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[00:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:34] <exec> 08└─It checks out. He wasn't Spanish, so he was able to expect the Inquisition.
[00:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:45] <exec> 08└─There's no way I could keep bees. Got family members who are mortally afraid scared of being stung and suffering a fatal allergic reaction. Even without that, I suspect the neighbors in this suburban "paradise" would do all they could to kill the bees and harass me for trying to keep them. I'd proba...
[00:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Monitor Will Let You Know When Your Accounts Have Been Compromised - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:13] <exec> 08└─...right here for comparison purposes. For your own safety, so we can tell you when someone's stealing it. This is surely satire, right? No? OK, I'll see myself out... m(
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[00:44:47] <exec> 08└─Language is a protocol, and a protocol requires agreement. In mundane cases, one participant in the protocol can just re-write mistakes on the fly with little worry; that's the only reason singular "they" appears to work—it's always being re-written behind the scenes. You have provided yet another...
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[00:44:48] <exec> 08└─Um... your understanding of algebra is... unique. May I blow your mind? Allow me to introduce you to the set of real numbers, which we may call ℝ for shorthand. In middle school algebra, x ∃ ℝ. Thus any statement concerning x is a statement concerning a group of objects.
[00:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:50] <exec> 08└─I am sorry that you suffer from autism. It must make many activities that neurotypical people take for granted very difficult. I have heard promising things about the application of cannabis bud in cases of autism.
[00:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:52] <exec> 08└─Are you proposing that the speaker to refer the speaker's son as "she" because the son is precious to the speaker?
[00:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─It has made me very rich.
[00:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:57] <exec> 08└─All you've done is revealed that you are a sloppy thinker, which is fine enough for mundane purposes in life, but not for much else. That's why you've never noticed.
[00:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Highly Reflective Art Object Will be Launched Into Orbit in November - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:38] <exec> 08└─If you live your life for one trip in a Ferrari, it sucks to be you.
[00:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Highly Reflective Art Object Will be Launched Into Orbit in November - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:39] <exec> 08└─You're thinking in terms of nations and militaries. Think in terms of "Joe, disgruntled power-station employee" and "Joe's boss's flammable house in the suburbs".
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[01:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:13] <exec> 08└─This was only about 400 years ago. Have we really evolved much since then. I mean look at politics in modern America where we assume that there is a bit of enlightenment. People that speak the truth about how society is organized are often ostracized by powerful leaders for speaking truth that might...
[01:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:14] <exec> 08└─The Inquisition had nothing on the Dems, believe me. Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phoney Russia Collusion Witch Hunt and the Fake Sex Accusations? So many lives have been ruined over nothing -- by a mere allegati...
[01:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:16] <exec> 08└─"look at politics in modern America where we assume that there is a bit of enlightenment" You cannot assume for others, and I assure you that in my case you would be wrong to do so.
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[01:44:30] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, fucker...you trolling asshole. You should go take a leap into the boiling waters off the Puna District on the big Island in Hawaii.
[01:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:40] <exec> 08└─Stupid, mundane communication can bear singular "they", because it's easy enough to fix it on the fly into something actually intelligible. However, when it comes to communicating a complex thought, it's the dregs.
[01:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:42] <exec> 08└─Brian Acton gave up $850M in unvested stock.
[01:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:44] <exec> 08└─Even if the value dropped 99% (99 fucking percent!), he would still receive 8.5 million dollars!
[01:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:46] <exec> 08└─Most of the entire world's population. They do it everyday for less.
[01:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:48] <exec> 08└─It defies all reason, but just imagine, it'd be fucking crazy.
[01:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:50] <exec> 08└─Allow me to imitate the UN delegation. *snort* lol! Just to be clear, I am laughing at you.
[01:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:53] <exec> 08└─"He" et al. are gender-neutral pronouns for referring to people
[01:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:55] <exec> 08└─Do you have a counterargument, or...?
[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:57] <exec> 08└─Language is a protocol, and a protocol requires agreement.
[01:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vorombe titan: World's Largest Bird Weighed Up to 800 Kilograms - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:08] <exec> 08└─Also, Id say any animal that cant fly isnt a real bird.
[01:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vorombe titan: World's Largest Bird Weighed Up to 800 Kilograms - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:10] <exec> 08└─Here you go then. [wikipedia.org] Maybe not bigger, and definitely extinct, but American, and scary as hell.
[01:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: Alcohol Killed 3 Million People in 2016 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:37] <exec> 08└─To add to your points, I recently heard a retired police office on the radio opine that pot should stay illegal because "the people who smoke it are criminals" which I thought should have been challenged by the interviewer, but wasn't.
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[02:43:53] <exec> 08└─... cancer, at least in the State of California.
[02:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:05] <exec> 08└─For the record, "progressive" and "enlightened" are not synonyms.
[02:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:06] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Dems and fascism, I can see. Dems and the Catholic Church? Dems and inquisitors? I'm having a hard time with the parallels. Inquisitors believed in something, however distorted their beliefs were. Dems? What do they believe in?
[02:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:22] <exec> 08└─You're a poser. Just give up the tough guy talk. You don't even scare the day care children. Keep yapping like a little annoying dog, and we'll carry your ass up the mountain, and throw you into the volcano.
[02:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:23] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't mean they don't forbid them anyway, rather it means the plaintiff can be confident they'll prevail when they sue their HOA. My friend the paralegal is completely convinced that it's legal to drive in Oregon without a driver's license. He speaks of this frequently. "That may be so, b...
[02:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:41] <exec> 08└─Billionaires are people too
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[02:45:42] <exec> 08└─There. Now you know the truth.
[02:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:44] <exec> 08└─The English language reflects a very important historical fact about humanity: Males are disposable, and society works best when females are put atop a pedestal so that young men have something to fight wars for. This is even the case among Muslims, who believe that Islam requires a woman to be cove...
[02:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:46] <exec> 08└─Your statement is false outright; it's not a logical fallacy that can be pointed out—it's just wrong. Write a sentence with "x", and we'll discuss it.
[02:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:49] <exec> 08└─Or are you just a parrot he's trained well?
[02:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:51] <exec> 08└─Hmm... one does not recall a specific antecedent. Does it? Do you have a usage example of one referring to an antecedent?
[02:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:53] <exec> 08└─Ok. The x is blue. Enlighten me.
[02:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:55] <exec> 08└─English only has the "precious" form, which we call "feminine", because among humans, women are considered the height of preciousness. If there are "masculine" forms, it's only because they aren't "feminine" forms. Do you think, for example, that so many laws were written strictly for men? Of course...
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[02:52:36] <exec> 08└─No, it's a great example. Madonna was touring mere months before the Web began. You can't appreciate that fact because you're a elitist bigot. Pope John Paul II was pope for 26 years and was pope when The World Wide Web was invented. Madonna is the highest grossing solo touring artist of all time. T...
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[02:52:37] <exec> 08└─Tor Browser sends update queries to Mozilla because things expect always on connectivity, khallow. Things today expect always on connectivity, khallow. We have always on connectivity today because of the internet, khallow. We have the internet everywhere today because the web made the internet popul...
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[03:43:48] <exec> 08└─I'm an old rich American boomer. Taxes are theft of money out of my pocket that I did nothing at all to earn. I like my concrete infrastructure crumbling in disrepair. Poor people don't deserve roads because if they did then they would pay for their own roads with their own money instead of my money...
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[03:43:49] <exec> 08└─Refusing to pay for somebody else's roads.Putting a gun in somebody else's face and saying "Pay your fair share for my roads, comrade"?
[03:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:03] <exec> 08└─That's one of the evils that encouraged the push for universal literacy and education for all. Every witch hunt ever done arose from fear and ignorance, ruined an innocent career or life, and didn't solve any problems, certainly not the problems for which the victim of the witch hunt was blamed. Whe...
[03:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:04] <exec> 08└─Johnny-come-lately heliocentrists! They should have paid attention much earlier, and not allowed these observation-resistant religious types to be in a position to stifle scientific inquiry. Is it too late for a "I told you so!"
[03:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:49] <exec> 08└─Faceplant more than 99%? What are the chances of that do you think? And, surely his contract allows him to take the shares should Facebook fire him of its own accord; otherwise, Facebook would just fire him and save the money. Secondly, you're absolutely wrong in your estimation of me; I spend a fuc...
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[03:45:50] <exec> 08└─I don't need to enlighten you, because you enlightened yourself. The x is blue
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[03:45:52] <exec> 08└─So, laugh away if it makes you feel better.
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[03:45:54] <exec> 08└─so... property?
[03:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:57] <exec> 08└─Objection! Parent comment does not provide any enlightenment or discussion! Immediately provide discussion, or I will be forced to refer this matter to the infinite contract-enforcing turtles!
[03:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:59] <exec> 08└─It does, thank you. Laughter has many benefits that are documented in the relevant medical literature. I appreciate your services as court jester. I really do! You're special to me! I will refer to you as she from now on. You've earned it!
[03:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:01] <exec> 08└─A man who has put a value on his morals and ethics.
[03:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:03] <exec> 08└─Crime is something expected of men due to their sinful nature, not women and their angelic nature.
[03:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy [Belated] #CIDRDay! 25 Years of CIDR Addressing - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:26] <exec> 08└─The post doesn't even describe what CIDR is. CIDR has nothing (directly) to do with slash notation or subnet mask notation. Before CIDR, the class and thus subnet mask of a host is directly tied to the IP address. Any IP address that starts with a 0 is in class A and has the equivalent of an implici...
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[03:48:20] <exec> 08└─Linus probably bought the wrong plane tickets on purpose
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[04:43:40] <exec> 08└─"What can I say," they added.
[04:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:42] <exec> 08└─This cannot be allowed! Flush this child that is smarter than Apple and start over! (snark)
[04:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:44] <exec> 08└─If the App icon disappears due to screen time limitations (or for whatever random reason), then the obvious thing to do is to go and install it again. Clearly something went wrong, 1) try turning it off/on again, 2) reinstall. Oh look it works, continue as normal. Nothing clever about it. If anythin...
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[04:43:46] <exec> 08└─daily reminder that singular they has long-standing, continuous usage dating back centuries and isn't ungrammatical even if you know the target's gender it's not even terribly informal to use either
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[04:43:48] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, I'd sneak around my AOL usage limits by logging in with my dad's account after finding that he wrote his password down. And at school (this was like 3rd grade, so I guess I was a bit older than in the story), everyone passed around proxies so they could play flash games instead of...
[04:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:50] <exec> 08└─Isn't this considered circumventing access controls or something like that in the DMCA? Kid should be in juvie with the rest of the criminals (we can probably treat him as an adult for this)
[04:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:02] <exec> 08└─You know why our roads are so tremendously expensive? Regulations. I’ve reduced regulations terrifically. It would take, as an example, to build a highway. It would take 17 to 20 years to get approvals. And at the end of 20th year, in many cases, they voted it down. Do you approve? No. So they was...
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[04:44:04] <exec> 08└─There are those who might argue Congress is a prefered binding agent for Concrete
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[04:44:06] <exec> 08└─It is my shame that i really just haven't figured you out yet.
[04:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:08] <exec> 08└─And far greener.
[04:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Silicates and Lungs aren't best friends.
[04:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:29] <exec> 08└─It really is mind blowing how much power these religious nutjobs had. Disagree with them in any way and it was death/imprisonment/torture/whatever. They WERE the law. "The sun revolves around the earth because duh God says so, and my dick is supposed to be in your ass because God says so. You can't...
[04:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:30] <exec> 08└─I said it -- they want fame, money, whatever. For themselves. They don't care about God. Don't care about Country. They have no policies or ideas. All they do is delay and complain. If they believe in anything it's OBSTRUCTIONISM. The Dems will not approve hundreds of good people. They are maxing ou...
[04:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:32] <exec> 08└─He must have also been a Supreme Court nominee... :-)
[04:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:34] <exec> 08└─People who hold power have demonstrated that they will do things that they know to be wrong and unethical when faced with the possibility to loose that power, or more justifiably for self preservation. Too often, self preservation takes over any concerns for the truth. Sometimes, that concern is los...
[04:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:52] <exec> 08└─Why are related links considered spoilers? Care to comment on this please takyon? I can't be the only one wondering... (for transparency's sake.. infrequent poster and mostly drunk right now).
[04:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:53] <exec> 08└─I read parts of the research paper, especially the methods they used. Seems credible, not one of the bogus studies. Seems like the bottom line with this ones is: glyphosate does effect bee gut biome, making them more susceptible to disease. But here's the song, as a farmer who uses a lot of it, ther...
[04:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:55] <exec> 08└─I've been doing it when I have a lot of Previously/Related links. Cuts the height of the story on the main page.
[04:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:57] <exec> 08└─What we need is a robot that can pick weeds and shoot down bugs with a laser. Adapt to that!
[04:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:28] <exec> 08└─So... no.
[04:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:30] <exec> 08└─Faceplant more than 99%?
[04:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:32] <exec> 08└─Ignorance is the finest sort of confidence.
[04:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:34] <exec> 08└─Talk page?
[04:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:36] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to riff on "citation needed". There was a far less popular template on wikipedia for when the interpretation of a citation was heavily disputed on the talk page. You'd get a little blurb that looks like [Dubious, see talk] I'm here for any other obscure wiki jokes no one gets you want.
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[05:44:24] <exec> 08└─A person used to say the "Village/City of York", because there was a territory called York in which there existed a village. Eventually, that village/city got so large, that it became synonymous with "York"; if you were going to "York", that pretty much meant you were going to the city/village. That...
[05:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:26] <exec> 08└─Did you really have to use "boom" in the headline?
[05:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:28] <exec> 08└─This would be unnoticed in southern Europe, by both the buildings and the people. The eurocodes state that for such an earthquake, the buildings should bear no damages at all.
[05:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:41] <exec> 08└─See, it's not about the amount of screen time for young kids, at least not for me. Let me tell you what my kid's screen time consists of: Us watching movies together, looking at a stupid picture of a seal that looks like a potato. (Some of the stuff we look at tickles him so...) Co-op game time bet...
[05:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:43] <exec> 08└─If your statement applies to some nebulous, unknown person chosen from among a group of plausible individuals, then it is not surprising that your mind may wander towards plural forms. For instance: "If a Soylentil reads my reply, they'll likely downmod it." THAT DOES NOT APPLY IN THIS CASE. Secondl...
[05:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:45] <exec> 08└─If you don't like the choice of pronoun, follow the link and complain to BusinessInsider.com. TFS is just quoting from TFA, so moaning to the editors here is pointless.
[05:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 4477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:47] <exec> 08└─""What can I say," they added." Unless PropellerGuy is a group of some sort, that's just plain wrong. It's so wrong I can't imagine a native English speaker with a positive IQ not flagging it as defective. So I'm not disagreeing with you, exactly, but you're leaving waaay too much out. If the concer...
[05:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:49] <exec> 08└─I can't seem to think of anything more obvious to try if you're a 7 year old in that situation, actually.
[05:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:51] <exec> 08└─"Aah, what an adorable little hacker!"
[05:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:54] <exec> 08└─I was CALLED OUT for misgendering, after using somebody's NAME [youtu.be].
[05:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:56] <exec> 08└─Show a child how to edit his video clips into a cogent movie, and then watch him become a producer rather than a consumer. You're so right about the restriction controls. I never needed a curfew when I was growing up; my parents trusted me not to be an idiot, and I was wise enough to call them to te...
[05:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 1825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:10] <exec> 08└─They call it Nano. Also known as MICRONIZED. If you have rosacea, very important to use sunscreen. You go out in the sun, no sunscreen, boom. Your face turns red -- very quick. So you do the sunscreen. But, you want the Nano. Because it's invisible. Nobody knows you're wearing it. You know. But nobo...
[05:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:51] <exec> 08└─Do you keep bees? I've been debating starting but I already have enough hobbies. I'm now thinking that perhaps I should build a beehive as a winter woodworking project, and see if wild bees colonize it. My house is next to a suburban riparian area so I could encroach the hive on public land.
[05:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:32] <exec> 08└─It's right there: It was totally selfish just to leave that money in Zuck's hands.
[05:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: Alcohol Killed 3 Million People in 2016 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:10] <exec> 08└─Then there's all the prevented deaths of my coworkers prevent by my alcohol consumption.
[05:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: Alcohol Killed 3 Million People in 2016 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:12] <exec> 08└─So you haven't heard about how the pot-detecting dogs will be killed if its legalized?
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[06:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:06] <exec> 08└─Well, you might have a point for new buildings, but historic buildings were certainly not built taking modern regulation into account. Also, in a region where you never had and didn't expect earthquakes, it's quite understandable that you don't take that possibility into consideration. And of course...
[06:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:31] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I tried to follow this but it's just too much stupid low level drama and whining to get through. If I read the beginning correctly, this is some kind of feud between folks that are basically aligned; because the trans-girl thought the girly-boy was conspicuously overusing her name because he...
[06:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:33] <exec> 08└─Life (and the primal urge) ... finds a way [dilbert.com].
[06:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:12] <exec> 08└─welcome to politics.
[06:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:35] <exec> 08└─You'll be able to attract wild bees if your frames are equipped with honeycomb foundation. It's a sheet of beeswax that has the hex grid molded into it Bees can smell that stuff a mile away
[06:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:36] <exec> 08└─This is the first time I've ever seen a post marked: -1, Funny
[06:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:38] <exec> 08└─Keep bees? Why no keep As instead. I am disappoint. After beeing left alone for years, recently bees went twice to relocate in my garden. The arrival is epic because the place is relatively small and the sky gets filled with bees and after 5 minutes all is quiet and a blob of bees is on the wall. He...
[06:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:40] <exec> 08└─Well look at this, are you sure it is YOUR SIDE that is oppressed?
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[07:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a New Standalone VR Headset: Oculus Quest; HTC Releases Vive Wireless Adapter - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:46] <exec> 08└─Because... Facebook. The specs seem exciting for the price, but there's no way I'm giving my money to this company - or worse, giving it yet another device to put me under surveillance and rape my privacy in some unfathomable ways. Because there's one thing you can be sure of: if Facebook enters a m...
[07:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a New Standalone VR Headset: Oculus Quest; HTC Releases Vive Wireless Adapter - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:47] <exec> 08└─Given that Foculus is the market leader, I wouldn't be surprised if these get hacked to run a cleaner OS (Oculus Go runs custom Android). As for avoiding giving money to Zucc, maybe wait and buy it secondhand? Make sure to clean it thoroughly.
[07:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:01] <exec> 08└─It seemed like we got one of these at least weekly when I lived in Hiroshima. Maybe they figured out the gas would be gone by 2030 and wanted to make Zeerijp feel special.
[07:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:28] <exec> 08└─It has made a world of difference for the better. No missed classes this year so far or early morning/late night scream fights.
[07:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:29] <exec> 08└─Unless PropellerGuy is a group of some sort, that's just plain wrong.
[07:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:37] <exec> 08└─I think it's a good idea. Would be even better if we could define the title for the dropdown.
[07:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:39] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash/issues/426 [github.com] Pester TMB!
[07:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:20] <exec> 08└─"I hate what you've done, Zuck! Here, have a billion dollars! That'll teach you to do right by people!" WTF is wrong with you people? You know what a real hero would have done? He'd have stuck around, quietly, dragging his feet on disagreeable goals, and then absconded with a billion dollars to fund...
[07:48:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Eric S. Raymond Speaks in Regards to the Linux Code of Conduct [Updated] - 512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:55] <exec> 08└─The right to terminate isn't in the GPL, it's in statute. The GPLv3 states that the grant of license is irrevocable, which may be an attempt to get round the termination rights in law (whether it would work or not has never been tested), however GPLv2 in contrast does not. Which implies that the gra...
[07:48:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Eric S. Raymond Speaks in Regards to the Linux Code of Conduct [Updated] - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:56] <exec> 08└─The GPLv2 also states: 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we so...
[07:49:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Eric S. Raymond Speaks in Regards to the Linux Code of Conduct [Updated] - 1522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:26] <exec> 08└─"... any sane meritocracy proponent would see ..." You do realise that the CoC being thrust in Linus' and Linux's face was written by a very-far-from-sane person? One who definitely does not have the best intentions of any code-base, or project viewed in terms of the programs it contains, at heart?...
[07:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blackhawks Beaten by Italian-designed Helicopter for Air Force UH-1 Replacement - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:24] <exec> 08└─Hello there, real pizza virgin. Go visit Naples when you have time and watch out for your wallet when there.
[07:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua Tracked to Four Possible Origin Star Systems - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:20] <exec> 08└─From the abstract: Ejection of ‘Oumuamua by scattering from a giant planet in one of the systems is plausible, but requires a rather unlikely configuration to achieve the high velocities found.
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[08:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:37] <exec> 08└─By 2030? What the?! How is that even remotely helpful? That's like saying "Sure, we're using this sandpaper to wash your car, but we'll stop in 2 hours, everything OK now?" If houses have cracks in homes and historic buildings, how does continuing for 12 *YEARS* help?! Isn't this an article about ho...
[08:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:45] <exec> 08└─Is whistleblowing a witchcraft, though?
[08:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45566304 [bbc.com]
[08:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 1943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:58] <exec> 08└─70-80% of the world lives on less than USD10 a day. The majority live on less than USD3 a day. Most of them are trying. Because they have very little choice - if they didn't try they or their family members could be dead before the end of that five years. They're like someone thrown into the middle...
[08:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vorombe titan: World's Largest Bird Weighed Up to 800 Kilograms - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:18] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Clades, which are the only really important thing for discussing how species relate to each other, contain the union of all their descendent clades. Phylogenetically, birds are in the clade therapoda: https://en.wikipedia.org . Sure, they're avian dinosaurs, and you like to ref...
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[09:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:09] <exec> 08└─when Mickey mouse becomes public domain....
[09:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:30] <exec> 08└─It might make the concentrations and yields lower though. But the tech is improving: https://www.sciencedaily.com [sciencedaily.com]
[09:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think the historically volcanically active south ever gives a shit about humanity's ancient buildings, yet for the most part the great works of the Romans are not cracking and falling apart. Maybe northern europen architects should just not suck at a basic art that southerners mastered over...
[09:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:34] <exec> 08└─Politicians having their cake and eating it too. - Wow this is aweful lets ban it! - But lets not be needlessly quick, wait until im retired and the bribes wear off This decision is worse than no decision because it shows just how worthless the politicians are
[09:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:00] <exec> 08└─Once again parental controls are about controlling hysterical parents.
[09:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:39] <exec> 08└─religious nutjobs get power the same way the monarchy. corporations, and governments do. 1) Divide and conquer. Make a group of "us" and fight "them". I mean, you see it at sports every day, it seems primates are predisposed to this. 2) Make up a legend - so much easier than real work. This allows y...
[09:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vorombe titan: World's Largest Bird Weighed Up to 800 Kilograms - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:05] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. To "weigh" has always meant to determine the mass of - even NIST have admitted this (you know, the authority that defines how to deal with, ahem, weights and measures). The proxy used for determining the mass may be the gravitational attraction of that mass to the earth, but the figure the...
[09:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vorombe titan: World's Largest Bird Weighed Up to 800 Kilograms - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:06] <exec> 08└─Yup, my only hope with modern genetic technological advances is that scientists bring back the moa, the dodo, and even the aurochs.
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[10:43:44] <exec> 08└─jmorris and khallow will be very happy about this, although their ideological bents will devour the brains in storms of cognitive dissonance. Poor khallow! Not so much, jmorris.
[10:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:46] <exec> 08└─But the paper authors were all SJWs hence results invalid.
[10:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:48] <exec> 08└─The minimum wage increases that started four years ago in Seattle are spreading across the country, but economists continue to study — and disagree about — the impact.
[10:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:58] <exec> 08└─Waco Alex Jones types that I have known claimed that they did not to pay income tax, because it was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, who was not born in the United States (actually, he was born in Hawaii, which was not US Territory at the time, but that is another story altogether), and so income...
[10:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a New Standalone VR Headset: Oculus Quest; HTC Releases Vive Wireless Adapter - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:09] <exec> 08└─As much as I hated seeing this heartblood project of an idealist techie being sold into the Socially bancrupt Halls of Mordor with all that stench of surveillance capitalism that's bound to stick to the device - I celebrate them for pushing the boundaries. I've long dreamed about a VR headset and th...
[10:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:28] <exec> 08└─This decision is worse than no decision because it shows just how worthless the politicians are
[10:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone finds an ingenious way around missing dept. lines, too?
[10:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:40] <exec> 08└─Make a group of "us" and fight "them". I mean, you see it at sports every day, it seems primates are predisposed to this.
[10:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:09] <exec> 08└─> a post marked: -1, Funny Enjoy it while you can, some other mod will probably change it shortly.
[10:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:10] <exec> 08└─> there's no good alternative at the moment. Not a farmer, so this is really just out of curiosity--have you compared the cost of herbicide (product + application costs) to the loss of crop if the herbicide isn't used? Seems like the yield would change all over depending on local conditions and farm...
[10:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Monitor Will Let You Know When Your Accounts Have Been Compromised - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:37] <exec> 08└─I just looked at the web site, and there's a text: Enter your email for a basic scan.
[10:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Highly Reflective Art Object Will be Launched Into Orbit in November - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:43] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the pink island wrap in Miami - similarly short lived for similar good reasons.
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[11:43:17] <exec> 08└─We're in a period of economic growth, wait until the next slow down and then tell us how much better off fast food workers are due to minimum wage. Minimum wage is government sanctioned inflation, this isn't a difficult concept to understand.
[11:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:19] <exec> 08└─I'll chime in with my obligatory "basic income" post. I'd love to implement basic income and scrap programmes like minimum wage. I'd love to at least see some more honest studies and pilots of these policies. In Ontario we had a basic income pilot going until this summer. It was flawed in many ways...
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[11:43:57] <exec> 08└─That is not the whole story. The gas extraction will end in 2030 but it has already been significantly reduced, to levels that are supposed to be less problematic. It's hard to totally stop extraction because this gas field has a different caloric value from gas available for import, so the country...
[11:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's because they used Roman concrete [wikipedia.org], which incorporated volcanic ash. I think SN might even have had a story on that sort of recently, how it caused the formation of carbon nanotubes.
[11:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:30] <exec> 08└─The singular 'they' is so old it was accepted by friggin' SHAKESPEARE. You're nearly a thousand years too late if you want to be fighting that particular battle. Give it up already.
[11:44:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:00] <exec> 08└─This was only about 400 years ago. Have we really evolved much since then. I mean look at politics in modern America where we assume that there is a bit of enlightenment. People that speak the truth about how society is organized are often ostracized by powerful leaders for speaking truth that might...
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[11:45:43] <exec> 08└─> When we were visited by hornets ... Here in the 'burbs we have what are locally called "ground bees", but these are yellow/black striped wasps. They nest in the ground, behind small rock walls around garden beds. If they are close to the house, this is a problem--I know someone that almost died fr...
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[11:45:45] <exec> 08└─You would only want to shoot down insects that are harmful to crops, so you would obviously tune the system to ignore ladybirds/ladybugs. This will place a pressure on the pest insects to look more and more like non-pest insects. if you set the system to kill all insects, then smaller insects will s...
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[12:42:52] <exec> 08└─never forget, never forgive https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:54] <exec> 08└─That issue ended over 10 years ago. I'm not saying to forget it, just be opened minded. Microsoft is worse right now because they continue to produce and push the spyware Windows 10. At this point I trust my Playstation 4 way more than I would trust an Xbox One.
[12:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:56] <exec> 08└─At this point I trust my Playstation 4 way more than I would trust an Xbox One.
[12:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:08] <exec> 08└─Minimum wage is government sanctioned inflation, this isn't a difficult concept to understand.
[12:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:09] <exec> 08└─In Ontario we had a basic income pilot going until this summer. It was flawed in many ways
[12:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:11] <exec> 08└─If you think that the free market should reign, and don't mind disease-and-crime-ridden shanty towns around all the cities
[12:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It's one of those concepts that requires diving in, rather than dipping in a toe. "The water's great once you're in". Once a government gets established, it generally only changes incrementally, which makes sea changes impossible. I find it hard to see how we'll get to basic income, scrappin...
[12:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:23] <exec> 08└─When (if) we reach the stage civilization advancement as described in Asomiv's Foundation series, then perhaps it will be public domain on some of the planets.
[12:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:44] <exec> 08└─Now, have you ever took a lungful of Portland cement? I bet cement is as health damaging as that calcium silicate dust and yet it is used all around us.
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[12:44:45] <exec> 08└─I have this hunch some politicians will feel offended in being called Green after being Reps/Dems all their life.
[12:49:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Eric S. Raymond Speaks in Regards to the Linux Code of Conduct [Updated] - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think the Code of Conduct text is the main issue. It basically comes down to "don't harass people" and "be professional", which shouldn't be too much to ask.
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[13:43:21] <exec> 08└─A solar powered SoC still needs an internet connection to be a web server. This shitty hobbyist project is the equivalent of mounting a bicycle onto a coal burning train and trying to claim there is no engine. Stick your heads up your own asses, enviro-ostriches.
[13:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:34] <exec> 08└─True, but I do like my PS4. I only use it for games though. Everything else I do on Linux.
[13:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:35] <exec> 08└─Get off my lawn and get back in the basement and keep playing those video games. Don't go to school and don't get a job. Spend all your parents money on video games. I'll be long dead by the time you kids grow up so I don't give a shit about you. I'm a Soylentitled Asshole and you kids only exist to...
[13:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:54] <exec> 08└─the tax system needs to be completely overhauled (and simplified)
[13:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:55] <exec> 08└─Minimum wage gives my money to poor people who don't deserve to have my money. I expect huge returns on my investments and I don't get huge returns when the companies I invest in have to waste my money on worthless poor people who don't deserve to get paid for the poor work they do. I am a Soylentit...
[13:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:57] <exec> 08└─tax system needs to be completely overhauled (and simplified)
[13:44:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Blymie [4020] 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:33] <exec> 08└─By 2030? What the?! How is that even remotely helpful? That's like saying "Sure, we're using this sandpaper to wash your car, but we'll stop in 2 hours, everything OK now?" If houses have cracks in homes and historic buildings, how does continuing for 12 *YEARS* help?! Isn't this an article about ho...
[13:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:12] <exec> 08└─That's a deceptive half-truth. Shakespeare uses 'they' but not truly in simple singular sense, not like what we see above here. You might be thinking of "There's not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend " At a glance you might expect *his instead of their right?...
[13:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:13] <exec> 08└─I found out this thing some time back, breathtaking in its simplicity, staggering in its implications... Department lines are *optional* and stories can run perfectly well without them! (I was just gobsmacked, I tell you...) Optional, kind of like Apple's following your "control" settings. It seems...
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[13:48:09] <exec> 08└─When used in the singular form, "they" does refer to a single object and not a group of objects, a bit like how the gender-neutral form of "he" does refer to someone of an unspecified gender and not necessarily a male. The reason the singular "they" is better is because you can almost always disting...
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[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─If they are going to complain about web pages needing so much more bandwidth and resources, they need to point the finger at the single biggest cause: Advertising As in all other media before the intarweb tubes, advertising ultimately destroys every single medium it touches.
[14:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:16] <exec> 08└─<html> <head> <title>Efficient web pages are easy.</title> <body> Just keep it simple. And keep your organization free from pointy-haired bosses that want to add shinies and animations and pop-over ads. I think TFA's website uses JQuery. That's not very energy efficient for the client. </body> </htm...
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[14:43:18] <exec> 08└─Prize for anyone that can spot the tag I forgot to close!
[14:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─For pointing out the oversight in our green design. Instead of self-hosting, Low-Tech guru geniuses are now piggyback-hosting on the neighbor's Wi-Fi. Now we have an energy efficient web site without an internet connection!
[14:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─I spotted it. What's the prize?
[14:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:25] <exec> 08└─<head> Now give me some. :)
[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─You get to feed the buzzard. He doesn't bite. Sometimes.
[14:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:29] <exec> 08└─http://www.metrolyrics.com/wheres-your-head-at-lyrics-basement-jaxx.html [metrolyrics.com]
[14:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:31] <exec> 08└─Does the prize involve giving </head>?
[14:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:02] <exec> 08└─Because it's not in their interest to change that part of the system for the better. Or any part for that matter.
[14:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:04] <exec> 08└─It's not your money, though.
[14:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:06] <exec> 08└─If you made an argument that minimum wage is bullshit, I might go along with you, depending on how you made the argument. But - what you've actually posted makes it clear that you don't value your fellow man. YOU are worth thirty, fifty, maybe a hundred and fifty dollars per hour? But, the schmuck w...
[14:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─but it seems to me that corruption reduction and tax code simplification are noble goals onto themselves - why can't we "mandate" progress in those areas without tying it to some pie in the sky program that has little chance of adoption in the near term?
[14:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:10] <exec> 08└─We're not in a period of economic growth in any real sense. I'm not sure why people think we are. The government dumped a ton of money into the stock market by giving all those corporations tax breaks that they primarily used to buy their own stock. The people actually doing the work who normally wo...
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[14:44:12] <exec> 08└─The problem with basic income is the sociological problem of creating an intergenerational class of hopelessness, and psychological problems associated with long term unemployment. Unemployed for a year can be both fun and productive. Unemployment for 2 years starts making you feel hopeless. I bacam...
[14:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:15] <exec> 08└─And yours is fuck you, give me that.
[14:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:17] <exec> 08└─Limited job loss in a booming economy? Interesting.
[14:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:19] <exec> 08└─The same Berkeley that Seattle went to when they got an opposite prediction from U of W and were looking for feel-good yes-man backing of their policies rather than reality? Yeah, that Berkeley. The real issue that gets completely overlooked when employment figures get bandied about is under-employm...
[14:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:21] <exec> 08└─The tax code is complicated because we're using it as a way of avoiding regulation and because lobbyists get all sorts of tax breaks included by bribing politicians. The complication wouldn't be that big of a deal if the taxes were handled like they are in some other countries where the government s...
[14:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:32] <exec> 08└─I really hate the whole concept of these royalties. No, I don't think you should still be getting paid for music you recorded before I was born, and I'm in my forties. I don't see why you should even expect to get paid for work you did decades ago. You don't see auto workers collecting royalties on...
[14:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:34] <exec> 08└─What business is it of yours how someone in an industry you don't work in gets compensated?
[14:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:37] <exec> 08└─This slipped bye everybody thanks to Mango Mussolini who has to sign it; after all, it's totally aligned with his fascist beliefs. The law is the same old bill that failed many times with plenty of public opposition but nearly made it with industry pressure. A few changes a new name and a retired cr...
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[14:45:40] <exec> 08└─GODDAMNIT!
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[14:46:26] <exec> 08└─+1 Funny, Tragic.
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[14:48:41] <exec> 08└─It would have been selfless to engage himself against what he's determined his best self-interest is?! Some defender of the "virtue of self-interest" you are!
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[15:43:16] <exec> 08└─Water is a greenhouse gas.
[15:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─You have a good point, but someone's got to pay for all of this. I like my free TV, paid for by simple advertising (when it doesn't intrude on the content), so I don't mind simple ads on webpages. Simple: no motion of any kind, no pop-ups ever, no interactive javascript spying / serving targeted ads...
[15:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─You have a good point, but someone's got to pay for all of this.
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[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─I don't know man, every CD I ever tried to play when this was happening I inserted into the device it was designed for, a CD player, and everything was totally fine.
[15:43:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:44] <exec> 08└─The minimum wage increases that started four years ago in Seattle are spreading across the country, but economists continue to study — and disagree about — the impact.
[15:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─Thats hilarious they think minimum wage is "working" in chicago. In the last ten years its gone from one minimum wage job getting you your own full 1 bedroom apartment with a bus/train pass, to two minimum wage jobs a closet in someone else's apartment and a bike. These academics are so obnoxiously...
[15:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:06] <exec> 08└─Introduce it gradually. Not to some groups first, but a tiny basic income for everyone first. Gradually increase it over the years while compensating for it in other places. The change doesn't come in a big shock with all kinds of unknown consequences but it just grows and society adjusts and learns...
[15:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:20] <exec> 08└─How are royalties paid for use of a work of authorship ultimately any different from rent paid for use of land that someone discovered and developed?
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:21] <exec> 08└─someone in an industry you don't work in
[15:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:23] <exec> 08└─Land is a scarce resource.
[15:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 3787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:25] <exec> 08└─0) Using a vague term, "industry" doesn't make everything under that label the same. Your committing a logic error: oversimplification. 1) It was a democracy; at least we still portray it as one. So a great many things are our business. Sadly not enough things... 2) As stated in the constitution, th...
[15:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:27] <exec> 08└─You don't see auto workers collecting royalties on old cars (for example).
[15:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:30] <exec> 08└─Well put. In this debate, and perhaps in many others, possession is 9/10th's of the law. That is, no matter what the status quo would like to enforce, facts on the ground will beat them every time. So if we don't like what the recording "industry" and movie "industry" are doing, using our government...
[15:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:34] <exec> 08└─Lighten up, Francis.
[15:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's been correct for several centuries, so it's about time it was wrong for a change.
[15:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:38] <exec> 08└─I mean, it's right there in the phrase "every man". That's why Shakespeare was wrong. As the AC pointed already [soylentnews.org]: Shakespeare fell prey to a heuristics failure (if not a desire to produce a certain artistic, rather than logical, sequence of syllables).
[15:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:57] <exec> 08└─Get some leafcutter bees, then. Or mason bees. No queen, no hive. Independent insects, but still 'bees'. They sting, but it's not much worse than a mosquito bite. They bite too, and that's worse than their sting. But they don't sting or bite unless -seriously- provoked. Like, it happened to fly near...
[15:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─There is just feminine "she". Everything else is merely non-feminine; there's the definite feminine, and then there is everything else, which depends on context—a special place is given solely to the feminine. Your singular they is a failure of the mind [soylentnews.org].
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[16:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 2242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I remember the internet before advertising became mainstream. The only sites that were up were people/organisations who really had something to say, or information to share, or a desire to communicate (where the internet was the cheapest method for them). The concept of making money by just...
[16:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─Reality. Telegraph, radio, TV, all started out the same way. Heck, most inventions / innovations start out with simple purposes / intentions. Then commerce happens.
[16:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:24] <exec> 08└─Just don't look, act, or smell like buzzard food and you'll be fine.
[16:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:27] <exec> 08└─The featured article concedes that this project is a work in progress: For now, the router is powered by grid electricity and requires 10 watts of power. We are investigating how to replace the energy-hungry router with a more efficient one that can be solar-powered, too.
[16:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed a lot of enthusiasts (myself included) ran websites just for the fun of it
[16:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:31] <exec> 08└─The <!DOCTYPE> is missing; that's for sure. With a DOCTYPE, I could tell what version of HTML this was supposed to be and thus whether <body> adds an implicit </head>.
[16:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:46] <exec> 08└─I shall never forget that Autorun was a damn stupid idea and why the hell would you "run" any program from a CD that's just supposed to be audio tracks? The lesson of the Sony Rootkit was "what the hell are you doing blindly executing any code you're given, as a user with enough privileges to modify...
[16:43:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:55] <exec> 08└─But the paper authors were all SJWs hence results invalid.
[16:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:00] <exec> 08└─Minimum wage is government sanctioned inflation, this isn't a difficult concept to understand.
[16:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:19] <exec> 08└─The costs of so many things have dramatically dropped over the years except: College education Health care Housing costs You don't even need UBI if you fix those things
[16:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:42] <exec> 08└─Where it gets really interesting is where the analog becomes increasingly like the digital. There's a way to go yet, to be sure, but things are getting there. We have 3D printers for ad-hoc production of material objects. We have 3D scanners to map existing objects into a CAD file that then feeds in...
[16:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:44] <exec> 08└─0) This is a complete bullshit statement and a blatant attempt to deflect. Stop it. 1) So do I get to vote on your compensation at your job? Our form of government has nothing to do with how people are paid 2) You are making an argument for copyright, not royalties. Even so, as you state, it's in...
[16:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:46] <exec> 08└─and a fraction of it goes to pay the power company for the power they use. I don't see people complaining that the linemen are overpaid.
[16:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:48] <exec> 08└─Creativity and talent are not? Shit, we should all be best selling authors, musicians, and movies stars then!
[16:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:50] <exec> 08└─Looking around, I would argue original ideas are too.
[16:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:52] <exec> 08└─when Mickey mouse becomes public domain....
[16:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:01] <exec> 08└─If you don't like Shakeſpere, how about period bible translations, say the KJV (James 2:15-16, original 1611 version)? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of dayly foode, And one of you say vnto them, Depart in peace, be you warmed & filled: notwithstanding ye giue them not those things...
[16:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:21] <exec> 08└─is that Monsanto has patented a new toxin to to put in the U.S. food supply? Roundup is out of patent. So I guess now it's cool to recognize what all the bee keepers have known for a decade on now. Because doing so, means that there won't be a competing public domain chemical composition to whatever...
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[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:33] <exec> 08└─Important people like Hillary or Petraeus got nothing or slapped on the wrist for their intelligence failings. 5.5 years in prison for this peon though. But on the other hand if you choose to work for a criminal organization like the NSA, getting fucked in the ass could be what you deserve.
[17:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─[S]ome of NSA's most sophisticated, hard-to-achieve, and important techniques of collecting [signals intelligence] from sophisticated targets of the NSA, including collection that is crucial to decision makers when answering some of the Nation's highest-priority questions
[17:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:36] <exec> 08└─- les to CERT The NSA really does do defensive work like SELinux. Discovering an exploit then keeping it secret leaves us vulnerable to the Soviets
[17:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:46] <exec> 08└─This sounds like what you get when computers take over situations that actually belong in the hands of human beings, no matter what the improved odds are. And anticipating the most common red herring so I can make a strawman out of it: No, buggy whips aren't a parallel. *Computerized* buggy whips wo...
[17:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:48] <exec> 08└─http://www.warplife.com/jonathan-swift/books/software-problem/ [warplife.com]
[17:44:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 2242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I remember the internet before advertising became mainstream. The only sites that were up were people/organisations who really had something to say, or information to share, or a desire to communicate (where the internet was the cheapest method for them). The concept of making money by just...
[17:44:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:13] <exec> 08└─The <!DOCTYPE> is missing; that's for sure. With a DOCTYPE, I could tell what version of HTML this was supposed to be and thus whether <body> adds an implicit </head>.
[17:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:16] <exec> 08└─OK, you're the real winner (Mr Wise Guy). I have to say though that I really dislike the HTML 5 tolerance for unclosed (or implicitly closed) tags. After the strictness of XHTML, it's like the web consortium just went "Ah, fuck it--no-one closes their tags properly anyway so let's just allow it in t...
[17:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:18] <exec> 08└─Dammit! I missed taking a shower last night.
[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:06] <exec> 08└─All the necessities (housing, transportation, food, booze, cigs) are getting more expensive while pocket calculators are getting cheaper. Which of those are included in the official inflation statistic?
[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─If you don't like gonvernment mandated minimum wage, there's an option: do it like the Finnish do. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Check under Finland, if that suits you better.
[17:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─As a consumer of the product, it is very much our business. It is unfortunate we don't enforce our rights.
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:35] <exec> 08└─Before you answer "Mexico", President Trump doesn't feel very favorable toward trade with Mexico at the moment.
[17:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:37] <exec> 08└─You don't see auto workers collecting royalties on old cars Yeah, but the auto companies sure do! Music, cars, whatever, the money goes with the license.
[17:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:39] <exec> 08└─Creativity and talent is needed tocreate new works. It is not needed to create copies of decade-old works. And in particular when the creator already died decades ago, that creativity and talent is already gone anyway.
[17:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:07] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be better than no decision then? It would be if it made a difference. What they 'show' is a reflection of the people who put them where they are.
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:09] <exec> 08└─Note that only those buildings that didn't fall apart are still standing. So when judging from the buildings that still stand means you inherently have a massive selection bias, as the vast majority of buildings the Romans built no longer exist.
[17:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:11] <exec> 08└─Excellent point.
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:48] <exec> 08└─That's another sequential plural though. This is what you do for any member of a large abstract group. Show us a case where they is used with a simple singular subject?
[17:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:11] <exec> 08└─And all the wasps are good! (Except maybe in some orchard fruit crops.)
[17:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:59] <exec> 08└─while i understand why you think this way, my beliefs about the role of money in human society are somewhat different. The discourse around the money is that it is as you say a "measure of all things", i agree. But trouble with measures, KPI, and such is that they eventually _replace_ the territory...
[17:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MINERVA-II Rovers Send Back Images from the Surface of Asteroid Ryugu - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:44] <exec> 08└─He's a lizard person, but they created him with an experimental update to the Red Dress protocol to create the Lens Flare Dresses. It failed. So now they just have him making shitty Star Wars and Star Trek fanfiction.
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[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:43] <exec> 08└─They missed the opportunity?
[18:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─with all the intelligence collected for national security what us left for the average man? with an environment without a meaningful morsel of intelligent left, the average man struggles to not forget to swallow and droll all over the place and the normally simple task of changing a light bulb requi...
[18:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:58] <exec> 08└─Do you know the definition of the word "willful"? Because that's sure in the summary, and sure the explicit reason given for dismissal in one of the cases you described. I'm all for holding leaders to a higher standard than workers rather than the other way around, but you have to know you're full o...
[18:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:00] <exec> 08└─So all he has to do is say "I didn't know it was illegal" and he gets off like he was a high-profile "public servant"?
[18:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:02] <exec> 08└─No, if he had carried files that he reasonably thought didn't contain classified materials and some small, mostly irrelevant classified materials got mixed in unintentionally. That's pretty much the standard, you know, this tiny itty bitty thing that the legal profession calls "mens rea." You know,...
[18:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:04] <exec> 08└─1. do not hire Italians 2. do not hire Vietcongs
[18:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:06] <exec> 08└─In case you hadn't noticed, being powerful has equaled a get-out-of-jail-free card for a very long time. For instance, it's been an unwritten law since at least 1974 (thanks to Gerald Ford) that no former president will ever be prosecuted for a crime, especially a crime committed while in office. An...
[18:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because when I think of Italians and Vietnamese, the first names that come to mind are "Rosenberg [wikipedia.org]", "Ames [wikipedia.org]", and "Hanssen [wikipedia.org]".
[18:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─Important people like Hillary or Petraeus got nothing or slapped on the wrist for their intelligence failings. Yep, that tends to happen when you don't actually break any laws. And, since these are criminal charges you are alleging, we do actually get to claim innocent until proven guilty. (Which is...
[18:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:13] <exec> 08└─Yep, that tends to happen when you don't actually break any laws.
[18:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:15] <exec> 08└─While there is plenty of truth to the rich and powerful club that isn't quite the whole story. Read ikanreed's comments for a more objective assessment.
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[18:44:26] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=27738&cid=738841 [soylentnews.org] The Japanese must be working really hard to get so much closer to American quality in such a short time :D
[18:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:58] <exec> 08└─The for-profit websites I frequent typically are websites that don't make their money through advertising. They make their money by offering me actual service (like, letting me buy stuff online).
[18:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:59] <exec> 08└─If you wanted money you had to do something, sell a service, or online mail-order, etc...
[18:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:01] <exec> 08└─You have a good point, but someone's got to pay for all of this
[18:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:03] <exec> 08└─Stupid and clueless?
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─What a crap page. Not only did you fail to close a tag, you forgot: * scripts to provide a highly interactive user experience * ads * social media integration buttons and tracking * user engagement (tracking you) * google analytics * more ads * videos * user satisfaction scripts (stalking you) * mor...
[18:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed, they have gone to all this trouble to design and implement something in a more sustainable and energy efficient way, to see what can be learned from the process. Lots of troublesome details, pesky contributions to society, putting forth of effort, etc. What hypocrites. You, by contrast, have...
[18:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:23] <exec> 08└─"Sony Allows Cosplay with Other Consoles" ...
[18:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:59] <exec> 08└─Take a look at https://leapmanifesto.org [leapmanifesto.org] Many of the proposals for universal basic income are suggested in concert with societal changes to decouple our sense of self-worth from the jobs we do to make money. Someone on UBI doesn't have to be "unemployed"....
[18:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:31] <exec> 08└─...I'm not reading all that crap, summarize it in one word!
[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a New Standalone VR Headset: Oculus Quest; HTC Releases Vive Wireless Adapter - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─vr is very intimid. with a pc you can take a step back and "fake" your experience. in a way your pc is a stage where you can direct the action (from off stage). with vr you're ON the stage or put another way your "inside" the camera. with this in mind then putting vr and facebook in the same sentenc...
[18:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:47] <exec> 08└─*pats Ms. Vim [soylentnews.org] on the head* There, there. Everything will be ok. We'll eradicate all men and implement anarcho-capitalism once there are only women, who are angelic in nature, left. Nobody will use a singular they after men are extinct. It'll be ok.
[18:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:08] <exec> 08└─The pyramids and other megalithic structures around the world have lasted for thousands of years. Why not build using that method rather than these new ones that require a total redo every couple decades?
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[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:21] <exec> 08└─She encountered the men's rights guy. :P
[19:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:22] <exec> 08└─Image link? Hey, I've got your image link right here [nasa.gov].
[19:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:24] <exec> 08└─I don't get it.
[19:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:37] <exec> 08└─I really dislike the HTML 5 tolerance for unclosed (or implicitly closed) tags
[19:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:39] <exec> 08└─Yes I was going to say something similar. All the for profit sites I use I pay for, either directly, or via fees/commission. As for broadband subsidy. I seem to remember the main reason for the mass explosion of internet was the discovery by the masses of piracy. Originally (for me) audiogalaxy (htt...
[19:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:41] <exec> 08└─HTML5 has an XHTML mode too, if that's what you prefer.
[19:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:43] <exec> 08└─As for broadband subsidy. I seem to remember the main reason for the mass explosion of internet was the discovery by the masses of piracy.
[19:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 1614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:45] <exec> 08└─Oh, and to add, online advertising is a big mis-allocation of resources. Due to online advertising, we have the concept of the "scrape scammer" as I call them. People who set up a blog/website, etc... and just scrape other peoples content off their sites/forums/newsgroups, and paste it on their site...
[19:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:47] <exec> 08└─Nah buzzard food often has the aroma of SJW occasionally mixed in with a hint of the lesser regressive-looter-shithead, or so I'm told.
[19:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:50] <exec> 08└─> I really dislike the HTML 5 tolerance for unclosed (or implicitly closed) tags. Why? Are you a COBOL programmer? Cutting down the verbosity so that fewer characters have to be transmitted makes it all go faster, and takes less energy. Or, if you prefer, we can lay out a proper, formal way to have...
[19:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:52] <exec> 08└─Oh. I see. Be sure to check yourself over carefully with one of our highly sensitive, purpose built, Political Compasses™ (patent pending). Available now for just $99.99 a month. If it shows less than sixty degrees right of center, run away immediately.
[19:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:54] <exec> 08└─> Which has largely been replaced with ad-supported streaming services like Pandora and Spotify. Not quite. For one Piracy is still rampant. Even bit-torrent is still a sizable bulk of net traffic, despite being the "out of date" method of piracy nowadays. Secondly, There is a wealth of completely a...
[19:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:56] <exec> 08└─Why do advertisements need to: * add megabytes to a page load?
[19:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:58] <exec> 08└─ad-free internet radio stations existed before online advertising, and would exist after. Quite frankly I prefer them to spotify/pandora any day of the week.
[19:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:01] <exec> 08└─Did you forget to log in to the RealDonaldTrump accout?
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:03] <exec> 08└─If your concern is energy efficiency, then you clearly want an autoscaling service, especially one that can scale down to zero instances when there's no traffic. Can't beat the efficiency of zero energy usage.
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─Why? Are you a COBOL programmer?
[19:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:22] <exec> 08└─Neptunia fan?
[19:45:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 769 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:48] <exec> 08└─If you made an argument that minimum wage is bullshit, I might go along with you, depending on how you made the argument. But - what you've actually posted makes it clear that you don't value your fellow man. YOU are worth thirty, fifty, maybe a hundred and fifty dollars per hour? But, the schmuck w...
[19:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─If we're not, then why is Barry trying to take credit for the 4% GDP?
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 2617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─You're not quite right. Close, but not quite. It's quite possible for prices to rise during a contraction in the money supply, and it's inclined to reduce the rate of consumption, and hence the velocity of money, and hence further contract the effective money supply. This actually exacerbates effect...
[19:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:06] <exec> 08└─Businesses can't arbitrarily raise their prices just because the cost of doing business got more expensive.
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─Precisely. In fact, due to the major productivity gains over the last few decades, there is a mile of daylight between "labor costs too much, have to SHUT DOWN!", and say, doubling each employee's take home pay.
[19:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:11] <exec> 08└─Depends on which year's stats you are looking at. They change the formula to suit the political end goals of the time.
[19:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed that it is subsidy. But not sure if it is wrong given market constraints (which I think is your point too). Just like we moved to subsidized farming, we may need to move to subsidized services and manufacturing at some point. The level of subsidy might be different, but it will have to happen...
[19:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:46] <exec> 08└─verisimilitude
[19:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a New Standalone VR Headset: Oculus Quest; HTC Releases Vive Wireless Adapter - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:00] <exec> 08└─also ... vive is 1080p per eye?
[19:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:26] <exec> 08└─It's not even fracking that causes the earthquakes, that's just FUD. Wastewater injection is what causes earthquakes (although, oddly, only in certain basins). However I'm wondering if the earthquakes could be avoided if they'd just pump some replacement gas into the ground. That's basically what wa...
[19:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:09] <exec> 08└─No, "every man" is definitely not singular. That should be glaringly obvious at a glance. Now, I suspect I know where you got this idea. You're thinking back to your grade school sentence diagrams, right? So what I suspect happened is you got the part about how you could break down nominal phrases,...
[19:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:57] <exec> 08└─I suggest reading The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler. It's true that Galileo contributed greatly to astronomy by creating a high quality telescope, but his actual astronomical theories were shit. Heliocentrism was well known and secretly accepted even by the Church (sort of a "hush, we can't re-int...
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[20:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:16] <exec> 08└─... more like Cuckerburg! Fuck facebook.
[20:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:18] <exec> 08└─Anyone who uses facebook to begin with must ok with this... Why report on it? The only reason is stock price.
[20:43:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:25] <exec> 08└─They missed the opportunity?
[20:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:30] <exec> 08└─Curiosity killed Opportunity.
[20:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:51] <exec> 08└─Holding a security clearance makes you an expert on federal law? No, I think the FBI is the relevant expert here and they said they couldn't deomnstrate intent, which is required by the law, not your little certification.
[20:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─was a summer intern's project, based off an internal framework the NSA had used for commercial unixes or BSD, if I remember correctly. Calling it an NSA project would imply far more manpower and focus than was really put into it when originally released.
[20:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:54] <exec> 08└─No, I think the FBI is the relevant expert here and they said they couldn't deomnstrate intent, which is required by the law, not your little certification.
[20:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:57] <exec> 08└─I would like a bit of public commentary on why his supervisor, the security desk personnel, etc aren't being fired, censured, or criminally prosecuted for letting this happen. Just based on the details of the story I have read/heard, it sounds very possible he was tacitly being allowed to do this in...
[20:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:59] <exec> 08└─no, if you held a clearance you would know all of the training that those of us with clearances have to go through, and would know of the similar instances in which we've seen the book thrown at coworkers for much more benign offenses. You would know how untruthful Clinton was during the entire inve...
[20:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:01] <exec> 08└─You've never held a security clearance, have you? Those of us who have at some point can't understand why HRC didn't get locked up for her transgressions.
[20:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:03] <exec> 08└─DeathMonkey's world is so simple: "Trump is Hitler, Democrats give a shit about me, and Hillary ought to have been queen."
[20:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:14] <exec> 08└─If the 68000 SUVs are this bad, I'd hate to see the 8086 ones.
[20:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:16] <exec> 08└─Don't remember all the details, but same company has had brake recalls for software problems before. One in particular completely blocked the brake pedal pressure to the brakes (this valve is part of the ABS anti-lock brake system)...after the vehicle went over a certain type of bump, like a rough r...
[20:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:10] <exec> 08└─I was going to RTFA but my solar panel didn't have enough juice to decrypt it.
[20:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:12] <exec> 08└─Please don't forget the popups, slide-ins, videos that not only start playing, but float so they stay onscreen no matter how much you try to scroll them off. Yes, I use video blockers, but I notice they saturate my Internet connection even when not playing. If only we could direct and control all of...
[20:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:14] <exec> 08└─I don't own that account. I didn't think of it first.
[20:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:29] <exec> 08└─More likely an OS-tan enthusiast.
[20:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:14] <exec> 08└─Who are those job losses insignificant to? Did they poll the newly unemployed to determine significance?
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely disagree with you... but at some point jobs were not meant to be careers. There are no versions of "first jobs" for kids in highschool if they're expected to be able to raise a family off of the income from it. Living wage jobs SHOULD be more accessible, but not every job is a job t...
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:18] <exec> 08└─May I suggest that you change your perspective? Let us go back to the origins of the idea of minimum wages. Congress, the senate, and hordes of talking heads debated the issue, and the country was pretty much sold on the idea. But - some rich ranchers, and rich hotel owners, and rich restaurateurs h...
[20:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:20] <exec> 08└─For minimum wage to "work" it needs to be set up to double every ten years. Of course this would also make the inflation obvious and bring on the eventual hyperinflation.
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─The world will definitely have changed in the year 3000. We'll have world peace, colonized mars, sent ships to a near habitable solar system, and Mickey Mouse will finally be making it into the Public Domain.
[20:48:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:03] <exec> 08└─The singular 'they' is so old it was accepted by friggin' SHAKESPEARE. You're nearly a thousand years too late if you want to be fighting that particular battle. Give it up already.
[20:48:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 784 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:50] <exec> 08└─That's one of the evils that encouraged the push for universal literacy and education for all. Every witch hunt ever done arose from fear and ignorance, ruined an innocent career or life, and didn't solve any problems, certainly not the problems for which the victim of the witch hunt was blamed. Whe...
[20:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:02] <exec> 08└─JFK was Catholic. https://www.americamagazine.org [americamagazine.org] Sure, you may say he wasn't as left wing as left wing is today, but I'm not so sure about that.
[20:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:04] <exec> 08└─That heliocentrism is only what gets the most media coverage rearding Galileo, and that it was his methodology in experimentation that is really what his contribution was. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but I'm pretty sure there's a video out there of a man standing on the fucking moon indepen...
[20:49:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:19] <exec> 08└─There's no way I could keep bees. Got family members who are mortally afraid scared of being stung and suffering a fatal allergic reaction. Even without that, I suspect the neighbors in this suburban "paradise" would do all they could to kill the bees and harass me for trying to keep them. I'd proba...
[20:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Glyphosate May Contribute to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:42] <exec> 08└─"all is quiet and a blob of bees is on the wall." I quite like how this was written.
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[21:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:12] <exec> 08└─The real question is not whether facebook has shadow profiles of their registered users, but whether they, illegally, have shadow profiles of people who did /not/ register with facebook. It has long been speculated upon, and known informally, that facebook has shadow tracking. But when they do this...
[21:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:13] <exec> 08└─They won't really have any way to know whether you actually have an account with them: Facebook ATTN: Mark Zuckerberg 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025 There's a good reason to write even if you don't use FB: advertisers can purchase _your_ contact in...
[21:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:15] <exec> 08└─I've posted two of Soggy Jobs' three openings on Facebook. Each time I was prompted to select the genders of the people who would see the ad. While I selected "Both" I expect that it's very very common for hiring managers to select only "Men". While sex discrimination is unlawful, it's not in many o...
[21:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:18] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, I'm sure the billionaire cynically selling out hundreds of millions of people is very concerned about your personal correspondence politely denouncing that behavior.
[21:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:20] <exec> 08└─That's been a theory for many years. I don't have an account but my info would be available when they purchase bulk credit records or pull in public records. As they're matching the data to existing accounts they can create shadow accounts for those without matches. Another example would be collecti...
[21:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:22] <exec> 08└─It has long been speculated upon, and known informally, that facebook has shadow tracking. But when they do this on everything/everybody, without regard to explicit consent, then they are performing a surveillance operation. That is a very bad thing to do. Especially with the new GDPR rules, which r...
[21:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:35] <exec> 08└─GP is referring to the pedo/mysogenist who posts here, all too frequently. The *agonist of those stories caused agony for Opportunity.
[21:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:36] <exec> 08└─Nope, they did find what was a really good opportunity a few weeks ago, before the storm. Now, since they are vested in, they are trying to figure out what's left of their investment.
[21:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:38] <exec> 08└─Thank you A/C. I thought for a moment "Is that the best they can do?" Then remembered it's actually on another planet, so I should cut them some slack.
[21:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:40] <exec> 08└─A Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator in every home and office.
[21:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:43] <exec> 08└─SPACE FORCE!
[21:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:45] <exec> 08└─The prolonged dust storm also meant that the rover might not be able to keep its heaters running, which protect its batteries from the extreme cold of the Martian atmosphere.
[21:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:16] <exec> 08└─-rity that the NSA really does have a completely unclassified division. That division's work is detailed by James Bamford in "The Puzzle Palace".
[21:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:17] <exec> 08└─If you're going to post that sort of flamebait nonsense, the least you could do is log on.
[21:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't most Internet bandwidth now paid streaming video? And number two is ad supported streaming video like YouTube. Traditional "Internet" is basically a free rider tagging along with Netflx and Hulu.
[21:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the arsehole A/C above is one of those "conservatives" who are more than happy to burn the world down, as long as he's making "Libtards" unhappy. It's always A/C too. Nobody actually wants to be identified with that sort of pointless posturing.
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:31] <exec> 08└─Ad blindness has always been and will always be. Trying to break through it may be short term effective, but long term self defeating. Advertisers will utterly fail to recognize any patterns here. People adapt and learn to not look at ads they are not interested in. If the ads become too offensive o...
[21:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a New Standalone VR Headset: Oculus Quest; HTC Releases Vive Wireless Adapter - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:24] <exec> 08└─commodity
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[22:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:14] <exec> 08└─But surgery is more profitable. Docs like money like the rest of us.
[22:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:16] <exec> 08└─Oops, my bad! --Hippocrates
[22:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:18] <exec> 08└─Take it from someone who's had two surgeries: To wake up in a recovery room feels just like Hannibal Lecter made supper out of one of your internal organs, with a side of Fava Beans and a nice Chianti.
[22:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:20] <exec> 08└─I suspect that antibiotics would work if the infection is caught early enough, but if an infection reaches the stage where the appendix is about to burst I doubt there is time for a course of antibiotics to take effect. If they can eliminate a lot of unnecessary surgeries however, the results of the...
[22:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:36] <exec> 08└─There's a good reason to send your congresscritters snail mail as opposed to phone calls or emails: They can divide their correspondence into piles, one for each pending legislation as well as for Yea/Nay. Then they can weight them. I mean like on a scale.
[22:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:38] <exec> 08└─This means that the junk email address that you hand over for discounts or for shady online shopping is likely associated with your account and being used to target you with ads.
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears; Still No Word from Her Though - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─Now that Mars was "closer to Earth", but alas "it had a dust storm covering the whole planet", I had the opportunity to scrutinize that light on the sky with a modest yet efficient collection of optical instruments. It is a light on the sky. Anyone claiming otherwise, like NASA (that is granted more...
[22:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:31] <exec> 08└─you know, that might be a plausible explanation for the state of the country these days the working class must unite and challenge control of intelligence!
[22:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:33] <exec> 08└─Butbutbut then you might DOX HIM!!!!111one! At least, that seemed to be the concern last time *I* asked one of these anonymous jerkoffs to find his or her gonads and put a username behind their bullshit...
[22:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:46] <exec> 08└─Does it matter? Internet radio is such a low bandwidth requirement that even if all my neighbours listened to it every day, or not at all, it would be the difference of a couple of megabits/s, not enough to subsidise broadband massively. I am pretty sure that within the ISPs corporate structure, ove...
[22:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:48] <exec> 08└─There are no limits on how far they will go when unchecked. I truly believe that when the technology is available, advertisers will try to put ads on the inside of everyone's eyelids. You may smirk, and not believe it. But it will happen.
[22:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─Depends, is that read as "end head" or "stop head"?
[22:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:09] <exec> 08└─That issue ended over 10 years ago.
[22:47:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 1074 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:36] <exec> 08└─We're not in a period of economic growth in any real sense. I'm not sure why people think we are. The government dumped a ton of money into the stock market by giving all those corporations tax breaks that they primarily used to buy their own stock. The people actually doing the work who normally wo...
[22:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:58] <exec> 08└─Not to suggest the grandparent is correct in any way, shape, or form, but because all working people deserve a living wage
[22:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, c'mon - even carrottop's crew managed to "downsize government" by passing a "remove 2 for every 1 you create" law, and, of course it has some knucklehead results in some areas, but with refinements in metrics and administration it is improving to a semi-workable reduction of government regulatio...
[22:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:02] <exec> 08└─Someone on UBI doesn't have to be "unemployed". They could consider themselves freed to work on the projects that are actually important to them: caring for an ailing loved one, improving public gardens, etc.
[22:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:04] <exec> 08└─The problem with basic income is the sociological problem of creating an intergenerational class of hopelessness, and psychological problems associated with long term unemployment.
[22:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, I can't WAIT to see how they spin this shit. I sincerely hope both of them end up losing everything due to medical bills and getting stuck working min. wage for the rest of their lives. They'll change their tune real quick, because like all sociopaths, they ONLY learn through personal pain. No r...
[22:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:08] <exec> 08└─Ohh a specific example of shitty small businesses. Maybe 20 years ago my wife and I hired a wedding photographer. Right now the only way you can be a wedding photographer is if you have your shit together enough to get some cash flow. She (the photographer) was an insane marijuana addict and it was...
[22:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:11] <exec> 08└─Runaway! By God, you're *making sense!* Either the doctors finally found the right medicine, or someone hooked you up with some goooooood shit. In either case, please continue.
[22:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:46] <exec> 08└─So do you also feel free to insert your opinion into the pay of the guy making your burger? Your UPS driver? Your car mechanic? What do you do for work? Maybe I should review how you are paid.
[22:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:07] <exec> 08└─Once men are extinct, who will pay the bills?
[22:50:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:27] <exec> 08└─I have this hunch some politicians will feel offended in being called Green after being Reps/Dems all their life.
[22:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron-Sized Calcium Silicate Spheres Can be Used to Make Stronger Concrete - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:29] <exec> 08└─The issue with modern concrete is the rebar added to work in tension. Some formulas of concrete last a lot, in compression. We have Roman things that use concrete and they are rather fine after 2000 years give or take. Reinforced concrete is the one failing in decades. So find designs that only use...
[22:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company ispace Plans Two Missions to the Moon - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:48] <exec> 08└─.. if they produce any better CGI this time, because frankly the CGI from Japan's "space missions" so far are pretty terrible.
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[23:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:16] <exec> 08└─Who cares how they died? Cook the shit out of them and serve them for dinner.
[23:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:17] <exec> 08└─The things are $0.49/pound if you buy them whole, a buck or three a pound for the good parts if you let someone else hack them up. I'm guessing $0.50 per chicken if you need a "trained professional" to chase it down (inside it's dinky cage) and deliver the vaccination. In the Carolinas it was cheape...
[23:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:31] <exec> 08└─I'm a Soylentitled Boomer and I say let the poor die of appendicitis. Fewer poor people in the world means more money for me. And I mean all money in the world belongs to me. I'm sick of letting poor people have any of it.
[23:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:49] <exec> 08└─Really? I came across this "news" on another site, and decided not to submit it t SN, because I figured at least Soylentils wouldn't consider this newsworthy. But in case people didn't know yet: Yes, Facebook collects and keeps as much information about everybody on the planet as possible (this is n...
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[23:48:11] <exec> 08└─thgf
[23:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:13] <exec> 08└─The real reason inflation is necessary is to mask the continuing accumulation of wealth into a smaller and smaller group. The 1% rhetoric is just another diversion, being in the top 1% is not that exceptional. The actual group is more like 0.000001%
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