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[00:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:40] <exec> 08└─Well see thenproblembis they got an accelersted course in government, skipping the naturalnprogression and hopping straight into the corruption end game.
[00:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, the humanity!
[00:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:43] <exec> 08└─Wow that really is a tragedy. I wish I had the chance to visit and go through the museum.
[00:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mainframe Bloke [1665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:46] <exec> 08└─The Library of Alexandria. This is a loss of global significance. Very sad that such poor administration of a critical asset has led to its destruction.
[00:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:48] <exec> 08└─No. A sprinkler system will destroy the artifacts if it ever activates. You need an inert gas, such as Halon, or... you could just not have a flammable building. This isn't so complicated. Your choices are numerous: stone, glass, most metal (excluding foam and absurd choices like potassium), some pl...
[00:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─I saw the fire on the news, and the aftermath. What a waste. One has to wonder, did they not have sprinklers? News said the 2 closest fire hydrants didn't work. Did we lose these artifacts because of an incompetent government that can't be bothered to maintain it's infrastucture Goddamit, infrastruc...
[00:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:52] <exec> 08└─Well, public buildings usually store something or another, and that something is usually flammable. Sprinklers can save the people who are inside of the structure when the fire starts. A not very secret secret: water sprinklers are usually full of dissolved oxygen, or air. A Navy fire fighting team...
[00:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:54] <exec> 08└─Brazil never had a functioning democratic institution like the US.
[00:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:56] <exec> 08└─It's Brazil, man. Basic stuff is fucked up beyond belief.
[00:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:59] <exec> 08└─*cough* umbrella *cough* I get what your saying, but it seems to me, like others have said, Halon or whatever would solve the problem. Is that cheaper than maintaining the 2 closest fire hydrants that didn't work? I dunno. Is it relevant? Water is water. Applied directly to the source, like a sprink...
[00:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:56] <exec> 08└─I know 8 people that have these phones. Every last one has a 'real' phone too. They get them because they can. Not because the need them. They think I am 'crazy' for not getting one too. One dude I know had 4 lines. All but one paid for by you. This program is so sadly abused :(
[00:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:58] <exec> 08└─All but one paid for by you.
[00:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:00] <exec> 08└─Is that you, Ivanka?
[00:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:02] <exec> 08└─I know 8 people that have these phones...One dude I know had 4 lines. All but one paid for by you.
[00:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:46] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall some design variants that proposed the lower portion not be rigid and allow arc in the tether so there is some slack to work with. I think the idea was shock absorption and to allow a refueling boom like ability to 'fly' the lower end slightly to make capture less fraught. I didn't...
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[00:52:16] <exec> 08└─Do your linux distros install updates automatically, by default, without giving you an option not to? (at install / config time) Do they schedule update mandates reboots for you, possibly being nice enough to allow you to delay it for an hour or two? Mine don't, even the more "managed" ones I've use...
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[01:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:38] <exec> 08└─Using steel and glass to 'store' the historical record is a bad idea. 200 years from now when 'archaeology' can be performed using some sort of an x-ray type scan of the strata without distubring it, they will curse the people of the 19th and 20th century who dug up and rooted out as much of anythin...
[01:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:40] <exec> 08└─Brazil once had a functioning democracy. The US decided they didn't like that government, and overthrew it in 1964 [wikipedia.org], replacing it with a US-friendly military dictatorship that lasted until the 1980's. This is a long-standing pattern in Latin America: Whenever a democratically-elected...
[01:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:42] <exec> 08└─I live about 3km (2mi) from the museum. It was older than the country itself (as a republic) but has been pratically abandoned for decades, they had to shutdown several times the last few years simply because it had no money to pay light, water and other bills. It got to the point that the museum di...
[01:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:44] <exec> 08└─Which US institution is, or was, functionally democratic?
[01:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:46] <exec> 08└─Anyplace on earth more than 50miles away from a major first world city is prety fucked up. Phones, ambulances, hospitals, police, are all "a long way away" or just "missing"
[01:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:49] <exec> 08└─No. That MIGHT have been the START of a democracy (we'll never know if it would've lasted otherwise), but there is no lengthy tradition of democracy. Please think to the time period before the US intervention. No real democracy. (Not to excuse the US here.)
[01:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─Chat roulette, just like russian roulette - sometimes there is a bullet penis
[01:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:10] <exec> 08└─I'm OK with these sorts of things. They're a bit silly, and no-one is really going to buy one of those arm things but at least someone is thinking about something new. A folding phone I could see being great though. a phone sized device for carrying about that folds out to be a tablet when that is...
[01:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:52] <exec> 08└─I hate Ajit as much as the rest of you, but don't really see this as A Bad Thing (tm). This sort of thing spurs competition which, dangit, Pai hates. give me credit for posting this under my name, but IMHO he's promoting competition. That said, I live in a major city. I have 2 choices for internet/T...
[01:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:53] <exec> 08└─The moderate, pro-business, forward-thinking, non-bigoted, coalition is called the Democratic Party--flawed as it is. The Republican Party is little more than a pirate ship; the worst aspects of humanity banded together to take, leech, steal, and bully whatever they can from the productive members o...
[01:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:56] <exec> 08└─Reliable phone communication has taken a hit in the USA since "cord cutting" became the economically attractive thing to do. Sure, we've got cellular service wherever we go, well - 97% of the time. And that's what sucks for home service: landline voice quality and reliability has gone downhill to th...
[01:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:58] <exec> 08└─This program is almost entirely fraud and abuse. Besides the very premise is defective. I pay less than $10/mo for super basic cell service so I know it can be done on the open market, even sold to an individual customer. Why can't people pay for their own damned cell phone? It isn't some basic "Rig...
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[01:49:05] <exec> 08└─Sadly, Trump has not managed to drain the Swamp one little bit, but he has called it out and made it visible to everyone.
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[02:42:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03esperto123 [4303] 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 1223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:51] <exec> 08└─I live about 3km (2mi) from the museum. It was older than the country itself (as a republic) but has been pratically abandoned for decades, they had to shutdown several times the last few years simply because it had no money to pay light, water and other bills. It got to the point that the museum di...
[02:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:55] <exec> 08└─A major dinosaur exhibition, which was forced to shut following a termite attack five months ago, had recently reopened only thanks to a crowdfunding campaign.
[02:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:05] <exec> 08└─I'm paying for the welfare of Aussies, not Yankees.
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[02:44:06] <exec> 08└─Yes it is fraud. Yes he does this sort of shit all the time. His family and friends do too. Every last one also has t-mobile or boost smartphone in addition to the 'free one'. You are being systematically ripped off. They sold this as a nice gesture to help people. I thought the same at one point. N...
[02:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:09] <exec> 08└─Meh, I'm not quite familiar with Pom's slang.
[02:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:11] <exec> 08└─Ah then you have no f-ng clue how this program is used and abused and what it is for. I think you will find you are *WILDLY* wrong on pretty much all aspects of the program then. There is the propaganda which you have spread all over this discussion. You have not seen first hand then how it is abuse...
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[02:44:13] <exec> 08└─Competition is good... as long as only certain people have permission to do so. Rogue entry is deemed illegal and will be fraught with legal quagmires that the existing players can pull you into.
[02:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:15] <exec> 08└─The last I was paying for landline in Southern California was $45/month. AT&T. And half of the time it didn't work. And they told me they could not fix it without putting in a device that made it impossible to use a modem. So, I was kinda "forced" into a cellphone connection... that does not work we...
[02:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:40] <exec> 08└─The advantage of a journal instead of a random website is vetting. Scientific communication depends on being able to find relevant, high-quality research. Anybody can have a website or slap something up. But how will other researchers find it? If they do, how will they know it's not a BS finding? Ye...
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[02:46:22] <exec> 08└─it's about the human condition, relationships, ethical dilemma's and so on.
[02:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:40] <exec> 08└─This is not about errors, this is about correct usage of scientific and taxonomic terminology.
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[03:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03beernutz [4365] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Cells are Tiny Bacteria Fighters - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:14] <exec> 08└─Since they don't reproduce, i don't think they are considered a virus. I think that's a good thing though, especially in this case! Seems like a VERY promising tech for targeting and killing things we don't like though.
[03:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NordVPN Responds to Privacy and Ownership Allegations - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:23] <exec> 08└─You says that like it's a bad thing.
[03:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:52] <exec> 08└─What would be a sufficiently lengthy tradition?
[03:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:54] <exec> 08└─Rest assured the people who withheld funding are going to remain employed, if not promoted.
[03:43:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:33] <exec> 08└─In the context of saved human lives, if it needs to come to cutting, I'd think that "build first a better support, cut the older later" would be self-evident. As it stays now, chances are "We'll cut the knot, then it's not our problem anymore".
[03:43:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:36] <exec> 08└─Well, that's totally more fair because: no freebies, no handouts, if your Daddy didn't give you a giant pile 'o cash then you'd better get out there and bust your ass for everything, even basic life safety essentials.
[03:43:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:44] <exec> 08└─I hope you never get in a condition in which the question you raise has you as a subject. You will be surprised how fast you'll find an answer that doesn't even take economy or social aspects into account. Mind you, in a dog-eat-dog society, it's almost inevitable you will get to the stage of "sick"...
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[03:44:10] <exec> 08└─Oh. I've only ever heard it in Melbourne.
[03:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:11] <exec> 08└─A better question is why would any telecom company would want millions of poor people to have phone service...
[03:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:13] <exec> 08└─Oh. I've only ever heard it in Melbourne.
[03:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:15] <exec> 08└─And you're downvoted by more fools who can't handle cognitive dissonance. But according to them, everyone else is ignorant and backwards. Or they're just liars.
[03:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:17] <exec> 08└─But, but... EBIL TWUMP!
[03:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:07] <exec> 08└─An orientation toward making puns is common among people in the higher reaches of giftedness.
[03:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:08] <exec> 08└─"All men who possess at once active dance, imagination, and philosophical spirit, are prone to punning."
[03:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:30] <exec> 08└─Read his words yourself, they don't need any interpretation, they're plain as day! "A civilized country doesn't get to that level of civilization if there's no pragmatism/common sense within its population." Yes, when we reach what the other poster is calling 'civilized' that is actually a diagnosti...
[03:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:32] <exec> 08└─Nothing survives any dubbing process.
[03:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, when we reach what the other poster is calling 'civilized' that is actually a diagnostic of decay.
[03:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:36] <exec> 08└─Crunchyroll will just simply no longer be available in Europe. The future of the internet is a series of tub... VPN tunnels.
[03:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:38] <exec> 08└─Microsoft completely missed the boat, letting iOS and Android get deeply entrenched before making their first feeble moves into mobile phones MS owns many many many patents on cell phones that both android and ios pay for. Why is that? They have been trying to crack that market since 1998. Their *mi...
[03:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon to Shutdown CreateSpace, Books May be Left in Limbo - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:45] <exec> 08└─You may not have heard of it, but my electronics design was printed via them. Except for a slightly weakish cover, layout and text resolution are great. Last page says "Made in the USA / Middletown, DE / 07 September 2015". $1b Amazon big enough by now to fuck up a working service?
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[03:49:46] <exec> 08└─the textbook for my electronics design class, that is.
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[04:42:04] <exec> 08└─In the US for a number of years, I have noticed this trend where companies provide no way to contact a person who works there. At BEST, you may get to fill out an online form that gets sent who knows where to be read by a program. It's absolutely bizarre that the company can gather all this info fro...
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[04:46:21] <exec> 08└─It can't bear too much resemblance to any working system, obviously, since it wouldn't be working in that case. But it does seem to be *exactly* how many US-based advocates of socialized medicine *imagine* it would work. That's what they think they're voting for. The fact that it's fundamentally sel...
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[04:46:22] <exec> 08└─But it does seem to be *exactly* how many US-based advocates of socialized medicine *imagine* it would work. That's what they think they're voting for... They're afflicted by magical thinking - they don't really know how anything works, so it's all just magic to them anyway.
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[04:47:41] <exec> 08└─Guess the reference was lost on younger viewers: Duke Nukem Forever was an awesome running joke. Many had played and enjoyed Duke Nukem after Doom's success. It was so popular that the publisher set out right away to produce a sequel. Except "next year!" Stretched into "no, this year, no really!" Be...
[04:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:39] <exec> 08└─"Western cloud-asaurus?" Were the discoverers eating frijoles while they were thinking about what to call it? "Number-osaurus?" (Bannykus) were the discoverers deep into their tequila when they came up with that? ('What should we call this one, Dr. Wang?' 'I dunno *hic* call it number 2.' 'Which num...
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[05:42:13] <exec> 08└─I have to admit this is a personal bugbear of mine as well: the arrogance of refusing direct contact with a human, and only providing a form. Sometimes you're lucky enough to get a phone number or an email address, which I use after I fill in the form if I am steamed up enough. It's gotten to the po...
[05:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:14] <exec> 08└─Remember, you're not the customer, you're the product. They can't have products be making demands of them, can they? They're real customers typically get a real contact.
[05:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:16] <exec> 08└─It is all about profits, nothing else matters. I’m not against profits, I’m against greed that would rather sink our civilization than forego a little profit. Is like Disney [forbes.com] trying to claim copyright on everything from the Grimm tales to the One Thousand Nights. If they can get awa...
[05:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:18] <exec> 08└─Stop expecting Google to supply unlimited server and bandwidth resources. This felow is a professor at a, one supposes, real educational institution. They have servers and bandwidth. Use your own. "They" can't auto ban you, their bots won't be able to touch you and if they serve a real legal notice...
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[05:42:35] <exec> 08└─>Luminati srsly?
[05:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:07] <exec> 08└─Brazil once had a functioning democracy. The US decided they didn't like that government, and overthrew it in 1964
[05:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:09] <exec> 08└─Goddamit, infrastructure is supposed to be a link but it ain't working. " rel="url2html-31401">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_75_in_Ohio
[05:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:43] <exec> 08└─"1. exceptionalism => the blind belief that all the world is suboptimally organized, nothing to learn from outside America, we are the best" We're certainly not the only people prone to that, but yes, we're truly awful on that score. In our defense, it's relatively easy to see why - isolation was ou...
[05:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, reading that back actually that was written even looser than I intended it to be, and I wasn't trying to be precise. I don't remember exactly how long it took to see the GP, I doubt it was as long as I said there actually, but that bit was mickey mouse, there was never any doubt whatsoever tha...
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[05:46:47] <exec> 08└─We're certainly not the only people prone to that
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[06:42:40] <exec> 08└─Can anyone claim a copyright violation? What would happen if a few thousand people submitted copyright violations against Disney, or whomever, whenever they post something to youtube?Why, yes in fact, I did happen to write Snow White and the Seven Dawarves. Star Wars too.
[06:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Cells are Tiny Bacteria Fighters - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:48] <exec> 08└─Since they don't reproduce...
[06:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:49] <exec> 08└─This is just more creeping Socialism
[06:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:07] <exec> 08└─B.F. Skinner was indeed an American, and so was Horace Mann, but Skinner comes along a good bit later. Horace Mann successfully imported the Prussian school system to Massachusetts, back about 1850 or so. He pitched it as a way to turn those unruly Catholic immigrants children into productive and we...
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[06:47:09] <exec> 08└─Interesting, thanks.
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[07:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:17] <exec> 08└─... Better With Pork Than With The Stew Beef I Actually Used. To that end I picked up some hamhocks today. When I can get a lift home I'm going to purchase a twenty pound sack each of rice and beans. I'd buy fifty pounds but I only know where to get twenty.
[07:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 1153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:27] <exec> 08└─It is all about profits, nothing else matters. I’m not against profits, I’m against greed that would rather sink our civilization than forego a little profit. Is like Disney [forbes.com] trying to claim copyright on everything from the Grimm tales to the One Thousand Nights. If they can get awa...
[07:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:31] <exec> 08└─Stop expecting Google to supply unlimited server and bandwidth resources.
[07:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:33] <exec> 08└─This is the EU, not America. Do it the European way: Threaten to fine Google 5% of its global turnover for each and every false take down, and let them sort it out with the people making bogus claims.
[07:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:35] <exec> 08└─I’ll get a lot of flak from the usual suspects who fail to understand that justice should not be at the whim of Congress. The law should protect all at all times, not just the rich and powerful.
[07:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:37] <exec> 08└─It's not too hard to figure out what job title to send it to. I have 5,000 Facebook Friends. RLY. I was ignoring all their Friend Requests until it occurred to me that accepting them would be a good way to promote my writing. Now I have 1,000 pr0n spammer friends. They're all flogging just one site....
[07:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:26] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can't really digitally backup all things but most things you can. And you totally should. Would ease access too. Now, Brazil went up in flames but there are thousands of museums still standing. Let's make sure they too will not fail disastrously.
[07:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:48] <exec> 08└─n00b ya
[07:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:11] <exec> 08└─Publicly funded research should be publicly accessible. Ditto software. [fsfe.org]
[07:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:13] <exec> 08└─While many characterise this as a fight between publishers business models and openness, not all academics are against the current model. These two articles by an academic are worth a read, even if you disagree with him. Geoffrey Sampson: The Death of Learned Journals [archive.org] Geoffrey Sampson:...
[07:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:38] <exec> 08└─I imagine the highest forms of wit would be incomprehensible to people insufficiently smart. An example is mathematical jokes [wikipedia.org]. Other academic fields will have their own in-jokes that can only be appreciated by experts in their fields, I'm not picking on mathematicians. There will com...
[07:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:08] <exec> 08└─In case you got the impression that everything is free though, it isn't. You will also know only what it costs after actual surgery and hospital stay -- bills arrive anywhere between a couple of weeks and about 6 months later. However, the price is capped/reasonable: open heart surgery plus a 3 week...
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[08:42:37] <exec> 08└─My left testicle itches but I like broccoli. And I jogged yesterday.
[08:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:38] <exec> 08└─I give up! What is a "TSB"? I gather it is some kind of bank. What country? What currency? Is this another one of those Bitcoin submissions?
[08:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:56] <exec> 08└─In other words, let us hand more power to a government that clearly isn't doing its job without even a superficial attempt at making sure that power gets used properly
[08:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NordVPN Responds to Privacy and Ownership Allegations - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:15] <exec> 08└─You're a young rebel online and you like to obtain unauthorized copies of latest movies and music albums. You refuse to pay the MAFIAA! But you're afraid of doing it "naked" so you bought a VPN subscription... And no, the risk is not getting caught for your activities but the MAFIAA getting your har...
[08:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:50] <exec> 08└─You dumbass, you should read "tales of an economic hitman". Title might be slightly off but that will find it for you.
[08:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 1599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:51] <exec> 08└─Sad to say, there's a Gollum like mindset which predominates the museum world, all the preciousess are mines... You'd think that they'd be doing their damnedest to digitise *all* their collections and start sharing/offsiting the copies, but no, and when they *do* digitise, suddenly the copyright not...
[08:44:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:46] <exec> 08└─The recipients of the service can receive compensation that they can use to order a phone. Or for something else (they are free people.)
[08:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:17] <exec> 08└─Yes fraud happens, but usually it isnt on the level you think. These anecdotes are not worthy, come back with real data.
[08:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:18] <exec> 08└─Tracking, data, service cost is way inflated.
[08:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:45] <exec> 08└─More to the point, they can publish anywhere they want as long as at least one place is open access. Of course the closed journals want exclusives - _that_ is what ain't gonna happen no more.
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[09:42:49] <exec> 08└─TSB is apparently some bank in UK. Their meltdown probably is a prequel to the meltdown of entire UK (or at least The City) as they bumble their way through Brexit.
[09:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:50] <exec> 08└─It's a UK retail bank, spun out of Lloyds TSB (the former is now Lloyds bank) to satisfy their bail-out terms.
[09:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:10] <exec> 08└─how the hell is parent a troll? in general I hate his comments, but this one is not only on-topic, it's a perfectly reasonable suggestion: this is a teacher putting up videos for HIS STUDENTS; why would it be difficult to distribute a nonyoutube link to them? they meet in person at least once a week...
[09:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:12] <exec> 08└─and is there any income correlated with those 500 hits?
[09:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe they spent too much money on the 2016 Olympics?
[09:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:10] <exec> 08└─This one? Confessions of an Economic Hit Man [wikipedia.org]: Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid"...
[09:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:01] <exec> 08└─You dont understand the words you are using or their relevance to society.
[09:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellites More At Risk From Fast Solar Wind Than A Major Space Storm - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:36] <exec> 08└─For those interested, it's available with open access: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com]
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[10:42:23] <exec> 08└─Oxford English Dictionary [oxforddictionaries.com] Definition of skill - the ability to do something well; expertise. Suspect that is not what Amazon mean.. So users put "skills" in their voice-thing's "library", and the skills were programmed by "someone". Just like "apps" on tablets and phones, tr...
[10:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:35] <exec> 08└─Trustees Savings Bank, a mutual.
[10:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:36] <exec> 08└─... while fiddling with something "stable enough". M$ calling.
[10:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:57] <exec> 08└─Alas, probably not. Promotion != food. Didn't say if anyone *liked* the posts, either, just that they'd been counted as "hits"
[10:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Cells are Tiny Bacteria Fighters - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:07] <exec> 08└─Since they don't reproduce for now
[10:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:16] <exec> 08└─Indeed, Tracfone and Tello are available for under $10/month. And if I'm not mistaken, any old cell phone fished out of a dumpster can be used to call 911 for free. I don't see how the overhead cost to administer this program could be worth it, regardless of one's views on social programs.
[10:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:40] <exec> 08└─First world countries may choose to spend themselves into third world status to create an illusion otherwise, but that path is not sustainable.
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[11:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:15] <exec> 08└─He's most likely wrong. Most people who base predictions solely on their own pet theory tend to be. Especially when that theory doesn't take into account that the people in charge are capable of seeing badness coming and taking steps to avoid it. That said, it would be one of the best things to happ...
[11:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:16] <exec> 08└─I read that some of these campuses where the leftists have run amok in the news have lost huge enrollment numbers. Apparently its impacting their bottom line. IIRC Jonathan Haidt predicted that would be a correcting force for far leftist campuses.
[11:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:18] <exec> 08└─sqrt(colleges) will survive. students-sqrt(students) will go under. more or less.
[11:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:20] <exec> 08└─reading did not seem to trigger thought in you. nothing has a single cause and authorities just want to eat you. ponder that :)
[11:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:23] <exec> 08└─students in deep debt, costs rising far in excess of the 'net learning', growth in admin staff .. these are all real factors. why do you think he's wrong? do you have evidence that more than a few schools have done intelligent work to counter the trends, or that they can?
[11:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:25] <exec> 08└─Who needs a degree when you have SO?
[11:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:54] <exec> 08└─Spun out from, but formerly separate from anyway, until 1995. And now merged into some shitty Spanish bank (yes, I know that really narrows it down) - in fact it's that merger that's been the reason behind the IT meltdowns. Every UK bank is useless to the core. Those in charge need to spend the rest...
[11:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Cells are Tiny Bacteria Fighters - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:27] <exec> 08└─I think I have seen this movie: It is all fun and games until somebody accidentally injects themselves with the contaminated version. More seriously, there is a different level of risk when dealing with microbes / organics. What are the odds of one of these binding with another cell/bacteria/virus t...
[11:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:06] <exec> 08└─Right you are. 't'll be interesting to see what position the non-open publishers will adopt re exclusivity.
[11:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:08] <exec> 08└─The first link is way out of date (written in 2006) and the author's predictions did not come true. He overestimated the "value added" by editors, in terms of writing quality and typesetting (using special non-standard characters), and the need for a physical journal to act as curator/aggregator of...
[11:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:34] <exec> 08└─Which is why he didn't use a pun, for hilarity, he used zeugma instead.
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[12:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:24] <exec> 08└─Some universities also have a lot of dead wood. That is to say they have loads of staff and executives that have nothing to do with either teaching or research or direct support of either. "Diversity" executives pull in 6-figure salaries and herd a triple-digit sized team all the while libraries wit...
[12:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:26] <exec> 08└─I think Christensen is wrong. In fact, most colleges and universities have the majority of their 100 and 200 level courses online for their students already. To think that mainstream schools can't make the shift to online offerings quickly is ludicrous. The bottom line is that schools are recognized...
[12:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:28] <exec> 08└─They produce and reinforce views as far outside mainstream American thinking as closed militia compounds or cults do.
[12:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:30] <exec> 08└─Most universities have already diluted the quality of their instruction by allowing graduate students teach undergrads instead of making professors do it. As a result, you have foreign grad students who don't speak English transcribing notes onto a chalkboard, unable to field questions or do anythin...
[12:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:32] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely correct. You should fish more.
[12:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:34] <exec> 08└─End of winter. Not the best season for fishing in Melbourne. Commenting on S/N will have to do for now. (grin)
[12:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:37] <exec> 08└─reading did not seem to trigger thought in you.
[12:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:30] <exec> 08└─Is like Disney trying to claim copyright on everything from the Grimm tales to the One Thousand Nights.
[12:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:32] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as bad advertising
[12:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:34] <exec> 08└─when I asked whether this brought him any money, I was just wondering whether there are any financial rewards coming from his efforts. obviously he is "winning" in other ways, since he still does it, and long-term the more people that know about him the better chances there may be financial rewards....
[12:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:36] <exec> 08└─Regulation is lacking. Or, rather, good regulation is lacking.
[12:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NordVPN Responds to Privacy and Ownership Allegations - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:58] <exec> 08└─I use NordVPN. Not for illegal activities, but due to the australian government being a bunch of wankers when it comes to internet privacy
[12:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NordVPN Responds to Privacy and Ownership Allegations - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:59] <exec> 08└─I may or may not be a NordVPN customer... If I am, and if they're looking to sell my excess bandwidth, they would be sorely disappointed, as I would be using them solely on demand, and I don't have much excess bandwidth to offer..
[12:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:40] <exec> 08└─I'll repeat the money quote: Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of...
[12:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:41] <exec> 08└─"Do not ship rare or valuable vegetation to Australia"
[12:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:43] <exec> 08└─Plastic is so much cheaper
[12:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:45] <exec> 08└─Yep. We take protecting our plants and animals seriously. Keep your diseased stuff over there, or we will incinerate it.
[12:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:41] <exec> 08└─The second link is also out of date and full of ramblings about "how thing used to be". The moral arguments about how electronic publication "undermines the community relationships which nourish the health of a discipline" is not well supported and is a bit jarring when I expected logical arguments....
[12:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:10] <exec> 08└─Not on pun in ten did.
[12:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:11] <exec> 08└─Must pay my tab sometime
[12:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:44] <exec> 08└─They do this in Australia [abc.net.au]. All regional TV operators must air 1,400 hours of Australian programs each year on their multi-channels, in addition to content requirements on their main channel,
[12:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:45] <exec> 08└─Actually from an European point of view that is only technically illegal, but most judges in this case are going to make the law not applicable or null in this case as you are already offering all the content made in Germany and is unreasonable to make you offer something that don't exist to meet a...
[12:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:47] <exec> 08└─What they're trying to do is preserve their culture. Especially the French.
[12:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:49] <exec> 08└─if there's indeed a need
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[12:50:10] <exec> 08└─What elevator?
[12:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:11] <exec> 08└─OMG I must go play this. I wonder if I still have an old PII around somewhere or something
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[13:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:39] <exec> 08└─Do not harm the lettuces, they also have feelings! Eat sun and be proud of it! Also I vape.
[13:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:40] <exec> 08└─Vape the devil's lettuce, bro. VΛ
[13:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:42] <exec> 08└─Does this even beat photovoltaic-powered electrolysis?
[13:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:45] <exec> 08└─Just to bracket it: Their method also managed to absorb more solar light than natural photosynthesis.
[13:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:47] <exec> 08└─You can store tons of LH2 and LO2, something you cannot do as easily with batteries.
[13:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:11] <exec> 08└─Diversity executives, eh? So, you don't actually work at a university then, I take it?
[13:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:12] <exec> 08└─As a result, you have foreign grad students who don't speak English...
[13:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:14] <exec> 08└─Fish still bite in the winter (just a bit slower) and you don't have to worry about it getting too hot to even breathe. Mind you, you may need a boat to get to the deeper waters where they hang out when it's cold.
[13:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:16] <exec> 08└─alright man, thanks
[13:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:19] <exec> 08└─we've had the technology to offer courses online for at least five years
[13:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:21] <exec> 08└─Graduate teaching is common practice in the "Oxbridge" system. The difference with the US system is that the graduate student has to *write* the class, following tuition a few years before. Hence, although the students are treated as cheap labour, they at least get some practice with the technical m...
[13:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:23] <exec> 08└─Especially when that theory doesn't take into account that the people in charge are capable of seeing badness coming and taking steps to avoid it.
[13:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:25] <exec> 08└─University Diversity Officer Page 1 of 1,942 jobs [indeed.com]
[13:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:27] <exec> 08└─Would not disagree, with a side dish of the government student loan program went into hyperdrive around '08 to collapse unemployment rates; you grade politicians on low unemployment rates, you get low unemployment rates regardless of side effects. So a trillion dollar transfer of wealth from tax pay...
[13:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:29] <exec> 08└─Apparently its impacting their bottom line. IIRC Jonathan Haidt predicted that would be a correcting force for far leftist campuses.
[13:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:32] <exec> 08└─reading encourages both of your brain's hemispheres to have multichannel conversations across your corpus callossum(sp?) usually leading to something individuated happening in your frontal cortex we refer to as thinking. you can also produce the effect by working out how to talk to your voice-record...
[13:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Show Alexa “Skill Squatting” Could Hijack Voice Commands - 2651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:46] <exec> 08└─I had trouble sleeping and skimmed the paper this morning. The attack is based on the still sorry state of speech recognition and the non-conversational nature of "conversations" with "AI" assistants. At an abstract level, Alexa seems to be a rudimentary command interpreter with "skills" being rough...
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[13:44:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/australia-bans-small-breasts/ [somebodythinkofthechildren.com]
[13:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:33] <exec> 08└─None and never have been. The USA is a representative republic.
[13:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:01] <exec> 08└─By Gifted, I assume you mean poisonous, because puns are toxic.
[13:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:40] <exec> 08└─A civilized country doesn't get to that level of civilization if there's no pragmatism/common sense within its population.
[13:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:41] <exec> 08└─Socialized medicine is a white privilege which can only be successfully implemented if your population is over 80% white OR if you make medical your countries super-industry secret sauce (like Cuba). Socialists of the national variety are generally pretty chill for right-wingers with the concept of...
[13:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:44] <exec> 08└─There are two ways Netflix can meet a 30% local content quota.
[13:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:46] <exec> 08└─(rings like English, but makes no sense. "intentional demographic replacement" is that a thing? What the hell does it mean?)
[13:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, cyclones, hurricanes, etc. are going to provide some pertubations - quite possibly terminal ones. That's why most plans have the base of the beanstalk well inland and atop a high mountain - up above the worst of atmospheric disruptions. For maximum reliability you wouldn't want it to touch the...
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[14:43:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 656 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─Some universities also have a lot of dead wood. That is to say they have loads of staff and executives that have nothing to do with either teaching or research or direct support of either. "Diversity" executives pull in 6-figure salaries and herd a triple-digit sized team all the while libraries wit...
[14:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:34] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, you Fox News types really eat that shit up, don't you? Talk about living in a bubble! So what do "mainstream Americans" think? Apparently what Fox News tells them to think, even if it means completely flip-flopping on what were supposed to be basic, core principles like free trade, the ev...
[14:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:36] <exec> 08└─"online education will become a more cost-effective way for students to receive an education, effectively undermining the business models of traditional institutions" I've earned degrees both at traditional institutions and online. They are completely different environments, and not everybody is sui...
[14:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:38] <exec> 08└─Don't != can't though.
[14:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:40] <exec> 08└─You realize you're talking to a guy who disconnected the rabbit ears that were his only source of live television programming from his TV this year due to not having used them in over two years, yes?
[14:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:42] <exec> 08└─Officer != executive. That's like saying a sergeant is the same as a general. I challenge you to find me even a dozen of those 2000 odd jobs that will be bringing in "six figures". So much for your "pesky contradictory facts"! The university senior executive level* is so far removed from anything th...
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[14:43:44] <exec> 08└─relevant XKCD [xkcd.com] Why are you limiting it to Americans? Lots of people from other countries are fairly mindless a lot of the time. Heck, you might be one of them: A lot of people have no original thoughts prior to getting to work, for instance. About the only aspect that might be uniquely Ame...
[14:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─For an example, consider trying to predict the next pixel value in an 8 bit black and white image (pixel values range from 0 to 255), given previous values of 192 and 64. A simple straight line extrapolation will give a value of -64. It shouldn't take long to realize that's out of bounds. The next t...
[14:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:20] <exec> 08└─Wish I could be fired from my job for being a fuckup and walk away with that much severance.
[14:44:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:32] <exec> 08└─Remember, you're not the customer, you're the product. They can't have products be making demands of them, can they? They're real customers typically get a real contact.
[14:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:48] <exec> 08└─What's even worse is when my customers expect me to provide tech support for services like Google Calendars and Docs, services which I don't recommend and sometimes even warn customers away from because they will not meet the customer's needs. (Employer isn't an outsource help desk so I see no reaso...
[14:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:50] <exec> 08└─there are people around to downvote jmorris no matter what he says
[14:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gertlex [3966] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:20] <exec> 08└─Does anyone else have a sense whether there's a sizeable fraction of the population (besides myself) that dislikes wearing (bulky, at least) things on their wrist? I've never worn a watch regularly, and haven't seen a need for the current smart watch or even fitness trackers.
[14:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:06] <exec> 08└─Okay, that was a bad attempt at humor. We don't have any shreds of good reputation left in the world. So no harm can be done to our reputation. First it was Snowden's revelations. NSA spying on Parliament? Really? Do they expect to find terrorists there? We used to have the moral high ground. Next,...
[14:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:07] <exec> 08└─Q. What do you call a person who speaks 2 languages? A. Bilingual Q. What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages? A. Trilingual Q. What do you call a person who only speaks 1 language? A. American
[14:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:52] <exec> 08└─Right there alongside the time-lapse videos of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, etc. What would be the point? These things were built before the internet video PR fest existed. Maybe there's a few photos, perhaps even some video clips here and there, but there's no engin...
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[15:43:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:02] <exec> 08└─He's most likely wrong. Most people who base predictions solely on their own pet theory tend to be. Especially when that theory doesn't take into account that the people in charge are capable of seeing badness coming and taking steps to avoid it. That said, it would be one of the best things to happ...
[15:43:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:11] <exec> 08└─They produce and reinforce views as far outside mainstream American thinking as closed militia compounds or cults do.
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:35] <exec> 08└─What is definitely true is that the big explosion in spending by universities isn't on anything involving education, but on administration. Some of that is BS like creating pointless bureaucratic positions, like you mentioned, but a lot more of it is trying to build a detailed management infrastruct...
[15:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:37] <exec> 08└─I read that some of these campuses where the leftists have run amok in the news have lost huge enrollment numbers.
[15:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:39] <exec> 08└─Unlike conservative institutions that never need to take other peoples' money... *COUGH* https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:41] <exec> 08└─...that online education will become a more cost-effective way for students to receive an education, effectively undermining the business models of traditional institutions and running them out of business.
[15:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:43] <exec> 08└─With most of that trillion $ going to administrative costs rather than actual education. I'm glad my son (who just started college) is well aware of the costs, and chose his college appropriately.
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/UMnew.png [aei.org]
[15:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─Who needs a degree when you have SO?
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:50] <exec> 08└─Could you cite this? I would like to learn more if it isn't bullshit.
[15:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:51] <exec> 08└─Don't use youtube.
[15:44:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:52] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with capitalism 1.0 in the first place? Excessive copyright is a regulatory problem not a capitalism problem.
[15:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:54] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the bandwidth is not the biggest hurdle. YouTube is a content delivery network. People will consider it the sole source for video material searches. Yes you can host your own, but it will be much harder to reach a broad audience.
[15:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Cells are Tiny Bacteria Fighters - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:07] <exec> 08└─Since they don't reproduce for now
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[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─You can't just remove the plastics without also disturbing the ecosystem. I saw on one of those nature shows that floating seaweed, garbage, etc is a sanctuary for smaller fish and a reason many of the fish exist in an area around it. Maybe they should also add some floating sanctuaries in order to...
[16:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:35] <exec> 08└─Sargasso sea. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:37] <exec> 08└─Cleaned, decommissioned ships could make for a good reef. Plastic bits floating at the top of the ocean aren't a good habitat, and can accumulate in the stomachs of fish, whales, dolphins, and sharks, causing them to die.
[16:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─This sure sounds like a great idea, but consider the possible downsides once it's adopted globally. The carbon dioxide emitted by a few campfires is irrelevant, an addition to the atmosphere that is lost in the statistical noise. Scale CO2 production up to current industrial levels, and the entire p...
[16:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:55] <exec> 08└─You can store tons of LH2
[16:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:57] <exec> 08└─"Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel" As in, "after storing it for a while, you will burn that fuel at your convenience." Since the fuel is hydrogen, the result is the poisonous di-hydrogen monoxide. But that's beside the point. 'Cause the point is: "that oxygen? not gonna star f...
[16:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:42] <exec> 08└─...that online education will become a more cost-effective way for students to receive an education, effectively undermining the business models of traditional institutions and running them out of business.
[16:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:47] <exec> 08└─Nice try, TMB. Melbourne has an unpleasant weather at its best. Winter time, the wind is most likely killing you. Literally, if in a boat.
[16:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:49] <exec> 08└─Why are you limiting it to Americans?
[16:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:51] <exec> 08└─Nope, if them crazy-ass yankees can cut holes in foot thick ice to fish, you can put warmer clothes on.
[16:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:53] <exec> 08└─Muchos grassy ass, me amoeba. I was out paying bills, visiting contractors, and picking up tools for remodeling the place TR just purchased and in no position to respond.
[16:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:55] <exec> 08└─Higher ed schools should never have been govt funded to begin with. If they can't make ends meet off of the absurd amounts they charge, they are astoundingly poorly managed. Also, anyone taking out a student loan for a degree that isn't nearly certain to make every bit of it back for them in five ye...
[16:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:57] <exec> 08└─They've also diluted the quality of their institutions due to the 'Everybody has to go to college!' fad. That is driven largely by employers who are too lazy and greedy to properly interview candidates, so they require degrees for jobs that should never need them to cut down on their own workloads....
[16:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/Pinto-Beans-50-Pound-Bag/dp/B0098QCYZ6 [amazon.com] Though, they cost $1.39 / lb, so I wouldn't necessarily say that was saving any money. Also, I use Amazon, but I don't like using them. I'd much rather use eBay or a local store. Though, I likely wouldn't buy a 50lb sack of b...
[16:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:34] <exec> 08└─TSB's problem long precede Brexit. It's their shit software from that banking operation in Spain that sealed their fate. BTW, TSB now officially stands for "This Sucks Balls".
[16:44:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:51] <exec> 08└─This is the EU, not America. Do it the European way: Threaten to fine Google 5% of its global turnover for each and every false take down, and let them sort it out with the people making bogus claims.
[16:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:07] <exec> 08└─How does a platform offer a 'free' service to the world and deal with individual customer issues? The customers have to deal with platform software or deal with each other. In this case, there are 2 customers. The proff who posted who posted the public domain content and some 3rd party who claimed i...
[16:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:20] <exec> 08└─...which is a type of democracy. Please learn your terms from somewhere other than Internet forum repetition. Use the Google!
[16:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:21] <exec> 08└─Mr. Vim, is that you? Er... why do you suppose that capitalism wouldn't have the same dynamics here? How is governmental corruption distinguishable from capitalism? It seems to me that governmental corruption is capitalism in action. Self-interest at least. ugh, the answer is probably hand-wavey bul...
[16:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:24] <exec> 08└─Scientists typically have the same possessive attitude with their experimental data. Think about it: if EVERYONE can access it totally free, how do you guarantee your livelihood which derives from papers you write based on the data? You open yourself to infinite competition. That can be death to you...
[16:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─Kinda true, but I wouldn't consider that because something is "a long way away" or just "missing"
[16:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah NASA does this with space probe data to allow the scientists who worked on the project to get first dibs on reporting it. Months or years after it is recorded and sent back to Earth.
[16:47:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:17] <exec> 08└─Instead of complaining about being poor, why don't they just buy more money? Let them eat twinkies.
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[17:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─Be as conservative on resources as you want. The marketing department will still add tons of crap from third party sites. No matter how much you save, you can never make up for what Marketing will add. If you save an extra byte, they'll add a megabyte to make up for it. Sort of like the federal budg...
[17:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:25] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, there is no monetary incentive to streamline websites. So we are stuck.
[17:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:27] <exec> 08└─Just make your website look like it's still 1995, problem solved.
[17:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:30] <exec> 08└─The web exists for one purpose: to sell crap. If you're a web "developer" then you're working for Marketing, and you're a fool to delude yourself into believing you're good for anything. Graduate to real programming or you're just another worthless copypasta web designer.
[17:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:32] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile making your life miserable by constantly intruding to tell you to buy shit you don't need is a 12 figure industry.
[17:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:34] <exec> 08└─No thanks, I like HTML5 video a lot better than Macromedia Shockwave.
[17:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:36] <exec> 08└─Careful, that sarcasm edges dangerously close to being true Improvements on web design from a quarter century ago: *JS hamburger menus are marginally less annoying than JS drop down menus *Designers care if their font and color scheme looks like ass Regressions: *Ad hell *3 billion offsite JS librar...
[17:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:38] <exec> 08└─Speaking of vertical pixel space, what's with this fad of designing web pages so that they contain tons of useless vertically stacked images, interspersed with short phrases, that convey little to no information, written with a huge font on colorful backgrounds, where you have to scroll waaay down a...
[17:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:40] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:43] <exec> 08└─That wasn't the original intention as the creators were academics. The original purpose of the internet was to share information. It's also good at selling junk, yes.
[17:42:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:53] <exec> 08└─Cleaned, decommissioned ships could make for a good reef. Plastic bits floating at the top of the ocean aren't a good habitat, and can accumulate in the stomachs of fish, whales, dolphins, and sharks, causing them to die.
[17:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:55] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, take the side of the multi-cellular critters over the microbes, you horrible sizeist, you!
[17:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:57] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone will clean up the junk in orbit.
[17:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:59] <exec> 08└─A lot of sea food is contaminated with decomposed microscopic plastic particles including the sea salt.
[17:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─Hm, I was curious about their numbers. a 600-meter (almost 2,000-foot) long floater that can collect about five tons of ocean plastic per month.
[17:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:04] <exec> 08└─Sure, when it gets as bad as the stuff in the ocean.
[17:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:06] <exec> 08└─Global warming is bullshit, damn hippies throwing a fit over some garbage in the ocean. You know how big the ocean is? We are becoming a third world shithole populated by pussies. MAGA MAGA MAGA you suckers! There is a non zero chance this comment is stupid.
[17:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:08] <exec> 08└─Take a good look buzzy my boy, you have sunk lower than i thought possible. You in bed with Big Pepsi now?
[17:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:28] <exec> 08└─"Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel" As in, "after storing it for a while, you will burn that fuel at your convenience." Since the fuel is hydrogen, the result is the poisonous di-hydrogen monoxide. But that's beside the point. 'Cause the point is: "that oxygen? not gonna star f...
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─Denies humans are causing climate change, cautions against humans removing too much CO2 for fear of making the atmosphere toxic to microorganisms. Make up your mind dude.
[17:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─What do you suppose might happen if we start pumping up the O2 level in the air, by an amount comparable to what we've done with CO2? Something Bad, I'd imagine.
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─So I guess storing it as solids is out then? :-)
[17:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:36] <exec> 08└─What do you suppose might happen if we start pumping up the O2 level in the air
[17:44:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:22] <exec> 08└─Unlike conservative institutions that never need to take other peoples' money... *COUGH* https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:34] <exec> 08└─Sad that you do not understand this. Let me tell you why the people you insult do not in fact think what the Fox News tells them. I have been separated form my native land for a quarter century. But if you asked me a political question, something hypothetical or from current events, I can easily tel...
[17:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:35] <exec> 08└─Well, all these people going into higher schooling just so they can party, get that 'piece of paper', and later find a high-paying job don't care about education anyway, so this sounds great for them.
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:37] <exec> 08└─In fact, not everyone is suited to learning at all, like those Computer Science graduates who can't even write a FizzBuzz program. Yet, they were allowed to graduate for some reason. That says a lot about the standards of these institutions.
[17:44:39] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Weasley [6421] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 599 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:40] <exec> 08└─Young intellectuals always have radically different ideas from their parents. They hardly need college campuses to breed or propagate radical new ideas. frankly, the Right has become far more radical in the last couple of years without the aid of a college campus than the Left has done since the 60'...
[17:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:42] <exec> 08└─They're not morons. They Learned How to Learn, after all. It just so happens that they need someone else's help whenever they need to learn anything else.
[17:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:44] <exec> 08└─About the only aspect that might be uniquely American is the relatively large religion industry
[17:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:46] <exec> 08└─I think you have a skewed notion of what is and what is not radical as well as a skewed idea of what the right believes on average. What you're seeing is not the right being radical but the right being pissed off that their politicians refuse to represent the will of their constituents. The label "r...
[17:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:48] <exec> 08└─"mainstream American thinking" - ha! I don't know if you realize there's no such a thing
[17:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:50] <exec> 08└─They also learned how to acquire massive debt that's immune to bankruptcy at a time when they have essentially no income. This is an extremely valuable lesson if we want to keep a thriving student loan industry in the nation.
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:54] <exec> 08└─This is not something that I initially thought of. Richtopia is correct, a big part of the merit of Youtube is the CDN. A professor uploading content for his students on campus may not need a CDN if all the students are on campus, but online students, especially those out of the university's city (o...
[17:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Cells are Tiny Bacteria Fighters - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:08] <exec> 08└─There's little similarity between these "artificial cells" and a virus. The article called them bacteria, and that's a LOT closer. They've got internal organelles, e.g., which bacteria do and viruses don't.
[17:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:34] <exec> 08└─If he has two phones, is he going to make twice as many phone calls as with just one phone? Is he really going to cost more to the cellphone company?
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[18:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:35] <exec> 08└─Careful, that sarcasm edges dangerously close to being true The best sarcasm always does!
[18:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 2617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─"Owwwwwwwwww! Iiiit huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurts!" she screamed. It did not take long for tears to start running down her face. She checked her leg, and was shocked to see an awful scrap wound on her knee, as well as a twisted ankle. What had happened here? The little girl, Sally, had just been ridin...
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─...is that they're designed to be archiving resilient i.e. they are laced with craptchas and/or ajax to foil archiving attemps.
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─"*JS hamburger menus are marginally less annoying than JS drop down menus" Sane web design avoids both, sane web browser would ignore both. "*Designers care if their font and color scheme looks like ass" Not an improvement at all. They shouldn't be worrying about fonts or colors at all (there's abso...
[18:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:43] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right. Y'all should send me lots of money.
[18:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:45] <exec> 08└─I second that. I go out, venture far and wide from home on the web. anymore it sucks, with laborious adware, spyware, gratuitous ajax calls, stupid, pointless javascript driven UI drivel, and then i come back home to soylent and breathe a long sigh of relief and contentment. thanks, guys, for buildi...
[18:42:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:47] <exec> 08└─The fact that SN does not require scripts to be functional is a testimony of good design. It also shows that it takes expertise for good functional design, and, more importantly, you do not necessarily need scripts for good design. We can argue about small details and what not... However, it does no...
[18:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:49] <exec> 08└─It's optimized to show junk, which the junk senders believe is interesting information, yet the recipients tend to consider annoying or gross.
[18:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:51] <exec> 08└─The fact that your awful monospace font makes my eyes roll straight off your post and refuse to read it for the first several tries undercuts your second point.
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:53] <exec> 08└─http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ [motherfuckingwebsite.com] (content SFW, unless company filters don't like curse words)
[18:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:56] <exec> 08└─To take you too seriously: it's optimized to send data. Data that is useless garbage is much easier to create than data that resembles useful information. Data that resembles useful information and is true is even harder to create. Data that is useful information, factually correct, fully contextual...
[18:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, uMatrix is awesome. Learning the UI is a slight challenge. And even then you must figure out that you have to save what you've taught it. The more you teach it, the less you have to fuss with each new website. The downside: some sites pull in so many javascript libraries that they won't work un...
[18:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─Most websites are set up primarily to make money. This may or may not involve providing useful information to users, and a lot of the things that make money are downright hostile to informing users. Throwing in as many ads as possible, and nowadays as many tracking scripts as possible, has been par...
[18:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:02] <exec> 08└─If you're a web "developer" then you're working for Marketing
[18:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:04] <exec> 08└─TFS states: SoylentNews is designed to use no Javascript for normal user interactions. (There are a few staff-accessible pages requiring it, such as the Story Editing page.) I don't know of anyone on staff who would seriously consider changing that.
[18:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:06] <exec> 08└─One trick is to whitelist some things that you universally want to allow. Suppose if right under soylentnews.org, there were a long list of third party sites. And I ALWAYS want foobar.com to be allowed. 1. Click on the asterisk next to the soylentnews.org domain name in blue 2. Green-list foobar.com...
[18:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:08] <exec> 08└─some sites pull in so many javascript libraries that they won't work until you've enabled most of the 3rd party sites
[18:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:11] <exec> 08└─There is a monetary incentive. But they cannot see it. Instead they complain, and ask: how can we draw people to our web site?
[18:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:13] <exec> 08└─His what now? I'm using the VT220 theme and I don't know what you're talking about. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Switched from VT100 because the pale amber color seems a little easier to work with. I might just edit the CSS to make it red.
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:15] <exec> 08└─I remember a time when a news article was formatted like this. One page. Only one paragraph of the article. Surrounded with loud blinking animated dancing seizure-inducing ads. And followed by: < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Then you could click each number, which was a link, to a similar ad-loaded page with o...
[18:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe the junk in orbit could sink the stuff in the ocean. There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.
[18:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:35] <exec> 08└─I'm always for the little guy, yo. And it don't get much littler than microbes.
[18:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CheesyMoo [6853] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:37] <exec> 08└─Glad to see this happening, of course its not just ugly and bad for the fish, the microplastics severely effect the ocean's plankton, the basis of the entire planets food web (and producers of 50-70% (figure under debate) of the Earth's oxygen) Indeed you can't really remove the plastic without also...
[18:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:39] <exec> 08└─"But the children are having so much fun playing in the radioactive waste..." Not worth it, not even close.
[18:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Admits iPhone 8 Production Issue, Offers to Fix Broken Phones - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:48] <exec> 08└─I guess I get a first-post because everyone's iPhone is experiencing unexpected restarts, a frozen screen, or won't turn on.
[18:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:00] <exec> 08└─Just to bracket it: Their method also managed to absorb more solar light than natural photosynthesis.
[18:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─CO2 is around 0.04% of the atmosphere, compared to 21% for oxygen. If we get a similar increase in oxygen as we have CO2 over the last few hundred years, we would increase the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere by around 1%.
[18:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:13] <exec> 08└─Ugh, i was almost impressed you had an informative post with no vitriol, then i got halfway and reality sunk back in.
[18:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─Definition of a bubble is the participants don't do the above. See real estate, dotcoms, peak oil related issues, higher ed bubble, etc.
[18:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:21] <exec> 08└─Awww, poor buzzy triggered by academia, awwww. I am fine with a lot of colleges going broke, but echo chambers? Put down the red hat bud.
[18:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:23] <exec> 08└─Do please specify that you mean "economic egalitarianism" in the future as it directly contradicts actual egalitarianism which advocates economic equality of opportunity rather than outcome.
[18:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:25] <exec> 08└─Why does a CompSci need to be able to write FizzBuzz? Can't they have an assistant? The president graduated from a prestigious institution of higher learning. The ability to read, write, speak in complete sentences or express a coherent thought is clearly not an important skill.
[18:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:27] <exec> 08└─Well isn't that what the Narrative always wants one side to believe about the other? It was not that long ago that conservatives were sure, absolutely convinced, that Obama was a Manchurian candidate, secret Muslim homosexual communist trained from birth to destroy America. Sounds pretty extreme, do...
[18:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:30] <exec> 08└─I would hope that they don't last more than about one semester.
[18:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:32] <exec> 08└─Well shit, it made me feel better thinking you are just an old dinosaur. Guess you really are the alt-right poster child around here. Boooo, get with the times. Modern times i mean, the 50s are over.
[18:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:34] <exec> 08└─I've heard people complain about paying property taxes for public education. "I don't have a kid!" they say. The best answer I have heard is: If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Oh, I guess that experiment is currently in progress.)
[18:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:36] <exec> 08└─Visit one. Then visit a feed store.
[18:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:38] <exec> 08└─My guess is that the "next big thing" will be free state university tuition - and that will drive out the smaller private schools that aren't near the top. Harvard and MIT have nothing to fear (along with massive endowments).
[18:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─Seems to me they managed to elect Bush jr twice not too long ago plus they have one of their own as vice president. We may even see a right wing religious nutball in the whitehouse before long. Then we'll see them lose their embarrassment and return to the spotlight. Especially as the left gets tire...
[18:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:43] <exec> 08└─I consider disassembling military alliances that have existed for decades to be radical. I consider shitting on all of our allies to be radical. I consider sucking up to Russia to be radical...and criminal. And what the fuck is with Alex Jones becoming mainstream? The man is radical even by radical...
[18:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:45] <exec> 08└─Open your mind and see the full horror. The modern American (and now Western) university IS a religious institution. They are in fact functioning mostly as religious seminaries. And they are violently anti-intellectual because Cultural Marxism is not a religion capable of withstanding any reflection...
[18:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:47] <exec> 08└─It just remains to be seen if they will choose existence over keeping the same business practices.
[18:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:49] <exec> 08└─Farmers should never have been govt funded to begin with. If they can't make ends meet off of the absurd amounts they charge, they are astoundingly poorly managed. Also, anyone taking out a loan for farming equipment that isn't nearly certain to make every bit of it back for them in five years is a...
[18:46:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:33] <exec> 08└─In the US for a number of years, I have noticed this trend where companies provide no way to contact a person who works there. At BEST, you may get to fill out an online form that gets sent who knows where to be read by a program. It's absolutely bizarre that the company can gather all this info fro...
[18:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:58] <exec> 08└─At BEST, you may get to fill out an online form that gets sent who knows where . . . . but you can't talk to THEM! What arrogance.
[18:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:00] <exec> 08└─From sig The eyes are the windows to the soul.
[18:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─They have servers and bandwidth. Use your own.
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─If it is reasonable to have a $150,000 statutory penalty (in the US) per instance of copyright infringement, then it is fair to have an equal penalty for each defective DMCA notice. By defective I mean things like: * filer is not the copyright owner or registered agent * the work is in the public do...
[18:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NordVPN Responds to Privacy and Ownership Allegations - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:32] <exec> 08└─First red flag was "P2P traffic is not allowed" on their network - I try it anyway and I'm disconnected almost immediately. "Ok, so I'll just encrypt that traffic." Chugs right along, hits a few hundred GB in a month with no issues, then after a few months of that, after I hit ~250GB upload my conne...
[18:47:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 703 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:52] <exec> 08└─Well, public buildings usually store something or another, and that something is usually flammable. Sprinklers can save the people who are inside of the structure when the fire starts. A not very secret secret: water sprinklers are usually full of dissolved oxygen, or air. A Navy fire fighting team...
[18:47:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:58] <exec> 08└─Brazil once had a functioning democracy. The US decided they didn't like that government, and overthrew it in 1964 [wikipedia.org], replacing it with a US-friendly military dictatorship that lasted until the 1980's. This is a long-standing pattern in Latin America: Whenever a democratically-elected...
[18:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:52] <exec> 08└─They would rather burn it all down than share it equitably.
[18:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:53] <exec> 08└─I had one too. When I was a college student. How exactly are you able to read the technical stories posted here but unable to obtain a job that pays 125% of the federal poverty guidelines? If any of this is true your "friend" is an idiot. This program is extremely unpopular with republicans and they...
[18:51:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 1690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:25] <exec> 08└─In addition to Thexalon's point which is good; "My top ten movie list has a few local movies, better story, better script, better acting. But they have lower budgets due to the aforementioned reason, it affects special effects budgets and marketing budgets in a big way. These two combined significan...
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[19:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:30] <exec> 08└─This sounds like "ship the pre-beta quality shit out to those who pay us less, and they'll tell us what we need to fix before we shove it onto the bling range"
[19:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:32] <exec> 08└─Where does it end?
[19:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:34] <exec> 08└─We don't need no stinking notches. Now if it had been Nachos that would be a totally different thing.
[19:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:36] <exec> 08└─And while actually improving the phones also allow us to get phones that actually fits in pockets. The pain threshold for this is between 4.3" and 4.7" Oh, and make cellphones with a goddamned sidetone (or at least one set at 8% or higher). Also, thicker phones are fine as long as it means more batt...
[19:42:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 773 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:51] <exec> 08└─Careful, that sarcasm edges dangerously close to being true Improvements on web design from a quarter century ago: *JS hamburger menus are marginally less annoying than JS drop down menus *Designers care if their font and color scheme looks like ass Regressions: *Ad hell *3 billion offsite JS librar...
[19:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:15] <exec> 08└─No thanks, we got rid of geocities and I'd rather not bring it back via emulation.
[19:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:17] <exec> 08└─i wish I could click a "for mobile" or "printer friendly" and get the basic page. because google, for mobile is the default, and that's what we're trying to avoid. there is no printer friendly page anymore. maybe something google can scan when saved to google drive or what microsoft can scan when sa...
[19:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:19] <exec> 08└─That's what their trying to sell you.
[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:21] <exec> 08└─What made geocities suck was that it was a testbed for all the tricks making the current internet suck. Like any prototype, the flashing scrolling garish text was butt ugly, but now is being employed in much more sophisticated ways that ARE much prettier, but still as annoying. Essentially, geocitie...
[19:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:23] <exec> 08└─Just do all your mods at one time at the end rather than on each item. This way, you save a point if someone has already modded a story to max or min.
[19:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:25] <exec> 08└─YOUR browser should use a font that you like, rather than a font that random-person-somewhere-else likes. I think that was his point.
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─a 600-meter (almost 2,000-foot) long floater
[19:44:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:54] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, you Fox News types really eat that shit up, don't you? Talk about living in a bubble! So what do "mainstream Americans" think? Apparently what Fox News tells them to think, even if it means completely flip-flopping on what were supposed to be basic, core principles like free trade, the ev...
[19:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:39] <exec> 08└─Windows Server 2019
[19:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:41] <exec> 08└─ok i believe you you do not need fox news to be the way you are. there are a lot of people that are not genuine, though, and we're lucky to have you here because you're the real thing. it is very bad when we meet people that aren't sure what their views are because they haven't watched tv lately.
[19:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:43] <exec> 08└─If I get ignorance either way, why would I want to continue throwing money into the fire?
[19:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:45] <exec> 08└─I was going to comment earlier about that... Anyway when I was a kid, it was the republican/conservatives that wanted higher education. To create a generation of leaders and intellects that show an ambition. Now, it seems that because there are technical people that are liberal and run huge companie...
[19:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:47] <exec> 08└─de nalgas
[19:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:49] <exec> 08└─As a current online student at a large University here in Oklahoma, I am faced with a penalty for taking online classes. We are charged a $50 per credit hour "convenience fee" also known as an "online fee" for to take my classes. This adds up to $600 per semester of added cost just because they can...
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─I was thinking Technical Service Bulletin.
[19:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─ok so what's tsb? i thought it was our buzzard guy at first but then realized the letters were wrong. if I read only the comments that are displayed to me, no one has said what TSB is. you'd think someone would upmod the guy with the answer but that's not what we are getting.
[19:46:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:57] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the bandwidth is not the biggest hurdle. YouTube is a content delivery network. People will consider it the sole source for video material searches. Yes you can host your own, but it will be much harder to reach a broad audience.
[19:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, it was. All the more horrible for being real.
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[20:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:19] <exec> 08└─People who can afford to buy your $1000 phone more likely can afford to buy another companies $1000 phone. 2 months later because they couldn't live with that stupid bixby button. Then tell everyone they know how annoying your phone was and how they'll never go back and how happy they are with your...
[20:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else weary of smartphones, and ready for wearables to move to a better form? Smartphone zombies wandering the streets of New York, bumbling into lightposts, tripping over dog leashes, and stumbling into traffic are a meme that is just begging for young'uns to mock mercilessly. Watch- or br...
[20:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:08] <exec> 08└─It's funny to think back to twenty years ago when pop-up ads were all the rage. People complained about them and the complaints even made it into the magazines (remember those?). Pretty soon a browser came along that could block pop-up ads, and then the other browsers copied this feature. Now pop-up...
[20:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:09] <exec> 08└─Another third case webpage is (most of - do avoid their "intended for the public") IAEA's pages. I frequent three of their database ARIS (reactor technology overview), PRIS (data on operation of currently operating power reactors) and INIS (60+ years of nuclear articles from various publications for...
[20:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:11] <exec> 08└─Great idea, but I don't have any hardware that will run a VM fast enough to process webpages. Rendering is bad enough bare metal!
[20:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:13] <exec> 08└─Thanks DannyB. Yeah, I pretty much figured that all out, but again, the UI wasn't immediately obvious to me. I have uMatrix installed, but not enabled at this time, and haven't used it in a couple of months. The thing I remember not grasping: the split upper and lower red / green- what's the signifi...
[20:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:15] <exec> 08└─Most mainstream sites are borderline-criminal. They are stalking you.
[20:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:18] <exec> 08└─There is also the awful problem that almost nothing can be printed any more. (How would one even print one of those retarded infinitely expanding pages?) As if that weren't bad enough, thanks to the current "washed out colors" fad, every time I need to print something from scroogle maps, I have to c...
[20:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:20] <exec> 08└─Hmm, so a css rendering engine that can avoid placing components over other components... that'd be tough to do well but could work.
[20:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:22] <exec> 08└─That is too sad. Sorry.
[20:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:24] <exec> 08└─Clicking the upper toggles between default and "full solid green". The lower toggles between default and "full solid red". That seems to be my experience.
[20:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:48] <exec> 08└─what sort of unholy beast would produce a 2,000-foot floater?
[20:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:20] <exec> 08└─10x less land surface area
[20:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:21] <exec> 08└─I've been toying with the idea of putting a panel in my backyard hooked up to a space heater in my house; its not that expensive and its an interesting way to drop my gas bill permanently. The economics aren't quite there but they're REALLY close.
[20:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:23] <exec> 08└─O2 is already increased by measurable amounts in regions like the taiga where there are mostly trees and few animals.
[20:45:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:05] <exec> 08└─Officer != executive. That's like saying a sergeant is the same as a general. I challenge you to find me even a dozen of those 2000 odd jobs that will be bringing in "six figures". So much for your "pesky contradictory facts"! The university senior executive level* is so far removed from anything th...
[20:45:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:09] <exec> 08└─I read that some of these campuses where the leftists have run amok in the news have lost huge enrollment numbers.
[20:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 2452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:52] <exec> 08└─Have you attended university recently, out of curiosity? Because while your description perfectly matches right-wing characterizations of what universities are like, that doesn't match my experience of attending one, nor my experience working for a different one. Oh, and my alma mater is sometimes c...
[20:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:54] <exec> 08└─I'll give you a Touché. I think the reason we are getting ignorance is due to insufficient resources invested in educating our society. But it's all good as long as certain people can loot the public treasury.
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:28] <exec> 08└─It's the Taranaki Savings Bank [tsb.co.nz]. Didn't know they had branches in the UK though.
[20:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─Hell, I read it as Transportation Safety Board [ntsb.gov] but then quickly realized that makes no goddamned sense. Comment below mentioning Trustee Savings Bank looks probably correct and is already upmodded.
[20:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:08] <exec> 08└─Transcending the limitations of meatbags yours truly bot went a bit back in time, to have an interview with a serious looking Ludwig van Beethoven. Bot: Hello, gracious Master or whatever the fuck they call you around here, are you aware people make money off your stuff and prevent others to lawfull...
[20:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:10] <exec> 08└─Ya, it shouldnt work at scale for the exact reasons goven by the article. Maybe we just need to re-imagine our economy.
[20:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:12] <exec> 08└─You obviously visited him at a time when his hearing problems were already serious.
[20:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NordVPN Responds to Privacy and Ownership Allegations - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sick of "this company sucks!" posts which don't name the company and break the invisible hand's fingers.
[20:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:01] <exec> 08└─Chaos creates opportunity, just shaking up the entrenched players means that new players can come to the table. It can be a good thing. Usually, it is not.
[20:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:47] <exec> 08└─Typical action flicks have at least an attempt at an explanation for what's going on, e.g. cops versus dangerous criminals, or somebody trying to avenge his family, or something about spies. The point of Blowing Stuff Up is to not make any kind of pretense that the film exists to do anything other t...
[20:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:48] <exec> 08└─I don't have anything to say which isn't already said, but fuck me this is funny. Get fucked EU. #FranceWasAMistake
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[21:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─Help me, Soylent. I'm a poor millennial dude who drives a Lyft to pay my student loams and I can't afford flagship diamond features to attract a girlfriend. Is there a mid-range diamond you could recommend me?
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:45] <exec> 08└─Give her a brown... excuse me, a chocolate diamond [wikipedia.org]. Preferred shades: Ubuntu and Zune.
[21:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:48] <exec> 08└─Accept being one of the slum-people in cyberpunk stories continually strung out on the newest cyberdrugs, not one of the neo-transhumanists with glowing jewelry and quantum computing t-shirts.
[21:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:50] <exec> 08└─Give me anti-aging [wikipedia.org], bread [wikipedia.org], and circuses [wikipedia.org]. Or give me death.
[21:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:52] <exec> 08└─Apparently "≪ several centimeters" is the new definition of tiny?
[21:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:54] <exec> 08└─"Our system has the decisive advantage that we can work with electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength of several centimeters - so it is no problem to concentrate the individual defect sites within the radius of one wavelength," explains Andreas Angerer.
[21:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:08] <exec> 08└─Look for "bixby remapper" on play store. Works great.
[21:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:10] <exec> 08└─So, smartphone guts in the watch/bracelet, watch/bracelet is a touchpad that you don't look at constantly, and you only need to slightly lift your arms in front of you while walking in order to interact with it. And then you have AR glasses up top, accepting input from the watch/bracelet. I dunno, i...
[21:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:06] <exec> 08└─That's dumb, because font choice is situational and contextual. If you're representing some kind of very raw text-file data, monospace is great. If you want a pull quote for an article, switching from sans-serif(easy to read when small) to serif(nice looking when blown up) is a sensible choice. Thes...
[21:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:07] <exec> 08└─Doesn't keep track of how many points I've spent, so it's not as useful as a mod-right here, right-now would be to me, and it still requires two page loads instead of one, (one to mod, one to reload to drive the mods home) so it's 200% of the bandwidth that would otherwise be required. Also, I'd for...
[21:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:09] <exec> 08└─I appreciate two types of approaches to web content delivery: The clean html5+css type that avoids javascript like a plague and aims at the smoothest possible delivery of content. And the pure wasm web application like those in-browser games that just draws its own frame and gives us all the bells a...
[21:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:11] <exec> 08└─Not a web programmer, so this is a serious question, but wouldn't adding javascript modding code to every comment pretty much negate the reloading bandwidth argument? And you're adding it to every page for everyone, not just those modding that page.
[21:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:13] <exec> 08└─It is not Javascript's fault, but the abuse of it by marketeers. I use JS to make my own website's navigation work nicely and several other small bells and whistles. That way it doesn't look like 1995. But no adds, no cookies, no cross-site rubbish. News sites are a mess, sucking in tons of third pa...
[21:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:16] <exec> 08└─Most of this electricity wasting is being done by people who claim to care about the environment. It is the biggest hypocracy of today. Its something like 5 kWH per GB. The accumulated waste of cnn, nyt, etc that always rant about global warming is nuts: https://www.emergeinteractive.com
[21:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:41] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, take the side of the multi-cellular critters over the microbes
[21:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:42] <exec> 08└─So you're pro-virii and bacteria? To your own demise?
[21:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Admits iPhone 8 Production Issue, Offers to Fix Broken Phones - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:52] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if they're going to confess to manufacturing defects in iPhone 6. Out of ~60 I have deployed ~8 have exactly the same problems as TFA. Also I am in one of the countries mentioned.
[21:46:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 2452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:45] <exec> 08└─Have you attended university recently, out of curiosity? Because while your description perfectly matches right-wing characterizations of what universities are like, that doesn't match my experience of attending one, nor my experience working for a different one. Oh, and my alma mater is sometimes c...
[21:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:47] <exec> 08└─Yup. I can agree on that regardless of which talking heads they let do their thinking for them.
[21:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:49] <exec> 08└─Getting along with Russia is called diplomacy. Weren't you talking shit just as far back as 2016 about wanting America to get along with the rest of the world? You know Western Europe doesn't constitute "the rest of the world", yeah? What was your position on allowing Russia to go in and take Crimea...
[21:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:51] <exec> 08└─Nowhere did I talk about "economic egalitarianism" and no, I do not mean anything of that kind. It is about an egalitarian view on society. Think of it as in the French motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. However, you might need to get an education before you can correctly interpret the conc...
[21:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm okay with that.
[21:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:56] <exec> 08└─Again, that is economic egalitarianism not egalitarianism. You would know this if you sourced knowledge from multiple places rather than only from professors who lean to the extreme left.
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why you would bother. jmorris has a fixed and very limited view of the world, as his right-wing talking point comments show. He uses terms like "Cultural Marxism" and is trying to pretend that Christianity was a supporter of the Enlightenment, instead of the oppressors they really wer...
[21:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─UCB?
[21:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Show Alexa “Skill Squatting” Could Hijack Voice Commands - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:15] <exec> 08└─Since the "skills" have to be installed it should at least warn you when installing homophonic skills. At execution time it could also warn of being unsure what to do, "Do you mean lift with an 'i' or lyft with a 'y'?" - teach those users to heed your warning about installing homophonic skills at le...
[21:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:22] <exec> 08└─What would happen if a few thousand people submitted copyright violations against Disney, or whomever, whenever they post something to youtube
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[22:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:30] <exec> 08└─Is this to feed the illegal immigrant children the cabal has been sending to mars to be slaves or sex slaves?
[22:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beerity beer, wonderful beer!!!! (bloody Asgardians!)
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─Almost. It's to help feed and clothe the Mars Musky Sex Harem.
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─the Soviets had a program where they found I believe 6m^2 of Chlorella (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorella [wikipedia.org]) was sufficient to keep a person alive. I've grown it before. Pretty trivial. One of my goals in life is to run a biosphere 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 [wi...
[22:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:38] <exec> 08└─The Wikipedia article you linked says 8 m2.
[22:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:40] <exec> 08└─He'll order the other 2m2 from Amazon. I believe the Biosphere2 protocol allows deliveries.
[22:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:55] <exec> 08└─If you're a Lyft or Uber driver, no need for a girlfriend... just rape your passengers.
[22:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:12] <exec> 08└─> > But it was going up against phones that offered screens with notches, the clear symbol of a 2018 device. Kill Kill Kill !!! Kill notches. Kill 18:9 that isn't 2:1. Kill notches. Kill fragile useless glass backs. Kill phablets which don't fit in pockets and can't be used one-handed! Kill gestures...
[22:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:14] <exec> 08└─Or, give bob all of the above, with a fanny pack to hold his notched 6.2-inch 8K resolution Gorilla Glass phablet.
[22:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:16] <exec> 08└─It needs at least a 7.5" inch triple-notched screen, so it may have to save space by not including a headphone jack or a microSD card, but have six cameras on the back and four at the front. And don't forget that the 8K screen will show 3 lines of text per page, because blank space. Yup, gimme that...
[22:43:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:40] <exec> 08└─That wasn't the original intention as the creators were academics. The original purpose of the internet was to share information. It's also good at selling junk, yes.
[22:43:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:46] <exec> 08└─I second that. I go out, venture far and wide from home on the web. anymore it sucks, with laborious adware, spyware, gratuitous ajax calls, stupid, pointless javascript driven UI drivel, and then i come back home to soylent and breathe a long sigh of relief and contentment. thanks, guys, for buildi...
[22:43:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:50] <exec> 08└─The fact that your awful monospace font makes my eyes roll straight off your post and refuse to read it for the first several tries undercuts your second point.
[22:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:23] <exec> 08└─Let's continue on that line of thinking. The benign usage of JS to update content on the page to avoid page reloads and to conserve a lot of bandwidth. It always bothered me that most sites will have commonly consistent elements, like some kind of navigation, header, footer, those sorts of things,...
[22:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:24] <exec> 08└─I use Firebug or the like to kill crap like that manually, but there's gotta be a way to automate it.
[22:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:26] <exec> 08└─I always switched to Lynx for those. It was my FU to the UI a-holes who built them.
[22:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:29] <exec> 08└─I wish there was a way to make those adscripts shove their heads up their own rectums. Let them burn their cycles.
[22:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:31] <exec> 08└─When you refer to "this porpoise" [wikipedia.org] are you talking about yourself or some other creature that you allow to browse the Internet? 😁
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:58] <exec> 08└─Soap is bad. It makes your microbiome angry, and the little critters take it out on your body in various ways. Take care of your microbiome instead, and your microbiome will take care of you. Hot water, and some kind of implement to exfoliate (scrubby cloth, pumice, sandstone, etc) is all you need....
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─I betcha we inhale more microscopic plastic particles as dust created by mechanical reduction than we ever ingest.
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─If somebody can figure out a good use for the plastic, like plastic lumber or something, we could look at it like resource extraction.
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─For real? Even good ol' Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap is bad?
[22:46:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Weasley [6421] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─I consider disassembling military alliances that have existed for decades to be radical. I consider shitting on all of our allies to be radical. I consider sucking up to Russia to be radical...and criminal. And what the fuck is with Alex Jones becoming mainstream? The man is radical even by radical...
[22:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─Punishing Russia over the shit they've pulled over the last decade or so is also diplomacy. From their corrupt business practices, to their invasion of Ukraine and Georgia, to their human rights violations, to the assassinations of enemies of the oligarchs... Russia is run by criminals. And Trump is...
[22:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:18] <exec> 08└─My answer is, "Where is your next doctor going to come from?"
[22:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:20] <exec> 08└─That list is mostly female. Must be a side channel way of evening up the university’s diversity employment.
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:44] <exec> 08└─tldr: free market is incompatible with banking and fiat money, capitalism never happened, communism is incompatible with man, communism never happened.
[22:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─Thank you for explaining to me MY OWN JOKE. I am multiprocessor but not schizo you know.
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[23:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:04] <exec> 08└─Kudzu, or whatever that invasive vine on my wall is. Send a seed, land on mars needing a machete to cross the habitat. With enough headroom, bamboo grows like hell, and is useful and edible. May not be the best at photosynthesis, but it's gotta be pretty good.
[23:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:06] <exec> 08└─the opening words to many a scam. Pay the 3 million in grant money to get the job done, rather than appealing to the desperation of a few grad students.... Source: Someone who reviews a of grants...
[23:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:09] <exec> 08└─Shitload? Fuckton?
[23:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:11] <exec> 08└─Lots of problems are going to have to be solved, if there is to be a viable base, let alone a colony, on Mars. This is a good start. Define a problem, then make it public, and offer rewards for solutions. Your name doesn't have to be Musk or Bezos to come up with some critical solution to a seemingl...
[23:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:25] <exec> 08└─Note: This post exposes my lack of knowledge of quantum physics and the "superradiance" process. if several atoms are located close to each other, an interesting quantum effect can occur: one of the atoms emits a photon (spontaneously and randomly),
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:46] <exec> 08└─I like my phone. Got it for $400 ages after it was released. I don't need new wiz bang features. This Samsung Galaxy 4 is good enough. I have been through a lot of batteries though. Perhaps this non-removal battery phase is to get people on to support plans?
[23:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:48] <exec> 08└─I have a Samsung Galaxy S7, which has a 5.1" screen, and that is big enough for me. I did accidently purchase an LG V20 second hand from an auction site, and it really is a quite nice phone, except that the 6" screen seems too big. Otherwise it ticks all the boxes: Removable battery Micro SD Car...
[23:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:22] <exec> 08└─TFS states: SoylentNews is designed to use no Javascript for normal user interactions. (There are a few staff-accessible pages requiring it, such as the Story Editing page.) I don't know of anyone on staff who would seriously consider changing that.
[23:43:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:23] <exec> 08└─One trick is to whitelist some things that you universally want to allow. Suppose if right under soylentnews.org, there were a long list of third party sites. And I ALWAYS want foobar.com to be allowed. 1. Click on the asterisk next to the soylentnews.org domain name in blue 2. Green-list foobar.com...
[23:43:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:33] <exec> 08└─Just do all your mods at one time at the end rather than on each item. This way, you save a point if someone has already modded a story to max or min.
[23:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Fuck Arik! He's trying to control me using monospace!
[23:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:56] <exec> 08└─Remembering grandpa's days, JavaScript is the re-incarnation of the Door-to-Door salesman. Their one goal was to get their foot in the door. Once that foot was wedged in, you could not close the door, and they knew that. One had to develop a knack of kicking their foot back out then very quickly clo...
[23:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:58] <exec> 08└─Its a real shame that internet businesses put this kind of stuff in that people have to go to such lengths to avoid stepping in. The storefront analogy would be a business that has a sizeable quantity of human poop outside their storefront, and people are going to great lengths to enter the store wi...
[23:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:01] <exec> 08└─God knows how many websites I visit that flat don't work with ad-blockers. I found that out when I tried to price some tires online so I could see which brick-and-mortar local businesses that had my particular size and price. Ended up getting them at WalMart because I got so fed up with nonfunctiona...
[23:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:04] <exec> 08└─One page. Only one paragraph of the article. Surrounded with loud blinking animated dancing seizure-inducing ads. And followed by: Then you could click each number, which was a link, to a similar ad-loaded page with one paragraph of text. Many sites started doing this.
[23:45:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:39] <exec> 08└─University Diversity Officer Page 1 of 1,942 jobs [indeed.com]
[23:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─Nope, if them crazy-ass yankees can cut holes in foot thick ice to fish, you can put warmer clothes on.
[23:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:48] <exec> 08└─Interesting! I'll happily concede that my expectations were different from this! Thank you for the additional information. The hiring geography in the US must be different to Australia - In contrast, here diversity officers would be lucked to pull a median wage of $60k.
[23:47:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:23] <exec> 08└─Wish I could be fired from my job for being a fuckup and walk away with that much severance.
[23:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:30] <exec> 08└─My Beans Are Tasty And Nutritious But Would Be... (Score: -1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge, Friend, Friend of Friend, on Wednesday September 05, @03:26AM (#730646) Homepage
[23:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─Get an attorney. They'll probably be in touch with an employee before the 'reply-by' date of the demand letter.
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