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[00:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:39] <exec> 08└─Erdoğan: toxic materials and evidence of repainting found in Saudi consulate [theguardian.com] Some areas have been repainted at the Saudi consulate where missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was last seen alive, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said, as investigators prepared...
[00:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:41] <exec> 08└─They hack off people's heads For Piddling Reasons (FPR). They torture people FPR. They lock people up in horrendous conditions FPR. You really don't want to be female there. Now, they're suckering innocent people who don't think like they do into innocuous surroundings (an embassy) for innocuous rea...
[00:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:43] <exec> 08└─They "accidentally" killed somebody during torture and then accidentally sliced the body into many bits and accidentally had all the expertise and equipment needed to ship it out and hide it without anybody noticing.
[00:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:45] <exec> 08└─We didn't tell the Middle-East Land Thief nation starting with "I" to FOAD, so why would we tell SA to FOAD?
[00:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:58] <exec> 08└─...the more they stay the same. We had IRC, and IRC was good, and it worked. And IRC continues to be good and continues to work. But now we are forced to use Slack because it's 'app' looks better...
[00:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:00] <exec> 08└─As above.
[00:44:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:17] <exec> 08└─Closer to home for me, this also happened to a company called Dick Smith Electronics. Sold to an awful "investment company" who ran it into the ground, then screwed over the creditors. The fashion in which wealthy interests get legislation enacted for their own benefit is amazing. The Glass-Steaga...
[00:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but they are probably going to take Sears value on paper at the beginning of the year and deduct all of that as a Capital Loss. Wham bam, thank you ma'am, what little taxes they would have paid have now magically disappeared.
[00:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:30] <exec> 08└─It's good to see that the art of classic trolling has not completely vanished. This sort of post is much more fun than all the virtual poo-flinging that we see so much today.
[00:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:32] <exec> 08└─Even as the future is always in motion, 3rd Impact yet approaches. Just a little more until the Queen of Heaven's project is complete.
[00:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:34] <exec> 08└─Is it coincidence that Sears was at its most profitable when there were just male men and female women? In fact, isn't that when America was at its greatest?
[00:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:37] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. There are still just male men and female women.... *watches the goal posts of what constitutes female begin to zoom off into the horizon!*
[00:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:39] <exec> 08└─... Sears is a prime example of how hedge funds and private-equity companies take over retailers, encumber them with debt in order to pay themselves massive windfall profits, and then leave the retailer without adequate operating capital to compete.
[00:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─Do they use Emacs or Vi to do the editing?
[00:45:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:06] <exec> 08└─Most comets are difficult to capture with a camera; for instance, when I acquired this image [flickr.com], it took a stack of 107 frames to drag out the detail of both the dust and ion tails. It reached magnitude two, but I wasn't able to catch it when it was that bright because of cloud cover here....
[00:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:11] <exec> 08└─Are there any students of ancient Assyrian astrology to interpret this for us?
[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:35] <exec> 08└─Probably the Feds have seized the actual site, and are now running it themselves as a honey pot. How else can they make it so easy to round up some pedos whenever they need some good coverage in the press?
[00:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─thanks, hadn't heard of that one.
[00:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:39] <exec> 08└─Ah so exactly what Entropy said it was. Made up. But at least his opponent didn't talk about superpreditors. Or were you making a point?
[00:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:14] <exec> 08└─IDK WTF they put in the Politico Space newsletter, but I have enjoyed reading Ars Technica's Rocket Report [arstechnica.com], which rounds up a lot of overlooked industry news items (there is definitely a smallsat launcher bubble going on right now).
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[01:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:00] <exec> 08└─Massively higher IQ Finns are the exact same species as nomadic Africans and aliens visiting the planet would scientifically conclude the same. Galapagos finches have slightly different beaks, though, so they're completely different species. Science deniers like those against climate change are so i...
[01:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:01] <exec> 08└─The true struggle is not between the oppressed and the oppressor; rather it is between these 2 groups: The capitalists, who want to build.The socialists, who want to dissipate. Here is the alternative to Hawking's feared self-improvement:         HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [tnel...
[01:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:14] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia is acting like the US and UK. That cannot be allowed. They can't just go into some foreign country, and liquidate some person they don't like! Next, they'll be flying drones over Washington!
[01:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:15] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is Orange Anus. First he effusively declares his love and admiration of Kimmie (after shit talking him), same for Putin (his boss), and now Saudi royalty. Anybody that is in the position to have claims laid against them, Orange Anus defends. Loves to talk about himself as the...
[01:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:18] <exec> 08└─Wait, we trust Erdogan now?
[01:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:20] <exec> 08└─When was the last time the US or UK carried out an assassination this brazen on foreign soil? (Drone strikes don't count!) The Bin Laden raid comes to mind. But Bin Laden wasn't a Washington Post columnist, and was in hiding.
[01:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:22] <exec> 08└─Part of the defense, the "rogue killers" angle, seems to have been uttered after he talked to the Saudis. But throughout this debacle, President Trump has emphasized the importance of the $100 billion arms deal. So here's how it will go. Saudi Arabia will lay out their defense. "Yeah, we wanted to t...
[01:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:24] <exec> 08└─The principal Middle-East Land Thief nation is GB. If it weren't for their NHS I would tell them to FOAD!
[01:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:26] <exec> 08└─MBS has made enemies with his religious and social reforms while Turkey, Iran, Syria and Russia potentially benefit from backlash over this killing. Think [intellihub.com] bigger [extranewsfeed.com]
[01:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:29] <exec> 08└─Not seeing anyone else luring innocent people into a safe space for paperwork, then those selfsame people leave feet first, in pieces, not under their own power.
[01:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:31] <exec> 08└─What? Are they testing world reaction first and if not as expected admit something else? Is this AB testing of news headlines?
[01:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:33] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere that Turkish authorities found a bone saw in the luggage of one of the Saudis I figure they were planning to sneak the journalist out in some diplomatic pouches "Pouches" plur
[01:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:35] <exec> 08└─Good to know it meets with your approval. I guess since Khashoggi wasn't right-wing or anti-left enough for your tastes so he's dispensable. Stay classy.
[01:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:38] <exec> 08└─Drone strikes don't count? Why not? Those are pretty damned brazen. Since you seem to unaware of crimes committed by the US and/or US operatives, you might start with the wiki page on black ops. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Then you might recall the Blackwater mercen...
[01:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:40] <exec> 08└─Not for the reasons you would expect Low oil prices in 2015 led to the shutdown of lots of wells as well as the cancellation of plane to drill new ones That led to decreased heavy equipment sales, with layoffs as well as decreased sales by parts suppliers That equipment is made mostly in states that...
[01:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:42] <exec> 08└─The Cheeto in Charge has one thing right: If we don't sell the weapons to SA then someone else will. Are our weapon systems better than the competition? How well do they work in actual combat? 3 ways to find out: 1) test test test. Expensive, and tests can be rigged (see also: F-35) (see also: Hurr...
[01:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:44] <exec> 08└─Saudis preparing to admit Jamal Khashoggi died during interrogation, sources say [cnn.com] Saudi government considering plan to admit that writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in consulate [nbcnews.com] Saudis to admit journalist was killed, assert death a result of botched interrogation, according to...
[01:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:46] <exec> 08└─The two words to keep in mind regarding this are "bone saw". The 15 Saudi nationals who arrived in Turkey on private jets - in the middle of the night - didn't bring much with them, but they reportedly brought a bone saw with them. I don't know about you, but I don't usually bring my bone saw with m...
[01:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:49] <exec> 08└─Why don't drone strikes count? Is it because a drone can kill lots of people at a wedding? Hey, whats 63 deaths between friends? [wikipedia.org] I mean, sometimes the bride cops it. Along with 46 of her friends and family. [wikipedia.org] Here's another wedding hit by drones. [aljazeera.com] Going t...
[01:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:51] <exec> 08└─You get to pick which honorable and trustworthy ally to believe. ✈️🏢🏢
[01:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:54] <exec> 08└─All too commonly our combatants are wedding guests
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─I remember a little farther back when we left messages for each other, via phone lines, using ancient devices called modems, on even more ancient platforms called BBS. You knew were someplace fucking hot if it actually had the ability to talk to other people logged into the same BBS at the same time...
[01:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:11] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: For most of its history, Slack used IRC as the backend protocol. They slowly extended it more and more with kludges for different features. They didn't fully transition from it in a way that broke backward compatibility until 2017.
[01:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:13] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the acoustic coupler, UUCP, bang paths, and waiting days for your messages to arrive.
[01:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:45] <exec> 08└─Apparently, people have forgotten how Sears started out. Sears Roebuck mail order. They didn't have a lot of brick and mortar to maintain, back in the old days. Sears wasn't found in every town in America when I was a kid. They had some warehouses, and a few stores in large cities, and they had the...
[01:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:46] <exec> 08└─I suspect the international working class have largely been sucked in by the ruling class to believe that they're better off with things the way they are. It's a shame, but the ruling class own the most efficient propaganda machine the world has ever known, and they're happy to use it.
[01:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we need a +1 Troll mod.
[01:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:50] <exec> 08└─The only reason it doesn't happen is because they've bribed the legislature and executive branches to look the other way. Why shouldn't they look the other way? The voters will reelect them anyway. That's all that matters. It's quite simple, this will continue as long as we let it. Your elected offi...
[01:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:05] <exec> 08└─...infinite number of gender specific toilets.
[01:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:07] <exec> 08└─They don't hire, they just manufacture their own employees.
[01:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:09] <exec> 08└─Whenever you build idiot-proof software, bigger idiots come along to ruin it. (Paraphrased Rick Cook quote)
[01:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ganymede Was Shaped by Past Tectonic Activity - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:37] <exec> 08└─Yet another mission to Jupiter? I mean, sure, it's cool to look over the Galilean moons in greater detail than ever before. But why are orbiters to Uranus and Neptune not getting higher priority?
[01:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:32] <exec> 08└─My first experience with a computer, was in sixth grade, on a field trip to Pittsburgh. All us little kids were allowed into a room, with glass windows and a view into the room that housed a huge-ass computer. Windows further along the room had a view into another, larger room, where keypunch operat...
[01:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Serialized Fiction Review: DeathWorlders - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:41] <exec> 08└─Update: 8 chapters deep in the main line and 14 deep in the Salvage story line and I'm loving it, to be honest. Great recommendation so far.
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[02:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:54] <exec> 08└─The word is eugenics. It has been around for quite a long while now. Margaret Sanger and Adolph Hitler were fans of eugenics, not to mention, fans of each other. The entire western world, if not the entire world, took a dim view of eugenics after Hitler's perverse actions against the Jews, the insan...
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[02:43:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks for posting that Vonnegut story. Vonnegut's prescience is all the more striking in light of the climate of politically correct garbage-think that is so pervasive these days. Jordan Peterson has railed against forced "quality" for a while now, and his arguments are well-reasoned and quite soli...
[02:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:57] <exec> 08└─"The word is eugenics." - God damn, you are one stupid and simple-minded motherfucker. Genetic modification does not equate to eugenics. Tell me, does your knee hurt from all the knee-jerking you subject yourself to, son ?
[02:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:00] <exec> 08└─Genetic modification does not equate to eugenics.
[02:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 6491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:02] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect example of why expertise in one field, in his case Astrophysics, does not translate to expertise in another field, specifically biology and genetics. I'm going to sound like a troll, I'm going to sound racist. I am neither. So before anyone gets triggered, consider this from a pure...
[02:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:34] <exec> 08└─scroll up a wee bit, see my response to takyon
[02:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:35] <exec> 08└─A drone strike isn't on the foreign soil, duh!
[02:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:38] <exec> 08└─You don't want to buy a cheap bone saw at the local hardware store. You need the best to greet your guest. On a serious note, that info should be considered a rumor, like a lot of what we "know" about this event. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Flex Tape! The super strong waterpr...
[02:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:40] <exec> 08└─Yes. Exactly that. It all happened before anyone really knew it was even happening. It happens all the time. You know. Just like people often commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head twice. That sort of thing. What part of this horrible accident do you disagree with citizen? Are...
[02:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:42] <exec> 08└─Understood. IMHO, when a drone kills a possible terrorist it creates 2-3 more. Kinda like the reaction Oppenheimer et al created some 80 years ago but with people, not atoms. I don't understand drone strikes. From what I hear for every terrorist we kill we also kill 2-3 innocent civilians. That's no...
[02:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:44] <exec> 08└─We probably wouldn't object if you targeted that Beiber kid. Sacrificing 20 random Americans would be relatively easy in that case.
[02:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:46] <exec> 08└─You're losing it, or at least you've failed to communicate anything meaningful with that post. Are you suggesting that the US only launches drone strikes on it's own soil? In that respect, the SA incident has more "morality" than our drone strikes, because the murder took place within an SA embassy....
[02:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:03] <exec> 08└─You speak of the Second Age of the Internet, when the geeks of Númenor were still in charge. Then came Eternal September and the Third Age when the twits in Mordor gained power. Ash kraun *dramatic thunderclap and darkness descends as the vile tongue of Zuckerfuck is spoken* durbatulûk, ash kraun...
[02:45:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 377 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─It's worked out pretty well for ol' Eddie. He sold all the Sears assets he could, now that there's nothing but a husk left he's shutting it down. Who did he sell the assets to? As much as he could, other companies he either owned or controlled. This guy basically found a sick company, harvested the...
[02:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:39] <exec> 08└─I don't think it matters who or what was running the company. My family and / went thee often as a kid, but I haven't been there in maybe thirty years.
[02:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:40] <exec> 08└─Last time I was in sears, it was to buy a car battery charger and when I finally found someone to ask where they were, he said it was 5:55 and he was going home.
[02:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:43] <exec> 08└─Our local Sears is closing in mid-December, this was announced a couple of weeks ago. We generally had good luck there, finding knowledgeable sales people and competitive prices with Home Depot, Lowes and other "big box" stores nearby. Earlier this year I even had a dehumidifier repaired by Sears un...
[02:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:45] <exec> 08└─Not just a recession Historically low interest rates led many companies to take on enormous debt. As the Fed raises interest rates many of these companies are or will be defaulting The fed will raise rates as average income goes up but that rising average is dominated by workers who are already well...
[02:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:40] <exec> 08└─Abso fucking lutely. If Microsoft want to push Bing on everyone and their children via Windows 10 and it's in this state, what's the difference to setting, say, pornhub.com as the default search engine?
[02:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:42] <exec> 08└─Don't tell me you wouldn't change your flight plan if, for example, the suggestions to "public who...is" was to list a certain type of exhibitionism fetish.
[02:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─Altavista. Misty moons ago, it strode the internet like a messiah.
[02:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:46] <exec> 08└─Eh, I'm also a DDG and alternate-browser user (Falkon, since there's no working Iridium PKGBUILD in the aur yet...). Correct is correct, regardless of the opinions of the people being correct. That's the difference between fact and opinion.
[02:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:48] <exec> 08└─Other people have already pointed out your factual error regarding the US definition, so I'll just focus on your non-argument as to why the law, whatever it says, is justified. Let me start by presenting an analogous argument: #MeToo I was only twelve. I was screaming bloody murder. I am quite certa...
[02:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:17] <exec> 08└─I thought the whole point of a dj was the human reading the crowd and picking appropriate tunes. How do you get gigs as a bot?
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[03:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:50] <exec> 08└─They measured a drop in populations; how they linked that to climate change I'll never understand. Perhaps a 2C temperature rise killed 98.4% of all the local arthropods - or perhaps Marijuana grow operations hidden in the rainforest have matured and started using more aggressive pesticides. Perhaps...
[03:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:07] <exec> 08└─Eugenics is now a swear-word. Really it just means directed evolution. Select good traits, eliminate bad ones, we practice it all the time on farm animals. Doing it at the level of genes* rather than individuals simply speeds up the process and is morally better, as it reduces the pain/suffering/was...
[03:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 4667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:09] <exec> 08└─Black Holes have no hair, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Yet the paper posits that they might actually have hair, as a way of escaping the information paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] We already know that blackholes...
[03:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mainframe Bloke [1665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:11] <exec> 08└─May I recommend the current series of Boyer Lectures? They are on the very subject of genetics. The first of the four is on the topic of eugenics, and it's quite a bit more than just that espoused by Hitler et al. I wouldn't necessarily say it's "alive and well" but of course it depends on what is m...
[03:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:53] <exec> 08└─I, shit. I'm not sure what to say about that. Except it would be a good thing for humanity in general, long as anyone I cared about wasn't in the blast radius. And as I, and everyone I care about actually tries to make society better, mostly out of staying as far away as possible to the Biebers of t...
[03:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:54] <exec> 08└─At least they knocked off one of their own citizens. On the other hand... we... well... anyone we don't like is fair game apparently.
[03:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:56] <exec> 08└─I find it amazing that the Saudis are even bothering with a cover story, given how bad that cover story still sounds... "I mean sure, we planned to sneak in a bunch of murderous thugs onto foreign soil, kidnap, extradite, torture and probably kill a guy because he says bad things about us, but that...
[03:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:58] <exec> 08└─I don't know about you, but I didn't need more reason to avoid kebabs in Instambul.
[03:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:00] <exec> 08└─Iraq? Iran? Israel? Which? There's more than one.
[03:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:03] <exec> 08└─Letting audio of a killing get out, let alone doing it in your consulate instead of a back alley? (Khashoggi) Leaving nerve gas remnants where some bystander can find them? (Skripal. who didn't die but a random lady did.) Is it just me, or are these spooks getting pretty incompetent at murdering the...
[03:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:05] <exec> 08└─I thought he was Canadian.
[03:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:06] <exec> 08└─The decline began in the 80s. My attempts to buy things at Sears got more and more frustrating and I'd given up on them already by the time Lampert came on the scene.
[03:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:08] <exec> 08└─Hmm, +1 troll would help decide on which side of Poe's law a post falls. Might be amusing watching a truly ambiguous post go up and down and up and down with just troll mods. Though of course currently only the initial troll mod is necessary. Then a series of underrated mods can provide the elusive...
[03:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:10] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure it's more a case of: You know that money we owe you... yeah... about that.... *smoke bomb*...
[03:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 1565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:12] <exec> 08└─It was not, vultures do not kill, they wait for a walking corpse to swoop in. Sears was just not with the times. Having started as a catalog company, I don't know why they didn't embrace e-commerce... but there you have it. Department store model is a fucking dinosaur. The economy of scale is not th...
[03:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Figure in student debt too once shit hits the fan. It's looking really fucking bad. The talking heads over on MarketWatch seem to be predicting late 2019 or 2020 for when this house of cards collapses. On the bright side, something like that might be the event that sparks the kind of political...
[03:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:34] <exec> 08└─So the Data Science MEME is drying up? You need to push new fucking fantasy jobs in order to fill Universities with useful idiots...
[03:47:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:28] <exec> 08└─That puts it under the purview of the government, who has a responsibility to ensure that extremist voices do not overcome the bulk of society.
[03:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:19] <exec> 08└─Parallel: if these hentai-etc. cartoons are kiddie porn, why aren't violent video games murder?? Discuss.
[03:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:10] <exec> 08└─Why can't this be pirated? I've tried to think of limitations, and I can't think of any really. Even in live versions of it, simply because the feed could be hijacked and multiplexed from somewhere. All you end up being though is a participant with a "broken remote".
[03:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:25] <exec> 08└─Windows tries to keep some ram available so it's there if you need it. It will swap out that 1 GB to free up 1 GB of RAM even if there's still enough ram, so if you suddenly decide to launch Photoshop it has the ram available to do it. Linux is a bit more lax on that, which means that when you try t...
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[04:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:12] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they have investigated the effects of long term pesticide use? They couldn't rely on any data from the manufactures. Its not like they would tell the truth.
[04:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:14] <exec> 08└─In the past decade, has anybody published research that didn't mention climate change? Maybe there is a paper on gravity waves that somehow forgot to relate them to climate change? It has gotten absurd. I have my suspicions. It could be that, correctly or not, the researchers think that this will ge...
[04:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:34] <exec> 08└─you mean "capitalist want others to build for them whilst not paying what the builders work is worth"? very few capitalist want to build for IMPROVEMENT. rather it is for profit and for growth ... not sustainabilty. ofc the following debate on what IS sustainable and its non-decidability, is a corne...
[04:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:35] <exec> 08└─it seems one of these blackhole hairs extended towards earth last week and had a brush with wall street...
[04:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:37] <exec> 08└─The hyper-conservatives don't realize they're pushing for this future. Every time you give tax breaks to the rich, oppose minimum wage laws, loosen corporate regulations, you're giving the type of people who will *use this to enslave us* a bit more power and bringing them closer. I'll be honest. I h...
[04:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:39] <exec> 08└─"Troll"? Repost! --------- The true struggle is not between the oppressed and the oppressor; rather it is between these 2 groups: The capitalists, who want to build.The socialists, who want to dissipate. Here is the alternative to Hawking's feared self-improvement:         HARRISON BERGERON...
[04:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:26] <exec> 08└─Let the Saudis turn off the oil spigots. It would be about the stupidest thing they could do. You know who would make out like bandits? The United States (among others). North Dakota, whose economy has already been juiced by the Bakken Formation, would go totally bananas with the windfall. Second, i...
[04:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:27] <exec> 08└─You know. Just like people often commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head twice.
[04:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:29] <exec> 08└─would be cool to have some (direct) hyperlinks to the stuff this journalist wrote so we all can get a clue as to what letter combinations might invoke the "bone saw" curse. also, i do hope they have recouperated all that investment in concret towers and artificial sand hills in the ocean before turn...
[04:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:31] <exec> 08└─Not exactly the same thing, but it seems he wasn't so much a 'critic' of the regime as has been reported. A more nuanced story begins to emerge: https://consortiumnews.com
[04:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:41] <exec> 08└─They could as a voyeur, but the idea is that those who are there legitimately collectively decide which path to follow. At the time I proposed the idea Lost was a popular show, and one of the things that the fans did was to minutely analyze all the scenes to find hints. So if there was a decal on a...
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[05:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:27] <exec> 08└─I remember the old Palm fondly so I took a look. Truly horrifying. A touch-screen about the size of my thumbs. It's like they think the point to UI design is to make it as frustrating to actually use the thing as possible. I suppose usability interferes with esthetics, right Jobs fans?
[05:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:38] <exec> 08└─Or maybe it was Trump that killed all of them bugs?
[05:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:39] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they have investigated the effects of long term pesticide use?
[05:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:02] <exec> 08└─You have to test it in the real world; you have to grow your solution through evolution by variation and selection. That's the only way, and that's why socialism will NEVER work: Central Planning is inherently impossible.
[05:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:03] <exec> 08└─Really it just means directed evolution. Select good traits, eliminate bad ones, we practice it all the time on farm animals
[05:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:05] <exec> 08└─Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. Yesterday's rose endures in its name; we hold empty names. See here [umbertoeco.com]
[05:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:07] <exec> 08└─I want to survive, I want my genome to improve and propagate until the last star burns out in the sky so sign me up!
[05:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:09] <exec> 08└─Yet if you were an observer watching things happen and could somehow see the things falling in, then you would have memory of those events, the information isn't truly lost because it is encoded in the memory of the observer.
[05:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:01] <exec> 08└─And on top of that, they wait for the emergency rescue people, and then hit them too.
[05:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:02] <exec> 08└─There's only one that we haven't told to F off at some point or another however.
[05:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:05] <exec> 08└─I been wondering if spies/wet operations have really become that stupid or if there is another explanation. Too many clues left, too casually. Perhaps false flag operations?
[05:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:30] <exec> 08└─Jobs is dead. No amount of gene editing will bring him back. Get over it.
[05:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:19] <exec> 08└─What about if you search for restaurants in that part of town and most of the results are strip clubs that also serve food? At least that is the impression of the results that Bing is returning.
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[06:44:06] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer that form factor to the iPhone XS Max (such a crap name...). It's virtually impossible to use that thing with one hand, and it's hard to fit into pockets. This new Palm would be great for people with tiny hands [insert Trump joke here].
[06:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:07] <exec> 08└─The real fuckin' shame here is the use of Android rather than WebOS, which was, without a doubt, the best OS for devices of that size.
[06:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:09] <exec> 08└─Does the new Palm have it? If not, who does? The original BeOS could be installed in 8 MB and ran _really_ well in 32. Haiku needs several times that much.
[06:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:50] <exec> 08└─I'm going to sound like a troll, I'm going to sound racist. I am neither.
[06:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:51] <exec> 08└─"Troll"? Repost! --------- The true struggle is not between the oppressed and the oppressor; rather it is between these 2 groups: The capitalists, who want to build.The socialists, who want to dissipate. Here is the alternative to Hawking's feared self-improvement:         HARRISON BERGERON...
[06:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:54] <exec> 08└─"I See Pitchforks" [warplife.com]. That I stated that Hitler was "a gifted writer" is due to my only having read his introduction to "Mein Kampf". Those that have read the whole book pointed out to me that Hitler's writing quality proceeds steeply downhill from there.
[06:45:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 1950 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:19] <exec> 08└─Drone strikes don't count? Why not? Those are pretty damned brazen. Since you seem to unaware of crimes committed by the US and/or US operatives, you might start with the wiki page on black ops. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Then you might recall the Blackwater mercen...
[06:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:48] <exec> 08└─They're good friends with the President.
[06:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:50] <exec> 08└─We shipped him down there.
[06:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:52] <exec> 08└─...anyone we don't like is fair game* apparently.
[06:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:54] <exec> 08└─Turkey's been put in an uncomfortable position. In order to prove the murder, they have to out the extent of their active surveillance - and then they'll lose it to countermeasures. That's hard for a spook, an action not lightly taken. I mean, it's not hard to imagine the usual spookland punishment...
[06:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:57] <exec> 08└─"Minshara Class Planet" Earthlike.
[06:48:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:19] <exec> 08└─Microsoft can’t just turn a platform loose on the world and ignore it. Companies like Microsoft and Google have a responsibility to moderate their platforms and keep the horror at bay.
[06:48:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:49] <exec> 08└─There's also the other possibility -- the companies will take over the government (they are already exerting a great deal of influence in various direct and indirect ways).
[06:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:04] <exec> 08└─I read it on the Internet so it must be true. The folks who hang out on The Dark Net warn the newbies that half of all CP sites are operated by the FBI. While I can understand why the Feds prioritize hidden services they really could make a bigger difference far quicker if they would take out the cl...
[06:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:05] <exec> 08└─The weariness comes and goes. When it comes I'm totally useless. Likely I'll go nap for a little while. But I do want to explain that I had what at the time a good reason not to report my abuser. I feel now that was a very good reason. The man is dead now, but I still won't post his name in public....
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[07:43:52] <exec> 08└─It's a little smaller than the original iPhone and iPod Touch, which were 3.5". But this thing has 8 times the cores, over 3 times the clock speed, and 24 times the DRAM of the original iPhone. This is a more unique and interesting direction than the opposite end of the spectrum [tomsguide.com], whe...
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[07:43:54] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. Later dumbphones can get you your emails and a good calendar app. If you need no more than that and want a small form factor that's good. You'll want android for the one or two apps you can't let go of a smartphone for.
[07:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:39] <exec> 08└─Censorship? Repost! --------- The true struggle is not between the oppressed and the oppressor; rather it is between these 2 groups: The capitalists, who want to build.The socialists, who want to dissipate. Here is the alternative to Hawking's feared self-improvement:         HARRISON BERGER...
[07:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:41] <exec> 08└─you can have gene editing without eugenics. my understanding is that eugenics refers to "select for breeding only those with desirable properties". gene editing could simply mean "some people get to select the desirable offspring (i.e. choose the best egg-sperm combination)". my interpretation of th...
[07:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:43] <exec> 08└─You had a nice start, but > I say make a certain level of editing, mandatory for poor and rich alike. And which traits are gonna be undesirable to the party in power? Think a little bit about it.
[07:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:44] <exec> 08└─More like chaos theory of "intelligence(tm)" work... Do whatever you want, but do all the associated stuff so badly no one will believe the truth, and if enough "others" stand to benefit, fingers will be pointed everywhere Which pretty much seems to be what is happening here. I also suspect the inte...
[07:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:03] <exec> 08└─The complaint isn't about the search results. It is about the suggested searches that come up. Popping up "Did you mean to search for Cheese Pizza?" is a bit different to just listing all the Pizza in the area.
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[08:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0635 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:23] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the statement that people will treat you differently. Who cares? If someone cares, then they are a buster. I don't care if you voted for Hillary or Trump. Obviously some maniacs do.
[08:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0635 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:25] <exec> 08└─Hilary or Trump, as if there are only two options.
[08:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:47] <exec> 08└─i want one of those tiny zoolander phones
[08:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:48] <exec> 08└─BeOS was pimp. Like unix but no file permissions. Weird OS.
[08:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:38] <exec> 08└─Nope, because of the arms trade. USA $115 Billion. UK £1.1 Billion. So no, nothing will change.
[08:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:39] <exec> 08└─You are more missing the pedantic point that a drone is usually airborne when it strikes. Technically, it makes it not on a foreign soils, but in a foreign air-space. (grin)
[08:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:25] <exec> 08└─Can I safely assume that I needn't bother to look up in the sky to search for the comet, if I live in a big city, where it's been decades since I last saw any stars?
[08:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:41] <exec> 08└─There used to be a joke (a 'meme', one might call it in today's argot) about software evolving until it can send email. I think the current equivalent of that is that software evolves until it can send tweets or facebook updates. I wouldn't know, as I use the mpg123 command line utility to play musi...
[08:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:42] <exec> 08└─It can be trivially demonstrated a gui isn't necessary for a complete listening experience. Unnecessary additions is what this game is about. Their use of Complete Listening Experience is unquestionably different than yours.
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[09:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 0635 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:06] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the statement that people will treat you differently. Who cares? If someone cares, then they are a buster. I don't care if you voted for Hillary or Trump. Obviously some maniacs do.
[09:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0635 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:07] <exec> 08└─It seems to me the US is heavily polarised, to the point that extremists on both sides now openly profess that there needs to be another civil war to get rid of the "evil side" that is getting in the way of building their utopia.
[09:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 0635 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:09] <exec> 08└─The statement about "voting history" is most likely false. Probably they mean "registration" history (not from the US either).
[09:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:32] <exec> 08└─http://toastytech.com/guis/b5pe.html [toastytech.com] https://download.cnet.com [cnet.com]
[09:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:34] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how incredibly tiny cell phones were once chic according to various movies, TV shows, and books. Mainly because they were preceded by ugly, clunky bricks and there was no need for a large display. Over a decade later (e.g. from Zoolander in 2001 to 2011), we got the phablet phenomen...
[09:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:48] <exec> 08└─"There is a statistically significant correlation/difference/deviation from background, therefore my favorite hypothesis is true." That is what is passing for science these days. People need to wake up and kick out at least 99% of academia or start funding alternative systems before the scientific m...
[09:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:49] <exec> 08└─Its just a way to try to hijack the argument from consensus heuristic. Basically its argument from authority disguised as consensus. Same as the fake news all reading the same script: https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[09:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:51] <exec> 08└─I think it was the rising levels of arthropogenic CO2: https://www.co2meter.com [co2meter.com]
[09:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:54] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps it was "rogue insect killers"?? Who knows!! But unless you offer some proof, maybe you should realize that there was nothing else, including pesticide usage, that could have explained the drop. The drop of insect predators was also seen. So I don't know.... +2C temperature increase? Insec...
[09:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:56] <exec> 08└─+50% CO2 vs. +25ppm (+0.0025% for the illiterate) increase.... yeah, so like comparing "temperature of the Sun" vs. "electric blanket on low" to keep yourself warm.
[09:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:29] <exec> 08└─You have to test it in the real world; you have to grow your solution through evolution by variation and selection.
[09:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:31] <exec> 08└─When you turn off natural selection, your species becomes a living fossil in an ever changing world. Less and less adapted as the time goes on. Somewhere along the way, the costs of compensating for the, multiplying, inherent deficiencies will become unsupportable; and unadapted beings will go the n...
[09:45:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:48] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia is acting like the US and UK. That cannot be allowed. They can't just go into some foreign country, and liquidate some person they don't like! Next, they'll be flying drones over Washington!
[09:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't that bioterrorism?
[09:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:37] <exec> 08└─Khashoggi Jobs do not exist!
[09:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:58] <exec> 08└─I miss having the time for IRC. And I have seriously considered proposing that we have an IRC channel at work, since it's so much easier than e-mail or gitlab/github issues. I don't know if anyone would take me seriously though...
[09:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:49] <exec> 08└─Your post appears to be addressing something different than GP, but in any case... There is no law that requires that companies maximize shareholder value at any length necessary.
[09:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:03] <exec> 08└─In city centres back in the 70's and 80's, big company offices sometimes had their mainframes at ground floor visible through floor-to-ceiling windows from outside. They wanted to show the world that they were modern. I don't think even then that computers were "as big as a room", but they were in t...
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