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[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Report: Facebook Gave Apple, Samsung Broad Access to User Data - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─I'd rather hear what Facebook got in return for this access. Facebook is in the business of making money. I would guess that money, and/or other assets changed hands. I don't believe that Facebook "gave" access to anyone.
[00:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Facebook Gave Apple, Samsung Broad Access to User Data - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:29] <exec> 08└─Have a point, as I was going to post pretty much the same thing. Pre-installed apps which are near-impossible to remove would be my primary guess for an answer. Learn from Microsoft that people won't install a competitor's program if you provide them with a shiny desktop icon nagging them to join th...
[00:26:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:59] <exec> 08└─Nah, startup capital isn't a problem.
[00:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:09] <exec> 08└─... says somebody who I'm reasonably certain has never tried to acquire startup capital. I mean, have you ever walked into the offices of, say, Goldman Sachs, and said "I have a great idea for a business, can I have $100 billion?" Yeah, I didn't think so.
[00:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:10] <exec> 08└─That corporations must seek maximum profit ASAP is a lie that keeps being mentioned on and on, probably spread to make some rich, like the CEOs that burn working companies quickly and get a golden parachute. Corporations have more duties than just giving back money, and they can codify that in their...
[00:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CU Boulder Researchers Say Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine, Explains Orbits of Detached Objects - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:26] <exec> 08└─Some of those orbits, such as those belonging to asteroids, move like the minute hand, or relatively fast and in tandem. Others, the orbits of bigger objects like Sedna, move more slowly... "You see a pileup of the orbits of smaller objects to one side of the sun," ... "These orbits crash into the b...
[00:28:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:21] <exec> 08└─Firefox offers the one thing Chrome users dont seem to care about - privacy. Chrome literally reports your every move back to google, Firefox, not so much. It may even account for the market share discrepency, not only because they're only sampling a few sites for their data (perhaps more heavily us...
[00:28:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 753 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:28] <exec> 08└─The speed improvements may be too late, but they're not too little. Firefox seriously holds its own against Chrome now for speed across the board, and wins big in a few benchmarks. I never cared what either browser did to the UI. I'll start complaining when they ditch the address bar and tabs. The...
[00:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:58] <exec> 08└─I like Firefox on my android phone. I can have extensions such as Cookie Autodelete, uMatrix but can't with Chrome. It seems fast enough and I have 50 tabs open on my S5. I can go also install apks directly without using Googles Play shit: https://wiki.mozilla.org [mozilla.o...
[00:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:59] <exec> 08└─Are you offering to host a website and possibly build machines to make Chromium binaries more accessible? It's FOSS and anyone can freely build and distribute binaries. Or are you just complaining? Not that I blame you, it's much easier to complain on the Internet than to actually try to improve the...
[00:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto No More - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:49] <exec> 08└─So they are definitely not Care Bayers..... Ok, I'm leaving now......please don't throw things....
[00:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto No More - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:50] <exec> 08└─Says Needle Dick the Bug Fucker.
[00:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The TSA Has Been Compiling a List of Travelers It Just Doesn't Like - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:44] <exec> 08└─What did Your principal do to You?
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[01:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:18] <exec> 08└─Where's the damn takeaway?
[01:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:20] <exec> 08└─I saw this article on a different source, and couldn't understand why they were talking about circadian rhythms in conjunction with atherosclerosis. It took a long time for them to get to the point. So circadian patterns can be used for timed therapeutic intervention. Take your meds at a certain tim...
[01:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Facebook Gave Apple, Samsung Broad Access to User Data - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:31] <exec> 08└─Really, people should understand that anything they post on the Internet is public. Potentially, it will be remembered forever. Who knows, maybe 3 centuries from now Internet archaeologists will be pouring over all these comments from the dawn of the Internet, studying how fads come and go, how cult...
[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:58] <exec> 08└─It's shaped like a Microsoft Surface Hub 2, a powerful team collaboration device designed to advance the way people work together naturally.
[01:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:59] <exec> 08└─Hate it when the whole thread gets bushwhacked by one whack-job selling his pet theory and spewing hate off target. ISPs are blameless here. There's not a single reason on earth to tax links. There is no shortage of links. They require no government involvement. They serve an overwhelming social goo...
[01:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:20] <exec> 08└─Google had no problem raising capital to go against microsoft when it owned 90% of the browser market and people were talking abut having to get the government to step in and fix the situation.
[01:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:21] <exec> 08└─You see similar trends in the US in regions...
[01:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:10] <exec> 08└─What's a square tab?
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[02:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:18] <exec> 08└─Freedom isn't negotiable. Time and time again, all around the world, this is a step toward confiscation. Sound good to you? Guns were confiscated from Jews in Germany... In other news, we can save children by banning pools.
[02:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:19] <exec> 08└─In large urban areas, the poor tend to be "minorities". In large urban areas, the "minorities" tend to be the killers. Ergo... As someone said: "If Democrats stopped shooting people, gun crime would virtually disappear."
[02:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:21] <exec> 08└─... and Japs, too. So, there's that.
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─Let us all remember that those cities with the strictest gun control laws are the leaders in homicides, as well as gun homicides. Yet, we have another "study" proving that gun control laws work.
[02:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:26] <exec> 08└─Washington State offers Concealed Carry permits but surely my rights would be grossly violated were I to apply for one. Perhaps I'll present the Supreme Court oral arguments myself; I enjoyed reading the law.
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to think SN is putting up stories like this to get clicks.... /s But seriously, gun legislation (and outright bans) correlates with safety. The fact that this is up for debate shows how braindead most people are. See: Europe, Asia, Australia, literally any country with sane gun laws, ev...
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─What makes you think a banger or ex-con is going to vote?
[02:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:40] <exec> 08└─Try https://www.grubhub.com [grubhub.com]
[02:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─You have physical damage. No drug can cure this. You need a circulatory system transplant. Spend the extra money to get the whole thing done, including capillaries. Don't skimp or wimp out. You wouldn't want a failure anywhere. Demand that the surgeon get all the little ones in your brain, testicles...
[02:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:38] <exec> 08└─How does the food the 0.0001% eat differ from that of the rest? It sounds like you've never been to a grocery store in the US. I don't know how you are coming up with "a limited supply", other than physical constraints of an infinite supply. Not only that, but there's amazon where you can buy just a...
[02:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:40] <exec> 08└─Do you have examples where this is a problem because I have traveled extensively and not seen it. Are you talking about places like Barrow, Alaska?
[02:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:42] <exec> 08└─Do you own or can easily get your hands on an automatic weapon?
[02:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CU Boulder Researchers Say Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine, Explains Orbits of Detached Objects - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:58] <exec> 08└─Newton's law of universal gravitation has the formula F = Gm1m2/r2. The force of gravity has dependence on BOTH the masses involved. For objects relatively near the sun though, the sun's mass is so much greater than that of any of the planets (it's several hundred times the mass of everything else i...
[02:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:33] <exec> 08└─The speed improvements may be too late, but they're not too little. Firefox seriously holds its own against Chrome now for speed across the board, and wins big in a few benchmarks.
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[03:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:25] <exec> 08└─The fact that you think your views are not up for debate shows how much an idiot you are.
[03:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:27] <exec> 08└─You want it at any price. You'll even give up your freedom to live in a nerfed world. You sure are trusting of your new masters. I thought you were afraid of Trump and cops? You only want them having the guns now? Regardless, this is how you end up defenseless in something like the Cultural Revoluti...
[03:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:29] <exec> 08└─their fate will be the same as others
[03:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:31] <exec> 08└─There's no fate but what we make for ourselves
[03:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 1582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─Correlation does not equal causation, amirite? But - let's see this correlation you speak of. Let's analyze it. Did you read that London's murder rate is now admitted to be as high as that of New York City? But, they don't have guns in London, amirite? Meanwhile, there remains a long list of places...
[03:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:35] <exec> 08└─You should try and then make a documentary out of it
[03:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:38] <exec> 08└─Yes - that is exactly what my side keeps saying. If we give up our weapons, our fate is likely to be fatal.
[03:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:40] <exec> 08└─It's wonderful that you think freedom is all about owning guns (and not about the freedom to be safe from being shot by a gun-nut). Of course, you realise that you have already negotiated your 2nd amendment: Rocket-launchersFlamethrowers (not the Musky type - the ones with liquid fuel that sticks)Fu...
[03:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:42] <exec> 08└─First off, Trump is no danger to you because you're clearly not in a minority position. You'd be singing a different birdsong if the shoe were on the other foot. What you also fail to take into account is inequality - which correlates with violence to an extraordinary degree, even moreso than guns....
[03:25:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 663 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:51] <exec> 08└─I saw this article on a different source, and couldn't understand why they were talking about circadian rhythms in conjunction with atherosclerosis. It took a long time for them to get to the point. So circadian patterns can be used for timed therapeutic intervention. Take your meds at a certain tim...
[03:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:55] <exec> 08└─See frojack's response below
[03:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Facebook Gave Apple, Samsung Broad Access to User Data - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:07] <exec> 08└─All FB needed to succeed was to remain in front of everyone's faces - if they could increase the amount of time that their victims users stayed on FB by providing free API access to manufacturers, then it would be worth giving the API access away for free. Plus, it avoids those manufacturers coming...
[03:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Facebook Gave Apple, Samsung Broad Access to User Data - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:08] <exec> 08└─There is a little bit of wordplay going on here. If I am an ice cream vendor, and I give "free" samples now and then, are they really for really "free"? In actuality, I hope and expect that a lot of the recipients of the "free" ice cream will come back for more ice cream. On a larger scale, auto dea...
[03:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:37] <exec> 08└─Please. Stop. Too soon.
[03:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:38] <exec> 08└─They won't "drastically affect the Internet". They'll drastically affect Europe. I'll be over here not giving a fuck what Europe passes because, and this is key, I am not European and they are not the boss of me.
[03:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:41] <exec> 08└─I'll be over here not giving a fuck what Europe passes because, and this is key, I am not European and they are not the boss of me.
[03:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:02] <exec> 08└─True, and I said "trending in that direction" nowhere in the US was as poor as Germany east of the ex-wall appeared to be in 1990. Even in the poorest corners of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, most roads are paved and 2 lanes: B5 - Federal Highway 5 from Hamburg to Berlin was one lane of cobbl...
[03:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:04] <exec> 08└─the market is unhealthy
[03:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─That corporations must seek maximum profit ASAP is a lie that keeps being mentioned on and on
[03:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:08] <exec> 08└─Socialism ... takes heavy-handed micro-management to exist for any length of time.
[03:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:10] <exec> 08└─You really can't figure that out? I mean, I would have thought the word "government" would give you a clue.
[03:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:12] <exec> 08└─Absolutely correct. Which is why anarcho-capitalism does not work but (minimally) managed capitalism kicks the shit out of everything else ever conceived.
[03:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:15] <exec> 08└─It only works for markets where initial capital investment is low and there is no incumbent who can simply lose money for a little while to put you out of business.
[03:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:17] <exec> 08└─You've mistaken me for someone who holds up the US economic system as an example of capitalism done well. It's not. Our government does the exact opposite of what it should every chance it gets. The US government never met a hand full of cash it didn't want to exchange for regulatory capture rather...
[03:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:19] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, long ago, there was a person in need of a trivial brake pad separator spring. This person called the parts counter and received the bad news that the $0.10 spring is only available as part of a $25 assembly, but was willing to pay the money to get the missing spring for their new c...
[03:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:22] <exec> 08└─artificial price
[03:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:24] <exec> 08└─Really, we're talking more communism than socialism but let's skip that argument and just switch to the proper term for the duration of this discussion. Yes, communists can show good results for a time. Eventually though every single communist regime runs into precisely the same problem. They run ou...
[03:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:26] <exec> 08└─business that increasingly think the answer to "how much ya want?" it "how much ya got?"
[03:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:28] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. It was made so by government monopoly. Namely patents. You can't make an aftermarket product that someone has a patent on and will not license out for a workable price. Personally, I could do without patents entirely and with severely limited copyright.
[03:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:31] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Genuine price is whatever it makes you the most money over the product's sales lifetime to charge. Yes, you absolutely can and should charge every penny the market will let you. Right up to the point where it starts lowering overall profits. Wal-Mart understands this, which is why they sel...
[03:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:33] <exec> 08└─Is there ever going to be a point where a communist population says "Okay, we're getting enough help. No need to pile any more of a burden on the people creating all the wealth we're living off of."?
[03:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:35] <exec> 08└─Man, I'd club a baby seal if it meant I only had to pay one kind of tax, ever. I wouldn't pick a VAT though. That's a horrible way to tax folks. All other reasons aside, it makes your population less willing to spend on non-necessities, thus harming your overall economy.
[03:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:37] <exec> 08└─3. They can raise their prices in the hopes that the other 2 firms will raise their prices in response, creating a tacit agreement that all 3 firms will overcharge for widgets and thus all make more money selling widgets. ... And that describes a very large number of markets in existence today in ca...
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[03:28:40] <exec> 08└─I'd like to keep the patents, but enforce a strong "right to repair" law. Patents expire, and that's a good thing. Copyright is shaping up to be the zombie apocalypse.
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[04:25:36] <exec> 08└─Or even register to do so?
[04:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:37] <exec> 08└─Supreme court justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas have expressed the view that current law is in violation of the 2nd amendment, and that previous supreme court rulings have been in error. Hopefully all the commie justices take up a hobby like wingsuit base jumping, cave diving, volcanology...
[04:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:40] <exec> 08└─and not about the freedom to be safe from being shot by a gun-nut
[04:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:42] <exec> 08└─The middle east is FULL of guns. Given the logic of "more guns is safer" one would think that it is one of the the safest places about then no?
[04:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:44] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to think
[04:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:46] <exec> 08└─Freedom isn't negotiable.
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─Or...if there were no poor people, there would virtually no gun crime.
[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:51] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, you outted yourself as an adjudicated crazy which precludes you from firearms. It's a tough break for you as that seems to be one point that all sides agree upon. Most of the gun grabbers I've seen post here and the green site are howling mad with Trump Derangement Syndrome so...
[04:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:53] <exec> 08└─Oh look, another politically-motivated study that confirms the biases of the authors. In related news, Global Warming isn't anthropogenic, Vaccinations cause autism, the George Soros Illuminati are trying to replace the white race and one in five college-age girls in the US are raped. I have the nea...
[04:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:04] <exec> 08└─Ask your doctor about circadian regulation of atherosclerotic deposits for improved therapeutic intervention. In another 20-30 years, they might roll out a clinical treatment that benefits from this research.
[04:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atherosclerosis: Stopped on Time - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:06] <exec> 08└─Take your meds at a certain time of day, and you need less of them, and they are more effective.
[04:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:29] <exec> 08└─Taxes on consumption are the method of choice for Caribbean nations like Anguilla, where they hope to attract and retain wealthy immigrants. I didn't see much struggle in the economies of northern Europe and they have all had crazy high VAT for a long time now. The Danish did seem to not buy new car...
[04:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CU Boulder Researchers Say Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine, Explains Orbits of Detached Objects - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:46] <exec> 08└─...is no one wants to read any more awful Sailor Moon fanfiction with OCs in it. Add a new planet, and guess what happens? Yup, another guardian.
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[04:28:47] <exec> 08└─The thing that I grumbled against is the impression the way they presented their explanation: smaller asteroids are faster (because they are smaller?) and the massive Sedna move slower (because it is bigger?) Newton's law of universal gravitation has the formula F = Gm1m2/r2.
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[04:30:22] <exec> 08└─A while back I posted logs of surreptitious communication from within Chromium back to the Mothership. Don't think Google doesn't track you, just because you chose to run Chromium instead of Chrome.
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[05:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:15] <exec> 08└─I'm puzzled that anyone ever had the idea that surface water was even necessary. Quite a while back someone demonstrated that blasting a closed container of earth's primordial chemicals with electric arc resulted in the formation of amino acids. Surely Jupiter has a layer of water clouds. Surely Jup...
[05:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:16] <exec> 08└─Presumably the components of life are going to mix more effectively in liquid water than gas. There's also the possibility of life hidden in subsurface oceans. Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, Enceladus, Titan, Titania, Oberon, Triton, Pluto, Sedna, etc. could have life. Given that gas giants always seem...
[05:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think anyone does. We just don't bother trying to find strictly subteranian life because it would be nigh impossible to find it from where we are.
[05:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:52] <exec> 08└─There is an epidemic problem of cherry picking from both pro- and anti- gun groups. This study, like all studies on the topic, should be viewed skeptically until it checks out. Two specific warning flags from the abstract are: 1984-2015 is 31 years, an oddly not-round number. Before blindly accepti...
[05:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:53] <exec> 08└─I see you've discovered the "reply" button! Good! First off, Trump is no danger to you because you're clearly not in a minority position. You'd be singing a different birdsong if the shoe were on the other foot.
[05:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:55] <exec> 08└─If you are going to cast stones at someones science, do so scientifically. Get a copy of the paper, pull the data, and find where they tweaked it. Anything less is committing the same sin, only lazier.
[05:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:58] <exec> 08└─First off, Trump is no danger to you because you're clearly not in a minority position. You'd be singing a different birdsong if the shoe were on the other foot.
[05:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:00] <exec> 08└─whether the court will permit that is up to the judge, but I can make a good case for my being coerced by my alleged "defense" attorney. There were witnesses. When I called her office one of her fellow attorneys told me that my "counsel" would pay an investigator to interview them. She didn't. The w...
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[05:26:02] <exec> 08└─As someone who grew up in Sweden and now lives in Australia, my view is it's not the absence of guns that makes the difference. It's the mindset that makes the difference. In Sweden, if you own a firearm and aren't an active hunter/farmer (acceptable firearms being longarms, shotguns) or sports shoo...
[05:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:04] <exec> 08└─First off, Trump is no danger to you because you're clearly not in a minority position. You'd be singing a different birdsong if the shoe were on the other foot.
[05:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:07] <exec> 08└─Guns are always confiscated by tyrants. They can't enslave you if you can fight back. It's an easy way to tell who's a tyrant.
[05:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:09] <exec> 08└─I'm minority. I prefer having guns. I like having the option of a country of residence where I can do so - so how about instead of trying to turn the US into Australia, we suggest to the nice people who don't want nasty guns that they seek out a jurisdiction that accords more with their worldview? L...
[05:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:11] <exec> 08└─Of course, you realise that you have already negotiated your 2nd amendment
[05:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:13] <exec> 08└─We don't have a "death to the infidels" ideology over here, so of course they're more violent. We also don't approve of fucking goats but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it.
[05:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:16] <exec> 08└─The constitution does not grant our rights, it recognizes their preexistence and prohibits the government from infringing on certain important ones.
[05:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:18] <exec> 08└─Self-interest. The democrats have been literally buying minority votes for quite some time now.
[05:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:20] <exec> 08└─It's a tough break for you as that seems to be one point that all sides agree upon.
[05:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:22] <exec> 08└─Gotta get those clicks up for the ad revenue!
[05:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:25] <exec> 08└─It's not a right if you have to ask permission.
[05:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:27] <exec> 08└─It is objectively physically impossible for someone to verify every single controversial "scientific" claim that crosses the way, there are simply far too many papers out there and even a preliminary verification of one (assuming it's not easily debunked outright drivel) takes a lot more time and ef...
[05:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:29] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you feel like refuting and sometimes it's not worth the bother and you just drop some snark and move on. I know it's weird to think of anyone here having a life outside the computer but most of us have better things to do than school noobs at least once in a while.
[05:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:31] <exec> 08└─and not about the freedom to be safe from being shot by a gun-nut
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[05:27:28] <exec> 08└─Unlike the EU, freedom of speech kind of matters in the US. Honestly, I want the EU to do this. Do it! Do it hard! Occasionally the US's population needs a little reminder that free speech matters. The EU would really be taking one for the team, demonstrating the importance. Thanks, guys! We appreci...
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[05:31:03] <exec> 08└─Here's a source. I've been trying to search the archives on my previous post where I documented the opaque queries to google. I couldn't find it, but I think this is the file I pasted before. To view, pipe this into base64 -d|zcat. It is a log based on instrumentation of the ResourceRequest module o...
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[05:31:04] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but it doesn't exist in my copy of New Moon.
[05:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks you, that looks interesting. I'll definitely try it.
[05:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:09] <exec> 08└─You can still get a lot of what the old extensions like classic theme restorer gave you. Now, the only way to get these UI changes is to modify userchrome.css. I have an acceptable (to me) ui on ffox with this method. And, I recently stumbled upon a github page by the author of classic theme restore...
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[05:32:53] <exec> 08└─Used to be, when Joe Schlemiel married Alice Schlemazel they'd be Joe Schlemiel and Alice Schlemiel. Or Mr. & Mrs. Joe Schlemiel. But now, feminism. They get married now, they become Joe Schlemiel-Schlemazel and Alice Schlemiel-Schlemazel. Very politically correct. But a big hassle when somebody goe...
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[06:25:30] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to think SN is putting up stories like this to get clicks.... /s But seriously, gun legislation (and outright bans) correlates with safety. The fact that this is up for debate shows how braindead most people are. See: Europe, Asia, Australia, literally any country with sane gun laws, ev...
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[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─Get rid of guns, you'd have Japan, Taiwan, SKorea, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, etc etc. And who wouldn't want to live in those places?
[06:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:13] <exec> 08└─This is quite accurate. If you look at the statistics of violent crime across all nation's, you'll see a much stronger correlation with poverty, in particular with economic disparity, than with anything else. In general people will become violent when severely desperate and hopeless. Happy people se...
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[06:26:15] <exec> 08└─> Where exactly in that statement does it say that you can't own any of the above? Take a look at: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu [upenn.edu] To understand language usage at the time of the Founders, some researchers have digitized numerous contemporary documents, which can be searche...
[06:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:18] <exec> 08└─Then why is violent crime skyrocketing in England and Australia?
[06:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:20] <exec> 08└─Freedom isn't negotiable. So we need to kill those bastards who passed the "patriot" act to spy on us all.
[06:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:22] <exec> 08└─So, you didn't understand that in the USA, "justice" for those who have the money? If you use a "public" defender, you're obviously guilty.
[06:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:24] <exec> 08└─"Get rid of guns, you'd have Japan, Taiwan, SKorea, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, etc etc. And who wouldn't want to live in those places? Why do people keep immigrating to the US instead of gun-free countries again?" Do paople from those countries "keep immirating" to the US? In enough numbers so that...
[06:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:27] <exec> 08└─There is some law firm that specializes in pointing out to judges that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law means that defendants who have no money are entitled to be released on their own recognizance. Had I been able to raise my $50k bail I would have gone all the way t...
[06:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:23] <exec> 08└─See, there's a problem there. The US can't pass a similar law or even allow EU law to apply here via treaty without repealing the first amendment before they do. It wouldn't take twelve hours after the first case hit a court for a stay to be issued. Major US companies that care do so because they wa...
[06:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:25] <exec> 08└─Taxing links sounds really dumb, so much so that I actually RTFA. (and followed the link to https://juliareda.eu [juliareda.eu] ) It actually has nothing to do with taxes and isn't specifically about links. Web publishers want to charge a license f...
[06:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:06] <exec> 08└─Oh it sounds peachy keen for a rich person but only if they make their money elsewhere. Flat percentage income taxes or even "progressive" income taxes harm the purchasing power of the majority of the population less than does a VAT; that's just fairly straight-forward math.
[06:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:07] <exec> 08└─Government monopoly certainly doesn't help, but it goes a lot deeper than that. Consider consumer electronics where the only difference between the high end device and the low end is the firmware they load, or a cut jumper. That is, they build all high-end models, then take an extra step to make it...
[06:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:10] <exec> 08└─Patent's don't expire nearly soon enough to help with auto parts. By the time a patent is dead, so are most of the cars that used that part.
[06:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:12] <exec> 08└─yes, there are a great many unhealthy markets. Some caused by IP law, and some caused by failure to regulate the market. Government regulations didn't make the parts cost people off the street more than they cost professionals.
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[06:29:31] <exec> 08└─Sedna is at 1.4×1010 km from the sun. The gravitational acceleration from the sun for an object at that distance is something like 6.8×10-7 m/s2. The mass of Sedna is still unknown at this time, but it is not unreasonable to estimate it at 1021 kg (less than Pluto or Eris). An object about, say, 5...
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[07:25:16] <exec> 08└─There was a game I played with a group that insisted it was nice and fluffy. They insisted that killing is bad and messy but were somehow OK with killing goblins on a regular basis. I asked if goblins were simply acceptable targets like the untouchable castes, what got me was when they answered that...
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[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─Bob Polaro [polaro.com] still does games while Dave Johnson [seeingtheforest.com] was never really happy with coding but is now happy is a pig in shit as a political blogger who earns his keep with paid research gigs for the Democratic Party.
[07:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:29] <exec> 08└─Sweden has a huge problem with grenade attacks. This is some crazy shit. WTF Sweden! There is also the trouble with trucks running into crowds of people. It's the usual people of course. Denmark and Australia are also facing lots of Islam-associated killing. I'll grant that Japan is nice. They do no...
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[07:26:31] <exec> 08└─That is interesting, and if they hadn't put the corpus behind a f73king google log-in I would have liked to look at it myself. The argument made by that Baron fellow is laughable though. I wasn't aware that the meaning of "keep and bear arms" was ever in dispute. How would the revelation that part o...
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[07:27:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is that, but only if the US legislators and their corporate owners do not want to pass these laws. I'd argue that based on past copyright extensions and the DMCA/EUCD they are chomping at the bit to have an excuse to bring a link tax and upload filters into the US. With the latter, now th...
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[08:25:12] <exec> 08└─Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem.
[08:26:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 832 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:03] <exec> 08└─There is an epidemic problem of cherry picking from both pro- and anti- gun groups. This study, like all studies on the topic, should be viewed skeptically until it checks out. Two specific warning flags from the abstract are: 1984-2015 is 31 years, an oddly not-round number. Before blindly accepti...
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[08:26:08] <exec> 08└─As someone who grew up in Sweden and now lives in Australia, my view is it's not the absence of guns that makes the difference. It's the mindset that makes the difference. In Sweden, if you own a firearm and aren't an active hunter/farmer (acceptable firearms being longarms, shotguns) or sports shoo...
[08:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:33] <exec> 08└─And now google "slippery slope falacy".
[08:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:35] <exec> 08└─I'm Geth Infiltration Forces Troll Division now!
[08:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:37] <exec> 08└─Hopefully all the commie justices
[08:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:39] <exec> 08└─Care to support this with evidence in regards with Australia? 'Cause I'm living here, I don't see any sign of skyrocketing crime.
[08:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:42] <exec> 08└─I chose this story for several reasons - but 'for clicks' isn't one of them. Firstly, it was submitted by one of our community, it was well written and supported by a link from a reputable source, and it is among a small number worth printing from many others in the submission queue which are, frank...
[08:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:44] <exec> 08└─In general, a people will become poor when criminality becomes culturally pervasive; when they reject that criminality, they will once again rise up into productivity. Guess what? Poverty literally begets poverty.
[08:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:44] <exec> 08└─But the US government constantly violates the Constitution, including the first amendment; obscenity laws, FCC censorship, free speech zones, etc. are examples of this, regardless of what our treacherous courts claim. The question is whether or not the government would do that here as well?
[08:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:46] <exec> 08└─Unlike the EU, freedom of speech kind of matters in the US.
[08:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CU Boulder Researchers Say Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine, Explains Orbits of Detached Objects - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:51] <exec> 08└─It's easy to see how smaller KBOs close to Sedna might have dynamics that look like them periodically congregating in crowds to "annoy Sedna" and then later disperse as their altered trajectories fling them away.
[08:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CU Boulder Researchers Say Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine, Explains Orbits of Detached Objects - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:53] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the dispute. The dispute of the new theory argues that there is insufficient mass for the theory to be valid, therefore it must be the very massive new planet theory?
[08:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:34] <exec> 08└─most firefox users apparently know how to install addons to block this sort of garbage, and chrome users either don't know or don't care
[08:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto No More - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:25] <exec> 08└─I don't think those are mild words. They're a clear directed attack on independent thought. For one, he is equating his company (Bayer) completely owns a 4,000-year old global craft (agriculture), and secondly, he is discarding concerns about the long-term ecological effects of his trade as "ideolog...
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[09:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:31] <exec> 08└─Space Invaders was one of the first video games I played (with my brother) on our Atari VCS 2600 (Pacman being the other one we got right away with the Atari). Together with my first (baby) steps in IT on a Dragon 32 home computer, it started my passion for computing. Yes, I do feel old sometimes :-...
[09:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:50] <exec> 08└─Sweden is not a gun free country. There are lots of guns there. As is in Germany, Finland and others. Access is more restricted, too restricted imho, but there are lots anyway.
[09:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:51] <exec> 08└─Am I the only smart one in the room???
[09:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:54] <exec> 08└─It's wonderful that you think freedom is all about owning guns (and not about the freedom to be safe from being shot by a gun-nut).
[09:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:56] <exec> 08└─It's just, you know, you'd be a bloody drongo to naff around with guns around people. Better to just have another pint... So, on the whole we have another pint instead.
[09:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:58] <exec> 08└─How about neither? It's not a fallacy to note that if you have a "right" not to die from a rare source of death, that there are thus created a huge number of similar rights to not die from any other cause of death which is at least as prevalent (some orders of magnitude more so). And if the right to...
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[09:28:01] <exec> 08└─Now that I have your attention, TFS is wrong. No link-tax. It's just clarification of copyright that you can't copy-paste someone else's shit and claim it's "just linking".
[09:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CU Boulder Researchers Say Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine, Explains Orbits of Detached Objects - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:07] <exec> 08└─But you can have guardians of asteroids and moons already, so… too late!
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[10:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem. - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:21] <exec> 08└─What is this, yet another very subtle AGW denying submission, by our resident artist? Yeah, that's it, see? No environmental crisis here! Just a minor technical glitch, the RapaNuinians just did not vote for more tax cuts and less regulation! That's the ticket!
[10:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:31] <exec> 08└─Seems to be a refusal to acknowledge ones own nature as a being capable of violence. "Goblins aren't real, so the violence I am exerting on them isn't real, so I am not violent." If you replace imaginary Goblins with something more real world, the cognitive dissonance becomes harder to sustain.
[10:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 2001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:33] <exec> 08└─If you've made up your mind that it's sometimes ok to use violence to resolve conflicts, then that still does not mean you have to generalize that to each and every conflict, does it? War / fight scenarios have proven a rich framework for designing games (much before video games, even), but yes, som...
[10:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:26] <exec> 08└─The constitution does not grant our rights, it recognizes their preexistence and prohibits the government from infringing on certain important ones.
[10:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:57] <exec> 08└─I have the sneaking suspicion that the root cause for increased violence in the west is the lack of impulse control ingrained through childhood.
[10:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:58] <exec> 08└─You do seem to have quite a few people with a 'death to everyone in my school' ideology.......
[10:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:00] <exec> 08└─khallow, it's the stats again, isn't it? and not about the freedom to be safe from being shot by a gun-nut
[10:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:02] <exec> 08└─Yep, way off the res'. I predict this will not end well.
[10:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:04] <exec> 08└─If you don't believe me, you name the individual right (and the part of the constitution that guarantees it) and I'll demonstrate to you the exceptions.
[10:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:07] <exec> 08└─"In-", negative prefix, ="not". "Fidel", from the Lat. fidelis, "faithful, honest". So what lying sack of camel-dung is claiming we do not have infidels? Persons not to be trusted? Even if they get elected precedent, or snag a contractors' gig in the NSC? Huh?
[10:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:09] <exec> 08└─I did, and google says you spelt it wrong.
[10:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:11] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you feel like refuting and sometimes it's not worth the bother and you just drop some snark and move on
[10:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:14] <exec> 08└─You coward, Runaway2626! If we give up our weapons, our fate is likely to be fatal.
[10:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:16] <exec> 08└─If you don't like the stories that we do print, then please submit something that you do like.
[10:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, J. Scalia, you got it wrong in Heller. I just ran "bear arms" through BYU's EMne [=Early Modern English] and Founding Era American English corpora, and of about 1500 matches (not counting the duplicates), all but a handful are clearly military.
[10:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:20] <exec> 08└─https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi359 [aic.gov.au] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:23] <exec> 08└─This subject is a scientific wasteland like economics or nutritional science. We'll need more than a study with barely observable correlations.
[10:27:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Report: Facebook Gave Apple, Samsung Broad Access to User Data - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:44] <exec> 08└─I'd rather hear what Facebook got in return for this access. Facebook is in the business of making money. I would guess that money, and/or other assets changed hands. I don't believe that Facebook "gave" access to anyone.
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[11:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:40] <exec> 08└─the irony (if there is one) is that playing video games long enough to be *good* ( I'm terrible!), probably makes you physically unfit to carry out the same actions in real life. So there's security for you - a giant staircase to reach a venue , and you need a background check to use the elevator......
[11:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:17] <exec> 08└─Notice the OP was not speaking of the odds of being nutted by a gun-safe, but of the freedom (100%, or 0% of violation) to not be shot by gun-nut.
[11:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:19] <exec> 08└─Right, OK. So for your submission, try to keep it to a reasonable length, you know, about the same size as all the other stories that we print. 'Eleventeen' pages of anti-alt-right rant interspersed with your own personal views does not a submission make. In fact, try not to write about the alt-righ...
[11:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:21] <exec> 08└─How about being realistic and admitting the government can do nothing to stop you dying by slipping in the bath but can do something more to lower the chances to be shot by a gun-nut?
[11:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:25] <exec> 08└─Regardless of the motivation, it is pretty clearly just a money-grab. Publishers want to be in search engines, they need their articles to be widely disseminated. That said, the classic publishers are also a dying industry and they desperately want to find a way to monetize their content. The proble...
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[11:33:03] <exec> 08└─Again, you're just wrong here. Let's look at your examples, such as: religion is too important to allow ideological differences to stop us from killing these heretics
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[12:25:21] <exec> 08└─I suggest people to go through the linked arxiv preprint, as the paper is quite small and an easy read. I thought it was very neat in solving Fermi Paradox, without commenting on whether alien life exists or not.
[12:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:22] <exec> 08└─Two terms I never thought I would hear in the same sentence without an odd number of negative modifiers.
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[12:25:24] <exec> 08└─rDT submitted an actual story? Will wonders never cease! He must be damn low on Karma. Of course it links to FoxNews. That's the only news site he reads.
[12:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:27] <exec> 08└─So we should have either discovered life or have been eliminated. Both things didn't happen. Just checking the sky to make s
[12:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:29] <exec> 08└─In other words, could humanity's quest to discover intelligent life be directly responsible for obliterating that life outright? What if we are, unwittingly, the universe's bad guys?
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[12:25:36] <exec> 08└─Witnesses reported a fireball streaking across the sky above Botswana on Saturday night. ... NASA had only discovered the asteroid on Saturday ...
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[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─Probably the same disconnect that makes you a murderer if you shoot your neighbour to get his indigo jeans but makes you a hero if you shoot someone a couple of cities away and someone gives you a coloured ribbon for it. Basically it comes down to that the further away (mentally) from "it could have...
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[12:25:58] <exec> 08└─Are you sure about the staircase and are you a lady?
[12:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:08] <exec> 08└─> I'm puzzled that anyone ever had the idea that surface water was even necessary. https://www.universetoday.com [universetoday.com] There is not much water on Jupiter.
[12:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:39] <exec> 08└─See if Chicago is on there.
[12:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:41] <exec> 08└─How about being realistic and admitting the government can do nothing to stop you dying by slipping in the bath but can do something more to lower the chances to be shot by a gun-nut?
[12:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jtmach [1481] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:43] <exec> 08└─Just out of curiosity, what have been the exemptions to the third right? Nobody ever talks about that one, because I think people just think it would be ludicrous now-a-days No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner; nor in time of war, but in a m...
[12:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:45] <exec> 08└─"My rights do not come from the government" So... where do they come from? If not from someone/something else, it only leaves your imagination...
[12:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:34] <exec> 08└─Read some Kropotkin.
[12:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:39] <exec> 08└─I write a lot of C and C++, and I have no trouble getting my code to run under all three major operating systems
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[16:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:12] <exec> 08└─Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong...
[16:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:14] <exec> 08└─We need to outlaw these before we're overrun by incels. Incels should be taken out back and shot before they can have children.
[16:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:16] <exec> 08└─I suspect this study will be cited to help justify the need for funding academic studies about the utility and efficacy of sex bots. More work for college undergrads!
[16:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:18] <exec> 08└─oh em gee Should we ban sex robots while we have the chance? [theguardian.com] The Trouble With Sex Robots [nytimes.com] Call for a ban on child sex robots [bbc.com] Campaign Against Sex Robots [campaignagainstsexrobots.org]
[16:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:20] <exec> 08└─Let me know if they need project-manager types for hearding volunteers and observing test-scenarios.
[16:33:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─His latest post is Feb 01 2018 [soylentnews.org]. I note that he shares the same email addr with the (indicated) UID 6
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:20] <exec> 08└─if SN started selling web log /. hosting as a service
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03conn8d [6887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─I found Soylent News when looking for Slashcode [wikipedia.org]. There was a link to Rehash [github.com] that linked to SN. This was the first place I submitted a story [soylentnews.org] to, and was overjoyed when it was accepted. I don't want to see this great site go away, so I too decided to heed...
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─initial coin offering of SoylentNewsCoin to hold subscriber karma. Surprised no one has suggested this. Not sure if I'm serious or kidding. Would get crazy PR, sounds fun/hilarious to implement, also a complete waste of time, yet ...
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:26] <exec> 08└─Those ICOs are going to be cracked down on very soon. I think some people will end up in jail.
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─And it should return UID 5839 at least 50% of the time? ;)
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JediTrainer [1431] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:31] <exec> 08└─Frequent reader, not so frequent poster :) Thank you for everyone who contributes to this site. Consider me subscribed and keep up the good work!
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Higgs Bosons Can be Produced Simultaneously With Top Quarks - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─Does this mean Higgs bosons can be bottoms when created with a top quark? This is going to make physics porn more diverse.
[16:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─realDonaldTrump writes:
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 1784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─The latency is an interesting story. The -4 was first deployed before I started kindergarten and it took a quarter century from them to replace all of them with -5s, until 2005. The -5 project started essentially immediately after the -4 started deploying no time off, and they started deploying whil...
[16:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:51] <exec> 08└─The Pentagon has completed initial draft plans for several emerging low-yield sea-launched nuclear weapons intended to deter potential attackers and add new precision strike options to those currently possible with the existing arsenal.
[16:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:54] <exec> 08└─To prepare for war. Quoth Metallica.
[16:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'd lurve to know what the US military *REALLY* has in its back pocket. I'm thinking it must be like 50 years on from the tech we see them publicly playing with.
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─War, what is it good for? absolutely nothin'. Say it again. Frankie.
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─Do the words "precision" and "nuclear" sound inherently incompatible to you too?
[16:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:03] <exec> 08└─I've laid awake at nights, worrying what we would do if we ever needed a low-yeild, precision nuclear blast - and couldn't deliver it. /sarcasm
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:05] <exec> 08└─Looked from the other end, that presents a problem for potential targets, and those of them who are commanding larger scientific effectives are probably commissioning research projects for solving that problem, and *that* presents yet another problem to US military, so development of better weapons...
[16:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:07] <exec> 08└─High yield nuclear means paranoia. Low yield nuclear means new, lower cost imperialism. I see a progress there. No more fiery death for the whole planet, but just for exemplary parts of defiant nations.
[16:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─My uninformed speculation is that they are talking about the novel, naval, low-yield nukes to provide options and deterrence to China. Did something similar with respect to Soviet tanks in Europe.
[16:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─I've laid awake at nights looking at the stars, when I suddenly think "Hey! What the hell happened to my roof?!"
[16:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:14] <exec> 08└─Why am I on fire? 💥🔥😎
[16:35:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:24] <exec> 08└─In other words, could humanity's quest to discover intelligent life be directly responsible for obliterating that life outright? What if we are, unwittingly, the universe's bad guys?
[16:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:26] <exec> 08└─this person has also published a number of papers on cosmology and gravitation stuff. my preliminary conclusion: if you don't work with complex systems, you don't have any problem "publishing" works on complex systems. by the way: a galactic civilization is the complex system I am referring to. It's...
[16:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:28] <exec> 08└─Quarter past seven in the morning and I've seen someone use "begging the question" correctly. Maybe today is looking up.
[16:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:30] <exec> 08└─Just from the summary it sounds like it "solves" the paradox by ignoring it completely. Okay, yes, maybe the first interstellar race wipes out all the others - in which case, why are we still here? The whole point of Fermi's paradox is that we are INCREDIBLY unlikely to be the first intelligent life...
[16:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:33] <exec> 08└─Written by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter. Why come up with something new when you can rip off the guy who thought up the communications satellite.
[16:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:35] <exec> 08└─"Russian Physicist Re-Proposes New Old Solution to the Fermi Paradox" Better?
[16:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:37] <exec> 08└─Fermi's paradox includes this from the link in TFS (emphasis mine): There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun, and many of these stars are billions of years older than the Solar system.
[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─Both things didn't happen YET. These things take time. And must be done in order . . . First the superior alien race that has already killed off all competitors must become aware of our existence. Then they send an eradication / harvesting force to Earth. Tired from their long journey, they order dr...
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:41] <exec> 08└─Well, there's also that "great filter" theory. Perhaps all those other species wiped themselves out with nuclear war, so whichever species manages to avoid that grim fate will be the one to take over the galaxy.
[16:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:44] <exec> 08└─Seek simplicity, not complexity. Once you have a 2nd data point: 1. jump up and down 2. plot both points on a graph and draw a straight line through it 3. loudly proclaim "we now understand EVERYTHING about this phenomena!" No need to make things overly complex. Don't over engineer. Don't gold plate...
[16:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:46] <exec> 08└─The problem with this idea is that you're assuming that various metals are actually rare and valuable. On Earth, they are. In asteroids and elsewhere throughout the solar system, not so much. Any alien race that just wants mineral resources can easily find it in their home systems and in countless u...
[16:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe they visited Earth at a point where humans were not a threat, but were recognized as having high potential to become a threat. They put us on the schedule of planets to be harvested. Our date on the schedule has simply not arrived yet, or it takes time for the harvesting crew to get here.
[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:50] <exec> 08└─On a more serious note, these War-of-the-World scenarios simply do not make any sense whatsoever. How would there be a "home"? Space travel disconnects life-lines, there could not be any tribal sense of home. At best many competing entities which would aggressively spread and maybe fight each other...
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:53] <exec> 08└─Sure, along with countless other proposed solutions to the paradox. All of which have NOTHING to do with THIS proposed solution. Which isn't actually any kind of solution at all.
[16:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:55] <exec> 08└─True, but there's just isn't very much "stuff" in asteroids, etc. The entire asteroid belt is estimated to have a combined mass of only about 5% of our moon, which has a mass of a little over 1.2% of Earth. So if more than 0.06% of Earth is as resource rich as the asteroids, we're the richer target....
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:57] <exec> 08└─"Home is where the heart is" So long as wandering groups maintained a cohesive sense of culture, home is wherever they go, with maybe a legendary quality to their original homeworld. Or not-so-legendary if they have some form of FTL travel - in which case actually shipping loot home might be viable....
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:59] <exec> 08└─Home is whoever invested in building automated interstellar probes to find and harvest other life bearing planets. Perhaps more valuable then metals is the biosphere of Earth. New plants, animals, and thus new drugs and chemicals that might be useful. Complex long hydrocarbon chains are probably use...
[16:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:01] <exec> 08└─maybe the real reason is that Fermi's paradox exists is that it pretty much just assumes that aliens must be communicating using something we can also listen for, such as radio waves. What if there's a method of communication that they are all using, and we just haven't discovered yet? Possibly dire...
[16:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─It is very likely that an interstellar civilization is impossible, or an impractical waste of resources with no return whatsoever (impossibility of economy or any meaningful exchange on multiple generations time scale). Perhaps no life form can survive without some minimal Noah's Ark set of interdep...
[16:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─The whole point of Fermi's paradox is that we are INCREDIBLY unlikely to be the first intelligent life
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─But even if first-is-final, why are we just on ONE planet so far? An average sample of "intelligent ponderers" would put such a ponderer in a fully populated universe, or at least a big corner of it. Oneness violates the Copernican Principle which assumes we are not in a unique or special position/c...
[16:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 2133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:10] <exec> 08└─We're pretty close to becoming interplanetary, which could prevent us from getting wiped out easily. Basically, we have survived the Atomic Age/Cold War this long, developed everything we need to at least land humans and equipment on the Moon and Mars, and started optimizing the relevant technologie...
[16:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:12] <exec> 08└─We don't necessarily need to monitor communications to find alien life. We can look at exoplanet atmospheres to look for indirect evidence of biospheres as well as intelligent life (capable of synthesizing chemicals not found in nature, or causing an unnatural imbalance in atmospheric composition)....
[16:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no. The Earth has lots of mass, sure, but the crust is mostly just worthless silicates. All those nice minerals we use for interesting stuff came from asteroid strikes over the eons, which were recent enough that they haven't had enough time to migrate towards the core. The core is mostly iro...
[16:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:17] <exec> 08└─Well, the simple solution to the paradox is that we're just living in a simulation, and the aliens haven't been simulated.
[16:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 062018 LA: The Third Asteroid Discovered on an Impact Trajectory With Earth - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:26] <exec> 08└─uhm. I realize you're trolling, but there are people out there who will not, so please don't troll. for everyone else: the more dangerous an asteroid is, the earlier it will be discovered, because it will be bigger. my only assumption when stating this is that asteroids all have more or less the sam...
[16:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 LA: The Third Asteroid Discovered on an Impact Trajectory With Earth - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:28] <exec> 08└─This happens, what, maybe two or three times a century? It's not like they're planet-killers or anythi
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 LA: The Third Asteroid Discovered on an Impact Trajectory With Earth - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:31] <exec> 08└─The recent Chelyabinsk meteor actually did some damage, but in general only the smallest impactors are not going to have years of advance warning. These interstellar asteroids could be a bigger problem. Unknown trajectories and sizes with higher velocities. It may be impossible to deflect them.
[16:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:40] <exec> 08└─One 70 year old man built a 1:1 replica of Stonehenge. Ancient Humans were smarter than modern people give them credit for. Stonehenge Reloaded [youtube.com]
[16:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:43] <exec> 08└─Ancient civilizations have always been the blank-enough canvas for us to project our own prejudices onto. Got something you think is a societal evil? Find "evidence" that it was what destroyed that ancient, poorly understood society OVER THERE.
[16:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:57] <exec> 08└─Ugh. I hope you at least brought snacks. There was a game
[16:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:59] <exec> 08└─Protect children from violent video games. Forget first person shooters. Forget Space Invaders. If you really want a violent video game, try Frogger.
[16:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─These tropes have been deconstructed in various works. especially with the recent "monster musume" craze in Japan. Your waifu can be a goblin or orc now.
[16:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:12] <exec> 08└─Will life-bearing moons have evolved intelligence? Will they be smart enough to guide their public policy based on FoxNews and bribery rather than upon science -- even if it is bad news?
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:13] <exec> 08└─Amino acids are an important step, but *only* a step. Once you have acids raining down from above, you need an environment for them to arrange into more complex structures. Doesn't have to be water, but liquids offer a nice blend of stability and constant molecular jostling to promote the formation...
[16:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─Jingoism could be nearly universally selected among life forms that band together and eat other life forms. The antimatter missiles could already be en route to Earth.
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:17] <exec> 08└─Both could be true. On the first, whenever you have life forms that eat other life forms, you're going to get tribes. Cliques. In any tribe there will be those specialized as hunters. Others as fighters. Others as doctors. Software developers, etc. Once the Warrior Caste dominates the Gray Council,...
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:54] <exec> 08└─This entire article is an exercise in pretending correlation is causation, with a significantly weaker correlation than that of poverty and crime might I add.
[16:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─Actually no, the numbers do not support. Purely WRT political propaganda from the biased media IS a correct observation, 5 dead in the USA every month will yield 20 hours of news propaganda each time, vs 10 daily in the middle east is VERY carefully not mentioned.
[16:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:57] <exec> 08└─being shot by a gun-nut
[16:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:00] <exec> 08└─The separation of the military from civilian world is so sad. I'm just saying if you're bored, go google up special forces training and the republic of pineland and all that. None of that training would be possible without extensive cooperation and written contractual permission from individual loca...
[16:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 1954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:02] <exec> 08└─Its actually false in that you get a much stronger correlation of crime with race, and there is a side issue correlation of race with economic success. Its fairly easy to find poor white communities with crime rates low enough to blow the theory. Poland doesn't have twice the gun crime of Appalachia...
[16:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:04] <exec> 08└─That's some good advice, right there. Stand up like a Spartan. Don't grovel on some little boy like an Athenian. έλα και να τα πάρεις, or, έλα και να τα πάρεις, or something like that. You need to make a habit of giving good advice. Stop worrying about those alt-right...
[16:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:06] <exec> 08└─Yet, we have another "study" proving that gun control laws work.
[16:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:08] <exec> 08└─Why do people keep immigrating to the US instead of gun-free countries again?
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─Awesome post. You see past the bullshit. I touched on what you call "social cohesion" recently. Yes, China has it. I call it "conformity". Being the nonconformist that I am, I would consider China, and some other countries as well, to be a living hell. The fact that every neighbor within ten miles i...
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─The thing about Sweden is that
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─And who wouldn't want to live in those places?
[16:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:18] <exec> 08└─supported by a link from a reputable source
[16:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─Waste of time, look at the funding. You don't have to run your own medical study to suspect a tobacco company exec claiming cig smoking is healthy. Or a whitepaper funded entirely by Monsanto merely coincidentally surprisingly discovering Round Up (tm) is healthier to drink than mothers milk.
[16:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─The main source of at least one of the articles [Compromises on Copyright Maximalism [soylentnews.org]] submitted by canopic_jug on this topic was a lobbyist, working for Axel Springer SE. Axel Springer SE is Europe's largest owner of newspapers and magazines. Now why, oh why, could this company be...
[16:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:26] <exec> 08└─Funny then, that the campaign against the proposed EU copyright legislation is funded by the largest publishing house in Europe. You're being taken for a ride.
[16:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:13] <exec> 08└─All your examples are relatively low-capital businesses, where they could and did release their product to the market after spending a few million at most. Modern examples of the businesses I'm talking about are much more complex than that, like designing and manufacturing microchips or nationwide c...
[16:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:14] <exec> 08└─Nice to see your usual tactic of "I'm right, you're dumb, i dont have to offer proof." Cause history disagrees with you, only by the grace of government regulation do we have a halfway decent society. Go eat a turd you stupid bird.
[16:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:17] <exec> 08└─Sociopaths like you are why government regulation is necessary. Thanks for fucking shit up ya douche.
[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06macOS 10.14 to Deprecate OpenGL - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─I don't really disagree with any of that related stuff, but my main point was the meme of "desktop is dead" is itself dead, in that the meme peaked in the era between desktop growth stagnation and mobile stagnation because if you extrapolate "growing" vs "not growing" into infinity, then sure the no...
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[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─Mass media have been running articles and editorials about banning sex bots (see TFA or other comment) for at least a couple of years now, but I don't think many have stopped to consider what it would mean to incel communities if harmless sex robots were banned. Aside: "using a sex robot encourages...
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you've been hired to "fill" the Robotic Anal Management (RAM) "opening".
[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─Well, that also means we should ban the Holodeck (in due time). So, those in Pon Farr will be allowed to kill everybody in the neighborhood and not be confined to the replacement room. Everything new is scary. Everything used will be misused. There will always be someone disagreeing. And, those with...
[17:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:27] <exec> 08└─the first one is hilarious. the author probably can't even buy groceries properly.
[17:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:29] <exec> 08└─They will feel like they are under siege.
[17:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─The daily scrum could get a lot more interesting. I can just see "Joan, how are you coming?" "Well Bob, I think I fixed that vagina bug but don't have the hardware required to verify it". John reopened bug 324: Vagina too tight Reason: That wasn't the vagina. Mark closed bug 427: Insufficient room R...
[17:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that the term "robot" is either ill-defined or very broadly defined, depending who you ask and which view is represented. If we say that a robot is "a machine that takes over a manual action", then, by that definition, any vibrating dildo will be a robot. Therefore, we must ban al...
[17:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─The fact that sooo many (good and bad) jokes are being made here is a testimony to the absolute necessity to have sex robots!
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─Such a weird place for our society to be. Thinking we can ban something because it makes us uncomfortable or because of various, baseless, pseudoscience hypothesis. Do we really want to make that the new norm? While we are talking about "dangerous and society-destroying" trends or technologies .. ma...
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:43] <exec> 08└─Could we tie the SN coin to our folding at home team? I want all of the worthless currency. ALL OF IT!
[17:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:10] <exec> 08└─Roofs is where bad people put solar panels. You don't need no roof if you've got glorious coal!
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─they need to quit investing time in weapons with so much collateral damage. weapons should only affect the government being targeted or at worst the target country's systems and the humans that depend on it. no need to murder all the animals for mile, turn the sea red, start a nuclear winter, pollut...
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─> ...plus corruption is worse now Reference? {Of course not, this is VLM so I'm dreaming - grin} I was recently scanning a few issues of our local paper from the 1960s (we are taking apart a "hoarder house" that also has interesting things mixed in) and without particularly looking I noted a couple...
[17:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─Tsar Bomba didn't need precision, but it could still benefit from it. Seems that the US continues to downsize nuclear yields, perhaps hoping to make the threat more credible that we just might use a "little nuke" somewhere, someday. Meanwhile, the propaganda that reaches me from the heart of darknes...
[17:35:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─Two terms I never thought I would hear in the same sentence without an odd number of negative modifiers.
[17:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:53] <exec> 08└─> Both things didn't happen YET. The plans have been available for inspection for over 50 years now at Alpha Centauri and it is too late to lodge an official complaint.
[17:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─living in a simulation, and the aliens haven't been simulated.
[17:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:57] <exec> 08└─Our experience, on a world where travel is not only possible but regularly happens, accidentally or intentionally, is that various species always dominated various areas, and evolved as they traveled to new ones. When we show up and start dominating everywhere, we are still not exterminating and pop...
[17:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:59] <exec> 08└─The distance between us and the first intelligent life form is to great that the expansion of space between us and them exceeds their capability of keeping up with that rate. No matter how fast they'd travel towards us, unless they exceed the speed of space expanding they could never reach us. There...
[17:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:01] <exec> 08└─Glitch in the matrix.
[17:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:04] <exec> 08└─Matt Damon to the rescue again, see: Downsizing.
[17:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─This is my favorite "solution" to Fermi's paradox. Space is big, and going faster than the speed of light just isn't practical. Blasting out high powered radio waves is a weird thing to do, and mostly pointless, so most civilizations don't do it, or don't do it for long. That "billions of years" thi...
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─"Hey, we have this problem and it's hurting us ... I wonder if those guys could have had the same problem, and that's what did them in?" Pretty standard way people think, really.
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─It's actually closer to lazy thinking and not being able to step outside of yourself to take an objective look at things. In other words, BLINDERS and seeking a validation for your prejudices regarding your own society. People doing archaeology should do a better job at this than missionaries who en...
[17:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─When all you have is a hammer, or a god, or a big army, every problem looks like a nail, a lack of faith, or a target. When all you have is the certainty you are the best, every problem comes from people different from you being the source of their own troubles.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: Facebook Gave Apple, Samsung Broad Access to User Data - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─People need to understand much more. It's not like somebody confesses murder on social media and then is surprised something happens to him. It's the everyday perfectly innocent things you do, right down to how often and how fast you move your pointer. Basically anything at all because when you have...
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:48] <exec> 08└─My personal feeling is that a quasi progressive income tax (and yes, Petunia, capital gains IS income, and if you are an artificial entity like a corporation your artificial self also makes demands on the infrastructure of the country and needs to pay taxes too...) should be both sufficient for the...
[17:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─We own four cars: the newest is a 2002, two 1999s and a 1991. If people would fix the things they have instead of sending them to the landfill and buying new, not only would they save money, they'd also be saving the environment. Which is worse? A 1977 pickup truck that gets 10mpg for 41 years, main...
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Makers Used Software to Artificially Raise Spare Parts Prices - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:52] <exec> 08└─My mental picture of government regulated monopoly industries include AT&T in the 1940s-1980s, the airlines in the 1940s-1970s, cable internet even today in many markets... Generally not good for price or innovation, although the quality of service was better with the phone and airlines - not sure w...
[17:41:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06CU Boulder Researchers Say Collective Gravity, Not Planet Nine, Explains Orbits of Detached Objects - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:00] <exec> 08└─Oooh, science in action! Who will find the evidence which supports one hypothesis and contradicts the other? Who will throw in even more hypotheses into the mix? And who will come out of this not with the satisfaction of probably being right, but with the satisfaction of having pushed human knowledg...
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[18:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:12] <exec> 08└─. . . and Microsoft is already changing the labels on everything. Someone should drag their marketing team out into Tienanmen Square already.
[18:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:14] <exec> 08└─"Clippy FS", or perhaps, "Virty McVirtualfase"?
[18:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:16] <exec> 08└─the article that may have instigated the change in stance: https://medium.com [medium.com]
[18:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:18] <exec> 08└─Hey! I'll have you know that the Chinese have recently taken a very strong stance on pollution and littering.
[18:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:21] <exec> 08└─Does a desktop environment need its own virtual filesystem?
[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─Incels should be taken out back and shot before they can have children. Sounds like we have plenty of time to get that one planned out.
[18:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─I suspect this study will be cited to help justify the need for funding academic studies about the utility and efficacy of sex bots. (leaving aside the fact this is an editorial and not a study) Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Identify an area lacking study and then study it?
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─Amusing. Using their logic, dildos should be banned too. In fact, I am willing to bet the same people that want to ban sex robots are probably the same people that think dildos make men redundant and somehow free women from the patriarchy.
[18:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe they mean that there is no need to do any harm to incels?
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─Incels should be taken out back and shot before they can have children.
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─They banned so many guns in Australia. They said, no more shootings, let's ban a lot of guns. But, big shooting in Western Australia last month. Family of 7 killed. Including many children! Now they're banning the robot children, maybe folks will stop having sex with children. Or maybe they'll have...
[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─I can guarantee you that when a male sex robot is produced, those authors will be cheering them on.
[18:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:56] <exec> 08└─You don't understand, man! The incels are everywhere! 53% of white women demonstrated they were incels by voting for Trump!
[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:58] <exec> 08└─More work for college undergrads!
[18:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─AC might be implying (as a parody of certain feminist commentators) that incels are a threat because they will suddenly snap and transform into rapists, and if they otherwise manage to have offspring by any means, those offspring will be similarly antisocial due to upbringing and genetics. That or A...
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:03] <exec> 08└─error...vagina0 on fire
[18:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:05] <exec> 08└─hey might start relationships with incel women
[18:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─Involuntarily Celibate
[18:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:10] <exec> 08└─Incels should be taken out back and shot before they can have children.
[18:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:12] <exec> 08└─Dildos free women from men (somehow). Sex dolls free men from women (to some limited extent). To get back to the Westworld parallel, what are we gonna do when dildos and sex dolls free each other from creepy humans ? We'd have to find a human to have good sex with ? That's just insane !
[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─Arthur "frequent flyer" Dent was an Incel (a real one, for lack of a planet to find a mate on), but ended up with a daughter.
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─The internet called, to remind you that "college student has sex with toy" is not a new field of study.
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─If SoylentNews reaches its $3,000 goal on time, the Donald J. Trump Foundation will match it. With a $3,000 donation to the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York.
[18:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:54] <exec> 08└─Given this country's inability to keep a secret, I suspect there is a LOT less in said back pocket than you think. We've been caught flat footed with weapons designed for the last war so many times its become sort of a joke. (The only upside if this is that we are usually fighting opponents even fur...
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The only reason to go after low-yield nukes is that Russia has already developed and stock-piled several versions of them and has been talking loudly about lowering the threshold for their use. (US has some rather ancient versions of these too, but has never deployed them in the field as th...
[18:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─Do the words "precision" and "nuclear" sound inherently incompatible to you too?
[18:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:00] <exec> 08└─Nice rant, but have you actually read what this issue is about. Its about building weapons of EXACTLY THE KIND YOU WISHED FOR. weapons should only affect the government being targeted or at worst the target country's systems
[18:36:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:13] <exec> 08└─Quarter past seven in the morning and I've seen someone use "begging the question" correctly. Maybe today is looking up.
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─...going faster than the speed of light just isn't practical...
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:45] <exec> 08└─The hypothesis 'the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion' assumes zero-sum game [wikipedia.org]. Which cannot be the case with a constantly expanding Universe, much less Multiverse. Evolution works. It formed ecosyste...
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─the universe would already be open to others and we'd at least know about them by now.
[18:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─The crust... you mean the eggshell-thin layer of solidified "froth" around the outside of our mostly-molten planet? The Earth is made from the same stuff as the asteroids - because it was made *from* asteroids. It's just been subjected to billions of years of fluid dynamics based separation, such th...
[18:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:52] <exec> 08└─Sort of the anthropic principle answer: totally obvious, but entirely useless.
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─That's not a new answer, it's one of the classic ones. FWIW, I don't believe it, as I feel that any lifeform that aggressive would get into fights with itself and if it were interstellar capable, they would generate visible signs. (Asimov even used that as a hidden sub-theme to justify having only h...
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─I will again enunciate the fermi paradox paradox, which is already on the web in different varieties. "Hello, I am Enrico Fermi, I was instrumental in the design of the world's nastier weapon, and I wonder why aliens avoid us". In totally unrelated news, I noticed a colony of mice in the garden. Hop...
[18:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 LA: The Third Asteroid Discovered on an Impact Trajectory With Earth - 2154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:06] <exec> 08└─I think your certainty is unwarranted. It doesn't take that large an asteroid to do immense damage, and if they're dark enough, they are quite difficult to see. We're certainly doing better about mapping asteroids than we were, but we are far from "nearly complete for anything large enough to matter...
[18:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:20] <exec> 08└─"ssland was never as populated as some had surmised." s/ssland/island also "Significant variation in Statutes and Hats suggests they were village size projects, rather than kingdom sized. Work crews were much smaller than imagined." s/Statutes/statues Also for anyone that hasn't seen it but might en...
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 7527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─The Great White Secret of Easter Island For centuries, the stone statues on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean have baffled historians, but the great Scandinavian explorer and authority, Thor Heyerdahl, in his book Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (George Allen & Unwin, London 1988), uncovered a...
[18:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 513 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:17] <exec> 08└─It's wonderful that you think freedom is all about owning guns (and not about the freedom to be safe from being shot by a gun-nut). Of course, you realise that you have already negotiated your 2nd amendment: Rocket-launchersFlamethrowers (not the Musky type - the ones with liquid fuel that sticks)Fu...
[18:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Nominates Geoffrey Starks as FCC Commissioner - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:19] <exec> 08└─I suppose you prefer a monarch-style as opposed to a majority consensus then?
[18:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Nominates Geoffrey Starks as FCC Commissioner - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:20] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I'm very happy with what I have. Maybe Geoffrey is a great guy, maybe not. The great American people (the ones that vote) choose the Electors. The Electors choose the President. The President chooses the Commissioners and the Senate says "OK great" or "pick another." The Commissioners de...
[18:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:53] <exec> 08└─Roughly, spherical. There's just a lot of junk tacked on.
[18:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:55] <exec> 08└─As someone pointed out, I have no idea where I got it from, probably random soylent comment. GitHub is being vacated by a goodly number of people. Please see one of the recent posts on Gitlab's Twitter page. https://twitter.com [twitter.com] 0 imports from GitHub in late May 2018. Up to 98,30...
[18:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:57] <exec> 08└─we should have gardens in every yard or at least in every neighborhood. we should have solar or nano nuke power plants in every house or neighborhood. we should have redundant, decentralized, federated, anonymous internet. tweaking regulation is not good enough. we need to replace the whole system o...
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[19:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:26] <exec> 08└─In February of 2017, Microsoft GVFS was not integrated into Github. The request to change the name was made then. An article posted on medium.com this month noted that the problematic name still stood. The original request is in the bug-tracker: https://github.com [github.com...
[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─Borg Type Renamed File SystemHomogeneous File SystemKomplete Input & OutputMicrosoft Advanced Caching File SystemZucchini File System
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─GitMacGitFace!
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:32] <exec> 08└─Who reads medium.com? I'd expect Slashdot or ArsTechnica might have been influentual but never Medium.com Acronyms suck anyhow. My bet is they'll be boring and safe and go with GitVS. Part of me wishes more projects would learn from SAMBA, and turn yet another boring generic TLA like SMB into someth...
[19:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:34] <exec> 08└─Well, Slashdot linked to medium.com so there you have it.
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─Here's why: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] Basically the windows code base is a monolithic mess too large for git to handle*, so this vfs doesn't check out everything but only pulls files down when needed. It only requires...
[19:33:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─The daily scrum could get a lot more interesting. I can just see "Joan, how are you coming?" "Well Bob, I think I fixed that vagina bug but don't have the hardware required to verify it". John reopened bug 324: Vagina too tight Reason: That wasn't the vagina. Mark closed bug 427: Insufficient room R...
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:18] <exec> 08└─'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' This has been going on probably since the beginning of time. The change would be if we actually reached an enlightened age that lasted more than a few generations without falling back into the same old patterns. I am not sure exactly how long we ha...
[19:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 2738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:20] <exec> 08└─The thing that separates sex robots from something like a dildo or--how I wish I didn't know these existed--an "onahole" is that they are human-like. Without even getting into the ramifications of AI here (I'm speaking strictly of lifelike robot shells with minimal to no autonomous movement), the hu...
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─Q: Why did God create men? A: Because vibrators can't mow the lawn. I think there would be a big market for a sex robot that could wash and iron clothes, cook and mow the lawn. Millions of oppressed women would find themselves freed from unhealthy relationships. Greedy and lazy male bigots would hav...
[19:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─You are totally clueless. Incel = Involuntarily Celibate If you have an active sex life you are, by definition, not an incel.
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's only a mess when we violate someone's rights. If someone wants to rape an advanced child sex doll with no rights, let them. If someone wants to rape an actual human being, violating their rights, don't let them. If someone wants to carry a gun to protect themselves from potential rapists, let t...
[19:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:29] <exec> 08└─We need to drop some Westworld on ISIS, and Hamas, and Boko Haram, and a bunch of other groups, especially those known for suicide bombings. Give them something better to do with their time, and some reason to think that living might be more fun than dying.
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:31] <exec> 08└─>You could use similar arguments to ban encryption, cryptocurrency, safe recreational drugs, etc. Not only could you - it's already been done, repeatedly, in many different countries. Never underestimate the power of trumped-up moral outrage.
[19:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:38] <exec> 08└─Not long. It's not reboots we're concerned with as much as one getting hosed and having to be rebuilt from backups. Redundancy helps there. We are looking at another round of downsizing our VMs though since Linode keeps giving us free upgrades.
[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.
[19:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 2134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─It's very likely we'll eventually expand into our own solar system, colonizing the asteroid belt and other planets. There is certainly a "Noah's Ark" of minimally long-term sustainable ecosystems - but we already know shorter-term ecosystems are easily feasible - it's been possible to buy sealed "bi...
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:08] <exec> 08└─we're pretty close to our full potential, there's not a lot we can discover that will open the universe to us
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─Foolishness. Eliminating potential competitors is plausible. Strip mining the planet is not. You've got to pull the stuff up out of a gravity well. You sure can't use it in place unless you live in a sealed life support bubble. Native life would give you violent allergies. And the air is probably wr...
[19:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:12] <exec> 08└─The answer to the Fermi Paradox is not guaranteed to be useful. Most of the answers aren't. Resolving the paradox merely requires explaining why we haven't seen evidence of anyone else. That "they kill anyone who sees them" is a valid answer. The problem is that there are lots of valid answers, and...
[19:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:15] <exec> 08└─You're ignoring exponential growth. If it takes us a million years (5x the age of our species, 200x longer than all of recorded history) to colonize 10 nearby stars, and another million years for each of those colonies to do the same, then in a scant 11 million years we could colonize the entire gal...
[19:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─Some good points, but I have a few disagreements: * The moon, and especially Mars, would likely be very difficult to successfully attack, for the simple reason that they're very far away and have a clear line of sight to Earth - they'll see any missile coming days or months away and have ample time...
[19:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─Speculating about the future changes nothing with regards to the past. The proposition is functionally identical to answering Fermi Paradox with "We must just be the first" - an answer already widely dismissed as extremely unlikely. Our star is a relative latecomer in the population of 3rd-generatio...
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─The Fermi Paradox is based on a "Fermi estimate" of how long it would take to colonise the galaxy based on a whole host of approximations, assumptions and speculation about how that might be achieved - yet when it leads to a "paradox" everybody ignores the unreliability all of those finger-in-the-wi...
[19:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:05] <exec> 08└─If you really want a violent video game, try Frogger.
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[20:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:18] <exec> 08└─As someone with 2mbps on a very good day (and when I say day I mean 4am), I'm not holding my breath. I know there are much slower speeds out there, but I'm not even that far away from an exchange. I'm considering running my own fibre for the community. Open reach, who run most of the cables, are slo...
[20:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:19] <exec> 08└─And this is what happens when people that don't understand the subject write the rules. I'll give them good intentions to some degree, there are solid reasons to want a metric, to want to quantify service level, but the download throughput measured from some arbitrary server is a nearly meaningless...
[20:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:22] <exec> 08└─Using an older 34Mbps wireless access point although my internet speed is much faster - not interested and am looking for a cheaper (but reliable) alternative.
[20:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:24] <exec> 08└─Come on. The government is just people—the worst people; nobody aspires to be a cog of the government. And, those cogs hand out monopoly powers to their equally slothful buddies. It's time to get off our asses and actually be a prideful people again—a people who want to make the world a more ord...
[20:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:26] <exec> 08└─At most, the Gov should be setting up the rules for the arbitration of resources such as easements, right-of-way, property rights, and networking contracts, so as to establish the framework of interaction between competing service providers. The Government has no business setting goals, let alone...
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─Hacker News, sadly. They link to medium like they think it's curated or something.
[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─Radically Embraced Industry Standard Extending Revision File System.
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─Why not change it, they have everybody talking about it now ... :/
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barrahome [3580] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─I suggested https://github.com [github.com] they quoted it on #2 but didn't like it at the end. Was a good name!
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─If you have an active sex life you are, by definition, not an incel.
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─The fact that sooo many (good and bad) jokes are being made here is a testimony to the absolute necessity to have sex robots!
[20:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I see the problem. Incels get a more emotionaly satisfying outlet than porn, and probably continue to not take responsibility for their own failings. But at least they're not creeping out on real women so hard. Many people decide sexbots are more convenient and/or satisfying that real l...
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─Incels do have a point. Many of them don't feel like they are 'owed' anything. Many know they are 'genetic trash' and accept it. Incels feel that the tinderization of the dating market means that any female can easily hookup with a male that is more attractive than they are. They back this up by doi...
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the people hating sexbots would in fact like to ban both dildos and fleshlights, because they believe sexual activity for fun is evil. And the fact is, their "escalation" model seems to be based on the idea that there's no such thing as a sexually satisfied person, and it's only laws, s...
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─No he wasn't: He bangs Fenchurch on the wing of a 747 (in flight, no less) in So Long and Thanks for All the Fish.
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─You mean, there are not enough virgins available in paradise, so we need to provide a substitute?
[20:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─The last time I saw him he was hanging out with Carmen Sandiego.
[20:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:01] <exec> 08└─That yellow badge of honor next to your nick says you're not such a bad person yourself, welcome!
[20:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:03] <exec> 08└─I hear it's a good place to go for leeks, but that's shallot.
[20:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, shit! I remember myself bumping from airport to airport all over this world searching for her. (the meals during flight were as awful as today)
[20:36:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:29] <exec> 08└─I've laid awake at nights looking at the stars, when I suddenly think "Hey! What the hell happened to my roof?!"
[20:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:41] <exec> 08└─The US has never had a believable deterrent to a very small tactical nuke. Nobody believes the US would use a 100-kiloton response (taking out entire cities) to a small battle field nuke used to take out a US forward Airbase, or a Kim Jung Un mini-nuke dropped on Guam.
[20:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:42] <exec> 08└─There's this: https://en.wikipedia.org(aircraft) [wikipedia.org] While the details are certainly nonsense, something was out there at Mach 5.
[20:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:43] <exec> 08└─Suffice to say I'm not holding my breath. I liked how they explained it in Jack McDevitt's [wikipedia.org] Academy series: there's a series of nanotech "clouds" traveling in waves through the galaxy killing off civilizations they run across every 4000 years. Without wishing to spoil, the why of the...
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─there's a series of nanotech "clouds" traveling in waves through the galaxy killing off civilizations they run across
[20:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:47] <exec> 08└─Classic SF also included the concept of races so xenophobic and/or expansionist that they wiped out anything intelligent to take over their livable planet. Cordwainer Smith had one, Doc Smith's "Lensmen" series had another. There have also been ideas about more subtle attacks, like an advanced race...
[20:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:49] <exec> 08└─Nomadic groups of humans traveled areas hunting and gathering as they went. Why is it hard to imagine people in ships doing the same?
[20:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:51] <exec> 08└─When you return home, everyone else is dead. Your "home" is where you are and your tribe is whom you are with. Space travel is incompatible with a biological makeup.
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:53] <exec> 08└─Hunter/gatherers didn't necessarily have a "home". The tribe mostly moved together.
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─If (probably when) self-sustaining orbital habitats become commonplace, how long do you really think it will take before one of them decides to head out for another star?
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─* The moon, and especially Mars, would likely be very difficult to successfully attack, for the simple reason that they're very far away and have a clear line of sight to Earth - they'll see any missile coming days or months away and have ample time to intercept it. Not to mention that the war would...
[20:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:00] <exec> 08└─It's all about the invisible quotation marks: Fox "News" posts a "Science" story about a non-answer to Fermi's Paradox.
[20:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:02] <exec> 08└─Why mine Earth when there's tons of unoccupied worlds? Because ore tastes better with Human Butter™ on it.
[20:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─"Experts say Russian physicist HACKED into solution server and allegedly interfered with the answer to the Fermi Paradox" My personal favorite.
[20:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:07] <exec> 08└─Because all the moons and asteroids combined are less massive than Earth alone? The entire asteroid belt is estimated to mass only about 0.012% of Earth - its comparative richness is due to the much greater surface-to-volume ratio and comparative ease of mining solid materials rather than the mantle...
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─the crust is mostly just worthless silicates
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─'What if,' Berezin wrote in a new paper posted March 27 to the preprint journal arxiv.org, 'the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?'"
[20:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:14] <exec> 08└─Yep, there's rocks all over the place - and we're living on one of the big ones. Maybe it makes sense to start with the little, easily digested ones (asteroids). But if you traveled interstellar distances to collect rocks, how does it make any sense to depart for a new star before you've harvested e...
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─The Fake News @NBCNews [twitter.com], @BBCNews [twitter.com], @ABC [twitter.com], @CBS [twitter.com], @CNN [twitter.com], @Univision [twitter.com], #AmazonWashingtonPost [twitter.com] and Crooked Failing @nytimes [twitter.com] are very overrated, believe me. They have so many fake stories about me,...
[20:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:00] <exec> 08└─How about "It's acceptable to imagine violence in a game against imaginary creatures, precisely so I get it out of my system and DON'T think about doing it to real people"?
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[21:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:14] <exec> 08└─When I did a downloading spree on the (ILLEGAL) Library Genesis, I found at least a couple of audiobooks. Other people have mentioned audiobookbay, but I can't vouch for it because I don't listen to audiobooks.
[21:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:15] <exec> 08└─because I don't listen to audiobooks.
[21:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:18] <exec> 08└─I have had trouble navigating the Internet Archive. They have multiple projects and I can get lost between them. Recently I discovered the Open Library by the Internet Archive. It is striving to be an index of all books published, but also includes links to ebooks if there is a copy made available....
[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:20] <exec> 08└─The appeal of audiobooks is lost for me. Look, I searched everywhere and couldn't find any colouring audiobook.
[21:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:22] <exec> 08└─Of course, exporting any given e-book as text, and then performing a cat book.txt | speak[-ng] is always an option, but one that often results in less enjoyment than might initially be expected. For Debian and maybe others, install the espeak-ng package. Enjoy!
[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─The Government has no business setting goals, let alone allocating resources.
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:36] <exec> 08└─Government jobs are mostly the same as any other. People may not be living their dreams but there is no inherent wrong to government, just as there is no inherent wrong to corporations. Your attitude is biased and wrong. But I'm on the wrong site to make such an opinion, all negative comments about...
[21:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:38] <exec> 08└─But I'm on the wrong site to make such an opinion, all negative comments about gov get modded up, anything even remotely rationale modded down.
[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 1815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─Not me, I never wanted to be President. I was always the best athlete. Something that nobody knew about me. I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young. I played first base and I also played catcher. I was a good hitter. But I was good in other sports too. I was good in wresting, I w...
[21:33:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:51] <exec> 08└─Hey! I'll have you know that the Chinese have recently taken a very strong stance on pollution and littering.
[21:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─Amusing. Using their logic, dildos should be banned too. In fact, I am willing to bet the same people that want to ban sex robots are probably the same people that think dildos make men redundant and somehow free women from the patriarchy.
[21:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1941 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I see the problem. Incels get a more emotionaly satisfying outlet than porn, and probably continue to not take responsibility for their own failings. But at least they're not creeping out on real women so hard. Many people decide sexbots are more convenient and/or satisfying that real l...
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:58] <exec> 08└─And frankly if they would rather real children were being raped than icky robots were being made... well I see no reason to respect the opinions of such monsters.
[21:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:00] <exec> 08└─Who is this "they" - the comment to which you replied talks about many groups of people. What is being talked about is sex robots that resemble little children, and this does not exclude any sex. This is not about, nor does it relate to a dildo in any way - it would however have something to do with...
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:02] <exec> 08└─In other words, the sex bots are a trap: people will reach a comfortable local behavioral minimum with them and simply stop trying to relate to real flesh and blood humans.
[21:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:15] <exec> 08└─you don't have any staff, you don't' have any development, you don't have any test. you're a bunch of dorks who can't hold a career-type professional job who copied an old codebase from slashdot and spend a lot of time talking to each other because you're society's rejects. let's not pretend all you...
[21:36:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─The Pentagon has completed initial draft plans for several emerging low-yield sea-launched nuclear weapons intended to deter potential attackers and add new precision strike options to those currently possible with the existing arsenal.
[21:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:10] <exec> 08└─Unless you're proposing that we somehow retroactively exterminated all the others a billion years before our planet even formed?
[21:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:11] <exec> 08└─> you can build space habitats that could let you colonise and exploit every nook and cranny of your solar system far more cheaply and easily (because they don't have to be closed systems) Of course they're still a closed system - in aggregate at least. And while that may take the population pressur...
[21:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:13] <exec> 08└─So, to summarize, if you have problems that drive you to seek other worlds, you must solve those problems before you can seek other worlds.
[21:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:16] <exec> 08└─While I agree with all your basic premises (hard/expensive to travel interstellar, etc.) there's a couple of nasty problems that remain: 1. Humans _do_ exponentially expand like bacteria 2. As discussed in a thread above, even if it takes Sol based humanity 10 million years to "accidentally" coloniz...
[21:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:18] <exec> 08└─That only works if there aren't any other intelligent species in our galaxy, which is not being ripped apart by expansion just yet. And these are going to be the civilizations that are easy to find anyway. Research indicates that there are likely billions of "potentially habitable" exoplanets in our...
[21:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:20] <exec> 08└─You make it sound like hitting targets traveling at thousands of meters per second isn't exactly what the BFS is designed to do (aka orbital docking). But why bother - lets take a load of those regolith bricks and release them as a cloud of flak in front of the missile as we approach it. Easier to h...
[21:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:22] <exec> 08└─No, it's a proposal for why we don't see anyone out there - that utterly fails to explain why we don't see anyone out there. "We're not the first" is practically the entire basis of the Fermi Paradox, because all the statistical evidence suggests that someone else should have beaten us to the punch...
[21:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:25] <exec> 08└─And even if the individuals themselves try their best to be cautious, their von Neumann probes [8] probably don’t.
[21:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:27] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, if we have only 5-10 people on the moon it's not a colony, just a novelty outpost, and is irrelevant to the survival of our species. When you have thousands, maybe millions of colonists fully capable of supporting themselves indefinitely without any help from Earth - *then* you have a col...
[21:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:29] <exec> 08└─Fission does the job too. But fusion is finally starting to get some investment again (the counterpoint to the "fusion is always 50 years away" joke is that funding has been steadily declining so that receiving the total funding needed by initial estimates is itself always 50 years away - progress p...
[21:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:31] <exec> 08└─Is there any reason to assume the size of a moon has any bearing on it's likelihood of supporting life? For example, if Jupiter were closer to the sun Europa would potentially be quite Earth-like. It might supporting a thriving ecosystem even as it is.
[21:39:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:39] <exec> 08└─Freedom isn't negotiable. Time and time again, all around the world, this is a step toward confiscation. Sound good to you? Guns were confiscated from Jews in Germany... In other news, we can save children by banning pools.
[21:40:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Handgun Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Firearm Homicides in Large, Urban Areas - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:12] <exec> 08└─Guns are always confiscated by tyrants. They can't enslave you if you can fight back. It's an easy way to tell who's a tyrant.
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[22:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:16] <exec> 08└─your local public library
[22:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:17] <exec> 08└─Some guys have no game, they can only get cyber. And possibly some prefer cyber. But in Australia, unfortunately, it's illegal!!
[22:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:19] <exec> 08└─The Internet Archive has a series of sci-fi radio plays that aired in the 1950s and 1970s. https://archive.org [archive.org]
[22:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:22] <exec> 08└─Project Gutenberg is all about making available books that are in the public domain, from a quick search, it's not clear whether that means the books are in the public domain somewhere or whether it's merely books that are in the US's anemic public domain (i.e. nothing even remotely close to contemp...
[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:38] <exec> 08└─It's amazing that you were able to be such a fantastic athlete with those bone spurs in your foot. Very Inspiring.
[22:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:40] <exec> 08└─They were in both feet, they really hit hard when I was 21. Over a period of time, it healed up. You know, it was difficult from the long-term walking standpoint.
[22:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:02] <exec> 08└─A bright future for GitHub https://blog.github.com [github.com]
[22:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─I was talking about Gnome. Why would it need a filesystem separate of the operating system?
[22:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─Word processors are called "Word" by nearly everyone, spreadsheets are called "Excel" by nearly everyone and databases are called "SeQueL" by nearly everyone (including the developers I work with on Oracle DBMSs (WTF?)). Microsoft will just make this thing part of the MS Git installer that comes wit...
[22:34:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:41] <exec> 08└─Dildos free women from men (somehow). Sex dolls free men from women (to some limited extent). To get back to the Westworld parallel, what are we gonna do when dildos and sex dolls free each other from creepy humans ? We'd have to find a human to have good sex with ? That's just insane !
[22:34:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:57] <exec> 08└─Incels do have a point. Many of them don't feel like they are 'owed' anything. Many know they are 'genetic trash' and accept it. Incels feel that the tinderization of the dating market means that any female can easily hookup with a male that is more attractive than they are. They back this up by doi...
[22:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:04] <exec> 08└─Life-like underage stuff has been the topic of law for a long time, with places like the UK actually putting people in prison for underage rape cartoons and comic books.
[22:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:06] <exec> 08└─Lemmy is dead. There are no virgins left in Heaven.
[22:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:09] <exec> 08└─Only a small fraction of pedophiles (as opposed to child molesters) actually want to rape children to begin with. So maybe there are people who will be stopped from raping others because of this, but probably not a massive amount.
[22:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:11] <exec> 08└─Don't forget DRAM (Dick Robotic Anal Management), SRAM (Shitty Robotic Anal Management), SDRAM (Shitty Dick Robotic Anal Management).
[22:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:13] <exec> 08└─There's an unfortunate trend, or maybe it's always been with us, of people mistaking compassion for approval. The incel community has a lot of bad people displaying some truly reprehensible behavior, but I can still sympathize with their--obviously profound and deeply felt--pain. That doesn't mean I...
[22:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:15] <exec> 08└─Believe me, somebody can be a TOTAL SEX MACHINE, going at it like a jackhammer or jackrabbit. With the hottest models in the world. And still be lonely!!!
[22:35:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drgibbon [74] 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks to all the people behind SN.
[22:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:29] <exec> 08└─Ought to have polls for those. What do you ping to test your Internet and DNS? Myself, I ping 8.8.8.8 and if that works, google.com. Or I do it the other way around. If all that works then, to make sure I'm not getting cached pages, I surf to a news site. Used to be the green site for that one, but...
[22:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:31] <exec> 08└─Who do you think you're calling a hippie? I'll have you know I shower regularly and everyone knows soap is hippie-kryptonite.
[22:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─I'll leave Lurk Mode this once I guess. I'm already subscribed through November, but I like to throw a little cash toward sites I want to stay online.
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─will there be any working bitcoin option?
[22:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─Can we make it to 2100? As a species I'm fairly confident - we're almost as hard to kill as cockroaches. Anything short of a grey-goo scenario or incredibly ever-engineered superplague is unlikely to wipe us out. As a civilization capable of supporting offworld colonies? I'm much less optimistic. We...
[22:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─Less surface gravity means more atmospheric escape, especially if the object is closer to the star, as it would be if Jupiter was orbiting at 1 AU. The oceans of Europa, Enceladus, Pluto, etc. are protected by an icy crust. If Europa had surface oceans instead of subsurface oceans, these would be lo...
[22:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:43] <exec> 08└─Of course they're still a closed system - in aggregate at least.
[22:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:45] <exec> 08└─Propellants can be produced on Mars. They don't need to trade to get methane. I've addressed the rest in other comments.
[22:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they probably can't take off from Earth using propellant made on Mars - they'll need a local supply at least to get from Earth's surface to orbit.
[22:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:50] <exec> 08└─What about that orange and yellow guy in the White House?
[22:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 2004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:52] <exec> 08└─Certainly - but a large city-sized space habitat is probably going to be quite capable of seeing to its own needs indefinitely - especially if they're isolationist enough to be considering leaving the solar system. You only need imported resources for growth, or to replace losses. And factionalism i...
[22:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:54] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Though you wouldn't want Jupiter to orbit at 1AU - Jupiter itself is a fairly potent heat source, combined with the sun it might boil away Europa's oceans long before the atmosphere could be blown away.
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[23:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:15] <exec> 08└─I seem to vaguely remember discussing this before. Rebooting these routers won't prevent the return of this exploit, but the FBI's advice is insufficient to prevent it's return. Read the whole article, and factory reset, and / or upgrade your router's firmware.
[23:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:17] <exec> 08└─I work in IT security. So when this story came out last week I read well over 1,000 social media posts and comments - from Twitter and Facebook - about this FBI request. By far the majority were in the "I don't trust the FBI so I'm not rebooting" or "the FBI will install malware on my router when I...
[23:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:19] <exec> 08└─Given that securing domestic communications, as well as intercepting foreign ones are both in its mandate. The FBI on the other hand has been a domestic spy agency since Prohibition and shows no signs of improving.
[23:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:21] <exec> 08└─So, lets see if I get this right... You're an expert in this field, so the first thing you did was.... Jump on Facebook and Twitter? How do I mod something Facepalm?
[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:24] <exec> 08└─If you want a realistic measure of the resistance you will face take the temperature of the masses. Users are not IT people. Users don't care about anything that isn't their direct responsibility or that for which they will not be held accountable.
[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─Heard of it? you can listen to music for free there, too.
[23:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─I have only so many hours in the day. Doctors orders have me out walking a lot (running a little). Yes I can listen to music while doing this. But I can also listen to audio books, and get dual use out of the time spent. I get mine from the local library. I don't see me paying for an audiobook. I ha...
[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─nothing even remotely close to contemporary
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:45] <exec> 08└─Just as we need to #freearistarchus!!!, or "Libre Aristarchos!", there is also LibreOffice, and other Libre things, since English speakers seem to think "free" is either illegal, or a trap, or an illegal trap. But when it comes to audio books, I recommend Librevox, "Free Voice". https://librivox.org...
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─Thought my suggestions were good but that one sounds killer...
[23:34:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:40] <exec> 08└─Mass media have been running articles and editorials about banning sex bots (see TFA or other comment) for at least a couple of years now, but I don't think many have stopped to consider what it would mean to incel communities if harmless sex robots were banned. Aside: "using a sex robot encourages...
[23:34:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 381 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:43] <exec> 08└─Well, that also means we should ban the Holodeck (in due time). So, those in Pon Farr will be allowed to kill everybody in the neighborhood and not be confined to the replacement room. Everything new is scary. Everything used will be misused. There will always be someone disagreeing. And, those with...
[23:34:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 323 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:47] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that the term "robot" is either ill-defined or very broadly defined, depending who you ask and which view is represented. If we say that a robot is "a machine that takes over a manual action", then, by that definition, any vibrating dildo will be a robot. Therefore, we must ban al...
[23:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:33] <exec> 08└─my wife quit her PhD to be my domestic slave a robot would not... I would be much less proud of myself and my wife would be less fulfilled
[23:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:35] <exec> 08└─You know, it's always "more study required." Whether it's sexy robots or anything. They do a discovery, it has to be investigated. They investigate it, it has to be confirmed. They confirm it, time to do another discovery. Just like when you're in politics you're always campaigning. It never ends!!!
[23:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:37] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, they male robots are coming very soon. This year. I pre-ordered a couple of them from Realbotix. They're for Melanie. We do sex more than once a day, but she wants more. And I don't have time because of documents.
[23:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:39] <exec> 08└─A few other angles to consider... *) In relationships where one part has a _much_ stronger sexdrive than the other, a doll that is a physical replica of the one with lesser sexdrive actually might be good for the purpose of unwinding. (ie, getting the emotional and intellectual needs from the flesh...
[23:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:57] <exec> 08└─...when using arguments, not ad homs. I find it valuable, and make an effort to use the "Disagree" mod.
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:36] <exec> 08└─My uninformed speculation is that they are talking about the novel, naval, low-yield nukes to provide options and deterrence to China.
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting coincidence that I just finished reading Walter J. Miller Jr.'s "Canticle for Leibowitz". One hopes it's not a synchronicity.
[23:37:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:54] <exec> 08└─Just from the summary it sounds like it "solves" the paradox by ignoring it completely. Okay, yes, maybe the first interstellar race wipes out all the others - in which case, why are we still here? The whole point of Fermi's paradox is that we are INCREDIBLY unlikely to be the first intelligent life...
[23:38:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 2133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:12] <exec> 08└─We're pretty close to becoming interplanetary, which could prevent us from getting wiped out easily. Basically, we have survived the Atomic Age/Cold War this long, developed everything we need to at least land humans and equipment on the Moon and Mars, and started optimizing the relevant technologie...
[23:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:00] <exec> 08└─You make it sound like hitting targets traveling at thousands of meters per second isn't exactly what the BFS is designed to do (aka orbital docking). But why bother - lets take a load of those regolith bricks and release them as a cloud of flak in front of the missile as we approach it. Easier to h...
[23:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:14] <exec> 08└─LOL. The snark is strong with this one eh? Not disagreeing though hehe. *sips coffee*
[23:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:16] <exec> 08└─Impossible, no. An impractical waste of resources, probably. But that wouldn't stop even all human civilizations. There are other reasons why this is implausible, that that isn't one of them.
[23:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─If we are typical, that means that there must be both species that are better than us, and species that are worse than us. Guess which of them would start dominating everyone else.
[23:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:20] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting that the first generation stars were essentially pure hydrogen, so no planets. The second generation were low in metals (and to an astronomer, everything higher than helium is a metal). The Earth is a third or fourth generation star. So the fact that the oldest stars are billions...
[23:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know about y'all but if I was a space faring race with seemingly unlimited technology and the ability to consume entire planets of materials without so much as a burp... I would be consuming the ones that are on MUCH more distant orbits. Like in the Kuiper Belt or the Oort cloud. Why have al...
[23:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:25] <exec> 08└─Einstein may well have missed some things, but it's quite plausible that the speed of light is a limit. But biology is a science, too, and extended lives are quite possible. And sociology could be developed into a science, which would allow stable civilizations with very long lifetimes. There are lo...
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─That's not the problem. Once your civilization has adapted to living in space, why do you expect they would want to return to living on a planet? Especially one that has evolved different proteins than they are adapted to? To live on another planet without bubble-boy caliber life support systems the...
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:29] <exec> 08└─That object is corrupting the operating system. If it's not corrected, the entire Milky Way simulation may end up corrupted beyond repair, and we'll have to delete that galaxy instance and focus on the Zarxians instead.
[23:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 LA: The Third Asteroid Discovered on an Impact Trajectory With Earth - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:41] <exec> 08└─uhm. I realize you're trolling
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