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[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:25] <exec> 08└─It's certification. That's why you still have Windows XP based ATMs and CAT scan machines.
[01:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─The OpenAPS was first released 3years ago. The bit of 'news' is: after 3 years they got an award. Also implicitly expressed news: nobody sued them... yet.
[01:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:28] <exec> 08└─They said he couldn't do it. They said it was impossible. They laughed at him. They ridiculed him. They were wrong. "Eureka!" the man screeched. At last, he had accomplished his lifelong goal! The man looked down and smiled with satisfaction. He had done it. She was pregnant. While a woman getting p...
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Fortunately your own creations that you're not planning on selling or using on others to not need to be certified. DIY FTW.
[01:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:41] <exec> 08└─Considering that I first saw a scratchy print of it in the university theater with an awful sound system, I'll forego the curved screen for an excellent flatscreen presentation. Incidentally, I watched the film last night on DVD at home. Not as good as a 70-mm print in a modern theater but at least...
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[01:17:42] <exec> 08└─"The Seattle Cinerama Theatre ... is one of only three movie theaters in the world still capable of showing three-panel Cinerama films." [wikipedia.org]
[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─Can we pass a law that strips the copyright from Star Wars and get to see the original in large format? My LaserDiscs of episodes 4, 5, and 6 aren't going to last forever.
[01:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─I have many fond memories of watching it, as well as vivid memories of not having the first clue what was going on in it.
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:49] <exec> 08└─Aren't you excited that you can now relive that exact same experience in better fidelity?
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─According to Wikipedia, Paul Allen already had a fully accurate version of 2001 prepared for the Cinerama in Seattle. Again according to Wikipedia, they have to change out the screen to switch between Cinerama and modern formats, so they only do it every so often, but maybe this will drum up some in...
[01:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:53] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean "for all intents and purposes identical to the one Nolan saw as a child and Kubrick himself would have looked at when the film was new half a century ago."
[01:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low-Cost Eye Tracking with Webcams and Open-Source Software - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─Not ADA compliant then. Wouldn't work on anyone with a lazy eye.
[01:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoporosis [wikipedia.org] It is a weaking of bones that affects people with thyroid disorders and usually the elderly. One of the side effects is also the loss of hair. Been learning way more than i want to about this thing lately as my wife has it.
[01:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:05] <exec> 08└─You beat me to the punch, but I'm coming from a different angle. It figures the Air Force would propose this because they are the budgetary 800 lb gorilla. It is often pointed out (with a little more than a little grain of truth) that the Air Force modus operandi when they're given money to set up a...
[01:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Limit Initial Acute Opioid Prescriptions at Pharmacies - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:27] <exec> 08└─There are some injuries out there where it doesn't take a genius to predict that the severe pain will last longer than 7 days. People in that situation are exactly the people who don't need to be dragged out of the house for an unnecessary doctor visit so they can get a refill on an unnecessarily sh...
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netgear Launches Modem-Router Combination With Mesh Wi-Fi - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:43] <exec> 08└─I trust Banana more than Apple!
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[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─Once an aircraft has left the vicinity of an airport, I'm pretty sure it becomes all about altitude. (Special advisories excepted.) I don't think these flying "cars" will be getting all that high. Kinda like overgrown hobby drones|R/C airplanes. ...but, yeah. There will need to be a central authorit...
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[02:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:20] <exec> 08└─That's interesting, given the general climate of our world- insurance companies, surveillance, rules, control, policing, etc. Does their work have a "don't try this at home" disclaimer somewhere?
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Fortunately your own creations that you're not planning on selling or using on others to not need to be certified. DIY FTW.
[02:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:23] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] The OpenAPS project emphasizes a "use at your own risk" approach, with the following disclaimer: [T]he ultimate answer to “is it safe” will be something each individual decides for themselves.
[02:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:26] <exec> 08└─Yep. I always laugh when the self checkout stand at the grocery store BSODs, and I see Windows XP POS edition running on it. It would be easier, cheaper, and better to go with Linux/BSD for embedded devices, but good luck getting certification on it or its introduction into any supply chain.
[02:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:28] <exec> 08└─Sure you will unless you go telling people you're doing it first. This is why the job of the police is primarily arresting people after they've already broken the law. And why anyone with a lick of sense would never rely on the police to protect them. When seconds count, the police are only minutes...
[02:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was beautiful but I'd already seen Star Wars and didn't appreciate the spectacular achievement and Kubric was a bit too meta. I read the book 2010 after seeing 2001 the movie and had many 'ah hah!' moments as I understood what Kubric was showing without explanation. As an adult I think it's...
[02:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:47] <exec> 08└─Mine will - never opened them. And the player is boxed too. Now, will NTSC feeds still work? :)
[02:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Low-Cost Eye Tracking with Webcams and Open-Source Software - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:59] <exec> 08└─I know a doctor who built one of these almost 13 years ago. He used it to track eye movement in the dark using an infrared webcam that he picked up in Hong Kong. He used it to evaluate damage to the vestibular system in patients who'd had strokes.
[02:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:20] <exec> 08└─it needed curing. Maybe they can find a cure for black hair while they're at it.
[02:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:21] <exec> 08└─The person is a true troll, but I'll admit it's starting to bother me. Violent rape and murder of women and children isn't my literary preference to say the least. To me it's about as close as you can get to actual child porn without being forced to treat it as actual child porn. All because it's pu...
[02:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:05] <exec> 08└─USAF Colonel Terry Virts is such a dim bulb that he can't fathom not having conflicts with other humans. These kind people are the enemy of all humanity and should never be in positions of power.
[02:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:06] <exec> 08└─That's odd I don't recall the US declaring war on any of those places you just listed. The US has definitely invaded other countries, but no war was declared. USA, the outlaw nation!
[02:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:09] <exec> 08└─Speed and mass would determine how massive the destruction is. The asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs used the same principles, after all. A two ton steel bar accelerated on a rail gun to hypersonic speeds before gravity adds it's energy is going to cause a LOT of damage when it strikes the Pent...
[02:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:11] <exec> 08└─I think we should rely on our own Buzzard to provide us with meaningful Buzzwords.
[02:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:13] <exec> 08└─I had a smartass answer to that - but had to shitcan it. You're right, we actually did win GW1. For the most part, it had the desired results. I can't fault your logic, in honesty. Unfortunately, a later president threw away that success by starting a second Gulf War which he had no idea how to win,...
[02:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:15] <exec> 08└─Can you elaborate on that a bit?
[02:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:17] <exec> 08└─There was not an Army Air Force. It was the Army Air Corps. All of the Army's air power was just a corps. Almost exactly like all the Marine forces are just a corps within the Navy. That defunct Army Air Corps were the true leaders in close in ground support of troops. The Navy learned fast, but the...
[02:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:20] <exec> 08└─Oooops, I should have read my own link to wikipedia before I clicked submit. There WAS an "Army Air Force". Sorry. However - I still doubt that the AAF had it's own Medical Corps. They almost certainly utilized the parent force's medical corps. I'll need to read that article better tomorrow, and che...
[02:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Limit Initial Acute Opioid Prescriptions at Pharmacies - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:42] <exec> 08└─federal laws and state laws impose a duty not to fill prescriptions they know to be illegal or dangerous,
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[03:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:30] <exec> 08└─Congress remains committed to transfering your tax dollars to their MIC friends by way of SLS.
[03:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:31] <exec> 08└─I want a blowjob from a Roswell Grey.
[03:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:33] <exec> 08└─We hear you. But we can only offer a Xenomorph at this time.
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews Server Reboot Schedule May 5-10 [Update 5] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:17] <exec> 08└─"Wing bangers" -- the name given to wind turbines by bird lovers for the thousands of birds they kill in the U.S.
[03:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:33] <exec> 08└─Sure you will unless you go telling people you're doing it first.
[03:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:34] <exec> 08└─When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
[03:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:54] <exec> 08└─I was twelve when it came to our downtown theater. This was the first movie that I decided to watch, and paid for it with my own hard earned money. It was kind of a rite of passage, in that I didn't ask for money to go watch a movie, didn't ask "permission" to go to the theater. It was also the fina...
[03:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:28] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, in that case it probably wouldn't be your palms that grew hair...
[03:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:29] <exec> 08└─I think it's somebody who wants to get lots and lots of Spam Mods. So that other folks get blocked from tweeting.
[03:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:21] <exec> 08└─He was a surgeon
[03:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:23] <exec> 08└─but no war was declared Correct. The Constitution says that only the Congress can declare war. That last happened December 8, 1941. That war ended September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay. All uses of military force by USA since then come under the heading of unconstitutional military aggression. A republic d...
[03:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:25] <exec> 08└─I vote "Space Marines." They say funny things [youtube.com] when you tickle them. If you want to name troops to serve a God Emperor, then you have to call them "Sardaukar." Everybody knows that.
[03:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:27] <exec> 08└─C'mon, guys, a story about Space Force and not one reference to Moonraker? Not one reference to Aliens? Let's rally. We can still do this.
[03:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:03] <exec> 08└─Let's settle this once and for all - they're called "Progs", dagnabbit.
[03:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:04] <exec> 08└─You apparently don't really want ChromeOS, so why did you buy it?
[03:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Council Approves SpaceX's BFR Facility at the Port of Los Angeles - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:07] <exec> 08└─It's very hard for a tent to be classy. Let me tell you, I offered $100 million of my own money to build a ballroom at the White House. So they wouldn't have to put up a tent. But they told me "no." And Colonel Qaddhafi's people came to me. Like they came to a lot of landlords. Trying to rent an est...
[03:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Romanian Hacker Sentenced to One Year in Prison for World of Warcraft DDoS - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:50] <exec> 08└─I just called the courthouse in Marshall, Texas, and was reassured that "venue shopping" doesn't really happen in the United States. </sarcasm>
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[04:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:28] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they should euthanize their handlers too.
[04:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:29] <exec> 08└─You mean "instead". Also cuts the budget for dog food for a few months.
[04:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:31] <exec> 08└─It used to be: "I'm gonna take my ball and go home!" Now it's "I'm going to kill the dogs and go home!" WTF has this world come to, I wonder. No, I know... One question though, what the hell is the DEA going to do if, as I believe will happen, weed becomes legal on a federal level? They won't go dow...
[04:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:34] <exec> 08└─They're basically saying, "If we can't ruin people's lives, we'll ruin trained-attack-dog's lives!" Well.. something's gotta go, it seems. I agree with another comment: lets euthanize the handlers and the trainers, for making such abominations.
[04:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:36] <exec> 08└─Saw this a while ago. A real head scratcher. Or butt sniffer. Is Larner related to somebody who earns cash training the dogs (and skims some weed on the side)? Well, they will probably just use dual-purpose opioid or meth-sniffing dogs going forward.
[04:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:38] <exec> 08└─I was in the Youth Conservation Corps when I was fifteen. We stayed in an old fire station just outside the Yerba Buena Island Coast Guard Station on San Francisco Bay. During my summer the Coast Guard carried out a huge weed bust - they captured a ship that had a double hull, with the stash between...
[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:40] <exec> 08└─Is Larner related to somebody who earns cash training the dogs (and skims some weed on the side)?
[04:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:42] <exec> 08└─Let the dogs hotbox with the stoners. They were rewarded for ferreting out marijuana. Now they can be rewarded by smoking it. Also solves the concerns over behavior issues, because when was the last time you saw a dog murder someone while they were high on marijuana.... Well other than that chihuahu...
[04:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:53] <exec> 08└─Success measured in billions, with no launch in sight. Poor Europa Clipper will never get off the ground, at this rate.
[04:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:56] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, where is the promised infrastructure bill? I guess that spending around the country doesn't transfer to tax dollars to Trump's friends as efficiently.
[04:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:58] <exec> 08└─The recent cash infusion (see the March story [soylentnews.org] about the 2018 omnibus bill) might mean that SLS is not (further) delayed. They are also planning to fly SLS Block 1 more than the single time [soylentnews.org] previously planned. What we are seeing is a mad rush by the Beltway bandits...
[04:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:59] <exec> 08└─but good luck getting certification on it or its introduction into any supply chain.
[04:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:54] <exec> 08└─If your theory is correct the individual is still deranged, and stupid
[04:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:27] <exec> 08└─GNU/Pendant. I suspect I've been trolled :-) Nicely played sir, nicely played.
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[05:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:49] <exec> 08└─You can bet that "Sheriff" section on the Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] is going to disappear or get trimmed down significantly once Buffett's PR drones descend upon it.
[05:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:50] <exec> 08└─Someone finally figured out a way to make Illinois Nazis look good by comparison.
[05:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:52] <exec> 08└─Poor Warren, must be such a disappointment to have his son wind up as a cop.
[05:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:55] <exec> 08└─Poor Warren...
[05:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:07] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure trumps friends would benefit more from construction than space, but I guess you know his high tech space friends better than me. The budget I would like to see is 100 million for a trump international hotel built in every world capital and a blank check for getting us the pace treaties t...
[05:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:08] <exec> 08└─There is also the ML-1 problem. Not like choosing a rocket is as simple as choosing a prime mover. Especially when the "joins" fail.. https://www.space.com [space.com] https://arstechnica.com
[05:19:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:25] <exec> 08└─Aren't you excited that you can now relive that exact same experience in better fidelity?
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[05:19:31] <exec> 08└─Strangely my torrent is still seeding :)
[05:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this crap makes me sick at the soul level in ways very few other things have. There has *got* to be a way to block it. Maybe some half-automated process that regex-matches on certain phrases and flags posts for review by staff? I mean, they were able to filter out the DN guy...
[05:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:43] <exec> 08└─Nah. We called them "appz". The other " apps" that provided fun and entertainment were called "gamez".
[05:21:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Breakthrough Starshot Faces Material Science and Engineering Challenges - 1853 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.popsci.com/three-questions-for-breakthrough-starshot [popsci.com] Breakthrough Starshot currently envisions sending gram-scale star-chips each using a 1-watt laser to communicate with Earth. Can such tiny lasers could effectively transmit data back to Earth? The project says that it has...
[05:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rumata [2034] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breakthrough Starshot Faces Material Science and Engineering Challenges - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:55] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it need a big-ass antenna?
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[06:17:31] <exec> 08└─https://vimeo.com/166807261 [vimeo.com]
[06:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:51] <exec> 08└─Dogs can't be retrained? This is the biggest pile of horseshit I have seen recently (with the exception of anything from the Trump administration). Also, let's be realistic: the dogs don't really detect drugs: they "alert" on cue from the handler in order to give the police an excuse for a more deta...
[06:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:52] <exec> 08└─Of just euthanize Chad Larner. His comment are pure bullshit. Aged police dogs are always retired and go to live either with their handlers and their families or others who adopt them, at least in more civilized states than Illinois.
[06:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─Exactly! The poor dogs would have to go through the traumatizing re-training of alerting from cues which will now be issued only when narcotics *other* than marijuana may be present. This will entirely disrupt the telepathic link they have with their handlers; better to kill them instead.
[06:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:08] <exec> 08└─Northrop Grumman, known for fucking up both Zuma and JWST (in slow motion). If JWST fails and Northrop Grumman gets blamed, that's a cool $10 billion blasted away. And as for Falcon Heavy as a lifter for Europa Clipper: A direct shot of a six-ton satellite to Jupiter requires a rocket with a lot of...
[06:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:10] <exec> 08└─The thing about a big infrastructure bill is that the benefits are dispersed widely, it would even benefit contractors in the liberal bastions such as California. Space, on the other hand uses a much smaller number of contractors, so the benefit is much more highly targeted.
[06:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:05] <exec> 08└─By that definition, enough antimatter to level a city wouldn't qualify as a wmd.
[06:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:46] <exec> 08└─You apparently don't really want ChromeOS, so why did you buy it?
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[06:23:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks for your comment Ari... You can post any of your stories that don't make the front page on your journal you know? That way, your followers can have a meaningful discussion on a topic of limited interest to others. Just sayin'.....
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[07:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Japan's Recruit Holdings Co. Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:30] <exec> 08└─This is great news. What the heck is Glassdoor, and who is Recruit Holdings? Could we have not had a nice aristarchus submission instead? Something about the vacuity of the conservatives in America? That would be nice. And, it might actually cause some comments. This trend of 3 or 4 comments per fi...
[07:17:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:44] <exec> 08└─You mean "instead". Also cuts the budget for dog food for a few months.
[07:17:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:55] <exec> 08└─Dogs can't be retrained? This is the biggest pile of horseshit I have seen recently (with the exception of anything from the Trump administration). Also, let's be realistic: the dogs don't really detect drugs: they "alert" on cue from the handler in order to give the police an excuse for a more deta...
[07:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:59] <exec> 08└─if dog is an asshole, owner/handler probably is too.
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[07:18:01] <exec> 08└─once that happens it will legitimize big business getting into production & distribution. there will still be (and still is in OR, WA, CA...) an illegal pot trade too. DEA will figure out how to play both sides of it, as the big cartels realize they can get some regulatory capture going for them. Co...
[07:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:18] <exec> 08└─This. Oh so very much this. People or animals walking around in human skin don't care about the cops unless they are there or if they think they might get caught. Police? Protect you? Sure. If standing beside you. And caring. Otherwise you are on your own. Carry a combat umbrella. Or a tactical torc...
[07:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Performance Analysis of Cloud Applications - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:15] <exec> 08└─Just posting a comment so that it looks like we have some comments on the Fine Article, which I did not read, but even worse, I do not regret not having read? Cloud/Edge/Peripherial/Flat-Earth/Telemetry/TMB/Feather-not-dot.
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[08:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Recruit Holdings Co. Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:30] <exec> 08└─>for $1.2 billion in cash
[08:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:01] <exec> 08└─Most of the dogs are dual-purpose
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[09:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Recruit Holdings Co. Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:38] <exec> 08└─Nope: information brokers
[09:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:10] <exec> 08└─They know the modern interpretation of "euthanasia" implies a mercy killing to end suffering. This is so disingenuous. These animals will only suffer if no-one is prepared to provide them with the care and mental stimulation they crave. They're basically admitting that they will become an inconvenie...
[09:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:29] <exec> 08└─PCI-DSS.
[09:19:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:49] <exec> 08└─I was twelve when it came to our downtown theater. This was the first movie that I decided to watch, and paid for it with my own hard earned money. It was kind of a rite of passage, in that I didn't ask for money to go watch a movie, didn't ask "permission" to go to the theater. It was also the fina...
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[10:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:33] <exec> 08└─Officials seeing sense must be the innovation of the year. It's refreshing to see that there are specimen (and speciwomen of course) out there who aren't above using their brains while on the job. Thanks for that. :-)
[10:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:34] <exec> 08└─Well, it's Canada - this kind of "well, duh" conclusions are slightly more likely to happen in Canada or Europe than in the US. BTW, congratulations on comment #677777 :)
[10:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews Server Reboot Schedule May 5-10 [Update 5] - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:16] <exec> 08└─I remember all that talk about the "large hardon collider" a few years back, I assume it was some form of threesome porn going mainstream.
[10:19:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 951 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was beautiful but I'd already seen Star Wars and didn't appreciate the spectacular achievement and Kubric was a bit too meta. I read the book 2010 after seeing 2001 the movie and had many 'ah hah!' moments as I understood what Kubric was showing without explanation. As an adult I think it's...
[10:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:57] <exec> 08└─I have many fond memories of watching it, as well as vivid memories of not having the first clue what was going on in it.
[10:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:59] <exec> 08└─They still delaminate, sometimes. NTSC probably will, but S-Video is more likely to become unavailable.
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[10:20:36] <exec> 08└─My wife hadn't even noticed I was bald before this story came out. Now she's probably going to leave me.
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[11:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:28] <exec> 08└─Just an observation, that the stop-start nature of the US moon programme is reflected in other parts of the US science programme, e.g. the particle physics programme (with which I am familiar). I believe, as an outsider, that it is indicative of a significant, deep-seated failure of US science admin...
[11:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, they have no sense of proportion at all. It has been a fiasco from the start. The fact that someone accesses publicly accessible data should ring all bells out loud that no crime has been committed. They knew from the start that the content deliverer was at fault by making all data availab...
[11:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:19] <exec> 08└─Can they be slightly retrained to latch onto the crotches of people who smell like pot? I would buy one of those to sic on the ghetto trash who sit on the stoop under my bedroom window and smoke up.
[11:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:36] <exec> 08└─Can we have that mission to Europa, then? Enceladus? I'm a big fan of Mars and have felt very fortunate to be alive during a time of so many missions to that planet, but if "where there is water, there is life" is true then we must be sending missions to those places as well. Discovering life on oth...
[11:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:42] <exec> 08└─Ordering precursors?! What kind of DIYer are you? Oh, you're probably one of those types who goes to build his own radio transmitter and uses an IC for the bulk of it instead of transistors, resistors, caps, and hand-rolled coils.
[11:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:44] <exec> 08└─Mkay, less see you preparing the phosphorus trichloride to start with.
[11:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:46] <exec> 08└─s/less/let's/
[11:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:47] <exec> 08└─I plus one everything but spam in preferences, and then read zero upwards. Doesn't block them all, but most people are now modding them spam and I don't see very many.
[11:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:49] <exec> 08└─Don't let them give fluoride as a treatment. It does add mass to the bones, but it does not add strength. The useless extra weight actually makes them more likely to break in a fall or impact.
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[12:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:29] <exec> 08└─If @amazon [twitter.com] ever had to pay fair wages, its stock would crash and it would CRUMBLE like a paper bag. The Fake News #AmazonWashingtonPost [twitter.com] scam is saving it!
[12:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:31] <exec> 08└─Strange that the other markets (e.g. Europe) don't see their Amazon crash and crumble, isn't it? P.S. In Europe, you need to abide by working-hours laws: http://ec.europa.eu [europa.eu] which would make the working HOURS described illegal for night-w...
[12:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, and "minimum working wage" guaranteed by law to be greater than $13.
[12:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:35] <exec> 08└─Get searched on your own time? No thank you. If you want to search workers then you pay them for that. If you want to drug test workers, then you pay them for that. They are not required to do what you want them to do on their own time that's how employment works. Now including crap like this nonsen...
[12:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:44] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to have a long term strategy of any kind when priorities can change every 4 years. To compound the problem for NASA, they don'y have a mission that everyone can agree on. One of the smarter proposals that I saw a long time ago was to give them projects that could be accomplished (fini...
[12:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Recruit Holdings Co. Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:02] <exec> 08└─I honestly have a huge difficulty in understanding how a company that provides a "nice to have" service at most can be valued in the billions. One day the bubble is going to pop and it will not be pretty.
[12:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Recruit Holdings Co. Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:04] <exec> 08└─Not while people are compelled to, or even just voluntarily, give data away, or while advertising keeps working.
[12:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Recruit Holdings Co. Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:06] <exec> 08└─They say cash, they don't mean boxes of cash like if someone was buying a condo (I love cash buyers!). Could be a check, could be electronic. The electronic banking. They mean it wasn't stock. Because in a lot of these mergers a company buys another company with stock.
[12:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:03] <exec> 08└─The argument against that (and always the argument for splitting up forces) is that rank is rank. You can't expect an army general to have an informed opinion on what naval maneuvers you should be doing.
[12:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:05] <exec> 08└─I gave myself a deadline, I told myself I'd better pull out of the Iran deal by Saturday. But I pulled out on Tuesday. Because the longer I wait, the weirder it feels.
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[13:17:33] <exec> 08└─Strange that the other markets (e.g. Europe) don't see their Amazon crash and crumble, isn't it? P.S. In Europe, you need to abide by working-hours laws: http://ec.europa.eu [europa.eu] which would make the working HOURS described illegal for night-w...
[13:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hereweareagain [6590] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─There is literally NO REASON to maintain this kind of hostile work environment. Get some reporters in there to tour the facility. Bad management needs to be exposed, brought down, fined, and possibly run out of town on a rail. Treat your workers like valuable human beings - and with dignity!
[13:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:39] <exec> 08└─That's why amazon is an American company and not German.
[13:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:41] <exec> 08└─..."In the summertime, it gets over 100 degrees in there" ... "expectations of the human body that are unrealistic"...
[13:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:43] <exec> 08└─I imagine if I worked in 100 degrees heat I'd boil. Literally. Because I don't grok Fahrenheit scale.
[13:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:46] <exec> 08└─You're missing some context about the temperatures at least. Texans function just fine at 100-110F; those are normal summer temperatures there. They don't really even start complaining until it breaks 115F.
[13:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:48] <exec> 08└─Which is odd. Fahrenheit is scaled to what humans can reasonably exist in rather than something arbitrary and useless in daily life like the freezing and boiling points of water.
[13:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─"but I've seen crews of Texans work in 130+ (sealed up office building, no climate control, no fans)" Assuming your recollection is accurate, what type of work was it? Office work, where one is basically stationary at a desk, is vastly different than a warehouse job where you're hustling and timed d...
[13:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:52] <exec> 08└─"Fahrenheit is an obsolete scale invented by a visceral lunatic, based on salty water and 'blood heat', with 64 degrees between blood and iced water only because it was easier for him to draw the little marks that way. When something's based on laziness, a hot body and salty fluids, it's porn, not s...
[13:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:55] <exec> 08└─"The lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the temperature of a solution of brine made from equal parts of ice, water and salt (ammonium chloride). [wikipedia.org]"
[13:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:57] <exec> 08└─Running telephone and network cable in a twelve story unfinished but glassed in office building. Ceiling grid was up but the ceiling tiles and walls weren't. It wasn't remotely the most physically demanding job I've ever done but it was definitely not a desk job.
[13:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:59] <exec> 08└─Ok, so you and some others can deal with extreme conditions. Great. Does that mean the rest of the world should not reasonably expect improvements?
[13:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:01] <exec> 08└─What is used for a constant reference point is irrelevant and arbitrary. What the scale fits usefully to is what matters and human habitability is several orders of magnitude more relevant the freezing and boiling points of water to the majority of humanity.
[13:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─The shop is in Texas. Expecting Texans to be able to work in 100 degree temps is not an expectation of the human body that is unrealistic.
[13:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:06] <exec> 08└─I thought Amazon was an Irish company.
[13:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:08] <exec> 08└─Well boiling point of water is important to me because I'm boiling water for tea every day. So it makes sense to have it as round number 100. It's basically most consistent particular temperature I encounter. Outside weather is a lot more variable.
[13:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:10] <exec> 08└─"It's not the heat; it's the humidity!" Or is that just a Canadian saying?? Heat, i can take. Humidity also? Fuck me... :) Even our winters can be humid, making the chill go right down into the bones.
[13:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:20] <exec> 08└─Or fund them for more than 4 years. That was sort of my point - US needs a funding model for science R&D which covers longer than a 4 year term, or does not allow politicos to interfere (cf Haldane principle https://en.wikipedia.org) [wikipedia.org]
[13:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 3005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:23] <exec> 08└─Gosh, you mean like a plan? I think that's exactly the point, isn't it? If you know things change every 4 years (not shocking, shouldn't be a surprise to rocket-scientists, for instance), then you make your plans generic, modular and compatible with that. You also do things that benefit all kinds of...
[13:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 2092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:25] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the priorities normally only change completely every 8 years, not 4. It's very rare for a sitting President to not be re-elected; the last time this happened was GHWBush, and to be fair here, his single term was basically a 3rd term for his predecessor, Reagan, since he was Reagan's VP a...
[13:19:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:05] <exec> 08└─Is Larner related to somebody who earns cash training the dogs (and skims some weed on the side)?
[13:19:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:12] <exec> 08└─Of just euthanize Chad Larner. His comment are pure bullshit. Aged police dogs are always retired and go to live either with their handlers and their families or others who adopt them, at least in more civilized states than Illinois.
[13:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:20] <exec> 08└─The business man in me says to euthanize both. Without dogs why do we need to pay all those k9 cops? I mean they were trained specifically for k9 duty, what else could they POSSIBLY do?
[13:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:22] <exec> 08└─That's a dope story bro.
[13:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:24] <exec> 08└─If you would go buy a 40 and go down there with them you would find they are more like you than you think. Uppity only goes so far. Might get a contact high that close. Which given your projected tight added demeanor is something you need.
[13:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:42] <exec> 08└─The problem with the Europa mission is that it will have a half-assed lander at best. It will sample a very small amount of material on the surface with the hopes that evidence of life can be found there. Given that Europa is geologically (hydrologically?) active, maybe they will get lucky. The idea...
[13:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:51] <exec> 08└─See above about not publicizing things that will get jackbooted thugs at your door.
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, a later president threw away that success by starting a second Gulf War which he had no idea how to win, or what the consequences might be. I think the net sum of our actions in the region is an abysmal loss. But we did have that one victory.
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[14:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:30] <exec> 08└─Don't be mentioning that Trump might have pushed North Korea towards peace with his bellicose rhetoric. That will make our snowflake millennials' heads explode. They need to keep their righteous indignation anger peaked. After all, our Nobel Peace Prize president only managed to get Jack Shit from N...
[14:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:32] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly: Obama won because....... Trump should win as much as Obama. And THAT isn't really saying much.
[14:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:34] <exec> 08└─What have you got against righteous indignation? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "In some Christian doctrines, righteous anger is considered the only form of anger which is not sinful, e.g., when Jesus drove the money lenders out of the temple (Gospel of Matthew 2...
[14:17:35] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 1151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:36] <exec> 08└─So, these guys have been in captivity for awhile. They don't get newspapers delivered. No interwebs. No radio or television. Nada. Official, "Welcome aboard, guys, we'll be back in the States in a few hours. Some things you need to know. The President will be there to greet you." Former Prisoner, "O...
[14:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:38] <exec> 08└─So your argument is that Trump played a game of chicken, and that forced China to step in and push for a return to more cordial relations not seen since 2010ish?
[14:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:40] <exec> 08└─Let's see which lessons we can take away here. If you want to avoid invasion, get nukes.Once you start your WMD program, never, ever, stop it -- agreements with the West to stop such a program can be overturned at any moment.If you want to avoid invasion and avoid crippling trade embargoes, make sur...
[14:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:43] <exec> 08└─Trump is a liar [bloomberg.com], and so is Rocket Man. https://twitter.com [twitter.com] This is not the first time North Korea has released hostages. They sent Otto Warmbier [wikipedia.org] back to Trump in a coma. Bill Clinton got Euna Lee and Laura Ling r...
[14:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─From the Bloomberg link -- Trump tweeted: > As everybody is aware, the past Administration has long been asking for three hostages to be released from a North Korean Labor camp, but to no avail. Stay tuned! 8:53 PM - May 2, 2018 Bloomberg > The problem? “Of the three prisoners only one, Kim Dong-c...
[14:17:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 688 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:56] <exec> 08└─Get searched on your own time? No thank you. If you want to search workers then you pay them for that. If you want to drug test workers, then you pay them for that. They are not required to do what you want them to do on their own time that's how employment works. Now including crap like this nonsen...
[14:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─Are you at sea level and using pure water though? Or even measuring the temperature of the water? I just turn the stove on and wait for the pot to whistle.
[14:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─I thought Amazon was a company in South America.
[14:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:17] <exec> 08└─Keep telling yourself that.
[14:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:19] <exec> 08└─Oh humidity is relevant as hell. 95F here in TN is a shitload worse to work in than 110F in OK or Fort Worth. Low humidity and high heat just means your sweat actually does its job. As long as you can stay hydrated and keep your electrolytes up you can keep working. Here in TN though? Fuuuuck. Your...
[14:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:21] <exec> 08└─I will, thanks. Unless you're a chemist or a fisherman, I doubt you've measured the temperature of any water in the past ten years.
[14:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:23] <exec> 08└─A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . . I grew up until my mid teens in Las Vegas. Temps of 110+ F were a fact of life. It was very hot. People tolerated it. Adapted to it. The sidewalks were sometimes too hot to walk on (yes, really). I can assure you that people DID complain about it. Eve...
[14:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:26] <exec> 08└─her pay was $13 per hour
[14:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:28] <exec> 08└─If they keep up ANY constant rate of speed, they'll be hitting relativistic velocities in no time, and that will require massive amounts of power. I hope they at least provide energy drinks if they want to do that.
[14:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:30] <exec> 08└─I can assure you that people DID complain about it. Even if it was bearable.
[14:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:32] <exec> 08└─Mind your business. I've got enough competition as it is without you inspiring more.
[14:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 2485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:34] <exec> 08└─I tend to sympathize with workers when I read these accounts because I have never had to do it and cannot fathom what it's like to actually do it. Whether it's a Starbucks barista or an Amazon warehouse employee, I just don't think those are the jobs you dream of getting when you are a kid. Granted,...
[14:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:37] <exec> 08└─Or you know, you could spare us the rhetoric and just refer to the ASHRAE comfort chart -- now available in convenient software format, for one example http://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu [berkeley.edu] or https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:39] <exec> 08└─I agree with that. In my growing up, people worked in the heat. But employers, and everyone generally, tried to make conditions as bearable as possible. Amazon should try that.
[14:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:41] <exec> 08└─how about a geek that water cools his computer? or grows hydroponically and is controlling the temperature of the water? or has an aquarium and needs to keep the fish from turning into stew?
[14:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:53] <exec> 08└─(cf Haldane principle https://en.wikipedia.org) [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org] that is not the page you were looking for. you can go about your business move along
[14:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:54] <exec> 08└─You also do things that benefit all kinds of ideas, not just one particular plan.
[14:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:57] <exec> 08└─I should use html tags properly but life is too short for such stuff. I wonder if this works. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:59] <exec> 08└─> If NASA was run by scientists, we'd be on Mars already. I respectfully disagree. NASA is a complex organization with 18,000 direct employees and a fleet of contractors easily 5 times that number. The person running it needs to be a leader first, a skilled supply chain manager second, and a bullshi...
[14:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:01] <exec> 08└─I love how vaccines causing autism is just as unbelievable to you as moon landing hoax theories. One should be much more plausible than the other to a healthy mind.
[14:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is the ")". Next time you want to add a link inside parentheses without adding the anchor tag yourself, you need to put a space in between the closing parentheses and the link (like this: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] ).
[14:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:14] <exec> 08└─Apparently it is now recognized that the administrators intentionally mislead the police [halifaxexaminer.ca]. However, the chances of any of them getting charged with filing a false report are still slim because the police made a lot of errors initially as well. The only one involved who didn't scr...
[14:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:17] <exec> 08└─A handful of links and a statement that says "charges won't be brought". You can't give even ONE sentence saying what it was about? If you're just going to supply links, then at least try to entice me with stock photos and phrases like "You won't believe what this teen won't get charged with!".
[14:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:19] <exec> 08└─You won't believe what a dumb sheep you are! Click the link hidden in one of the posts around here to find out!
[14:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:07] <exec> 08└─Just drop the word "probably". Need examples? I grew up in a different era than most of you. Around me, there were dogs that "just don't like niggers". Seriously, if a black person came within sniffing, or hearing, or seeing distance, the dog would go off. The dogs were alright if assholes like myse...
[14:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:27] <exec> 08└─You know very well we're not allowed to visit Europa. What part of "attempt no landing there" do you not understand?
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:38] <exec> 08└─Bush Junior, the product of spook sperm? Hmmmm . . .
[14:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─By seamless, I mean the UI experience. I launch a Chrome OS app. An Android app. A Linux app (but not yet today). It all just works. You apparently don't really want ChromeOS, so why did you buy it?
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─In my youth I used punched cards and watched them be replaced by CRT terminals. As card decks went away, people began using decks to play cassette and 8-track tapes. Now people use decks for lounging and grilling outdoors.
[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Limit Initial Acute Opioid Prescriptions at Pharmacies - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:11] <exec> 08└─True, true. But, what is it about either Americans or American medicine? You don't see these issues in Europe. Are Americans wimps, or do Europeans just cope better with pain, or are the practices in Europe better?
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[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─I know a person that works as a receptionist at a dentist office. 75% of the calls and walk-ins, 75%!!!, are people trying to get "meds". This is in an area that is the news quite often for opioid related issues.
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[15:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:27] <exec> 08└─During my search, I saw that how well a tablet can record your conversations is now being used as a selling point. This is specifically a feature I would not use or want: At my demo here in Vegas, the Thinkpad X1 Yoga was able to hear me and Lenovo's reps from at least 12 feet away. Those who don't...
[15:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:29] <exec> 08└─However, if I can remove the mic(s) (point 2) then that feature would be fine. Why would they allow you to do that? That'll greatly reduce their profitability (by preventing them from snooping on you and selling that information), and only a tiny percentage of potential buyers care about this, so it...
[15:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:31] <exec> 08└─Weren't these titled "Ask Soylent" [soylentnews.org] before? Any reason for the change? (I don't know anything about tablets, so can't help there. Just wondering about the "rebranding".)
[15:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:33] <exec> 08└─I looked for that option in the topic list but didn't see it. "Ask the community" was added to the title by the editors.
[15:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:35] <exec> 08└─Chromebook is NOT a tablet. So maybe that disqualifies right off the bat. They are inexpensive. Modern ones run Android apps out of the box, includes play store (be sure to check before buying). (eg: LineageOS not needed) I'm not sure what you mean about bloatware or control over updates. I like the...
[15:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Convert-an-Android-Device-to-Linux [linux-magazine.com] Unfortunately, he doesn't say WHICH android devices. https://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com] Two year old article, may or may not be worth reading. If the...
[15:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:40] <exec> 08└─It could just be a side effect of letting you replace the battery.
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[15:17:42] <exec> 08└─* Excellent screen, and it is very bright, enough to use outdoors (but see YouTube videos for yourself)
[15:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks, this looks like a useful tip from the third link: The best way to find out if your device will run Linux without too much trouble is by visiting www.xda-developers.com and performing a search such as “linux for [device name]”.
[15:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:59] <exec> 08└─A room with one person and a mirror contains 2 lairs.
[15:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:00] <exec> 08└─Off, "Donald Trump is the president now. . . . Kim Hak-seong and Kim Sang-deok: "Still?" Kim Hak-seong and Kim Sang-deok, both working as academics at Pyongyang’s University of Science and Technology were arrested last year on suspicion of “hostile acts” during heightened tensions with Washing...
[15:18:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goodie [1877] 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 2485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:38] <exec> 08└─I tend to sympathize with workers when I read these accounts because I have never had to do it and cannot fathom what it's like to actually do it. Whether it's a Starbucks barista or an Amazon warehouse employee, I just don't think those are the jobs you dream of getting when you are a kid. Granted,...
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[15:18:43] <exec> 08└─Satan just called. He has a management position in Hell he would like you to fill and he thinks you would be ideal. You weren't kidding about having other jobs lined up.
[15:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:45] <exec> 08└─OTA TV in Atlanta highlights many lawyers (including Morgan and Morgan) that would love to take a case like this one
[15:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:47] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of Brazil. [imdb.com]
[15:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:50] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I might be disqualified because I'm a scientist. The temperature scales are arbitrary, so it shouldn't really matter unless your math skills are so poor that you can't handle numbers with a decimal point (if you even need that level of precision). Non-science related measuring: yogurt ma...
[15:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:52] <exec> 08└─Bad management needs to be exposed, brought down, fined, and possibly run out of town on a rail.
[15:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:09] <exec> 08└─There's zero evidence for it, you anti-science nut.
[15:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:11] <exec> 08└─The organization has literally thousands of people who can weigh in on the technical merits of a specific idea, but damn few who can reign in an out-of-control cost-plus billion-dollar contractor with a Senator in their pocket.
[15:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:13] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm> We'll just have to euthanize the DEA. </sarcasm> But, seriously, there are still a lot of drugs that will remain illegal. Fact is, we can expect increases in the importation of all of those drugs. People will stop buying imported Mary J, which decreases the cartel's income. The cartel will...
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[15:20:14] <exec> 08└─I think you meant it's done at the convenience of the people otherwise that would be funding the ongoing care of the said creature--or person. It's the cheapest solution to the problem of ambulatory weeds, so effective they came up with a "humane" term for it.
[15:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:16] <exec> 08└─It all depends on the trainer whether a dog can be retrained. If the trainer is a retarded troglodyte, he will be incapable of retraining a dog, let alone himself.
[15:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:19] <exec> 08└─You should have moved out of the city long ago. As bad as things may be in Backwoods, Arkansas, I don't have to step around dopeheads to get to my front door.
[15:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhmmmmm - despite my position on legalizing the stuff, I recognize that only losers are going to spend their hard earned money to get high. Alcohol is already legal, and it takes a real loser to drink his liver into shutdown. Getting drunk every weekend is one good definition of a loser. MEDICAL...
[15:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:23] <exec> 08└─No winners smoke pot. Hahaha. Dopeheads. You really have no clue what pot is. There are methheads. There are crack addicts. There are even drunks. An pillheads. But those I know who use pot are nothing like what you seem to imply.
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Osteoporosis Drug May Also Act as a Cure for Baldness - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─This STNG episode features cryonically frozen people from the 21st century. They all have diseases that were incurable then, but are easily cured in the 24th century. I thought it would have been great to have a few more 21st century people with no apparent illnesses. The doctor can't find anything...
[15:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:55] <exec> 08└─I mean, I'd argue that tungsten rods dropped from orbit are basically weapons of mass destruction...
[15:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─There's another, bigger, problem with division of forces... A high school friend of mine because an avionics tech for our navy's army's air force, which is ridiculous sounding. There's always a problem in military design of organic assets as close to the end user as possible which leads to the Marin...
[15:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:59] <exec> 08└─You missed the italics in his post
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't that WMDs exist; that's a different problem. The issue we're talking about here, is that we want to be able to sleep at night whenever another* country launches a rocket into space, not worry about whether it has a nuke onboard or a few hundred pounds of ball bearings [wikipedia.or...
[15:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─Come to think of it, that line is rather apropos because it had to do with nuking NYC.
[15:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:47] <exec> 08└─One other piece of info you didn't ask for. Google maintains the Chrome OS image, for different models of chromebook. The BIOS has an unconventional UI. It tells you how to completely reinstall Chrome OS. Use another computer to go to this URL, and download the image for the following 16 digit model...
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─You should use Python instead.
[15:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─You really do own a Chromebook, or at least a Pixelbook. See my other posts here in this topic. In short: You can root it with the flip of a switch. And then restore it back to factory clean un-rooted with the flop of a switch. You can PowerWash a ChromeOS (under Settings). You can download a reinst...
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[16:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:44] <exec> 08└─e-Ink screens are very readable in the sun. Do you need color for web browsing? I have a reMarkable e-Ink tablet, but I know there are android alternatives. The reMarkable does not have a web browser, but the android ones do. E.g. The Onyx ones: https://onyxboox.com [onyxboox.com]
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─To submitter: Was the soft criteria "long battery life"? ptman: E-ink is going to be pretty bad for both web browsing and PDFs.
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[16:17:48] <exec> 08└─This isn't a bad idea actually... I check a couple that run android, they only have 512 MB RAM. So I don't think the web browsing experience would be very pleasant. https://onyxboox.com [onyxboox.com] Perhaps something like this (2 GB RAM) would be better (a little pricey though): https...
[16:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─I do use it at night in bed to read text. (white text on black background) I do not turn it down to it's dimmest setting. That is not a very detailed description. I understand what you are saying, which explains your preference for LineageOS. I don't think it is spying so much as product influence c...
[16:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:52] <exec> 08└─Black and white isn't the biggest problem. It's the slow refresh rate/sluggishness. I have used the web browser on a Kindle and it was tedious.
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[16:17:54] <exec> 08└─I actually don't care much about battery life since it wont really be leaving the house. The soft criteria was actually having an amd cpu, which I wanted to try out. But that isn't so important.
[16:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─You're saying that is a property of the screen? They are claiming the Onyx boox max 2 can be used as a monitor, so perhaps that problem has been overcome?
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:59] <exec> 08└─Same story with image-heavy PDFs. Lack of color may be impediment there if you wanted to look at drawings, comics, photos, graphs, etc. in the PDFs. And they load and refresh slowly in my experience. That's something that should get slightly better on newer generations of e-readers, but the refresh...
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[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─See the below discussion about e-Readers. The main issue is that everything will be in black and white. I just don't know how much of an issue that would be. I see color e-ink is still not developed: https://goodereader.com [goodereader.c...
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─It's not like there was ever anything stopping a company from adding an HDMI port to their e-reader. The "SNOW Field" they mention might improve refresh rate slightly, and the quad core + RAM could help with loading detailed PDFs (less lag). But the refresh rate is still going to be very low. https:...
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe we will have a display that combines the benefits of E-ink and LCD/(O|Q)LED/et al. one day
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─What is in the other lair, a lion perhaps?
[16:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─He only managed to put the brakes on a far more credible nuke program in Iran. What an asshole!
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:25] <exec> 08└─Can't help but be reminded of this conversation: Doc Brown: Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985? Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan. Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady?
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:28] <exec> 08└─Oh you poor idiot stuck neck deep in a hate filled swamp. I'll pray for you and your family.
[16:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:15] <exec> 08└─Fahrenheit is ... porn
[16:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:16] <exec> 08└─The whole argument is very boomer; older generations had to pick up a slide rule and do some mental addition or subtraction so they whined about the labor being forced upon them, whereas younger generations click a checkbox in LabView or check a localization setting on their PC/phone and the topic n...
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[16:19:18] <exec> 08└─This is the dumbest justification ever for Celsius superiority. Water boils at 100 C! I could never remember any other number! Does it challenge you to remember your year of birth? No? Then I can assure you you can handle learning a different temp for the boiling point. It's 212 F. There, learn it a...
[16:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 2197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:20] <exec> 08└─in a nutshell: - republicans are the party of the rich class, the 'controlling' class, the class that has no class (sorry, but its true) and they are a group of people that could not care less about their fellow man. they are all about the top 1% getting richer and dividing us even more, keeping us...
[16:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:23] <exec> 08└─What's amazing to me is all you dipshits with your Murkin Imerialist units can't even promote the one virtue it has! I guess I'd better tell you what that is. The number 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5. I would not mind if metric were reformulated base 12.
[16:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:25] <exec> 08└─stfu with your partisan bs
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:27] <exec> 08└─Individual workstation fans and enough ice water jugs to last the day for everyone would be the bare minimum I'd go with. Keeping the place 70F would be difficult as hell with trucks going in and out all day long but keeping things more tolerable should be quite doable. As for theft prevention measu...
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[16:19:29] <exec> 08└─1) Are the freezing and boiling points relevant to any of those? 2) Wouldn't a finer-grained scale be of more utility in all of them?
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[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─But when you get to Hell, the job turns out to be coding, that bit about management was a lie.
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:34] <exec> 08└─As far as that goes, you're exactly correct. I'm just saying that having the first hundred degree span for the most commonly used temperature measurement purpose as opposed to one used several orders of magnitude less often is probably the way we should go.
[16:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:36] <exec> 08└─What the fuck would anyone in Berkeley know about temperature variation in regards to comfort? They're in air-conditioned classrooms and even if they were outside there wouldn't be the temperature ranges that exist outside California.
[16:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:38] <exec> 08└─Piss off back to the basement. Who let you out??
[16:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:41] <exec> 08└─I think you have a wire or two crossed. A bad surprise would be taking a coding job and getting stuck in management. The other way around is cause for celebration.
[16:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:43] <exec> 08└─what kind of full body scan? backscatter? metal detector? if the former, everyone should have walked out the first day. if you stay then they will continue to treat you like a slave. start a short but exciting career as a road pirate. be advised though, the Texas DPS hates competition. maybe they wo...
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[16:19:45] <exec> 08└─Strangely, they are German: https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] And English. And quite a lot of other nationalities. Amazon (US) is just a particularly horrible employee-abusive member of the franchise. And they're all using the same bran...
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[16:19:47] <exec> 08└─You had me wondering. I'm in Houston where sweat just pools, and was wondering how anyone could take 130F for a work day without medical issues being common. Even in a dry heat that's punishing especially if you're working. I've worked in attics doing electrical repair and in the summer you have to...
[16:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:08] <exec> 08└─I realise. Also I should check in preview first and I should use html tags!
[16:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:09] <exec> 08└─I think the first thing a scientist would question is: "Who's best to put in charge of getting out of the contractors exactly what our specification says?" There's no reason at all for the organisation to be managed by a "leader", when you're talking about the engineering side conforming to the scie...
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[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─> Gosh, you mean like a plan? > If you know things change every 4 years I was motivating a change in the American system of governance. I like the Westminster system (but then I am from UK). I think the French single transferable vote system is very good as well for selecting a president - it seems...
[16:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:14] <exec> 08└─it is indicative of a significant, deep-seated failure of US science administration to think and act strategically.
[16:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:26] <exec> 08└─But is there one weird old trick for following hyperlinks that's making the w3c furious with a stay-at-home mom?
[16:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:29] <exec> 08└─I mean, Hitler did kill his dog before he committed suicide. He tested the cyanide pill on Blondi [wikipedia.org]
[16:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:30] <exec> 08└─Of course, it takes little wit or imagination to realize that the dogs were TRAINED to attack black people. The dog hated blacks, because the owner hated blacks. Simple as that.
[16:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:33] <exec> 08└─Excellent analogy would be after prohibition ended in the 30s, we still had plenty of BATF agents chasing moonshiners into eternity; still going on today AFAIK. Also cigarettes are legal but only over 18 (maybe 21, now, I donno). Post legalization I'm sure they'll continue to walk the dogs thru the...
[16:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:35] <exec> 08└─Pot smokers are well known to be laid back, easy going, maybe even lethargic. They don't go apeshit crazy, and attack SWAT teams. They don't leap out of 30th floor windows, trying to fly. But, they are losers, anyway. Your potsmoker is likely to hold a minimum wage job, and show up for work, where h...
[16:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:37] <exec> 08└─To summarize: "Keep marijuana illegal or the puppy gets it!". Do we really need scumbags like that working in a law enforcement capacity?
[16:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:39] <exec> 08└─Die in a fire you racist piece of shit.
[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:41] <exec> 08└─Wow. For a second there, I thought you were describing gamers.
[16:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:44] <exec> 08└─Detached from reality much? Or you just live in a total shithole where people have no hope of a future.
[16:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─You are suffering selection bias. Since it has been illegal so long, most people who use it make some effort to keep it hidden. So most of the people you know use marijuana are those who didn't have it together enough to manage that. There are plenty of people with their shit together who also use i...
[16:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:48] <exec> 08└─Dogs that can sniff out marijuana probably still have some useful purpose. Maybe retrain to sniff out other narcotics? Drug dogs might still be needed at the constitution-free border where agents can do as they please. This is a ten-year long problem at worst. Those dogs can live out the remainder o...
[16:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:50] <exec> 08└─Guess I have not seen these. Also not really sure what makes a loser. Had a friend who was an adrenalin junkie. He died during a jump. Over 200 and yet dead. We used to laugh about danger. So many free climbs or insane tree skiing or motorbikes. So much enjoyment. Pushing things for no reason. I bec...
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[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─100% agreed. I think it's aristarchus, or maybe idiot_king.
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─Put your money where your mouth is. Take your ass to Syria, sit in the middle of a disputed area, and sing Kumbaya. That will fix everything, right?
[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:31] <exec> 08└─Good call. Thank you!
[16:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─Or, he could wake up in a good mood, and decide "Fuck the UN." What is the UN going to do about it?
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of precedent; roughly six million times the UN has voted resolutions condemning Israel for crimes against humanity WRT their genocide of the Palestinians and various other misbehaviors, and every time so far, the previous non-Trump US presidents have sided with Israel stating "Fuck th...
[16:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─We should ask for a show of hands. How man Soylentils ignore the UN? *raises hand* Google search on "usefulness of the UN" gives me this: https://www.google.com [google.com]
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 2345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with the OST is there's no liability for violating it. For example, see "Astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind", I kid you not thats a copy and paste from the OST and it sounds like a lot of pot was smoked when they wrote it. Lets say space tourism kicks off and someone s...
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't the U.S. party to at least one international treaty that forbids the militarization of space?
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[17:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:30] <exec> 08└─Imagine how many they could kill from the air. Seriously, these people need to be taken behind the barn. They have no business designing technology. When is the arrest warrant going out for the deployment of intentionally crippled self driving software? [soylentnews.org]
[17:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:31] <exec> 08└─Generally you see whacked out stuff having nothing to do with core competencies when a company is dying or rudderless. So I don't have to pull the financials to know Uber must be having problems. Helicopter transport is an attractive market because the NYC shuttle business has three public heliports...
[17:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:33] <exec> 08└─I applaud, and totally support, the idea that they try their tech really really far from my house. They triggered my BS detector by giving 3-digit future prices, the fact that said price is unrealistic by aviation standards (including takeoffs/landings and vehicle costs) notwithstanding.
[17:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:35] <exec> 08└─I just saw a news clip where a Fox station in Orlando reported on testing and marketing driverless cars to the public. The young reporter seemed convinced and if I remember correctly, said something to the effect of there won't ever be another driverless car accident again, with a smile. Obviously h...
[17:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─I remember seeing an early Kindle e-ink device software-modded to play video, the problem (as I recall) being that such fast refreshes drained the battery much more rapidly - e-ink is extremely efficient at displaying a static image, not so much during the normally-infrequent updates. (There might a...
[17:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:05] <exec> 08└─I recall seeing an early Kindle software-modded to play video fast enough to maintain the illusion of motion. I suppose it's possible it was actually a hardware mod posing as a software mod, but it didn't have that hoax vibe to it (and a hardware mod would have been worth boasting about in it's own...
[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─Can we please get the paranoid conspiracy mod ? Sometimes we do need the community to be able to label a statement as what it is, rather than "interesting" or other approving-sounding ones. (note that being paranoid doesn't mean that they not out to get you, so I don't want to tag this "disagree")
[17:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─The reason Chromebooks are popular in education: * They are centrally controllable (just join each device to your fleet when you first receive it) * School district has a choice of manufacturers to negotiate volume wholesale price discounts with (the advantage of not buying Apple or Microsoft) * Thu...
[17:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:11] <exec> 08└─Most of ops list of requirements are difficult to simultaneously meet
[17:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─The only topic option given to the editor is to select 'Answers'. I agree that we used to see 'Ask Soylent' but I was editing this at 06:30 local before I had to dash off to the hospital. I'll try to remember for next time....
[17:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 1981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:16] <exec> 08└─Can't help you with tablets specifically, but I'm in the market for a new phone with similar requirements. Although I'm also looking for an SD card slot and a removable battery. So for my needs, I've decided that the best option may actually be to go back a couple generations, because they just don'...
[17:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:18] <exec> 08└─I'm in favor of a Paranoid mod, but only if it's +1.
[17:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, forgot to add...as I said in my post, I quite enjoy the S5 (the default software is atrocious, but if you wipe it the hardware is pretty nice). But the brightness isn't going to quite meet your needs I'd expect. You can usually work around a screen that won't dim enough -- there's third-party ap...
[17:18:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quietus [6328] 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:31] <exec> 08└─Let's see which lessons we can take away here. If you want to avoid invasion, get nukes.Once you start your WMD program, never, ever, stop it -- agreements with the West to stop such a program can be overturned at any moment.If you want to avoid invasion and avoid crippling trade embargoes, make sur...
[17:18:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 438 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─Trump is a liar [bloomberg.com], and so is Rocket Man. https://twitter.com [twitter.com] This is not the first time North Korea has released hostages. They sent Otto Warmbier [wikipedia.org] back to Trump in a coma. Bill Clinton got Euna Lee and Laura Ling r...
[17:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:41] <exec> 08└─It is kinda of humorous that the only opposition to Trump in the entire world seems to be out of touch Massachusetts liberal cat lady archetypes. And they don't even have the self awareness that the more they publicly hate him, the more the entire rest of the world likes him because of who hates him...
[17:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:44] <exec> 08└─Never trust a lair. Never.
[17:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:46] <exec> 08└─According to BTTF, if a time traveler fixes this timeline, we'll all cease to exist. Therefore, long live God Emperor Donald "Mad Dog Jesus 2.0 Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Tannen" Trump.
[17:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:48] <exec> 08└─Off, "Donald Trump is the president now. . . . Kim Hak-seong and Kim Sang-deok: "Still?"
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:50] <exec> 08└─the more the entire rest of the world likes him because of who hates him.
[17:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:52] <exec> 08└─It’s a little different and worse to say that Obama failed to win the release of “three hostages” when two of them weren’t detained until he left office.
[17:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:55] <exec> 08└─... where by "put the brakes on" we mean "legalize and fund it."
[17:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:57] <exec> 08└─The US is making it clear that they don't want to deal with conflicts between China, Japan, the Koreas, and Taiwan. The next step for everyone involved is to nuke up. That is the only way for South Korea and Japan to defend against North Korea, and for Taiwan to prevent a Chinese invasion.
[17:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, you damned well couldn't in Houston. You'd fall over dead in an hour or two tops. Fort Worth is an entirely different matter though and in Amarillo people wouldn't even think twice about it.
[17:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:03] <exec> 08└─I wondered why he never uses his middle name.
[17:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:05] <exec> 08└─I don't actually really get why so many people get bent out of shape over the temperature scales (besides laziness and resistance to change). I doubt that the graduation of whole numbers on temperature scales really matters that much, since people either have a precise target in mind (e.g. 130F stea...
[17:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─There is a certain class of Eurotards that hold the metric system to be the be-all and end-all system for all time because they like how they can move decimal places around. They'll piss on you as an ignorant fool because you cannot quickly tell them how many inches are in a mile while in their head...
[17:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't actually care much at all. I just like arguing with people who think theirs is better because of reasons that make no sense whatsoever. That's me, fighting willful stupidity one idiot at a time.
[17:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:12] <exec> 08└─He has a management position in Hell he would like you to fill
[17:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:14] <exec> 08└─You do know that Texans are hands-down the most patriotic people in the nation in regards to their state, yeah? There is nothing a Texan loves more than to tell you how great Texas is. It's damned annoying. Which is part of why it's so much fun watching the boys from Norman stomping the shit out of...
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─At last check, comfortable working conditions and respect were really good for productivity, and good morale reduced turnover, training and mistakes. But in a country partly founded on the profits from slave labor, who are we to challenge traditions?
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─Question 1: Is there a pricing difference between the US and European market, to cover any legislation? Question 2: Wouldn't it be possible for Amazon in Europe to have "a possible deficit" covered by a surplus from Amazon US?
[17:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:43] <exec> 08└─The Presidency may only change every 8 years (please people, let's make an exception this time), but there are House/Senate elections every 2 years, giving outsized power to whoever bribed their official the most.
[17:21:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:39] <exec> 08└─Most of the dogs are dual-purpose
[17:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:03] <exec> 08└─This. Probably 30% of people I know use weed weekly. And it is easily 50-60% if it is monthly. Most like it cause no calories or hangover. All have jobs. Hard to afford the 300-500k townhouses in this area doing these so called stoner jobs.
[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─sure, some of the time(maybe), but many times the dogs have not been "trained" anything. there are various reasons a dog might react to a negroid with aggression. one time a guy (black) came walking around a corner on a sidewalk and my dog at the time growled at his leg the whole time he passed us....
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─Fuck an umbrella or a torch, live in a state with stand your ground laws and blow the fuckers away.
[17:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─It's purely a coincidence that the European United Nations building [google.com] looks like The Tower of Babel [google.com] One world government uniting all nations. Nah, just a coincidence.
[17:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:54] <exec> 08└─We DO NOT need a Space Force If we need to fight wars in space, we can buy seats on Russian rockets. Outsourcing it is cheaper than maintaining your own infrastructure.
[17:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for a U.S. Space Force - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:56] <exec> 08└─These kind people are the enemy of all humanity
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[18:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─Helicopter transport is an attractive market because the NYC shuttle business has three public heliports
[18:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:42] <exec> 08└─Driverless cars were never expected to eliminate 100% of accidents and fatalities. Only greatly reduce them, and that's if the vehicles are not in beta mode. It sounds like the kind of mistake a local reporter would make, especially if they were exposed to lots of hype and Uber kool-aid.
[18:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:44] <exec> 08└─The reporter probably would say those things for credit deposited in their uber account. Journalism has slipped so far, its now on a level of Burger flippers.
[18:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─I have just finished making my t-shirt with a giant qrcode on the front and the back, which translate to "I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG". Now I can walk safely on the streets again.
[18:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:24] <exec> 08└─The original title was: In the market for a tablet 2018
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:25] <exec> 08└─Oh yea, I forgot the other problem with that old tablet is the dim screen.
[18:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:27] <exec> 08└─screen with dynamic range that allows the screen to be bright enough to use in the sun but dark enough to use while falling asleep
[18:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:30] <exec> 08└─The best that you could do would be to spend thousands of dollars on a single prototype that you designed yourself. Good luck with that. I did recently make a tablet purchase, though. I got a Samsung Galaxy Tab A with S-Pen. This one specifically: https://www.amazon.com [amazon...
[18:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─Well it is VLM, his brain was assembled out of hobo clothes after running it through a washer with abnormally high amounts of bleach.
[18:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─Hey don't bring Camacho into this, that guy actually gave a shit about his country.
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:02] <exec> 08└─Don't be mentioning that Trump might have pushed North Korea towards peace with his bellicose rhetoric. That will make our snowflake millennials' heads explode. They need to keep their righteous indignation anger peaked. After all, our Nobel Peace Prize president only managed to get Jack Shit from N...
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 1745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─Richard Nixon pulled that one: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's dangerous as hell. What do you do if the adversaries call the bluff? Back down or double down? What if the adversaries keep pushing until the only choice is "put up or shut up"? The scariest part is that...
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:07] <exec> 08└─Bill Clinton got Euna Lee and Laura Ling released intact back in 2009 "Despite decades of bipartisan U.S. rhetoric about not negotiating with terrorists for the release of hostages, it seems that the Obama administration not only chose to negotiate, but to send a former president to do so," "The rep...
[18:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:20] <exec> 08└─"the coldest winter I even had was a summer in San Fransisco", said some famous dumbass who clearly didn't travel enough to Minnesota.
[18:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:21] <exec> 08└─The truth of the matter is you get more value out of paying motivated workers than you do out of paying less for unmotivated assclowns or not paying slave labor at all. Those who recognize this will always have an advantage over those who don't. Whether they choose to exploit this advantage like goo...
[18:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:24] <exec> 08└─You have to code in the latest popular javascript-related language and framework, the deadline is six month ago, the interfaces were defined by a newbie, trendy, and enthusiastic marketing moron, the workstation runs WinME, and the guy at the facing open-space desk is a transgender vegan who brings...
[18:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:26] <exec> 08└─Metric makes it easier to do the math, and to unambiguously communicate with 95% of humans. The daily usage is a matter of habit. I seamlessly switch between the two systems to accommodate whomever I'm talking to, but I'll convert to metric if I have to do math, then give them the result in their pr...
[18:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:28] <exec> 08└─Metric makes it easier to do the math
[18:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:30] <exec> 08└─Can you guess the temperature to the nearest 1 degree F? I doubt it. OTOH, most of my family can guess it to one degree C with a very high success rate. When younger (she is now 92) my mother could do it to one degree in either, but I never met anyone else who could.
[18:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:32] <exec> 08└─Still better than having to manage an office full of those types mixed in with sane people and having to answer to a pinhead up the ladder about why production has slowed down even though "diversity" has increased when everyone knows "diversity" is the best possible thing to have.
[18:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:35] <exec> 08└─I wonder how they get away with this and nobody calls OSHA on them, nobody ever asks Bezos about this in any interview, nobody hauls him before congress. He's been treating employees this way through multiple political administrations, so don't bother to play that political party card. He's a politi...
[18:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:37] <exec> 08└─Since you called me an ignorant dipshit, I must point out your ignorance: Americans don't use Imperial units, you retard. Some Imperial units are equal to American units, and some aren't. Imperial units are or were used by the UK and its grovelling colonies who didn't gain independence until the 20t...
[18:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─nobody would ever need to know how many inches there are in a mile or centimeters in a kilometer
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─The thing is, Americans use metric where it matters. For science, medicine, electrical devices, international trade, treaties, what have you. It seems to make some foreigners mad merely to read American units in a story that takes place in America. It must be because they can't instantly grok it so...
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─I'll adopt a drug dog. I'm constantly miss-placing my weed!
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─I can't possibly explain why you want to fuck the mail lady. I can't explain why you keep it a secret. Nor can I explain why you're telling us about your sexual fantasies. I might have better luck with the dog - he's honest enough to act on his desires. If he can't eat it, fuck it. If he can't fuck...
[18:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:31] <exec> 08└─I couldn't find the "just wrong" mod, so I gave you a "funny".
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─How would putting a Trump sign on a building someone else built achieve peace?
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─I will share with you one of the greatest treasures I've found online - Harmy's Despecialized Editions of the Original Trilogy.
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[19:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:31] <exec> 08└─We are now literally being scared by smoke and mirrors.
[19:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:32] <exec> 08└─The stress induced by reading about the dangers of third hand smoke and how that stress will shorten our lives.
[19:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:40] <exec> 08└─Not everything Musk has done has been great (Tesla has made some real missteps, and the all-touchscreen thing in the 3 is dumb), but honestly I feel like the biggest thing he's accomplished is this: totally reusable rocket stages. This can be a real game-changer in bringing down launch costs, and is...
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:42] <exec> 08└─If folks recall, the Tesla Roadster's launch livestream from the 2nd stage was cut due to NOAA broadcast license requirements. The license is contingent on checks to ensure no national security interests are going to be compromised by the (low res, partially obscured, distant...) feed. It comes a...
[19:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:45] <exec> 08└─For those who may have been following along, this is SpaceX's "Block 5" version of the Falcon 9 rocket. It is slated to receive no major changes as SpaceX is attempting to get it certified so it can be used to launch a Dragon module with passengers to the ISS (International Space Station). As I unde...
[19:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:47] <exec> 08└─Suuure, I'm still gonna side with "we don't want them to see what the payload actually is".
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:49] <exec> 08└─Actually, the Roadster launch wasn't cut - and because it showed pictures of earth, it pissed off the bureaucrats and the next launch had it's video cut off early.
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─Like Kilroy said, it was a Falcon 9 launch that got cut, not Heavy. Mar. 31: NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit [soylentnews.org] Apr. 6: Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video [soylentnews.org]
[19:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:54] <exec> 08└─Yep, my bad. It was after that when launching some Iridium satellites.
[19:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated] - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:56] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Full_Thrust#Block_5 [wikipedia.org] 7-8% more thrust for Block 5, rather than 5%. Will this translate to an increase in payload for Falcon Heavy? Because if it was straight up 63.8 (tons to LEO for Falcon Heavy) * 1.08 = 68.904, then suddenly the SLS Block 1's...
[19:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:11] <exec> 08└─Back in dot com days, I had promoters trying to get us to sell a system for "under $100 a copy" - sure, great target guys, except that a component of our system is a Handspring Visor (flavor of Palm Pilot) that retails for $99. Now, we could buy them in bulk and maybe get that price down some, maybe...
[19:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─And who are you more foolish to trust? A face on a screen telling you half truths, or an unseen hand in a kitchen preparing your food?
[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:54] <exec> 08└─I have a device that is supposedly ~220 nits and is barely visible in the sun. This should be 6x brighter so perhaps that is good enough: https://www.androidpolice.com [androidpolice.com] However for some reason they we...
[19:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─Is it really "paranoid" though? This is, after all, Google's entire business model, and Facebook's too. And we have "smart TVs" that really do listen in on you and send your speech to cloud servers, this has been proven.
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:57] <exec> 08└─I think we found the limits of bob's cynicism. It blows my mind that people just trust these services because REASONS! So how does facebook only record tv shows / movies / songs playing in the background? /rhetorical
[19:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:00] <exec> 08└─How is the tab A in sunlight?
[19:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the fact that Obama got 2 hostages released in 2009 and took a bunch of crap from the right over it because he was "negotiating with terrorists." [mcclatchydc.com]
[19:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:35] <exec> 08└─Don't get mad when your shitty trolling is taken seriously, roll with the punches and lament your own ability to impersonate the crazies around here.
[19:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:37] <exec> 08└─The USA is uniquely capable of maintaining a high-functioning economy without outside help. We have significant imports and exports in an absolute sense, but relative to our economy they are not so big. Most nations have a much stronger need for imports and/or exports. We are a highly diversified ec...
[19:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:40] <exec> 08└─The US has lots of fabless semiconductor firms but not many fabs
[19:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:42] <exec> 08└─To defend the Alberta tar sands Happily the Candu Reactor makes lots of plutonium
[19:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 819 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:15] <exec> 08└─A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . . I grew up until my mid teens in Las Vegas. Temps of 110+ F were a fact of life. It was very hot. People tolerated it. Adapted to it. The sidewalks were sometimes too hot to walk on (yes, really). I can assure you that people DID complain about it. Eve...
[19:21:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder how they get away with this and nobody calls OSHA on them, nobody ever asks Bezos about this in any interview, nobody hauls him before congress. He's been treating employees this way through multiple political administrations, so don't bother to play that political party card. He's a politi...
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─Mighty Fucktard says, "FUCK YOU, GOT MINE." No surprise here.
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─Fine fine, you win on pedantry.
[19:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:12] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that average training time is between 1 hour and 3 weeks. People who say learning programming takes longer than that are clearly just the worst kind of human, worse than literal Hitler, worse than allegorical Hitler: the sexually active incel.
[19:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:36] <exec> 08└─The Presidency may only change every 8 years (please people, let's make an exception this time) Not gonna happen. I'd bet money on it. My prediction: the Democrats will again nominate some lousy candidate, who at best is completely wooden and uncharismatic, and at worst not only has the charisma of...
[19:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:38] <exec> 08└─... The NASA Administrator thinks he's in charge of NASA. History says otherwise.
[19:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─Smells are a big thing. Cocoa butter, marijuana, and tobacco smoke might be foreign smells to your dog. Dogs don't have the greatest eyesight, but they have a keen sense of smell and aversion to otherness. If they can't smell the "normal" things because they are masked by another scent, there could...
[19:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─Sure you will unless you go telling people you're doing it first. This is why the job of the police is primarily arresting people after they've already broken the law. And why anyone with a lick of sense would never rely on the police to protect them. When seconds count, the police are only minutes...
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[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:36] <exec> 08└─This cannot possibly be the thing we should be focusing on the make humanity safer. Let's hope none of these people ever sit at a camp fire or in traffic. But it isn't just the smoke you say, the stuff in the smoke like arsenic. Of course but only if you never eat rice or anything someone used a pes...
[20:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─Carbohydrate withdrawal symptoms: Fatigue Sugar cravings Dizziness *Difficulty focusing (or Brain Fog)* *Nausea* *Difficulty Getting To Sleep* *Irritability* *Stomach Irritability*
[20:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:39] <exec> 08└─How did you pass the obvious 1.5 hand smoke?
[20:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:42] <exec> 08└─Although the media is in the business of selling news, eliciting fear and drama are tops for motivating customers to buy, and the media overdramatizes and sometimes outright lies so that it's often hard to tell which of the many things to fear should be feared the most, have you considered that mayb...
[20:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:44] <exec> 08└─Nothing is ever cheap, simple, and quick and typically requires a regulated industry like asbestos remediation or mold removal. You know, where the tent the entire building with hermetically sealed space plastic and go in with respirators and hazmat suits and charge $4k/hour to swab ever square cm.
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 20:42 UTC [Updated 2] - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─Don't really want to see that happen. We need SLS and we need at least one more viable launch provider. You never want to have all launches in the hands of a single provider. Failure is always an option at this stage of the space game. Kaboom! happens and will continue to happen. And when Kaboom! ha...
[20:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:16] <exec> 08└─Oh, my God! OH, THE HUMANITY!
[20:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─It should be -1+1i (-1 real +1 imaginary).
[20:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:03] <exec> 08└─No worries, I was just wondering if it's a conscious change, and if so, why. Like, if that company that makes Soylent food tried to flex some trademark muscle or whatever. It'd be stupid, but sadly not unheard of. > I was editing this at 06:30 local before I had to dash off to the hospital. Ouch, no...
[20:19:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:36] <exec> 08└─Bill Clinton got Euna Lee and Laura Ling released intact back in 2009 "Despite decades of bipartisan U.S. rhetoric about not negotiating with terrorists for the release of hostages, it seems that the Obama administration not only chose to negotiate, but to send a former president to do so," "The rep...
[20:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─We're pretty damn good at war too. There are only 2 potential adversaries, Russia and China, that would give our war machine a case of mild indigestion. Everybody else is trivial to mow down. India, Pakistan, North Korea, UK, France, Israel all have nukes. That's somewhat more than a 'case of mild i...
[20:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:11] <exec> 08└─Temperatures reached 80, 85, and 90 degrees Fahrenheit. "In the summertime, it gets over 100 degrees in there", Shannon said. "Here is another genius idea. They have these signs hanging down that have our station numbers on them. These signs are probably as big as a 19-inch TV. They are in front of...
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[20:21:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it's a dry heat. Hey, maybe they could sweat some of the weight off [dallasobserver.com] in that environment.
[20:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:15] <exec> 08└─The shop is in Texas. Expecting Texans to be able to work in 100 degree temps is not an expectation of the human body that is unrealistic.
[20:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:41] <exec> 08└─Obama had a super majority for two years and still couldn't get things done.
[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─No, there's very little plausible evidence that it is a considerable risk. Reactions to vaccinations aren't unheard of, they are just vanishingly rare, which is still a decent number when you're counting many millions. 99% of anti-vaxxers are illiterate morons, but their fears aren't entirely unfoun...
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Recruit Holdings Co. Acquires Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:09] <exec> 08└─This is besides the point. The point is, can they monetize and turn a profit? I think these companies hang around as long and then just collapse. Am i wrong?
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─It's the same difference as far as I'm concerned, since it's the smell I don't like. In the country it's real skunk, here it's skunky pot.
[20:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry a white guy stole your bike, geez...
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:34] <exec> 08└─Now instead of asking the military to build it, Trump will ask NASA!
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─Generally speaking if something is going to be used as a "medical device" in the United States it requires FDA approval. https://www.fda.gov [fda.gov] If it ever becomes clinically relevant for liability or payment purposes the universe...
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─Uh, no, not all programs are applications. Firefox is a program and an application. The Linux kernel is a program but not an application. sed is a program and a utility, but not an application. python is a program and an interpreter, but not an application. Not all executable files are programs. For...
[20:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:55] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you mean by "seamless". Graphical (X/Wayland) apps are rendered like native apps. You get a bubble launcher icon or whatever they're called, just like native apps. They can access all your files (with user confirmation), just like native apps. So yes, Linux apps run seamlessly as Chr...
[20:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:57] <exec> 08└─Some of you might be wondering, why use Chrome OS? For me, the reason is security. Security researchers don't bring Linux or Windows laptops to conferences; it's too risky (try searching for DEFCON and Chrome OS). They bring a Chrome OS laptop. Chrome OS has a lot of security features, that make eve...
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[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─I would love a free open source alternative to Windows that wouldn't require switching to different programs, fiddling with Wine, dual-booting, or just doing without. ReactOS could be that free open source alternative, but it's not ready yet. Despite the huge improvement over just a few years ago, i...
[21:17:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─This cannot possibly be the thing we should be focusing on the make humanity safer. Let's hope none of these people ever sit at a camp fire or in traffic. But it isn't just the smoke you say, the stuff in the smoke like arsenic. Of course but only if you never eat rice or anything someone used a pes...
[21:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:45] <exec> 08└─Smoking is typically habitual. Sitting in front of a campfire and not moving, if the smoke blows in your face, not so much. There is plenty of research that shows Tobacco is harmful to your body. Chewing it or smoking it, just don't do it.
[21:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:47] <exec> 08└─If the smoke causes cancer, you should be afraid of it. As for mirrors... well, have you looked in a mirror recently?
[21:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:49] <exec> 08└─It depends on the position.
[21:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:51] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, when did my body become yours that you feel free to tell me what I can and cannot do with it?
[21:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─Why do some folks feel the need to try to tie whatever they have in front of them at the moment to everything else ever? If they're not saying gluten causes all of society's ills, they're saying carbs do. You're never going to find the one thing wrong with your life, because there's not just one thi...
[21:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─Living longer drastically increases your cancer risk as well.
[21:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:58] <exec> 08└─When your poor choices affect my health and the pursuit of happiness. You want to smoke, that's fine. Just don't do it in my face.
[21:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:00] <exec> 08└─Food, diet and body purity are a staple of religion. There is evidence that this is hard coded in our brains.
[21:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff. That's not what you said up above though. There's an important difference between saying "you shouldn't" and "don't".
[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─Gluten causes millennials to become transsexual. Now how do you feel about gluten?
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 21:47 UTC [Updated 2] - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:20] <exec> 08└─They can already get what they need from SpaceX, ULA (Atlas + Delta, and Vulcan later), Orbital ATK, and soon Blue Origin (New Glenn [wikipedia.org], which is also providing BE-4 engines to competitors to use instead of Russian engines) and Rocket Lab (tiny dedicated payloads). Non-national security...
[21:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch at 21:47 UTC [Updated 2] - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:22] <exec> 08└─Redundancy and competition just needs two - SpaceX and Blue Origin will give you that just fine, two launch providers for a fraction of the cost of SLS. Of course it does depend if you are really buying rockets or pork...
[21:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:40] <exec> 08└─Well, the special sauce of NYC is NYC is old and has weird geographical constraints such that its painful to go from the cool places to the airport and the cool places are ridiculously rich. I don't see it selling, well, pretty much anywhere else. Maybe the Wash DC area would LIKE it but I don't thi...
[21:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:42] <exec> 08└─I have just finished making my t-shirt with a giant qrcode on the front and the back, which translate to
[21:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:44] <exec> 08└─Let them start in a "dereg" state, get the kinks out there, and THEN they can bring it to our blue states. Deal?
[21:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:31] <exec> 08└─The best that you could do would be to spend thousands of dollars on a single prototype that you designed yourself. Good luck with that.
[21:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:32] <exec> 08└─How is the remarkable for installing other OS's? If it's OK, are there any Linux-compatible window managers that will work sweetly with e-ink?
[21:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─My prediction: Kim will get to keep his nukes, and Trump will get to build golf courses in North Korea. A win-win situation!
[21:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:14] <exec> 08└─As far as "credit", I believe the change is because NK's weapons actually work now. The first impact of that is that NK has more negotiation power now. Second, the West can threaten to starve their population to stop WMD's without looking like heartless jerks. The counter-threats thus also carry mor...
[21:20:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hereweareagain [6590] 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:27] <exec> 08└─There is literally NO REASON to maintain this kind of hostile work environment. Get some reporters in there to tour the facility. Bad management needs to be exposed, brought down, fined, and possibly run out of town on a rail. Treat your workers like valuable human beings - and with dignity!
[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:46] <exec> 08└─https://usaphcapps.amedd.army.mil/HIOShoppingCart/Uploads/thumbnails/53A.jpg [army.mil] Even the military says "easy work" you should get a 10 minute break every hour if its over 90 degree temp working conditions.
[21:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:48] <exec> 08└─I too wish the duodecimal society had succeeded. I once saw a book of mathematical tables in duodecimal. Yes, base 12 logarithms and sines and cosines and the like calculated to about twelve duodecimal places. Published in the early 1900's, therefore all calculated by hand. A huge effort.
[21:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed I can between 50 and 90F all year round. During the winter I'm better at spotting a one degree change below that range and during the summer I'm better at spotting one above it. You get out of practice at the extremes because they're not there to experience most of the time.
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─Well, we are talking about city folk here, even if they are Texans, so your argument has some merit. They're city folk who think nothing at all of standing out in the sun in 100F for hours to drink, grill out, drink, eat, and drink with the family or neighbors though.
[21:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:54] <exec> 08└─The court disagrees with you [latimes.com], unfortunately. Seems like this would have to be overturned or properly legislated out.
[21:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I'm talking doable here rather than max productivity though because the chick quoted says it is beyond human endurance.
[21:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─Good word, "fucktard"; one of my favorites. I'd mod you up for it but we decided a while back that Underrated shouldn't be used unless you'd been otherwise moderated and you're not any of the rest of the upmods.
[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─People calling themselves incels amuse me. For starters, any straight chick who says she's one is lying. The rest are mostly straight beta males. Here's a hint, beta guys, you're only ever going to get laid when it's more convenient than buying new vibrator batteries. Chicks do not dig on betas. You...
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─> pushed all kinds of pseudoscientific and other bullshit on her show, from anti-vax crap with Jenny Mccarthy to "the secret" to Dr. Oz's snake oil She can stomp Trump on his own turf, I guess :)
[21:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, they have no sense of proportion at all. It has been a fiasco from the start. The fact that someone accesses publicly accessible data should ring all bells out loud that no crime has been committed. They knew from the start that the content deliverer was at fault by making all data availab...
[21:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─Government is inherently founded on "Do this or the Puppy gets it!".
[21:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:33] <exec> 08└─That's right. It's "let's see" or "lessee", but never "less see".
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[22:17:27] <exec> 08└─but cooooool
[22:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─Note that pearpc is not the same as MoL When I set my video to 8 bit but the graphics were corrupted. After that I couldn't use 8 bit anymore- not even for macOS
[22:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─Modded you insightful because there's no 'Amen, brother' mod.
[22:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─Do you have any hands-on with how Alpha is Alpha? Is it sufficiently ready to try single applications on, or does it crash all over the place?
[22:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:04] <exec> 08└─How does that work? I'm cisgender and love bread, especially the wholemeal type.
[22:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─Well duh
[22:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:08] <exec> 08└─I'm very lucky. I've never used tobacco. But I eat whatever I want. Whether it's a juicy cheeseburger or a dark, sweet chocolate cake. Dr. Bornstein says my health is "astonishingly excellent." He says I'm "the healthiest individual ever elected to the Presidency" And Dr. Jackson says I "might live...
[22:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─Keep eating bread and your boobs will turn into moobs. Your ass will get hairy, then your upper lip. Your hair will fall out in a horseshoe pattern. Before you know it, you'll be wearing only shit stained tighty-whities and a food stained wife beater wondering what happened. BEWARE!
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Heh, you are taking my semi-serious joke way too seriously. I get that it can be a real problem, but just walking down a street with any car traffic will undoubtedly expose you to more pollution than some surface a smoker was close to. I'm not a smoker, but I dread the day when we start banning ever...
[22:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:30] <exec> 08└─I'm hearing 176 something to 190 something for the thrust on the 9 first stage engines. So a ~7.9545% increase.
[22:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:32] <exec> 08└─Sequence aborted at T- 58 seconds. 15 minutes thrown on the clock, but it might have to launch tomorrow instead.
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:34] <exec> 08└─And the mission was scrubbed do to an error at T-00:58
[22:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:55] <exec> 08└─The face on the screen, because it can't spit into your food the way most Mexicans do.
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─Obama could have walked on water, cured the sick, and turned water into wine and would still have taken crap from the right.
[22:20:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─"Fahrenheit is an obsolete scale invented by a visceral lunatic, based on salty water and 'blood heat', with 64 degrees between blood and iced water only because it was easier for him to draw the little marks that way. When something's based on laziness, a hot body and salty fluids, it's porn, not s...
[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:05] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that liquid water is useless in daily life? Why don't you get back to me on that after spending a week without liquid water, including the liquid water in your body?
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[22:22:07] <exec> 08└─Keep telling yourself that. "We lot" didn't want Trump or Clinton, but the DNC fixed that shit cause they didn't want a REAL popular politician. Without the religious right wing nutters Trump would have had no chance even with a good percentage of people voting for him to give the establishment the...
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[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─It's like Adam in the Bible. Adam was very lonely and very horny. So God took parts of Adam and made them into Eve. Right? And now my Army doctors are very, very close to that. They didn't make a whole woman. But they made an ear. And perhaps they can make another body part!!
[23:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:33] <exec> 08└─grow a brain inside a buzzard's skull?
[23:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:35] <exec> 08└─So our site mascot and village dickhead Michael David Crawford can finally grow a real live penis on his head??
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:37] <exec> 08└─No.
[23:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:40] <exec> 08└─Can you hear me now?
[23:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:42] <exec> 08└─MDC likes to strap a vibrator to his cranium and pay young women who are young enough to be his daughters to pleasure themselves.
[23:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─Can you 'ear me now?
[23:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not him and I do not, but this seems informative: https://reactos.org Looks like quite a few programs run well or with only minor issues but a great many more have serious problems. I gather that the OS itself is actually pretty stable. I have been rooting for this project f...
[23:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:56] <exec> 08└─Did you try turning it off and on again? Are you sure it was plugged in? Did the alleged damage occur in this reality, or are you lying again?
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─I think you have the wrong endgame in mind. For an example look at what they are saying about babies now: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES LET YOUR BABY BE HIT BY DIRECT SUNLIGHT. Then: YOUR BABY IS AT RISK FOR VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY, BUY VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTS HERE.
[23:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:28] <exec> 08└─It is an orgy of all of em.
[23:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116468/ [nih.gov]
[23:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:00] <exec> 08└─404 Device Not Found
[23:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:44] <exec> 08└─To the three released prisoners I say: You're welcome. Go out and give a big Thank You to President Xi Jinping of China who your release possible and, HAVE A GREAT LIFE! Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life. Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/hISaCI95CB [t.co] By the way, the...
[23:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:45] <exec> 08└─Jesus did all of this. And the right could care about the poor as Jesus would. The right are so far from Christ it isn't funny. They cloak this with a feeble anti abortion push. But many fetuses naturally abort and shows God doesn't worry about fetuses. No verse in the bible does either. So if Barak...
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─Amazon is just an extension of the surveillance state. They have your communications and they desperately want everyone to purchase everything through the single service. With their magic algorithms they will identify potential threats years ahead of time, put thousands / millions of people on restr...
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─I don't think the data will be likely to hold up, training warehouse workers isn't that big of a time hit and keeping the volume of products moving is preferable even with mistakes. Like slavery the net benefit for society is worse, but for the owners it gives their bank accounts a nice bump. Why do...
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─Whistling cookery? Ariel is that you? You're a beautiful mermaid/human, why go around acting like a douchey neckbeard?
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─You're both making stupid generalizations.
[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─> here's how they pulled it off: RELIGION Religions say anything. You meant Christian religion. underpaid? thou shalt not steal overworked? six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work everything sacrificed to mammon? thou shalt have no other gods before me So, even before "that ye love one anoth...
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─You are such a moron, but it is fun seeing you trigger enough to lash out.
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