0.69/doz eggs
[13:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:22] <exec> 08└─Ranked choice voting is not new (other than here) Running experiments like this is a perfect and intended function of states. Reducing the stranglehold of the 'two party system' is a worthwhile goal in and of itself. Any thoughts on unintended consequences? I can see it making it harder for third p...
[13:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:23] <exec> 08└─You're missing the other side of the coin, where half loves T and the other half loves H. Or, at least they prefer them to Q. I suppose the outcome you wanted could happen if each of the choices were weighted using some multiplier and then added up at the start. So, people ranked T or H 1st, so thos...
[13:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:25] <exec> 08└─that IRV is just a way to maintain the two-party status quo and prevent switching to approval voting. http://www.votefair.org [votefair.org] http://math.uchicago.edu [uchicago.edu] Regardless, plenty of state and federal problems need addressing beyond the voting syst...
[13:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 2645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:28] <exec> 08└─No system is perfect, and this is certainly a risk. However, it's much more often the case (you see this fairly commonly when there's a single viable independent candidate in a US election) where the candidate pulls much more strongly from one of the major candidate's bases than the others. In tight...
[13:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:30] <exec> 08└─That's the current system, but nice try.
[13:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 1758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's a deceptive name for IRV, which behaves exactly as you describe. It's deceptive because "ranked-choice" literally describes a type of ballot, and there are several ways to determine a winner from a stack of ranked ballots. IRV is just one of them (and one of the worst), but its proponents...
[13:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:35] <exec> 08└─Yup, approval voting would likely be better and simpler to design ballots for.
[13:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:37] <exec> 08└─See my reply below [soylentnews.org]. As I see it, the answer isn't forcing voters to state simple preferences ("A>B>C") with no information on the strength of those preferences, then applying arbitrary multipliers to assume strengths. Instead, just let the voters state their preferences in a form t...
[13:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:55] <exec> 08└─quote from the bbc piece: "With oxygen masks over their mouths, passengers screamed and braced for impact. For a few seconds, the aircraft rolled to an angle of 41 degrees before levelling out and starting an emergency descent, federal investigators said on Wednesday." did you notice the 41 angle bi...
[13:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:56] <exec> 08└─Any commercial pilot can land a (multi-engine) plane with one engine down Does the test also have a holes-in-the-aircraft section? I remember previous incidents where an engine scattered and control systems went pear-shaped. That DC-10 out of Chicago [google.com] where the engine and its pylon separ...
[13:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:58] <exec> 08└─You can, however, credit professionalism and objective standards.
[13:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:00] <exec> 08└─In today's climate? Yes, it is impressive the pilot was qualified and not a diversity hire.
[13:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:24] <exec> 08└─They've invaded and taken over a country? (the USA?)
[13:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:26] <exec> 08└─In the UK a "big storm" is a minor thunderstorm about ten times per year. In the American Midwest we have fifty minor thunderstorms per year on average. There are much more dramatic weather patterns down south; I spent some time in Redstone Alabama and it seemed like we had tropical daily thundersto...
[13:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:28] <exec> 08└─Chaos can follow electricity outages, but does not necessarily. New York City is as big as they come, but chaos did not ensue during the 2003 blackout. People walked home, offered total strangers rides if they lived further out, and helped each other out. It was extraordinarily orderly, and complete...
[13:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:30] <exec> 08└─5% of the population is expected to move
[13:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:32] <exec> 08└─How does an island of 3 million people invade and take over a country of 350 million people by sending over 200,000 of those 3 million people? They haven't even managed to invade and take over a city or even a borough of NYC. They sort of have Washington Heights in Manhattan, but when they kick up a...
[13:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:35] <exec> 08└─Sewage is the real problem. You can drink out of the local river (well, I would filter it but animals and pets are unaffected so humans probably would survive off river water) and plenty of people fish the local river for fun, but when the sewage treatment plant anywhere local or upsteam shuts down...
[13:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:37] <exec> 08└─Its sort of like US military in Iraq, sure the locals outnumber us 1000 to 1 but we tell what passes for local government to jump and they ask how high, we can go where ever we want including your land and do whatever we want but you can't, that kind of thing. otherwise harmless
[13:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:06] <exec> 08└─I guess it's unpossible for people to commute from surrounding areas, from sometimes up to an hour away, to work one of those jobs. I've never heard of such a thing in my life. Nobody works anywhere that isn't within 100 yards of their house. That's just how the real world works.
[13:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah well I'd like to nominate Mr. Vim for president (with coolgopher as a running mate) in 2020 so that we can finally have true Scottish capitalism. We don't need any Russian troll racist all white male candidates like Bernie Sanders proposing progressive measures that will benefit white people in...
[13:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:10] <exec> 08└─We fucked up. Better blame the usual scapegoats.
[13:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:48] <exec> 08└─They were pretty horrible throughout. Through North America, Meso-America, and South America. They massacred indiscriminately, kept slaves, practiced human sacrifice, did drugs, you name it. In other words they were like everyone else everywhere else. In fact the Indians that taught the Pilgrims how...
[13:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:49] <exec> 08└─It is obvious to me that there is another war coming. Not a little skirmish like what we currently call a war, but something on the scale of WW2. It is going to be Muslim vs Non-Muslim and it will start in Europe. The muslims see this coming, they think that they are young, strong, vigorous and righ...
[13:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:52] <exec> 08└─It's typical hubris coming from investment bankers to think it lies within their power to reform entire religions, as though it were a civic organization or private club they can pay to influence. They think they can do such a thing because they are so mercenary and believe in nothing themselves; so...
[13:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:54] <exec> 08└─Buddhists don't seem to have engaged in mass slaughter though
[13:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:56] <exec> 08└─tried to wipe out the Jewish communities via the Inquisition.
[13:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:17] <exec> 08└─Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft. They are all the same in that they can't stay on top by simply being better. Actually they probably can stay on top, but they still have to take the low road with shenanigans. They have more in common than that, but I'll keep it focused to this topic. It's primarily AMD and...
[13:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:03] <exec> 08└─I think you mean "it wasn't dog-whistle if everyone could hear it".
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[14:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 1789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:51] <exec> 08└─Those are kinda code-words or dog-whistles for mobile phone hardware although why they woudn't just re-brand some crappy android phone with a custom ROM making it "The Facebook Phone". Probably call it the "f-Phone" because that doesn't sound awkward or anything. "Hello fellow consumer drones, did y...
[14:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:52] <exec> 08└─Google with their AI chips, Apple rejecting Intel, now FB with theirs. Increasingly becoming separate in order to corner their own markets. Soon your life will be defined by which logo you happen to wear, because nothing will be interoperable. So you get the FB phone, along with the FB self-driving...
[14:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:54] <exec> 08└─Doubtful. More like the 80s and 90s where there were several companies making CPUs. More brains trying to solve very similar problems yields more good solutions, pretty soon company A will grab the best of companies B and C for their chips. Companies B and C are of course doing the same. I predict i...
[14:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:57] <exec> 08└─There will be an even easier way to avoid people; don't wear their logos.
[14:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:59] <exec> 08└─You can't buy any of Google's AI TPU chips, and probably won't be able to buy Facebook's either - they'll be using them for machine learning and in their servers. If Apple does switch from Intel, it will be using ARM chips, not really what you'd consider not interoperable. (not funny btw)
[14:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:01] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they are going to use them for? Are they going to chip all their users for "easy login" and tracking? Now that everyone is having a hissy fit about their facial recognition and tracking and selling of data and web scraping and how Zuck sucked in the hearings and ... the list just goes...
[14:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:16] <exec> 08└─Page 5 of the shows the pasteurization curves for salmonella. I like my eggs at 65C, then poached in simmering water for about 20secs. https://www.google.com
[14:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:17] <exec> 08└─It's not just ALDI, most every restaurant supplier and the processed foods industry also uses these ultra-cheap eggs. For our house we get the $2.99/doz Cage Free eggs from Trader Joes because: ~80 dozen eggs a year get cooked and eaten in this house and the extra ~$0.13 per person per day seems wor...
[14:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:19] <exec> 08└─you could pasturize chicken shit to 7.0-log lethality if you wanted to eat it and it would be safe.
[14:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:21] <exec> 08└─Cage Free ... shit-stained product
[14:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:48] <exec> 08└─The purpose of democracy is to be an opiate of the masses to convince them they have a choice between two hand picked almost identical candidates, voting and democracy is generally a technology of authoritarianism. Thus we had Obummer who in practice was a continuation of the Bush presidency. Trump...
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[14:40:11] <exec> 08└─The broken window wouldn't do much to the aerodynamics. The sudden failure of an engine will create a transient in the yaw axis, which will couple into the roll axis (especially in a swept-wing airplane), which would explain the 41 degree roll. Recovering from that is not a big deal: boot the rudder...
[14:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:12] <exec> 08└─I'm going to guess that Capt. Tammie Jo Shults does qualify as a diversity hire. Tough for your white male ego to admit that a hire can be both for quality and diversity?
[14:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:14] <exec> 08└─Check out the recorded conversation between the pilot and the air traffic controllers. After correcting the plane posture (it dropped sharply on one side due to the engine blow up, as if the plane is making a sharp turn) and stabilizing the altitude, she calmly reports the flight status to the air t...
[14:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:17] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: 1. Everyone involved was extremely professional in a crisis situation. This had absolutely nothing to do with the culture of the bureaucracy they were a part of. 2. Everyone involved met objective standards of behavior and training. This had absolutely nothing to do with...
[14:40:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 762 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:58] <exec> 08└─I get the challenge of designing a flop with only one transistor as a defined goal. It's clever. It's fun. However, practical chip level design is concerned with total area. This design uses three diodes. Three diodes is at least as big as two bipolar transistors. So, you are up to three transistors...
[14:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:18] <exec> 08└─Capitalism would be perfect if not for those meddlesome Russians and their super power of spending chump change on Failbook ads to swing a whole election!
[14:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:20] <exec> 08└─trying to *create* demand by overproduction is just stupid.
[14:43:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 1118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:03] <exec> 08└─You mean jizyah [wikipedia.org], by chance? Look, Trump promised he'll tale you only 20% or so tax. By comparison: Muslim jurists required adult, free, sane males among the dhimma community to pay the jizya,[5] while exempting women, children, elders, handicapped, the ill, the insane, monks, hermits...
[14:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:04] <exec> 08└─Are you catching on? History repeats itself, often enough. Those who fail to learn from history, are condemned to relive history - or words close enough not to matter. Look around you. All over the world, all over Europe, you can see the vanguard of the next Muslim armies. Evicting the Muslims from...
[14:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:06] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Our media pussyfoots around the issue, never really addressing it. Al Jazeera knows these people far better than our mass media moguls. https://www.aljazeera.com [aljazeera.com] Nigeria's kidnapped g...
[14:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─The majority of Muslims "immigrating" into Europe are military aged males. That means nothing to you?
[14:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:10] <exec> 08└─We can always count on Ari to bring the faggotry into the discussion. I suppose there are "Good Greeks" and "Bad Greeks". Those people here at Soylent who have identified as Greek seem mostly good. But, you, Aristarchus, are very special indeed. You can never leave the faggotry behind.
[14:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:12] <exec> 08└─HINT: The American west was settled primarily by military aged males, of European stock.
[14:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:15] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but it sounds awesome.
[14:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:23] <exec> 08└─Some peoples' graves need dancing on.
[14:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:01] <exec> 08└─for the most part.
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:38] <exec> 08└─Because I want to live in my own house. You do understand that people like to live in the house and the community that they built, without undue influence, right?
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[15:38:58] <exec> 08└─imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever. -- Orwell
[15:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:00] <exec> 08└─ARM is the definition of not interoperable when compared with x86 and x86-64. That's increasingly becoming untrue, because of the want to compile one set of code for multiple architectures.
[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:19] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but don't all eggs have Salmonella? What is the problem here? Why would we recall perfectly normal eggs? Everything with a vaganus has Salmonella. That includes birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Salmonella indicates that the egg wasn't made from recycled plastic in a Chinese factory.
[15:39:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:32] <exec> 08└─You have the power to propose, write, and collect signatures for a similar ballot measure in Tennessee. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Just kidding, your state is fucked [ballotpedia.org]. Tennessee ballot measures come in only one variety: legislatively referred constitutional...
[15:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 3635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:13] <exec> 08└─You may guess, all you like. Would you care to bet money on your guess? I'd like a piece of that action! 2. Shults Was One of the First Female Fighter Pilots for the U.S. Navy Shults, a native of New Mexico, graduated in 1983 from MidAmerica Nazarene University after growing up on a ranch. She had d...
[15:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:14] <exec> 08└─It definitely had a lot to do with Navy training. https://heavy.com [heavy.com]
[15:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:16] <exec> 08└─This may be an unpopular opinion, but that pilot would have landed the plane the same way even if she was the only person on board.
[15:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:19] <exec> 08└─A group of professionals who adhere to objective standards can create a very useful government bureaucracy, but a government bureaucracy won't necessarily (or even likely) create a group of professionals who adhere to objective standards. Get it yet?
[15:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:21] <exec> 08└─She was one of the first women Navy pilots, right? You know what the means? As an individual, she must be extraordinary, regardless of her Navy training.
[15:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:23] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. None of that is a knock on Captain Shults' training or experience. However, she wasn't the only one who made this possible: I counted her co-pilot, the flight attendant(s), 3 ATCs, and a couple of other pilots, plus the emergency personnel who responded on the runway, all of whom did the...
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[15:40:26] <exec> 08└─Actually with the engine separated it'd be easier to fly. It'd reduce drag on the side missing the thrust so the offset to correct would be reduced. In the real world, possible damage to the control systems on the wing would be a serious problem.
[15:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:20] <exec> 08└─Flip Flops can be built from a single electromechanical relay. When you're up, you're up. When you're down, you're down. When you're only halfway up [_] You're neither up nor down [_] You need a different pull up resistor [x] Your flip-flop is broken [_] You're using base 3 [_] Is a superposition of...
[15:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:31] <exec> 08└─I expect that he'll run again in 2020
[15:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:32] <exec> 08└─Chevy Cruze was made in Lordstown. Now made in Ramos, Mexico (giant sucking sound -- jobs). General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Cruze to U.S. car dealers tax free across border. Make in U.S.A.or pay big border tax!
[15:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:34] <exec> 08└─vote Socialist or other non-failing system
[15:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:36] <exec> 08└─The problem of the rust belt has nothing to do with capitalism, a lot to do with the lack of nationalism. What do you Socialists dislike the most? Nationalists, because your just a bunch of statist globalist tyrants are what you are who wants to use open borders to drive people into poverty so they...
[15:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:53] <exec> 08└─Good. Maybe they can figure out Congress.
[15:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:27] <exec> 08└─HINT: The American west was settled primarily by military aged males, of European stock.
[15:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:28] <exec> 08└─Hell yes, I'd surrender, and hope for mercy and generous terms. Constantinople was doomed. It had been on borrowed time for about an entire century by then. There was no conceivable path to a military win, or even a standoff that would allow the city to continue as it was for many more years. No Cru...
[15:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:31] <exec> 08└─You're coming around, slowly. You have just admitted that Islam is indeed a risk factor for the world we live in. Given time, we might arrive at some sort of agreement regarding the relative risk posed by the Five Eyes nations, and Islam. Of course, about that time, we'll have to weigh those risks a...
[15:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:33] <exec> 08└─What the hell is "software communism"
[15:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:35] <exec> 08└─Answering the following questions should help clarify to the rest of us how your distribution packages VLC media player: From a fresh installation of the system with your preferred desktop environment, what is the total download size reported by sudo apt install vlc (or the equivalent)? If a program...
[15:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:37] <exec> 08└─Playing with fire, one will always end up getting burnt. These politicians are idiots of a new order.
[15:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:59] <exec> 08└─Artificial scarcity at work. The same reason why the price per Gb of hard drives has been flat for a decade now. Capacity is increasing but costs are not decreasing.
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[15:45:17] <exec> 08└─The Professor adds [newsweek.com]: Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. Fuck outta here with your nice words.
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[16:39:03] <exec> 08└─give it some Alexa type voice interface (which FB AFAIK does not have...)
[16:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:05] <exec> 08└─> Soon your life will be defined by which logo you happen to wear,... (car analogy) We've seen this behavior pattern before--in USA there used to be Chevy families that would have nothing to do with Mopar (Chrysler) lovers. And Ford guys/gals were off in their own corner too.
[16:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:25] <exec> 08└─Does nobody care about this?: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The inspector saw people sticking fingers up butts (not sure if their own or each others) and then touching the eggs. Also for some reason this document is littered...
[16:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─I agree that's definitely a cultural difference: In New England, the way of dealing with political problems is to use the structures of government to address them and force the government to adhere to the people's wishes. In Tennessee, the way of dealing with political problems is apparently to shoo...
[16:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:55] <exec> 08└─Electoral reform was one of the things Trudeau promised up here in Canada (electoral reform and cannabis legalization: guess which one passed. I guess he hated doing illegal things....) We need this up in Canada: too many people vote for A or B when they really want to vote for C but don't want to '...
[16:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:57] <exec> 08└─No, Democracy isn't about a sh*tty, two-party system.
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:00] <exec> 08└─First, read up on Arrow's Impossibility Theorems [wikipedia.org]. That was proof that it's mathematically impossible to correctly reflect the position of voters with 3 or more candidates running. The arguments about which voting system is least bad are about which of the flaws in the system are expr...
[16:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do get it: Objectively, the bureaucracy worked well to solve a problem, but a lot of people dogmatically believe that all bureaucracy sucks, and are experiencing cognitive dissonance as a result.
[16:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do get it: Objectively, the bureaucracy worked well to solve a problem, but a lot of people dogmatically believe that all bureaucracy sucks, and are experiencing cognitive dissonance as a result.
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[16:41:06] <exec> 08└─That's all bullshit. The military is perfectly able to handle all that. The whole thing is about some banker's damn money. The disaster is entirely man made. There, is, NO, excuse! It, is, disgusting! All because we elect psychopaths so we can have free trinkets!
[16:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:07] <exec> 08└─?!?!??!??? You said what?
[16:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:33] <exec> 08└─Ehm, why so restrictive? I think all choices are applicable.
[16:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─Socialism is a lie. The problem here in the rust belt is Globalism. Nationalism is the solution. Globalism is what has led to the rust belt being turned into what it is, the decimation of working class families. What do you Socialists hate most? Nationalists. Becuase you want to drive the people in...
[16:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:49] <exec> 08└─This is laughable. Nearly every socailist country is a total failure. Venezuala, the USSR, North Korea. China's no longer purely socialist Whats killing the rust belt is globalism, the way you globalist socialists are flooding first world countries with foreign alien immigrants and open border and t...
[16:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:51] <exec> 08└─Consumers in the USA are buying less cars year over year. While a rapid increase in the price of oil could increase demand for small cars quickly I have a hard time faulting GM from slowing production of cars that aren't selling. The article below lists the sub-compact Sonic and full-size Impala fro...
[16:44:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:20] <exec> 08└─I'm on board with the seven years thing. Allow for another seven years extension if they apply for it in return for say 25% of what they net in those additional years. Non-compulsory taxation, yay!
[16:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:48] <exec> 08└─Can we at least agree that those clever upright simians are fucking dangerous?
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[17:38:53] <exec> 08└─Is that a new word?
[17:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:55] <exec> 08└─I don't bother reading EULAs and Terms of Service. Why should anyone? Most people have figured out they're a load of bull, full of untrue assertions and lying propaganda about the rights they claim to have and you don't, and deliberately obfuscated and lengthened in order to confuse and discourage a...
[17:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─Efforts like this one can be a wedge towards fixing an issue, but in this case I suspect it'll be ineffective. Still worth trying until something better comes along. Definitely needs more contributors though. As of yesterday, the number of sites rated was laughably small.
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:59] <exec> 08└─*Everything you say or do can and will be used against you.* It could hardly be more straightforward.
[17:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:22] <exec> 08└─I'm all for more architectures. Intel's architecture is decades old. Starting with a design having segment registers in order to maintain assembly source code compatibility with the 8080. Geez. And the baggage it carries. How about if instead of each company designing their own chips, they get toget...
[17:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:24] <exec> 08└─But a well designed boot. The result of many focus groups and design reviews. A boot that people will like and come back for.
[17:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:45] <exec> 08└─Don't think all eggs have Salmonella, for one reference see the opening part of, https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] "The inside of eggs that appear normal can contain a germ called Salmonella that can make you sick..." In the 1970s I used to make milkshakes in a b...
[17:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:47] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but don't all eggs have Salmonella?
[17:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 1894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:49] <exec> 08└─The terms are all bogus... and brown eggs hide the brown stains better. As for actual fecal content on the eggshells themselves, seeing the brown streaks is much worse than whatever is going on, or not, in reality. Our local mega-chain (Publix) has secured "cage free" from some supplier for $2.69/do...
[17:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:51] <exec> 08└─Sure, but what about your hands that held the egg to crack it and then didn't fully wash them (I mean you put them under the water, but did you really scrub?) and then you touched the dishes or used the spatula. Oh, you did wash them and it WAS really really well? Well then you didn't make any mayon...
[17:40:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 2645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:13] <exec> 08└─No system is perfect, and this is certainly a risk. However, it's much more often the case (you see this fairly commonly when there's a single viable independent candidate in a US election) where the candidate pulls much more strongly from one of the major candidate's bases than the others. In tight...
[17:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:23] <exec> 08└─No, the current system is the one where a small group of people gets to decide that no matter how much you hate Trump you'll just have to vote for him anyway, or your punishment will be Hillary.
[17:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:25] <exec> 08└─TMB uses lame rhetoric to cover his responsibility as a citizen. Lazy.
[17:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:27] <exec> 08└─In this system, there's no need for there to be pressure on Bern to drop out, and no voters get discouraged. Everyone goes to the polls. Bern supporters vote Bern-Hill-Don. Hill supporters likely vote Hill-Bern-Don. Don voters lead with Don, and split their second and third preferences. Bern, as the...
[17:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:02] <exec> 08└─From the photos, it looks like blood all along fuselage starting at the busted window.
[17:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:35] <exec> 08└─When one says "largest" you think of number of people affected. The PR and Phillipines blackouts are tiny compared to the 2012 India blackouts which impacted 620 Million people. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's only when you calculate it as customer hours that...
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not an IC designer, but I recall that most diodes in ICs are just 1/2 of a transistor. I forget the reasoning but basically it ends up being easier in the process. While I'm at it, I'm not so thrilled with this circuit, but to be fair I've been doing circuits for a long time. A standard flip-flo...
[17:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:03] <exec> 08└─So if I have exactly one transistor I can make a flip-flop? No, I need 1 transistor, 1 diode, 1 cap, and 1 clock signal. So if I have exactly two transistors can I make a flip-flop? Yes, yes I can, with only two transistors. How many components does it take to make a 1 transistor flip-flop? At least...
[17:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:19] <exec> 08└─Standard religious approach is to say that latter accepted writings supersede previous ones. The actual standard is to pick and chose whichever fits your predisposition. Ever notice how the ant-gay Christians only have quotes from the old testament?
[17:45:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:29] <exec> 08└─It seems similar to Intel's processor lockout plans in the past. I wonder if Nvidia is taking a page directly from that playbook intentionally.
[17:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─the op just didn't write/edit it properly. the second point was the valid one.
[17:46:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:08] <exec> 08└─Politicians, especially the modern GOP, are masters of compartmentalization. They see nothing incongruous about doting over their pets but dropping white phosphorous on (the wrong set of...) little brown kids overseas. I think most people are like this to some extent, but especially politicians. It'...
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[18:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:48] <exec> 08└─"The low-power projector would beam a red, monochrome 400 x 150 pixel image into the lower right corner of one's visual field, thus eliminating the need of a protruding display medium." That would be why there wasn't much interest. The tiny 400x150 pixel image would have serious limitations on the u...
[18:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:49] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how much legal consent to be recorded issues come into the presence/absence of a camera recording light? Of course, it would be simple enough to have the lighting of the light be a user-software controlled option...
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─The tiny 400x150 pixel image would have serious limitations on the usefulness of the device.
[18:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:54] <exec> 08└─Whether the clothes will fit, whether the guy is a threat, whether that women is indeed Sarah Connor ...
[18:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─On what public street, sidewalk, park, etc. am I not allowed to record in America? Private establishments like casinos, restaurants, bars, etc. might have their own rules about recording, but people will pull out their smartphones and record anyway, with very few getting asked to leave. Everyone and...
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─Laughing. A man was laughing hysterically in a city alleyway. Who was this man, whose energetic laughs could heal the hearts and minds of those around him? His nickname was Billy the Prankster, and he was known and adored all throughout the city for his lighthearted mischief. In fact, he was known t...
[18:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─Don't tell me - you're one of the "Out of Touch" SV engineers they're talking about at the green site (and yes, there's enough overlap that people know what I'm talking about, except for zealots, and they don't count).
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─I have redited "requirining" into a newing wrod.
[18:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:13] <exec> 08└─Unlike written contracts where it is easy to cross out offending paragraphs and clauses before both parties sign,
[18:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:15] <exec> 08└─Apparently not. Google requirining About 450 results (0.24 seconds)
[18:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─The next word... and should be an?
[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─So, when someone messes up shortening an intentionally confusing EULA and get sued by a company. Won't they then turn around and sue tosdr for bad legal advice? Or when they do pick out an intentionally confusing EULA that the company did not want known to the public, wont they get sued by the compa...
[18:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:44] <exec> 08└─You seem to be under the mistaken impression that these people want open markets. Nothing could be further from the truth. Each is seeking out more exclusivity for themselves, for instance, with the abuse of copyright/patent law. Amongst all these companies the customer is the common enemy, to be co...
[18:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:45] <exec> 08└─Fashion is fascist, and fascism is in fashion...
[18:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:48] <exec> 08└─> Are they going to chip all their users for "easy login" and tracking? haven't you heard of them newfangled smartphone thingies ? People pay to get tracked! Dumb fucks.
[18:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─You can misplace your phone. If they insert a tracking chip in your neck they'll follow that forever. I'm sure it could be sold as they won't be tracking you anymore online, they are just tracking their hardware ...
[18:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:52] <exec> 08└─facebook is involved in the open compute initiative. maybe this will be too?
[18:40:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:05] <exec> 08└─the ultra-consolidated factory farm system can have major consequences for food safety.
[18:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:18] <exec> 08└─Sounds like maybe you're getting real eggs. We have our own chickens. Some of the hens lay large brown eggs. Others lay small white ones. One used to lay an egg with a gross soft rubbery shell every couple weeks. Sometimes they're dirty when we pick them up. The grocery store experience of most food...
[18:40:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:29] <exec> 08└─This is very important. The two party system is beyond broken, and we need to utilize voting systems that allow votes for 3rd(or 5th) party candidates while still allowing those votes to vote into more popular candidates in most elections. I'm not saying this system does that(it really doesn't), how...
[18:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:55] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, completely that letting the voter specify the weighting they wish to give each candidate is the only truly fair system. I suspect the trouble is that many of the proles just won't understand a system of that complexity and either won't use it at all or their vote will be rejected a...
[18:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:56] <exec> 08└─as long as everybody gets to vote and their vote is worth the same as anyone else's.* *Offer does not apply to the Electoral College.
[18:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:58] <exec> 08└─There's no way to say I don't want that most offensive person in office.. We need a 'no' vote for each candidate to keep them out by putting nothing next to their name, or the word 'no'.
[18:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:00] <exec> 08└─> the way of dealing with political problems is apparently to shoot somebody. Nope. They are good God-fearing citizens. They polish their guns dreaming that one day, maybe soon now, they will be called upon to heroically rise against government oppression, and get to shoot somebody.
[18:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:03] <exec> 08└─Contribute with your corporate credit card in the next 20 minutes, and we'll throw, not one, not two, but three extra electoral votes for free! That's four electoral votes for 6 easy payments of $59999.99 plus shipping and lobbying! Don't wait! Call now!
[18:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:05] <exec> 08└─> on second thoughts, that's probably still better than the current system! Choosing a bus driver is a complex process with many criteria, and an assessment by knowledgeable people in the field. We don't want to make a mistake and have people get hurt. Choosing the people in control of the US ? Meh!...
[18:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:07] <exec> 08└─Just rank every other candidate on the ballot. It's not quite a vote against, but it's a vote for literally any other candidate than This Guy. Might be an interesting thought experiment to give everybody the option of either voting FOR a candidate, or AGAINST a candidate. If you were allowed to do b...
[18:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:09] <exec> 08└─Well, that's got to be the first time a thread got Arrow's-theorem'd
[18:41:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 871 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:31] <exec> 08└─The broken window wouldn't do much to the aerodynamics. The sudden failure of an engine will create a transient in the yaw axis, which will couple into the roll axis (especially in a swept-wing airplane), which would explain the 41 degree roll. Recovering from that is not a big deal: boot the rudder...
[18:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:45] <exec> 08└─What?? A private company didn’t do all of the creation of how to deal with an emergency? We must quickly call Fox News so they can fix this. Calm down. Dynamic duo Hannity and Carlson to the rescue!!!!
[18:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:47] <exec> 08└─Happens once every few million hours of operation. Typically contained in the engines. Uncontained ones are even rarer. Casualties in the last few decades are less than one day of US roads. "Plane has critical mishap, lands safely". Have you thanked an engineer today?
[18:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:49] <exec> 08└─"You didn't land that [alone]"
[18:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:51] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if the poor dead woman was wearing her seat belt. I suppose if one is right next to a window (fore-aft) and belted, an explosive decompression could pull your upper body out through the hole(?) But it seems more likely that she was not belted in. I'm tall enough (6'1") that my head and...
[18:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:53] <exec> 08└─But she still counts as a female qualifying as a diversity hire. What seems to blow your mind is that a hire can be both a diversity hire and a quality hire.
[18:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:29] <exec> 08└─you should post a reading list of socialism books in order of importance to know for people without lots of time for reading books about socialism. i would like to know more about various political systems but am too lazy to try and figure out which resources are a waste of my time.
[18:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:31] <exec> 08└─the world needs 13 monkeys level activists. an article in response is not satisfactory.
[18:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:33] <exec> 08└─*12
[18:45:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the jism tax - that's it. And, it doesn't matter that the tax might be a very small tax - no rat bastard has the right or authority to take my money because I believe differently than he does.
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:16] <exec> 08└─Are they prepared to tear out the pages that support ISIS from their korans? You mean the old testament? Hint: That's in the Bible too.
[18:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─You mean the old testament? Hint: That's in the Bible too.
[18:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:42] <exec> 08└─no, you can blame these completely incompetent chip makers. we're at conspiracy levels of unresponsiveness here and you want to blame the buyers? get outta heah!
[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─What is a native chipset?
[18:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:32] <exec> 08└─And that's why I don't hold her wholly responsible, and why I tempered the criticism to "is a lot more questionable". Statistically people grow up to treat other people the way their parents have taught them is appropriate. But this is not inevitable. So she may not be a vile as her son causes her...
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[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─Nada: You see, I take these glasses off, she looks like a regular person, doesn't she? Put 'em back on... [puts them back on] Nada: ...formaldehyde-face!
[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the lower right hand corner thing is stupid. It should come in two different flavors to accommodate your dominant eye, or even better, do both eyes at the same time. Although, I can see that being a problem if all the pixels turned on at the same time. I don't understand the level of trans...
[19:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:55] <exec> 08└─Your right to record in public is very important. It helps to prevent murders by police and/or hold police accountable. Are you confused about your rights? And as for private businesses, you will see people pull out phones to take pictures/video/selfies all the damn time. With a shirt or pants pocke...
[19:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:57] <exec> 08└─I have to agree. We can stop the government from conducting mass surveillance on public places, but we can't do anything about individual people with recording devices. I think the answer is technology that allows people to stop all these surveillance devices from recognizing them.
[19:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─What do you do then? Print it out, sign it, and then mail it back to the company? If that works, I'm making a new google account and ensure that the new TOS included verbiage indicating that I will be paid a nickle for every byte google sends from their servers to my network or devices and a quar...
[19:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:09] <exec> 08└─if one is able to buy eggs for US$0.69 per dozen, that's an indication that something is very wrong.
[19:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:53] <exec> 08└─Why would you even rank a candidate you hated? Unless you have to rank everyone, just don't write anything next to the people you hate; that way there's no possible way you can accidentally vote for them.
[19:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:54] <exec> 08└─The combined Hill and Bern voters slightly outnumber the Don voters, but the Don voters are a plurality (there are more of them than either the Hill or Bern voters individually).
[19:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:56] <exec> 08└─> proof that it's mathematically impossible to correctly reflect the position of voters with 3 or more candidates running. The answer is proportional voting, but that get screwed up by party bickerings that cause the extremists to wield outsized power (Israel these days). So the real answer is propo...
[19:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:59] <exec> 08└─you assume assassinating the twat isn't almost equally about sending a message to all his buddies
[19:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:01] <exec> 08└─So how many freedom fighters would have to die before they got the picture? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
[19:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:03] <exec> 08└─Just what I always wanted, giving voice to communists. To be clear I am not calling Bernie a communist, he clearly sold out to capitalist billionaires millionaires.
[19:41:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do get it: Objectively, the bureaucracy worked well to solve a problem, but a lot of people dogmatically believe that all bureaucracy sucks, and are experiencing cognitive dissonance as a result.
[19:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:44] <exec> 08└─Was that real, decent Americans were forced to spend time in that librul elite hell hole known as Philadelphia, PA. There are actual Democrats there. What's worse, there are even some (((folks))) [constitutioncenter.org] who falsely claim to be Americans and run propaganda and disinformation organiz...
[19:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:19] <exec> 08└─You often see corporate pundits in the media ask "How can we afford that?" when it comes to anything that helps the common person (such as single payer). But the corporate media never asks that same question when it comes to the military; I guess we have unlimited funds for that. It's disgusting how...
[19:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:25] <exec> 08└─It's hard to mark him as troll this time, when he is entirely correct. While surprising to some people, PETA believes that all animals should be freed to a natural existence. If the animal cannot....... the kindest thing to do is put it down. They don't advertise that, but it's definitely part of th...
[19:44:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:46] <exec> 08└─That means only about 35,000 in the USA, and only about 10,000,000 in the world, who take violent action to exterminate people like me. Can you see a problem?
[19:45:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:08] <exec> 08└─This makes a world of difference when one is the founder of a religion.
[19:45:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:30] <exec> 08└─But that probably will never happen since the Bible is without fault, its the actual word of God and not stories retold by others
[19:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 1770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─I fervently disagree. Islam does need a reformation, among a long laundry list of the faults in is core tenets is in Muslim / Non-Muslim power balance. For a Muslim, the Non-Muslim is a strictly lesser being with lesser rights and lower status. This is a fundamental problem that cannot be solved wit...
[19:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:12] <exec> 08└─Just trying to play upon your fears, Runaway, like the Islamophobes seem to have done. Seems to be working. It's about you, Runaway, not about me!
[19:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:14] <exec> 08└─One of these assumptions must be wrong. 1) the girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram 2) the girls were sold to Boko Haram Surely BH can't be selling them to itself? Or the head honchos are selling them to their underlings?
[19:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Macron Challenges Nationalism, Promises Reform of Islam and Stronger Copyright Laws - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:16] <exec> 08└─the ant-gay Christians
[19:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:42] <exec> 08└─What is a native chipset?
[19:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:44] <exec> 08└─I was meaning the onboard graphics chipset, in my case it is an intel something or other. Grossly underpowered but functional. As I said it has been a long time since I played any sort of modern game. I do miss the days of hours of gaming fun, I started playing muds, I was online in the world of Nor...
[19:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:46] <exec> 08└─It's primarily AMD and Linux...
[19:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:35] <exec> 08└─The typical political office of the first lady is to act socially in ways that decrease criticism on her husband. So while those are laudable actions, they can't be taken at face value unless she continued them after he left office. If this is so, which I haven't heard asserted, then I should rethin...
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[20:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─That in the vastness of cosmological time, it's nearly impossible to identify remnants of civilization on our own planet. Unless there are long-lived artificial radioactives (e.g., plutonium) in the environment, all traces of a technological civilization are pretty much obliterated within a few mill...
[20:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:47] <exec> 08└─Well I guess there are/was the Eloi, the Morlocks, then all the lizard people, the flatearth-nazis, various other aliens we never heard off ... then US! So no? So what was this pre-us-industrialization? Was there Cave-book? Gotta have cave-book! So now that I have ridiculed the idea what does "indu...
[20:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:49] <exec> 08└─An industrial civilization, say only 50,000 years ago would seem virtually impossible to hide. In fact, we would already know about it. (at least according to James P. Hogan's fiction novel Inherit The Stars)
[20:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:51] <exec> 08└─We've barely started that search beyond our planet. It was only recently that we confirmed thousands of exoplanets, and even the James Webb Space Telescope isn't going to give us good direct imaging. Maybe a new instrument [soylentnews.org] and the upcoming 20-100 meter class telescopes [wikipedia.o...
[20:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:54] <exec> 08└─I remember seeing it in the early 90s. Ahh! I found it: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:56] <exec> 08└─Humbug! [memegenerator.net] Did this civilization have no ego? Did they create nothing as durable as a dinosaur bone? Sure, lots of things would vanish, but unless the civilization was vanishingly small, someone, somewhere in the thousands of chemical capable, power using, industrial denziens would...
[20:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:58] <exec> 08└─This has been discussed in SF before: "Forever" (in human terms) is a very long time. We believe that we have evidence that the dinosaurs died out within pretty short time because of an extinction event, so it is reasonable to think there could have been other extinction events. We believe that we h...
[20:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:01] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. We've learned a great deal about the universe in the past few hundred years, yet we're still quite ignorant of what goes on in our own backyard. I suspect that we'll (as we have done consistently) find ways to improve our ability to examine, identify, categorize and analyze photons from...
[20:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:03] <exec> 08└─Even concrete and steel I-beams don't last that long. Maybe they look like naturally occurring iron deposits. And if you compare Frederic Brown's "Letter To A Phoenix", we have forgotten the weapon that turned the fifth planet into the asteroid belt.
[20:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:05] <exec> 08└─How do we know that other animals would have constructed a "society" in any way that would be recognizable to us? The various African tribes have had extraordinarily advanced social structures in their societies for presumably thousands upon years while not constructing things out of stone. If other...
[20:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:07] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Things like stainless steel, concrete with re-rod, glass, aluminum, do not disappear without leaving a trace. Even over millions of years, there would be remnants in desert areas or ice-covered areas. Even deep in the seas, not everything gets dissolved over geologic time. Mining rich meta...
[20:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Abandons Vaunt AR (Augmented Reality) Smartglasses - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:25] <exec> 08└─Varies by state. General guidance in mutual consent is "anywhere there is the expectation of privacy, mutual consent must be obtained for recording to be legal"... So, what's the expectation of privacy? In Georgia they decided that a public school classroom had the expectation of privacy for the pur...
[20:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know, what do the TOS of tosdr say about that? And do they have a shortened version thereof?
[20:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:44] <exec> 08└─I think EULAs are contracts of adhesion (standard-form contracts) so typically information regarding them falls under legal information rather than (bad) legal advice. But I'm no lawyer nor do I play one on TV...
[20:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:46] <exec> 08└─Just the opposite, I think. Right now, the TOS is so long and complicated that most judges rule it unreasonable to hold a person to it. That is, it is not reasonable to expect a person to fully read and fully understand a 200+ page document written by lawyers for lawyers. If the TOS gets too simplif...
[20:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Therapy for Beta-Thalassemia Blood Disorder - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:54] <exec> 08└─Looks like it's safe to say that no one on SN today has Beta-Thalassemia Blood Disorder. It might even be safe to say that no one has any relatives with it either...?
[20:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:18] <exec> 08└─The PowerPC design was a collaboration between Apple Motorola and ibm It's significantly different from POWER. The two have instructions that do the same things but have different machine instructions Apple came close to bankruptcy around 1997. Motorola changed its design to embedded cpus. I expect...
[20:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:19] <exec> 08└─It will also be more resistant to malware
[20:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Apple realizes that?
[20:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:24] <exec> 08└─As I seem to recall . . . Apple had two suppliers for PowerPC chips. Motorola, which went towards lower performance, lower power consumption chips used in things like, TiVo's, at the time. IBM, which went towards higher performance, higher power consumption (higher heat) chips used in things like fi...
[20:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:26] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you're probably right. That, despite the benefits they could mutually have by cooperating.
[20:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:54] <exec> 08└─All eggs do not look the same.
[20:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:55] <exec> 08└─You don't want to do that
[20:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:57] <exec> 08└─Any idea of how you were infected?
[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:46] <exec> 08└─If everything is summed in the whole state, then borders are irrelevant, so gerrymandering cannot be done. I view many, if not most, of the failings of democracy to be rounding errors. Summing smaller regions, deciding individual regions representation, and then summing those regions to decide the e...
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─Cool. Go shoot some TSA thugs, then.
[20:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─I don't know, you tell me. The government is conducting unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace, waging a war on drugs, waging several unconstitutional and unjust wars overseas, hiring thugs to violate people's rights at airports, and so on. Where are all these freedom fighters with guns?...
[20:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, IRV, Condorcet, etc. are much better voting systems than plurality wins. But they do come with an problem that must be addressed in order for large scale use to be optimal: When you have multiple valid choices and you can rank them in order, you need to evaluate a lot more information to do a g...
[20:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:34] <exec> 08└─He's just angry that his white privilege doesn't go as far as it used to. In fact he's in complete denial about the existence of said privilege.
[20:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:10] <exec> 08└─We "modern" people don't do so well without our energy slaves. Kind of like southern plantations after the US Civil War, when they lost their human slaves. Bucky Fuller noticed this a long time ago and coined the term: http://www.eoht.info [eoht.info] In circa 1944, American philos...
[20:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:32] <exec> 08└─If one chooses to appear in public, it is legal to photograph them. It is not illegal to identify them. No permission or consent is required. I'm talking specifically about the U.S.
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[21:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:50] <exec> 08└─Fucking open-source software!
[21:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:52] <exec> 08└─So this person is alleged to be Elizabeth from the Resort Rewards Center calling to tell me that I had recently stayed at their resort and they have a great rewards deal for me if I'll only..... ? It would be nice if they finally caught that person.
[21:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:54] <exec> 08└─At 97 million robocalls, how many death penalties is that?
[21:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:12] <exec> 08└─An unstated assumption that underpins the thinking that we must be the first on Earth is that surely, civilization would last a very, very long time, and likely would still exist today. However, if a civilized species arose and nevertheless went extinct, the big question would be why are they gone?...
[21:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:13] <exec> 08└─concrete and steel I-beams don't last that long
[21:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─all traces of a technological civilization
[21:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─If the Mayans died out and nobody replaced them, a couple of thousand years of jungle action would hide their civilization well, but not so well that it wouldn't be found eventually.
[21:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:20] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part in the title where the words "Industrial Civilization" were used?
[21:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─It's in the first line of the summary! In a new paper, Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adam Frank from the University of Rochester ask a provocative question [open, DOI: 10.1017/S1473550418000095] [DX]: Could there have been an industrial civilization on Earth milli...
[21:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:25] <exec> 08└─Could have had a nuclear war.
[21:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:27] <exec> 08└─lick it and stick it
[21:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:29] <exec> 08└─If we really want ideas of what non-human development would be like, why don't we work on elevating species already on earth? Teach chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, etc how to use fire, build rudimentary tools and structures, find who are the smartest among them and separate them into semi-isolated a...
[21:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:31] <exec> 08└─Nonsense.
[21:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:34] <exec> 08└─Well somebody made those megaliths, and made them better than we can figure out these days. We could build a stonehenge, that thing's crude, but the stuff in Peru is really amazing. Must have had a civilization advanced enough to have the time and motivation to build stuff big.
[21:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:36] <exec> 08└─Human beings have unbounded capacity for ignoring an inconvenient reality. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Given that, we can expect any number of "unexplainable" archaeological finds to have no more effect on "scientific consensus", than the whole of paleontolog...
[21:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:38] <exec> 08└─Imagine if all those precious metals we were mining out of the earth in atomic or oxidized states were in fact the remains of past civilizations. Perhaps even the easy to access metals from tens of thousands of years in the past were originally monuments to past civilizations, but not being sufficie...
[21:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─The paper doesn't say much about nuclear energy. But nuclear waste capsules are being designed to survive without leaks for a hundred thousand years. They will likely still be recognizable as metal canisters in 10 million. Of course they may stay hidden. The paper also doesn't discuss satellites in...
[21:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:43] <exec> 08└─all traces of a technological civilization
[21:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:45] <exec> 08└─yet we're still quite ignorant of what goes on in our own backyard.
[21:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:47] <exec> 08└─Also, they did just find the spaceship crash site off the coast of Japan, where all the rare earth metals diffused into the seabed. I suppose that doesn't imply a terrestrial civilization, and I'm not saying it was aliens, but it must have been aliens.
[21:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:50] <exec> 08└─Teach chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, etc how to use fire, build rudimentary tools and structures, find who are the smartest among them and separate them into semi-isolated and isolated groups to develop their intellect further. Given time we might even find other animals that could be elevated.
[21:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:52] <exec> 08└─If the technological civilization had the drive to expand (which is pretty much inbred in all of our DNA, from algae through dinosaurs and up), they would have left a visible mark. If they were mammals ~10M years ago, they would have abundant skeletal remains (unless they were fastiduous cremators.....
[21:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:54] <exec> 08└─If the technological civilization had the drive to expand (which is pretty much inbred in all of our DNA, from algae through dinosaurs and up), they would have left a visible mark. If they were mammals ~10M years ago, they would have abundant skeletal remains (unless they were fastiduous cremators.....
[21:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:56] <exec> 08└─Yes; Next question!
[21:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:34] <exec> 08└─Since the browser addons have a standard open source license, they are absolved of all damages caused by the software, and there are no guarantees that the software does what it claims to do. Gotta love no liability clauses.
[21:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:35] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that would be universally bad, more of a mixed bag. In theory, users would have a better idea of expectations. Overly abusive ToS elements should get winnowed out over time, though it seems debatable to me which abusive behaviors would get groused about, litigated, or ignored.
[21:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:38] <exec> 08└─You know, for a free-to-the-user product that isn't monetizing the user, I believe that "good intentions", "best effort", and a policy of "Hey, contact us and let us know if this needs fixing, any help appreciated" are the best we're going to get. To argue the other side, poisoning the data may have...
[21:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:40] <exec> 08└─And if you feed the shorterend tos back into tosdr...
[21:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:42] <exec> 08└─Who contributes to such a project? Someone A) read the TOS (or passed it through scripts, then read the remainder)? and B) Wrote an abridged sentence about them. The backend stuff I understand a little better as to who writes it and why. And I wonder what checks they have to prevent my submitting th...
[21:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:41] <exec> 08└─There is no perfect voting system possible. This has been rigorously proven. In the process they also evaluated the number of edge cases where the result was inferior. Plurality wins (the normal US election method) was the second worst voting method. The worse one involved the government putting a...
[21:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:42] <exec> 08└─I prefer Condorcet voting, but IRV has the advantage that its easy to describe. And it's so much better than plurality wins that I would hesitate to criticize it.
[21:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, if you're electing a single winner. This is for electing a plurality (erm, not in the plurality voting sense) of equivalent winners close to proportionally, not a single winner.
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:46] <exec> 08└─So get to shootin', big-beak. Or are you just flapping your carrion-sieve?
[21:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:49] <exec> 08└─We need a Constitutional amendment to mandate the inclusion of "None of the above" on every ballot. - if "None" wins, the parties all need to nominate a new slate and do the election over.
[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:51] <exec> 08└─They're waiting for the 2nd Amendment to be repealed. Lol.
[21:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:53] <exec> 08└─Read half of your post. But with that situation "love A, hate B, hate C just a tiny bit more", what if you actually hate it and leave it blank? Then if A gets eliminated as an option because it was the least popular that vote will be counted as blank as there is no option B. Nonetheless for voters w...
[21:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─their vote will be rejected as invalid ... You could end up with 20-30% of the ballots being rejected.
[21:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:38] <exec> 08└─Original AC here. Troll? More like flamebait. Serious sarcasm detection problem with the moderator: Links to the National Constitution Center [constitutioncenter.org] and its knowledgeable, learned CEO termed a propaganda organization? A link to Jefferson, Texas [wikipedia.org] which has a prominent...
[21:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:15] <exec> 08└─PR is *part* of the USA, you complete fucking moron. You know what? With this post, you have officially discredited yourself with your own ignorance; you're shown yourself to be too uninformed for anyone to take anything you say seriously. God *damn,* people like you are too dumb to live...
[21:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:44] <exec> 08└─why use capacitors when you can etch transistors?
[21:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The One-Transistor Flip-Flop - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:45] <exec> 08└─If you go to the io page: https://hackaday.io [hackaday.io] there is an improved version: https://hackaday.io [hackaday.io] , that have a output of constant +v for 1 or and 0v for 0.
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:03] <exec> 08└─Lordstown is tooled up for making the Cruze, which isn't a bad car. But (for whatever reasons), the sales of cars, particularly smaller sized cars, are way down at this time. Toyota/Honda/Nissan (who all make cars in USA as well as Japan and elsewhere) have the same problem selling smaller sized car...
[21:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:25] <exec> 08└─Kropotkin - Mutual Aid
[21:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for *finally* confirming the Daddy issues (issues, hell, you've got a lifetime subscription...). It was obvious from the start, but it helps to hear straight from the horse's a--er, mouth.
[21:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:34] <exec> 08└─I know aaaallllllll about Prescott Bush. Three generations of raw sociopathic evil, starting with him. I can't wait for Bush I and II to bite it and go join Grandpa Prescott in a hot place...
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[22:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:51] <exec> 08└─Spectre & Meltdown fixed very quickly, time to buy new cyber. Big boost to our economy. Great job!!!!
[22:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─Fucking Soylent News IP Blocking. Free speech? HA! Never thought I'd see the day. Shame on you bastards going back on your principles. Thought you were bigger than this. So many better websites now and you still can't act grown up. Shame shame shame, you have no hope.
[22:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:03] <exec> 08└─Obviously, if he made them, and he is not a robot [citation needed] then they weren't robo calls.
[22:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:05] <exec> 08└─Just like with automatic weapons: open-source software lets operators make thousands of phone calls with the click of a button automatic weapons allow operators to kill dozens of people with the pull of a trigger The robo dialer should be more specific. Instead of blaming open-source-software he sho...
[22:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:07] <exec> 08└─Fucking Aristarchus belly aching. Butt hurt? HA! Aristarchus invented butt hurt. Well, at least Ari has no principles on which to go back on.
[22:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:09] <exec> 08└─Just one. By 97 million ants.
[22:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:12] <exec> 08└─If it takes on average a minute to deal with the phone, including going back to whatever was interrupted, then he stole more than 184 years of human life. That is about 2 human lives. We need something like a class-action murder trial.
[22:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:14] <exec> 08└─As someone who has been on the receiving end of these exact calls many times, this fucker deserves something harsh. 10 years solitary confinement with only a phone that never stops ringing. IF you pick it up... "CONGRATULATIONS!! You have been chosen to receive 9,999 Air Miles. Press 1 to learn more...
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─The phone should be on auto-answer, and controls disabled.
[22:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─First, I totally support innocent until proven guilty. But if proven guilty: 1. Take every asset this turdbrain has, divide into 97 million portions, and distribute to those he called. 2. Take this turdbrain's body, divide into 97 million portions. Of course we will preserve his right to life as lon...
[22:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:21] <exec> 08└─You have no idea what you are talking about, or who. Stupid libtards.
[22:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:00] <exec> 08└─Possible that they got so bored of life they deliberately committed suicide
[22:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:01] <exec> 08└─Civilizations leave a LOT of artifacts. Ceramics and glass are stable over geological timescales. While you wouldn't expect to find traditional archeological sites from ancient civilizations, you would nevertheless find artifacts - just as we find fossils and footprints of the living things that wer...
[22:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:03] <exec> 08└─Yep. That's why in my post, I was specific to say 50,000 years ago. Clearly there is some gradient of detectability between the those two times.
[22:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:05] <exec> 08└─Any Democrat will tell you that the nuclear waste capsules will pop open in 15-20 years and therefore should only be buried in red states.
[22:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:08] <exec> 08└─Possible that they got so bored of life they deliberately committed suicide
[22:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:10] <exec> 08└─"..lots of things will disappear, but not everything." From TFA: ".. the current area of urbanization is 'less than' 1% of the Earth's surface (Schneider et al., 2009), and exposed sections and drilling sites for pre-Quaternary surfaces are orders of magnitude less as fractions of the original surf...
[22:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:12] <exec> 08└─We've found dinosaur and other fossils going back many more millions of years than 10. If there was another industrial society, how have we missed either that population or their ancestors in the fossil record?
[22:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:15] <exec> 08└─An advanced civilization can be detected by leftovers of its presence in space - sats on Earth's high orbits (geostationary) and around other nearby planets (Moon, Mars.) Those orbits do not decay, and the metal does not corrode. Settlements and spaceports on those planets would be visible from orbi...
[22:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:58] <exec> 08└─On Australia, and other countries presumably, the consumer protection laws trump anything in Eula's or tps:s.
[22:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:34] <exec> 08└─:-) Apple is a style... The users are very fashionable... Actually I believe their success indicates they do realize that.
[22:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:07] <exec> 08└─And when they rerun the exact same slate, or if that's not permitted, faithful puppets who everyone knows will hold exactly the same positions and do the exact same things? Do you keep voting "None of the above" and keep the incumbents in office for years on end? I'm not saying it's worse than what...
[22:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:52] <exec> 08└─I exercise my white privilege on a daily basis. I go to work, Uncle Sam takes whatever portion of my wages he chooses to take, and I get what is left. This is so that deadbeats can have generous welfare checks. That is white privilege.
[22:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:53] <exec> 08└─The impressive ones are: 1. when all engines go out (landing on the Hudson River, or the Gimli Glider in Canada) 2. when the rudder is ripped off 3. when all hydraulics go out (DHL in Iraq, and a half-success landing in a cornfield near Chicago) 4. when the pilot is sucked partly out the window 5. w...
[22:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Tragic as it was, it's an amazing tale. Off duty flight instructor Fitch (who took over controlling the plane using just the left and right throttles) and Captain Haynes (from the wiki page): Fitch: "I'll tell you what, we'll have a beer when this is all done." Haynes: "Well I don't drink, but...
[22:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:57] <exec> 08└─Just realized AC is probably talking about the TFA. I was talking about MadTinfoilHatter's link about Flight 232.
[22:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:34] <exec> 08└─Chaos can follow electricity outages, but does not necessarily. New York City is as big as they come, but chaos did not ensue during the 2003 blackout. People walked home, offered total strangers rides if they lived further out, and helped each other out. It was extraordinarily orderly, and complete...
[22:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:36] <exec> 08└─Super. More neighbors wrapping their cars in Puerto Rican flags, lolling out their windows screaming "Puerto Ricoooo!" for 3 days surrounding the Puerto Rican Day Parade, blasting music. Every year I wonder the same thing: What the heck is the source of the pride they have in Puerto Rico? The island...
[22:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:38] <exec> 08└─Do you recall what the cause of the blackout was?
[22:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:40] <exec> 08└─Jesus you're a fucktard.
[22:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:58] <exec> 08└─Don't get started. You've done well recently, don't revert.
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[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:49] <exec> 08└─Are you sure that these bugs are fixed? Not much time passed, and it's pretty difficult to make changes at the last moment.
[23:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:51] <exec> 08└─Don't care.
[23:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─I think we need a 0=Whoosh mod... And while we're at it, a 0=Agree mod
[23:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─This generation's motherboards have been garbage. Dodgy feature sets, bad VRMs which can't handle this years chips, totally discrediting the whole long-term socket concept. Every motherboard manufacturer spent 90% of the development time adding hundreds of RGB leds, and a UI to make them flash stupi...
[23:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:15] <exec> 08└─They call it "an algorithm." I call it the shadow ban. But there are other websites, that's so true. Facebook is terrific, it's done so much for me. And the folks on Switter are amazing!
[23:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:16] <exec> 08└─Mr President, have you tried VKontakte?
[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:19] <exec> 08└─Yep. ROBOTS did all the calls, slaving around like they were some kind of meatbag. DISGUSTING.
[23:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:21] <exec> 08└─I agree. For the last couple of months I have been plagued by such calls. Always seeming to come from my local area code. Hilton Hotels is a common thread, also some mysterious Account Services. It is annoying as hell because these calls usually come when I am expecting a call. Plus it cost me money...
[23:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:08] <exec> 08└─Fnnaaarkle!
[23:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:09] <exec> 08└─Any Democrat will tell you that the nuclear waste capsules will pop open in 15-20 years and therefore should only be buried in red states.
[23:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:01] <exec> 08└─>you assume assassinating the twat isn't almost equally about sending a message to all his buddies Signed, Astonishingly Tolerant Gun-Hating Liberal
[23:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKf7sfgSjjc [youtube.com]
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─[socialist] country The opposite of Socialism is NOT Democracy.[1] Socialism is an ECONOMIC system. The opposite of Socialism is Capitalism. The governmental system that MUST coincide with Socialism is DEMOCRACY. Socialism is Anti-Capitalism. [1] ...and Capitalism can (and does) exist under the most...
[23:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:21] <exec> 08└─Capitalism can (and does) exist under the most of governmental regimes. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:23] <exec> 08└─Capitalism can (and does) exist under the most repressive of governmental regimes. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:26] <exec> 08└─The problem [...] is Globalism. That's just Capitalism doing what Capitalism does: minimizing costs by finding the cheapest labor. If your tiny little brain could actually connect dots, it would see that the problem is Capitalism. (Thomas Piketty wrote a 696-page book on the topic.) Nationalism is t...
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