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[00:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:41] <exec> 08└─It's Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen. China wants it to be the center of innovation. It is already produces 12% GDP, 37% of exports and 50% of international patent applications. 1.5 trillion economy is bigger than Australia's and is closing on NY Metropolitan Area. They will probably overtake NY next...
[00:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:42] <exec> 08└─Here is the proposal for one of the two artificial islands which connects the bridge to the tunnel [arup.com] Here is what was actually delivered. [hongkongfp.com] The construction at least is equal parts "progressive" as it is "assimilation"
[00:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:44] <exec> 08└─Macau is China's Las Vegas.
[00:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's a generational thing, but I always thought that Bill Nye never quite lived up to the superior Mr. Wizard. The impression I got was that Mr. Wizard had more scientific content, and more engagement from the kids and things you can do at home (rather than just telling the audience how things...
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[00:06:10] <exec> 08└─first it started with an advert of women cleaning house in bra and panties.
[00:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:12] <exec> 08└─But it has the potential to give you some ideas on techniques you never knew they exist and/or projects you could use. E.g. how to make wooden gears or how to use your table saw as a lathe to turn a round (spoiler: with great care)
[00:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:14] <exec> 08└─I've been showing my kids the 30 year-old French series "il etait une fois la vie" and "il etait une fois l'homme" (once upon a time ... Life and Humanity). The first one is a very detailed and quite accurate cartoon series about the human body (24 episodes of 25 minutes). The second one is about hi...
[00:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:50] <exec> 08└─From what I can read in the article, which seems to be a script to some dialogue rather than interpretation of the bill. What the aussie feds are trying to push for is if they already have a warrant, they can use the same warrant to compel the suspect to unlock their phone, rather than have to go th...
[00:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:52] <exec> 08└─Deadly creatures would suffice, no need of a special mention for c0lo.
[00:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rating Movies Based on Fear Pheromones in the Cinema - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:07] <exec> 08└─You can't say [etc.]
[00:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suspected Bombs Mailed to Prominent Democrats and CNN, Time Warner Center Evacuated - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─(cont) Building 7 went down faster than Colin Kaepernick goes down for our beautiful National Anthem. And we lost a lot of people that day. Almost 3,000 people dieing (RIP!!!). While thousands celebrated. And while Bush Jr. read about Goats. A book about Goats. You didn't have Donald J. Trump as you...
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suspected Bombs Mailed to Prominent Democrats and CNN, Time Warner Center Evacuated - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─Violence is seductive because it can seem like such an easy and fast solution to problems. Charge in and shoot the bad guys, rescue the damsels in distress, and live happily ever after. That's stock pulp fiction, and it's everywhere in our society. But of course the world is a much more complicated...
[00:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suspected Bombs Mailed to Prominent Democrats and CNN, Time Warner Center Evacuated - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─Like all previous manufactured outrages, this too will blow up in Dens faces. Thnx for the caravan, convincing normies the wall is required like nothing else.
[00:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suspected Bombs Mailed to Prominent Democrats and CNN, Time Warner Center Evacuated - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─You should know better by now than to try logic on idiots. It almost never works.
[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suspected Bombs Mailed to Prominent Democrats and CNN, Time Warner Center Evacuated - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:05] <exec> 08└─Interesting times. Interesting at least, in that this has a medium to high probability of being the truth. "conspiracy theory"? Actually, conspiracies happen all the time. Anyone paying attention to what the FBI and CIA admit to doing over the last 50 years will realize that it isn't even a stretch.
[00:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suspected Bombs Mailed to Prominent Democrats and CNN, Time Warner Center Evacuated - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:07] <exec> 08└─You think I trust our TLAs to tell us the truth? What site have you been hanging out on?
[00:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Hamill Says the Force Killed Luke - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:18] <exec> 08└─Well... at least they didn't say Rey's exceptional connection with the force was from virgin pregnancy that gave her a high count of midi-something-something... that would have been worse right? Right?! But yea I do agree the way it played out was anti-climactic. The lead in and build up with misdir...
[00:12:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] 02 - 06The Great Endumbening -- IQ Scores are Decreasing - 960 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:37] <exec> 08└─Anecdotal evidence suggests the effect is true. For instance, I had this conversation not once, not twice, but three times in the same semester with three different grad students at my university: student: Can you install this software package in the XXX lab? me: It's already installed and it's curr...
[00:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Confident in Soyuz, Ready for Crewed Launch in December - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:59] <exec> 08└─The SLS? Launch? Ahahaha! The only thing it's launching is its own budget, way past the stratosphere. (Okay, that's probably somewhat unfair, but not entirely imo)
[00:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:45] <exec> 08└─Not really... if you don't play, the other side will build their arsenal covertly and one day will make you their bitch. Sure there's no fallout.
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[01:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:20] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that's a statement similar to "NY is America's whorehouse" Anyway, just to make sure we see the scale, California's Bay Area GDP is about $550B, one third of China's Bay Area.
[01:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─That is quite a feat of engineering, and shows a continued commitment to uniting the 'whole' of China. Reminds me a little of the US drive to complete the RR connection from coast to coast and the national highway project. Grit and determination to achieve an expensive but vital engineering project....
[01:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:24] <exec> 08└─They left out the Wind Turbines -- smart! And, unfortunately, made it look a lot less like Vagina. Still looks like Vagina. But, not as much!
[01:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, well, artist's conceptions are often unrealistic. I've seen artist's conceptions make a paper mill look sexy. In real life, paper mills are dirty, smelly, and easy to get lost in because the mill requires so many support activities that the artist doesn't understand.
[01:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:55] <exec> 08└─I loved the episode where Deane Hutton showed how to use common household products like black powder and pipes to make a false-flag attack against a political party trailing in the polls.
[01:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:56] <exec> 08└─The Mechanical Universe [caltech.edu], which is also available on YouTube [youtube.com]. They were shooting this at Caltech when I was there from 82-85. It's mostly intended for community college students, but it's a very well done set of physics lectures. Some of the demonstrations in the videos th...
[01:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:59] <exec> 08└─It's a parody of the cosby show in which an actor who does quite a good job of pretending to be the man himself really does work as an obgyn.
[01:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:01] <exec> 08└─that was a great series. worth noting the gfx animations done by jim blinn. my favourite was the animations on relativity. one showed a neat way to visualize 3 dimensions along with time and how you can have contradicting observations. it really helped make things click for me after seeing it
[01:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:40] <exec> 08└─I guess you missed the actual revolutions that did occur. The Glorious Revolution, for example. If you mean peasants' rebellions, what about Wat Tyler? There was a lot that went on there.
[01:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:42] <exec> 08└─I was told the landscape is alien to New Zealanders too.
[01:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:44] <exec> 08└─You stole my thunder. Was just about to post that "c0lo, and deadly creatures" was redundant.
[01:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:46] <exec> 08└─That thumb drive had better not be in your possession at the time they are asking for passwords. "Citizen, why do you have an encrypted file on your thumb drive? We need the key. Ohhhh - so you have a backup file for something? For a phone, it seems. Hmmmm. Is it THIS phone? Thank you very much - no...
[01:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:48] <exec> 08└─Nothing has ever changed radically, because the system has been that fucking good. Which Revolutionary Government are the French now operating under? And, let's forget the fact that they basically adopted an Anglo-Saxon framework, sans Common Law.
[01:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:50] <exec> 08└─See also the Deadlys [wikipedia.org] - not gonna get one of those, tho'.
[01:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rating Movies Based on Fear Pheromones in the Cinema - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:07] <exec> 08└─Modern movies don't scare anybody, they're all about startling people by putting random garbage upfront for a few frames. This has the same fear factor as peekaboo, presumably why it's all so popular with idiots - focus testing at work basically.
[01:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rating Movies Based on Fear Pheromones in the Cinema - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:09] <exec> 08└─He DID just say so, it's just that he did it in a way that shows he thinks we're all fucking idiots and he's the smartest guy in the room, pulling the wool over our eyes. How much you wanna bet he drivess on public roads, drinks municipal tap water, and ate something today that passed FDA inspection...
[01:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rating Movies Based on Fear Pheromones in the Cinema - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:11] <exec> 08└─Ooooh, epistemology, my favorite! Can I play too? Define "knowledge." How do you know anything? How do you know THAT you know a thing?
[01:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Hamill Says the Force Killed Luke - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:19] <exec> 08└─STFU. Mark Hamill is the best actor who ever lived and played the best character of all time in the best movie of all time.
[01:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Endumbening -- IQ Scores are Decreasing - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─They should definitely track recreational drug use too.
[01:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Endumbening -- IQ Scores are Decreasing - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:52] <exec> 08└─Jesus...
[01:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:49] <exec> 08└─I dunno, whether Trump wants to US to build up their arsenal or not, it doesn't seem to be stopping Russia and China from doing it. If those 2 states launches, whether the U.S. has an arsenal or not, they'd be toast. Sure, technically it is not a "war" more like a wipe-out. So if I'm an American, th...
[01:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:51] <exec> 08└─Riiight... and having a PC image is so important to the extent that behind the PC public, nations states like China is laughing at their exponential rise in economic and military power because of they can exploit that PC image above all else and capitalize on all the insane arbitrage opportunities b...
[01:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CvURidpkCY [youtube.com] Sci-Fi and silver miniskirts.... I really didn't fully appreciate the genius of that show at the time.
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[02:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:50] <exec> 08└─^^^ .. for when "I told you so" just doesn't cut it.
[02:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:52] <exec> 08└─If I was mega-rich, I'd have had built a cell phone which has externally accessible switches (physical, not signals to software) for every sensor/radio in the phone. A physical power switch and removable battery. Yes, it would have been thicker. If anyone ever builds this, I'll be on the pre-order l...
[02:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:54] <exec> 08└─I see so many people who downplay the dangers of corporate data collection, saying that they'll only use your data for harmless advertising purposes. This is yet more proof that if you allow corporations to collect massive amounts of data about people, that data will inevitably end up in the hands o...
[02:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:56] <exec> 08└─Weanwhile for those of us that have not won Powerball, there is always the cheap solution -- Sort of like, no tickee, no washee (?) No cell phone, for GPS use a dedicated unit that only receives.
[02:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:58] <exec> 08└─You can absolutely see how this information would be useful to police and, used with good intent, would greatly assist in finding the 'bad dudes'. A pity that the police force has shown that the regularly struggle with the 'good intent' bit. Oh, and that pesky privacy thing.
[02:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:01] <exec> 08└─How's that new car doing?
[02:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:03] <exec> 08└─Until one of these wide nets catches some poor sucker? Meanwhile, they archive all the data they get hoping to find some other poor schmuck. Doesn't matter if said schmuck is guilty or innocent, they have enough connections to shady people, whom were all found via wide nets. If the poor schmuck can'...
[02:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:05] <exec> 08└─But if you were just a bit more clever, you'd carry a foil bag which blocks RF signals. You can make such a bag for less than $5.00 and if you're a cheapskate you can make them for free, using old packaging materials. I keep one in each of my cars, and one in my briefcase, and one in my jacket. The...
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[02:06:08] <exec> 08└─Addendum : I also carry a couple of license plates I can place over the one on my car, so a plate reader will read the plate that isn't associated with me. Every Interstate in the US has automated plate readers in place already, by the way. These plate readers capture every plate that passes by and...
[02:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:10] <exec> 08└─Newest car in the fleet here is 2009 (from an estate, only 35,000 miles). It has no built in GPS or bluetooth/phone interface.
[02:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:12] <exec> 08└─Have you got a clever way (like 007's rotating plate) to remove the fake plates quickly if you are stopped by a cop? Sounds like real trouble if you are stopped and your registration/insurance paper doesn't match your plate.
[02:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:28] <exec> 08└─45 minute link replacing the 4-hour ferry commute
[02:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:30] <exec> 08└─That tunnel entrance looks like it's just waiting to suck in all the rain water and storm surge from a typhoon (hurricane). I wonder, do they have storm doors to close off the tunnel entrance? Also, can't really tell from the pictures, how much free board have they left to deal with ocean rise?
[02:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:32] <exec> 08└─Bonita studied this in art history. That's a better class than most geeks would expect - I got more out of discussing it with her at home than I did out of American or World History in high school. The Parisians were easily able to mount insurrections because the streets of Paris were previously a t...
[02:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:34] <exec> 08└─By giving it all to his cronies for them to fix, then to recoup their investment by charging tolls. Oddly, he never mentioned that during his campaign.
[02:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:37] <exec> 08└─I can't recall the name of it just now. He was a carpenter, one of his jobs was for the half-owner of Dreyer's Ice Cream. His house cost $5M. He once told me that sometimes - just sometimes - the architects visit to see the result of their handiwork, and are always amazed. To them, luxury homes were...
[02:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:39] <exec> 08└─But it's strong enough to hold tanks that might want to get from Macau to Hong Kong quickly. Lessee here: 1) It's a bridge. I remember driving across lake Pontchartrain 10-15 years ago, that was a long ass bridge. See also: Miami to Key West 2) It's not like they have an end-point in Hong Kong and o...
[02:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:41] <exec> 08└─What is on the outside and looks vaguely like an unraveling linen weave? Are those pylons?
[02:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:43] <exec> 08└─4) 4 hours for a ferry to go 35 miles? Dafuq? You got slave labor pulling oars on that thing?
[02:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:16] <exec> 08└─It simply did not occur to me to take one from Jim Blinn. I met Marvin Minsky though. There was no way I would have been accepted to major in CS, but after my first year when we declared our majors, we were told we could have any major of our heart's desire. I changed mine from Astronomy to Physics.
[02:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:17] <exec> 08└─> how to use your table saw as a lathe to turn a round I set up a vertical 1/4" bolt (smooth shank) for a pivot, off to one side of the table saw blade, set into a cross slider in a layer of 3/4" Baltic birch plywood. Suitable slots and sliders allow me to set the pivot anywhere on the saw table. No...
[02:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:19] <exec> 08└─..I didn't say they were young/pretty women in bra and panties... And I have no idea what I did to deserve that YouTube ad: never bought underwear, cleaning products or vacuum cleaners on the web.
[02:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 1803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:06] <exec> 08└─If you are an IT professional, you should not ignore this Bill. The government can coerce I.T professionals to co-operate. If you do you are subject to secrecy clauses where you can be fined or jailed for revealing government operations. If you don't co-operate I.T professionals are subject to 5-10...
[02:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dyson Will Build Electric Cars in Singapore for a 2021 Launch - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-chrome-futuristic-design-bubble-car-at-schlumpfs-motor-museum-mulhouse-27744153.htm [alamy.com]
[02:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dyson Will Build Electric Cars in Singapore for a 2021 Launch - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:29] <exec> 08└─If only i could delete a comment within a couple of minutes... https://www.alamy.com [alamy.com]
[02:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rating Movies Based on Fear Pheromones in the Cinema - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:28] <exec> 08└─You can't support an institution that commandeers resources by force then also ask with a straight face "Where are you going to get the resources to do something???" You're like that bully who grabs the smaller kids wrist, and uses it to slap the kid's face with his own hand. "Why are you hitting yo...
[02:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Mark Hamill Says the Force Killed Luke - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:37] <exec> 08└─Did Luke actually die in the movie? It was so awful I suppressed all memory of having seen it. All that remains is anger, deep sadness, and the sensation as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
[02:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Hamill Says the Force Killed Luke - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:38] <exec> 08└─More like they were written by gender studies majors over a weekend or two, while stoned, shortly after coming back from a #resist march. I am as progressive as they come, but man that was awful. Everyone involved with the new Star Wars movies should be thrown into the belly of the sarlacc to find a...
[02:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drought Cripples Crucial German Waterways - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:21] <exec> 08└─Which koelsch would that be? There are lots. Some of them are fine, some are awful.
[02:13:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06The Great Endumbening -- IQ Scores are Decreasing - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:46] <exec> 08└─Are we becoming dumber, as in losing cognitive function, or merely less-well read?
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[03:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:45] <exec> 08└─This according to the Centers for Disease Control [cdc.gov] yet nobody seems to regard it as a crisis. From time to time you'll see someone with plastic tubes up their nose toting around an oxygen tank on a little cart. Those people used to be smokers. Some of them still are: I once knew a nurse who...
[03:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:46] <exec> 08└─After they take my kidney out. Doubtlessly I'll be shooting up with a sharpened basketball needle by this time next year.
[03:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:05] <exec> 08└─It's sad that we even have to worry about this. They've taken relatively benign concepts (license plates, state IDs/drivers licenses) and turned them into tools for the police state.
[03:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:07] <exec> 08└─That is an invalid construct of the English language, which is politically incorrect. There are no innocent Americans. You have just failed Literature 101. Better luck next semester - if the thought police haven't taken you to a reeducation camp before then.
[03:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:09] <exec> 08└─Are you positive that it has no tracking? My 2002 has OnStar. I've removed the antenna, but haven't destroyed any of the OnStar components. I'm not sure if it can track me or not, but I've surely made it more difficult for them to do so.
[03:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:11] <exec> 08└─You know that stuff is an "option" that you get charged extra for, yes? It's still technically possible to get a vehicle with a manual transmission, manual windows and seats, no GPS, and a non-computerized radio. Barely but it's possible.
[03:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:13] <exec> 08└─What makes you think they were ever benign to begin with?
[03:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:16] <exec> 08└─I also carry a couple of license plates I can place over the one on my car . . . I don't do anything illegal
[03:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:18] <exec> 08└─2002 means it would be sufficiently old that most, if not all, of the cellular infrastructure used by OnStar in the car has been decommissioned. Do you have license plates on it? Then you will be tracked by license plate readers.
[03:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:20] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem with that. Let's say I want to use this $600 brick to listen to a $whatever over bluetooth in my car. I would have to expose the entire phone to the world in order to do that. Or maybe I just want to use GPS to see if my speedometer is accurate -- again, I have to expose the entir...
[03:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:22] <exec> 08└─Yep, mine has a manual, no GPS, no computer, etc. A surprising number of my friends are the same way. It's not for anti-tracking though, it's just much cheaper and better to drive, as far as I can tell. Most of the cars are four or five years old though. I've heard it's about to start getting harder...
[03:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:47] <exec> 08└─Not s bridge. It is bridge- tunnel causeway like the 35mi one at Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel. Or the 75 mile cone connecting Florida to key west (no tunnels but touching islands). The big thing here is the typhoons
[03:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:48] <exec> 08└─Look MDC, I understand fucking your tube sock. Guy's gotta do what he gotta do. What I don't understand is your need to personalize it with an elaborate backstory, including a useless Art History degree from some Liberal Arts indoctrination center.
[03:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:23] <exec> 08└─>There's a lot of old stuff from the 80s explaining how all of humanity will be extinct by 2010 due to climate change Examples please. I just got done watching Home [youtube.com] from 2009 - they put it out there pretty far with dire predictions, none of which have proven to be overreaching in the l...
[03:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:25] <exec> 08└─Netflix occasionally has gems - the Honey West series from the mid 60s was pretty cool, by 1960s TV standards, and never made it to my UHF TV stations.
[03:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:27] <exec> 08└─Mr. Wizard was a lot better than Bill Nye. Mr. Wizard didn't need to do a lot of the flashy stuff to get the audience's attention. He did some really interesting projects, like the time he had a whole floor of mouse traps with ping pong balls set to spring into the air after the first one was trigge...
[03:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:29] <exec> 08└─We did home school for a few years, and my wife got a STEM video series with tons of "hands on" examples... problem is: somebody has to match the enthusiasm of the video presenter in doing the "experiments," which is really not as easy as it might seem, especially in home school when your student (s...
[03:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:31] <exec> 08└─LOL, I just posted the same thing. Mr. Wizard was a bit more in keeping with what Mr. Rogers was doing. Very understated delivery. Both of them trusted the kids watching to be able to maintain their attention if the principle was engaging. Much of what went on on his show could be done at home. In f...
[03:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dyson Will Build Electric Cars in Singapore for a 2021 Launch - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:40] <exec> 08└─Cool! At this link is another photo and more detail, http://porscheautoworld.com [porscheautoworld.com] Designed by architect Paul Arzens, a 1942 aluminum and plexiglass city car known as “The Egg” is among the more unusual autos in the col...
[03:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Confident in Soyuz, Ready for Crewed Launch in December - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:36] <exec> 08└─The only thing it's launching is its own budget, way past the stratosphere.
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[04:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:19] <exec> 08└─Too bad Marinol is not as effective as consuming the cocktail of cannabinoids the cannabis plant produces. I wonder what role access to medical cannabis (37 states is it now?) is having on opioid statistics. Cannabis has been implicated both in reducing various addictions such as opioid and alcohol...
[04:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder what role access to medical cannabis (37 states is it now?) is having on opioid statistics.
[04:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:22] <exec> 08└─I am absolutely serious. Mom got me allergy tested after I got really bad hay fever for the first time in my life - but none of the other students at my high school did. I figure someone's gro-op bloomed out in the Suisun Marsh. It's part of the Sacramento River Delta and is quite large, easy to hid...
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[04:06:25] <exec> 08└─Just curious.
[04:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:54] <exec> 08└─"Uhhhhh - you have just admitted to doing something illegal. It has ALWAYS been illegal to arbitrarily swap out license plates. I'm pretty sure that eluding police (by way of obfuscation, in this case) is illegal everywhere" . Your above claim is correct with respect to using an incorrect plate. Wha...
[04:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:55] <exec> 08└─"Here's the problem with that ..." - - Your idea will remain in a theoretical state because what you propose is not going to be made available for purchase ( it would be outlawed quickly by the government which would be only too aware of its usefulness ) and because the size of the surface-mount ele...
[04:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:57] <exec> 08└─And yes, I am ready to do the time in jail if I get caught. Like I said, I'm not going to live in fear, because that's not living, that is existing.
[04:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:23] <exec> 08└─-ory. Consider that the rise of Hitler was anticipated by mid-nineteenth century artists. We have press photographs now but before the invention of photography we only had drawings, paintings and sculptures.
[04:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:03] <exec> 08└─PBS production in the 1980s. https://www.youtube.com You might recognize a very young version of someone here: https://www.youtube.com I used to watch the heck out of that show. https://en.wikipedia.org
[04:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:51] <exec> 08└─Could just be security theater
[04:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rating Movies Based on Fear Pheromones in the Cinema - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:15] <exec> 08└─It is interesting to see how different cultures rate the whole sex vs violence thing. The US is definitely prudish when it comes to naked body parts, but seems more indifferent to violence. They seem similar in some ways to the Vikings [youtu.be]...
[04:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Hamill Says the Force Killed Luke - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:25] <exec> 08└─Well, keep in mind that the person telling Rey that she was a nobody really isn't someone I would consider a reliable source. So if you want to be optimistic, they could have something more interesting planned for the next movie. Heck, she could even still be Luke's daughter - waiting to reveal that...
[04:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Hamill Says the Force Killed Luke - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:27] <exec> 08└─The counterpoint to that is Harrison Ford who also played a character in the exact same movies. Though I will give that Mark Hamill did a pretty good job or portraying Luke as a whiny teenager in the original film.
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[05:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Drones Can Cooperate, Anchor Themselves to the Ground, and Tug Objects - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:07] <exec> 08└─Tiny bubbles in my beer can anchor me to the ground, and hugging a toilet. (loosely based on the 'Tiny Bubbles' cadence song from my US Army days) Obscure humour aside, some of the emerging tech nowadays is getting both a bit scary, and quite fascinating to someone in his 60's...
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[05:06:08] <exec> 08└─Tripling the Energy Storage of Lithium-Ion Batteries [bnl.gov] As always, the battery is the limiting factor. If someone manages to double or triple (dare I go higher?) battery energy density, it will be a coup. Entire industries could rise and fall, or be transformed, depending on if significant im...
[05:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:25] <exec> 08└─As vaping surges, teen cigarette smoking ticks up after decades of decline [cnbc.com] Cigarette smoking is still much lower than it was in the 90s, and vaping is the big new thing, generally regarded as a possible route to quit cigarette smoking, although going from nothing to vaping is not advised....
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[05:06:26] <exec> 08└─Congrat's on the two years! :-) Disclaimer: I'm an ex-heroin addict, have smoked weed for almost 50 years, and have came close several times to alcohol addiction. Be glad you never went down the opiate path. The pain relief is wonderful, the euphoria is even more so, but the affects on your mind and...
[05:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:28] <exec> 08└─Right in the middle of my right kidney. That it's right in the middle as well as so big rules out treatments that would kill the cancer but save the kidney. My doc is certain that it hasn't spread yet. One can see that in the CT scan because it has a smooth surface. It's called "cancer" - latin for...
[05:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:31] <exec> 08└─From time to time you'll see someone with plastic tubes up their nose toting around an oxygen tank on a little cart. Those people used to be smokers.
[05:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:33] <exec> 08└─It's really quite nice. I've gone backpacking in the High Sierra a few times, it smells just like weed blossoms. We have nitrous oxide receptors too - it turns out that nitrous plays a crucial role in reproduction, as it's what signals your William Jefferson Clinton to stand at attention. But I've n...
[05:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:35] <exec> 08└─You don't even need lung problems due to smoke/particulate matter. Having a weak heart and low oxygen saturation in the blood could necessitate using a oxygen mask or ventilator.
[05:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:36] <exec> 08└─It was an hour long trip and I don't think we spent an hour waiting in line, getting on, nor getting off combined.
[05:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:02] <exec> 08└─There's nothing in that article that says anything about arbitrarily forcing anyone and everyone to unlock their phone, say customs in airports... not so sure about the actual bill. I have read an analysed the entire Bill. I can most certainly assure you that according to the amendments to the crimi...
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[05:15:40] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. The email leaks revealed Bernie Sanders campaign was systematically stymied on purpose... so much so that two DNC heads were forced to resign for separate incidents that came out in the email revelations. It turned out, at least according to one of these heads, the DNC was effectively ba...
[05:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:02] <exec> 08└─Not as much as you imply. Massive military spending is probably going to be pretty inflationary, which will help debtors and hurt creditors. Military nuclear spending is almost all going to be internal to the USA, so even though it's almost broken window fallacy stuff, there will still be a stimulus...
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[06:07:21] <exec> 08└─Just another way of China saying to Hong Kong "you ma bitch, bitch."
[06:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, the real one looks more like a tampon now.. but yea the rendering does look like a shaved beaver.
[06:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dyson Will Build Electric Cars in Singapore for a 2021 Launch - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:15] <exec> 08└─Hehehe, in the limey land, vacuum makers are a "tech company".
[06:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:11] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to use Trump's dickish approach to negotiating a business deal in the construction industry where everyone is generally familiar with a common culture. It's very different to make these threats on an international scale involving cultures that are not only very different than America'...
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[06:18:12] <exec> 08└─They were rich before they entered politics. They are burning money like mad. Trump himself has lost about a $billion due to his presidential adventure. This is in fact what makes them weird. Money is clearly not the motivating factor. There are interviews going back to the 1980s of Trump wanting a...
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[07:06:14] <exec> 08└─I hope for you to have a speedy recovery.
[07:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:57] <exec> 08└─buy the dvds here [curiosityshow.com.au]
[07:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia follows New Zealand to demand passwords - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:48] <exec> 08└─I have not seen one in years, if ever. Australia, go see the venomous snakes and spiders, poisonous everything else and toxic society.
[07:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dyson Will Build Electric Cars in Singapore for a 2021 Launch - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:11] <exec> 08└─No he won’t. Singapore and the EU have a good trade agreement which means it’s easier and cheaper for the EU to import cars from singapore than from the uk.
[07:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rating Movies Based on Fear Pheromones in the Cinema - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:15] <exec> 08└─A generic example, a movie with a big monster probably isn't rated R because it's a scary monster, it's probably rated R because of the violence the monster commits or the violence committed against it. No, it's rated R because there was a "wardrobe malfunction", or a white girl kissed a negro
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[08:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:29] <exec> 08└─This is for web analytics [pixelbegone.org]. I avoid mobile apps if I can use websites instead - reading the news off the paper's website rather than using their app. That's because mobile analytics are far, far more invasive, for example phoning home to report every button you tap. While it's possi...
[08:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:30] <exec> 08└─Chlorine Dioxide room deodorant. My friend is very protective of his privacy and so doesn't have an ID, so he can't get a bank account. So I buy him a can of room shocker off of amazon, and for the next month I was bombarded by ads for the stuff - everywhere. I expect you've had similar experiences....
[08:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:32] <exec> 08└─Putting aside the tools that root level users have access to, there are options for standard Android users. The most powerful, and therefore most inconvenient to use, is NetGuard [f-droid.org]. NetGuard acts as a locally hosted VPN that allows you to grant and block network access to any application...
[08:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Opioid Deaths May be Plateauing - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:06] <exec> 08└─The only part that I'm really frightened about is regaining consciousness in the recovery room. I've had two other far less invasive surgeries. Both times the recovery room was very hard for me.
[08:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:40] <exec> 08└─rather than insurance I'll post a bond. In California that was $30,000 at the time I got my license, I expect it's lots more now. While license plate readers could in principle integrate the Canadian DMV databases, I expect that they don't. Law enforcement MIS just isn't very well written.
[08:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:41] <exec> 08└─That's the specific reason I don't use iCloud. While Tim Cook gives lip service to privacy, he's also quite clear that Apple will fork over your cloud data if a warrant is presented. I just don't log in, nor to I log in to the App Store. That results in endless nags to enter my password. On my Macs...
[08:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:43] <exec> 08└─I have big hands.
[08:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Order Google To Hand Over Innocent Americans' Locations - 2140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:46] <exec> 08└─I staged a protest about a C-TRAN bus whose driver went right past me without even slowing down, let alone opening the door. At that particular transit center, the bus had to make a sharp u-turn than come back in my general direction so I stood in front of it to force him to stop. He angrily opened...
[08:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China-Macau-Hong Kong Now Linked by World's Longest Sea Bridge - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:19] <exec> 08└─Chrome and glass are expensive, after all. Looks as though everything shrank a bit, and the island grew..
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[09:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:48] <exec> 08└─AdGuard also does local vpn filtering. It has worked well for me.
[09:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Ancient" STEM Kids' Show Enjoys YouTube Revival - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:08] <exec> 08└─Several are available to watch online through that website [rigb.org], stretching back to 1968. I watched the 1978 lectures a year or two ago, and enjoyed them. (That was the first time that the Royal Institution had done a Christmas Lecture on mathematics since their inauguration in 1825: many had...
[09:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dyson Will Build Electric Cars in Singapore for a 2021 Launch - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:21] <exec> 08└─*vacuum sex toy maker
[09:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Warns That the U.S. Will Pull out of Nuclear Forces Treaty and Build Up its Arsenal - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe didn't make USA stronger, but it made some people very rich (I mean very much richer). So task accomplished. USA civil society is just the fuel of the Military-industrial_complex [wikipedia.org] that Eisenhower spoke about. And its modern offsprings: Military-digital complex [wikipedia.org] Mi...
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