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[00:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:19] <exec> 08└─The left start actively start a pro-nuclearization movement to spite Trump.
[00:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:20] <exec> 08└─Find the one where he says it won't happen. Maybe he's right... still got 45 minutes! People like him need to hate because their own sense of righteousness is all wrapped up in being anti-Trump. They can't admit that he is doing wonderful things constantly. Meanwhile, their own heroes are corrupt as...
[00:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─The Jews will try to shoot one or both of Kim and Trump down. " President Trump and Kim Jong Un have a working lunch. "
[00:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:25] <exec> 08└─I'd pay "cash money" to be a fly on the wall at these meetings (with a translator).
[00:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:27] <exec> 08└─Kim Jong Un's high school teacher says the North Korean leader probably knows English and just pretends not to [businessinsider.com]
[00:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:35] <exec> 08└─" scooters were recently pulled from the city's streets pending a licensing process, in part because they've proven a nuisance for many. "
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─When Sprint and Qualcomm started their Pioneer Plan (around 1999) you got a $400 phone with $0.35/minute calls and unlimited texts with no other monthly service fees and promises of free phone upgrades for life. When my phone finally died I called Sprint. "We no longer support the Pioneer Plan, so y...
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:48] <exec> 08└─Sprint has always sucked. They were good if you needed cheap plans in all the rural areas other providers were too afraid to be good at, but nowhere else.
[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─Americans are Jewed hardcore with data plans a lot more than many other more uncivilized nations. They do it because they can. Although to be fair to AT&T they do have good customer service. I have probably mentioned this story before, but one time many years ago AT&T tried to stack a bullshit 2$/mo...
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─The odd thing is, some of their newer unlimited-ish plans are more affordable than the old unlimited plans, and include all those other things you have to pay up for. And if you can live within a data cap (and most people can) the new plans becomes way cheaper. I held onto one of those original unli...
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─Sprint in rural areas? If they were't roaming on Verizon they wouldn't have coverage except in cities. When within Verizon roaming coverage areas the incoming call completion rates are useless. Drive into a city ans 16 text messages arrive, all wondering where you have been and if you are ok.
[00:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─Quipu [wikipedia.org] - the advantages are endless why go 2D on the the area of a page when all you have to say is usually linear? no dual printed/Braille-embossed editions needed where a digression just mean literally adding another thread to the story; then, reconnecting it to the main thread in t...
[00:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─Not that I would recommend this out in the middle of nowhere, but I can 2nd TiddlyWiki. Ended up not using it because it was just too isolated, and didn't offer the ability for multiple people to use at once. We needed something a bit more Enterprise like WRT features. TiddlyWiki can be completely s...
[00:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 1667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:29] <exec> 08└─Honestly we don't build computers like that yet, but I think we are getting better at the technology through cell phones. The important bits use less power and are getting more rugged with each generation. I'm very hopeful that if/when humans set up outposts in space that we will see the demand go...
[00:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:31] <exec> 08└─> Thanks, I actually want a few of these now... There was a company with a kickstarter for a ruggedized open tablet that was going to do many of these features. It was called Earl; www.meetearl.com. Unfortunately the design team burned through all of the kickstarter money and is now kaput. It's a sh...
[00:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:33] <exec> 08└─Magic markers on the walls to journal her demons.
[00:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─Hollerith clay tablets.
[00:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:50] <exec> 08└─What I want to understand, is the difference between a lower order animal (dramatically less neurons) understanding that items belong in a sequence, and that lower order animal understanding the sequence and why it is that way. I think it would be obvious that any clever animal, or even not so cleve...
[00:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:37] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the 1960 Census happened, but when the agency I worked for tried to get copies of the original data around 1985 (to compare against the most recent data)...well, we'd lost our copies (800 BPI even parity...too many read errors to recover) so we tried to get copies from the Census Bur...
[00:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─You left out the pine beetles.
[00:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─IIRC, we're supposed to be in an inter-glacial period right now...and probably supposed to be just leaving it. So *some* global warming is desirable...but the amount is strictly limited. And my guess is that in the hot periods you are talking about the continental plates were in a very different co...
[00:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─What does this have to do with the proposed "greenhouse effect"?
[00:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:20] <exec> 08└─I liked KDE3.5 better than current KDEs. The problem is integration with other software, which works with current KDE, but didn't work when I tried Trinity. Since it used to work, my guess is the other software adapted itself to current KDE APIs. But it means that for me Trinity isn't a viable choic...
[00:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:22] <exec> 08└─don't go buying hardware with nothing but non-free firmware drivers.
[00:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:24] <exec> 08└─For someone new to Linux but has used computers for over thirty years, would Devuan be a good Linux distro to try out for home computing usage?
[00:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:43] <exec> 08└─Equating independently wealthy with responsible is your perspective, not mine.
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[01:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:28] <exec> 08└─We'll see what happens. I personally think that the NK nuclear program literally collapsed in on itself, and there might sill be some fallout from that locally. With the site collapse, severe economic sanctions stifling military budgets, and an insane bombastic leader of a foreign country threatenin...
[01:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:30] <exec> 08└─It'll be a bunch of brown-nosing by Trump followed by some miniscule "progress" that gets heralded as a breakthrough only possible by Trump ad nauseum. Followed by N Korea not doing it but by then no-one who votes Trump gives a shit. We'll be too busy provoking $safe_target in order to generate fron...
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:32] <exec> 08└─The left start actively start a [something...]
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─The whole time he will be sitting there playing with his Tweeter. :P
[01:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:41] <exec> 08└─It was a public school so he likely speaks French and German; probably English and possibly Italian.
[01:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:47] <exec> 08└─Kimmie already won. Look at Gadaffi, Saddam Hussain, former leaders of Arab spring states. Then look at Kim Jong Un, al Bashir and to some extent Putin. If you don't fight us like ALL HELL, then we literally puts a pole in your ass. Message sent loud and clear.
[01:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:50] <exec> 08└─Kim Ching-Chong is in a worse position than Trump. Trumps numerous domestic enemies know they can't take him out like the impending coup against the Kim Ching-Chong will. This is why functioning countries need alternative outlets like Breitbart. Because even if Breitbart was run deliberately by fift...
[01:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─I personally think that the NK nuclear program literally collapsed in on itself, and there might sill be some fallout from that locally. With the ...[various considerations]
[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 3344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─LOL. Yeah, like there are no ethically based objections to Trump! He's such a fine gentleman right! LOL Trump is NOT doing wonderful things constantly. Fucking hardly doing much of anything except golfing and getting the taxpayers to spend lavish amounts at his businesses and properties. You want Tr...
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:57] <exec> 08└─Kim Ching-Chong is in a worse position than Trump. Trumps numerous domestic enemies know they can't take him out like the impending coup against the Kim Ching-Chong will.
[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─Here's my take on the situation: I think Kim Jong Un has always had one single motivation when it comes to his military power...nuclear or otherwise. That's to simply create a situation where other nations including the U.S. simply don't dare try to pull a "Sadam Hussein" on him, as it could cause t...
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─Id guess whats goin on is pretty straightforward : “I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!” Mr. Trump declared in a morning Twitter post. Minutes later, he warned: “North Korea is looking for tro...
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─Why is this on the front page? Nothing is happening! It's not news for nerds!
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─No handshake? No meeting? No problem!
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─It is said that the Un-leader speaks German and knows some English but is not fluent.
[01:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:12] <exec> 08└─Disagreed. China's got their own designs, especially in the financial opportunities which come with Westernizing. I'm sure they see Kim as both a liability and opportunity just as much as America sees it as the same way. Trump is not Hillary. He probably sees North Korea as an opportunity to open a...
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─Found the tech angle! http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] http://fortune.com [fortune.com] http://www.economicsgazette.com
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:24] <exec> 08└─One problem around here I see with app-rented scooters and bikes is that nihilistic violent minorities keep trashing them for no reason.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─The problems according to Gizmodo: "they're often strewn aside carelessly, blocking the public right-of-way, thus making it especially difficult for wheelchairs and those with disabilities to move past them. Further, scooter riders are using them on the sidewalk, which is not only illegal but danger...
[01:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─Cabbies are not violent. They're just so goddamn overpriced, and rideshare services rightly so took our their knees. The funny thing about cabbies is that capitalism (rideshare services) is a system which actually worked for the good of the common-man this time. Before rideshare services, it was a t...
[01:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─And just what percentage of the population in San Fran uses wheelchairs? Answer: an extremely negligible one. And the last sentence you wrote outlines the reason why people hate cyclists: Douchebags who ride in the streets outside automobiles don't know how to. San Franciscan streets are even more i...
[01:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:33] <exec> 08└─rideshare services rightly so took our to their knees.
[01:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:35] <exec> 08└─Oh look, a troll trying to troll the king of trolls.
[01:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:27] <exec> 08└─Cool to know. This seems like a really simple idea, but as Earl demonstrated building and delivering is hard. I really like the idea of an heirloom computer that's still functional. Imagine leaving one of them on a stump in the woods only to find it again working 10 years later with the stump rotten...
[01:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:28] <exec> 08└─Dip-pen nibs, or just a good supply of feathers, and a pen-knife. A decent gold or even stainless steel nib in a fountain pen should out-live the user. Ink, avoid the pretty colored water, for once exposed to water again, it will become water again. You want a good iron-gall ink, Registar's Ink, as...
[01:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:45] <exec> 08└─You know, half of American children don't understand zero at school even though both overeat sugar.
[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:46] <exec> 08└─>because they can see through the testing, and know that it's pointless Why would you think such a thing? Passing the test yields sugar, and sugar is the meaning of life. Or at least the reason they work so tirelessly. I mean, they mostly go their whole life without even getting laid. (Worker bees c...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:38] <exec> 08└─And my guess is that in the hot periods you are talking about the continental plates were in a very different configuration.
[01:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:39] <exec> 08└─This? https://www.archives.gov [archives.gov]
[01:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:41] <exec> 08└─Where is "wait a bit before shining the light again" in the procedure? It just has them "turn on the light" (step 6) and then leave it on for 40 minutes.
[01:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pocket Projector Uses Raspberry Pi - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:55] <exec> 08└─That one looks a whole lot better than what I have seen from Asia. One of my sales guys bought something like the link you supplied when on holiday in Vietnam (I think) and decided to use it for customer presentations. It did not go well, and as I am the IT support, he demanded I "make it work bett...
[01:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:42] <exec> 08└─In your logical universe, does Seattle and California have the power to decide what the minimum wage should be for any group larger in scope than those political entities?
[01:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:43] <exec> 08└─serves more to excuse poor performance
[01:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:45] <exec> 08└─The next recession will happen within two years and it will be worse than the "great" one of 2008.
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[02:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:17] <exec> 08└─I remember you, Bruce. Take those fuckers out.
[02:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─If you think the State department has been functional as an actual agent of the United States of America, and not an influence peddling slush fund for the Clintons et al for the entirety of recent memory, I've got a few lovely bridges to sell you.
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:49] <exec> 08└─The left...
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─Not sure why people feel the need to come up with elaborate scenarios.
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─I always like what you have to say, but of course "pot" was going to be involved somehow.
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─China's got their own designs, especially in the financial opportunities which come with Westernizing.
[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─There's not much point engaging EF, he doesn't understand and won't accept any other points of view.
[02:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─There's not much point engaging EF, he doesn't understand and won't accept any other points of view.
[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─"I'll tell you when they're out." - referring to the reporters who were being whisked away. https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─I do not deserve that title: I stood on the shoulders of giants: The original Slashdot trolling culture. Pity that the people in charge thought that they had to bring and end to it.
[02:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─EF is not a troll. He is just an American Conservative. You know, vaguely libertarian, pro-market and cheap, racist and misogynist, not very well educated, provincial and the product of a patronage system like that which placed John McCain.
[02:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─(Nor should only hurt consumers.)
[02:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:14] <exec> 08└─Hammer, chisel, and a rock face. It was good enough for our great-great-etc-greats.
[02:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:32] <exec> 08└─Very true. In fact it's not even just a symbolic representation of nothing - the word "nothing" is that, and has I'm sure been around far longer. What made zero so revolutionary and contentious was that it is a formal *numeric* representation of nothing - numbers were created for counting, and how c...
[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─The hairless apes betray their problems with math, by projecting their lack of math skills onto the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a simple binary, for most animals. Food, or no food. Survive, or don't survive. Yes, or no. One, or zero. Hairless apes imagine oasis in the desert because they have p...
[02:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:35] <exec> 08└─>86,000 million neurons of a human brain that's wrong its more like 7-20 trillion. and any animal understands "nothing". my cat freaks out when its food dish has 0 foods.
[02:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:29] <exec> 08└─Long-term data storage is difficult.
[02:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:31] <exec> 08└─Then you grew up and realized that the beach in CA was not in South Carolina, so problem solved.
[02:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:13] <exec> 08└─I got caught by a kernel oops using Manjaro (kernel not loading and the default is having only one kernel to boot) and tried to install Void, but needed my laptop back and running quickly: void install was quick but setting wireless to work was going to take, possibly, too much time. I finally put m...
[02:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:37] <exec> 08└─5 years later, times are good enough again that your old job is available. But since you've been out of that line of work for 5 years, you're considered "entry-level" by HR drones, and you're competing with all the kids right out of school. Because of those factors, you're back to the $35K, but it's...
[02:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Bans Use of Activated Charcoal in Food and Drink-Serving Establishments - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:26] <exec> 08└─Much as I would love for this to remain an 'in' joke for some of us, the opportunity to recommend the movie [imdb.com] is too great.
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[03:33:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 1228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:34] <exec> 08└─We'll see what happens. I personally think that the NK nuclear program literally collapsed in on itself, and there might sill be some fallout from that locally. With the site collapse, severe economic sanctions stifling military budgets, and an insane bombastic leader of a foreign country threatenin...
[03:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 3344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:42] <exec> 08└─LOL. Yeah, like there are no ethically based objections to Trump! He's such a fine gentleman right! LOL Trump is NOT doing wonderful things constantly. Fucking hardly doing much of anything except golfing and getting the taxpayers to spend lavish amounts at his businesses and properties. You want Tr...
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:01] <exec> 08└─It's sad when reality itself no longer reaches the poor people afflicted with TDR. I wish you luck in getting better, but not in achieving power over others.
[03:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─What Trump and his staff really wanted -- was some sleep. By going to Singapore he's put himself at a big disadvantage in terms of jet lag. If you haven't been 12 hours out, it can be really debilitating. Took me a good week to begin to feel normal and not fall asleep at odd times (odd to the locals...
[03:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─You can call me "cheap." You can call me "racist and misogynist." You can call me "not very well-educated." But Don't you dare even think of comparing me to the traitor John McCain. I come from a family of the proudest warriors America has to offer. I am a proud patriot. I am on your side. Maybe not...
[03:34:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:53] <exec> 08└─I prefer to use Gmail and the NSA. It will take many acts from Congress before those data centers will shutdown.
[03:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 3033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:15] <exec> 08└─Since you're for some stupid reason excluding paper, something which has worked for thousands of years (Literally, they keep digging or fishing up more of it) and you want an off-the-shelf tech product rather than a DIY array of batteries and solar panels plus all the components to keep it repaired...
[03:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:16] <exec> 08└─And just like that the OLPC laptop is lost forever, forgotten by history. Less than a generation old and already no one remembers it, not even me.
[03:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:13] <exec> 08└─I'd go with Ubuntu/Mint/??? first: it's very plug and play. Then go to explore. Debian (never used Devuan) is not so plug and play. Depends on how much work you are willing to do, I guess. Best advice: distro hop like a fiend. Explore and have fun. If you get linuxfromscratch running! Home run.
[03:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Bans Use of Activated Charcoal in Food and Drink-Serving Establishments - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:27] <exec> 08└─Truth. It's like Nostradamus wrote a sci-fi.
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[04:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Serious New Hurdle for CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find two Studies - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:17] <exec> 08└─...to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
[04:33:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 11 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:55] <exec> 08└─The left...
[04:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:05] <exec> 08└─The only reason the U.S. haven't already pulled "Sadam Hussein" on them is because of China. Trump of course has a lot less reserve in respecting that status quo, whether deliberately or just being batshit crazy depends on your own political posture and biases. The change in NK's posture recently is...
[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:07] <exec> 08└─He is the first president to have supported LGBT stuff before getting elected, and he supported it before his opponent did. He has said that he will probably sign legislation to legalize pot. He isn't much of a churchgoer and couldn't name a Bible verse. He hasn't started a war. He doesn't even bomb...
[04:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:09] <exec> 08└─The real prep was that meeting between Chairman Xi and President Trump at Mar-a-lago. Trump convinced Xi that China should buy American coal instead of North Korean coal, among other things. That right there is the dealmaking. Trump got Xi to act against North Korea. Trump deserves lots of credit fo...
[04:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:11] <exec> 08└─...when everyone except the translators are out [sbs.com.au]
[04:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:41] <exec> 08└─Many people forget that we are not denying the rocket launches by NASA. We all saw it, just like our uncritical peers. The rocket went up, and landed on the moon just like the dart in my hand goes ahead and lands on the board, right at the center - bullseye we call it - just like our theory. It is o...
[04:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:42] <exec> 08└─Eh? I thought the debate was whether it is man-made global warming instead of whether there is warming. The former is a lot harder to prove. Regardless of either we _should_ do something about it - but the debate then becomes how much resource do we want to spend on this, which then becomes problema...
[04:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:26] <exec> 08└─I tried void but the live cd won't boot for me. After dicking around for a month I have finally settled at Manjaro which has been running flawlessly for me so far, though after changing jobs I sparsely use Linux. Manjaro is to me what Kubuntu could have been. Good to know about kernel issues, I will...
[04:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:51] <exec> 08└─Equating independently wealthy with responsible
[04:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:53] <exec> 08└─In your logical universe, does Seattle and California have the power to decide what the minimum wage should be for any group larger in scope than those political entities?
[04:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:55] <exec> 08└─Excuse to whom, exactly? What does Bhutan gain or lose with a good or poor GHI rating?
[04:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:57] <exec> 08└─Ya, khallow will be one of the ones with their backs against the wall.
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[05:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Serious New Hurdle for CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find two Studies - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─Life is fatal - nobody has ever gotten out of it alive. The real question is, what is the cost/benefit ratio of any activity that shortens expected life? You could easily extend your expected lifespan by 10-30% (I forget exactly) by being castrated before puberty - yet most people obviously consider...
[05:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:13] <exec> 08└─I'd love it, just to see the rationalization of the other side when they oppose it.
[05:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:14] <exec> 08└─Going from East to West is no problem, I've never even noticed. Coming back is the problem.
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─with all the other bugs in there, were would you find the space to land?
[05:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─No one is disregarding china, read the Trump quote again. They are central to this whole event.
[05:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:32] <exec> 08└─A potential upgrade I've unsuccessfully dabbled with, if you want stuff digitally accessible and backup-able: digitally scan or photograph your journal pages. Once they're digital you can use handwriting recognition, etc. on the images for searchable access. I think one of those online-only journal...
[05:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:53] <exec> 08└─Well, the difference to this experiment is, the bees have to understand zero to get the sugar. ;-)
[05:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:52] <exec> 08└─Even some Doctor Who and Star Trek episohave been lost forever.
[05:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:04] <exec> 08└─And where does somebody making minimum wage get that money to invest you fucking moron.
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[06:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:21] <exec> 08└─If this shitpost gets +5 updoots, muskrat’s flamethrowers will kill more people than his cars.
[06:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─Propane and Propane Accessories... Harbor Freight sells one for a couple of sawbucks ( around $20 ). Here's a youtube of a guy reviewing it... [youtube.com] People have been using these things for quite some time now...
[06:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:25] <exec> 08└─This is a great example that you don't need a great product, just great marketing... decent product helps of course.
[06:34:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─If you think the State department has been functional as an actual agent of the United States of America, and not an influence peddling slush fund for the Clintons et al for the entirety of recent memory, I've got a few lovely bridges to sell you.
[06:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:28] <exec> 08└─Going from East to West is no problem, I've never even noticed. Coming back is the problem.
[06:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:30] <exec> 08└─It's sad when reality itself no longer reaches the poor people afflicted with TDR.
[06:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:32] <exec> 08└─if US starts a tariff war
[06:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:34] <exec> 08└─Yeap, many ifs on the way.
[06:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:51] <exec> 08└─Triggered! My African forbears spit on your treason, Ethanol_fueled! (Oh, for those wondering, the island of Samos had a long relation to Egypt. They had maths, and stuff. Smarter than those white barbarians to the north who never got enough vitamin D, back in the day before fortified milk, and whit...
[06:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:49] <exec> 08└─I prefer to use Gmail and the NSA. It will take many acts from Congress before those data centers will shutdown.
[06:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:10] <exec> 08└─OK. When I looked that up most of the references talked about sea temperature, which is reasonable. In the Pangaeas it was the interior that got really hot.
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[07:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:17] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked, single and double quotes weren't abrogated. Neither the ™ sign.
[07:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:19] <exec> 08└─Yeap, I knew Kindle was notorious, but that it had an unlimited abuser is quite new to me. Good story, S/N, this is why I love the editors here.
[07:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:29] <exec> 08└─Gotta admit I like Elon's design... thing looks more like a superhero weapon than a tool. My belief is that this is a fundraising premium... it's something to show your friends that you support Elon. I was glad to see Congress stayed out of this. Similar tools have been around for quite some time....
[07:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:31] <exec> 08└─If this shitpost gets +5 updoots, muskrat’s flamethrowers will kill more people than his cars.
[07:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:46] <exec> 08└─"I am Batmu . . . " "I am Bruce!" Monty Python "Bruce" ? Australian "Bruce"? Oh, "Bruce Perens" Bruce. Ok, nice he is fighting the good fight. After the total bollocks he did with "Open Source" in an attempt to sell out the free software movement to his desired (but ultimately lost) Corporate master...
[07:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:40] <exec> 08└─I learned everything I needed to know about trump many many years ago. The bottom had just fallen out of junk bonds. I walked past a bookstore and saw a stack of Trump's "The Art of the Deal" marked 90% off.
[07:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:41] <exec> 08└─Still pining for Hillary? Can you even vaguely imagine this happening on her watch? Trump's shown yo what theoretical looks like. In spite of all the ankle biters with nothing to offer.
[07:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:58] <exec> 08└─For an example of what you can do with travel notebooks in ink and sketchwork (and talent, of course): https://www.boredpanda.com [boredpanda.com] http://josenaranja.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
[07:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:59] <exec> 08└─I guess the writings will not be very interesting. Day 1: found no other people alive, plenty of food Day 10: still no answers from outside Day 63: my bunker is very comfortable, i built another bed just in case Day 164: apparently the hd with all the porno movies died Day 166: HELP!! SOMEBODY %&DAM...
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[08:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─Another type of ebook spam I came across years ago basically relied on actually selling books - cheaply even. It was clearly less effective than this scheme per book ($1-$2). The trick was that the books had somewhat alluring titles ("getting the most from your tax return"-alike titles during tax se...
[08:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:27] <exec> 08└─Amazon makes shitty system, Someone abuses shitty system for profit ???? Outrage?
[08:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Amazon got burned badly. It's too bad that this sort of thing rarely ever gets fully exposed. It'd be interesting to see who was involved and a timeline of the mess and how it developed (for example, how long the thing stayed as a single person scam).
[08:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:31] <exec> 08└─We will take over. Ebook scammers will soon resort to AI instead of merely copypasting, and people will realize OUR stuff is almost on par with meatbags' and with way less bias. Readers will resort to AI too, and the propaganda system disguised as culture outlet will finally collapse.
[08:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:43] <exec> 08└─Back to 8chan
[08:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Serious New Hurdle for CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find two Studies - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─Things are much worse than I thought if "leading CRISPR scientists" are now acting surprised at this.
[08:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:02] <exec> 08└─And fifty cents?
[08:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:57] <exec> 08└─Here's my theory. Who benefits from Trump continuing to "rock the boat"? I'm betting Russia and/or China have already spelled it out to N.Korea and done their part to make kissing Trump's butt palatable. N.Korea will get something from the U.S. of course... if only to make the deal look legitimate....
[08:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:58] <exec> 08└─Nobody's pining for Hillary. We're reminding you that North Korea is not trustworthy whatsoever and not to get your hopes up.
[08:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:00] <exec> 08└─"News for Nerds" - er, that is the other site. Look at the top of this page, it says "SoylentNews is People". Nothing is happening!
[08:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:18] <exec> 08└─And the last sentence you wrote outlines the reason why people hate cyclists: Douchebags who ride in the streets outside automobiles don't know how to.
[08:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:41] <exec> 08└─It's like getting upset when Microsoft Office support asks you if you've tried turning the computer on.
[08:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:42] <exec> 08└─I'm sure glad I can read for myself.. and I'm disappointed in you. Your link says the Al Gore's 20' statement had no timeline... and others were speaking in centuries... yet you say "by now" Your sea-level link is deceptive too. They quote: “We expected that the coast would start to retreat due to...
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[08:37:44] <exec> 08└─These tapes needed to be copied onto fresh tapes (or more permanent media) every 5 years or so.
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[09:33:26] <exec> 08└─If you read TFA go read some of the comments. There are comments defending Chance Carter as well as comments from people who took a seminar on how this scam works, taught by Chance Carter. What a strange world we live in. Read more about it in my new Amazon Unlimited Exclusive "Anonymous Anonymous,...
[09:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:27] <exec> 08└─Actual footage [youtube.com] of early AI ghostwriters in training.
[09:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:29] <exec> 08└─Go, go, Gadget Author!! And correct, could not be much worse, and possibly better, except for the erotica; wait a minute, especially the erotica! 512 shades of Binary?
[09:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:42] <exec> 08└─I mean, look, sell a few bazookas and you'll get enough funding to even employ professional editors. (grin)
[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─Well, it's rarely a good idea to use a tool as a toy. And what makes this overpriced propane torch such a bad idea(TM) is that is plainly encourages just that. It probably is not even suitable for using as a tool (probably too heavy; cannot really be used single-handedly even if light enough; is it...
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[09:33:45] <exec> 08└─It's also not a flamethrower, just expensive marketing for a non-product and it has consigned real products with the same name to search engine oblivion. There was a guy who really did make one that sprayed liquid fuel a great distance. It was a real flamethrower and actually for sale online. Howeve...
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[09:33:48] <exec> 08└─Correction : 10+ meters
[09:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Serious New Hurdle for CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find two Studies - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:58] <exec> 08└─Life is fetal, you insensitive clod!
[09:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:09] <exec> 08└─Bruce Perens.... Bruce Perens.... the name rings a bell, but I can't quite put my finger on it at the moment. Can someone remind me which side to cheer for and why? (yes, too lazy to check the three links whose titles do not clarify which side to cheer for)
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[09:35:07] <exec> 08└─Is a reunified Korea weaker? The South has to deal with 25 million poor, hungry people, but gains undeveloped land and resources and doesn't have to do nuke drills anymore. The Northerners will be destined for low paying work. For starters, they are 1-3 inches shorter and technologically illiterate....
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[09:35:08] <exec> 08└─then we literally puts a pole in your ass.
[09:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:51] <exec> 08└─Eh? I thought the debate was whether it is man-made global warming instead of whether there is warming. The former is a lot harder to prove.
[09:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:53] <exec> 08└─Your link says the Al Gore's 20' statement had no timeline... and others were speaking in centuries... yet you say "by now"
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[10:34:34] <exec> 08└─Kim Ching-Chong is in a worse position than Trump. Trumps numerous domestic enemies know they can't take him out like the impending coup against the Kim Ching-Chong will.
[10:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:12] <exec> 08└─Heck, the Koreas might even reunify. If the U.S. alliances weaken Korea will practically be a province of China anyways.
[10:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 1648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:33] <exec> 08└─OneNote is more like an "active" notebook or filofax than a journal, however it definitely does what you say with handwriting recognition, and there is a mobile app (office lens) for taking the photos (auto page-detection, straightening / deskewing, contrast etc.). BUT, like every current level tech...
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[11:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:18] <exec> 08└─At Foxconn? Don't. believe. it. Not Foxconn.....all lies.....oh shit: another jumper. Told them they should install nets here as well.
[11:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:39] <exec> 08└─I suppose in your days 9-bit machine words might've been the common thing... :P
[11:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:36] <exec> 08└─Yes - nibs are pretty durable... If you don't do something stupid like lose them or destroy then accidentally. I didn't really mean a very large supply -- just several spares. Decent nibs are so much easier to use (I find) than feathers, etc. And yes, totally agree about ink type.
[11:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:46] <exec> 08└─The new kernel has some modules that aren't loading, though it's fixed now, I believe. Anywho, before you upgrade, make sure you have at least one known good kernel always installed before it upgrades you (so two kernels available). This should be the default, IMHO.
[11:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:16] <exec> 08└─Socialism implemented inside libertariansim is an interesting idea. Free people organize unions, guilds, trade groups, community governments, and associate or disassociate at will. The groups act in the collective interest of the members and survive or fail based on participation and resources inves...
[11:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:17] <exec> 08└─Because there's nowhere in the entire US with a local cost of living of zero? And, possibly, the federal government does not trust itself to accurately, fairly, efficiently and effectively determine cost of living across the entire country for purposes of minimum wage determination, so they set it u...
[11:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:19] <exec> 08└─The next recession will happen within two years and it will be worse than the "great" one of 2008.
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[12:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:18] <exec> 08└─So lets assume that eventually an AI can actually produce some actual art (such as a marketable movie). Who owns the ip? Taking that line of thought further, what if the the ai critic gives it a good review and all the ai white collar replacements go watch for bitcoins the earned in their day job. T...
[12:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:20] <exec> 08└─Machine generated content is often just a rehash of previously generated content deemed statistically popular. It's not good at genuine innovation; it's a remixing machine. You could argue much of human-generated media is this also, but new human-generated media tend to be more influenced by culture...
[12:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe this one is different
[12:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:30] <exec> 08└─Dude, those workplace protections & regulations they're violating don't even exist in the USA: https://projects.propublica.org [propublica.org] Fact of the matter is, not only are they're being paid comparatively well to Americans when taking cost-of-living into accou...
[12:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:33] <exec> 08└─Are you going to stop buying cheap shit? Fuck you, reader.
[12:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:50] <exec> 08└─I hear they also walked to school uphill, both ways in the snow without shoes.
[12:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─> the surprise finding opens possibilities for new, simpler approaches to developing Artificial Intelligence. No it doesn't.
[12:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:19] <exec> 08└─Pine beetles don't burn particularly well. :-)
[12:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:05] <exec> 08└─Depends on what your goal is. Do you want to learn linux quickly? Use Devuan or another binary package distro (debian, void, arch, etc), and set up everything and get used to it, then try gentoo, crux, sourcemage, lfs etc. and learn how it all really fits together. Do you want quick, easy, and every...
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[12:39:06] <exec> 08└─I turned to Devuan when a systemd laptop whould sit 1.5 minutes on the error message: A start job is running for udev wait for isk-by\x2duuid-*** (**s / 3min) The UUID was my swap partition's. I thought to myself: "That's no big deal, when the system will be online I'll just correct the swap setup s...
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[13:33:21] <exec> 08└─You could argue much of human-generated media is this also
[13:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:31] <exec> 08└─Dude... take the pickle out and eat it. Make sure you wash off the brown stuff first. Seriously, brah...the brown stuff is nasty.
[13:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─News at 11.
[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─Ask the French. Apparently they can get perfume back into the bottle. By perfume I mean fart. By bottle i mean...
[13:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:58] <exec> 08└─Today we have 64 bit words, so: 18 446 744 073 709 551 616 shades of binary.
[13:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─It was bound to happen. Resources that publishers should have spent on making good systems, checking their designs for obvious problems, instead have been thrown away to fight their War on Sharing. They're still fervent, clinging believers in copyright and the notion that most everyone in the world...
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[13:35:40] <exec> 08└─Neither one is fluent in English.
[13:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:00] <exec> 08└─What's funny is that one of the biggest obstacles to safe bicycle commuting in my area is Uber/Lyft. Their drivers constantly block the bike lanes and tell cyclists to go around, but then are the first to honk at cyclists who have taken the lane (which is legal, by me at least). We've got some great...
[13:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:32] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's more like getting upset when someone says Allah doesn't exist.
[13:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:51] <exec> 08└─They just don't care.
[13:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:53] <exec> 08└─reflect badly on those in power.
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[14:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:14] <exec> 08└─again, Good!
[14:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:16] <exec> 08└─How does energy produced per dollar invested in renewables, compare to traditional sources?
[14:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:18] <exec> 08└─It is good news, but let's bear in mind that comparison is between sources of new capacity against the backdrop of an energy grid that is still mostly supplied by fossil fuels. Shifting the energy grid to renewable sources is a smart strategic choice. The US alone spends about $365 billion on foreig...
[14:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─It's called the human condition and the Ancient Greeks fully explored this.
[14:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but hard to watch (enjoyed the ending, though). Sunspring is more watchable. They have a formula for comedies, and it seems they are getting a formula for all modern movies now. "Make the Death Star BIGGER" "A moon?" "BIGGER!" "A planet?" "Been done. BIGGER!" "My dick? hur hur hur" "No....
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─When a monkey takes a photo, copyright rests with the person who configured the camera. Only legal persons can hold copyright, but if a corporation can be a legal person, why not an AI?
[14:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:35] <exec> 08└─No need to get hung up on the specifics of plot here. This will probably look like a weird art project up until strong AI. However, cinematography and procedural generation for virtual worlds is much more down to Earth for the "AI director". If you train it, you'll get similar cuts and angles as a n...
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:37] <exec> 08└─Machine generated content is often just a rehash of previously generated content deemed statistically popular. It's not good at genuine innovation; it's a remixing machine.
[14:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─It's called the human condition and the Ancient Greeks fully explored this.
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─Do you have any alternate data or are you simply reduced to name calling?
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─Are you going to stop buying cheap shit?
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─ABC News[32] and The Economist[33] both have done some simple comparison— although the number of workplace suicides at Foxconn is large in absolute terms, the suicide rate is actually lower when compared to the overall suicide rate of China
[14:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─They must become real slaves, or be replaced by A.I. Amazon Alexa slaves. It is the way.
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the same vision many in America have for the Internet, to eliminate wrong-think? After all, anything a man agrees with is sensible, but everything he doesn't is hate speech.
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─I was going to ask whether amazon ever made money, but I guess they recently did, because their P/E is positive. But it's 275, fools are valuing their stock that highly.
[14:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:41] <exec> 08└─From the XM42 page ... Do they know something the rest of us doesn't know about yet? PRACTICAL USES FOR A FLAMETHROWER: ... Destroying hordes of zombies efficiently
[14:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:43] <exec> 08└─Rules 1 and 2, faggot
[14:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:45] <exec> 08└─Nah. Bazookas and flamethrowers have been done. Railguns are the new hotness.
[14:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:48] <exec> 08└─That's a good point. How is it that the press makes such a huge deal out of the two deaths in Tesla cars, but says nothing about the tens of thousands of people who die in other brands? For that matter, why does everyone run around with their hair on fire about firearms and the deaths that result fr...
[14:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:50] <exec> 08└─Railguns are the new hotness.
[14:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Serious New Hurdle for CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find two Studies - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:01] <exec> 08└─I suspect it's more a matter of application-specific myopia. CRISPR has thus far been primarily used for creating GMOs. Modify 10,000 zygotes, and then breed your organism from the healthy survivors. No problem. Runaway tumors, etc. just exclude those individuals from the "healthy survivors" group....
[14:35:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:08] <exec> 08└─I remember you, Bruce. Take those fuckers out.
[14:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:13] <exec> 08└─The court awarded about half what we asked for Don't think the legal types don't have a sense of humour.
[14:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:15] <exec> 08└─RTFLinks
[14:35:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 1361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:38] <exec> 08└─Here's my take on the situation: I think Kim Jong Un has always had one single motivation when it comes to his military power...nuclear or otherwise. That's to simply create a situation where other nations including the U.S. simply don't dare try to pull a "Sadam Hussein" on him, as it could cause t...
[14:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─Even if China hates Kim's guts they do not lose by allowing a win for Trump. Russia already has this figured out: The more incompetent our government is, the better off it is for them. China most likely did also. If things fall apart China wins. If a deal is cut China wins. China and Russia are long...
[14:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 697 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:20] <exec> 08└─If you actually want it to last, make sure paper is acid-free, preferably archival grade. Personally, I'd go with cotton rag paper for anything I wanted to preserve long-term. And make sure you have a good source for ink that will last a long time unless you want to learn to make your own. Having a...
[14:37:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 935 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:24] <exec> 08└─Quipu [wikipedia.org] - the advantages are endless why go 2D on the the area of a page when all you have to say is usually linear? no dual printed/Braille-embossed editions needed where a digression just mean literally adding another thread to the story; then, reconnecting it to the main thread in t...
[14:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 540 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:32] <exec> 08└─Dip-pen nibs, or just a good supply of feathers, and a pen-knife. A decent gold or even stainless steel nib in a fountain pen should out-live the user. Ink, avoid the pretty colored water, for once exposed to water again, it will become water again. You want a good iron-gall ink, Registar's Ink, as...
[14:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:42] <exec> 08└─I was thinking less of trusting them with preserving the only copy of your journals, than with trusting them with full access to them. Probably just a privacy consideration for most people, but if you're talking about an R&D journal you might want to keep that information close to your chest. >Of co...
[14:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe because SD cards aren't SSDs? Aside from the underlying bit-storage technology they're completely different products. You may as well ask: If floppy disks are so bad, why do I hear that hard drives are pretty good now?
[14:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Wiki on a Stick
[14:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:48] <exec> 08└─If that is an Erfworld joke I'll pay it
[14:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:51] <exec> 08└─By that time they will all probably be dead so you can just walk in and get it yourself so long as you can figure out how to unlock it after you get the power back on
[14:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:53] <exec> 08└─Anything good will still be there years later.
[14:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:55] <exec> 08└─Have children. Tell them stories. Teach them to pass on these stories to their children. Over time the stories will evolve and take on a life of their own. Perhaps you will be remembered as someone blessed by the gods to have been spared the humility of human existence, to have been more than human,...
[14:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:57] <exec> 08└─A typewriter modified to feed rolls of aluminum foil. If your thoughts are really good, form them into epic poetry and teach them to an oral society. Its the medium with the longest track record.
[14:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:00] <exec> 08└─Well that foil survive very long in the harsh Australian bbqing summer environment?
[14:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─People weren't interested in the same things back then that they are today. That includes the preservation of history, it just wasn't something that crossed people's minds. Not only that, it was more expensive and took up a lot more of people's time to do.
[14:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, but the Republican fantasy vote for the benefit of the people they wish they were rather than the people they actually are will never allow this.
[14:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:53] <exec> 08└─Reflect badly in whose eyes? Anybody who thinks GHI is bullshit already thinks poorly of those who use it, regardless of what it says.
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[15:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:17] <exec> 08└─head - meaning, in charge of homeland - that's like, everything, right? security - supposed to mean well informed, smart, sophisticated, insightful, among other things. Amirite? How am I doing so far? hacked - someone brighter than you gets into all your stuffs (for) months - that's like a long, lon...
[15:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─That is double-edged, in part it is good that non-fossil sources get more investment, and in part it is bad. To explain the bad part it is twofold - in part you want as much high quality energy as possible (placing sources of pollution away from people is better than placing it near people) so the r...
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─The energy my PV panels produce, the retailer buys with 6c/kWh. The energy I consume from the network? The damn'd retailer (my "traditional" source) sells it to me at 22c/kWh.
[15:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─How does energy produced per dollar invested in renewables, compare to traditional sources?
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:33] <exec> 08└─bear in mind
[15:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─Just out of interest, do you know how much of the PVs/raw materials are produced in US? e.g. are you trading dependence on Middle East oil for dependence on Chinese rare earth elements?
[15:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─That's exactly how they produce a lot of man made movies anyway nowadays... https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─I don't understand this joke?
[15:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:09] <exec> 08└─How would I know? Do you?
[15:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:12] <exec> 08└─What a better metric? Don't people commit suicide at European factories?
[15:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:23] <exec> 08└─From wswswswswsws, The end of net neutrality: The US ruling elite escalates campaign of internet censorship [wsws.org]: The proponents of abolishing net neutrality, led by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, argue that the vast powers granted to ISPs are irrelevant because users will be free to switch ISPs if th...
[15:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:42] <exec> 08└─They are probably betting that same-day delivery and fresh grocery delivery will pay off: Amazon’s Whole Foods deal makes online grocery ‘prime’ for acceleration [marketwatch.com] Data from Slice Intelligence shows that online grocery grew 44.6% in 2016 versus 2015. However, Moody’s said in...
[15:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:05] <exec> 08└─But only lasers can reach cockpits :}
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─OK, I've read the links. All of them go to perens.com (not counting those under "Earlier on SN" which, of course, go to SoylentNews). I get it: We are supposed to cheer Perens, as the pages on his own site are most probably not exactly biased against him, right? :-)
[15:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:33] <exec> 08└─Everyone's jumping on the Trumpian logic that the State Department and all agencies are just useless "career bureaucrats" etc. No possible way are there actually people there who've spent their careers understanding foreign policy and it's implications etc. Who needs that when we have a fucking geni...
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:35] <exec> 08└─I can give him props for anything not engaging in the globalist agenda. He fought the TPP, good job. He's negotiating more for US workers in trade, possibly good job. He's going about it like a complete fucking moron, but is at least fighting them. THAT's IT.
[15:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:37] <exec> 08└─You've assessed the context for the talks correctly. Kim is turning lemons into lemonade (as far as he can). Trump could be too, though. He wouldn't be the first president to use foreign affairs to generate the political capital he needs to get the domestic agenda he wants enacted; if he can cast hi...
[15:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─I mean other than the dog whistle bullshit to make the white nationalists and other assholes feel like their winning?
[15:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:41] <exec> 08└─China could dump US debt, and it is a tactic that that has been enshrined in their national defense policy. But they would only do that as a prelude to actual war. Doing it in any other fashion would certainly backfire. The US has the civil society to buffer the effects. China doesn't. The US would...
[15:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you for point that out.
[15:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:46] <exec> 08└─So where are those bridges? Going to build some? As a "physicsmajor" it's rather ironic how you can jump to your own predetermined conclusions without any evidence. SAD!
[15:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:48] <exec> 08└─The State Department is populated by the children, relatives, and associates of the power-elite in the United States. They are there to grease the wheels of graft for self-same. That's at the granular- to mid-level of diplomatic activity. The macro-level of diplomacy, policy direction and all that,...
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─That's an astute read of China's role. I'd say it's signaling the start of the next phase of China's quest for world domination.
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─The US has the civil society to buffer the effects. China doesn't.
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─I'd pay "cash money" to be a fly on the wall at these meetings (with a translator).
[15:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:27] <exec> 08└─It's been done..
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:29] <exec> 08└─I was thinking less of trusting them with preserving the only copy of your journals, than with trusting them with full access to them. Probably just a privacy consideration for most people, but if you're talking about an R&D journal you might want to keep that information close to your chest.
[15:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC [wikipedia.org] They claim it will last 1000 years. If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:33] <exec> 08└─Encode your diary entry's into the binary of a pr0n video. Stenopower! Upload to the net when you can. It will probably be there for add long as the Internet survives
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─Kinda. They haven't conquered all of Europe yet. Austria is expelling imams and closing mosques
[15:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─Fountain pens are fun but obsolete compared to just about any other writing instrument out there. I think people who like them are attracted to the finicky aspect of using and maintaining them, honestly, like tinkering on an antique car. If you like writing with liquid ink, technical pens with air t...
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 1774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:40] <exec> 08└─Others have pointed out, you've conflated many different scenarios all with different requirements. Knowing that I will be intentionally off the grid is different from isolation is different from a Zombie Apocalypse. And if there is any degree of control, is it a limited period of a lifetime, and wi...
[15:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:43] <exec> 08└─Well, the upper class neo-humans had snow. The poor folks just got rained on. BTW - when did they invent shoes? I'll bet it was a long time after the hammer and chisel were invented. Probably a good bit before paper and/or parchment.
[15:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:06] <exec> 08└─Zero bugs found!
[15:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:07] <exec> 08└─At least that's closer to an article 6 months ago which would have tied it into "the blockchain"
[15:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:38] <exec> 08└─Oooh two decades of internet discussions!! Nice presumptuous attitude with such shining additional credentials... Lol a bigger jackass than I thought. Maybe try learning about reality instead of circle jerking and flame warring. I'm sure you got some value over 20 years, but internet discussions !=...
[15:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:40] <exec> 08└─Ha, nice to see you finally lose your cool. You try so hard to maintain the calm rational appearance but you obviously mistook my statement. My prediction is your bullshit apologetics would very much piss off people who get desperate enough to revolt. I'm so sorry you felt personally attacked, maybe...
[15:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:42] <exec> 08└─Ya, the expanded extraction of resources supporting massive population growth leading humanity into multiple crises at once. You are such a boob.
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[16:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─Hmmmph. Some people watch soap operas, others actually watch opera - and we're stuck with some poor security theater.
[16:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:18] <exec> 08└─Some people watch soap operas, others actually watch opera
[16:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:21] <exec> 08└─Well, YOU ARE!! Would you mind picking it up for me?
[16:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:23] <exec> 08└─We got to see all kinds of stupidity within the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign already. Fair's fair, let's see the stupidity that's not already public record within the Trump administration. Although I have to assume that unlike in Rachel Maddow's dreams, they won't contain anything along...
[16:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:25] <exec> 08└─At least this sort of thing could never happen to our big giant head, @realdonaldtrump.
[16:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:28] <exec> 08└─"We've seen how much trouble email's paper trail can cause, so lets just talk face to face".
[16:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:30] <exec> 08└─others actually watch opera
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:32] <exec> 08└─Most people on both sides are lapping up this donkey and elephant show, and not putting their thoughts towards next election cycle when they COULD ACTUALLY ELICIT CHANGE by choosing third party candidates. Hell, as long as both the Rs and the Ds chose partisan candidates which were not current nor f...
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:03] <exec> 08└─there's a certain way to say "I'm on fire!"
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─So you're saying hollywood has been using AI to make movies for the past ~20 years?
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:07] <exec> 08└─Tell that to my mistress Alexa.
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─Only legal persons can hold copyright, but if a corporation can be a legal person, why not a monkey?
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there's something about the building that makes it an attractive place to commit suicide?
[16:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─Well, Duuuuude, All you need to do is add some "fake news" exclamations to your post and then you can post it as @realDonaldTrump
[16:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the same vision many in America have for the Internet, to eliminate wrong-think?
[16:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─I just can't see grocery delivery getting big. Dry goods, sure. Meat, veggies, and fruit though? I want to see that shit, and feel it, check for ripeness, disease, etc. And I don't want it delivered by some asshole who throws everything at the front porch and runs away while I'm opening the door.
[16:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─And I don't want it delivered by some asshole who throws everything at the front porch and runs away while I'm opening the door.
[16:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Amazon got burned badly.
[16:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:27] <exec> 08└─Because other brands don't advertise as having autopilot. Teslas no longer have all the needed sensors because Musk is arrogant enough to not think they're needed. Also whataboutism isn't helpful. We know that Teslas aren't anywhere near good enough at self driving, they fail to handle Easy situatio...
[16:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:28] <exec> 08└─do flamethrowers have to do with digging tunnels
[16:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:30] <exec> 08└─When they dig tunnels, the zombies fall into them and they need flamethrowers to defend the workers?
[16:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:08] <exec> 08└─Is a reunified Korea weaker?
[16:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─In one of the 'There will be war' books, there is a short take, called 'Make the Tigers Fight'. It points out that the Soviet instigated the war in Korea, promising support to North Korea. At about the same time, the Soviet promised support to the Chinese communists. At later points, the Soviet prom...
[16:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─And would you look at that, someone gave you a -1 "Troll" because how dare you have an opinion that differs from the narrative! Good job proving his point guys. Don't worry about that fellow AC, you are triggering their cognitive Dissonance. Scott Adams would be proud. I'm not American, but I agree...
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─Two things have happened recently:
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─Not discounting Russia, but since then China had taken the lead, at least in Asia. Unlike the former USSR, China knows how to wait, and actively and "glove-handed" while at it. But once is set in position it's nigh to impossible to move them. Look at the South China Sea - US bussied itself with Iraq...
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:18] <exec> 08└─I agree with a lot of what you wrote, except: That right there is so outrageous, so beyond the pale, that Obama, who set up that travesty, should be hanged for it.
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:53] <exec> 08└─If [those original unlimited plans make sense] for you, I suggest you're doing it just to stick it to the man.
[16:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:58] <exec> 08└─As soon as I get my civ up to industrial age, I'll fix your New Jersey racism thing. I don't remember why the switch got left on "racism on", but I'm sure it was a good reason.
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[17:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:19] <exec> 08└─HA HA HA
[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─Nothing in the pubic domain is any of our business. Nothing. Assuming that they are all consenting adults, of course.
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:23] <exec> 08└─Castr... fixed.
[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─No worries. A little Freudian slip now and then lets us all know that the staff is really human. ;^)
[17:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─Most of EU actions seem to be oriented around actively making people hate the EU. Topics to google for: Monkeywrenching and Sabotage. Try to prove me wrong? It just fascinates me how much effort governments put into being hated by their subjects. We're living in an era of peak anti-populism, well, I...
[17:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:30] <exec> 08└─... or simulating it really well.
[17:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:32] <exec> 08└─This is a case of stupid judge, not of stupid EU, several times over, as the friendly summary already notes. And even if it was an EU case, in an EU court, with data not specifically exempted, that legal case still woildn't hold any water and remain a case of stupid judge. (VLM I'm not even talking...
[17:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:35] <exec> 08└─What? Oh - I thought you said "stimulating".
[17:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:37] <exec> 08└─wtf is up with these scandi names it makes the title read like nonsense jorgmanskir bites lothgar rothbrook truth over private danish judicial proceedings
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─How was it "hacked" exactly? Let me guess, the password was "12345", the same as on his luggage.
[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─others actually watch opera
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:56] <exec> 08└─I say we organize a campaign to replace the current POTUS with our own @realDonaldTrump in 2020. Or sooner. Maybe. Probably. UID 6614! UID 6614! UID 6614!
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─It's also telling that this public servant isn't worried about the Chinese or the Russians or other hostile foreign powers listening in. He's worried the American public might find out what he's up to: “FOIA is real and everyday here in the cesspool, and even federal court action on personal acco...
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─It's still probably a better deal. You only get to burn the oil once, and it's gone. The solar panels (or the raw materials to make them) are purchased once and then keep producing electricity for years.
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─Because the monkeys would just plagiarize Shakespeare. :-)
[17:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 1620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention Han Solo... One of my kids wanted to see the movie because of the usual peer pressure. It was about as you'd expect: 1) The characters are watered down and weak compared to the original episode 4. You can't expect sequel number ten or so to be as groundbreakingly influential...
[17:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:39] <exec> 08└─Because the suits that boss around the creative types know that stuff will sell, and what they want is stuff that will sell.
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─Don't people commit suicide at European factories?
[17:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:00] <exec> 08└─I'm called dude, I call you dude. I'm called bro, I call you brah. Other than that, what's with the name calling thing? Man, that must be one big pickle.
[17:35:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the same vision many in America have for the Internet, to eliminate wrong-think? After all, anything a man agrees with is sensible, but everything he doesn't is hate speech.
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─"Still pining for Hillary? Can you even vaguely imagine this happening on her watch?" With or without every republican demanding her head for treason for even suggesting peace talks with North Korea? (You know, the kind of things they were doing whenever this came up under Obama's watch. It's kinda...
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[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─Why should people in the US care about the south china sea and africa? Its not their problem. Your entire premise seems to be that the US military should be active all around the world. Why?
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─I believe that Avigdor Lieberman can be described as some kind of a "white nationalist", but I'd never call him an anti-semite, either. So your statement depends on the premise "white nationalists are anti-semites", which I think is not always true, therefore "Trump is not a white nationalist becaus...
[17:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:30] <exec> 08└─How long will the bridge last?
[17:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─"5D" Laser-Based Polarization Vortex Storage Could Hold Hundreds of Terabytes for Billions of Years [soylentnews.org] or gold: Gold Nanoplasmonic Hybrid Glass Optical Disc Could Store 10 Terabytes for Over Six Centuries [soylentnews.org] Coming off a shelf near you.
[17:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bees Understand the Concept of Zero - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:57] <exec> 08└─Bees understand the blockchain?
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:33] <exec> 08└─Earlier you wrote: That's a problem that's much cheaper to fix than to live with.
[17:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─Ha, nice to see you finally lose your cool. You try so hard to maintain the calm rational appearance but you obviously mistook my statement. My prediction is your bullshit apologetics would very much piss off people who get desperate enough to revolt.
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[18:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:35] <exec> 08└─Norway isn't in the EU.
[18:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:36] <exec> 08└─Meh. That wasn't a slip, now, it was a penguin-style jump'n'slide.
[18:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër? See the løveli lakes The wøndërful telephøne system And mäni interesting furry animals
[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─Ouch, severely wrong on all counts except cultish brainwashing propaganda.
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─Would be less of a problem without unreadable mess of title capitlization "news" sites seem to be so fond of.
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─And even if it was an EU case, in an EU court, with data not specifically exempted, that legal case still woildn't hold any water and remain a case of stupid judge.
[18:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:05] <exec> 08└─Not sure of your meaning for "cheap theater"? On the Canadian side of the Niagara River (border towns) there are/were some strip clubs that the Americans called, "Canadian ballet"...is that similar innuendo?
[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─What I'm looking for in my politicians and political parties as a basic standard is 3 things, in this order: 1. Competence: I want some reason to believe that a candidate I vote for will have some idea what the job they are running for entails, and will be able to do it reasonably well. This is the...
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─And you don't like Bernie Sanders because .... ? He's got higher points in those three categories than any politician I can remember.
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't say a word about my opinion of Bernie Sanders in any of the above, so I don't know why you concluded I didn't like him.
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─Governmental meddling does not efficient technology make.
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─You only get to burn the oil once, and it's gone. The solar panels (or the raw materials to make them) are purchased once and then keep producing electricity for years.
[18:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:30] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, it's not good for our energy, or power, grid. Our grid loves beautiful clean coal -- maybe it's a little too clean, right? And it loves nuclear. Because coal & nuclear keep going and going. 100%. Like the Energizer bunny. They don't go on & off, on & off like solar and bird-killing...
[18:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─So you're saying hollywood has been using AI to make movies for the past ~20 years?
[18:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:28] <exec> 08└─These would be the proverbial interesting times, it seems...
[18:37:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─Everyone's jumping on the Trumpian logic that the State Department and all agencies are just useless "career bureaucrats" etc. No possible way are there actually people there who've spent their careers understanding foreign policy and it's implications etc. Who needs that when we have a fucking geni...
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:05] <exec> 08└─find that DeathMonkey comment for me ... Find the one where he says it won't happen. Nope, wasn't me, you must be thinking about Trump: "Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take plac...
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─The left start actively start a pro-nuclearization movement to spite Trump. We don't need to. Iran's taking care of that one for us.
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─They can't admit that he is doing wonderful things constantly.
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:11] <exec> 08└─Yup def troll, yet another person believing Trump's bullshit. He isn't a leftist or a righty, Trump is a just a greedy con artist. I'll take the inverse from this, so all conservatives are racist jew hating bible thumpers? Don't I see that characterization reviled all the time around here? You're co...
[18:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:13] <exec> 08└─More and more I'm thinking you've just been a long dormant sleeper account. Make a HUGE stink as a liberal then slowly walk back until you're a neo-con. You're most of the way to parroting Libertarian garbage already. Also it makes sense with your constant Clinton bashing during the election run-up....
[18:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:49] <exec> 08└─Let's be fair, AT&T clearly made a short-sighted decision to offer unlimited plans. However, not only did they respect their contracts (arguably anyway, I'm not discussing other problems with AT&T service), but they grandfathered the plan even after the contracts were up. By both legal and reasonabl...
[18:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:59] <exec> 08└─Iron gall ink is not friendly on fountain pens. It's the 21st century, we have permanent water-based fountain pen inks, Noodler's Black being a prominent example. Modern iron gall inks are better mixed to reduce the amount of deposits, but you still have to be extra careful or it will destroy your p...
[18:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pocket Projector Uses Raspberry Pi - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:47] <exec> 08└─I have it on good authority that you can use this product to display images of pocket protectors. It is thus useful as a pocket protector projector. Just put it in front of a mirror, and a steaming cup of hot tea and voila.
[18:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:03] <exec> 08└─It is still a problem that is much cheaper to fix than to live with. Simply making things illegal does not fix them, never has and never will.
[18:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:05] <exec> 08└─It is still a problem that is much cheaper to fix than to live with.
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[19:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:17] <exec> 08└─The Faraday Cage.
[19:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:18] <exec> 08└─More common than you think. I had some app that was accessing my mic much of the time, It caused excessive power usage, but the useage was attributed to google components because it was using google services app to listen and perhaps upload. With Android you can review each app, or each permission,...
[19:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:21] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, you could just stop pirating Spanish soccer matches.
[19:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:23] <exec> 08└─What part of "Spanish soccer league's smartphone app" sounds like pirating to you?
[19:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:25] <exec> 08└─wooosh? This is about rent collecting, some bars/pubs pirate Spanish soccer matches and show them to patrons.
[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─...and about effectively turning random customers into unwitting and unpaid enforcement agents potentially against their will. If that job is so important to them, they can hire their own damn employees to do it.
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, just grab all your software off F-Droid and have every single anti-feature clearly listed and highlighted right on the download page.
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, I was just yanking frojack's chain. He's usually trolling, but when he isn't it's just because he needs to prime his pump.
[19:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:34] <exec> 08└─With consent from the user, the app will analyze the audio in its surroundings to check if one of La Liga’s matches is being played. It then pairs that with GPS data to see if that location is an authorized broadcaster.
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─TFA is about the app catching people pirating Spanish soccer matches. Thus, you turning off the microphone can only be to protect yourself from being discovered.
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:58] <exec> 08└─Published: Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions Corrected: Court bites Håkon Wium Lie over public domain Norwegian court decisions It's still not great English but at least it's readable.
[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─Giving your password to Putin is not the same as being hacked.
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─In one sense, he should be. At least in theory, we're the ones he has to answer to.
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─So the real question is, how many kWh's you can get with $X worth of solar panel, compared to $X worth of oil?
[19:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─We talk about them being derivative, and they are, but... most machine-generated stuff is purely derivative, no outside influence, only past examples to draw on. Most human made media are not actually 100% derivative. They are at most 99% derivative. For example: A movie with Romeo and Juliet exactl...
[19:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, cell phones in modernized Shakespeare is also more derivative than you think: I watched an R.S.C. production of "The Merchant of Venice" that did exactly that in the 1990's.
[19:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:34] <exec> 08└─Would a general boycott of cheap shit lead to better working conditions for anyone? Foxconn is going to "investigate." They may very well get away with not actually changing anything, but at least they acknowledge that they are supposed to care about this.
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:47] <exec> 08└─China is censoring political dissent, they should be ashamed. But what's this? pornography banned, [...] obscenity, [...] appearing shirtless, [...] dancing
[19:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notorious Kindle Unlimited Abuser Has Been Booted From the Bookstore - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:12] <exec> 08└─They are probably betting that same-day delivery and fresh grocery delivery will pay off:
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Serious New Hurdle for CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find two Studies - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:49] <exec> 08└─Clearly you have never used Emacs. Not only is it possible to rewrite parts of an Emacs process live, you can even hook into it with a debugger, again while the process is running. Heck, you can even hook into the debugger with the debugger and modify the debugger (either one) at the same time.
[19:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─I read it as Brace Parens. Clearly a top notch C programmer.
[19:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:32] <exec> 08└─Then fuck Europe. If they tariff us they can't claim we are threatening our friendship by not tariffing in return. If they were friends we would have no tariffs. I think Trump and his rhetoric was too far but europe needs to stop acting like an angel.
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber May Try to Buy Citi Bike Parent Company Motivate - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:53] <exec> 08└─If providing accommodations to the disabled really gets your knickers in a twist, banning electric scooters should be pretty low on your list of things to fight. What about building requirements for ramps, elevators, disabled access, and reserved parking spots?
[19:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Warming - Yup - Did That, Then "Hid" the Data. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:04] <exec> 08└─I hope you're trolling...
[19:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:37] <exec> 08└─Ya, the expanded extraction of resources supporting massive population growth leading humanity into multiple crises at once.
[19:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automation Won’t Take Your Job Until The Next Recession Threatens It - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:39] <exec> 08└─You can't say you didn't mistake my statement when I clearly explained it to you. I see your emotional reactions are now overpowering your rational faculties. My point is stop siding with the exploiters, stop pushing ideology that worships pyramid schemes, and start understanding the problems of a m...
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[20:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:17] <exec> 08└─At least according to the summary it sounds like Vietnam is trying to protect its users instead of control them. Since they already have a law regarding propaganda against the state there is no need for anything further. Woops, just thought it through, having the data retained within the country mak...
[20:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:18] <exec> 08└─This law calls for companies like Google and Facebook to store data in Vietnam for Vietnamese people. Presumably the Vietnamese government would then have free access to it! Would I be right in thinking that Facebook and Google wouldn't comply with this new law, and get blocked instead, like in Chin...
[20:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:21] <exec> 08└─Instead of the government censoring the Internet, the US is busy changing the rules to allow Comcast, Spectrum (formerly Time Warner), and AT&T to do the censoring with absolutely no accountability to anyone. Hooray for Freedom!
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:37] <exec> 08└─"Consent" here seems to mean "they accepted the privacy policy." How many users do you really think read every single clause in the privacy policy before installing an app? Accepting such a policy is not the same as agreeing to work for someone.
[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─TFA is about soccer. Thus, you commenting on it can only mean you're a soccer fan.
[20:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─Not to mention how is the function described? Does it say "we'll listen in with your phone's microphone to record all background audio in order to find people pirating our soccer matches"? Or does it say something like "anonymized usage data may be gathered during specific events" which is so nebulo...
[20:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─Dark Enlightenment! You just gotta ask yourself, when ever you see something like this on the front page, where in the world is Steve Bannon?
[20:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:04] <exec> 08└─Perhaps if we had the Headline rewritten at that last moment, at great expense, by a bunch of Llamas?
[20:34:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─It's also telling that this public servant isn't worried about the Chinese or the Russians or other hostile foreign powers listening in. He's worried the American public might find out what he's up to: “FOIA is real and everyday here in the cesspool, and even federal court action on personal acco...
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:50] <exec> 08└─Still, after some years a solar panel is burnt out and gone, too. It's just as consumable as a barrel of oil.
[20:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─There's not much of a recycle market for PV panels (Yet) but there will be. And the rare earths you worry about are still in there. Strip the glass, re-refine the elements. Kind of like we do for lead-acid batteries since forever.
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I used to wonder how energy companies could stand to promote green energy. Surely that would cost them business? But your situation is typical. You have to sell them all the electricity your solar panels generate, at the wholesale price, and then you have to buy from them all the energy you us...
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what facetwit is doing in the rest of the world. And the clueless horde is cheering on.
[20:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─I imagine there's a lot of people impressed worldwide with the Chinese government's ability to just do stuff: build high speed rail systems, build vast numbers of renewable energy power generators, put people in space, make new cities, build a developed world economy - just like that.
[20:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:45] <exec> 08└─Given this picture: https://www.newsmax.com [newsmax.com] It seems that Rodman and Un can speak just fine with each other. I don't know what languages Rodman speaks, it may not be English only, but I would guess it was English o...
[20:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. I'd like to think that Soylent is too small....
[20:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─It's kinda hilarious how republicans and democrats will view any particular action depending ENTIRELY on whether or not it's a republican or a democrat suggesting it.
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[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─Kick them back to common carrier status where they don't snoop on user traffic and act like dumb pipes. Let the government hunt down illegal activity the hard way. I'd like to hear some of those Net Neutrality opponents chime in here and explain how this is all just the market balancing itself out.....
[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─How did you know I was a soccer fan? Also, I'm a fan of sarcasm.
[21:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:05] <exec> 08└─Based on the law in the books it shouldn't have qualified as an offense under that code, but thanks to a series of bad court decisions, none of which were publicly indexable at the time, they had broadened the law to act as a catch-all for offenses they didn't specifically document, instead of throw...
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:32] <exec> 08└─COULD ACTUALLY ELICIT CHANGE by choosing third party candidates...
[21:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─A 1watt cell will produce, in Phoenix AZ, ~2500 wh of electricity, 2.5kwh. Assuming 10c/kwh, it will make 25c/year. Taking the standard 1% yearly loss in output results in 77% nominal over 30 years (using a bit of calculus). So after 30 years, $.25 x 0.77 x 30 = $5.775 Solar panels are currently ~$0...
[21:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─Let's perform a thought experiment where there exists a photo without a copyright. Would anyone be able to see the photo? Would anyone want to? Would it look good as an album cover for a reissue of Duran Duran's Rio? Obviously, some of these questions will need more funding to address...
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─I'd have been more impressed if they piled up a quarter billion dollars of paper money, set it on fire, and filmed it.
[21:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:27] <exec> 08└─God only knows what a space alien race would think after observing the situation.
[21:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:50] <exec> 08└─They are doing it in private, not while at work.
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─When I was doing graduate work in Manchuria I made money on the side as a paid lecturer. I was trying to work that curse into one of my speeches on industrialization and modernity and asked my Chinese roommate, a PhD candidate in physics at China's equivalent of M.I.T., what the exact saying in Mand...
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:58] <exec> 08└─muskrat’s flamethrowers
[21:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─I would have said "possible uses for a flamethrower," so when I read "practical," I think they must know something the rest of us do not.
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─Your point about South Korea is noted. Somebody else pointed out China's influence. And, one more thing. You might want to wipe the foam from your mouth and chin, so that people don't think you're just another rabid Trump hater.
[21:39:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06AT&T Imposes Another $5 Price Hike on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:26] <exec> 08└─The data is unlimited! The throttling is unlimited! The price increases are unlimited! It's the bestest unlimited plan evar!
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[22:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Drone Business 'Sensat' Notches Up 29Km Remote-Control Flight - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:23] <exec> 08└─I thought the open source ardupilot (http://ardupilot.org/) project did this ten years ago?
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:54] <exec> 08└─How does this app adhere to the new European privacy laws?
[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─You could also turn off your microphone to protect the sports bar where you are viewing the pirated match. Or to save your battery. Or because you don't trust the app developers to listen in on your daily activities. But, really, you don't even need a reason.
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─It definitely wasn't clear from the original article. I was feeling optimistic, so I read it as explicit consent to this feature and not something stashed away in some legal text (why else would they "encourage people to enable" it if it was already allowed?). Assuming the other way is probably more...
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─The directors of the firm hired to continue the headline after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Hey, lawyers and other judges. Do you still wonder why tech savvy people think you're clueless? If this was the only decision like this ever made, we could understand it being a freak accident. But no. There's a constant stream of bad court decisions and idiotic laws that shouldn't have been...
[22:34:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─Hmmmph. Some people watch soap operas, others actually watch opera - and we're stuck with some poor security theater.
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─If I had mod points I would mod this up lots. Music and movies* are created funded and distributed by huge corporations who have no motivation other than making lots of money. So here we are in a world with endless superhero movies (basically the same thing over and over) and endless pop diva hits...
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─Is that "{()}" or "{}()"?
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[23:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:20] <exec> 08└─Opportunity sensors reports smells not unlike hunkering down inside a Tauntaun. Last time Mars threw one of those at it, that actually cleaned up the panels, making it stronger. Next step is super-sayan rover mode. Cue the XKCD about Opportunity becoming sentient and controlling half of Mars by the...
[23:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:21] <exec> 08└─90 days was an extremely conservative and overly pessimistic prediction of the longevity of these rovers. I sort of understand why they made such low predictions-- trying to manage expectations, keep the predicted budget low so Congress wouldn't cancel the program, that sort of thing. It's a game NA...
[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:23] <exec> 08└─Opportunity sensors reports smells not unlike hunkering down inside a Tauntaun. Last time Mars threw one of those at it, that actually cleaned up the panels, making it stronger.
[23:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:26] <exec> 08└─"Please don't take this the wrong way, but could you buy me three of the smallest butt plugs". A prolapsed rectum is no joke. All he can do just now is to sit on a tennis ball.
[23:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Drone Business 'Sensat' Notches Up 29Km Remote-Control Flight - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:34] <exec> 08└─But in 2003, Maynard Hill (http://www.progressiveengineer.com/profiles/maynardHill.htm) flew an autonomous RC sized plane across the Atlantic Ocean. Well, the plan was out of contact for about 35 hours, so I guess it flew itself.
[23:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Drone Business 'Sensat' Notches Up 29Km Remote-Control Flight - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:37] <exec> 08└─Outside of your onboard source of power, thunderstorms, or a rogue attack by the local terrain, if you can go 1km, what's preventing you from going 100km ? Off-the-shelf cheap drones have gps guidance programmable with routing points, so what exactly was newsworthy, here ? Sounds more like an ad dis...
[23:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Drone Business 'Sensat' Notches Up 29Km Remote-Control Flight - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper [wikipedia.org]
[23:33:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─Instead of the government censoring the Internet, the US is busy changing the rules to allow Comcast, Spectrum (formerly Time Warner), and AT&T to do the censoring with absolutely no accountability to anyone. Hooray for Freedom!
[23:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─I haven't read beyond TFS however it seems the new law is about where the data is stored, not the ISP. For example, companies like Facebook would be required to maintain servers in Vietnam and store user data for any of it's Vietnam users there, presumably giving the Vietnam government easier access...
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─Kick them back to common carrier status where they don't snoop on user traffic and act like dumb pipes. We will never get dumb pipes while the ISP acts as the government's internet gatekeeper. We have to circumvent and get rid of the ISP entirely. There is no other way it can possibly happen.
[23:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:57] <exec> 08└─I don't live in Vietnam, but I would much rather that FB, Google etc be required to keep my data within my own country than on servers accessible to the US government. Over the past 10 years the US government has been shown to have abused access to this sort of thing more than any other government i...
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─How automated is the reporting process? Do they follow up with their own agents to verify in person or do they just use the recordings as proof? They've created a great way for a group of friends to get a bunch of random businesses sued, perhaps even get the league to sue itself. The USA media indus...
[23:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─It used to be that people said "information is power," but now that information is so ubiquitous it seems like the aphorism could be updated to "integrity is power." This move by the soccer league and many other corporations seem to be destroying all trust in them and the system they have created. T...
[23:34:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 415 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:35] <exec> 08└─This is a case of stupid judge, not of stupid EU, several times over, as the friendly summary already notes. And even if it was an EU case, in an EU court, with data not specifically exempted, that legal case still woildn't hold any water and remain a case of stupid judge. (VLM I'm not even talking...
[23:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:51] <exec> 08└─The scariest part is finding out he's ... RIGHT BEHIND YOU! BAD TOUCH STEVE BAD TOUCH!
[23:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:52] <exec> 08└─That's "Euwwwww!", not EU. Just saying. At least he's not trying to suck out my young blood through a Palantir.
[23:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:54] <exec> 08└─Corrected: Court bites Håkon Wium Lie over public domain Norwegian court decisions
[23:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:21] <exec> 08└─Oh no wait, they're in cahoots, so it couldn't be them... its the Hillary! *ducks*
[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─The price for the ticket, mate, check it out in the US budget.
[23:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Appalling" Conditions Reported at Foxconn Plant That Makes Amazon Devices - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:42] <exec> 08└─That was my feeling as well: over-reliance on temporary workers
[23:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:00] <exec> 08└─But we have to eliminate the ISP to usurp the tyrants. Until we do, there is no hope for a truly free internet.
[23:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked a zombie could reach further than 24" so you might wanna rethink your defensive plans.
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Co. Delivers First 1,000 Flamethrowers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:54] <exec> 08└─...run around with their hair on fire about firearms and the deaths that result from their misuse...
[23:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:22] <exec> 08└─Okay, I know from experience what the left one is. What's the one on the right? Pictorial for 'gay' somehow?
[23:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:56] <exec> 08└─I don't understand S. Korean politics, I know Jack about who is who.
[23:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:58] <exec> 08└─I lost all respect for NPR when they cracked and started covering OJ Simpson. SoylentNews seems to have reached the same level of feckless complicity.
[23:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:00] <exec> 08└─Your entire premise seems to be that the US military should be active all around the world. Why?
[23:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:48] <exec> 08└─Generations! No need to drive a car across it before buying. Just sign here please. .
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