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[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03purdy [1863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:04] <exec> 08└─Now we'll never run out of frog legs!
[00:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─"There is no reason that human bodies can't regenerate," said Tufts University biologist Michael Levin, who led the new research.
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─Yes but they achieved this outcome (months later) with just an initial 24 hour long local application of progesterone. *They* are of the view that they might have found a master switch: It is likely that progress in regenerative medicine will be greatly augmented by identifying master regulators or...
[00:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:09] <exec> 08└─Otherwise we're going to end up with some 1000 pound frogs, and African Clawed frogs don't sound to friendly, if African bees are any indication
[00:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:45] <exec> 08└─I'm looking to buy a new TV this Salesgiving. Heard a rumor of a 55" 4k HDR for $300. 55" is too big for where I want to put it, but if a 55" is cheaper than the 44" I'm looking for I might be motivated to rearrange/replace some furniture. Where did I hear that rumor? Who knows, it just got me think...
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─Would not be surprised if they're still paying memberships for…1980s video rental places.
[00:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly, I've got a digital converter box connected to a small CRT TV. It is color, but the other day I had it connected to a nice green-screen Apple IIc monochrome monitor. It works.
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─BBC is basically state run
[00:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:52] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your telescreen.
[00:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:54] <exec> 08└─I'd be extremely surprised, simply because I can't imagine how they would've survived after the arrival of chains like Blockbuster.
[00:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:17] <exec> 08└─Waste of resources and we do not know what kind of life we are attracting with that sort of stunt.
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:19] <exec> 08└─Roving Alien Space Muslims?
[00:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:15] <exec> 08└─Looking forward to contributions to this thread from Erishumistarchos...
[00:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:17] <exec> 08└─In Trump's America? Getting as far away from the United States as possible. Oooooo how edgy! Please tell me more! How about I quote what someone told me in December 2008 "get over your butthurt self and get over it"
[00:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slinches [5049] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:48] <exec> 08└─the president should be held to a higher moral standard for their behavior instead of just what they can legally get away with
[00:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:17] <exec> 08└─They're going broke, and just waiting for the US to develop new medicine.
[00:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:19] <exec> 08└─This percentage is roughly equal to the money supply times the interest rate minus the defaults on debt.
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[01:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:19] <exec> 08└─Now I have to stick up for that rat-infested shithole of a site.
[01:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─Sounds like - HARASSMENT!
[01:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:22] <exec> 08└─If anyone would know it'd be you. Tell us more tales from your wizened perspective!
[01:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't expect that we would see another story on Gab so soon, but then this attorney general had to strut his stuff. A domain name provider in Washington state choosing to do business with Gab is no business of the Pennsylvania attorney general. I'd compare this to the multiple state attorney gene...
[01:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:27] <exec> 08└─So a grandstanding Atty Gen with dreams of higher office can now issue real subpoenas anywhere in the country? Or is that another "just for Democrats" rule? Or is this an obviously unenforceable "request" thing that can safely be filed in the round filing cabinet?
[01:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:40] <exec> 08└─... and the spectre of Lorena Bobbitt won't seem so scary.
[01:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:41] <exec> 08└─All they did is mess up the healing process... if you get your leg cut off its better to have a fatty/muscular stump you can actually use for *some* support, not a useless flimsy flap of skin with a thin slab of bone inside that is going to break easily. I'm sure there are a million different ways t...
[01:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:16] <exec> 08└─I assume, they have just as many commercials as their American counterparts?
[01:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, state funded, in the way that PBS is state funded in the US.
[01:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:28] <exec> 08└─Living outside the UK coverage area, where the BBC iPlayer is geoblocked, I'd be happy to pay the UK TV license just for the excellent programming that is produced by the BBC. I'm just lucky that here in Australia we have the ABC (which is publicly funded, but not government controlled), and the ABC...
[01:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:30] <exec> 08└─Check out the Kobo Aura One. I bought one and it is awesome for just reading. Designed in conjunction with a bunch of actual users, it is basically the hackers e-book. Does one job and does it well without any crap. Large (7.8") very hi-def e-ink screen. Reads almost any format. (except amazon's pro...
[01:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─Given the population of the UK, I would expect at least that many fully colour-blind individuals. Why would you pay extra for the colour license if you can't see it.
[01:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:35] <exec> 08└─I never watch TV in black and white. It's so IBM or FBI.
[01:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:59] <exec> 08└─They're "...calling on..." them? How sweet. How about a rectal 4x4?
[01:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:58] <exec> 08└─Your worm-hole communications device, even if it is really unlikely is why I think we should hold off on announcing ourselves. We don't know what we don't know. Maybe faster-than-light is possible in all sorts of ways. We don't know, so shaddup.
[01:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:35] <exec> 08└─WOOOSH, a swing and a miss
[01:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHhg0iiqahw [youtube.com]
[01:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:00] <exec> 08└─Doubt it. Don't educated people know that the US President's term has limits? as in, you don't have to abandon your country because the current leader is literally temporary.
[01:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:00] <exec> 08└─What Trump wants changes between every TV commercial.
[01:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:01] <exec> 08└─He has levied tariffs against China and others who have been taking advantage of lopsided trade agreements for years.
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[02:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:07] <exec> 08└─Aww, the rats are downvoting. Know why I called you rats and never gave you name despite your many tell-tale traits? Because to me you're just rats! You're only special to other rats.
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─Differences aside, democrats are exactly the same as republicans.
[02:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:10] <exec> 08└─This story is not about Huffpo, friend.
[02:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─Gab is headquartered in Philly, so I assume that gives him the authority to do so. I anal and all that.
[02:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:14] <exec> 08└─That crossed my mind. Note, however, that the Penna AG has no jurisdiction outside of Pennsylvania. He can't enforce any subpoenas in Washington. You or I can do the same thing. Either of us can mail off subpoenas to - ohhhhhh - Ncommander for instance. Our subpoenas would lack any recognized creden...
[02:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:30] <exec> 08└─The "good reason" has to do with what evolutionary setup is best for the species, not the individuals involved. A population that doesn't die isn't subject to natural selection, and so doesn't evolve quickly. Humans are past the point where we need to worry about evolving naturally.
[02:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:21] <exec> 08└─They have no right to search. The BBC tactic was always FUD (TV detectors) and spying (looking into windows, listening at the doors.) Deplorable.
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─I checked it out after reading the review/comments of the new Amazon Kindle Paperweight at Arse Technica. Aura One does look pretty good, and I guess the price is about right, given the relatively large size. I like that it supports the formats that Amazon won't touch. I think it could use more stor...
[02:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:24] <exec> 08└─? If I watched Dr. Who off of a streaming service on my phone, would I have to pay the tax for my phone?
[02:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reminder... I'm now writing a follow up story to my request for info on buying a 43-inch UHD HDR TV [soylentnews.org] to use as a computer monitor. If all goes well, it should be out with a day. Just a heads up that some retailers are offering Black Friday specials well before Thanksg...
[02:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─There's one thing I sorely miss about my old Herc mono amber displays: They were easy on the eyes. Black was BLACK, bright didn't glare. Unfortunately they had about a 3 year lifespan in everyday use, so I was always scrounging for replacements.
[02:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:31] <exec> 08└─https://slickdeals.net/ [slickdeals.net] https://slickdeals.net [slickdeals.net] These are the money-grubbing people I pay attention to. I may do a journal for Black Friday. Not sure if I care this year.
[02:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:33] <exec> 08└─You are obviously not a PBS viewer. Otherwise, you would be very familiar with the corporate sponsors named before a show starts and those periodic weeks of public begging (er, pledge drives). PBS gets 80% of its funding from non-government sources. https://www.quora.com
[02:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:59] <exec> 08└─Blood samples are stored until child is 18 in at least one Australian State. [nsw.gov.au]
[02:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:59] <exec> 08└─(((VLM))) was just trying to make you spend time writing that reply.
[02:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:00] <exec> 08└─Meh. I prefer *=.=*=.=.*=.***=.**.=*.* or ==.**.*=**.===. ===.***=.*=.*=**.=.**.=*.* always tasted a bit off to me.
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:02] <exec> 08└─And someone, 67 light-years away, just got the premiere of I Love Lucy.
[02:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:04] <exec> 08└─No worries. I type *really* fast! And calling out scumbags like VLM is *never* a waste of time.
[02:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:06] <exec> 08└─Too late, mate. The Kardashian kind are already here. Or was the Cardassian?
[02:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:45] <exec> 08└─Global reset. The system will crash under it's own complexity. Happening already in places.
[02:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:10] <exec> 08└─It's interesting they mentioned the Assymetrics. This ancient empire was well known for its advanced mathematics, inventing skipping maths class as early as the late bronze age.
[02:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:11] <exec> 08└─Grigori Perelman refused all the moneys https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] He is *very* poor and unemployed since 2005.
[02:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:13] <exec> 08└─"I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo." Makes sense to me.
[02:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:16] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Houston’s construction works by translating the superpermutation problem into the famous traveling salesman problem, which looks for the shortest route through a collection of cities.
[02:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:20] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest lobotomies for Republicans, but clearly someone's beat me to it. The action, not the suggestion.
[02:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:48] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of this Seinfeld episode: Kramer: How could you not have insurance? Jerry: Because, I spent all my money on the Clapco D29. It's the most impenetrable lock on the market today. It has only one design flaw: the door [closes door] Jerry: MUST BE CLOSED!
[02:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Drug May Boost Dwindling Treatment Options for Gonorrhea - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:40] <exec> 08└─but it's progress because I got lots of sleep without taking any pain pills.
[02:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Drug May Boost Dwindling Treatment Options for Gonorrhea - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:42] <exec> 08└─If any of our resident loudmouths needs an effective gonorrhea treatment, it's aristarchus. I hope he has not contracted today's super-gonorrhea. He may have to resort to the old treatments: http://advocatesaz.org [advocatesaz.org]...
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[03:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:24] <exec> 08└─Not to excuses, laziness, and self interest. Grandma is always right.
[03:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:44] <exec> 08└─So, Epik has an application, and a payment on file, and perhaps a couple of more personal emails. Whoop-ti-do - the AG expects to make something of that? This is what Epik DOES, FFS.
[03:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:46] <exec> 08└─Click on your comment #, and you'll see that exactly one "rat" downmodded you. Not plural. I wouldn't extrapolate based on a single mod point.
[03:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:48] <exec> 08└─There IS an issue here, in that the AG has an official document, all properly endorsed with cool looking stamps and shit. Personally, I would file and ignore his requests. If the document is cool enough looking, I would sell it on eBay. There have to be tons of people who collect 'official paper' w...
[03:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:04] <exec> 08└─Humans are past the point where we need to worry about evolving naturally.
[03:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:02] <exec> 08└─I still have a paper-white SVGA monitor. I stuck with monochrome VGA for a long, long time because I'm cheap that way. It's not in use these days but it's sitting in storage.
[03:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:03] <exec> 08└─VPN's work, sometimes, for those of us outside of the UK. Unfortunately, VPN IP addresses have been blocked in the past. I would expect that SOMEONE would come up with a legal, or semi-legal scheme to rebroadcast outside of "authorized" regions. As you state, you would be willing to pay the full lic...
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[03:40:36] <exec> 08└─You have a point, but doesn't that run the risk of empowering (((old-school trolls)))?
[03:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:37] <exec> 08└─Nope, I've been playing with coconut horses.
[03:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:19] <exec> 08└─Finally, we've found God. Watching us always, the supreme power knows all and must be feared. Beware, do not use his name in vain... God is now the state. Obey his will or else.
[03:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:47] <exec> 08└─You ended your history of the world prematurely stopping where you did. The cold war ended with the creation of the intertubes. Let me explain, Alberto Eye-in-Steiner theorized a system could collect enough data points that it would reach critical mass and start collecting data on its own--where dat...
[03:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:26] <exec> 08└─Unless the judge decides that the act was negligence on Adobe's part, which can't be excluded or limited by general contractual terms - and that is a contract, not a boilerplate non-negotiable SLA.
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[04:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Far Fewer Lakes Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than Previously Believed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:48] <exec> 08└─Who actually "believed" the previous thing and now "believes" the new thing? Fire them.
[04:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Far Fewer Lakes Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than Previously Believed - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:49] <exec> 08└─"Than Previously Thought" is the correct phrase.
[04:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:00] <exec> 08└─Add in a whole bunch of "not". No to excessive indulgence in alcohol - or any other drugs. No to driving like a madman. No to texting and drivinig (which is redundant, after the last one). No to foolish risk taking (as in, "Hold my beer!) Everyday decisions have more to do with longevity, than anyth...
[04:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:01] <exec> 08└─Wait, did you just admit that men and women have different tendencies? That sounds suspiciously like you're saying that the brain is a gendered organ.
[04:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:04] <exec> 08└─I agree; mostly. I think though that some rather dangerous activities such as skiing, biking, mountain hiking and so on increase life span; if done by otherwise responsible folks that is. The reason might be that they prepare us to overcome challenges.
[04:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:06] <exec> 08└─"which failed to account for our tendency to select partners with similar traits to our own." So if I had married my sister and our kids married each other and on down, my great great grandkids might live forever!? Hot damn! Live forever with ma tucked into a nice drawer under the bed. Hyuck.
[04:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:08] <exec> 08└─It is only gendered because it is plastic. Experience from the youngest age, even the womb, shapes the synapses.
[04:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:10] <exec> 08└─No need to be suspicious. My brain is indirectly connected to a penis. The wife's brain is indirectly connected to a uterus. My brain has been bathed in a special blend of hormones and stuff for most of my life. Her brain has been bathed in a completely different blend of hormones and stuff for most...
[04:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:12] <exec> 08└─No to foolish risk taking (as in, "Hold my beer!)
[04:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:14] <exec> 08└─My brain is indirectly connected to a penis.
[04:38:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 1049 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:28] <exec> 08└─I didn't expect that we would see another story on Gab so soon, but then this attorney general had to strut his stuff. A domain name provider in Washington state choosing to do business with Gab is no business of the Pennsylvania attorney general. I'd compare this to the multiple state attorney gene...
[04:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:38] <exec> 08└─Watch them downvote all posts critical of gab, including this one.
[04:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:39] <exec> 08└─1 dowmod on a post critical of Gab, 3 upmods on that same post. It seems you are the butthurt one.
[04:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:42] <exec> 08└─You or I can do the same thing. Either of us can mail off subpoenas to - ohhhhhh - Ncommander for instance.
[04:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:44] <exec> 08└─Critical of gab is alright. You may criticize anyone, and anything, including the President of the United States. We all do it. Where most of us draw the line, is when you approve of censorship. Some of us think you look like an idiot when you portray Gab as a bunch of fascists and neonazis. I have...
[04:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:46] <exec> 08└─If, within the body of the subpoena, I were to represent myself as an officer of any official organization, then yes - I would be liable for impersonating whatever I claimed to be. If, on the other hand, I represented myself as a Sovereign Citizen, then no - there would be no liability. Your second...
[04:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:48] <exec> 08└─He's just grandstanding. He literally doesn't even have a case.
[04:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:50] <exec> 08└─...and make posts contrary to popular opinion on the site. ... ... after you've made a real effort to be an ass.
[04:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:06] <exec> 08└─I'm getting old enough that I was not reading as much, just because it was a bit of an effort to focus on the small text in most books and wearing glasses for too long gives me a headache. Bumping up the font 50% meant that other e-books required way too much page turning. The Aura One is about the...
[04:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:07] <exec> 08└─The detectors worked. They looked for heterodyne frequencies from the tuning circuits.
[04:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:52] <exec> 08└─Yes. The laws here only apply to those without power and influence (money). In the last half century (probably much longer), there isn't a president of the US that would not be behind bars (with most of his cabinet), if laws were fairly applied. E.g., the victims of a mass murderer in the white hous...
[04:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:54] <exec> 08└─> He has levied tariffs against China and others who have been taking advantage of lopsided trade agreements for years. He has tried to use the bully pulpit to bring manufacturing back to America. Unfortunately, some of the manufacturing that has come back to USA (before Trump) relies on Asian-made...
[04:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─Or better. He's got to be getting a piece of that action.
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[05:37:38] <exec> 08└─That's the usual phrase for a reason, but it means the same thing. Instead of thinking or believing, the ideal is to act mindlessly as if the most recent thing you heard is true. Here is where it started: Without hoping to know whether each separate hypothesis is true or false, we may search for rul...
[05:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:56] <exec> 08└─You'll just have to watch the direct-to-video to find out, duh.
[05:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:57] <exec> 08└─(don't get it. How's "hold my beer" a foolish risk taking?)
[05:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:25] <exec> 08└─...mass genocides of multiple peoples. If you can't understand the differences, then you shouldn't be out here, amongst adults, making noise while the adults talk.
[05:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:27] <exec> 08└─Where did you hide my "+/-Disinformative" mod?
[05:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:29] <exec> 08└─Nah, you only get banned on Gab for outright illegal crap or doxxing. That is the extent of their bannings to date. Except for Weev, Torba got tired of his antics and everybody knew Weev lives to be banned anyway, it is his thing, so give him his martyrdom before his "edginess" brings the Feds. We W...
[05:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:13] <exec> 08└─The free market doesn't fix problems suffered by the products. When you receive services for free, you are not the customer. When you willingly submit to and facilitate the collection of surveillance of yourself and those around you, you are the problem.
[05:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:26] <exec> 08└─Whoops, execution on my behalf. My comment was in response to this comment [soylentnews.org]. I blame trying to post comments during a rough landing and slow, intermittent internet. Sorry about any confusion.
[05:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:36] <exec> 08└─I've never had a boss who wasn't a sociopath.
[05:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:37] <exec> 08└─You could not possibly have watched any part of that testimony either with sound or without [cnn.com] and still come to the conclusion that Kavanaugh was fit for any federal position let alone as a judge. The guy clearly has more than just a screw loose. The "Dems" did not do anything "to" anyone bu...
[05:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:42] <exec> 08└─[On a side note, this would explain much of the editorial behavior of the editors on SoylentNews of late. the Mycelium have taken control of the Central Processsing Unit, so as to insure that the SLS never comes to fruition, but the cheaper, and more mycelium friendly "SpaceX" is selected to fly the...
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[06:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:19] <exec> 08└─This fine young individual is hero... Just like Rachel Dolezal.
[06:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:20] <exec> 08└─I want to be recognized as an alien
[06:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:22] <exec> 08└─Time is a quantitative standard, and the units of its measurement would make sense even with no human around to do the measuring. Entropy, which is what time was invented to measure, does not emerge from humanity the way gender does; indeed, humanity (and life itself) is an entropy-shuffling trick....
[06:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:25] <exec> 08└─In truth, it is no different. A birth certificate documents certain objective facts: this person was born at this place, at this time, to these parents, has this biological gender, etc.. These are facts, and (barring error) not subject to amendment. If you later want cosmetic surgery, hormone treatm...
[06:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:27] <exec> 08└─It's entirely possible that some variation of this could become "true" one day with anti-aging. You can only estimate a person's age from their appearance, DNA [soylentnews.org], skeleton, and other forensic clues, if you don't know their actual birth date. If you introduce comprehensive anti-aging...
[06:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:30] <exec> 08└─Somehow I doubt this. Someone should do the obvious experiment: have a bunch of unreconstructed Marxists, or people pretending to be such because I've honestly never met one, sign up. Get the "all PiV sex is rape!" woman in there too. Let them post all over the place, not to spam or troll, but to ma...
[06:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think the important thing to remember here is that this action isn't just *legal*, it's *extralegal*. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, salty whiners!
[06:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:34] <exec> 08└─It's not natural, it's supernatural! 🎃👻👽
[06:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:36] <exec> 08└─Nah. All those banned twitter trolls would LOVE to have people to trigger. Nothing stopping ya from making an account and stirring up the frogs. Go see if you can get yourself banned. Or at least stir some crap. But beware, there be some fell monsters lurking that are hard core experienced Internet...
[06:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:51] <exec> 08└─https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one [kobobooks.com] Mine is 8GB. Didn't have the 32GB option in Oz. Still way more storage than I need. Epubs seem to average about a meg. It could hold 8000 of them.
[06:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it is my age or sci-fi fandom showing, but I immediately thought of Heinlein's "Double Star" https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]. When Lawrence Smith first meets Dak Broadbent at Casa Mañana, he identifies Dak's origin by his walk, and when he is "recruited"...
[06:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:15] <exec> 08└─Considering how targeted an audience Scrivener appears to serve, I'm surprised they don't offer a turnkey backup solution as a feature or addon with the product. Even if it only backed up text, it seems like it would make sense to squirrel away drafts and/or copies of your writing in multiple locati...
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[07:38:06] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: "Age" can be fluid, but there is no such thing as birthdatefluid.
[07:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:08] <exec> 08└─This guy is whatever age he thinks he is Bruce Jenner is a woman. Rachel Dolezal is black. Sen. Warren is a Native American. And we are commanded to believe these things are unquestionably true by the "Reality Based Community." Hmm.....
[07:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:10] <exec> 08└─I identify as a Billionaire. Bellow is my bank account #, please fill it accordingly!
[07:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:12] <exec> 08└─*Caitlyn* Jenner is a woman, just not a ciswoman, and she's a complete waste of oxygen for reasons that have zip to do with her gender. Rachel Dolezal is a race-baiting sack of shit. Warren is by DNA part native american, but the tribes have more stringent criteria than just blood. 0/3, try again ne...
[07:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:14] <exec> 08└─Hopefully some pathogen will soon wipe humanity off the face of the earth. It is time to give some other species a chance to do better.
[07:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:16] <exec> 08└─You make me laugh, you think facts are objective to a Lefty Marxist? AHAHAHAHAHA that's on you as an adult
[07:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, don't ever talk about Caitlyn's penis like that! But you should toss her of the building, and stone her below for having Conservative believes. Rachel Dolezal is Black by your idealogy's stringent "I feel like it" criteria. Elizabeth Warren is more White than me, and I'm 100% of a certain Cauc...
[07:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:20] <exec> 08└─>> Rachel Dolezal is a race-baiting sack of shit. Do you also consider other individuals self-identifying as black like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to be race-baiting sacks of shit, or just Rachel Dolezal?
[07:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:52] <exec> 08└─please use your favorite search engine next time.
[07:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:53] <exec> 08└─What's that, precious?
[07:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:55] <exec> 08└─No to foolish risk taking
[07:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 1531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:20] <exec> 08└─Critical of gab is alright. You may criticize anyone, and anything, including the President of the United States. We all do it. Where most of us draw the line, is when you approve of censorship. Some of us think you look like an idiot when you portray Gab as a bunch of fascists and neonazis. I have...
[07:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:31] <exec> 08└─Nah, you only get banned on Gab for outright illegal crap or doxxing.
[07:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:52] <exec> 08└─If I watched Dr. Who off of a streaming service on my phone, would I have to pay the tax for my phone?" If it is a BBC originated stream, watched in the UK, then yes*. I'm not sure what the status is for non-residents (e.g. tourists) There are some odd rules around broadcasting by cable and satellit...
[07:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:53] <exec> 08└─Indeed, good call! Let's do the math. Apparently total color blindness (aka achromatopsia) affects around 1 in 30,000 people (worldwide, old figure). UK population seems to be around 66 million (in 2017). That'd mean 2200 people. If we include partial color blindness variants in, the number will be...
[07:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:56] <exec> 08└─The Forma came out after I bought the Aura. Have not really checked it out, as I am not upgrading at the moment. The ideal device you describe does sound awesome, but I actually like the single purposedness of the Kobo. I wanted something to read books on, and that was all. I have a 17" asus laptop...
[07:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:58] <exec> 08└─> VPN's work, sometimes, for those of us outside of the UK. Unfortunately, VPN IP addresses have been blocked in the past. I would expect that SOMEONE would come up with a legal, or semi-legal scheme to rebroadcast outside of "authorized" regions. Get a small VPS in the UK, and set up your own VPN s...
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[08:37:52] <exec> 08└─> A square centimeter of nanocardboard weighs less than a thousandth of a gram and can spring back into shape after being bent in half. > Its sandwich structure, similar to that of corrugated cardboard, makes it more than ten thousand times as stiff as a solid plate of the same mass. > Nanocardboard...
[08:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:53] <exec> 08└─Now just to see how long it takes to go from the lab to industry and end users (at an affordable cost).
[08:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:16] <exec> 08└─And now just replace age with gender. See what a pig you are being? Of course not. Interestingly he has quite a solid point.
[08:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:18] <exec> 08└─You and the other poster Azuki whatever are both bigoted pieces of shit. I hope you fucking die.
[08:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:20] <exec> 08└─Fuck you bigot
[08:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:22] <exec> 08└─>*Caitlyn* Jenner is a woman You're on fucking drugs if you think a man who chops his dick off is anything but a man without a dick. >Rachel Dolezal is a race-baiting sack of shit Fair enough. >Warren is by DNA part native american I am more related to Ghengis Khan than Elizabeth "1/1024 Pocahontas"...
[08:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:24] <exec> 08└─Care to explain why?
[08:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:26] <exec> 08└─I covered gender in my comment. Seems like you have no point whatsoever. But you can't see that.
[08:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:29] <exec> 08└─Shut up Nazi piece of shit
[08:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:31] <exec> 08└─Shut up Nazi bigot
[08:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:33] <exec> 08└─i hereby identify with a 90 yo. give me my pension and a nurse.
[08:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:35] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what you identify as?
[08:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:37] <exec> 08└─I think every country has it's village idiot(s). He is one of the Netherlands. Every now and then this guy pop ups in the media with some crazy idea (he markets himself as positivity guru), gets his 5 minutes of fame-fix and disappears to the background for some time.
[08:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:14] <exec> 08└─Correct, although other broadcasters with some public service broadcast remist (such as Channel 4) also receive money from the license fee. Until a few years, the law only required a license to watch or record live broadcasts of TV. That excluded watching catch-up streams, but not live streams. As s...
[08:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:15] <exec> 08└─Also, because the BBC is ad-free (and only have a short trail or continuity slot instead), commercial broadcasters keep their ad breaks fewer and shorter than in Canada/USA, to avoid alienating viewers.
[08:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:18] <exec> 08└─They might have been paying by recurring direct debit since they owned a B&W TV, and haven't update the payment since. It's a long stretch to suggest that's the case for all of them. though.
[08:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:20] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the other residents of the household would like colour. There is a (separate) 50% discount if the license holder is (registered) severely blind, but no such concession for the colour blind that I'm aware of.
[08:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:48] <exec> 08└─My wife has studiously avoided any mention of our kids on Facebook etc. since the birth of our first child; I've just avoided Facebook instead. Our three-year-old gets to play on an old tablet on weekend mornings (the wifi's broken on it, which is very convenient). She also enjoys playing Sonic the...
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[09:37:51] <exec> 08└─In truth, it is no different. A birth certificate documents certain objective facts: this person was born at this place, at this time, to these parents, has this biological gender, etc.. These are facts, and (barring error) not subject to amendment. If you later want cosmetic surgery, hormone treatm...
[09:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:12] <exec> 08└─Rachel Dolezal is a race-baiting sack of shit.
[09:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:14] <exec> 08└─Actually you bring up a good point. If this 69yr old wants to be 49. Fine. But he had better repay all that pension he likely got for the last 4 years and I hope he doesn't expect to draw any more for another 15+. What's that? He thinks he should continue to receive it? Hm. Perhaps he's just full of...
[09:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Far Fewer Lakes Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than Previously Believed - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:26] <exec> 08└─The theories were formed on fully-processed and analyzed satellite readings. That's not preliminary data at all. And even if it were: using preliminary data to build theories to explain observed phenomena is perfectly compatible with how science should work. And the fact that these new data points l...
[09:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:51] <exec> 08└─In other news, you inherit your (step) mother's cooking. (In some cases, your fathers, or other close relative). Also, the apple generally falls close to the tree has nothing to do with electronics. If you grew up in a safe neighbourhood, you will probably continue to live in one - even if not the s...
[09:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:52] <exec> 08└─In the full context, it has something to do with a beer, so I guess it doesn't make redundant the non-beer-related risks. (grin)
[09:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:57] <exec> 08└─I have a Likebook Mars [the-ebook-reader.com] that I like well enough, as well as an Onyx Boox from a generation or two back. However I was thinking more of PC displays and how nice that would be. There are a few e-ink reader/tablets that have HDMI in and/or wifi screen mirroring, but they are painf...
[09:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:58] <exec> 08└─even add high framerate video
[09:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:00] <exec> 08└─It's interesting, and definitely on the way to becoming useful and hitting the points I mentioned. The name is pretty clever. https://www.indiegogo.com [indiegogo.com] They don't mention a frame rate. It looks like 12-15 Hz. Still, you can see...
[09:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:02] <exec> 08└─Wot? Mon khallow répond à mon commentaire? Il ressemble plus à un champignon. Peut-être qu'il ressent de l'affinité. Mais la réfutation évidente est non, la privatisation ne rapporte que les entrepreneurs, elle ne fait pas progresser la science et l'exploration spatiale. La réfutation évide...
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[10:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:39] <exec> 08└─Cheaper than the latest round of Eurofighter (or US equivalent)?
[10:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:17] <exec> 08└─I hope you fucking die.
[10:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.ontario.ca/page/changing-your-sex-designation-your-birth-registration-and-birth-certificate [ontario.ca] https://www.thespec.com [thespec.com] The above trend is very, very troubling to me. Birth certificates a...
[10:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's a clever marketing campaign for a right wing containment board.
[10:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:50] <exec> 08└─Think you can do better? No? Well shut the fuck up then, you idiot luddite. What the hell are you doing on a tech / science website with such a stupid, backwards attitude? Regeneration is a massive, insanely complex area of research that has stumped (hur) scientists, doctors and researchers for deca...
[10:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:22] <exec> 08└─Please, someone, give me some reason to have some small shred of hope about the future. I can't find any!
[10:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:33] <exec> 08└─Of course, just because they write it in their terms of use doesn't imply that it conforms to applicable law. After all, there's a reason why such terms typically contain the clause that if some terms are found invalid, that doesn't automatically invalidate the rest.
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[10:44:34] <exec> 08└─You still failed at your support job, because after you learned that she doesn't like and won't use shortcuts, you failed to give her the obvious solution: Instead of deleting the copy on the desktop, move it back to the documents folder.
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[11:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:04] <exec> 08└─This submission seems to be all over the place. First, it's about some loan to SpaceX. Well, SpaceX is private so financials are private. How are we suppose to know anything there besides rumors? Not sure what this financing has to do with mini-BFR, but whatever. I just wonder if BFR is not going to...
[11:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:06] <exec> 08└─BFR development could cost anywhere from $2 billion to $10 billion. So it's no wonder they are looking for some cash.
[11:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:08] <exec> 08└─Also, SpaceX projects that its top source of revenue in a few years will be Starlink. In other words, SpaceX will get most of its money from being an Internet service provider. But they have to launch about 12,000 Starlink satellites within the next 6 years. They may be borrowing money to try to spe...
[11:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:07] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'll take "race" back and table "phenotype".
[11:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:08] <exec> 08└─BTW, I was thinking on this... and I recall someone saying that it was important to 'erase' all traces of alternate genders, etc. So the person would not be traumatized. But really, this is absurd. There will always be some clue. Are you going to throw out all history that says otherwise? And even s...
[11:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:24] <exec> 08└─I see an butthurt of all except Gab fans. It looks like we roll heavy cannons to take down one small social site for something loosely related to it, while another one led by Zuckerberg is hosting lots of illegal content and in fact is destroying half of the Internet. This is illogical. I see two th...
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[12:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─...the anit-EMCAscript and FOSS crowds...
[12:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06(Nearly Extinct) Northern and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:28] <exec> 08└─(Nearly Extinct) Northern and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought
[12:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 1548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:40] <exec> 08└─Certainly more expensive than the Wagyu porterhouse I had last weekend (point: comparing the cost of nanostructured aluminium oxide and the steak has as much relevance as comparing the same with the cost of fighter planes**). A valid comparison: - Eurofighter - double engine, started in 1982, total...
[12:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:22] <exec> 08└─But doesn't pension get calculated from the number of years you have worked? That's how it's done in France, so no matter your real age, if you can't prove that you have done the ~40 years of work, you cannot get a full pension. That would however give access to some services that are age-only depen...
[12:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:23] <exec> 08└─I identify as the love child of Azuma Hazuki and Runaway....can I get the courts to legalise that FOREVER! *Ducks.... severely*
[12:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:25] <exec> 08└─I knew there was something splendid...and wrong about you.
[12:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:27] <exec> 08└─Or Native American Chief Elizabeth Warren
[12:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:30] <exec> 08└─"Race" is a social construct, with no basis in biology
[12:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:32] <exec> 08└─Umpty bazillion teens petition the court to "legally identify as a 21 year old legal drinker"
[12:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:34] <exec> 08└─differences *within* ethnic/geographic populations are generally greater than those *between* ethnic/geographic populations.
[12:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:36] <exec> 08└─The thing is, this isn't about time. This is about just changing database records and such. Not very objective in the first place. No reason that any government needs to know what date you were born any more than they need to know what gender you are, right?
[12:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:09] <exec> 08└─We have educational channels [reddit.com] on the internet to fully explain that.
[12:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:48] <exec> 08└─I created an account there because I detest censorship. I posted a couple times to say that's why I did so, but don't expect to post much more than that. You can't really discuss anything there, and narcissism isn't my thing.
[12:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:50] <exec> 08└─After all, their staff is all-white
[12:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:52] <exec> 08└─Stormfront, on the other hand, consists of the most toxic world views that ever existed.
[12:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:17] <exec> 08└─Does it really make sense to the B&W license to be cheaper though? Maybe it made sense when color TVs were new and the people reaping the benefit of color broadcast would be asked to pay for higher production costs. But today the production and distribution costs will be the same regardless of wheth...
[12:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:23] <exec> 08└─Respond in English, please. Google sez: But the obvious rebuttal is no, privatization only pays entrepreneurs, it does not advance science and space exploration.
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[13:37:28] <exec> 08└─Reclabritaing unencsesray, was not a prolbem for redaing.
[13:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─My apologies, I had to retpye it several times because my connection kept dropping out when I tried to submit the story. Why I type directly into the textbox instead of in a proper editor is the fatal flaw of sloth.
[13:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:42] <exec> 08└─This is why some predict a collapse: as interest rates go up, more and more companies will be unable to make their payments Years of effectively zero rates led many companies to take on heavy debt
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06(Nearly Extinct) Northern and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:53] <exec> 08└─not the headline I originally had, but mine had a different mistake
[13:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:05] <exec> 08└─Fat shaming kills
[13:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:06] <exec> 08└─The truly excellent paper (with both micro and macro properties described) mentions that one application might be for micro flyers, since this material outperforms currently used composites. Just don't mistake that micro flying-camera-platform for an insect, if you swat one of these with your hand i...
[13:38:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:22] <exec> 08└─This guy is whatever age he thinks he is Bruce Jenner is a woman. Rachel Dolezal is black. Sen. Warren is a Native American. And we are commanded to believe these things are unquestionably true by the "Reality Based Community." Hmm.....
[13:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:24] <exec> 08└─*Caitlyn* Jenner is a woman, just not a ciswoman, and she's a complete waste of oxygen for reasons that have zip to do with her gender. Rachel Dolezal is a race-baiting sack of shit. Warren is by DNA part native american, but the tribes have more stringent criteria than just blood. 0/3, try again ne...
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─They are important for genetic history, in terms of pre-existing, family conditions. It is important for health! It is important if you wish to get specific VISAs, like a UK Ancestry VISA as a Canadian... which requires a grandparent or parent born in the UK. It is important to settle nationality...
[13:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:58] <exec> 08└─Now, now, we have a nice War on Age (and Age Discrimination) going on here, let's not muddy the waters by dragging drugs into it, with one exception. If it's the magic pill that restores people to youth, so that we can all live forever (and behave like teens again?), then, yeah, that would have a be...
[13:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:00] <exec> 08└─Now, there is a chance that cytologically this guy is a lot younger than his chronological age, but that doesn't change his chronological age, and this is a stupid, trollish "hurr hurr own da libs durrrp" stunt he's playing.
[13:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not. There have been reports of women with XY chromosomes bearing children. Ditto with men with XX chromosomes fathering children. Turns out that human sex and gender are really fucking complicated.
[13:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, as a final note -- I'd just like to remind everyone that we used to have more confidence in age fluidity in terms of social roles than we do today. Teenagers used to be called to rule countries (with aides of course). Younger teens who wanted to get married were often allowed to. Children were a...
[13:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:44] <exec> 08└─Well, to be sincere, every time I asked a friend to hold my beer it was about making room for some more by releasing the one processed in the last stages by my kidney. Never associated taking a leak with a risky behaviour.
[13:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:28] <exec> 08└─any and all documents which are related in any way
[13:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:01] <exec> 08└─Why was the evidence never submitted to court then?
[13:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:30] <exec> 08└─Libertarians say: remove all regulations
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[14:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:21] <exec> 08└─noting that being able to "replay the tape" and give history a do-over would be impossible.
[14:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:23] <exec> 08└─My take on this is that they're talking more about a tree than a tape. There are a number of possible outcomes, depending on what happens. But if you were somehow able to do a Monte Carlo method, randomly stepping through possible branch points and then look at the set that happens to lead to presen...
[14:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─How predictable is VHS? The answer has long been debated by video nerds grappling with the extent to which history affects the repeatability of VHS.
[14:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:27] <exec> 08└─Try again with a million slightly different starting conditions: Gives a million different results.
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:29] <exec> 08└─It's a tape. That's how they work.
[14:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:31] <exec> 08└─How predictable is VHS? Perhaps someone, somewhere has made a career of theorizing that if you replay the tape of tape, Betamax turns out to be the successful consumer format. Or U-Matic. People who actually understand the concept of replay, or the concept of tape, obviously are doing other things.
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:34] <exec> 08└─Sadly, he will never find out how magnets work, judging by the next two lines: And I don't wanna talk to a scientist Y'all ----- lying, and getting me pissed
[14:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:45] <exec> 08└─Any sign of a response to this by PayPal? Do they care? Can they do anything about customers using a different UI on a local machine?
[14:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:47] <exec> 08└─That's why we have editors, I s'ppose. Or do we?
[14:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:00] <exec> 08└─Could be - depends on how much of the debt incurred has adjustable interest rates. A counter factor here is that higher interest rates also curb the demand for more debt. My view is that while debt might kill a bunch of companies during the next downturn, it's probably not going to be the cause of t...
[14:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─Ok, so we want to fund a remarkable sequence of technology developments Working electric cars (Disruptive to car industry, makes an easy customer to sell out to) Cheap access to LEO (Ditto, old school space) World wide Internet sat net (Not really disruptive because there is nothing at that scale to...
[14:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06(Nearly Extinct) Northern and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:13] <exec> 08└─Just because something is most abundant subspecies does not mean anything other than that there are n+x of them, where x can be from 1 to a lot. They could still be endangered. Too lazy to go to the wikipedia.
[14:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:22] <exec> 08└─he wants to lie. it is a fact that he was born in 1949, and he wants to say otherwise. he can already do that. go to a bar, meet a woman, lie about his age. then, as the relationship progresses and the woman decides she wants to have children with him, he can always tell the truth (at that point the...
[14:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─I would expect there is a maximum value for the pension if it works like Social Security. Earn ten million per year or 20 million per year -- your SS is going to be the same amount.
[14:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:25] <exec> 08└─There have been reports of women with XY chromosomes bearing children. Ditto with men with XX chromosomes fathering children.
[14:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:27] <exec> 08└─This fine young individual is hero... Just like Rachel Dolezal.
[14:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:08] <exec> 08└─Obviously, you're not the sort of steely-eyed risk taker for which this knowledge base was intended.
[14:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:25] <exec> 08└─That seems a bit crazy to me, but then again so does the consumption of snails.
[14:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:27] <exec> 08└─Lack of SD card is a bit of a deal breaker there, my nook simple touch is getting a bit long in the tooth and my eyesight is getting a wee bit worse, I'd like a larger new home for it's 32Gig SD card, a thought though, does this beastie support OTG storage?
[14:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─It would perhaps have been a little more clear had you used "—" and "•" with " " in between letters rather than "=" and "*" and "." in between letters.
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[15:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:13] <exec> 08└─Gould's and other's assumption were that all adaptations were environmentally driven but randomly created. As the other reply notes, in a chaotic system we should expect that even the slightest deviation from initial conditions should be enough to drive a different conclusion. However, a few intrepi...
[15:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:14] <exec> 08└─How predictable is VHS? The answer has long been debated by video nerds grappling with the extent to which history affects the repeatability of VHS.
[15:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:16] <exec> 08└─While evolution takes the path of increasing the survival of the fittest, what actually causes the genetic change is often background radiation - cosmic rays from the sky, the products of radionuclide decay from the ground. Also breathing radon. It would be exceedingly unlikely for the same base pai...
[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:18] <exec> 08└─EDFGHJKJHGFDFRGH
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─The creatures that increase the entropy the fastest are the one favoured by that force.
[15:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:23] <exec> 08└─Well, if you replayed history, you would be replaying cosmic rays from the sky, the products of radionuclide decay from the ground, and breathing radon, because they're part of history. If you only replayed part of what happened, with different conditions everywhere else that influence the result, t...
[15:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:25] <exec> 08└─Seeing as how life seems to be turning into 'two girls one cup, with Rick Astley playing in the background', why would we want to do it all again anyways?
[15:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:27] <exec> 08└─-ic. TFS stated that chaos theory requires identical inputs to have identical results. While some particle interactions will have the same results, many of them won't. Just making the original particle trajectories identical won't make the reaction products identical, it is random. Not well-understo...
[15:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:29] <exec> 08└─An entropic force [wikipedia.org] is crudely described as temperature times gradient of the entropy. Just show that there's a gradient of entropy and you got the force.
[15:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:31] <exec> 08└─It depends on whether quantum phenomena are random or deterministic.
[15:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─Usage is straightforward, however your password may be stored in cleartext in your command history:
[15:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:46] <exec> 08└─(1) Yes, the typos got past me; story has been updated and the corrected version should make it out of the site caches within a few minutes. (2) Ordinarily, we strive to have a second editor review a story after it has been pushed into the story queue and before it goes live. As we are all volunteer...
[15:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the informative post! I seem to recall some program that, if a password was not presented on the command line, would take that as a sign that it should issue a prompt to the user to which they would then enter their password. That would keep it from being stored in their history (I think)...
[15:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:04] <exec> 08└─>World wide Internet sat net (Not really disruptive because there is nothing at that scale to disrupt) Umm, seems to me it would be pretty disruptive to pretty much all terrestrial internet providers. There might not be a single business to rival the scale, but the industry at a whole certainly does...
[15:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 2003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:05] <exec> 08└─Working electric cars (Tesla) have little to do with SpaceX. They are two separate companies and will stay that way. Flying a Tesla on a Falcon Heavy was a nice bit of cross promotion, but Tesla's successes or woes should not affect SpaceX's ability to raise capital. Likewise, The Boring Company doe...
[15:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:07] <exec> 08└─World wide Internet sat net (Not really disruptive because there is nothing at that scale to disrupt)
[15:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:28] <exec> 08└─Now, there is a chance that cytologically this guy is a lot younger than his chronological age, but that doesn't change his chronological age, and this is a stupid, trollish "hurr hurr own da libs durrrp" stunt he's playing.
[15:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:35] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I repeatedly said I don't necessarily agree with this guy's lawsuit. I just think it raises questions about the importance we give to a birthdate and how it is pervasively used in records of people, often to their detriment. if you really insist on making the comparison to "non-stand...
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:37] <exec> 08└─Well, at least where I am? People are looking at getting these things onto their certificates. They want to be demonstrated as , so while I agree that such records can be used against you? This isn't much of case where I am. At least, the perception isn't. I'll certainly agree that 'bad things' can...
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:39] <exec> 08└─Hmm. Here there's "old age pension".. which you get "because old", then there's a variety of grants and things "because old", then there is the CPP (Canada Pension Plan) too. So sort of a combo of both "your years worked" and "keep the old from starving".
[15:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:41] <exec> 08└─Well, there are some major age-based government and business services to consider, at least in some countries. I'd love to declare myself legally 80 and start claiming fully-vested retirement, Medicare, etc. Yeah, retirement wouldn't pay out quite as much per year, but the several decades of additio...
[15:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:44] <exec> 08└─I'd love to declare myself legally 80 and start claiming fully-vested retirement, Medicare, etc.
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:46] <exec> 08└─You're a moron, she had the genetic testing done and yes she had an ancestor that was fully American Indian. She never claimed to be a chief.
[15:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:48] <exec> 08└─I wish I could do this to get cheaper life/health insurance rates
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:50] <exec> 08└─Let's try it--say it with me: "I am a venus flytrap." Did you become a venus flytrap?
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─> Time is a quantitative standard, and the units of its measurement would make sense even with no human around to do the measuring. no it isn't. Humans do agree on corrections so often. try to run or even sync with an NTP server for fucks sake
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:54] <exec> 08└─A birth certificate documents certain objective facts: this person was born at this place, at this time, to these parents
[15:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Far Fewer Lakes Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than Previously Believed - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:07] <exec> 08└─The problem I have is with people "believing" or "thinking" things based off preliminary data and analysis.
[15:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─I would love to get some high quality monochrome displays. I know extremely expensive medical equipment is available, however the consumer options are very limited
[15:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:57] <exec> 08└─> It is quite specifically not state run. No, they leave the running bit to the private sector, but it is state approved, with indirect control by government. Personally, I don't particularly like paying for my own brainwashing, hence I have never paid for a TV licence. They do give you no end of ha...
[15:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─Its a lot more complicated than that, as the TV licence is not attached to the person, but the household. For example. I don't have a TV, or the TV licence, which is fine as I don't watch TV. However, if a friend comes round (who does pay the TV licence) and wants to show me something streamed on th...
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe after Greedy 'Clean Cache' Wipes Files - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─I once imaged a users computer. She claimed she always backed up to her D drive. Refused to let me take the time to back up her data. Turns out someone had shared a directory from the C drive and mounted it as her D drive. I imaged her computer and hilarity ensued. Well not really hilarity so much a...
[15:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─I watched the entire thing including the parts by Ford. How exactly do you expect a person to ask when they are being wrongly accused of the worst crime in America today? He acted better than Thomas did, and Thomas turned out to be a good judge. Either way he was fucked, and defending himself Thomas...
[15:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:02] <exec> 08└─Specifically ralated to Graham. Graham was told by Obama that the cost of losing an election was that the executive gets judges of their choice, Graham for the sake of unity worked to block any attempts by the republicans to look too deeply into Kagan or Sotomayor feeling that they should only be lo...
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[16:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:20] <exec> 08└─The author compares Picasa, which was bought by Google, to Instagram which was bought by Facebook. Somehow, from Instagram being more popular than Google Photos, he concludes that Google buying Picasa was a bad thing.
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─Man, now I can't think about anything but how much less those two sites could've sucked.
[16:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─So many existing industry players (pick the industry of your choice) give themselves advantage by helping to, or outright writing laws, regulations, industry standards, etc. that basically require other players to do things the way the established players do, meaning that a significant portion of th...
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─They're still in business: https://www.getstacker.com [getstacker.com] I always felt they made a poor choice in their settlement, by permitting MS to continue offering hard drive encryption.
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─A significant way anyone could help a Free Software or Open Source driver project is to purchase standards documents for its developers. Me, I always used non-quite-final-draft specs which at one time were freely available for SCSI and Firewire, however they were eventually taken offline.
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─Most of these startsups specifically aim to get bought by the biggies. "Killzone" my ass.
[16:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:56] <exec> 08└─Most of the /things/ you mention actually turn out to be members of groups that are still around. There was just a lot more diversity in form because most of what we have today wasn't around to limit their niches. Jellyfish, starfish, horseshoe crabs, squids, etc. are still fairly /thing/ish today t...
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:57] <exec> 08└─I'm no physicist but my natural expectation is that if you say you are repeating the exact same inputs and getting different outputs; then you are somehow failing to properly constraining your inputs and are mistaken in the belief that the inputs are /exactly/ the same. This may not be correct but i...
[16:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:59] <exec> 08└─MichaelDavidCrawford: While some particle interactions will have the same results, many of them won't.
[16:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:34] <exec> 08└─The Big Falcon Rocket (officially shortened to BFR) is a privately funded fully reusable launch vehicle and spacecraft system in development by SpaceX. The overall space vehicle architecture includes both launch vehicles and spacecraft, as well as ground infrastructure for rapid launch and relaunch,...
[16:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:11] <exec> 08└─Gender is a social construct and thus is subjective.
[16:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:12] <exec> 08└─But doesn't pension get calculated from the number of years you have worked? That's how it's done in France, so no matter your real age, if you can't prove that you have done the ~40 years of work, you cannot get a full pension.
[16:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:14] <exec> 08└─Someone is upset that people think he is a racist jackass.
[16:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:16] <exec> 08└─You just can not let the truth outshine your eugenics h7h? Truly a nazii bigot dinosaur you are. Get fucked racist garbage person.
[16:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:18] <exec> 08└─Why not? Retirement programs are generally profitable for everyone involved, so long as you're not allowed to game the formulas in your favor. Professional investors controlling a large pool of money can reliably get a much better return than private "investment hobbyists", and skim off some of the...
[16:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:20] <exec> 08└─It probably varies, but my state educational board retirement plan required N years minimum of work (for the state education system) , and then vests fully when X years worked + age reaches a certain number. The U.S. Social Security similarly has age-based considerations - the baseline amount you ca...
[16:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Far Fewer Lakes Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than Previously Believed - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:35] <exec> 08└─So, in the event, this thing is more likely sitting on a substantial landmass with no substantial bodies of water below it. Would that make it a lot more stable than previously believed? So, less susceptible to "climate change" / "global warming."
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:49] <exec> 08└─Nope, not at all. You and I can disagree, all day long, and on into the night, and remain pretty civil. Well, unless we start drinking, right? But, going onto a site, and disagreeing in uncivil ways will indeed get you banned, eventually, when everyone has had enough. In regards to calling people Na...
[16:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─Let me think that one over. It was Nazis who invaded Russia, right? Can't remember for certain - didn't 16 million Russians die before the last Nazi was booted out of Russia? Or, maybe 16 million was total Russian losses throughout the war. That almost matches the 20 million Russians killed off by t...
[16:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:52] <exec> 08└─It's not a Left vs Right thing. It's a statist thing. Latin America and Spain have a long history of right wing dictatorships. Throw in some left wing ones as well.
[16:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 2441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:10] <exec> 08└─Well, it does look like it regrew a great deal more bone, blood vessels and (presumably) muscle, and possibly even the beginnings of a knee and toes - in fact it very much resembles the middle stages of full-limb regeneration in species that can do that. In contrast the control "spike" appears to be...
[16:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:32] <exec> 08└─Well, I was assuming that MDC owned the phone, and it was powered of its own internal batteries at the time. I am aware of the extreme convolutions of the regulations, and was trying to keep it relatively simple. It looks like with Brexit, the UK will probably not participate in the (digital) single...
[16:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─I'm part of the unwashed masses that immigrated to America, so I've not had the pleasure to watch their geolocked data stream. https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] Though, apparently that's partially the American TV Networks fault.
[16:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:04] <exec> 08└─Each child has many toys. So putting data collection devices into toys creates much e-waste. (or iWaste) Data collection devices in children is only a one-to-one thing. So it's more efficient1. 1Efficient: (noun) the property of working towards a goal using the fewest possible number of fish.
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[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder how they will try to cheat consumers like they did with their diesel vehicles. Diesel-gate wasn't an accident, it was a business model.
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why Elon is getting so weird with Tesla because the point when VW and earlier Mercedes as well as other manufacturers like Jaguar I believe started offering pure electric vehicles or plans to do so with release dates Tesla won. Everyone seems to have forgotten or never paid attent...
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, it could be described as a business model. But, looking at the bigger picture? The EPA and others set requirements that were nearly impossible to meet. Maybe not impossible, but nearly so. It wasn't just VW, but most of the diesel car makers who were cheating. Maybe all of them. https://www.ny...
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─It's probably the huge financial losses that are making him act weird. This quarter's posted profits were some serious accounting trickery that can't be repeated, so unless Tesla Motors gets good at making cars faster and cheaper soon, the $$$ side of things looks real real bad. If I were him, cutti...
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─I guess I'll get a VW, then. I had a Rabbit back in the '90s.
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:06] <exec> 08└─There aren't any clear solutions to the situation yet.
[17:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:08] <exec> 08└─I would likely sell a company too, if offered stupid money. Seriously, anyone who thinks Markus Persson aka Notch, the maker of Minecraft did the wrong thing is insane. When Microsoft offers you $2.5 Billion dollars for your game / studio. You sell it. With money like that, he could make "Minecraft...
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:10] <exec> 08└─Psst... baidu.com (sometimes google translate helps, often it is not necessary).
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:12] <exec> 08└─US$2.5B is > 80 private islands (super-villain lairs). Of course, instead of just having 80 ordinary super-villain lairs, you can really do 10 or 20 of them up right: https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[17:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:14] <exec> 08└─Free use of patents might be a hard sell. But dramatically shorter patent lifetimes might work. It should be clear even to the non technical people at this point that almost everything is built on everything that comes before it. Longer patent life simply means slower pace of being able to build upo...
[17:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:16] <exec> 08└─The Kill Zone describe is indeed real. But imagine back when Microsoft was the only one doing it. There was no Google. No Apple, to speak of. It's easy to see why open source got a toe hold and was able to expand and grow. Then get corporate acceptance, like by IBM. Simply lack of competition create...
[17:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you could get things as similar as an ichthyosaur is to a dolphin. Anything much closer to any particular existing species would be unlikely. Remember, chaos theory doesn't have quantum mechanics at its base, but chemistry does.
[17:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:05] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall some program that, if a password was not presented on the command line, would take that as a sign that it should issue a prompt to the user to which they would then enter their password. That would keep it from being stored in their history (I think), and even more importantly, keep...
[17:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Loan From Bank of America; Falcon 9 Upper Stage to be Turned Into a Mini-BFR for Tests - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:26] <exec> 08└─Goldman Sachs Group Inc. had been canvassing investors for interest in $500 million of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. debt. By the time interested parties showed up Wednesday at the Four Seasons hotel in midtown Manhattan for a breakfast meeting, Bank of America Corp. was running the show for...
[17:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northern (Nearly Extinct) and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:39] <exec> 08└─I rearranged the title slightly to reduce the ambiguity; it now reads: Northern (Nearly Extinct) and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought
[17:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northern (Nearly Extinct) and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but the general idea is that it's a whole lot more than a population of one.
[17:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:56] <exec> 08└─I can think of a lot of useful applications. But one characteristic not mentioned is how it is much more susceptible to corrosion. This will need to be taken into account in any actual application. (Some applications may even find that a useful characteristic.)
[17:40:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:14] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: "Age" can be fluid, but there is no such thing as birthdatefluid.
[17:40:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Blymie [4020] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.ontario.ca/page/changing-your-sex-designation-your-birth-registration-and-birth-certificate [ontario.ca] https://www.thespec.com [thespec.com] The above trend is very, very troubling to me. Birth certificates a...
[17:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:15] <exec> 08└─Only if I get full custody rights. I don't want that son of a bitch poisoning your mind with his...well, everything about him. Okay, not-very-funny joke over. This is another of those "I identify as an attack helicopter" memes, which were both missing the point and about as amusing as a rubber crutc...
[17:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:16] <exec> 08└─To quote Ted, there's no such thing as girls with dicks, only guys with tits.
[17:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:18] <exec> 08└─I don't know, being overthrown by anti-semantics might be just fine. There's quite a bad history of anti-semitics, though.
[17:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:20] <exec> 08└─I identify as a Billionaire. Bellow is my bank account #, please fill it accordingly!
[17:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:23] <exec> 08└─Well, I want to go 15 years in an opposite direction and start to collect my social security at the maximum rate. Yes, I worked enough for it and I feel really old.
[17:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:25] <exec> 08└─"It comes down to free will, he maintains." the only reason you need to "petition" to change your age is because you already allowed bullshit laws to be written in the first place. now you're begging for more legal interference so you can have the freedom you had before you gave it away to begin wit...
[17:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:27] <exec> 08└─You can't change your gender. You can't change your age. The best you can do is cross-dress and run. Or maybe you should work on the real issues behind your transgenderism and age-erism. Were you abused/raped as a child and now you want to cut off what remains, and did you waste twenty years spinnin...
[17:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:29] <exec> 08└─It's disappointing to see so many [reactions] from people who clearly haven't bothered to learn anything about the case.
[17:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:31] <exec> 08└─Time is a quantitative standard, and the units of its measurement would make sense even with no human around to do the measuring.
[17:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:33] <exec> 08└─Found this, pretty interesting: https://genetics.thetech.org [thetech.org]
[17:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:35] <exec> 08└─Says someone who's never been to a (good) drag show!
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Far Fewer Lakes Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than Previously Believed - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:48] <exec> 08└─No, because the ice streams are an observed phenomena, and don't go away just because the prior explanation didn't work out. The observed phenomena remain observed, i.e., the ice is still streaming off. We just lost our explanation of why.
[17:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data from ancestry.com Suggests Genetics has Limited Influence on Life Span - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:18] <exec> 08└─That's not an unreasonable assumption, but it needs proof. Proof is lacking, and there is a small amount of evidence that suggests that external environment is not solely responsible for the differences. Sufficient evidence that that should be the default assumption until proof is available. As to w...
[17:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:49] <exec> 08└─Don't even get me started on Brexit. Ever since the vote the number of EU companies willing to offer me contracts has dwindled to almost nothing, and even then, only the occasional short 3 month stint, with no auto renewal or permanence offered. Companies don't want to bother with the headache and u...
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[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─I would be happy if all diesel vehicles disappeared tomorrow. Nasty damned things. I live on a very busy street and as soon as I walk outside, the first thing I usually smell is diesel exhaust. It's especially bad when the school buses are running. Actually, I'd lie to see all vehicles be electric,...
[18:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─Um ... an electric rabbit isn't a car, so you may want to do some research before getting one ;-)
[18:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:45] <exec> 08└─So, either an automated corkscrew or a vibrator... Hmm. Include both in the car, make it self-driving, and I think you've got a winner!
[18:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:47] <exec> 08└─I would argue that the Chevy Bolt already hit the mass market segment with good range and a decent price. However, the Bolt has undersold while the Tesla Model 3 is selling as fast as they are made. Purchasers really like Teslas. Now this is not a completely fair comparison: the Bolt is much more MP...
[18:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:49] <exec> 08└─will other car companies have to follow suit?
[18:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:52] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine ever taking a cab or a uber when I am not traveling to a location where its impractical to rent. Driving is one of the most enjoyable things in life to me. Getting out for a couple of hours and enjoying the scenery. Maybe this is a west coast thing, but it seems to me people are alwa...
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─Can a kid write a piece of software in his basement and become a billionaire without selling out? No, it is not possible; period. Hence the innovation - the real one - is done and gone. The reason, obviously, is that he'd have to violate patents. If we want innovation, he has to be let free.
[18:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:16] <exec> 08└─The reason MS *could* do it was that IBM and Unix(AT&T) were operating with government handcuffs on. The better answer is to break up any company that captures more than, say, 15% of a market, and arrange the terms so that companies WANT to hit that magic number. 15% is a bit arbitrary, but 20% is t...
[18:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:18] <exec> 08└─Guess who has control of a business? Their investors. In a startup, that equals the vultureventure capitalists (they'll sometimes change their name, but regardless of the words used they're playing the same game). The CEO may have control over the day-to-day, but ultimately their investors are calli...
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:51] <exec> 08└─The reason there appears to be an increase in complexity over time is two-fold. 1) We're biased to notice large entities. 2) You can only get so simple without becoming sub-optimal. There's a left hand wall.
[18:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:53] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, in the probabilistic model, every time an atom or particle radiates a particle the direction is random. That means radiation from the sun will have a different pattern every time the "tape" is run, and each DNA strand will be subject to different mutations.
[18:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:55] <exec> 08└─Well, actually there's a right hand wall too, but it's not as firm. The top limit of complexity is related to how well your code corrects for copying errors.
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 3182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─Ok this is going to seem wildly offtopic, but this is a sincere question and tangentially related to the topic because the code in question is written by an intern, which means she qualified for an internship and if you review her code it clearly wasn't her coding ability that got her qualified. It'...
[18:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:57] <exec> 08└─'..Future work will explore an intriguing phenomenon that results from a combination of properties: shining a light on a piece of nanocardboard allows it to levitate...'
[18:40:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:14] <exec> 08└─It's entirely possible that some variation of this could become "true" one day with anti-aging. You can only estimate a person's age from their appearance, DNA [soylentnews.org], skeleton, and other forensic clues, if you don't know their actual birth date. If you introduce comprehensive anti-aging...
[18:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:57] <exec> 08└─Behind every downmod is a festering nest of rat nazis.
[18:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, there's the little chicken fucker racist. Just to make sure I understood your context I searched, and what did I find? NOTHING! The only use of "white" is with "Ken White" the person. I guess racism just can't keep itself hidden, shit bags need to share their *very insightful* realizations wit...
[18:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─That wasn't the same AC pal.
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:19] <exec> 08└─A few years back, I visited a lab sequencing the Salamander Genome [nature.com], which has the trait that it is 10x the human genome. The motivation was/is of course, the limbs can be completely regrown so perhaps we can find out why? There is however some obvious logic that will dampen the spirits...
[18:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:42] <exec> 08└─I had a converter box for my old TV and wish I hadn't waited for the TV to die to replace it. It pulled 240 watts, the new, much bigger TV only pulls fifteen. CRTs are expensive to watch!
[18:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:44] <exec> 08└─It is quite specifically not state run.
[18:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:46] <exec> 08└─For $15K you can have better than 20/20 vision ($7500 per eye). The CrystaLens cures nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts. Ask your eye doctor about them. I have one implanted in my left eye. I was very nearsighted since I was a kid, 20/200 without glasses, now that eye is 20/...
[18:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:48] <exec> 08└─You're confusing England with France. The English have TV licenses, the French eat snails.
[18:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:50] <exec> 08└─4K is overkill on a screen that small. On my 55' there is only a tiny difference between 1080 and 4K.
[18:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:52] <exec> 08└─Few color blind people are completely color blind. My dad hated the term. "I can see colors, just not the same ones as you." He resisted getting a color TV at first but finally got one.
[18:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:54] <exec> 08└─It's a long stretch to suggest that's the case for all of them. though.
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[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─I am unclear as to who Ant Man and The Wasp were. Throughout the movie, the protagonist is on home arrest because he violated some restriction on what super heroes can do. Of course he escaped a whole bunch so his federal probation officer is always after him. I recommend it highly. Movies have come...
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─Comic books and video games? What happened to the "Stuff that matters" from the site that must not be named?
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─We Superheroes don't count violent acts. We just dish them out.
[19:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:59] <exec> 08└─Look, it's either this occasionally or it's 24/7 politics.
[19:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:01] <exec> 08└─You just have to accept that they exist in a world where, just like the laws of physics don't apply, the rule of law doesn't apply either. That, somehow, vigalantes are the only way "justice" can happen, and that the Blues Brothers Rule is in full force.
[19:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─Walken's Max Zorin's body count far beats any of the other characters. But then Walken is always awesome.
[19:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:05] <exec> 08└─You think super-hero films are bloody? Tarantino got nothing on Shakespeare.
[19:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:07] <exec> 08└─Be a superhero!
[19:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:09] <exec> 08└─The difference between "villain" and "hero" isn't how violent they are, it's their motivation. Villains undertake their deeds for their profit, power, or aggrandizement. Heroes fight villains, and don't become without some injustice to fight against.
[19:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─Most superhero stories focus on the heroes, so every violent act they commit is on-screen and counted. Violent acts by villains are therefore under-counted.
[19:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:14] <exec> 08└─Ah, more perfect role models for youth to follow. Punch-up violent offenders, now running from their probation officer. Oh that Hollywood would catch fire and burn.
[19:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:16] <exec> 08└─The movie doesn't focus on the villain so you won't see their acts. Good villains aren't necessarily violent. The hero has to respond in an expedient manner with force necessary to stop said villain. I'm sure in the next blockbuster film, Batman will attempt sue the Joker into oblivion. The Joker do...
[19:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─Is now 8 years running and I've missed nothing of value. Hollywood loves them because they're universal sellers. Sell great worldwide because simple action plots have worldwide appeal. The protagonist is wearing a mask half the time so could be any nationality.
[19:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:20] <exec> 08└─Violence Depicted in Superhero-Based Films Stratified by Protagonist/Antagonist and Gender
[19:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─Also, winning involves getting less damage than you dish out.
[19:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:45] <exec> 08└─Taking donations to buy mcgrew a bumper sticker - https://www.zazzle.com [zazzle.com] If every member donates a dollar, we can buy him one for every bumper he owns!
[19:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:46] <exec> 08└─>...and Model 3 priced around 30k. ...and Model 3 priced around USD $50k. ftfy. The chance of seeing a $30K Model 3 in the next couple of years approaches zero.
[19:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:48] <exec> 08└─Until portable fission is invented, electrical car is way more attached to infrastructure. That's why I can't imagine ever wanting one. Car is about freedom and no way I am giving in part of it.
[19:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:50] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine switching to electric. I am way more likely to switch to Uber and/or sharing.
[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─VW "intend" to make/sell a car. Tesla already have one selling like hotcakes.
[19:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:55] <exec> 08└─He has to prove that electric cars are better *and* that you can make money with them. If Tesla went belly-up, the other companies would point to that as justification for shutting down their electric lines.
[19:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─I'll try not to blast your hint throughout every corner of the Internet. One should not have to pay so much money for standards.
[19:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:57] <exec> 08└─I think it explains why Quantum Physics continues to be pretty much ignored by most people. It really does turn the world upside down, if particle interactions are non-deterministic, yet the world that we interact with seems to be extremely deterministic.
[19:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:58] <exec> 08└─If you repeat the experiment enough times the average of all the results asymptotically approaches deterministic. The number of particles we can see with all but the very most powerful microscopes is so great that whatever we look at, it's quite close to determinism - but it never really gets there....
[19:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:00] <exec> 08└─If you forget to rewind the cosmic environment together with life on earth, I'll predict a rather large deviation in the course of evolution about 65 million years ago.
[19:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:02] <exec> 08└─You didn't pay enough attention to details. At some time, Han stopped shooting first.
[19:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:46] <exec> 08└─The reason why the opposition is so harsh is because it feels like a dogwhistle lawsuit trying to discredit transgender people. While your arguments regarding age-ism are true and worth discussing, the lawsuit doesn't seem to speak to them. Especially when you consider the political backdrop: The Ri...
[19:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:47] <exec> 08└─Feed me, Seymour!
[19:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:49] <exec> 08└─It would be suuuuuuch a shaaaame if you were to choke on one of your dog whistles.
[19:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:51] <exec> 08└─Stupidity sure is fluid though, just keeps pouring out of you all day.
[19:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:28] <exec> 08└─Did you just advocate for deplatforming people???? TRAITOR! 1st Amendment! Fascist authoritarian banning accounts cuz of yer feeeelz
[19:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:30] <exec> 08└─Hi dummy, I see you're posting more of your dummy stuff. You know they have a cream for your condition now?
[19:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:32] <exec> 08└─Don't try and reason with the troll, just insult it and move on. VLM is a racist moron parroting stupid talking points.
[19:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:34] <exec> 08└─If I ever develop a case of butthurt, I'll call you to apply some salve for me.
[19:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks, this made me chuckle.
[19:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─I do understand that the french are known for eating escargot. It was just meant to show that some things may not make sense to me, but doesn't mean it's not normal for others.
[19:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─In Israel, they call it 'heeb & goyem' TV.
[19:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:27] <exec> 08└─Now I'm afraid to ask what NTSC stands for.
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─If you stream BBC on any device, you need a license.
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:31] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they do about the datacenter in London via which I stream BBC programs? Do they ask the datacenter if it has a license? On the other hand, the IP address is listed with a location that is in the middle of the Thames, so enquiries might be difficult.
[19:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe after Greedy 'Clean Cache' Wipes Files - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:06] <exec> 08└─Sure, he should have had a backup. Just like a homeowner should have insurance. However, that doesn't mean an arsonist is off the hook for burning the house down with or without insurance. The incompetence of the software in question does rise to the level of malice. It would seem natural enough tha...
[19:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe after Greedy 'Clean Cache' Wipes Files - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:07] <exec> 08└─(3) it does so. The software worked correctly.
[19:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe after Greedy 'Clean Cache' Wipes Files - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:09] <exec> 08└─Since Adobe issued a patch to make sure it only deletes files in the "Media Cache" directory, I'd say it was a bug that it deleted the other files that are now the subject of the suit.
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[20:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 2017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─It's not that I'm necessarily disagreeing that heroes tend to use a lot of violence to solve problems, and the stereotypical male will usually resort to a violence-based solution much earlier than a stereotypical heroine... but... I am very curious exactly what these people wrote down during their r...
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[20:38:06] <exec> 08└─They've become boring. Avengers tries to keep things interesting but fails so hard. Infinity War was the most ridiculously stupid plot which I'm pretty certain they're gonna ex-machina their way out of. "JUST KIDDING! Dr. Strange messed with time again and everything is fine now."
[20:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:08] <exec> 08└─> And to put the final nail of the coffin, their sample size is FUCKING 10. No, I'm not missing a zero, these "scientists" watched 10 superhero movies and wrote a "scientific" paper about it. This is the state of oppression studies academia people. So, they got paid grant money to sit around for day...
[20:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─Nazi counters with Luger. Your superhero lost a life.
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:12] <exec> 08└─And it is mostly guys—male characters were five times more likely to engage in violence than female characters.
[20:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─I thought it was interesting as a discursive shift. Heroes have been twisted into anti-heroes. Not universally--Wonder Woman was refreshing because it hearkened back to concepts of duty and honor that used to be the meat of every superhero mythos. It used to be that even Batman was an upbeat charact...
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:17] <exec> 08└─was this whole thing a lead-in to an emacs joke? wtf
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[20:38:37] <exec> 08└─The EPA and others set requirements that were nearly impossible to meet. Maybe not impossible, but nearly so. Except that in cheat-mode they did pass these impossible tests. At the expense of mileage and power, of course, but they did meet them. So, no, not impossible at all. In fact, they're so eas...
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[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─In general my opinion is "yeah but what if I want to drive the Alcan again?" which I have done like six times in the past decade. Fixing the range issue would make me more interested or even giving me a hybrid truck would definitely get me more interested. I'm willing to negotiate here if they can g...
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[20:38:49] <exec> 08└─The only other benefit is "lack of engine noise", but modern ICE vehicles make virtually no noise anyway, although they do make enough to let people know they are nearby or approaching. BEVs are so quiet its jarring just having one sneak up on you when you are not expecting it.
[20:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:51] <exec> 08└─Chevy has a quality reputation to overcome. I like EVs, have one, but I have trouble getting myself to seriously consider anything Chevy.
[20:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:53] <exec> 08└─Until portable fission is invented, electrical car is way more attached to infrastructure.
[20:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:56] <exec> 08└─While I agree that electric cars don't make sense (yet), they do have a few other advantages over ICE; You can fill-up at home. Yes, it takes longer for an electric to charge up, but it takes less of my time.They have less down time for repairs. As complex as they are, there's still fewer parts t...
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[20:38:58] <exec> 08└─There are actually a number of pros to be considered: EVs: Have (usually far) better acceleration / torque for their weight class (which translates directly into less risky merging, passing and on-ramp capabilities, assuming there's a competent driver, which... yeah, I know)Are fuel-source agnostic,...
[20:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:02] <exec> 08└─"If you repeat the experiment enough times the average of all the results asymptotically approaches deterministic." And this is exactly what we would intuitively expect if our constraints are simply not precise enough, either in the sense of say constraining to 8 decimals when 12 is required, or per...
[20:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:04] <exec> 08└─"The top limit of complexity is related to how well your code corrects for copying errors." In a biological context it's a lot more limited than that. More complex organisms tend to be more finely tuned to their environment. This is what permits them to arise and thrive, of course, but it also makes...
[20:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:06] <exec> 08└─The book The Vital Question -- Why Is Life The Way It Is? [wikipedia.org] argues that many important traits of life (as we know it): sexual reproduction, two different sexes, programmed death (by old age), the balance between fertility and immunity to diseases (can't choose both); are all somewhat i...
[20:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:08] <exec> 08└─I see where you are going. just remember humans are not necessarily the ideal, end, equilibrium state for life. On this planet, dinosaurs got there first and ate the mammals for 100s of millions of years. And though more than 1 extinction event. Us humans wouldn't be here at all if the dinosaurs had...
[20:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─I disagree. The name, description, and apparently genetics, of a venus flytrap is human defined. Therefore, it is a social construct. Therefore, we can all be venus flytraps if we want to. It's called species fluidity and you are a cruel, cruel anonymous coward for triggering me with your abusive 'o...
[20:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's not. Look at the research. I presented several links which specifically address that issue. Where is the *actual* data and research that supports your claim? You don't have any? There's a shocker. Not.
[20:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:36] <exec> 08└─Especially the ones you dislike. That is the entire point of the first amendment. ( and since we are talking government involvement here, we can actually cry 'free speech' concerns. )
[20:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:57] <exec> 08└─Um, no. Dr Becker did this back in the 80s.
[20:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe after Greedy 'Clean Cache' Wipes Files - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:09] <exec> 08└─Terms of use routinely attempt to disclaim liabilities that can't actually be disclaimed. You can't just put a not responsible bumper sticker on your car and cancel your liability insurance.
[20:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe after Greedy 'Clean Cache' Wipes Files - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:10] <exec> 08└─But what does that have to do with this (which I was replying to): "PS: Raw footage can easily chew through many TB's of space. Backing that stuff up isn't as trivial as backing up a handful of documents."
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[21:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:57] <exec> 08└─See here [youtube.com]: An amateur diver has recently made an unprecedented discovery by unearthing a huge 7,000-year-old burial site off the coast of #Florida and although experts say that the people buried here are the ancestors of the #NativeAmericans, are they in fact ancient Europeans who migra...
[21:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─Before I address your post, I need some clarity, because parody is dead. Do you actually believe this bullshit?
[21:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:29] <exec> 08└─the rule of law doesn't apply either.
[21:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:31] <exec> 08└─It's not that big a secret. One of the Infinity Stones is time-themed. And Dr. Strange has already used that particular stone to ex machina his movie. And there's like five other bogusly powered stones (or to be edgy, one could use all six at once! Whoa!). I imagine Marvel has already figured out ho...
[21:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:33] <exec> 08└─Batman is actually quite fascinating in legal dramas. Here is a documentary showing the time he sued Superman https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] So yes I think Batman v Joker ala People's Court would be quite fascinating to watch.
[21:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:35] <exec> 08└─Comic books, check! video games, check! superheros, check! It appears to me that all of the above are on the standardized list of topics which could be deemed "news for nerds". You clearly don't belong here. Door is on your left, but the furry convention is in a different building across campus. Ple...
[21:38:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─I would be happy if all diesel vehicles disappeared tomorrow. Nasty damned things. I live on a very busy street and as soon as I walk outside, the first thing I usually smell is diesel exhaust. It's especially bad when the school buses are running. Actually, I'd lie to see all vehicles be electric,...
[21:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 3469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:11] <exec> 08└─There's electric power everywhere you're likely to travel - much, much more electrical infrastructure exists than gasoline infrastructure, electricity is pre-wired to nearly every dwelling unit and business in the developed world. I put 40K+ miles on my Model S85D last year, and the convenience is u...
[21:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 6057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:13] <exec> 08└─> You can fill-up at home. Yes, it takes longer for an electric to charge up, but it takes less of my time. I have to say I didn't think of that. Round here, in high rise dense cities, there is no way you can charge the car overnight. You don't have a garage, or even a driveway, to park up the car,...
[21:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:15] <exec> 08└─VW damaged new diesel engines reputation. In fact new diesel cars made after 2016 for the US market are cleaner particulate wise than most GDI gas engine cars ! e.g https://phys.org [phys.org] So ban gasoline engines first if diesels have to go ! Most vehicles with DEF m...
[21:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:17] <exec> 08└─German electric cars with VW's reputation of integrity.
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─To get a vagina installed.
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─Have you considered the amount of infrastructure put in place to distribute fuel all around the country, from pipelines, refineries, storage tanks at distribution centres and strategic reserves, to all the trucks to deliver to individual filling stations? It's really quite huge. As soon as electric...
[21:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:34] <exec> 08└─"I see where you are going. just remember humans are not necessarily the ideal, end, equilibrium state for life." Of course. Not anymore than a late-term fetus is the ideal, equilibrium state of human life. Each is simply a brief stage that may (or may not) lead to the next one. "Us humans wouldn't...
[21:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:36] <exec> 08└─If you have a hot filament that gives off light, then passes through two vertical slits, eventually to strike a photographic film, there will be a pattern of light and dark fringes on that film if you let the experiment run long enough. Any effort to determine which slit the photon went through will...
[21:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:57] <exec> 08└─Handling passwords is not a new topic. Like most other programmers, the author of this "script" is just a hack.
[21:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:28] <exec> 08└─In the UK pensioners get all sorts of discounts despite generally being the weathiest people.
[21:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:09] <exec> 08└─I know that, its why I specified 'fully colour-blind'. (I have a very mild case of protanomaly.) The incidence of colour deficiency is around 7% of males. In the UK that would be over 200,000 not 7000.
[21:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they do about the datacenter in London via which I stream BBC programs? Do they ask the datacenter if it has a license?
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[22:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:09] <exec> 08└─So i'll miss some Disney shite...who cares. Even the Star Wars movies aren't worth watching anymore. Buh-bye...don't let Donald hit you on the way out.
[22:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:10] <exec> 08└─I suspect that you aren't the target demographic. My understanding is negotiating with children on media consumption is quite difficult, and perhaps paying the 10 or 20 or 50 dollars a month to the Mouse is a reasonable price to pay.
[22:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:20] <exec> 08└─That's the nature of Science: It shits all over your beliefs.
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:23] <exec> 08└─genetic markers were found in remains in Brazil that are shared with Australian Aborigines
[22:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:25] <exec> 08└─The Mormon religion is predicated upon the idea that the Americas were settled in a few waves. While the main thrust of their scripture is premised upon the life and times of one family and their descendants from the middle east, those descendants encounter both people and writings from waves of cul...
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:27] <exec> 08└─hey, we're doing as the DNA did!
[22:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─It is the europefying of history...just like many cannot accept that their religion, that they will claim is absolute truth, was started by a guy who was an Arab by all definition (region, genetics etc)...He is depicted as tall, white instead of the 5ft2 or 5ft4 and brown as he was most probably. Si...
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:31] <exec> 08└─You're the one talking about narratives.
[22:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:33] <exec> 08└─It's called the Holy Roman Empire for a reason; it's called the Roman Catholic Church for a reason. Christianity became a thing when the Emperor of Rome seized it as a tool for unifying the otherwise disparate religions of the Empire; it satisfied the legalistic fanaticism of the Jews, and the myths...
[22:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:10] <exec> 08└─Supergirl made the big screen a long time ago. Though surely she should be Superwoman, calling her Supergirl is somewhat sexist, unless you are going to start calling Superman, Superboy instead.
[22:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:12] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between using force and violence.
[22:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:14] <exec> 08└─Han shot first!
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─male characters were five times more likely to engage in violence than female characters. instead of calling for more violent female superheros...
[22:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─Absurd. One word: Thanos. In one fell swoop Thanos obliterates half the population, not of the Earth, but the entire Universe. This is not violence? Stupid researchers produce stupid research.
[22:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:20] <exec> 08└─or it's 24/7 politics.
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[22:39:22] <exec> 08└─To answer your questions, it's actually licensing issues that prevent SuperGirl from returning to the big screen. Even though DC took a different approach than Marvel. I say this because DC Characters exist explicitly in a multiverse. They took supers who were not moving comics and licensed them for...
[22:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:06] <exec> 08└─Whaaaaa! The test was too hard so I cheated. That's okay, right? Whaaaaa! Look over there, they are cheating so I can too, right? Whaaaaa!
[22:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:07] <exec> 08└─EVs Don't inherently produce additional air pollution when run (that depends entirely on the power source) There's a bit more to this than meets the eye. It turns out that a significant source of PM10s and PM 2.5s (the particles that cause most lung damage) is in fact the dust generated from tyres r...
[22:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:10] <exec> 08└─Plus dealerships HATE electric cars. They make most of their money on their maintenance garage. Electric vehicles are terrible for those. They require almost no maintenance and what they do require (short of a blown motor or battery) can be done by any Joe Blow, let alone a certified mechanic. The s...
[22:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:19] <exec> 08└─A classic. And I think you're right - we can't explain those results by appealing to sloppy measurements. Something else entirely has to be going on here. However, this really brings us back to an old scientific problem that was never properly /solved/ in a way that many feel satisfying. That questi...
[22:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:20] <exec> 08└─Not on the VSH tapes, no.
[22:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:22] <exec> 08└─Star Trek already explored this. If we forked the Universe, we'd all have goatees and be grumpier.
[22:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:44] <exec> 08└─$ read ; pagamigo --password "$REPLY" ; unset REPLY You can also use read PW if you prefer PW as variable, or need multiple reads; REPLY is just the default. Use "read -s" if you want silent mode, to avoid shoulder surfers. It's all documented in bash man page. BTW, pagamigo is probably a joke on Pa...
[22:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:45] <exec> 08└─When pagamigo --password "$REPLY" is processed by the shell, it will set up the password argument in cleartext, which could be accessible to programs that can read the list of running programs, etc. In general, a program argument is not a safe spot to place sensitive information.
[22:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:47] <exec> 08└─True, it will appear in ps unless commands take extra steps to change their command line. As in http://www.uofr.net [uofr.net] (and not working everywhere). Some get very creative with the issue, with library preload https://serverfault.com
[22:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:19] <exec> 08└─The fuck is wrong with you people? Hateful disgusting humans.
[22:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:21] <exec> 08└─There are cases of people being born with ambiguous genders. There are zero cases of people being born with ambiguous ages.
[22:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:24] <exec> 08└─I think this whole 'change muh bird-day' thing is an attention getter: as an aside, I think of myself as, at least mentally, around 35 years old. My body, on the other hand, likes to remind me i'm over 50. If i could legally change my body to a 25 year old one, i'd do it in a heart-beat, lol. My bra...
[22:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:26] <exec> 08└─Well, there are some major age-based government and business services to consider
[22:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:28] <exec> 08└─someone disputing the chronological age he's at
[22:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but I am not there yet. With effort, I used to be able to focus closer than 2 inches in front of my eyes and read the microprint on AU currency, getting older that has moved out to about 10 inches. With no strain I can currently focus from about 20 inches to infinity, it is just a littl...
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[23:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:29] <exec> 08└─Or you could just tell them the truth. That streaming and binge watching these shows are causing their peers IQs to drop and thus, by preventing them from consuming this crap you are saving them from a life of suffering. Can't stop the sleepovers though. I tried to ban my kids from Netflix a few yea...
[23:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:30] <exec> 08└─If negotiating with your children is quite diffucult, you aren't beating them often enough.
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:32] <exec> 08└─> be google > wanna compete with fb > call service google plus > *crickets* > be disney > wanna compete with netflix > call service disney+ you are here
[23:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:35] <exec> 08└─beating children is awful and barbaric. starve them instead.
[23:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:37] <exec> 08└─Another waste of money in which I will not participate. Good times! [youtube.com]
[23:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:39] <exec> 08└─That doesn't work with young kids - they can't connect cause and effect well enough. Not to mention they're insufferable (or more so) the whole damn time. Fewer diaper changes though...
[23:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─No, the truth shits all over your beliefs/fantasies. Science is a method for finding the truth nothing more nothing less.
[23:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:56] <exec> 08└─Quite. [abc.net.au] Here is a map [businessinsider.com.au].
[23:39:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:22] <exec> 08└─Violence Depicted in Superhero-Based Films Stratified by Protagonist/Antagonist and Gender
[23:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:42] <exec> 08└─It seems an odd criticism to me, as if nerd culture wasn't always inclusive of sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero topics. I vividly recall topics like this being discussed on /. from the beginning; anyone else recall the "Natalie Portman and hot grits" meme? Disinviting this AC from SN seems a bit sever...
[23:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's not revive the holy war.
[23:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:46] <exec> 08└─It's only identity politics if you believe that being a woman or man is merely an "identity" rather than a simple fact. If you produced a perfectly healthy biological clone of me, it would be female (two X chromosomes, breasts, vagina, etc.). The fact that I don't match gender stereotypes (or come c...
[23:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:48] <exec> 08└─Ooooh, AC found an outlier! SNAP sonnnn, them researchers are gone go piss their pants in embarrassment. Logic +1 Critical Thinking -4
[23:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:37] <exec> 08└─You've got to pay for all the wine and batteries somehow...
[23:40:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:56] <exec> 08└─There aren't any clear solutions to the situation yet.
[23:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─I agree, the space trick is a workaround for bad design, rather than the right way. It's good to know about for the occasional useful tool with dumb behaviour, though.
[23:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:57] <exec> 08└─No; there's more to gender than its social interpretation (which is no less important than its other facets for many purposes). Gender is also a (not strictly binary) objective set of X and/or Y chromosomes; gender is also a (not strictly binary) objective but not necessarily fixed combination of or...
[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─Except gender is not a social construct and until someone very recently started screaming otherwise. Gender and sex were the same and meant the same thing. If gender is indeed a social construct then what exactly do we hope to accomplish by giving trans people hormones? You are a fucking nazi for si...
[23:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:01] <exec> 08└─Can you show me something from the 1800s that demonstrates that the words gender and sex have different meaning please?
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:03] <exec> 08└─Lol!!! like we're supposed to think you're not trans. Seriously I didn't even know you were trying to claim otherwise.
[23:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:49] <exec> 08└─I thought we had previously discussed the validity of legal opinions from Runaway. Amicus curiae does not mean what you think it means, Oh one of the crossed mind!
[23:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab Targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:50] <exec> 08└─Gab still has too much an echo chamber amongst the "Legions of the Damned"
[23:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limb Regeneration Stimulated in Adult African Clawed Frogs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:14] <exec> 08└─Otherwise we're going to end up with some 1000 pound frogs, and African Clawed frogs don't sound too friendly, if African bees are any indication
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