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[00:49:58] <exec> 08└─They solve their counterfeit problem!
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[00:49:59] <exec> 08└─Amazon Wine is Shutting Down [soylentnews.org]
[00:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:21] <exec> 08└─We don't need Hellfire-armed drones. All we need is a wall, then a hundred meter no-man's-land zone, then a fence, then a minefield for another hundred meters, then another fence, then an access road, then another fence, and then another wall -- along every inch of the border. With guard turrets eve...
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[00:50:23] <exec> 08└─Democrats aren't just importing Mexicans (and other Central/South Americans) to replenish their dwindling numbers of voters. Their leaders also want the poor little children to be set free from the holding centers, so that the deliveries of the leaders' sex poppets can be completed. Those Democrats...
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[00:50:25] <exec> 08└─Still sounding stupid. Good job!
[00:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:27] <exec> 08└─Except it is in the wrong direction. Last time I went to TJ, I walked across the border through a one way turnstile no questions asked. Many people were killed trying to leave socialist eastern bloc countries. According to wikipedia: Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented...
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[00:50:29] <exec> 08└─It was the country they were leaving from doing the shooting.
[00:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:32] <exec> 08└─On the first topic, try today taking a picture anywhere near a customs/immigration office, let alone of the officers. I don’t know for sure, but I’ll bet you’ll be in jail promptly. (Aren’t they public servants and we should be able to take their pictures doing their job?)
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[00:50:34] <exec> 08└─Who do you think is picking the produce, working in the meat packing plants, washing the cars, reshingling the roofs in the August sun, changing the baby's diapers, cleaning the motel rooms, and busing the tables so you can sit down? That's right. It's first-generation USAians working for cutthroat...
[00:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Browser Tests Integrating Tor and Opt-In Ads - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:46] <exec> 08└─Why would I use that when I have actual ad blockers? I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears.
[00:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Browser Tests Integrating Tor and Opt-In Ads - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:47] <exec> 08└─From Brandon Eich, the guy who gave us JavaScript and has traditional ideas of partnerships.
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[00:51:20] <exec> 08└─When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
[00:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:21] <exec> 08└─Was being taken seriously ever the primary motive?
[00:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:23] <exec> 08└─We can mod him Spam all we want; site admins apparently want him around as an interesting character.
[00:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Legend Harlan Ellison Dead at 84 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:36] <exec> 08└─he's lying on a big white carpet right now, somewhere. /obscure?
[00:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Legend Harlan Ellison Dead at 84 - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:38] <exec> 08└─Though it didn't strike down the Jews as much, because they practised basic hygiene and kept cleaner houses (though nobody knew that this helped). This led to the authorities of the day determining that the Jews must have made a pact with the devil to be spared the black death. Hmmm, sounds like som...
[00:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sensor Detects How Bad Your Body Odor is - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:33] <exec> 08└─There's one thing I've always wondered about. Japanese usually take a bath in the evening before going to bed. Don't they wake up with their hair all messed up? A simply comb or brush wouldn't fix it, would it? I've wondered because my own hair after I wake up is a mess, even when I keep it short. J...
[00:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Detects How Bad Your Body Odor is - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:34] <exec> 08└─...but I suspect that they'd have to refuse it on safety grounds as it would likely become an explosive in there.
[00:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Detects How Bad Your Body Odor is - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there's a difference in hair texture or something?
[00:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Criticizes UK Complicity in U.S. Rendition - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:34] <exec> 08└─We were not amused (grin)
[00:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Services Restored - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:13] <exec> 08└─Well yeah but faith = "I don't know" as well, just with the addendum " but I believe anyway".
[00:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Approves Online Privacy Law - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:57] <exec> 08└─...we must demand access to any and all data collected on us.
[00:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analyst Suggests That Google Should Give Every U.S. Home a Free Smart Speaker - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:46] <exec> 08└─Hey, if there was a viable 10" open source tablet (hardware and software), I'd be all for it and would have gladly chosen it instead. Sadly, there isn't. The iPad is the bad choice in a sea of terrible choices. I had hoped that Sailfish and the Jolla tablet would take off, but c'est la vie.
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[01:49:56] <exec> 08└─India (and probably other countries) looks like it handles counterfeiting and distribution by blister-packing the pills. If you go to pretty much any pharmacy there, they cut the packs with scissors to match the count of pills on the purchase, so the seals on the blisters are never broken until you...
[01:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:26] <exec> 08└─Amen, brother! Socialism: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. Take away the means of production from the Capitalist exploiters of labor and hand it over to The Workers.[1] What's that? That's not what you meant? Hmmm. [1] BTW, you nitwits who stupidly use the term "Ha...
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[01:50:27] <exec> 08└─What about the taggers?
[01:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:16] <exec> 08└─The answer of course was that Ajit would have been on the board regardless of who the president was, he was recommended by Obama and got a "bi-partisan" vote in both houses of the legislature. The parties do this alot, you are correct. If they cared about abortion they would have codified something...
[01:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Legend Harlan Ellison Dead at 84 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:32] <exec> 08└─Wonder this too. B5 and the love Moorcock gave him too, his influence was huge. BTW, new wave science fiction in the 70's? When it had already started in the 60's? Grumble. Anyways, here's a photo Ellison and Moorcock from a short, but fair, number of years ago: http://efanzines.com
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[01:57:09] <exec> 08└─we don't care about no real girls, we just want dat anime pussy [youtube.com]
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[02:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:57] <exec> 08└─Most people are alone in a room filled with other people.
[02:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:59] <exec> 08└─This is why American high schools were a good thing, at least when I attended them. Because GATE classes were big on Orwell, Nietzsche, Conrad, Hesse, Camus. So those students already experienced that temporary hurdle in life, when they were listening to Nirvana and complaining about how nobody "und...
[02:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:01] <exec> 08└─The oracle agrees. [theoatmeal.com]
[02:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dw6Q3mHyzn78 [youtube.com]
[02:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:05] <exec> 08└─Fuck this. With our new Space Force we'll finally learn the truth and start brining home extraterrestrial trophies to hang on our space station walls. BTW, Trump learned the truth about Roswell. That's why we're starting up Space Force. Fools like you want us to believe what you're shoveling. Not an...
[02:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:08] <exec> 08└─"Existential Crisis" in the 80s sounds kinda lame? During the last of a few trips (a tiny little fleck of windowpane), I was convinced that everything I knew about acid and pop culture (Albert Hofmann and Sandoz, Kesey and the Pranksters, other writers, Grateful Dead and the Acid Tests, other psyche...
[02:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:19] <exec> 08└─And the counterfeiters do not know how to make plastic... That sort of thing raises the bar to entry for them. It does not make it impossible. Probably never will be.
[02:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:21] <exec> 08└─Careful what you swipe. You have no idea what sort of aliment they have https://www.drugs.com [drugs.com]
[02:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:23] <exec> 08└─If you want to abuse my blood pressure, diuretic and anticoagulant meds, knock yourself out! Or take a couple of handfuls and just wait.
[02:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:25] <exec> 08└─But... Girl Scouts can sell Girl Scout cookies outside the door of marijuana dispensaries.
[02:50:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 829 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:43] <exec> 08└─It's only a matter of time. ICE was formed to keep dangerous criminals out of the country, and instead they've become a miitarized deportation force. They go to fields where immigrants are picking fruit to demand documents. Like someone who's going to be picking fruit in 90 degree weather is going t...
[02:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:57] <exec> 08└─My country sucks, I think I'll just abuse asylum laws to move to a better country, like Canada, or Germany, or Sweden, or...oh, wait.
[02:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:58] <exec> 08└─...and don't forget that northern border. Jogger without ID detained for 2 weeks [kgmi.com] A 19-year-old woman who traveled from France to Canada to visit her mother in British Columbia says U.S. officials detained her for two weeks after she accidentally crossed the border while jogging.
[02:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:00] <exec> 08└─>Who do you think is picking the produce, working in the meat packing plants, washing the cars, reshingling the roofs in the August sun, changing the baby's diapers, cleaning the motel rooms, and busing the tables so you can sit down? So racist... I can't even.
[02:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:02] <exec> 08└─It's even easier than you know. Just get a student visa. They'll take you and even give you a publicly-funded education. Wouldn't surprise me if the the people you encounter there speak better English that the dull-witted USAians with whom you hang out. I'll just abuse asylum laws Even if they saw t...
[02:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:05] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, my grandmother took me on a bunch of road trips with her. A few were to New Mexico where we'd get stopped at the interdiction checkpoints around El Paso. One time the agent asked, "Are you a citizen of the United States?" She said, "Yes, sir," and started to drive off, then stopped...
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[02:51:07] <exec> 08└─You might be dangerous--if you had a brain. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:09] <exec> 08└─Don't know your History? ITYM "annex EVEN MORE OF Mexico". google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=map+%22.before.the.Mexican.War%22 S/N's comments engine is still broken and strips out e.g. %22 from hyperlinks. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:58] <exec> 08└─You think you've figured a way to block every proxy, every ToR exit node, every VPN, and every ssh tunnel (even the ones not created yet), do you? You can not block an anonymous asshat with even a smidgen of a clue from a website except by disallowing all anonymous access. It's simply not possible....
[02:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, violence (escalation) has been the means to most lasting resolutions throughout history. It's just not PC to say so anymore.
[02:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:02] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Dead people rarely object to your position anymore. Violence's morality may vary depending on the circumstance but its effectiveness is beyond question.
[02:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06New Evidence of Ancient Child Sacrifice Found in Turkey - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:45] <exec> 08└─Browsing the internet without a script blocker?? Are you MAD? uBlock origin disabled that "feature" straight out of the box for me.
[02:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence of Ancient Child Sacrifice Found in Turkey - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:47] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't do that in Turkey now, they have a great guy running the show. Just re-elected & given tremendous power. Very strong guy, it's called one-man rule. But look what's happening in our Country. Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated...
[02:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Detects How Bad Your Body Odor is - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:18] <exec> 08└─It probably just dies, quietly giving an electronic shrug as all 2,000 uses are consumed instanteously.
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[03:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 3023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:06] <exec> 08└─There are basically hundreds of billions or trillions of exoplanets in our galaxy, if not more orders of magnitude. Subsurface oceans seem to be very common in our solar system, so there are probably trillions of planets or moons in the galaxy with life inside, except it is probably locked in, micro...
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[03:50:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but at least the writing was good. And I'm not an acid freak, merely a drunk. The point I am trying to make is that the guy described in the summary is an uncool Geezer in the most sincere sense of the phrase because if he were a normal person, he would have been a Cure fan around the time of...
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[03:50:10] <exec> 08└─1970's American Military Officer 1: " Hey, let's violate some treaties they signed in good faith and make space weapons, blow up a few Russian Satellites! Journalists don't know what happens in space! 1970's American Military Officer 2: " Groovy. Let's do it! " * BLAM! *
[03:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:12] <exec> 08└─if we somehow manage to invent a warp drive in the next century
[03:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:14] <exec> 08└─If we can have private companies launching rockets, listening for signals from outer space, why do we have to wait around for the government to study UFOs? We've tried the government approach and that seems to satisfy nobody. So let the true believers have a crack at it. Make them prove their claims...
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[03:50:17] <exec> 08└─I've been around aircraft my entire life. I've flown many, and I have seen nearly any aircraft you can name fly at least once. Suffice it to say I am familiar with what aircraft can and cannot do. * I have seen one UFO that did something no manned aircraft could do. I don't know what was operating i...
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[03:50:19] <exec> 08└─"So let the true believers have a crack at it." -- Ok, sounds good. First thing in the morning, I'll start a Go Fund Me for my own Very Large Array radiotelescope. Your donations are welcome !
[03:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:21] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty [wikipedia.org] The Outer Space Treaty represents the basic legal framework of international space law. Among its principles, it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit, installing them on the Moon or an...
[03:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Listen [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:25] <exec> 08└─It took about two thousand years to understand that different parallel lines can cross. Today anyone can demonstrate it by folding paper.
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[03:50:41] <exec> 08└─And what's not to like?
[03:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:43] <exec> 08└─I used to get my meds from Indian manufacturers. My bloodwork showed they were legit. Pennies on the dollar compared to what "insurance" claims they cost. Hell, pennies on the dollar compared to the "great deal" insurance claims I'm getting. The price of drugs is pure bullshit.
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[03:51:21] <exec> 08└─...who don't have a majority in the House or Senate, or on SCOTUS, and who don't currently occupy the White House. deliveries of [...] sex poppets Again, the GOP has complete control of the Executive Branch. If those Trumpians were doing their fucking jobs properly, the people to whom those youngste...
[03:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:23] <exec> 08└─Believe me, we're having big problems with Canada. Billions of dollars gets brought into Canada through the border. We get the killers, drugs & crime, they get the money! As your President, I have instructed my Border Patrol to set up Highway Checkpoints. In Maine, in New Hampshire, in many places....
[03:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:25] <exec> 08└─Many people were killed trying to leave socialist eastern bloc countries First, I have a problem with the plural. Next, your blockquote mentions only the divided -city- of Berlin. Additionally, there weren't worker-owned cooperatives[1] in East Berlin; the state controlled everything there and there...
[03:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:27] <exec> 08└─Even before Donald J. Trump Sr became a senile old fart, he was a nitwit with a serious personality disorder. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:29] <exec> 08└─You really think companies that benefit from the downward pressure immigration/offshoring puts on wages, would actually want to do that?
[03:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:21] <exec> 08└─What Ajit Pai has proven is that no amount of letters is sufficient to do the right thing. There are few things that the government has done that are as universally unpopular as repealing net neutrality, which is why they had to stuff the comment box with fake comments and then refuse to validate th...
[03:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:23] <exec> 08└─"its effectiveness is beyond question." I would most definitely question the effectiveness of violence. At best, violence is only effective for one side and quite ineffective for the other. At worst, it's ineffective for both sides. A non-violent agreement can be effective for both sides.
[03:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I just love all the retaliatory violence we have on Earth right now. Even the act of violence has an impact on those who use it. While it may be effective in stopping someone from doing something, if you're morality is not in line with human values then you will damage your own culture. Just l...
[03:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Fiction Legend Harlan Ellison Dead at 84 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:42] <exec> 08└─> an armed bodyguard for a paranoid friend Would you have trusted someone that temperamental to be around you with a gun?
[03:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Services Restored - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:21] <exec> 08└─I blame GitHub for selling out to Microsoft.
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[04:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:18] <exec> 08└─They had to invent paper too.
[04:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:20] <exec> 08└─IMO, FTL "might be possible", but require finding some other physics rule. That said it would be related to another point along with the relativity theory: since time would pass differently for someone travelling really fast, you can't really go on a holiday in alpha centauri then go back home on ea...
[04:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:22] <exec> 08└─A warp drive that bends space would not result in the time dilation you're talking about. Presumably, other FTL technologies such as wormholes would work the same way. If you're not actually traveling faster than c, you don't get the time dilation. You don't even need FTL to get your scenario. If yo...
[04:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:21] <exec> 08└─You can apply for asylum at any US consulate or embassy. We have them all over the world, including 9 in Mexico. You don't have to break our law to get asylum. Asylum is for stuff like a government that persecutes you for your religion or ethnicity. Ordinary stuff, like poverty and gang violence, do...
[04:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:22] <exec> 08└─That's up to a judge. Someone getting sent back to certain death is definitely a mitigating circumstance. Trumpians taking the judges out of the loop is a major violation of the due process guaranteed by the Constitution. ...and in determining who may not be deprived of due process, the Constitution...
[04:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Browser Tests Integrating Tor and Opt-In Ads - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:37] <exec> 08└─He's a traditionalist. And so am I. It’s like in golf. A lot of people -- I don’t want this to sound trivial -- but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. It’s weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink t...
[04:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Legend Harlan Ellison Dead at 84 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:37] <exec> 08└─You're saying that like it wasn't true [thefinertimes.com], although one can argue if this was a self fulfilling prophecy.
[04:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence of Ancient Child Sacrifice Found in Turkey - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:08] <exec> 08└─Whey. Tofurkey is made from bean Kurds.
[04:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence of Ancient Child Sacrifice Found in Turkey - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:09] <exec> 08└─Yep, me too. I'm annoyed that browsers are willing to do it, and that I can't disable most of this crap- in the browser. I HATE ALL onmouseover things. Menus popping up and down just because I'm moving my mouse pointer to something I want to do. Absolutely stupid. End of rant, sorry...
[04:54:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Site Services Restored - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:55] <exec> 08└─It involves the ACME protocol and a pesky roadrunner.
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[05:49:53] <exec> 08└─Dilbert is Truth. Stop fighting it. Maybe find a small company where productivity matters, but you will probably work more for less money.
[05:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:55] <exec> 08└─... writing what is essentially a disgruntled reddit comment. I envy such people.
[05:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:57] <exec> 08└─I heard David Graeber on Pacifica Radio (actually, their webcasts) a couple of times in the previous weeks. History buff Mitch Jeserich had him on "Letters and Politics". [kpfk.org] Content starts at 06:30 after a newsbreak and goes to 59:00. A major point was that, before Industrialism, people were...
[05:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:46] <exec> 08└─Drugs would be perfect for drone delivery. High cost item, low weight. Usually you want them delivered ASAP.
[05:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:31] <exec> 08└─Even if they were naked, they could hang the ID from their neck. Seriously, why would you leave your license at home? You'll need it to drive there, you know you'll need it for ICE, and you'll need it to get a beer or pack of cigarettes on the way home. Unless maybe you were wandering out to fetch t...
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[05:52:46] <exec> 08└─Roy [...] has been playing "X Minus One" around 3AM once or twice a week. That's the only SciFi left on the station. Let me modify that. The first Monday of the month (actually, Tuesday morning), Roy does an Old-Time Radio night with Bob Lyons and Barbara Sunday of SPERDVAC. July 2/July 3 will be su...
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[06:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:56] <exec> 08└─... and you choose to pick on a management model? Six-Sigma may or may not be crap, but come on! I think a much larger part of the problem is that humans have built incredibly complex, interconnected, global economies around these money-manipulating, warmongering monopolies on violence, who fund the...
[06:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:06] <exec> 08└─What, you thought anthropologist wasn't a bullshit job too? Silly AC.
[06:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:08] <exec> 08└─A major point was that, before Industrialism, people were paid for doing tasks, not by the hour.
[06:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:10] <exec> 08└─For white collar jobs maybe. In skilled trades good productivity leads pretty much directly to more money in your pocket. Management in the trades generally aren't worthless paper pushers but experienced tradesmen who know what you're worth to them and are willing to pay it after some ritual hagglin...
[06:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:12] <exec> 08└─Don't need to worry, mate, you are safe. Anthropologists don't study buzzards.
[06:50:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 3023 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:31] <exec> 08└─There are basically hundreds of billions or trillions of exoplanets in our galaxy, if not more orders of magnitude. Subsurface oceans seem to be very common in our solar system, so there are probably trillions of planets or moons in the galaxy with life inside, except it is probably locked in, micro...
[06:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:44] <exec> 08└─The truth is, no matter whether we achieve interstellar travel or not, humanity is the keepers of their own sorrow. Moon base? Draconian authoritarian corporatocracy. Interstellar travel? Genocide of primitive aliens. Interstellar trade? Interstellar war. Colonies in other star systems? See moon bas...
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[06:51:49] <exec> 08└─Behold: the masters' hubris, breeding ground for festering resentment
[06:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:45] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna guess that most people perpetrating violence upon someone over a dispute are not concerned with how it turns out for the other side in the least. That pretty much makes your argument a null op from their perspective.
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[06:52:47] <exec> 08└─My words are historical fact. Ignore them at your own peril.
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[07:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:53] <exec> 08└─Ehhh, I never thought much of Sigma Six anyway. Old lessons, rephrased, really don't add a whole lot to the game. When they seem to poorly rephrased, something is lost. But, Sigma was all the rage with new college grads, a few top dogs in corporations decided they liked it - and Sigma becomes a big...
[07:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:55] <exec> 08└─Agreed, Casting Six Sigma and, by implication, ISO 9000 under the buss without regard for world events, the economic meltdown, and the natural cyclicality of business is dumb. The fact that GE is probably losing out to other companies, many of whom are Six-Sigma believers themselves never seems to r...
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[07:49:57] <exec> 08└─I have a strong feeling it wasn't six-sigma that did them in... rather it was lousy implementation. The concept of "doing a good job" has been around for ages... but it changes names about like we change fashion. For me, it was first "a stitch in time saves nine", then "the Taguchi Method", where st...
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[07:50:10] <exec> 08└─This ^ a hundred times! It often seems those college kids learned about some imaginary world. Construction companies and the like don't have a lot of time for the silly bullshit that goes on elsewhere. They know what needs to be done, and they get it done, or they go broke and no one hears from them...
[07:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, all of that is common wisdom. Except, conditions weren't the same all over the world. Didn't we have a recent article, telling us that peasants in feudal Europe had more time off than we do today? http://blogs.reuters.com
[07:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:45] <exec> 08└─What is to say that a cluster of stars is not conscious? Also, UFOs have vanished after invention of mobile cameras. My guess? It will be more like Solaris [imdb.com] - life as we don't know it.
[07:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:04] <exec> 08└─Drugs would be perfect for drone delivery. High cost item, low weight.
[07:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, aren't you on to something [economist.com]. The whole "invasion" thing is a very anti-ethnic common propaganda tool since time immemorial.
[07:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Evidence of Ancient Child Sacrifice Found in Turkey - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a linking hyphen would have helped. "New Evidence of Ancient Child-Sacrifice Found in Turkey" It stimulated the hinky side of my brain too.
[07:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Billionaire Space Race is Making Life Difficult for Airlines - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:49] <exec> 08└─So they're cruising at 22000 mph?
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[08:49:59] <exec> 08└─You know, the guy on the shop floor likely knows more about how to do his thing than anyone else in the organization. Especially if he's been doing it for years. What it it that people think social status overrides competency? No, I would not put it past, say, the mechanic who works on my van to de...
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[08:50:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Long ago I worked out how to be an effective engineering consultant -- look for the person on the shop floor that knows what's going on, ask them what's good and what needs work. Then take that info up to management, since internal communication rarely works in the "up" direction. I was always...
[08:50:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:12] <exec> 08└─A major point was that, before Industrialism, people were paid for doing tasks, not by the hour.
[08:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:17] <exec> 08└─> A major point was that, before Industrialism, people were paid for doing tasks, not by the hour. Piecework (worker paid for each piece completed) was common in the early industrial revolution and there are still bits of this around. My grandmother sewed parachute harnesses in WWII and was paid by...
[08:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:19] <exec> 08└─Paid "by piece": custom furniture custom cabinetry custom (tailored) clothing custom saddles Whether a person runs a manufactory* of a few or many, or works on their own in a shed doesn't stop the payment/production model. Scale and quality seem to be tied together, unless you go to something likeRo...
[08:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 3160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:53] <exec> 08└─well, here's my problem with your statement: you're an anonymous coward on the internet. your statement has absolutely the same value as the statement: "I went up on a mountain, God showed himself as a burning bush and told me we should listen to these here rules". in case you are sincere, I apologi...
[08:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:54] <exec> 08└─What is to say that a cluster of stars is not conscious?
[08:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:56] <exec> 08└─your statement has absolutely the same value as the statement: "I went up on a mountain, God showed himself as a burning bush and told me we should listen to these here rules".
[08:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:16] <exec> 08└─It just wanted the Wu-Tang album that came with it.
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[08:52:05] <exec> 08└─Seriously, why would you leave your license at home?
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[08:52:07] <exec> 08└─That's State Capitalism.
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[08:52:22] <exec> 08└─So, short putter, short cock?
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[08:52:23] <exec> 08└─Just saying.
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[09:49:59] <exec> 08└─Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up
[09:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:00] <exec> 08└─A "privacy first" policy would update your phone to be a brick.
[09:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 2155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:14] <exec> 08└─While I would not dispute a single word of the above, I think there is a problem at the corporate level too. I am not too familiar with 6-sigma, but I have been involved in three ISO-9000 implementations. It really just Say what you are going to do Say how you are going to demonstrate it was done G...
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[09:50:15] <exec> 08└─Ehhh, I never thought much
[09:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:17] <exec> 08└─all the incompetence but Ferrengi-like behaviour rises to the top, gets in control, and steers the whole organization into incompetence-by-formal-processes
[09:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:19] <exec> 08└─Even if only with ISO9001**, there's still a chance to introduce inefficiency. E.g. -"Say how you are going to demonstrate it was done" - any process measuring implies overhead. Any mediocre manager worth his salt wants purchasers and plots and... which means in time there's a good chance that more...
[09:52:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 1827 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:00] <exec> 08└─Who do you think is picking the produce, working in the meat packing plants, washing the cars, reshingling the roofs in the August sun, changing the baby's diapers, cleaning the motel rooms, and busing the tables so you can sit down? That's right. It's first-generation USAians working for cutthroat...
[09:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:23] <exec> 08└─Show us a single example of a functioning socialist state. Take away the means of production from the Capitalist exploiters of labor and hand it over to The Workers.
[09:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:24] <exec> 08└─It only we could ask the Neanderthals how the whole multiculturalism thing worked out for them.
[09:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:26] <exec> 08└─If those Trumpians were doing their fucking jobs properly, the people to whom those youngsters are being turned over would have been vetted. ...and the sex traffickers|child labor abusers wouldn't have those kids.
[09:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:28] <exec> 08└─Socialism: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers.
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[10:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:56] <exec> 08└─My local gang of police thugs doesn't have a SWAT team! I feel sooooo unsafe!
[10:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:57] <exec> 08└─One police department openly admitted that it "doesn't have a full-time SWAT team," and is unable to respond to an active shooter situation.
[10:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:07] <exec> 08└─I was looking for a good offline map system, as I have intentions of going out into the desert, and wanted to insure that if I got turned around, I could get back. Although I like Google Maps the best, they have an annoying habit of disappearing after so many days all by themselves, and I haven't f...
[10:50:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:18] <exec> 08└─I have a strong feeling it wasn't six-sigma that did them in... rather it was lousy implementation. The concept of "doing a good job" has been around for ages... but it changes names about like we change fashion. For me, it was first "a stitch in time saves nine", then "the Taguchi Method", where st...
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[10:50:26] <exec> 08└─They went from making stuff (computers, aero engines, power generation equipment) to finance. They knew how to make stuff- good stuff. They thought they could make more money being a bank. Banks are good at that (well, not all of them) GE.. wasn't.
[10:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:29] <exec> 08└─That is a beautiful FTFY. Thanks!
[10:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:46] <exec> 08└─All the above being a generalization of course. You can find worthless shitheads in any walk of life. They're just not as common when Getting Shit Done is the metric by which you advance.
[10:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:48] <exec> 08└─Too right. Their wives and daughters do though.
[10:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:50] <exec> 08└─Scale and quality seem to be tied together
[10:51:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 1516 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:13] <exec> 08└─I've been around aircraft my entire life. I've flown many, and I have seen nearly any aircraft you can name fly at least once. Suffice it to say I am familiar with what aircraft can and cannot do. * I have seen one UFO that did something no manned aircraft could do. I don't know what was operating i...
[10:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:27] <exec> 08└─Also, UFOs have vanished after invention of mobile cameras.
[10:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:28] <exec> 08└─what are you talking about? if two lines are parallel, they cannot cross. not if they are straight lines in Euclidian geometry. the notion of "parallel" is in fact only adequate for Euclidian geometry. if you're going to extend it to "lines that do not cross", then you can do that, but then THEY DO...
[10:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:30] <exec> 08└─special relativity says that you can go on vacation on the other side of the galaxy (time dilation allows you to get there and back in a reasonably short subjective time), but what you observe while there is far in the future of the pictures from the flier, and what you find back home is even furthe...
[10:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:45] <exec> 08└─That's an oxymoron. You're spouting Cold War bullshit. The opposite of Socialism is NOT Democracy. The opposite of Socialism is Capitalism. Those 2 are ECONOMIC systems and are on the HORIZONTAL axis of the "political" palate. It is completely possible to talk about that axis without mentioning The...
[10:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:46] <exec> 08└─You've invested a great number of words to prove you know nothing about this topic. Look up "Liberal Democracy". Hint: It's what you think is "socialism". Socialism is an ECONOMIC system. It's possible to discuss Socialism without ever mentioning The State. I have done that lots of times. [soylentne...
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[11:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:51] <exec> 08└─This is one of the scenarios anti-GMO groups have been warning about for years and years, and all that time have been told that they are fear-mongering. Is it still fear-mongering when it's actually happening?
[11:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:52] <exec> 08└─> Is it still fear-mongering when it's actually happening? Yes, it's the same fear.
[11:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:02] <exec> 08└─But, but,... think of the children! Our children are so much safer with a SWAT team nearby. The SWATs may even miss the children when shooting real bullets at empty words and that is a great win-win situation. /s
[11:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:13] <exec> 08└─just a couple of days ago: https://blogs.bing.com [bing.com] Anyone cares to connect the dots?
[11:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:15] <exec> 08└─Maps.Me used to be good, but has been overrun by advertisements over the past year. YMMV.
[11:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:17] <exec> 08└─They made this thing called paper and a compass. Maps can be printed on it and retained without flash memory or batteries. You should check that shit out. (seriously, if you're going to hike in the middle of nowhere, DO NOT rely on technology. Learn to use a paper map and compass. Buy a separate han...
[11:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:20] <exec> 08└─Prelude to them shutting down Bing Maps? Google is absolutely dominant in that area.
[11:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:22] <exec> 08└─I hope that data is more reliable than Bing maps. Five years ago I reported - via the official Bing reporting tool - that a road around here has been closed for years. Bing still wants to route people that way, even though actually going that way would require climbing a fence, then sneaking across...
[11:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:24] <exec> 08└─Techcrunch published an Apple press release as an article. That's good to know. tl;dr: Apple Maps sucks. But we're working oh so very hard to bring you the bestest Apple Maps ever, Real Soon Now™ With better Apple search too! Soon our overpriced crap will be marginally more useful! And don't worry...
[11:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:27] <exec> 08└─I was looking for a good offline map system
[11:50:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 2155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:39] <exec> 08└─While I would not dispute a single word of the above, I think there is a problem at the corporate level too. I am not too familiar with 6-sigma, but I have been involved in three ISO-9000 implementations. It really just Say what you are going to do Say how you are going to demonstrate it was done G...
[11:50:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:41] <exec> 08└─all the incompetence but Ferrengi-like behaviour rises to the top, gets in control, and steers the whole organization into incompetence-by-formal-processes
[11:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:47] <exec> 08└─Please, list the sites from which Runaway has been banned. Obviously, if we have the data available from those sites, we can have him committed. List the sites, and the reasons for being banned from them, give us some leverage!
[11:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:49] <exec> 08└─We are doing something weird and different at work. I've never seen or heard it before, but your post sounds kinda close. Each year, Corporate does a survey of it's employees. I've been caught in a Catch-22 because I couldn't enter the information they wanted, regarding *my* supervisor. That is, the...
[11:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:49] <exec> 08└─in the edward norton hulk there is a scene where a human is on a table and begins transformation into the hulk. as the transformation proceeds, the table breaks because of the increased weight. THAT is impossible, it would have been called impossible a few hundred years ago, and I call it impossible...
[11:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:51] <exec> 08└─Bending spacetime is the way to work around the faster-than-light limit: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:53] <exec> 08└─Time dilation only kicks in if your velocity approaches the speed of light or if you are near a strong gravitational field. If you are not actually moving, e.g. bending spacetime with a warp drive or wormhole, time dilation does not apply. That's not to say that either method of travel is conclusive...
[11:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:09] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. ...but you're really good at repeating Lamestream Media's bullshit. Here, read what an actual Socialist has to say about Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO): AMLO's MORENA party will be no different than the Pseudo-Leftist SYRIZA and its sellout of The Working Class in Greece [wsws...
[11:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:11] <exec> 08└─The opposite of Socialism is NOT Democracy.
[11:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:13] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Liberalism is political and moral philosophy. Libertarianism is a collection of political philosophies and movements. Socialism and Communism are economic and social systems. The fact so many Americans are confusing all of this and trying to apply ideas from philosophy to the economy and gove...
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[12:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's the same fear.
[12:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:57] <exec> 08└─Roundup resistance is old news, and a blip compared to the fear-mongering about the "health effects" of GMOs.
[12:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:59] <exec> 08└─I have some vegan gluten-free non-GMO no additive no preservative organic water for you. Only $29.99 a bottle, straight from my tap!
[12:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:01] <exec> 08└─Do you live in Flint, MI?
[12:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:04] <exec> 08└─I can see Monsanto coming after golf-club owners first, then everyone later, RIAA style, that they are due royalties because they have a patent on those seed's DNA. I'm serious. It happened to my Grandpa. Corn farmer. Monsanto shows up and insist that he buy seed corn from THEM. Grandpa had alwa...
[12:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:06] <exec> 08└─Our water comes from a "variety of sources", which may or may not include Flint, MI.
[12:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:08] <exec> 08└─Only now, reality has now rendered judgment and found it plausible.
[12:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:10] <exec> 08└─Clearly the copyright owners of this GMO don't care enough about their IP to prevent it's spread in the wild so farmers should be in their rights to just pick it off the wild and replant it in their fields. Make this a precedent and I guarantee big GMO will be dealing with this in no time.
[12:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 2444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:13] <exec> 08└─What they said would happen in terms of distribution, quite obviously that happened. Unless every field was contained in a hermetically-sealed lab, that was inevitable. As such, that's why it took lots of testing to prove this stuff doesn't actually operate any differently to normal crops, in all re...
[12:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:16] <exec> 08└─Thank you for sharing your story which seems to pop up in conjunction with Monsanto. I would be interested in hearing about the timing. As this has now been going on for more than a decade, I wonder whether documentation standards have been developed to indemnify you from such external claims. I tot...
[12:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:26] <exec> 08└─If you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.
[12:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:29] <exec> 08└─What kind of extra special herp-a-derp do you have to be to think all police departments should have a SWAT team?
[12:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:31] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the telemarketers. It would be a shame if this data fell into the hands of telemarketers. Imagine all those police officers getting calls from all those police fundraisers.
[12:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:48] <exec> 08└─I just noticed that OsmAnd exists for IOS. If it's anything like the Android version, it will give you very detailed offline maps with everything under your control.
[12:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:49] <exec> 08└─It's Apple Maps bad. [youtu.be]
[12:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:51] <exec> 08└─The GPS technology is here, and its so cheap I can take multiple receivers with me ( GPS phones ). I know about paper maps, and compasses, but I am often ignorant of my exact longitude and latitude, but GPS will tell me exactly where I am. Yes, I do carry a magnetic compass with me as well, and an...
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[12:51:12] <exec> 08└─ISO 9000 / 9001 can become (does become?) an exercise in learning the very specific, optimal hoops to jump through to satisfy the ISO auditor when they visit (and also any internal auditor or manager wearing their ISO hat). Because the auditing process differs somewhat from the old-fashioned, common...
[12:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:33] <exec> 08└─Scale and efficiency are tied together, what you do with quality in the meantime is a management decision.
[12:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:19] <exec> 08└─The figures have dropped in pretty much all so-called "modern" societies but one, but the outlier is a country where two thirds of the population still believes that angels are real tangible things. One thing that is true to say is that the credibility of the sightings has not increased alongside th...
[12:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:20] <exec> 08└─There are basically hundreds of billions or trillions of exoplanets in our galaxy, if not more orders of magnitude. Subsurface oceans seem to be very common in our solar system, so there are probably trillions of planets or moons in the galaxy with life inside, except it is probably locked in, micro...
[12:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:23] <exec> 08└─the "negative energy" part makes those things extremely unlikely.
[12:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:25] <exec> 08└─They have decreased a lot, though. There are plenty articles about this drop in fact.
[12:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:27] <exec> 08└─No one said they weren't.
[12:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:29] <exec> 08└─That could mean any number of things. You don't need a video to make a report, but you don't need to make a report to MUFON/etc. either. Maybe the Instagram generation doesn't care about MUFON et al. and they just throw the video online, where it can sink into the abyss of thousands of other obscure...
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[12:53:49] <exec> 08└─It worked out well for USA! Just make sure you do it normally and not like Germany where they discourage Asians to come and instead focus on Syrian refugees.
[12:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:50] <exec> 08└─Hint: Socialist == Anti-Capitalist.
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[13:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:52] <exec> 08└─Copyright can suck my dick. Amirite??
[13:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:53] <exec> 08└─entering the public domain, something which should have begun 70 years after the author's death.
[13:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:12] <exec> 08└─I have some vegan gluten-free non-GMO no additive no preservative organic water for you. Only $29.99 a bottle, straight from my tap!
[13:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:14] <exec> 08└─it took lots of testing to prove this stuff doesn't actually operate any differently to normal crops
[13:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:16] <exec> 08└─The fear mongers obviously because it gets more page views. I think this is a built in feature to human behavior as they become too rich. The guilt takes over.
[13:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:18] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to know what "straight from the tap" means. The relevant statistic: "Glyphosate Found in Urine of 93 Percent of Americans Tested [ecowatch.com]."
[13:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:20] <exec> 08└─Wasn't one of the GMO trait to be a one time crop and it wouldn't grow up again? If so, then the regenerating crop isn't the same that was sold. No need to pay any "IP license".
[13:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:22] <exec> 08└─Some farmers grow grass as their crop, as mentioned in the article. Some farmers, such as the one interviewed for the article, are trying to grow other crops. To them this GMO grass is a weed--one they can't suppress with glyphosate. That's not good for the farmers, not good for Bayer/Monsanto, and...
[13:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:35] <exec> 08└─Surely not every department requires every kind of potential response. Heck, some rural communities where I am in the rust belt don't even have a police department anymore, they make contracts with a neighboring community or the state itself instead to get emergency services coverage. I know some of...
[13:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:36] <exec> 08└─What kind of extra special herp-a-derp do you have to be to think all police departments should have a SWAT team? Fuck's sake, my home town had three cops total. There wasn't even always a cop on duty much less a full time SWAT team.
[13:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:57] <exec> 08└─Prelude to them shutting down Bing Maps?
[13:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:58] <exec> 08└─Try Nokia maps [google.com]. It predominantly works offline.
[13:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:21] <exec> 08└─ISO-9000 NEEDS to be thrown under a bus. Fun fact, if I document that the procedure after completing the assembly of my product, the assembler is to fling it across the plant such that it hits a concrete wall and lands in the "completed pile", my company will pass ISO-9000 as long as the assemblers...
[13:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:23] <exec> 08└─6-sigma means 1 error in a billion. This makes sense if you are building computer chips with 100million parts (gates), not so much when you are building widgets with 80 parts and a long supply chain with a bunch of humans involved at every step. Just try going about your day without making a mistake...
[13:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:25] <exec> 08└─I used to work for a major aerospace corp that went the Six Sigma route, requiring all management and engineering personnel to attend workshops and get a pretty little certificate. It started off with half an hour of marveling at the statistical significance of the name (Only this many defective wid...
[13:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:27] <exec> 08└─When a company I worked for was going through the iso9000 certification process, we were literally told to lie. The word 'lie' was used in our coaching training sessions. We were told to say things about the work process that were in 180 opposition of how things were really structured. No one believ...
[13:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:38] <exec> 08└─An amateur taking video of a distant light in the sky is going to look like crap even after decades of improvements. Maybe drones will make an impact by putting cameras closer to where alien spacecraft would be flying, but they could also cause UFO reports as well. How is the data being collected? N...
[13:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:40] <exec> 08└─Life doesn't have to be tragic. Try a more positive outlook. For example, on that Existential Question, suppose the nihilists are correct. Life has no meaning! Nothing matters! Whether or not there is a God, either way, life has no point. God's life has no more purpose or meaning than any of ours. S...
[13:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:42] <exec> 08└─That "data" has not improved in reliability alonside the advances of technology that is now in everyone's pocket, you're proving my point. If anything, the quality of the evidence in that "data" is worse, because hokey things look hokey, and it's better to just phone in a word-of-mouth report.
[13:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:44] <exec> 08└─Where? How? By extrapolating from one data point? Once we have maybe even one more data point where life evolved to extrapolate from, maybe we can go somewhere... but so far, we have only one. It could be that the "necessary conditions for life" you assume are a lot more selective than you think......
[13:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:46] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the "data" is not being studied properly. Hence TFA. Is the smartphone camera so great at recording things in the sky? No. Are people reporting their sightings using "traditional" avenues? Maybe, maybe not. Would an excellent-looking UFO video gain traction in the age of deepfakes? Maybe, ma...
[13:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:48] <exec> 08└─My comment had nothing to do with the absurdity of existence or nihilism. It was about the innate, unfortunate nature of the human species. I made peace with nihilism long ago. There was a time when it tormented me, but that time has passed.
[13:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:09] <exec> 08└─Imagine what blow to the criminal economy if they actually legalized amazon delivered psychotropic drugs. OTOH the CIA, the mafia, the afghans and the other high level traffickers are not going to give up so easy.
[13:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 2154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:11] <exec> 08└─The mailbox at my White House didn't always say President Donald J. Trump. It used to say Marjorie Merriweather Post. At Mar-A-Lago, my Southern White House. And at my Washington White House, it used to Say President Barack Hussein Obama. As everyone knows. But, we're different guys. We do things a...
[13:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:13] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what, I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations. I looked at one of them -- well, I won’t go into the whole story, but I can tell you, I said to him, "I think I have more Indian blood in me than you have in...
[13:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Browser Tests Integrating Tor and Opt-In Ads - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:30] <exec> 08└─And if you have an "account" with them (how else do they manage the BATs?), then their version of "privacy" is "we track you, and know absolutely everything about your browsing habits, but we won't let anyone else track you or know anything about your browsing habits". Otherwise known as "you know t...
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[14:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:04] <exec> 08└─Be careful, copyrights can bite
[14:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:06] <exec> 08└─It's book Rogers [gutenberg.org] and not Buck Rogers which was the name of the comic strip?
[14:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:08] <exec> 08└─The Constitution prohibits the making of an ex post facto law. Except for retroactively extending copyright, which is apparently permitted.
[14:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:10] <exec> 08└─Gutenberg has 2 of the works in public domain: http://www.gutenberg.org [gutenberg.org] Other works are might be pirate-able but no one really cares enough to bother uploading them by the looks of it. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing is the result of the author...
[14:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:12] <exec> 08└─Not GNU! GNU copyrights are perfectly crafted legalese to ensure every free software programmer is entitled to compensation every time a tech billionaire uses free software to gain another billion in unearned profit.
[14:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:37] <exec> 08└─GMO is just a human-triggered shortcut in evolution
[14:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:38] <exec> 08└─So we can nail Monstanto by developing roundup resistant weeds? Where do we start?
[14:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:41] <exec> 08└─Okay, I checked what does this word exactly means and it is Fearmongering or scaremongering is the spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors of an impending danger or the habit or tactic of purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue. [source] [wikipedia.org]
[14:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:43] <exec> 08└─> roundup resistant weeds Already happening naturally, just like the internet, nature routes around it.
[14:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:45] <exec> 08└─Fresh from the Tijuana river.
[14:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:47] <exec> 08└─So "straight from the tap" means "urine"?
[14:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:02] <exec> 08└─Honestly, it's probably a pretty good job as far as low-paying jobs go. Not much actual work and a likely a good retirement plan.
[14:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:50] <exec> 08└─"The concept of "doing a good job" has been around for ages... but it changes names about like we change fashion." This. It's just like Scrum, or Devops, or Agile: stuff that any really good team already does, in one way or another. Maybe other good teams can copy an idea or two, and make themselves...
[14:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:51] <exec> 08└─That's like arguing for programs with no logging or comments because logging and taking time to write comments can introduce inefficiency. ISO900x is a tool not a magic wand. You can do the wrong thing consistently and still pass it. And you can overdocument stuff, create too many procedures and sti...
[14:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:53] <exec> 08└─Each thing may have hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of little parts. Statistically, even though each individual part may look good, the assemblage may not look good at all. Each part has to be made extremely consistent for the whole shebang to come out looking good. If you control your in...
[14:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:55] <exec> 08└─As the customer of an ISO 9000 company, you can ask for the docs and read what is checked and how, and what was found. You may not care, but if you do, you can ask, and then consider whether the measurement looks credible or not. Without ISO9000, all you get is a salesman saying "It is just what you...
[14:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:58] <exec> 08└─http://assets.amuniversal.com/2d9dac40554801363c91005056a9545d [amuniversal.com]
[14:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:00] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, all you can do is shut up and watch the train wreck.
[14:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:02] <exec> 08└─the company has become an object lesson in why both Six-Sigma and GE's approach to growth by acquisition and diversification should be viewed with great suspicion.
[14:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:04] <exec> 08└─If a company strikes it rich because their mascot is a sock puppet, and if 99% of managers are followers, as they are, then you can expect 100 copy cats declaring the logical and rational path to success is having a sock puppet at a mascot, tons of industry press about the booming relevance of sock...
[14:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:06] <exec> 08└─There's also an aspect of manly chest thumping going on with six sigma. Someone who doesn't know whats going on MIGHT attribute success at my workplace to the really nice hotplate that keeps my breakfast tea hot but not boiling. The reality is my workplace is successful enough that I can show off by...
[14:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:09] <exec> 08└─It's Jack Welch, not Welsh. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] He wrote a book [amazon.com], which I didn't think very much of personally. Seems like the editorial team needs a Six Sigma program. :O [And yes, I know TFA got it wrong in the second sentence. Which is indicative...
[14:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:11] <exec> 08└─> ... Its a "God Thing" with me. Have you read, "Round the Bend" by Nevil Shute? Based on your comment, I think you would enjoy it.
[14:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:13] <exec> 08└─This is why engineers with real world experience are valuable. By the time I got my first engineering job, I had 15 years experience in the field as a hobby. An old coworker from the Apollo days told me a story about the V2 (he was an old Nazi). The Germans were having trouble building pumps for the...
[14:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:16] <exec> 08└─Actually no, because ISO9000 implies a lot of pencil whipping. I have some professional pride so in a non-ISO9000 workplace my name on a datasheet, for example, implies that to the best of my ability the datasheet is true and reflects reality. At a ISO9000 workplace, where I've thankfully never had...
[14:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:37] <exec> 08└─As opposed to they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work?
[14:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 2783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:39] <exec> 08└─The topic is mostly a dog whistle for the diversity shakedown racket and so forth. The diversity department has a lot of people that do, pretty much, nothing. Another contributor, which a family member is involved in first hand, is a generation or two ago, public school teachers kinda taught mostly...
[14:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:41] <exec> 08└─Peasants did not get retirement or 20 years of education either. 45 years of working with 4 weeks/year of vacation is less than 4 years. You get abut 12 years of vacation before you die with retirement.
[14:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:37] <exec> 08└─Moon base? Draconian authoritarian corporatocracy.
[14:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:38] <exec> 08└─Nowadays most people are too busy looking down at their phones to spot UFOs. They do look up from their phones from time to time but that's just to avoid being crushed by a bus or similar.
[14:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:40] <exec> 08└─I've had a camphone for 10 years, deepfakes has only been around for 1. Where's the evidence from those 9 years that couldn't be deepfaked? It's not just now in 2018 that the reports have not improved in quality despite availability of commodity recording devices, it's for ever. Things that violate...
[14:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:42] <exec> 08└─There have been fakes before deepfakes, like the 2013 Wired article I linked where literally everything in the video was CGI, or the many crappier looking fakes. What deepfakes will do is help muddy the waters even further by putting powerful tools in the hands of the public, and will be used for mo...
[14:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:45] <exec> 08└─Continually pushing back the start date for life on Earth MEANS SOMETHING.
[14:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:47] <exec> 08└─Alone means you can't communicate, not that other's are not there. If I lock you in a room with nobody else to communicate with you are alone even if you know there are other folks in the next room. The question is not how many others are in the Universe. That's big enough to there have to be others...
[14:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't they rule it's illegal to shoot other people's property if it's just flying overhead?
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[14:54:27] <exec> 08└─We're not trying to keep people from leaving. As a matter of fact, I strongly encourage you to leave. Going south is easy: Just sneak over the border. Don't bother to learn Spanish; the government should provide things in your language. Enroll your kids in school, expecting them to get special Spani...
[14:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Browser Tests Integrating Tor and Opt-In Ads - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:30] <exec> 08└─I don't drink, I don't do drugs. Beautiful women, that's another thing. If you're too careful, it's a little boring. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women. I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. The hell with it, I don’t even wait. And all of a sudden we're...
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[14:58:15] <exec> 08└─Correction, 10 minutes. But the point still stands. Bitching about 10 minutes an an air sector that flys millions of passenger seat miles per year is rediculous. Second, takeoff delays often happen because arrival aiports are backed up. So to suggest that Cape Canaveral has anything to do with it, i...
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[15:49:49] <exec> 08└─Long before this life of mine, long before this time What was there, who cared to make it begin? Is it forever or will it all end? Searching my past for the things that I've seen Is it my life or just something I dreamed?
[15:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:51] <exec> 08└─An important lesson: Don't have a single point of failure. Microsoft does not believe in having a single point of failure. Failure should be distributed throughout the entire system.
[15:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:06] <exec> 08└─Ex post facto laws means criminalizing behavior that wasn't illegal at the time it was done. It doesn't mean that laws can't be made retroactive. If Congress let copyright for Buck Rogers lapse, then a few days later extended copyright retroactive to when it lapsed, you couldn't be punished for writ...
[15:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:07] <exec> 08└─Correct. That particular prohibition is narrow enough to allow this, though we may feel it violates the spirit of the thing. At a glance it might also violate the takings clause. Once a work has entered the public domain, however briefly, returning it to copyright amounts to taking the right to use...
[15:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:09] <exec> 08└─There are no GNU copyrights. There are just copyrights. GNU has licenses. Those licenses are designed as a hack using copyright licenses as a mechanism to ensure the freedom of the software with the force of law. As was discussed back in the Groklaw daze, there was a case where a judge did view the...
[15:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:11] <exec> 08└─If a copyrighted work enters the public domain and there is nobody around to hear the copyright fall, does it make a sound? By the time this happens, will anyone even care about this particular fictional work?
[15:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:14] <exec> 08└─wat Is this really the best you've got? What you're describing is a feature of BSD and MIT licenses.
[15:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:16] <exec> 08└─I agree that copyright should exist. But it should exist for a finite term. Meaning, a finite term that doesn't keep extending. There are aggressive lobbies that continue to seek extension for copyright terms. In general, the term sought by the lobby is greater than the time between the release of S...
[15:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:18] <exec> 08└─+1 for "Copyright Mafia"
[15:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:20] <exec> 08└─AKA the Music And Film Industry of America" with an easily remembered acronym.
[15:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:51] <exec> 08└─I'll believe you when I read the settled case law showing efficient and generally applicable use of such defense. This has only been going on a couple of decades, I imagine the Monstranto legal team has a strategy in place to maximize their rent seeking success for as long as possible.
[15:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:53] <exec> 08└─I RO all of my water. And also run it through various other filters. I can turn tea back into pure water. It's fairly inexpensive.
[15:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:55] <exec> 08└─The fear-mongering comes from "this stuff is somehow magically worse than 'normal' crops".
[15:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:57] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the only farmer to be convicted shown to have collected and specifically bred roundup ready crop for seed. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:59] <exec> 08└─And they do anything differently for non-GMO food? And it's not quite automatic approval: https://www.fda.gov [fda.gov] Monsanto quote? It'll be on a court record, yes? That their plants could NEVER spread in any neighbouring field? You'll have...
[15:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:02] <exec> 08└─Except the farmer had intentionally concentrated and planted.
[15:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:04] <exec> 08└─have been warning about for years and years, and all that time have been told
[15:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:06] <exec> 08└─I am not making any claim one way or another. I just surmise that if a defense has not been established by case law it could have by mutual agreement or by an actual law. This would be in the interest of the industry but as you suggest a clever legal strategy (AKA corruption) might prevent that.
[15:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:08] <exec> 08└─no additive
[15:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:24] <exec> 08└─Does your town not have a procedure to call on additional resources as necessary? Most places I know of the Sheriff's Department has such a team available to respond to local incidents (and/or organizes a coordinated local response of several different departments). Or do you just let the shooter ta...
[15:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:25] <exec> 08└─We don't need SWAT teams for that. We just need armed citizens. Regular joes with guns.
[15:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:27] <exec> 08└─Just saying...
[15:51:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:56] <exec> 08└─... and you choose to pick on a management model? Six-Sigma may or may not be crap, but come on! I think a much larger part of the problem is that humans have built incredibly complex, interconnected, global economies around these money-manipulating, warmongering monopolies on violence, who fund the...
[15:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:28] <exec> 08└─Then all the management models. Do any of them really work as a model, or is it the man?
[15:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:29] <exec> 08└─Rowing from a Six Sigma Lean perspective [blogspot.com] A Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Mississippi River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, ver...
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[15:52:32] <exec> 08└─> you'll buy a really nice tea pot hot plate and wonder why the company didn't magically exceed expectations. A sad/amusing example of this (depending on your point of view) occurred in NASCAR racing over the last 20-30 years. Traditionally, NASCAR teams were led by charismatic (and often very cleve...
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:34] <exec> 08└─If one of the production server's power supply has caught fire, best practice is to schedule a meeting to determine whether DevOps should fix this, or the software team should issue a software patch to correct the problem in order that we can close this ticket as quickly as possible.
[15:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:36] <exec> 08└─The light bulb replacement was not scheduled in this sprint.
[15:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:00] <exec> 08└─What about organizations that practice nepotism?
[15:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:02] <exec> 08└─A major point was that, before Industrialism, people were paid for doing tasks, not by the hour.
[15:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:04] <exec> 08└─Peasants did not get retirement or 20 years of education either. 45 years of working with 4 weeks/year of vacation is less than 4 years. You get abut 12 years of vacation before you die with retirement.
[15:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:06] <exec> 08└─Interesting paper: http://www.rfreitas.com [rfreitas.com]
[15:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:08] <exec> 08└─If you're in a room filled with people, you have no need to feel alone as long as you have some anti-social media apps on your mobile phone.
[15:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:10] <exec> 08└─If we can have private companies launching rockets, listening for signals from outer space, why do we have to wait around for the government to study UFOs?
[15:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Arrested for Threats to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Family Over Net Neutrality - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah but the people could have voted for another person like Obama
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[16:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:56] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to ask the court if every single bit of "recordings" televised by the local news services has the consent of every individual recorded. If Obscure Television sets up to televise coverage outside of a court in a high profile case, and I drive by, then they need my full, informed consent...
[16:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:58] <exec> 08└─As small low-life sheeple you will not accomplish anything and simply be laughed out of the courts with a huge bill. Such a case needs to be brought by the "powerful". But that is the catch dilemma, they don't because they benefit from the law. Nobody want to bring their privileged position in dange...
[16:49:59] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 640 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:00] <exec> 08└─If he was talking to almighty School Administrators, who are the highest authority and power in the nation, shouldn't the student show due respect, submission, subordinance, admiration and act like a well trained little drone as is reasonably expected from the public education system in most states?...
[16:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:02] <exec> 08└─Surely the prosecutors cannot be unaware that 3 courts have already found that the law is unconstitutional when the non-consenting party is a public official (such as a public school administrator) and they surely know that a 13 year old is a minor. Anything but immediately declining to prosecute is...
[16:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:04] <exec> 08└─Adults not taking responsibility for their actions and accepting the consequences. Instead, deferring blame and punishment to someone who can't challenge it: another daily example. The more frequently punishment is doled out in accordance to social and economic power structure, and not in accordance...
[16:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:06] <exec> 08└─You say misconduct, they say keeping the uppity wage-slaves-in-training in their proper place. Make an example of the free thinkers not willing to grovel at the boots of authority. Everyone else learns a very valuable lesson.
[16:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─I'm constantly reminded of ancient Rome in its dying days....
[16:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:11] <exec> 08└─Adults not taking responsibility for their actions and accepting the consequences.
[16:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:13] <exec> 08└─That's great! Rome was Great in its dying daze! There were over 300 holidays and fewer than 65 working days. (except for the worker bees, who don't count. And I don't mean inability to count due to educational system failure.) Make America Great like Rome was great!
[16:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:23] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, Pat Nixon saw me on TV in 1987. On the Donahue show. She told her husband -- President Nixon -- that when I decided to go into politics I'd be a winner. Something he told me in a very nice letter. In 1987 I said, I don't want to be President. But I changed my mind. Obviously I chang...
[16:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:25] <exec> 08└─~20 years earlier this topped the charts for awhile, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] "In the year 2525" Lots was going on before you joined us...
[16:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:27] <exec> 08└─Pat Robertson said he was told by God Almighty that he should run for president. yet for some reason, I don't believe Pat Robertson
[16:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:29] <exec> 08└─I find your lack of faith disturbing. pic.twitter.com/hICGWZL6MJ [t.co]
[16:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:32] <exec> 08└─Impressive statistics. This site is awesome and an excellent example of the best of what the internet can be. I hope you guys are able to make some decent money from all of the hard work.
[16:50:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:41] <exec> 08└─entering the public domain, something which should have begun 70 years after the author's death.
[16:50:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:45] <exec> 08└─The Constitution prohibits the making of an ex post facto law. Except for retroactively extending copyright, which is apparently permitted.
[16:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:55] <exec> 08└─By the time this happens, will anyone even care about this particular fictional work?
[16:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:57] <exec> 08└─Copyright can suck my dick. Amirite??
[16:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:59] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It seems to me that the copyright situation is, in general, an excellent indicator of the balance of power between corporations and individual citizens. Who benefits from the newest laws? Who has their interests served by the courts? By Congress? By law enforcement? Who can personally and ef...
[16:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:39] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, some taps have hot & cold, right? That one only has warm. As in 98.6 degrees. Enjoy!!!!
[16:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:59] <exec> 08└─The problem is, nearly everyone has forgotten who the militia is. It is all of us. Maybe I'm exempt, because I'm an old bastard, but I'm still available. Every able bodied man, between the ages of something and something. I think that in 1776, those ages were 16 and 40, but it's been changed since t...
[16:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:01] <exec> 08└─One police department openly admitted that it "doesn't have a full-time SWAT team," and is unable to respond to an active shooter situation.
[16:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:23] <exec> 08└─You'd figure that with $100-200 billion in their chest, they could copy a competitor effectively. Especially when it is just software. Maybe Samsung can teach them a lesson or two [soylentnews.org].
[16:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:08] <exec> 08└─They were no better or worse than other banks. They hired the same kind of people other banks and financial services firms did. Other such operations that were purely about banking/finance such as Washington Mutual or Lehman Brothers went under, too. Shit happens.
[16:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PROPagate Code Injection Technique Detected in the Wild for the First Time - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:42] <exec> 08└─Another windows virus. So many bugs in windows that this isn't news anymore. I'm beginning to think that MS actually *wants* bugs in their windows OS. How much is MS worth? Surely it couldn't cost more than 1 or 2 billion dollars to secure windows. How much is MS worth again? Hey MS, are you going t...
[16:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:42] <exec> 08└─if two lines are parallel, they cannot cross. not if they are straight lines in Euclidian geometry.
[16:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:44] <exec> 08└─There's the slippage again. What is sufficiently "Earth-like"? You don't know. You can't know.
[16:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:07] <exec> 08└─The counterfeiters can be outsmarted by the manufacturer of the genuine item. The genuine manufacturer can counterfeit the counterfeiters! Make an item soooo close to the counterfeit item that nobody can tell the difference. Then people will flock to buy their genuine items on Amazon. It has genuine...
[16:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:08] <exec> 08└─Will Amazon help Americans afford their medications?
[16:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Pill Distributor, Sends Pharmacy Stocks Tumbling - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:10] <exec> 08└─The DEA are the most important traffickers (they move drugs and make money from it). They get to decide which drugs are bad [soylentnews.org], so they get to keep their jobs intact. Very efficient.
[16:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:15] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't pass the IQ test to get into any other country.
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[17:49:57] <exec> 08└─SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion
[17:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:14] <exec> 08└─So what was this event over? What was the kid being reprimanded for? If Lindsay Shepherd's tapes taught us anything it is that school administrators will lie to make a point and attempt to ruin your entire career because of it.
[17:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:15] <exec> 08└─Try reading your schools rules... No recording of staff or procedures on school grounds unless it's part of a class project.
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[17:50:18] <exec> 08└─From tfa: On Feb. 16, 2018, [Paul] Boron was called to the principal’s office at Manteno Middle School after failing to attend a number of detentions.
[17:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:20] <exec> 08└─School rules are not a matter for criminal courts and prosecutors.
[17:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:22] <exec> 08└─School policy is not law. They could expel a student for violating the rules, but that is separate from prosecutors charging the student with a felony.
[17:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:24] <exec> 08└─This seems somewhat absurd. Why shouldn't you get to record yourself? I tend to record some of the meetings I take part in, mostly due to it being annoying to take notes in certain meetings. That said tho that is actually legal where I am -- I don't even have to inform the other participants that I'...
[17:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:27] <exec> 08└─Couple of things. There's a couple of things. Something called the right of publicity. Hugo Zacchini, he was a human cannonball. And the television showed his performance without asking. Without permission. And it was worse than that, Zacchini talked to the so-called reporter. And said, don't film....
[17:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:29] <exec> 08└─Read 13 year old -- innocuous act -- school -- felony charges ... Is he black?
[17:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:31] <exec> 08└─Like clockboy?
[17:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:33] <exec> 08└─What's your point?
[17:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:36] <exec> 08└─It is quite simple. Assume anyone you are talking to in an adversarial manner could be bugged. Unless it was agreed upon beforehand, any conversation in a public building such as a school should have no expectation of privacy. If you work for a government in any capacity, the general rule is unless...
[17:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:38] <exec> 08└─Given the current behavior of the administration, it's no wonder the kid doesn't have much respect for them.
[17:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:40] <exec> 08└─I'm constantly reminded of ancient Rome in its dying days....
[17:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:42] <exec> 08└─No he's not. Next?
[17:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:44] <exec> 08└─This is a smart kid. He already knows that you can't trust adults. Why else would he be recording them. I would say how do they sleep at night but those prosecutors and school administrators probably sleep like little psychopathic babies.
[17:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:59] <exec> 08└─We really only have a single person who is working on developing features for the site, The Mighty Buzzard.
[17:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:00] <exec> 08└─Wrong evil overlord.
[17:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:02] <exec> 08└─What, you mean in case Azuma finally loses the very last of her cheese and booby traps my fishing boat?
[17:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:05] <exec> 08└─We're saving up for a Caribbean island. We expect to be able to purchase it in the first quarter of 2730 going by current trends.
[17:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:07] <exec> 08└─Man, I'm good but that would take lots of tachyons. We only have the one and he's spelled wrong.
[17:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:09] <exec> 08└─Failure should be distributed throughout the entire system.
[17:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:12] <exec> 08└─No ads, and the donated revenue looks to just cover operating costs. I can't imagine where they'd be making money. I am concerned that there sounds like too much resting on one person.
[17:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:14] <exec> 08└─Feature idea: a link to a page showing next week's submission queue, so that some of those items can be moved into today's submission queue.
[17:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:39] <exec> 08└─Yup, my proposal was that you get 20 years free. After that, you need to register the work with the PTO (which could then be the PTCO?), with an estimated worth of the work. Then, each year you must pay a tax on the worth of the work, where T = W x (Y - 20)/100, (T=tax, W=stated worth, Y=year after...
[17:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:40] <exec> 08└─Realbotix, they're doing a head for RealDolls. Which, by the way, it's the same company. And it's going to be like Siri. Like Cortana. Like Alexa. Or the Google one. But with blowjobs.
[17:51:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:49] <exec> 08└─This is one of the scenarios anti-GMO groups have been warning about for years and years, and all that time have been told that they are fear-mongering. Is it still fear-mongering when it's actually happening?
[17:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:23] <exec> 08└─Is it still fear-mongering when it's actually happening?
[17:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:24] <exec> 08└─Clearly the copyright owners of this GMO
[17:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:26] <exec> 08└─I have some vegan gluten-free non-GMO no additive no preservative organic water for you. Only $29.99 a bottle, straight from my tap!
[17:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean go with the old "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away" deal? Pass, thanks. Any time you take away people's ability to resolve their problems themselves and force them to rely on the government, you've absolutely, without question ensured that their problems will get much...
[17:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:49] <exec> 08└─How much of this "cache" is already publicly available data, given that these are government entities?
[17:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:51] <exec> 08└─Unless you happen to be an advocate for a police state, in which case, you can't possibly have enough SWAT teams.
[17:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:14] <exec> 08└─Aren't they also rebuilding Siri from almost ground-up, being they realized they lost pace with voice assistant competitors? Seems like Apple keeps picking poor software architectures, satisfying short-term needs but getting into expansion binds. Maybe their hardware bent has bent the software side?
[17:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:15] <exec> 08└─voice navigation says: Turn left in 600 feet. Then proceed for 2 miles straight ahead. Please ignore any signs warning that the bridge is out and continue straight ahead.
[17:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Rebuilding Maps from the Ground Up - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:18] <exec> 08└─Do you even lift bro?
[17:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:03] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't we determine that quality is the problem before we blame their quality management system? Also, how much of their stock price drop was caused by Trump's tariffs? They're supposed to get pretty hard by them, making investors nervous. [cnbc.com]
[17:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:31] <exec> 08└─Unless they've got the right contacts to get government contracts, of course...
[17:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:39] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, back in reality, I carry a Star Trek communicator in my pocket and build robots as a hobby. Don't conflate being unwilling to be dragged into the 21st century with being unable to be dragged into the 21st century.
[17:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:41] <exec> 08└─The last I checked there were lots of people and animals on this planet. Like d'oh. Why be so excited or concerned about alien life when most of us don't really give a damn about the many billions already living here? But if you're talking about intelligent life then yes maybe I'm alone.
[17:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:43] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, any space habitat is going to need a strong (central?) authority running it to make sure the airlocks are maintained, etc. The hopeful idea is that this strong authority could be a "Friendly AI". If so, then it could *appear* to be rather loosely organized. A more likely idea is that...
[17:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, negative energy exists. Look up Casimir Effect. It's (probably) a result of a situation where some of the virtual particles that normally appear is space-time are prohibited from showing up. I sure don't see how you could use that to stabilize a wormhole, though. When Forward was trying to...
[17:56:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:26] <exec> 08└─It's really starting to resemble the Iron Curtain... we're still more open than that, but less and less as time goes on it seems.
[17:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 1967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:15] <exec> 08└─I think that the people who run those companies don't want to get sent to prison where they will be raped five times a day. I've long advocated that those who employ the illegal invaders be punished. My proposal, which applies to single-owner lawn care services as well as multi-national corporate gi...
[17:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Photos that Show the US-Mexico Border's Evolution Over 100 Years - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:17] <exec> 08└─White American citizens get locked in cages and have their kids taken from them when they break laws. Not for trespassing they don't.
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[18:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:55] <exec> 08└─At least it wasn't Microsoft.
[18:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:56] <exec> 08└─Swedes, even bigger traitors
[18:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:58] <exec> 08└─Well it is on sale, down from $8.8bn
[18:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 1945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:00] <exec> 08└─MicroFocus, and Novel and Attachmate, before them, have been systematically destroying the brand. They treat it as an old pair of shoes purchased in a garage sale along with pots, pans, and used furniture. Novel forced it into an unholy alliance with Microsoft. Microfocus hasn't a single clue what t...
[18:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:03] <exec> 08└─As the unfortunate user of two software packages purchased by Micro Focus in the past few years, I would have preferred Microsoft.
[18:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:05] <exec> 08└─I once tried Suse, starting from their damn slow Yawn package manager, that experience sucked so much, that never again.
[18:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:36] <exec> 08└─I rather suspect he had been to that principal's office before, and this time he thought he would get all the threats down in audio. The fact that he was arguing for 10 minutes about refusing to show up for detention says this 13 year old already has little respect for authority. (I know one phone c...
[18:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:37] <exec> 08└─any conversation in a public building such as a school should have no expectation of privacy.
[18:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:40] <exec> 08└─Put on that shirt I record all conversations with myself at my discretion. By directing any sounds in my general direction, language or otherwise, you are consenting to be recorded also.
[18:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:42] <exec> 08└─This kid will learn. Learn the proper procedure. The proper procedure is: 1) you record the conversation secretly, 2) you file in the police station a declaration that someone has stollen your phone, 3) you upload the recorded conversation to the cloud using some proxy, 4) you win.
[18:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:44] <exec> 08└─Naah, just establish that the kid is an incel. He's 13? How many women has he had sex with? Any? Yep, he's an incel. Throw the book at him. He hates women and the authorities that protect women because he can't get laid.
[18:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:06] <exec> 08└─I'm very appreciate of what you do around here. I wish my life were in a better position to help. To that end though, can you describe what programming languages are in use, what platforms, etc.? Not sure I have the requisite skillsets anyways.
[18:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:34] <exec> 08└─It wasn't that long ago. They had the Buck Rogers comic strip in so many papers when I was a boy. And they did a television series in the 80s. In the early early 80s. Let me tell you, we're not in the 25th Century. Only the 21st. But so much of it is coming true already. In the 25th Century, they ha...
[18:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:35] <exec> 08└─Error 517 : Dick stuck in fan blade - did not generate proper callback and did not get logged. Zero stars. Would not buy again.
[18:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:20] <exec> 08└─You don't need to be convicted to be bankrupted by the law suit. And I believe that there were a few other cases that were less clear, but which Monsanto also won. I don't know that they've lost any, but why would I expect to?
[18:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:22] <exec> 08└─Well, no additives by me. Anything that was there when it came out of the tap doesn't count. We are talking about deceptive marking anyway so why not?
[18:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:24] <exec> 08└─would be in the interest of the industry
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:48] <exec> 08└─That's not actually true. The problem is with the "always". And with the lack of analysis into the nature of the problem. I sure don't want my neighbors freely disposing of cyanide. I don't want to be personally responsible for maintaining the street in front of my house. (And I don't want my neighb...
[18:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─Define what you mean by militia. It is my assertion that when the framers wrote that they had no intention that the government even be involved. (I also doubt that it would work in a city with fast transport.)
[18:53:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 986 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Long ago I worked out how to be an effective engineering consultant -- look for the person on the shop floor that knows what's going on, ask them what's good and what needs work. Then take that info up to management, since internal communication rarely works in the "up" direction. I was always...
[18:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:03] <exec> 08└─You've got one part of the problem, but consider: Some tasks may be better managed by one management model, and other tasks by a different one. I'm not sure that a unified management model is always a good idea. In fact, I think it may often be a terrible idea. But to judge each case, you need to un...
[18:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ekerin [2907] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:04] <exec> 08└─The purpose of ISO900X is not to ensure you make good products. It's to help you make products consistently. Through that consistency you can make sure you do it correctly, and know when you don't make it correctly. I'm not saying it's perfect, and it does have major issues. Like all good ideas - pe...
[18:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:06] <exec> 08└─It is worth pointing out that companies exist through a contract with the community at large and the community is in a position to dictate the terms under which companies can be incorporated.
[18:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:35] <exec> 08└─In 1992, I hired a neighbor who was a retired concrete guy to pour me a new back patio. He knew his shit and did a great job but I was shocked to find out he was totally illiterate. His wife managed everything for him that required reading skills. He was in his early seventies then and I always wond...
[18:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:37] <exec> 08└─"... feudal retinues of basically useless flunkies". Back in my day, we called them "yes-men".
[18:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:39] <exec> 08└─I was with the principal of my school when a group of parents busted in yelling that they were suing him because their kids had flunked and wasn't being allowed to pass, ie, graduate. I think the schools realized it was going to be a hopeless battle and went off to fight another war.
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[19:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:57] <exec> 08└─Does cultural bigotry know no end? [wiktionary.org]
[19:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:59] <exec> 08└─goats stare intensely at their owner when they're struggling to complete a task
[19:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2_-i_cohMM [youtube.com] They're huge dicks IRL though.
[19:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:03] <exec> 08└─Animals watch what is watching them, especially if one animal is perceived to be dangerous to the other. So do humans. Encountering two bears, one watching you intently, one ignoring you (back turned), which one would you keep your eyes on? Walking a trail yesterday, I came upon a deer, maybe 25 fee...
[19:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:05] <exec> 08└─Some have an additional option to their Fight or Flight impulse: Faint! [youtube.com]
[19:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:08] <exec> 08└─Once curried, they stop staring at you.
[19:50:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 1945 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:19] <exec> 08└─MicroFocus, and Novel and Attachmate, before them, have been systematically destroying the brand. They treat it as an old pair of shoes purchased in a garage sale along with pots, pans, and used furniture. Novel forced it into an unholy alliance with Microsoft. Microfocus hasn't a single clue what t...
[19:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:22] <exec> 08└─https://manjaro.org/ [manjaro.org] "User friendly Arch" - how similar is this to "military intelligence"?
[19:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:24] <exec> 08└─You found the link, why not try it (in a VM perhaps) and see for yourself rather than posting cheapshots? Either the KDE or XFCE versions make a good first installs. They have a Gnome version too, but the world does not need yet another gnome.
[19:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:27] <exec> 08└─I still have the version 5.2 box on my shelf from 1999.
[19:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, true ... I generally consider something dead if it's bought by them Same for Computer Associates.
[19:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:05] <exec> 08└─Given the way the administration has behaved here, perhaps they are the reason the kid doesn't respect their authority. Act like a jackass, get treated like a jackass. It may be that the administrator has also lost the respect of the parents for the same reason. Were that not the case, we would prob...
[19:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:07] <exec> 08└─Surprising...
[19:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:09] <exec> 08└─This kid's parents need to immediately setup a gofundme campaign to raise funds for legal costs. Time to draw some bad press to an abusive law and get paid!
[19:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:32] <exec> 08└─Perl on top of perl on top of gentoo. Gangster shit
[19:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:33] <exec> 08└─I see you've set the purchase date so that you can get a discount after it goes underwater.
[19:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:35] <exec> 08└─Basically just perl5, though there's a templating system that's a weird-assed cross between html and perl and who the hell knows what as well. Oh, and Makefiles for the install. Unless you're looking to admin, in which case you'd be dealing with whatever you'd expect to deal with on Gentoo, Ubuntu,...
[19:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:38] <exec> 08└─Always thinking ahead, that's us.
[19:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:40] <exec> 08└─NCommander's still around, he's just not coding rehash at the moment. He still pitches in on the adminy stuff when it matters and takes care of the moneys. Not sure what happened to paulej72 though; I should probably text him and ask if the SJWs up at Princeton got him or something. Xyem was suppose...
[19:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:09] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the compulsion to sell part of it. It leaves you vulnerable to hostile takeover. Can you propose something that is not dependent on the "worth" of the work? I would be content with a value set only by the age of the work. Especially if it grows exponentially.
[19:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can help me with a question I have had for a long time. If movies are Hollywood, then music is where? I bash on Hollywood a lot but I don't have a geographic anchor to bash on the music industry. Sure there is Nashville but most of the time I want to bash on more than just country music.
[19:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:59] <exec> 08└─Even using more words, you've failed to state an actual risk to anything or anybody. My fear is actually this will enforce some short-lived monocultures which won't resist the test of time but until the rest of the ecosystem takes back there will be not enough for the grazers (us).
[19:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:00] <exec> 08└─If you're trying to grow crops, it's a weed. The most commonly used weed control won't help you since it's engineered to be resistant. And actually, it's a terrible grazing grass. About half as productive as other varieties. If I was grazing animals, I'd be pretty ticked off if someone's super bent...
[19:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:27] <exec> 08└─Your examples are both inapplicable. Your neighbors are almost certainly not capable of disposing of cyanide without killing themselves and everyone on the block, we're talking about taking away people's right to do something they're capable of doing. Ditto the roads with the addendum that you absol...
[19:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:43] <exec> 08└─Supposedly yes, but see my comments about the village idiot. And of course the many many examples of manufacturers claiming ISO9000 as some sort of quality guarantee.
[19:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:16] <exec> 08└─"People want to feel they are transforming the world around them in a way that makes some kind a positive difference." Only wealthy and well to do people care about that. I just want to appear to be doing something that someone will pay me handsomely to do. After I have enough money squirreled away...
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[20:51:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:14] <exec> 08└─goats stare intensely at their owner when they're struggling to complete a task
[20:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:20] <exec> 08└─Encountering two bears, one watching you intently, one ignoring you (back turned), which one would you keep your eyes on?
[20:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:22] <exec> 08└─Goats stare intensely at owner because goats 'mount' rather than hump your leg as a dog would. Mounting behavior starts young.
[20:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:24] <exec> 08└─If you not be eating them, they be eating your hair and your clothes if you're not watching.
[20:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:26] <exec> 08└─I thought the first word of the title was something else [imgur.com]. NSFW
[20:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:28] <exec> 08└─Don't fall into the trap of thinking that goats are friendly and cuddly. I've played Goat Simulator and let me tell you, they are nothing but a pain in the ass :)
[20:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats [wikipedia.org]
[20:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:50] <exec> 08└─SuSE is a very innovative distribution with many strong points, such as the rolling release. The use of btrfs is a very smart decison, btrfs offers many advantages such as COW, the means to do filesystem level snapshots and the ability to add physical volumes. SuSE needs to continue its commitment t...
[20:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 1721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:51] <exec> 08└─These days are gone and package management is just fine by now, but your experience indeed represents many of similar kind. Opensuse has produced too many unstable distros in the recent past (11.x/12.x/42.0) blatantly ignorant of any kind of usability, this was pointed out by GP (13.x was very good,...
[20:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:32] <exec> 08└─Notification is not exactly the same as consent. The school has video recording in operation 24/7, and probably with microphones as well. (hard to buy cams without built in mics these days). They have signs up as well. That's still not consent, especially when you have no choice but to BE there.
[20:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:34] <exec> 08└─This kid's parents need to immediately setup a gofundme campaign
[20:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:36] <exec> 08└─Nope. Wiretapping/eavesdropping laws only refer to audio recordings. If you didn't say anything during your drive by, then your consent isn't needed. And I suspect there are exemptions carved out for news services about consent for video recordings in public, which would be a different set of laws a...
[20:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:07] <exec> 08└─I have a question: why is NCommander less involved as of lately? Also, The Mighty Whatever should take a full sabbatical year.
[20:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:40] <exec> 08└─music is where?
[20:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:31] <exec> 08└─That was the FINDING, but it was based on the court believing claims the plaintiff (Monsanto) made that were later proven false. Monsanto claimed that roundup readiness could ONLY happen by genetic engineering. Not through pollen spreading nor through selective breeding. Since then, weeds related to...
[20:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:33] <exec> 08└─This "terrible grazing grass" is fast growing, handles trampling well, and has been used as grazing grass ALL OVER THE WORLD for centuries. It was planted by earliest settlers in north american colonies. Calling bullshit on your pronouncements.
[20:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:02] <exec> 08└─That cop in Florida who stayed outside had been ordered to do so. He was thrown under the bus for not paying his b̶l̶u̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶f̶e̶e̶ police union dues. And from what I've seen it's more like there area few good apples. Dozens of entire departments are corrupt and filled with quit...
[20:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:56] <exec> 08└─"Mr Graeber, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics..." So what do they pay this guy to do? Observe that everyone else's job is B.S. People need their jobs. They don't need some egghead informing the world that they're getting paid to do something dispensable. This guy ought to be first...
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[21:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:56] <exec> 08└─to change the bad behavior. cops get freedom to shit all over our rights and when they are called on it, they act like they are god's little angels who can do no wrong. we're all very sick of this shit! the system is broken. the sooner it completely collapses, the better; that way, we can finally st...
[21:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:57] <exec> 08└─The world's track record, seen from a freedom standpoint, when it comes to "fix this after it collapsed", is pretty dismal.
[21:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah I much prefer fixing the pieces. The US has a decent system overall really, just need to get some specific pain points fixed.
[21:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:02] <exec> 08└─It's going to happen. Forgot where I heard the statistic, but I think the majority of Americans fear a civil war within 5 years. Civil war is going to happen in the USA, and it all but inevitable at this point. Shit like this helps a civil war happening, not to prevent it. Cops are becoming the true...
[21:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:04] <exec> 08└─Forgot where I heard the statistic, but I think the majority of Americans fear a civil war within 5 years.
[21:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:23] <exec> 08└─If you are interested in a goat as a pet, Nigerian Dwarf goats are becoming more popular: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] They reach roughly half a meter in height so they are much easier to handle than typical goats.
[21:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:24] <exec> 08└─well played
[21:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:26] <exec> 08└─Get some goats to clear the brush per fire regulation, get milk while you're at it, then dispose of the goat by giving it to your religious friend for ritual sacrifice, and maybe even get some meat in return. Goats have been man's useful companion for a while.
[21:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:46] <exec> 08└─Does it have SystemD? Honest question.
[21:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:47] <exec> 08└─It's not listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] so that suggests it does.
[21:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:49] <exec> 08└─Ditto about the package management. Yast and Zypper are the best I've seen for power and options. I in-place-updated from 13.2 directly to Leap 15.0, (not wipe and re-install) and it worked perfectly. I did have some clean up after the fact, mostly deleting packages that had been dropped over the in...
[21:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:51] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase a bit, Arch *is* user-friendly, it's just really demanding about who it makes friends with and what it expects from said friends.
[21:51:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 1172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:22] <exec> 08└─I rather suspect he had been to that principal's office before, and this time he thought he would get all the threats down in audio. The fact that he was arguing for 10 minutes about refusing to show up for detention says this 13 year old already has little respect for authority. (I know one phone c...
[21:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:34] <exec> 08└─Were that not the case, we would probably not be reading the non-news non-story about a 13 year old getting suspended for persistent discipline problems.
[21:52:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 879 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:23] <exec> 08└─I agree that copyright should exist. But it should exist for a finite term. Meaning, a finite term that doesn't keep extending. There are aggressive lobbies that continue to seek extension for copyright terms. In general, the term sought by the lobby is greater than the time between the release of S...
[21:53:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:33] <exec> 08└─One police department openly admitted that it "doesn't have a full-time SWAT team," and is unable to respond to an active shooter situation.
[21:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:54] <exec> 08└─When two sisters marry you don't get kids. Believe me, if lesbian lovemaking produced children I'd have a baseball--well, softball--team with my girlfriend by now =P
[21:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:43] <exec> 08└─Something like 37-40% of workers according to surveys say their jobs make no difference. Insofar as there’s anything really radical about the book, it’s not to observe that many people feel that way, but simply to say we should proceed on the assumption that for the most part, people’s self-as...
[21:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:55] <exec> 08└─because a minor change in chemical conditions could introduce many orders of magnitude differences in the likelihood of a reaction.
[21:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:57] <exec> 08└─My comment had nothing to do with the absurdity of existence or nihilism. It was about the innate, unfortunate nature of the human species.
[21:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:59] <exec> 08└─First thing in the morning, I'll start a Go Fund Me for my own Very Large Array radiotelescope.
[21:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:01] <exec> 08└─as far as i understand it the alcubierre drive allows for time travel. I really doubt time travel ispossible, because of the temporal Fermi paradox (if time travel is possible, where are the time travelers, because there's an eternity of them?).
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[22:50:09] <exec> 08└─The civil war rhetoric is quite new, the last month or two maybe. Perhaps more looney fringe people have been going on about it, but then again you're prepping to live in a south american jungle sooooo.... yeahhhhhh.....
[22:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:11] <exec> 08└─The civil war rhetoric is quite new, the last month or two maybe.
[22:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:13] <exec> 08└─I think the majority of Americans fear a civil war within 5 years.
[22:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:15] <exec> 08└─[quote]but I think the majority of Americans fear a civil war within 5 years.[/quote] Nope. Not going to happen. The last generation or two capable of free thought and self-sufficiency will die off in impotent, isolated rage. Everyone else has been breed and raised to accept debt-slavery, submit to...
[22:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:37] <exec> 08└─I just realized I've eaten goat but not dog. Whoops. Didn't even cross my mind when I subbed this.
[22:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:38] <exec> 08└─Imgur really is a javascript cesspool. 4 levels of javashit hell, and I was rewarded with a suitable price. Well played.
[22:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:03] <exec> 08└─Suse is late to the game of rolling releases, and quite frankly, not very good at it yet. They used to require periodic re-installs, they may have fixed that by now. As for BTRfs, abandon all hope of space management if you go that route. You suddenly find yourself out of space and not a clue where...
[22:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:04] <exec> 08└─It has systemd, and their systemd (like everybody elses) works perfectly and is easier to maintain and use than their old init system, and is fully opensource, easily mastered. Suse's standard set of systemd services, timers, and such are pretty standard. Its logging is better than the old rats nes...
[22:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:06] <exec> 08└─So, leaving the world of cheapshots for a serious question: How's KDE with 4K displays these days? Back when all my displays were 1920x1080, I used KDE as my daily driver and also as a product development target, and recommended it to the few people who asked... Then around 2014 I got a 4K laptop an...
[22:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:09] <exec> 08└─Your flat out wrong about btrfs. This is something that has appeal to common desktop users. You can easily add new hard drives to expand storage transparently and have the storage space integrated into the filesystem. COW snapshot features allow for a rollback of an upgrade (heaven forbid its necess...
[22:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:11] <exec> 08└─You can use zypper for upgrades/ package install which is actually faster in my opinion than the apt-get. Try zypper, its great.
[22:51:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:30] <exec> 08└─School rules are not a matter for criminal courts and prosecutors.
[22:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:55] <exec> 08└─Well, actually in the books, IIRC, his name was Anthony Rodgers.
[22:53:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:10] <exec> 08└─I can see Monsanto coming after golf-club owners first, then everyone later, RIAA style, that they are due royalties because they have a patent on those seed's DNA. I'm serious. It happened to my Grandpa. Corn farmer. Monsanto shows up and insist that he buy seed corn from THEM. Grandpa had alwa...
[22:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:48] <exec> 08└─GMO is a human triggered shortcut in evolution that you can be charged for whether you want it or not, and which has been developed to achieve corporate goals, and which has not been acceptably (by me) tested for harm. There's also the matter that proving one particular strain harmless wouldn't prov...
[22:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:50] <exec> 08└─There is no single GMO trait. Let me say that again to emphasize it. There is no single GMO trait. Some GMO varieties are, indeed, supposed to kill off the second generation. I do worry that there will be some varieties that kill off the 10th or 20th generation, so I really support non-GMO varietie...
[22:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, GMO plants are mainly spreading because the seed corporation (Monsanto == Bayer) gets more money from them, and they control the sale of plant seeds.
[22:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:20] <exec> 08└─The occasional unscheduled retirement can be a bitch.
[22:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:22] <exec> 08└─When I read your first mention of set, I'm think what set, guns, ammo, boots, arms/legs. It made sense, if you had a set of what it takes to pull out a gun and shoot someone. I'm like yeah. Then I read your last sentence and it all made sense. A set of cajones! Of course, what red blooded man with s...
[22:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:24] <exec> 08└─As it happens, I live in a city, and I legally own the land out to the middle of the road. And no, I can't, and shouldn't, be able to control how that road is paved.
[22:55:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06After GE's Giant Failure, Is There Reason to Hold Six-Sigma in High Regard? - 1213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:11] <exec> 08└─ISO 9000 / 9001 can become (does become?) an exercise in learning the very specific, optimal hoops to jump through to satisfy the ISO auditor when they visit (and also any internal auditor or manager wearing their ISO hat). Because the auditing process differs somewhat from the old-fashioned, common...
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[23:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope Captures First Direct Image of a Planet Being Formed - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:55] <exec> 08└─That's Michael David Crawford's Mother. She's accumulating gold to pay rent for little mikey's storage units full of priceless antique heirlooms while little mikey lives in a tent out in the backyard and pretends to be poor.
[23:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:12] <exec> 08└─In my original timeline, the riots began in late August this year. Divergence can cause small changes between timelines that otherwise present larger features leading to convergence in a Stein's gate. President Hillary Clinton will be remembered for the FEMA concentration camps. President Trump may...
[23:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:13] <exec> 08└─It's going to happen. Forgot where I heard the statistic, but I think the majority of Americans fear a civil war within 5 years.
[23:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:16] <exec> 08└─Chris Hedges has some interesting comments on how quickly things can can change: As a foreign correspondent I covered collapsed societies, including the former Yugoslavia. It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve...
[23:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 1971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:18] <exec> 08└─I know you're being sarcastic, but it was this weekend. When I hear it on a normal basis from angry posts on the Internet, I don't put all that much stock into it. Then again, when I hear it from prominent pundits, journalists, and polls..... The violence in Portland this weekend was only the beginn...
[23:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:20] <exec> 08└─There is also the trick that capable and self-sufficient people in the USA often raise in the ranks and no longer fume at the *. Even if not, they are free to move elsewhere, they will be ok there just by definition.
[23:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:22] <exec> 08└─On one hand, revolutions happen when enough people have nothing to lose. Panem & circenses is currently working, with a critical mass of people still buying the "it would be worse for you" narrative. On the other hand, as the white majority is feeling more and more emboldened to push back the rights...
[23:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 3138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:25] <exec> 08└─No, these are mainstream conservative, liberal, libertarian, .etc people that are saying it. Looney fringe people though still seem to get time on Fox :) What's wrong with a South American jungle? I'm going there because of all the pluses, not the minuses. It's not indicative of insanity, but intell...
[23:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Slams Tacoma for Not Releasing Stingray Records - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, if you will note in my response to you, violence is here, and this was not an op-ed, but a group of people talking. Conservatives and Liberals on the panel both agreeing to that sentiment. No real push back that the idea was crazy, but seriously discussed. Homeless person saying the world...
[23:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:51] <exec> 08└─A scraggly old Greek man in a dusty village speaks to a group of strangers. “See that school? I built that school – with my own hands. Ten years it took, and thousands of children have been schooled there, but nobody talks about Stavros the school-builder. Nobody! See that hospital? I built it w...
[23:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:52] <exec> 08└─Never remove your browser condom.
[23:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:55] <exec> 08└─Will it still be a virgin when it is delivered? Or is that extra?
[23:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:57] <exec> 08└─They all have a hole at the back
[23:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goats: Man's Other Best Friend - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:59] <exec> 08└─You could always bottle raise it yourself.
[23:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Linux Sold for $2.535 Billion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:29] <exec> 08└─Does it have SystemD? Honest question.
[23:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Felony Eavesdropping Charges for Student Who Recorded his Conversation with School Administrators - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:13] <exec> 08└─That little prick deserved it. Go look at the history of what he and his family have been up to since.
[23:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systems Status -- Certs, Developers, and Community, Oh My! - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:44] <exec> 08└─Feel free to develop them here. Constructive criticism from old hands gives the learning curve a fair amount of straightening. We're not a broad use case for perl but we do have some interesting ways of doing things. Some of them are even the right or even best way to do them.
[23:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:17] <exec> 08└─Try "Fifth Column" by Heinlein. Or "The Mightiest Machine" by John W. Campbell. (There are others, but those two are my favorites. I find the racism annoying, but can ignore it for the sake of the story.)
[23:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Continuing Saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this should be that you have to EITHER: Sell the copyright at the offered price (assuming genuine offer); ORRaise the 'value' of your work to a figure higher than the offer, and continue to pay copyright ownership fees based on the new, higher price At some point, it needs to become economic...
[23:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:14] <exec> 08└─Funny, searching google for "bent grass grazing" comes up with a long string of articles about how to eliminate bentgrass from pasture land, and suggesting that it is of poor nutritional quality and inferior productivity. Perhaps you typo-ed? for [vic.gov.au] example [thehorse.com]
[23:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:15] <exec> 08└─You are correct! It was called the Terminator Gene. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] DRM for seeds!
[23:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:48] <exec> 08└─Here is a paper that covers (and supports) the wimpy possibility of having a child genetically related to one mother, but with mitochondria from another: https://jme.bmj.com [bmj.com] But what you'd really want is something like in vitro gametogenesis:...
[23:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Leaked - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:49] <exec> 08└─I legally own the land out to the middle of the road.
[23:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:55] <exec> 08└─OP here. I don't care whether you believe me or not. What you wrote is your opinion, and you are entitled to it, but if you think your opinion negates the opinion of others, you are in the grip of severe ego issues.
[23:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:56] <exec> 08└─A good starting point: " rel="url2html-30655">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_analog#Attributes_and_criteria
[23:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:59] <exec> 08└─What "minor change" happens over an entire planet? Let us recall that most such things are very local and on something the size of a geologically active planet over hundreds of millions of years, there's a vast number of local environments.