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[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Commont Too Long. I'll mark it up, post it at warplife.com then link it in a reply. Something is quite seriously wrong. I've had an intense head rush for like ten minutes, and a truly loud ringing in my ears. Were I to try to get up quite likely I would fall down. But I must do so so I...
[00:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Up to 500 Million Customers of Marriott International Hotel Group Involved in Data Breach - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:31] <exec> 08└─Every time I check into a hotel I think over that they don't need my real name, DOB, address, credit card info. I know they have to protect themselves but they are a honeypot waiting to be robbed. Assholes.
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Up to 500 Million Customers of Marriott International Hotel Group Involved in Data Breach - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:33] <exec> 08└─It won't happen. I don't know what the deal is with hotels these days but I used to use the temporary or gift credit cards so if the hotel was breached at least all they got was my name and address. Now they all demand a 'real' credit card. It is getting to the point where it is worthwhile having a...
[00:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Unlocks Full Potential of 'Supermaterial' Graphene - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:50] <exec> 08└─That reminds me a conspiracy theory I heard a long time ago when we were using modems, and that was they had the tech for 28.8kb/s modems when they came out with 300 baud. It was just a bullshit game on part of the tech companies to force us to buy new modems every damn year. What's the fear here th...
[00:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─Indeed, moreover client/server is not stricly p2p. A true p2p alternative is gnunet gdns, of course the lack of centralization has drawbacks, freedom has a price.
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[00:35:53] <exec> 08└─sarcasm detector glows orange.
[00:36:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 1048 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:39] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it would change - if given the opportunity. However, if we dangle incentives much larger than were available to the US 150 years ago, then in 50-100 years there might not be much left worth saving. The fact is, the global demand for resources today is many times greater than the demand 150...
[00:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Map Centuries of History Beneath World’s Oldest Cathedral - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:54] <exec> 08└─IIRC the Lateran's cathedra, and not s. Peter's, features the papal ex-cathedra infallible directives.
[00:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Map Centuries of History Beneath World’s Oldest Cathedral - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:55] <exec> 08└─>So, who really is the Pope? enough of those "instructions unclear, dick stuck in altar boy" incidents. restore ratzy from backup pls and send pedos and gays to the thriving mission in antarctica.
[00:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Indictments Target Leak of Samsung Curved-Edge Display Technology to Chinese Company - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:30] <exec> 08└─No, no, just say what you really feel: Sounds something like a dumbass incel, seething at the mouth, would say.
[00:41:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers - 280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:30] <exec> 08└─There it is -- the exact sort of arrogant, dismissive, uncaring attitude that explains why Trump won. Yeah, 'cause there's no arrogant, dismissive, uncaring attitudes amongst the Trump supporters. I love how it's only the liberals who are supposed to be super polite all the time.
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[01:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most "Lifelike" Synthetic Cells Created, Enclosed in Plastic-Polymerized Acrylate - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─The cell mimics are tough, remaining undamaged after 2 years in a freezer. Their durability may make them good environmental sensors—one of several applications for the structures that the UCSD team is now exploring. And Devaraj and colleagues hope to equip these or other synthetic cells with the...
[01:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Most "Lifelike" Synthetic Cells Created, Enclosed in Plastic-Polymerized Acrylate - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:49] <exec> 08└─And since it is artificial, it can have numerous genders: "THE MILLENNIAL THING"!!!
[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most "Lifelike" Synthetic Cells Created, Enclosed in Plastic-Polymerized Acrylate - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─How dare you call me plastic or artificial? I identify as polymer-based.
[01:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Up to 500 Million Customers of Marriott International Hotel Group Involved in Data Breach - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:56] <exec> 08└─The key is to not collect all this information in the first place. Make sure you don't consolidate all your records in one place that don't need to be, and only locally store critical information rather than upload it to a master database. And don't forget to automatically remove information after a...
[01:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Unlocks Full Potential of 'Supermaterial' Graphene - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:11] <exec> 08└─Who remembers buckyballs? When I learned about them I was expecting a flood of new products using buckminsterfullerenes but nothing came of it! Seems that applying a neat new idea is harder than it looks. I used to assume someone out in the wide world was working on new applications of a technology,...
[01:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:02] <exec> 08└─The only way to get lawyers out of government is via revolution [wikipedia.org] - they don't give up, it's not in their nature.
[01:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesco and VW Plan Free Electric Car Charging Points - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:30] <exec> 08└─The "EV" spots I've seen in shopping centers thus far, whether charging or not, have prominent "EV Vehicles Only" signs — nobody else can park there, even if the person has a disabled placard and all of the disabled parking spots are taken.
[01:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps people aren't as stupid as you think
[01:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:55] <exec> 08└─but the facts are that the vast majority of ILLEGAL immigrants come here to take advantage of our lax welfare system.
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[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─and yet, the trains still don't run on time.
[02:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Predict the Future, the Brain Uses Two Clocks - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:00] <exec> 08└─That's okay. On a similar vein, I don't require a spectrum to accurately categorise your douchebaggery into either "full on douchebag" or "absolute non-douchebag". Fortunately, you perfectly fit into that binary choice.
[02:34:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Up to 500 Million Customers of Marriott International Hotel Group Involved in Data Breach - 1038 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:21] <exec> 08└─This seems to be a growing misunderstanding of the GDPR. Getting breached on its own does not automatically make Marriott liable under the regulations established by the GDPR, what potentially makes Marriott liable are failing to disclose the breach in a timely manner (it's not yet clear from the re...
[02:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:09] <exec> 08└─of course the lack of centralization has drawbacks Name one. I mean, other than we haven't developed the tech yet. If you want centralized, you can always run a "layer" on top the ad hoc carrier. It has to be totally ad hoc to protect our freedom. We have to strive for the bulletproof internet.
[02:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:00] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it would change - if given the opportunity. However, if we dangle incentives much larger than were available to the US 150 years ago, then in 50-100 years there might not be much left worth saving.
[02:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Archaeologists Map Centuries of History Beneath World’s Oldest Cathedral - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:19] <exec> 08└─Fun thoughts... never considered Catholic with a small "c." From wikipedia: The word catholic (with lowercase c; derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos), meaning "universal")[1][2] comes from the Greek phrase καθόλου (katholou), meaning "on...
[02:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dietary Revelations - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:55] <exec> 08└─So as not to mention transfats on their labels, food companies have made a new invention, the modified fat. These are made by breaking up the triglycerides and letting them recombine randomly. Now naturally occurring triglycerides have three chains of equal length, and triglycerides of different len...
[02:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dietary Revelations - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:56] <exec> 08└─macaroni with spiced, salted tomatoes and Spam Doesn't sound all that unhealthy to me as a meal. Could use some green vegetables, but not every single meal needs to be balanced.
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[03:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:51] <exec> 08└─"When applied to actors, the algorithm ranked Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise as the top three." These are the End Times.
[03:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─Just that you know who those people are makes you an idiot.
[03:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Predict the Future, the Brain Uses Two Clocks - 2039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─We don't have a single "AI" (all those things you just mentioned collectively) system that's capable of any inference whatsoever. They are all statistical models driven by human-created statistics. "Sufficiently advanced technology" that may be "indistinguishable from magic" for a small range of tas...
[03:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Predict the Future, the Brain Uses Two Clocks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:20] <exec> 08└─Louis Arsmtrong version is probably better known - you've heard it? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Al Lowe Reveals his Sierra Source Code Collection—then Puts it on eBay - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:59] <exec> 08└─The thing is he admitted that he walked into his job with a box of blank floppies and copied it. It is probably a 'work for hire' sort of situation. It would be like me going into work and making a copy of my code at work. Then taking it home. Then selling it. They would take me to court and sue me...
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[04:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:46] <exec> 08└─Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise
[04:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:47] <exec> 08└─While I agree it's distressing, at least those three actors have some chance of being viewed as "influential" or at least well-known. The fact that the only highly-ranked female actress was a random person in Bond films that many folks will never have even heard of should have been a clue that this...
[04:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Predict the Future, the Brain Uses Two Clocks - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:20] <exec> 08└─Congratulations! You just realized the skills any decent musician has to employ every other measure of a performance, often in signficantly more complex patterns (not just let's count to 100). Astounding someone like you could manage it...
[04:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Up to 500 Million Customers of Marriott International Hotel Group Involved in Data Breach - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:09] <exec> 08└─No thanks, your IT security sucks: https://krebsonsecurity.com [krebsonsecurity.com] Maybe some of you missed this amid all the breach news recently (I know I did), but Trump International Hotels Management LLC last week announced its third credit-card data breach in the past...
[04:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:34] <exec> 08└─"You can't hide your gender or race, or your purchases." Actually, in the 90's, when there was no such thing as a switch fabric that could do line rate stateful inspection that is exactly what we had. ""security against what?" We don't need to ask that question. The first draft of that particular sp...
[04:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:26] <exec> 08└─Feeding Trolls - just don't do it!
[04:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:27] <exec> 08└─Let me put it this way - when the U.S. was big on strip-mining, who were the major foreign powers purchasing the vast majority of the production? Who were the major foreign corporations with budgets larger than the government funding and operating the strip mining programs? THAT is the difference. W...
[04:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:29] <exec> 08└─Let me put it this way - when the U.S. was big on strip-mining, who were the major foreign powers purchasing the vast majority of the production? Who were the major foreign corporations with budgets larger than the government funding and operating the strip mining programs?
[04:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesco and VW Plan Free Electric Car Charging Points - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:52] <exec> 08└─And then they move their Factories to China. We can't destroy the competitiveness of our Factories in order to prepare for nonexistent Global Warming. China is thrilled with us!
[04:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesco and VW Plan Free Electric Car Charging Points - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:53] <exec> 08└─We love VW. Also known as Volkswagen, the People's Car. Because they're closeing their Business in Iran. They're obeying, very beautifully, my Sanctions to Iran. Very important for getting Iran to NEGOTIATE. Thank you, VW!! And another thing, so amazing. They have very special cyber they put in thei...
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[05:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:30] <exec> 08└─5:5 [Stock Marked Closed for 41st President (4+1=5)]:[Huber (December 5)] Stage is set.
[05:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:31] <exec> 08└─McCain's funeral was orchestrated as a rebuke to President Trump. Will we see something like that here? I've avoided the coverage until now. President Trump praises George H.W. Bush as a 'very fine man' despite long-running feud with Bush family [go.com] Heh. Good times. Trumps to attend state funer...
[05:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:33] <exec> 08└─A pentagon has 5 sides. What's going to happen at the Pentagon?
[05:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:36] <exec> 08└─Had no knowledge of what the White House was doing, Rumsfeld going to Iran, with a cake, selling them weapons, and using the proceeds to fund the Nicaraguan right-wing death squads. VP, out of the loop. Funny, considering he was former CIA director, and Reagan was an idiot actor with oncoming dement...
[05:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:50] <exec> 08└─"It's stinky! Stinky, stinky!" someone bellowed. The language used was that of a child's, but the person who shouted it had the voice of an adult male. Looking around the dim room, one could see an obese man pinching his nostrils shut. Indeed, the foul odor present in the room was intolerable. Where...
[05:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:51] <exec> 08└─Wizard of Oz was shown once a year, on Sunday night. Dad was a religious fanatic, we went to church Sunday morning and night, and Wednesday night. I really wanted to see the movie, but had to go to church. I got to be about 10 and started asking questions. Got answers like "Well, ya gotta believe"....
[05:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:53] <exec> 08└─That one checks out. Very hard for a Female Actress to be in the Top Ten. So much comes down to, how do the breasts look? If she has nice Tits but no Brain, possibly she can do very well. But for the movies it's bullshit. What about Home Alone 2: Lost in New York? Very successful film and it's the b...
[05:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Predict the Future, the Brain Uses Two Clocks - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:26] <exec> 08└─If you download it please drop it right in your shared folder http://mike.soggywizards.com [soggywizards.com]
[05:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Up to 500 Million Customers of Marriott International Hotel Group Involved in Data Breach - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:19] <exec> 08└─Is it time to implement the Emacs and begin the anarcho-capitalist revolution?
[05:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Unlocks Full Potential of 'Supermaterial' Graphene - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:37] <exec> 08└─What's the fear here though? That we wouldn't still buy new graphene computers every year? The neat thing about software, especially Microsoft, is that can seemingly expand in complexity and resource requirements to fit any computer you have.
[05:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Unlocks Full Potential of 'Supermaterial' Graphene - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:39] <exec> 08└─Good news, everyone! We found an application of buckyballs! https://www.eurekalert.org [eurekalert.org] https://www.sciencedaily.com [sciencedaily.com] :-(
[05:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:41] <exec> 08└─How does that fit in your little narrative?
[05:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:42] <exec> 08└─How about we discuss the rampant xenophilia that you seem to have? Why are so many people so concerned about all the people of the world except their own people?
[05:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:44] <exec> 08└─"America! Love it or give it back!" "Homeland Security. Fighting Terrorism since 1492." Crazy Wašícu.
[05:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:46] <exec> 08└─Who better to scour The Shire than orcs? [soylentnews.org]
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[06:33:30] <exec> 08└─How many chords in a geometrical pentagon you ask? Satanic pentagrams are different, but most of the herd do not distinguish between the two.
[06:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:47] <exec> 08└─It was shown once a year in the 70s too. I remember it well. My parents weren't religious fanatics so I got to see it. Things like that kept Oz alive in our consciousness. It even got to "go viral" with that Pink Floyd mashup. Oz references worked their way into the popular culture. Frank Baum set o...
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[06:36:40] <exec> 08└─What ads are you talking about?
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[07:33:46] <exec> 08└─Cars such as the Ford Pinto tend to explode in a fireball when rear-ended. The handling isn't so great either. After some public outrage driven by sensationalist reporting and an anti-war faction funded by the USSR, we decide to ban car production. 60 years later, cars are still unsafe. The typical...
[07:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:59] <exec> 08└─"I want to skullfuck Dagney Taggart."
[07:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:01] <exec> 08└─Escaped justice, for good this time. The man is a war criminal
[07:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:03] <exec> 08└─Funny you should bring it up: Papa Bush, Yale grad, moved to Texas, later CIA head - did he have a part in the JFK assassination?
[07:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:05] <exec> 08└─The 43rd.
[07:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Unlocks Full Potential of 'Supermaterial' Graphene - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:10] <exec> 08└─Was there a market for a 28.8kb/s modem that weighed 600 pounds, needed 70 Amps of 308-volt 3-phase power, occupied an entire 19" rack, and was priced accordingly?
[07:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:19] <exec> 08└─Personally, the name "DoH" doesn't invoke any sense of security. It invokes the image of Homer Simpson realizing he f'd up.
[07:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bloodbath Continues: Netflix Cancels Daredevil After Three Seasons - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:58] <exec> 08└─While it has a variety of stupidness forwarding the plot, none of the characters are OUTRIGHT stupid, although like most humans they sometimes make stupid choices whether due to character flaws, hubris, or choosing what seemed like the obvious choice at the time. The best part about it is the hero d...
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[07:41:00] <exec> 08└─And I mean who doesn't love a leprechaun supervillain?
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[08:34:37] <exec> 08└─I've long been able to sing if I warm up properly, or harmonize with someone else first, sing with an accompanist &c. But really the only time I've ever sung solo for my mother, she pulled her car into her parking lot, took her billfold out of her purse then just handed me a hundred bucks. :-/ That...
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[08:34:39] <exec> 08└─- to church. I was five years old, it wasn't a Sunday School Class, but it was a church group for five year olds. But Mom and Dad both told me I absolutely _had_ to stay home. I was bitterly disappointed but did not protest. Then Dad turned on the TV as Mom called Jeannie into the living room. I hav...
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[09:33:56] <exec> 08└─after initial skepticism of introducing the the car on a massive scale, due to "un-natural speeds" and other concerns, the car was introduced on a massive scale nevertheless. it allowed to live far from the workplace, a larger roaming area to obtain sustenance (food) and more leisure time. many year...
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[09:34:15] <exec> 08└─5:5 [Stock Marked Closed for 41st President (4+1=5)]
[09:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Don't forget that the 41st had two sons - the 43rd and the wannabe in Florida. However distasteful he might be (as distasteful as Hillary?) he remains something of a contender for the throne.
[09:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Predict the Future, the Brain Uses Two Clocks - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:12] <exec> 08└─There is no train. -funny looking robed kid from the Matrix
[09:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Al Lowe Reveals his Sierra Source Code Collection—then Puts it on eBay - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:57] <exec> 08└─Hard drives include the mechanical gubbins and read/write heads, as well as the magnetic media. Plenty to go wrong. Floppy disks, on the other hand, use standardised drives to read them. If one drive's faulty, just use another. Only the magnetic media itself is important. The two key issues are whet...
[09:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Al Lowe Reveals his Sierra Source Code Collection—then Puts it on eBay - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:58] <exec> 08└─"This is not CLOSE to selling a used book." It's very close to selling the original manuscript for a book however. If the author was not specifically required to surrender the original manuscript, it's his property, and if the book becomes (in)famous enough to make it worth his while then he's well...
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[10:33:45] <exec> 08└─Don't forget General Motors. Otherwise known as GM. We don't forget GM, do we? And the horrible Ignition Scandal. Big problem with the GM cars. Millions and millions of cars. Where, you put the key in the car. And it's like a rocket going off. The Ignition of the rocket. And the rocket crashing. Man...
[10:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─You must be old. 4+1 is "new math".
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[10:34:06] <exec> 08└─Coincidence?
[10:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:08] <exec> 08└─However distasteful he might be (as distasteful as Hillary?) he remains something of a contender for the throne.
[10:37:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:41] <exec> 08└─I didn't see anything in the article explaining a problem with the plant, only with the people. Give them fusion reactors and the same people in the same places (plus or minus migration) would have radioactive waste dumped everywhere, for example. Much like anti-gun sentiment, the problem is the cri...
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[11:34:04] <exec> 08└─Otherwise known as George Bush of the CIA. And from the CIA. Believe me, we have many Documents about that one. In the Classified JFK FILES that only I could release. Can release. And will release. I've put the deadline -- very strictly -- for releasing them. October 26, 2021. In my 2nd term. Mark y...
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[11:34:06] <exec> 08└─Yes.
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[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─Long story short, Wizard of Oz showing up on TV 1 night a year was a big step in my becoming an atheist.
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[12:33:13] <exec> 08└─more hedonistic shopping such as food, entertainment and travel
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[12:33:15] <exec> 08└─but does anyone buy a plane ticket with a mobile?
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[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─I don't care if they retire nuclear or not. But as long as they DO NOT replace it with any CO2 emissions, then it's OK. If even ONE new CO2 spewing gas power plant is opened, then it's a fucking disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Oh oh, so, when...
[12:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:21] <exec> 08└─If I understand correctly, his decision to run for Mayor of Carmel, California had something to do with his dispute between the city - more like a town, Carmel works very hard to preserve it's quaintly touristy character - and Eastwood's Ice Cream Shoppe. I watch a city council meeting on the TV new...
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[12:36:27] <exec> 08└─Finally, it seems questionable that the contents of these disks have actually survived
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[12:38:28] <exec> 08└─Arguably, the Pope is not even the Bishop of Rome.
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[13:33:13] <exec> 08└─No, and I won't pay for coffee with it either. Two reasons. First is that they really want to break the $5 limit here for a cup of coffee which is IMOHO already excessive. They tried. They went to $5.50 and the backlash was extraordinary. Paying with cash imposes a mental limit. Paying by mobile mea...
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[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─it allowed to live far from the workplace, a larger roaming area to obtain sustenance (food) and more leisure time.
[13:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─3 6 6 6 3 4 9 15 9 3 5 2 4!
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:22] <exec> 08└─I can remember the (just) 5 year old me watching on our old B&W telly, my father might have been a communist and no great supporter of the US, but when it came to those things they did which advanced Humanity he was behind them. The first time I listened to this song on an album I found on a quasi-r...
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[14:33:13] <exec> 08└─Keep Calm and Carry On. - Wallace Henry Hartley [wikipedia.org], among others.
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[14:33:23] <exec> 08└─How about make your own coffee? For $5, you can buy half a kilo of coffee. That tends to last a while.
[14:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:25] <exec> 08└─Half a kilo - alright. In US measure, about $7 gets a can, 1 lb 14 oz of Folger's medium roast, which works fine for me. YMMV depending on your favorite brand, roast, grind, etc. Custom roast/grind stuff can get hella expensive. Cheap generic stuff is considerably less expensive. I'll happily pay a...
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[14:33:27] <exec> 08└─If more people thought like I do, credit/debit/device payment methods certainly wouldn't be what they are today. I like the feel of anonymous currency nestled into my wallet. No one gets to track my purchases. No one makes a note if I do something unusual, because I'm paying cash. I've been forced i...
[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 1769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─France is on the path here to transform itself into a third world nation. With all of their insane CO2 policies at the same time, you would have to increase Nuclear production to supply more of the base load power, rather than CO2 sources. Many of the older nuclear plants do need to be decomissioned...
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[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─The 43rd.
[14:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:41] <exec> 08└─I was a kid long before that, and I was an early reader. My mom, Dr. Seuss and L. Frank Baum, in that order, taught me to read, and by the time The Wizard came to town, I'd read my way through five or six books of the Oz canon. Needless to say, I was really hot to see it. It was a disaster. A few mi...
[14:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:43] <exec> 08└─Barbarella > Zardoz > Death race 2000 > Rollerball > the wizard of Oz and star wars is off the map. Heathens.
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[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─And plunges Europe into colder temperatures. That'll teach those global-warming-denying-Europeans a lesson /s
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[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm aside, that might not be a bad thing, if it were taken on its own. Less warm tropical water entering the North Atlantic might enable the winter polar cap to recover a little, reflecting more sunlight and offsetting some of the other effects of global warming. However, it should be pretty obv...
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─What is the point of "paying with a cell phone" rather than a credit card, other than selling cell phones and letting some additional companies track you?
[15:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─I hope there's a nice multigenerational plot in Hell ready for this family. Prescott Bush worked with the Nazis, GHWB has everything from the S&L crisis to Gulf War I on his head, and I don't think I need to remind everyone of Dubya's particular sins. That entire family deserves to roast for a good...
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─Sadly, our imitator knows more about recent history than the real one.
[15:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:36] <exec> 08└─Dan Quayle!
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:39] <exec> 08└─No he didn't. Trust me on this one...
[15:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:41] <exec> 08└─He'd better have hoped the atheists were right.
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[16:33:04] <exec> 08└─There's no doubt that global climate change is real. There's no doubt that there's nothing that can be done to stop it. Therefore there's no doubt, it's not human caused i.e. anthropgenic. There are all kinds of signs and signals that demonstrate that the norm for the earth is a much broader tempera...
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[16:33:05] <exec> 08└─Yea, mini ice ages are great for lifeforms. That is why the beavers are trying to prevent one from happening by releasing the arctic methane.
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[16:33:22] <exec> 08└─Or in my case, just drink the free stuff they have at work in the break room :-p . Admittedly the Starbucks downstairs tastes significantly better, but $0 cost 'OK' vs. 5$ cost 'Tasty' is a heck of a value proposition for something that is functionally indistinguishable and takes an extra 30 minutes...
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:23] <exec> 08└─Right there with you except if I need to use a card for something online I go and buy a prepaid one with folding money. If they want to keep track of my spending habits, I'm at least going to make tracking by card number pointless.
[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─Japan is re-starting reactors that had nothing wrong with them but were shutdown for inspections/updates to make sure they would be able to handle Fukashima type events. This is not a change in policy or direction, it has been doing this steadily since that disaster when all its nuclear plants were...
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[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─I see you remember some of the prologue of the first Iraqi war, but Panama happened before that. And our appetite for fighting wars against nations of "little brown ones" was whetted in Grenada. Hehe, "little brown ones".
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─Let me guess. Regular pentagrams don't have the power to channel the supernatural, but Satanic pentagrams supposedly open a communications channel to the Anunnaki. You're better off with Ham radio equipment if you want to do that. Do not worry. Baphomet retired the Anunnaki role in bourgeois revolut...
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[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, hell doesn't exist. The man is worm food, never faced the consequences of his actions while alive, lived a long life, his kids are all rich and successful. There is no justice.
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[17:32:56] <exec> 08└─Carry On Screaming! https://en.wikipedia.org! [wikipedia.org]
[17:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:58] <exec> 08└─Except civilization as fragile as fuck and can't adapt to that sort of change. If you're looking forward to hundreds of millions or billions of deaths, wars, regression, and the very real possibility of falling back into a permanent Iron Age due to not having easily-available resources to kickstart...
[17:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:00] <exec> 08└─I thought they release beaver methane?
[17:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:02] <exec> 08└─It is not a joke. Beavers are engineering the arctic to release twice as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere: http://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] They probably have magnetite in their brains that allows them to sense the so...
[17:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─It is a race. . Do we get control over the climate before it gets too hot or too cold. . 1) Control over temperature (we can do this brute force with mirrors if we really put our mind to it.) 2) Truly green (fusion) power generation . Next comes Russia wanting to green Siberia vs. hotter climes want...
[17:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:07] <exec> 08└─What are you basing this 'fragile' theory on? And what ideas are there to make it less fragile?
[17:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:09] <exec> 08└─If it's happening to the the North Atlantic Circulation then it must be happening to the Global Circulation. I've been aware for a few years that the Gulf Stream has been weakening which means it must be happening to all the Western Boundary Currents.
[17:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─The domino effect mostly. Imagine this scenario, all the more chilling because if *I* thought of it, it's inevitable our friends in Russia, China, Iran, etc, already have: suppose the US's electricity infrastructure in a few key cities is knocked out by EMP weapons. The goal here wasn't to irradiate...
[17:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:13] <exec> 08└─That has nothing to do with the coming mini ice age and resulting reduction in crops. But yea, decentralized energy production should become a political priority.
[17:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:16] <exec> 08└─Repeated prior collapses of more localized civilizations under climatic stresses. That doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Roman collapse (that seems more like poisoning of the aristocracy by water in lead pipes), but many others, both old world and new. Some are more securely tied to clima...
[17:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:32] <exec> 08└─Increasing customer spending? Studies have shown that the further you get psychologically from a wealth transfer, the more impulsive you will be. A direct exchange of goods or services? You'll make sure you get a fair deal. Use cash as an intermediary? You'll be willing to sell for a bit less, and...
[17:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─The Starbucks coffee tastes better? You poor soul! Must be some pretty damn bad coffee in the break room :)
[17:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─It's not bad, but it is a bit harsher. I'm no coffee connoisseur. Also there's a mental model where if you don't pay for it, it doesn't taste as good, and I'm not sure how much that plays into it.
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─No one makes a note if I do something unusual, because I'm paying cash.
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─"and if a nuclear renaissance happens now, the same will happen. every few years a nuke will blow up" Just for perspective: https://ourworldindata.org [ourworldindata.org]
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─LOL there are trolls still posting this nonsense.
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─The only car that could possibly have enough headroom for your ego would need to be a convertible.
[17:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:41] <exec> 08└─Hell the way the Abrahamic religions (yes, some Jews have the concept, it's not just Christians and Muslims) doesn't exist. He is getting, and will continue to get for however long it takes, justice, and no one is doing it to him but himself. There are no more illusions and no more cover-ups after t...
[17:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:42] <exec> 08└─Eh, the Prez, and most politicians, are in many ways just front people, public faces, for a sizeable number of voters who feel their anointed one thinks like they do. We focus too much on The Man. The way some people talk, it's like they really think the President of the United States is personally...
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:44] <exec> 08└─George H.W. Bush is one of the reasons the US is so tight with the Saudis. So tight that we've gone to war on their behalf. So tight that we've experienced terrorist attacks justified by our support of them, committed mostly by Saudis. So tight that the Obama and Trump administrations are happy to s...
[17:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:10] <exec> 08└─Barbarella > Zardoz > Death race 2000 > Rollerball > the wizard of Oz and star wars is off the map. Heathens
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[18:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:22] <exec> 08└─The solution is a rememberance tax to discourage repeating the past.
[18:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:24] <exec> 08└─Also, the mention of poisoned aristocracy reminds me of how congress is being fed 'alzheimers drugs': https://www.bostonglobe.com [bostonglobe.com] This is espec...
[18:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:26] <exec> 08└─I don't know, if there is equal warming on the equator and on the pole then there is no change of the temperature *differential*, which is one factor taht "pumps" the atlantic around the Sargasso Sea [wikipedia.org]. But I've seen on heat maps that the temperatures on northern latitudes are going up...
[18:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:28] <exec> 08└─I read something in the '80s about the then relevant "Plutonium economy": The idea was to make all energy infrastructure centralized into one or a few highly dangerous Fast Breeder Reactors (using liquid Sodium for cooling. Seriously. I'm not kidding: Superphénix [wikipedia.org]. Obviously, it neve...
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─Custom roast/grind stuff can get hella expensive.
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─May also be possible to track the serial numbers of bills from ATMs to self-pay machines. Even with human cashiers, the bank could still get data from the serial numbers when the store's night deposit is processed in the morning.
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Sound plausible, but are there studies to back this up?
[18:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. I won't argue very hard, but I'll offer you some argument. The places I frequent don't seem to be networked into the WWW yet. Most businesses have dumb cameras, that record XX number of hours, then begin erasing drive space to make room for new video. Cutting edge tech, and networking, cost...
[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps not. But, think a little bit about yourself, and human psychology, and the process of setting up a phone to make payments for you. You put some amount of work into setting the thing up. When you think you've got it, you have to go test it. Ooops, didn't work, you got some part of the magic i...
[18:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst your bubble, but when you don't exist, you don't experience anything. The conscious dies with the body. Your faith and wishful (vengeful) thinking is the same as all the hateful religions your disparage. Do yourself a favor, forget about him, he's dead (Jim), the stress isn't worth it...
[18:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─Just wait another 50 years, there will be plenty of evidence by then.
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[19:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Satellite Data Business is Amazon’s Next Disruption Target - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:14] <exec> 08└─So "disruptive" is just a new (I meant disruptive) word for "new".
[19:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Data Business is Amazon’s Next Disruption Target - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─Don't disrupt the boat.
[19:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Satellite Data Business is Amazon’s Next Disruption Target - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:18] <exec> 08└─"Lockheed Martin" and "lower cost" in the same paragraph.
[19:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─Eeee-yup. That's what I mean by lack of political will; the parasites and sociopaths on top *want* it this way.
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:48] <exec> 08└─Actually, the Gulf Stream feeds the North Atlantic - they aren't synonymous, but there is a lot of interdependence. But, the weakening of the Gulf/Atlantic currents doesn't necessarily imply anything at all about any other currents. I also read an interesting article that was tangentially related. T...
[19:34:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 890 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─If more people thought like I do, credit/debit/device payment methods certainly wouldn't be what they are today. I like the feel of anonymous currency nestled into my wallet. No one gets to track my purchases. No one makes a note if I do something unusual, because I'm paying cash. I've been forced i...
[19:34:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 793 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─Increasing customer spending? Studies have shown that the further you get psychologically from a wealth transfer, the more impulsive you will be. A direct exchange of goods or services? You'll make sure you get a fair deal. Use cash as an intermediary? You'll be willing to sell for a bit less, and...
[19:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:18] <exec> 08└─Not really much to argue about there. . I do live in the big city, which colors my perspective accordingly. But yes, it is probably worse than what you see. . Still, I do fully intend to join you in BFE when I retire :-)
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:20] <exec> 08└─Well, that makes sense. Just look around and watch as every woman out there swipes away at her favorite online shopping site. Cell phones are just a purchasing platform. But like tracking, there is no benefit to the actual user/customer, just the businesses.
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─I do not use sendmail any more, so there must be a flaw in the reasoning.
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what they will have to do. There is no other way. "Renewables" produce far too little power too sporadically to provide for base generation.
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─So, you dont like nuclear and you want to shut down all of the nuclear plants, without building new ones. You buy into Global Warming so you dont want to build more coal or natural gas plants. So whats your solution? You claim others are nonsensical but your the ones that wants to shut down all nucl...
[19:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:32] <exec> 08└─I hope there's a nice multigenerational plot in Hell ready for this family. Ibid [soylentnews.org] And you don't reincarnate in the same universe, much less the same planet. All traces of previous existence are gone. Really, girlie, you're the same grump as everybody else. You need a break from thin...
[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─four sons. you forgot neil (savings and loan crimes) and marvin. along with drunk jr bush and mexican jeb. and two daughers: pauline (died of cancer as a kid) and dorothy so six kids total.
[19:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most "Lifelike" Synthetic Cells Created, Enclosed in Plastic-Polymerized Acrylate - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:10] <exec> 08└─EF was the too successful prototype, with no real parents no wonder he is so angry all the time.
[19:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:50] <exec> 08└─"Arcologies!!!!!" Hmm, they didn't work out so well for Mega-City 1. At least we get flying motorcycles! Kidding aside however, what a horrid way to live. I rather like the mountains, streams, lakes, rivers and forests that are only less than a thirty minute drive from my front door. I don't think I...
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[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:41] <exec> 08└─You've put your finger on one of the reasons that it is so important to colonize other rocks. That thin veneer of civilization is rather fragile. I don't know how fragile, but we do know that civilizations have risen and fallen in the past. Even within recorded history, we've seen them come and go....
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, it does have *something to do* with any reduction in resources. Scarce resources have often led to war in the past.
[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─I've read at least two books in past decades, that insist that every dynastic change in China was preceded by the failure of the monsoons, aka climate change. When people are fat and happy, dynaties are stable. When people are hungry, and burying their children, dynasties change.
[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─Therefore there's no doubt, it's not human caused i.e. anthropgenic.
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─I've read at least two books in past decades,
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─It isn't about logic, it is about pushing a narrative. They can't use the denier stance now that even some of the die-hard deniers have change their tune, so acknowledge reality and then immediately deny reality in a way that keeps the narrative on track. And people think this site is too small for...
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─4+1 is "new math".
[20:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─There's no acceptable evidence either way. It's difficult to conceive of what evidence *could* exist. So why do you have an opinion?
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─I go with what is most plausible. Who's the guy that said, *You throw out the bullshit, and whatever is left is probably the truth*?
[20:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:37] <exec> 08└─Did he? No mater how you look at at it; Atheist: He is gone, has ceased to exist. Or did you want him to suffer for his crimes too? Christianity: He has gone to Hell and will suffer for his crimes until the End Times and then be judged (wait, you get sent to Hell BEFORE you get judged?) for his sins...
[20:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:00] <exec> 08└─Do all of your characters go by their last names, or do you just suck at thinking of names?
[20:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:56] <exec> 08└─Just because you're unable to understand it, doesn't make it wrong. If it were wrong there would be no reason to try and bury it by releasing it on Black Friday. It doesn't matter anyway. The only reason you don't care is you'll be dead before the worst happens, so, fuck the grand-kids and their fam...
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[21:33:04] <exec> 08└─It had been a grueling day. Todd had been made to work overtime, even though he had barely gotten any sleep the previous night. So, when he went home, all he wanted to do was relax. Well, that was the plan, anyway. "How could you do this!? How could you use them!?" Todd screamed. "They were just sit...
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[21:33:05] <exec> 08└─as AwwShit? Never used it, no opinion of it, but somehow that stuck in my head.
[21:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─So, are you taking the position that there are thousands of books that all agree on this one bit of data? That there are so many of them that just about everyone has to have read two or more of them? Oh, never mind. You're just being jealous again, that you can't be me.
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 2540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─It had been a grueling day. Todd had been made to work overtime, even though he had barely gotten any sleep the previous night. So, when he went home, all he wanted to do was relax. Well, that was the plan, anyway. "How could you do this!? How could you use them!?" Todd screamed. "They were just sit...
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─The same pattern of spending makes people fat. (snacks and sodas instead of a dinner). How about 100% border tax on China made electronics to protect American health? Progressive liberals are already for taxes on sodas. Why not go after the root of the problem and help our balance sheet at the same...
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:16] <exec> 08└─Face recognition will still tie cash purchases to your permanent record - just two years away from being consistently true - that said, I still like cash to avoid the ~3% seller's charge paid to the credit card companies that I would indirectly pay
[21:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:27] <exec> 08└─This is not how burden of proof works, and you know it. An atheist might claim that our consciousness is the result of sufficiently complex electro-chemical processing in our nervous system, and when that system stops functioning, consciousness is lost with it. He doesn't have to prove what lies bey...
[21:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:54] <exec> 08└─Good work, algorithm! Now, back to the drawing board...
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[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─"That of course leads me to wonder whether these researchers took account of depth." You're clearly out of yours. Your knowledge of Physical Oceanography is appalling. You might have been in the navy but you certainly were never an AG.
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─Who ever denied the climate changes?
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03javawock [1418] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Good Macrophages Go Bad: How Cancer Manipulates Our Immune System to Become Harder to Treat - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:25] <exec> 08└─What we need is a Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Inhibitor Activator!
[22:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Al Lowe Reveals his Sierra Source Code Collection—then Puts it on eBay - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:02] <exec> 08└─Please buy this, spend the $ needed to recover, then release the code as a 'historical artifact'. None of it has any practical use, but would be great to have the opportunity to read thru the code.
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[23:34:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─Therefore there's no doubt, it's not human caused i.e. anthropgenic.
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:13] <exec> 08└─Who ever denied the climate changes?
[23:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─Humans used to use this to predict famines too before they lost their connection to nature.
[23:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─There's no doubt that global climate change is real. There's no doubt that there's nothing that can be done to stop it. Therefore there's no doubt, it's not human caused i.e. anthropgenic.
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─the US has horrible karma.
[23:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─US infrastructure... is creaky, badly-maintained, under-protected, and in places outright falling apart
[23:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:24] <exec> 08└─Over 8 billion people will die over the next hundred years. Global warming, cooling, homeostasis or not, there is little that can be done about this. Carpe diem
[23:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:56] <exec> 08└─Care to explain what's the relationship between electronics (Chinese or not) and American health? What makes Americans so exceptionally susceptible to illness due to electronics?
[23:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:27] <exec> 08└─The obvious solution to France's problem is the one Camus proposed. Kill all the Arabs... including Algerians, Moroccans and other muzzies, and you won't need as much electricity. Win-win.
[23:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Archaeologists Map Centuries of History Beneath World’s Oldest Cathedral - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:02] <exec> 08└─Anything is arguable if you argue like a jew.
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