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[00:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:17] <exec> 08└─There will no doubt be lots of teething problems with something fairly ambitious like this. I can see them scooping up quite a lot of sea life despite not intending to. I can't see many jellyfish swimming under a 3 metre deep boom.
[00:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:18] <exec> 08└─> They should try hiring dolphins. So long and thanks for all the plastic?
[00:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:20] <exec> 08└─The microplastic contamination of the oceans proves that homo sapiens are superior to dolphins.
[00:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:30] <exec> 08└─What *is* a memristor? What electrical properties make it a memory device?
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:11] <exec> 08└─What are you doing wearing these shoes? They are for owning, and namedropping, not wearing!
[00:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03woodcruft [6528] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─How long before graphene-infused tires hit the market, too?
[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:04] <exec> 08└─When you drive you don't open packages. Still 100% driver's responsibility. Or is it my fault if I phone a guy and he replies when driving and crashes? Stop removing responsibility from society, you are already sheep enough.
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:06] <exec> 08└─Then the birds discover the practice and stalk the spouse. Surely memorable wedding footage though.
[00:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:30] <exec> 08└─Checkout the blackberry Keyone - runs Android, there's a few other models from bb as well.
[00:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:32] <exec> 08└─A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality.
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[01:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:35] <exec> 08└─Every time I see an article about Indonesia, it starts with "Indonesia, the nation with the world's largest Muslim population". I'm not sure why this needs pointed out. Should they not be rich? Is the author trying to direct the thoughts of the reader to some built in conclusion about the country? W...
[01:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:49] <exec> 08└─Until they laugh their asses off that we couldn't be bothered to review the hyperspace bypass construction plans that put it right through the Earth.....
[01:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:51] <exec> 08└─It's a millennial's project... release it now based on in-depth engineering done on the back of a cocktail napkin, then worry about the dead jellyfish and dolphins later.
[01:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:53] <exec> 08└─Or we are busy making them into super dolphins with all them chemicals.
[01:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:55] <exec> 08└─It's gonna take a lot of iterations to clean a moving area the size of Texas with a 600m barrier using solar propulsion. I admire the ambition of whoever funded that idea. Hope it collects at least more trash than building and servicing it requires. Related question: Since less than 15 rivers reject...
[01:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:07] <exec> 08└─All answered here [arstechnica.com]
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, "round" is a shape. So is "blobby"
[01:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:45] <exec> 08└─The "bomb" should go off long before they get into a car. He is using geo-fencing, so there shouldn't be a reason why the "bomb" goes off in a car while driving. It should go off a few feet outside of the the fence, and the fence should clearly be the sidewalk. Get rid of the glitter anyways, and re...
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[01:38:47] <exec> 08└─I opened an air-fryer box today and found an arbitration agreement on top. Can't they just include a manditory arbitration agreement with the glitter bomb?
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:49] <exec> 08└─We can only hope, given the recent revelations about baby food and girl scout cookies.
[01:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:10] <exec> 08└─It is still way too big. I want a phone similar in size to old school ones. My current dumbphone is 69 x 69 x 16mm, with a qwerty keyboard. I might even accept touch only if the phone was like 90mm tall and had a week of battery life. But the phone you linked is the typical 150 x 75mm form factor. I...
[01:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:15] <exec> 08└─> Stop trying to drag "us" down to your level, shithead. > down to your level, shithead. > shithead I usually don't keep trying when I already succeeded.
[01:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:16] <exec> 08└─Not to mention Citations.
[01:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:18] <exec> 08└─Are the States the countries in the Federation or.. is it like a country with regions?
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[02:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:52] <exec> 08└─Are these crazy rich Indonesians all Chinese, the Jews of Asia?
[02:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:07] <exec> 08└─Put these in place at those locations https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You could literally clean up the world.
[02:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:08] <exec> 08└─or is it just a virtue signaling boondoggle by an amateur?
[02:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:01] <exec> 08└─No, there has to be some sort of communication of acceptance. An arbitration agreement or express waiver are not a situation where acceptance by silence is allowed in most jurisdictions, although your place or his may be different so IANYL, TINLA, and YMMV.
[02:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:34] <exec> 08└─Had to look it up myself. Per our own CIA, GP is correct: https://www.cia.gov [cia.gov] 169 Gibraltar 5.90 2017 est. 170 United States 5.80 2017 est. 171 Serbia 5.80 2017 est.
[02:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:35] <exec> 08└─Yep, kids are ignorant, it's true they usually don't know much. But it's because they haven't had a long time to learn, not because they are incapable of thinking. They are not morons like you.
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[03:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:23] <exec> 08└─"The fact is we have had two criminal justice systems: one for the wealthy and the well off, and one for everyone else," Mr. Cuomo said before introducing the cannabis proposal, describing the injustice that had "for too long targeted the African-American and minority communities." It's so awful the...
[03:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:24] <exec> 08└─No 180. What we are seeing is a natural reaction to the pioneering US states that legalized it. The big fat coffers again overflowing with taxes, cities back in the black, the stability before the economic collapse of the late 2000's being enjoyed again. He's still for businesses, and weed is huge b...
[03:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:26] <exec> 08└─Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hero And Villain To The Legalization Movement James McClure Jan 30, 2017 Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who was born 135 years ago today - is an enigmatic figure in cannabis culture. His arguments in support of repealing alcohol prohibition in America - which...
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─New York wants taxes just like everybody else Also the Death-star is a space-station.
[03:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:40] <exec> 08└─Money will flow from backward countries to those who encourage its use: https://cointelegraph.com [cointelegraph.com] I said this last year when the "big china ban" happened, they are only screwing over their country. Here...
[03:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:41] <exec> 08└─The seventy maxims [wikia.com]of maximally effective mercenaries. #1 Pillage, then burn
[03:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:44] <exec> 08└─There are some rich people there, but it is generally a poor country.. Places like Norway, Singapore, Dubai, Qatar are crazy rich.. :-)
[03:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:04] <exec> 08└─I can't see many jellyfish swimming under a 3 metre deep boom.
[03:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:05] <exec> 08└─Someone should have experimented at home first. Fill a bathtub, then dump in some neutrally bouyant thingies. Try catching them. It isn't easy. This plastic doesn't all float at the surface, nor is there any reason to think that it all floats within 10, or 20, or even 50 feet of the surface. Sure, e...
[03:38:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 910 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:14] <exec> 08└─This does not seem wise. I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Booby traps are generally not legal to leave around even if someone will encounter them in the furtherance of a crime at least to my understanding. While on the surface this may seem closer to a prank than a trap and has a low risk...
[03:38:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:38] <exec> 08└─My neighbor feeds the doves by the hundreds with birdseed feeders all over her property. She is such a sweet lady but OMG I'm so tired of the bird shit on everything. I have a flat top roof with an observation deck and my telescope there and I have to cover everything and clean literally pounds of d...
[03:38:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:42] <exec> 08└─SN holiday joy: come for the glitter bomb, stay for the dove rant
[03:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, whatever. They’re thieves. The correct response is actually a .308 in to their heads from a couple hundred yards out. They should be thankful they were dealing with someone so nice.
[03:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:00] <exec> 08└─Hacker Gets The Epic Victory Royale Against Package Thieves
[03:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:02] <exec> 08└─Police apparently don't even have a duty to protect children from a shooter even when they are present and witnessing (listening to the gunshots). They certainly don't give a sh*t about your stupid amazon package. https://www.nytimes.com [ny...
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[04:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:00] <exec> 08└─When will we vote for a congress to do their duty? Yeah, they smell the money, and maybe medicare will be their supplier. Future retired stoners planning ahead.
[04:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:28] <exec> 08└─Ah, but we build up our immunity through more exposure. We have to raise our tolerance as we evolve.
[04:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:27] <exec> 08└─His booby trap was pretty mild, unlike the ones I set. Mind you, this all took place back in 1985-86. I drove a convertible and got tired of people stealing my coat out of it. They'd get it unlocked somehow -- I don't exactly know how, maybe a hangar wire stuck between the ragtop and the door window...
[04:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:28] <exec> 08└─Never mind the glitter.... why are there feathers on that cake??!
[04:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:31] <exec> 08└─I'm also not a lawyer, but if I understand correctly, most of the cases that involve a booby trap, the trap is on the premises eg break in and a crossbow shoots you in the ass. This then happens DURING the alleged crime taking place. In this case however, any potential "damage" happens long after th...
[04:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:52] <exec> 08└─Cuz it made fun of fearless leader. One with such thin skin that he believes satire against a public official "can't be legal?". Look at all the conservatives and Trumpettes around here. They want these scientists to actually suffer because they dared to create satire against a Republican president....
[04:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:49] <exec> 08└─Capitalism reveals its power and tyranny... on the internet.
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[05:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:43] <exec> 08└─What public transport system? Are you rich enough to afford not owning a car?
[05:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:44] <exec> 08└─Old(er) cars you can work on are fun. The new ones just aren't.
[05:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:47] <exec> 08└─It can still be fun, you need to learn some new skills though. New cars self-diagnose, which takes some of the art of being a good mechanic away. These days, the mechanic ( or "tech" if you prefer ) tends to just address what the car's OBD-II system indicates is the fault, most often by simply repla...
[05:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:49] <exec> 08└─People aren't buying cars much anymore. Because they are buying crossovers (CUVs, tall station wagons, fake SUVs, whatever you want to call them) and pickup trucks.
[05:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:16] <exec> 08└─Google Ambahni wedding. Also google wealth disparity in India for context. BTW, India may actually have more muslims than Indonesia.
[05:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:35] <exec> 08└─The jury probably won't deciding if he should pay for reupholstering the thief's car interior. No, the plaintiff will be the sweet mom and her 5 year old kid who was playing in the front yard, got run over when the bomb exploded in the thief's car and the thief lost control, and the kid is now a man...
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[05:38:36] <exec> 08└─Good luck getting your homeowner's insurance to cough up a defense for an intentional act.
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[05:38:38] <exec> 08└─You need to prove proximate cause, think domino chain -- a sequence of events that rely on the previous event happening. In legalese: But for the glitter bomb explosion, would the driver have lost control and caused the incident? To put this the opposite way: would the driver have lost control in th...
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[05:38:41] <exec> 08└─Someone sends you a package bomb. You open it in your car and it kills you. The police will deem this your fault and if they find the person who sent the bomb to you, they'll shake their heads and say "whelp, the dead guy shoulda never opened the bomb, nothing we can do here, you're free to go." LOL...
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[05:38:43] <exec> 08└─You could string some electric fencing around your roof near popular roosting spots. Non-lethal (probably though doves are tiny) and I would think a few zaps from that would discourage visitors. https://www.homedepot.com [ho...
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[05:39:19] <exec> 08└─You are an Officer and a Gentleman.
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[06:36:00] <exec> 08└─"Car" is used interchangeably with "vehicle". Your point is not well taken.
[06:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:02] <exec> 08└─the older cars which lack an OBD-II system will require a mechanic to actually understand the systems in the car. Such mechanics are literally "old school" and are retiring or dying off at a high rate. Good luck finding someone to repair an older car in the years to come, because people who have suc...
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[06:36:04] <exec> 08└─I think that while there is a trend toward less people driving i believe that cash for clunkers played a roll in accelerating it. I was in the market for my first vehicle when cash for clunkers hit. In my area before the program i could buy a "reliable" beater for 500-1000 and be set for a few years...
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[06:36:06] <exec> 08└─Actually his point is correct. GM said that they were killing of the car line up. Concentrating on more profitable trucks - this include large SUV. To me a compact - 6'7" there is nothing else that fits. Electric vehicals make since, since large frames allow for more bus type of travel. So if GM bec...
[06:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:08] <exec> 08└─I don't like crossovers and am not a fan of SUVs and most people who own trucks don't need them but when you need it and don't have it you sing a different tune. Since i have been able to afford them (2013) I have had a truck because at this point i cam't imagine the inconvenience of living without...
[06:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:11] <exec> 08└─The demand for SUV will be sustained by farmers - they cannot take a city car across a field. In winter a 4x4 is a must, as farm roads are cleaned by Sun in the spring - or by the farmers themselves. This demand in cities is driven by outdoorsmen or just people who like SUV's suspension and tendency...
[06:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:13] <exec> 08└─What about the licence statistics?
[06:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:15] <exec> 08└─I've lived in the Bay Area for close to a decade now without a car and haven't really felt disadvantaged. BART, VTA, or the bus can get me to 80% of the places worth going. Lyft and Uber can get the rest. I suspect it is the same in the other places where most of the population lives (i.e. the coast...
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[06:36:27] <exec> 08└─the old guard is waiting for some key members to actually die. it seems the only way to get this issue; the old fucks who just won't admit they were wrong, just need to 'age out' so that we can move forward. the only reasons the states are doing it is for MONEY. oh how they show their true colors. 1...
[06:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:58] <exec> 08└─If you use 50 % of a statistic in 50 % of your words, it makes you sound 50 % more scientific.
[06:38:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:37] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're going to start stealing shit...
[06:38:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:51] <exec> 08└─The "bomb" should go off long before they get into a car. He is using geo-fencing, so there shouldn't be a reason why the "bomb" goes off in a car while driving. It should go off a few feet outside of the the fence, and the fence should clearly be the sidewalk. Get rid of the glitter anyways, and re...
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[06:39:07] <exec> 08└─From the video most were opened in cars, sometimes by an accomplice not the driver.
[06:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU [youtube.com] Are Girl Scout cookies made from 100% fresh girl scouts ?
[06:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:10] <exec> 08└─The problem with that reasoning is that you are not looking at the entirety of the decision chain. After placing the package on your porch, there are countless intervening causes-in-fact, not the least of which is the one where the thief made the decision to open the package. And that act is the pro...
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[06:39:12] <exec> 08└─But for placing an enticing bomb on the porch, none of the rest of the chain happens. The bomber will get figuratively slain in a civil trial if an injury occurs. Like I said, I'd bet everything on the bomber facing liability in this situation (I'll grant that thief will share liability). None of it...
[06:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:47] <exec> 08└─That list is in decreasing order of deaths/1000 births. Being further down the list is better. However at position 170 with 5.8/1000, they are still a long way from Monaco with 1.8/1000.
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[07:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:14] <exec> 08└─If someone accosts me with nunchucks and actually demonstrates any effectivenezs better than their bare fists, they can have my money. They earned it.
[07:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:15] <exec> 08└─I've known several people that could make those things fly around so quickly and unpredictably I could see them being very hard to defend against. And you can definitely hit hard enough to do serious damage. That said, the only time I've seen someone take a good hit from one was when someone (who wa...
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[07:36:36] <exec> 08└─80% of the places worth going
[07:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:37] <exec> 08└─> reallocates resources towards self-driving technologies and electric vehicles. Are these two things really ready for prime time? My take is that self-driving has been way over-hyped and is many years away for all but a few limited city areas. And while Tesla has been good at selling luxury electri...
[07:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:29] <exec> 08└─I have a pair of shoes I received from my parents about 23 years ago and I still use them. I even have them on my feet now as I type this. Sure, I have had to do some minor maintenance for the first time last week (some of the gluing had to be re-glued), but the shoes are still fully working. Even w...
[07:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:30] <exec> 08└─What if they're 3D printed?
[07:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if they switched to confetti in the meantime, but the practice in romania was to throw wheat (i.e. birdfeed), some twenty-thirty years ago. and no, brides were not attacked by birds.
[07:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:47] <exec> 08└─I better stop ordering live crickets and other feeders from Amazon then. After all, if some porch pirate steals them, opens them while driving, gets more distracted, and crashes, then I'm in hot water since I left them out to be snatched and opened in the car. Better bring in Amazon and USPS as my c...
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[08:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:29] <exec> 08└─English is a language that lurks in dark alleys beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary
[08:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:39] <exec> 08└─it was NOT a weapon - but a rice flail... In modern times, I'd suggest viewing them as a training aid,
[08:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:54] <exec> 08└─Independent if this works or not, I always wondered what they do with the collected plastics. Here in the Netherlands we collect plastics for recycling... but not everything and if there are plastics in the bag that can't be recycled (which happens a lot) the whole bag is incinerated. Overall percen...
[08:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:56] <exec> 08└─I admire the ambition of whoever funded that idea.
[08:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:58] <exec> 08└─TU Delft is one of the major academic partners, you might know them from their hyperloop pod system (2nd place if I remember correctly), and solar challenge cars (various times 1st place).
[08:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:03] <exec> 08└─50% stronger rivers!
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[09:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 1845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:35] <exec> 08└─What is implied is that we can directly imply from the disappearance of a language that it's speakers were butchered or some such. This is false. Languages sometimes change rapidly for reasons completely unrelated to violence. Most often commercial advantage. This is an example of a very common fall...
[09:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:36] <exec> 08└─I think a culture might be able to have a large impact that doesn't show in loan words. Some invading armies by nature wanted to take over the local land. The Vikings were usually happy to take all their stuff and head back home with it. That heavily affects the retained culture from the Vikings. So...
[09:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:39] <exec> 08└─Exactly how to classify English is a subject of much heated debate e.g. here: Wordreference.com: Is English a creole? [wordreference.com], and the reasons for people to cease speaking a language are not always because they have been massacred. Languages can wither and die because is it significantly...
[09:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─The pair was made from a wonderful wood, attached by a length of soft rope. It was a sight to see. One handle swung around after the other. Until one minor mistake led to him being bashed in the back of the head. Chunks of ceiling were gouged out. Yes. A good tool to practice with. You might get one...
[09:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:53] <exec> 08└─No, because having a piece of wood flying around you at high speeds with a few millimeters of clearance tends to clear the mind.
[09:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:56] <exec> 08└─In my Kung Fu club the advice for how to use a nunchuck (or more especially the 3-section-staff) is to give it to your opponent.
[09:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:58] <exec> 08└─That's actually clever. Especially in New York. At least until now.
[09:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:23] <exec> 08└─love affair with cars
[09:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:24] <exec> 08└─You should consider Amtrak if your purpose for driving is to admire the scenery.
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[09:38:16] <exec> 08└─into super dolphins with all them chemicals.
[09:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 1679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:18] <exec> 08└─You're in bed, the women are getting very very wet. Squirting everywhere. But, it's O. K. It's not a problem -- if you have the Plastic. Or the Rubber Sheets. You find a woman that looks incredibly hot. A 10. But you're thinking, "oh, what about the AIDS?" So many people getting the AIDS. If you saw...
[09:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:20] <exec> 08└─Independent if this works or not, I always wondered what they do with the collected plastics.
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[10:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:50] <exec> 08└─Excellent. Because one of the things these scam artists were doing was trying to trick the recipients into identifying themselves. It was a legally dubious shakedown.
[10:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:02] <exec> 08└─The only Welsh word I can think of in English is penguin which would have ben pen gwyn i.e. white head for a breed of seabird that has now died out but that is now applied to another set of birds. I'm told that Viking words often end in the letter y so sky is probably a Viking root word. Remember th...
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[10:37:03] <exec> 08└─They just speak Estonian now, because that gives them better opportunities, economic or otherwise.
[10:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:06] <exec> 08└─They are called the Dark Ages as no-one appears to have written anything down so we have a lot of speculation.
[10:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:22] <exec> 08└─They're telling us that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were wrong? Michaelangelo wasn't a good role model??
[10:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:24] <exec> 08└─I prefer the European-style nunchucks [medievalcollectibles.com], far more effective. Crunch!
[10:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:26] <exec> 08└─having a piece of wood flying around you at high speeds with a few millimeters of clearance tends to clear the mind.
[10:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:28] <exec> 08└─Pssst... Santa doesn't exist either
[10:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:55] <exec> 08└─My building manager told me that we have only one charger per garage because of the capacity of the power cables. When the apartment complex was built 18 years ago they had drawings, power calculations, cable selected for this load - and the city stamped the design. Gas everywhere, no electric anyth...
[10:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:57] <exec> 08└─That's what a trailer is for.
[10:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:57] <exec> 08└─I got the impression that this is a single unit. Maybe when they get it working satisfactorily they will produce more of them?
[10:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:59] <exec> 08└─Hey! I resemble that remark!
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[10:41:10] <exec> 08└─Or you contribute to the evolution of Electricity-resistant Super-dove Overlords (who I welcome wholeheartedly BTW)
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[11:37:02] <exec> 08└─"Hey mom, I'm a language! And you said I'd never amount to nothin'."
[11:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:04] <exec> 08└─What is implied is that we can directly imply from the disappearance of a language that it's speakers were butchered or some such.
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[11:37:06] <exec> 08└─Um, no. We Americans are too lazy and self-obsessed to learn foreign languages.
[11:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:55] <exec> 08└─Or hitchhiking.
[11:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:55] <exec> 08└─I expected the boots to be blockchain-powered also.
[11:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:49] <exec> 08└─Don't take seriously a statement typed out only to be a vehicle for puns. tl;dr Whoosh!
[11:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs [youtube.com]
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[12:35:48] <exec> 08└─A group of scientists wants to send a nuclear-powered "tunnelbot" to Europa to blaze a path through the Jovian moon's thick shell of ice and search for life.
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[12:35:49] <exec> 08└─I wish them luck with this, but there are some forms of ice that are harder than rock and stronger than steel. This is why an iceberg was able to unzip the Titanic like a knife through butter. It might be better to land a few drilling rigs first to drill for icecore samples and analyze those to ensu...
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[12:36:21] <exec> 08└─So as a counterargument to "Anglo-Saxons were worse", you're suggesting the Anglo-Saxons were actually capitalist pigs destroying local culture in the name of profit?
[12:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:22] <exec> 08└─There's also the geographic terms 'cwm', 'tor' and 'crag', and the Queen's 'corgi's. You'll also find a lot of placenames with Welsh/Cumbric/Cornish* origins, such as Penrith, Derwent, Carlisle, Trelawny, Porthleven, Pencraig, etc. But as English has long been the dominant language in most of Britai...
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[12:36:25] <exec> 08└─This is why the first to learn it and economically flourish will be the immigrants, especially the Mexicans. The first generation of Americans will go the way of Eth (i.e. deep down) and maybe their kids will adapt.
[12:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:27] <exec> 08└─It's also important to recall that the Anglo-Saxons didn't eradicate the Celtic languages completely, just in certain geographic areas (South-Eastern & Central England). The Celtic languages effectively retreated to non-Saxon lands, and retreated further when the Normans decided they'd like a piece...
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[12:36:29] <exec> 08└─Agreed, the implication is quite false. Not that there wasn't lots of fighting and warfare over the years, there was, but outright genocide isn't the explanation for the language changes over time except perhaps for local and extreme events. We can also see this in recent history. If we look at the...
[12:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:47] <exec> 08└─I can't believe this is even a thing. When I enrolled my 5 year old in karate, one of the first things they gave him as part of his gear kit (including his uniform) was some sparing gear including nunchuks. He has been flingingly them around pretty expertly for a year now and I've even found borrowi...
[12:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:15] <exec> 08└─This demand in cities is driven by outdoorsmen or just people who like SUV's suspension and tendency to flip.
[12:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:34] <exec> 08└─plus, you know, they totally sell out their customers. you're aware of their recent handout of customer orders to the CT DRS [courant.com], right?
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[13:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:45] <exec> 08└─We all know Santa is a lie, it's an anagram for SATAN.
[13:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:47] <exec> 08└─What is it about "martial arts" weapons that legislators find so terrifying? Case in point: There was a women here, in Switzerland, who visited a self-defense class some 20 years ago. As a graduation present, students received a keyring, part of which a metal cylinder apparently used in some cases (...
[13:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:49] <exec> 08└─... which was instituted in New York in 1974 "out of a concern that, as a result of the rising popularity 'of 'Kung Fu' movies and shows,′
[13:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:51] <exec> 08└─Isn't it, though?
[13:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:53] <exec> 08└─Ho, ho, [demonic laughter]
[13:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:55] <exec> 08└─I have seen version of TMNT where Michelangelo had his Nunchucks replaced by some sort of a rope and hook implement. No doubt out of abundance of concern "for the children."
[13:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:24] <exec> 08└─Millennials aren't bothering to get driving licences because they are now using their parents as a taxi service well into their twenties.
[13:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:26] <exec> 08└─Although it does rather depend on the layout of your apartment complex - it sounds like your building manager is making excuses for not doing the obvious: installing a separate high-current circuit to the garage. It frankly doesn't matter if the individual apartments are wired on a moderate capacity...
[13:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:28] <exec> 08└─Or driving.
[13:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:43] <exec> 08└─In a nutshell, Roosevelt would take whichever position he thought would gain the most votes. If neither side would be a winning move, Roosevelt would straddle the fence. Wishy washy bastard.
[13:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:00] <exec> 08└─Islam destroys culture, creativity, and productivity; for instance, the local Chinese in Indonesia were legally forced to adopt non-Asiany names so that Muslims would stop killing them. As the other poster points out, the wealth being generated is probably due to the Chinese population there. This i...
[13:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:02] <exec> 08└─There was an government-owned oil boom in the 1970s, and the government now invests their profits in stock markets around the world, so as to hand out basic services to citizens. The result is that people live simple lives, and have lost all manner of productive skill. If not for tourism and a stock...
[13:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:42] <exec> 08└─I have the sneaking suspicion you're building your account's hit points so you can take a few hits. :-)
[13:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrbrtsn [6338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:52] <exec> 08└─In the mid 1990's I regularly used a $20,000 Silicon Graphics workstation with a MIPS CPU. By 1996 Intel's Pentium could crunch numbers just as fast, and soon surpassed MIPS; and the Intel solution was much less expensive. IIRC MIPS are "big endian" processors, which is the convention of numbers in...
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[14:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Raising $500 Million in Funding; Now Valued at $30.5 Billion - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:47] <exec> 08└─BFR and Starlink are the two remaining big bets/hurdles for the company. Clear them, and that valuation is going way up. Fail, and SpaceX could be doomed. SpaceX could also kill the ISS astronauts but the F9 abort system and reentry should be safer than the Space Shuttle.
[14:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─I am glad to see more serious plans to explore Europa. The last two decades of Mars exploration have been great for those of us who would like to see humans colonize that world, but to be honest Europa, Enceladus, and even Titan are better candidates for finding non-terrestrial life. That discovery...
[14:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─I wish them luck with this, but there are some forms of ice that are harder than rock and stronger than steel.
[14:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─Cryobots [wikipedia.org] have been kicking around for some time. The cryobot was invented by German physicist Karl Philberth, who first demonstrated it in the 1960s as part of the International Glaciological Greenland Expedition (EGIG), achieving drilling depths in excess of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).
[14:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:14] <exec> 08└─I got one saying "Click on this link...etc etc" DO. NOT. CLICK. THE. LINK! The link is a lie! the link is evil...the link will eat your cancer but replace it with Rick Astley! NEVER CLICK THE LINK.
[14:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:41] <exec> 08└─Speaking Mandarin will never give anyone better opportunities. First, it's not spoken by any other nation. Second, going to China and speaking Mandarin won't help, either, because they will always see you as a laowai (foreigner) anyway, and do everything they can to rip you off. Third, its writing s...
[14:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:09] <exec> 08└─In other words, they're basically a club.
[14:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:10] <exec> 08└─"out of a concern that, as a result of the rising popularity 'of 'Kung Fu' movies and shows,′ 'various circles of the state's youth' — including 'muggers and street gangs' — were 'widely' using nunchaku to cause 'many serious injuries.'"
[14:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:12] <exec> 08└─"The 36th Chamber of Shaolin [wikipedia.org]" teaches us that the three-part staff is the perfect weapon to defeat an opponent armed with two swords. So there is that.
[14:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:44] <exec> 08└─Lots of car projects are named "the other woman", either in casual conversation or overtly (lettering down the side). This is not news.
[14:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:46] <exec> 08└─> ...a separate high-current circuit to the garage. In some cases this is possible, but in other areas the local transformer, mains and/or local generating capacity may not support the increase in power. In which case the upgrade gets incrementally much more expensive. Here in the far 'burbs there i...
[14:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:48] <exec> 08└─Because living in an apartment is more socially responsible, for example.
[14:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:50] <exec> 08└─not fun if the girl you're intersted in doesn't look out the window and talk but instead is complaining about your driving because she's getting sick staring at her feed ...
[14:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:52] <exec> 08└─That's really sad if you consider the Bay Area the parts of California "worth going to." BART does not go to Yosemite. You're not going to take Lyft to the Redwoods. The VTA does not go to Death Valley. Even the better parts of Marin are going to be a pain in the butt to get to without a car. Do you...
[14:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─I see this as a sign of increasing immobility of the public (another is a decline [latimes.com] in the number of people who move). For a historical comparison, a similar decline in mobility preceded the crisis of the third century in the Roman empire and an eventual transition to feudalism over the...
[14:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:57] <exec> 08└─Or go to Camp Nevermore and just start killing teenagers... you know, get out in the fresh air and enjoy the scenery. Finish up with running...and screaming...and hacking.... ....OH yeah... :)
[14:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:14] <exec> 08└─the old guard is waiting for some key members to actually die.
[14:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:00] <exec> 08└─A similar Dutch project in the North Sea was successful. The big difference is that the North Sea is shallower than the Pacific, and they could anchor the barrier and let the natural ocean currents bring on the floating current. It seems the limit here is their ability to keep the barrier moving rel...
[14:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 833 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:31] <exec> 08└─Funny, I don't have these issues with Amazon....because the last few orders I placed never got delivered at all. Called UPS three times, emailed them twice, contacted Amazon three times as well, and the only solution offered was for me to quit my job so I could sit at home all day waiting for my pac...
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[14:41:23] <exec> 08└─So your complaint is that they comply with the law? There are times for civil disobedience, sure...but I wouldn't really consider defending tax evasion to be much of a moral high ground...
[14:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, apple never sued samsung for having rounded corners on their devices, despite the fact that microsoft's (admittedly failed, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist) web tablet having rounded corners 10 years earlier. My favourite bit of apple hypocricy is the far more light hearted one where the...
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[15:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Raising $500 Million in Funding; Now Valued at $30.5 Billion - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─I had to re-read. It sounds to me like if the F9 kills ISS astronauts, it will kill them in a safer kind of way.
[15:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:57] <exec> 08└─That discovery would be the most important in human history.
[15:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:58] <exec> 08└─What is to be done with the nuclear fuel/waste when the mission is done? Just drop it where ever the probe ends up? Sounds like an ecological problem - one that we will create off-Earth, and would be 100% our responsibility. To me this doesn't sound like the best approach. How will the nuclear fuel/...
[15:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:00] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a job for SpaceX and The Boring Company.
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─So it seems that the current government is continuing the abuse pioneered by the Harper government of packing lots of issues irrelevnt to the budget into the budget implementation bill. This should have been an independent bill, to be debated and voted up or down on its own. I support the restrictio...
[15:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:15] <exec> 08└─Consider this. Having a piece of high speed flying wood flinging around you tends to keep the mind focused if one has the necessary equipment to be called "dude".
[15:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:16] <exec> 08└─Nunchucks in public should be a crime, just like these other public crimes: * Skateboarding * Public photography or video recording
[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─After all it worked for the evil marijuana that turns people into crazed killer monsters. What about also taxing stores that sell skateboards and related criminal paraphernalia related to skateboarding? And public photography stores and related paraphernalia used for criminal public photography?
[15:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:00] <exec> 08└─Apologies to Tina Turner but this trend is driven by almost anything but love. How about declining population growth rates People adjusting their lives to not need a car And my money is on this https://www.vice.com
[15:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:02] <exec> 08└─Most cars and crossovers/small SUVs have tow ratings of no more than 1500 pounds. That's about what most smaller trailers weigh by themselves. It's generally fine to go over your tow rating for occasional short low-speed drives. But if it's something you're going to do regularly, if you have to go m...
[15:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:20] <exec> 08└─Hasn't Cuomo seen the documentary Reefer Madness?
[15:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:15] <exec> 08└─Thanks. That was helpful.
[15:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:19] <exec> 08└─Does not matter to me. I'd want to know where this booby trap in the car came from, and why it was in his car. Nope, the ultimate responsibility lies with the thief.
[15:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:20] <exec> 08└─they were given a choice; start collecting CT sales tax, or provide 3+ years of customer data. they chose the latter. then started collecting CT tax a few months later anyway. they didn't exclude clothing from their list (which is often exempt from sales tax in the state), and they don't know where...
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[15:41:23] <exec> 08└─I would actually be a good choice, provided you were actually innocent.
[15:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:25] <exec> 08└─No. It would be the thief's fault. Why is the thief opening the package while driving? Opening boxes while driving seems like a pretty bad idea. Why is the thief going fast enough in a residential area where they can't slam on the brakes and stop in 5 feet?
[15:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:27] <exec> 08└─Your example if highly flawed. The package was not sent to the driver of the car. The package was *stolen* by the driver of the car. There is a huge difference there.
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─The Federal government is like Unix. It started out as a few essential services.
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─I challenge any other world leader to a contest with our great orange leader in a twitter poop slinging contest.
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[16:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:50] <exec> 08└─If the satellite and required orbit are at the edge of Falcon 9 capabilities, such that landing legs and grid fins need to be stripped off to lighten the rocket, it seems like a job tailor-made for a Falcon Heavy, recovering all three boosters. It'd be well within the Heavy's capabilities, and recov...
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[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─Its possible that later GPS missions will use Falcon Heavy, maybe even double-stack them if they can fit in the payload fairing. But since it hasn't carried a commercial payload yet, the Air Force probably doesn't want the extra risk. Throwing away a Falcon 9 is probably still cheaper than Delta IV...
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:54] <exec> 08└─The Air Force is one of the initial customers for the Falcon Heavy. What we're seeing here is just teething issues. Is Falcon Heavy with 3 booster landings cheaper than Falcon 9 expendable? I'd like to compare the numbers if possible.
[16:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─It'd be well within the Heavy's capabilities, and recovering the three boosters probably means that it would be cheaper as well.
[16:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Raising $500 Million in Funding; Now Valued at $30.5 Billion - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─If the Falcon 9 rocket blows up, the Crew Dragon can escape using its SuperDraco thrusters. The design and splashdown return is similar to other successful and safe spacecraft.
[16:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─Turns out that the Antarctica Treaty precludes testing of nuclear-powered probes (not such a problem in Greenland however). They can still test designs that are powered in other ways (for example, laser-powered).
[16:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:26] <exec> 08└─Don't they use plutonium for RTGs? They'd just be arming the alien invaders!
[16:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:28] <exec> 08└─If we find life in these extreme solar system environments, we can start to assume that life is dirt common in the galaxy. It would probably accelerate efforts to directly image exoplanets (which could be enough to find life on them without visiting them). Even if we don't find evidence of large lif...
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─Indeed. But you'll want to test the whole system at some point, including nuclear power. Greenland works for that.
[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:33] <exec> 08└─^This is why the mission will never get off the ground. The word "nuclear " is tainted. Get that through your head Mr. Scientists. Call it any thing but nuclear! Unicorn ice melter, weak force energy siphon, anything but nuclear and the anti-nukes won't even notice because their trigger word is gone...
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:53] <exec> 08└─That's how laws are made in the US too.
[16:37:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 1845 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:06] <exec> 08└─What is implied is that we can directly imply from the disappearance of a language that it's speakers were butchered or some such. This is false. Languages sometimes change rapidly for reasons completely unrelated to violence. Most often commercial advantage. This is an example of a very common fall...
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─Hard to take that discussion of language seriously when he says "21th century".
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, please, shush. We WANT the world to fear us English speaking people.
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─Grammar is highly over rated, dude.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─I've seen that, and similar, enough to suspect it's a Euro thing. They don't have first and third, or 1st and 3rd it seems. It's all variable-th.
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[16:37:39] <exec> 08└─No, because having a piece of wood flying around you at high speeds with a few millimeters of clearance tends to clear the mind.
[16:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:01] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the other items are subject to sales tax. Cannabis is special because a big overhaul is needed to "legalize" it and they want to control it tightly. Previously we saw taxes of around 25-50% being proposed, and maybe some states still have that, but they seem to be looking at a saner...
[16:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─I think that while there is a trend toward less people driving i believe that cash for clunkers played a roll in accelerating it. I was in the market for my first vehicle when cash for clunkers hit. In my area before the program i could buy a "reliable" beater for 500-1000 and be set for a few years...
[16:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:43] <exec> 08└─Sure, having a license makes sense. Hiring a car is a great way to get out and see the world. But owning a car for day to day use and all that hastle? Get a week off, hire a nice car, go do your drive, great fun. The car you hire one week (or weekend) could be a convertable for a cuise down the coas...
[16:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:44] <exec> 08└─"by the time all the old professionals die off nobody will be using any cars that require their services anyway. So there's no real problem here." WRONG. Obviously you don't have a clue about the market for older cars. Take a look at the Bring A Trailer website. And next time, when you don't know wh...
[16:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:47] <exec> 08└─It'll be interesting to see how much of an effect Cash for Clunkers had on car ownership. I know that I personally buy only used cars. Fortunately, my used car (which I bought in 2006) stayed drivable till 2015 well after most of the market subsided. Thus, Cash for Clunkers didn't hurt me significan...
[16:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:49] <exec> 08└─"...1500 pounds. That's about what most smaller trailers weigh by themselves. " / / You're not even close. I'd fail you for the academic year if you were in my class, because you're spewing bullshit while being too lazy to check basic facts. A U Haul enclosed trailer weighs 850 pounds. https://www.u...
[16:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:51] <exec> 08└─As with many things, there is probably a combination of factors involved here. With regard to young people being less interested in cars: in my day, driving meant freedom and a chance to get out of the house, away from parents, and to socialize with your friends, etc. With social media and every tee...
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:10] <exec> 08└─He probably got a nice-sized check and conveniently forgot about it. https://votesmart.org [votesmart.org] ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO $75,100.00 [...] PEPSICO $65,100.00 [...] Marijuana growers & product sales $110,000.00
[16:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─Far too often. Governor Cuomo seems to have learned it well. He opposes legal Mary-J for all his life, but suddenly, he's in a rush to get it legal. Yes, the Governor learned the lessons that his hero taught quite well.
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─When enough people support legalization it's only a matter of time. Once it hit legalization in multiple states, all it'll take for most of the rest to get on board is looking at the $$,$$$,$$$,$$$ to realize how financially beneficial it would be. It's not like it's inherently worse than Alcohol.
[16:39:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:43] <exec> 08└─It's gonna take a lot of iterations to clean a moving area the size of Texas with a 600m barrier using solar propulsion. I admire the ambition of whoever funded that idea. Hope it collects at least more trash than building and servicing it requires. Related question: Since less than 15 rivers reject...
[16:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:56] <exec> 08└─Microplastics make me feel great! Smarter! More aggressive!
[16:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─Hint, there are Latex free Condoms. I.E. Plastic.
[16:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─Better read those ingredients carefully.
[16:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:26] <exec> 08└─If you can't see the difference between a box of crickets which are not intentionally designed to blow up in one's face, and glitter bomb which is, you are a walking liability machine. Save up, you're going to need it.
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[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─How do these people keep getting away with testing a "null hypothesis" that literally no one in the world believes? I would like an answer to that one.
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:13] <exec> 08└─Hopefully that fiber-optic cable will be more resistant to stress than the ones I've seen. You can put twisted pair through all manner of abuse and it'll still work, fiber-optic cable, is much more breakable.
[17:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:14] <exec> 08└─NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests [soylentnews.org]
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/461317 [confex.com] Communications are thus provided by three repeaters that are deployed at 5, 10, and 15 km, and are connected to the tunnelbot by fiber optic cable. The repeaters boost the optical signal or provide an RF link if that segment of...
[17:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:36] <exec> 08└─At least the Canadian government doesn't shut down when politicians get in a pissing match.
[17:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─It's called "prorogation" in Canada. Pretty much the same thing.
[17:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:08] <exec> 08└─That's a hilarious, but somewhat accurate portrayal of how the English language came to be and evolves. Though, I'm not sure how one would describe the absorption of "words" like lol.
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:09] <exec> 08└─The "refugees" won't need to learn English, the government will just make facilities available in Spanish.
[17:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─Taiwan and Singapore have Mandarin as one of their official languages.
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─Why would nuns carry woodchucks anyway? I thought they carried yardsticks and pointers.
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─You can simply charge them for tax evasion like any other white collar criminal for not collecting and submitting sales tax on their merchandise. Also you could likely charge them for selling a controlled substances without a license. They can still posses it, but likely only up to some quantity. Af...
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─How about just let people consume whatever they want in their own homes and the government spends its resources on legitimate tasks like building roads and finding package thieves.
[17:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:36] <exec> 08└─1) phallic symbol
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─Uhaul is a bad comparison because they are aluminum. A new/used alum trailer will cost 3k for even the most basic one. If you need to be able to tow vehicles you can do it with a minivan or small car but is dangerous and will cause premature wear on the vehicle doing the towing. My 16ft trailer weig...
[17:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:40] <exec> 08└─You forgot 3) Uneven regulation. To explain, in USA the first crash and fuel economy (CAFE) regulations were much more stringent for cars than for light trucks. The result was that cars became more expensive and light trucks were a cheap way to buy a new vehicle. The car companies noticed after a fe...
[17:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:42] <exec> 08└─I like amtrak for that purpose. But from my town round trip to seattle or LA will cost 500 round trip for four people + infant at best. Same trip will cost me 200 bucks with a car.
[17:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:44] <exec> 08└─Millennials aren't bothering to get driving licences because they are now using their parents as a taxi service well into their twenties.
[17:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:14] <exec> 08└─Yes. They had to adjust the marketing the "fresh", because "100% pure extra-virgin" was causing major supply issues.
[17:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:15] <exec> 08└─This. Unless you have an actual explosion or other event causing injury or disabling the driver, they're responsible for keeping control of their vehicle at all times. Glitter bomb to the eyes would be disabling, but opening it at eye level is clearly distracted driving.
[17:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:17] <exec> 08└─My not-a-lawyer gut feeling is that the outcome might turn different if the resulting accident is a criminal case vs a civil case, where the threshold to get convicted is lower.
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[18:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:05] <exec> 08└─As always, when your activity is divorced from market signals, it's likely that your activity will become divorced from societal needs and indeed from reality itself. It's easy to spend other people's money, especially on bullshit. This is especially true when that money is gotten by putting a gun i...
[18:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─McMurdo Station uses a nuclear power plant, but nuclear powered probes aren't allowed? Not that I don't believe you, but it doesn't seem very consistent. The search for life on Europa is a pretty compelling reason, scientifically speaking. Maybe they can shoe-horn one more exception to the non-nucle...
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─It seems to be a lot less far reaching than a U.S. government shutdown, a condition where practically all Federal functions find themselves without even daily operating funds and are unable to issue paychecks to federal employees. Of course, they somehow find enough to keep people in position to kee...
[18:37:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyper [1525] 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:18] <exec> 08└─English is a language that lurks in dark alleys beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary
[18:37:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 839 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─Speaking Mandarin will never give anyone better opportunities. First, it's not spoken by any other nation. Second, going to China and speaking Mandarin won't help, either, because they will always see you as a laowai (foreigner) anyway, and do everything they can to rip you off. Third, its writing s...
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─Try "queen", spelled as, I believe, "cwn" before the Normans. I'm sure there are lots of others.
[18:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:22] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that people in New York can finally go clubbing again.
[18:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:24] <exec> 08└─Most of those things pictured are variations of the MorgenStern, but most medieval flails were a lot simpler, and didn't have spikes. They were still pretty good at smashing armor.
[18:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─Perhaps....*IF* you are sufficiently skilled. You did say the 36th chapter, so presumably by the time you get to that you've got a lot more than entry level skill.
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:28] <exec> 08└─constitutional?
[18:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─The new cars have comparable fuel (in)efficiency to the 1980-era models [autotrader.com]. The idea that the new cars are a whole lot better is largely a myth. There are also games being played by classifying SUVs as trucks [greencarreports.com] so as to fiddle with CAFE standards.
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─The cost of fueling and repairing my old car for the next 10 years is around $10k. So even though I'm getting 15mpg it doesn't make sense to buy something more efficient or fun. I don't live in an urban area, so all those other transit options aren't available.
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:27] <exec> 08└─It's funny how the self righteous "educator" claims he or she would fail you for the semester for spouting bullshit without checking for facts when it's obvious he knows jack shit about trailers other than what UHaul (WTF?) puts on their website. I had a boat trailer that was easily 1,500 lbs empty....
[18:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:49] <exec> 08└─Imagine observing the world around you and then learning things from it. The horror! Somebody my even change their opinion based on the preponderance of evidence. And of course, to morons, that would look bad.
[18:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:39] <exec> 08└─Better than the Baby Boomers who are busy sitting on their asses doing nothing.
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[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─The article shows various macro-scale objects the researchers have been able to manipulate. They suggest the technology can be refined to perform non-invasive surgery, among other applications. I wonder if that or a similar approach is behind the mysterious "sonic weapon" that's been used to attack...
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holographic Acoustic Tweezers Able to Manipulate Multiple Objects In 3-D Space - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:47] <exec> 08└─You're assuming, that same acoustic signal wouldn't harm most other living things in the world. That's unlikely, especially in the case of Mammals.
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:00] <exec> 08└─I dont disagree but people seem to keep taking this stuff seriously too.
[19:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:02] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, the "It's common sense thus can't be wrong" method to science that tells us that electrons must be particles, because how could they possibly be two places at once? It's almost like science is a process that verifies the validity of hypotheses, not comes up with new shit out of nowhere.
[19:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:04] <exec> 08└─The problem is that you can ask of the Universe nearly any question you like. There needs to be a spam filter, and I submit to you that a governmental granting body is not sufficient for that purpose; I submit to you that such an organization will never be sufficient until its source of funding is s...
[19:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:06] <exec> 08└─But, get this. For psychology. This person's field. The full mechanism of memory store and recall is a fundamental and unanswered question. And get this too. For being a complete dumbass. Your field. The mechanism of ultracrepidarian peanut gallery commenting is well understood: complain about every...
[19:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:09] <exec> 08└─Why must you force other people to pay for said research?
[19:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─McMurdo Station uses a nuclear power plant, but nuclear powered probes aren't allowed? Not that I don't believe you, but it doesn't seem very consistent.
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:56] <exec> 08└─maybe someone should send a dvd of some of these sci fi movies where astronauts discover life and all hell breaks loose? furthermore to quote ned flanders "there are some things we don't want to know. Important things!"
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─I guess we need to define "worse." Murdering everybody and then fucking off back to base-camp probably doesn't help you language spread but it would be a stretch to call that "better."
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─But the Bears were better.. Woo hoo!
[19:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─In the hands of the untrained, they are only marginally less self-destructive than nun-chunks. Articulated weapons are cool, but you gotta invest a lot more time to properly learn them.
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:40] <exec> 08└─Ergo, how are rocks, sticks, bricks and fists not banned as well?
[19:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:43] <exec> 08└─Why would nuns carry woodchucks anyway?
[19:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:00] <exec> 08└─I have long thought drugs should be legalized. The war on drugs has eroded Americans' civil liberties and safety for a long time. There are many health and economic benefits to normalizing them also. On the other hand, I really don't want my neighborhood inundated in a miasma of eau de skunk or to h...
[19:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:04] <exec> 08└─That would be a cool idea for a social media site. Karma > XP, every time you max out karma, get a new life (level), get demoted to level -1, no posting for a week.
[19:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:05] <exec> 08└─If karma was not capped at 50 here, I'd probably have well over 20,000. I could then use that accumulated karma to advance up and become a Lvl. 69 White Knight.
[19:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:08] <exec> 08└─Is this 'injection' of lithium possible with mass manufacturing fabrication techniques, or only in a lab? And if it is possible in the former case, does this process actually function through entirely electrical means? If it cannot be controlled easily by electricity, or has a sufficiently low read/...
[19:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:00] <exec> 08└─"Contains Graphene!" .. all marketing BS. One atom thick layer, somewhere inside the boot material is now going to magically make the boot SO TOUGH. Yet they will charge 10x the price. Its like adding truffle to anything makes it top-tier (see Worth-It series on youtube). Plain boring cheese pizza (...
[19:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:01] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, a university would not participate in a graphene-based marketing lie. But you never know. I guess it is not so easy to benchmark a shoe. Or a tennis racquet [smh.com.au].
[19:42:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─Add in the fact that he contacted the police first, and they said they couldn't help him. So it's not like the prosecutor can say, "You should have called the police!"
[19:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:30] <exec> 08└─The standard of proof to prove liability in civil cases is "preponderance of the evidence" -- this means if the jury is convinced that the there is connection above pure change between defendant's actions and plaintiff's injuries, plaintiff wins. In other words, if the jury 50.1% certain there is a...
[19:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:32] <exec> 08└─Man, that sucks ... I only have enough proof to get my jury up to 50.0364% !
[19:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:34] <exec> 08└─Different AC, but one of the best attorneys around here explains it like this: What we are basically asking you to do is to decide, how well did the plaintiff prove his case and then put it on a scale from zero to ten. Zero, you rule for the plaintiff and 10 you rule for the defendant. But what abou...
[19:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:36] <exec> 08└─Politicians, and rich people who pay them for 'security patrols'. The rest of us plebs can just fuck right off, unless it's a campaign year, or they need to look tough to sidetrack from that internal investigations corruption proceeding just long enough for a few of the IA folks to be threatened, bo...
[19:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─And if you can't see that both have the same distraction potential, and that the only thing that sets off either is the driver's decision to open them while driving. It is the same reason why we hold people liable for people receiving or sending texts while driving, but not the non-drivers who sent...
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[20:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:52] <exec> 08└─Olympic sized swimming pool, oh now I understand. How big compared to the size of Texas? I think the SI people should review the standard measure of volume to replace m^3 with Olympic sized swimming pools.
[20:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:54] <exec> 08└─We screwed now.
[20:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holographic Acoustic Tweezers Able to Manipulate Multiple Objects In 3-D Space - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah probably not that level of action, but I read a book from a VA doctor from the 60s/70s and he brought up the US standard for "safe" levels of microwave radiation. Apparently the US set a level many times higher than other countries and gave some Russian scientists a little sass about it, so the...
[20:36:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─But, get this. For psychology. This person's field. The full mechanism of memory store and recall is a fundamental and unanswered question. And get this too. For being a complete dumbass. Your field. The mechanism of ultracrepidarian peanut gallery commenting is well understood: complain about every...
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─Because nothing is better than taxing whiny right wingers for the advancement of society? It's win-win, an awful fuck has less, and the scientific knowledge humanity has on hand increases. I mean for the sake of "fairness" I also have to pay taxes, but it's not really an undue burden or anything. No...
[20:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:27] <exec> 08└─Here's the asymmetry: You want to steal from me.I want to leave you alone.
[20:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:29] <exec> 08└─That's not reasonable at all. Association hypothesis was(and still is) pretty-well dominant.
[20:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:32] <exec> 08└─yeah, unrelated except by proximity in time and space. reminds me of the story of the https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] there's an 'unproven by them' word for this of course, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:34] <exec> 08└─The first one is true. For a particularly facile and dimwitted definition of "steal". The second is a lie.
[20:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:36] <exec> 08└─Then they should test the association hypothesis, not the opposite of it that no one believes (which is what they did). They are just lazy and its easier to test "zero association" than think about what the association hypothesis entails and come up with a meaningfully precise prediction.
[20:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:38] <exec> 08└─you make that sound like something's wrong with it. in code, certain things have to co-exist; alcoholics and dis-integration; cars and engines.. that sort of obvious thing is easy to see and rationalize, but leave techne for psyche and you will risk dying of astonishment if you learn to see how unre...
[20:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:40] <exec> 08└─Just because you want to steal from others doesn't mean that I want to do so.
[20:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─If they happened near they same time, they are temporally related - they happened at nearly the same time!
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:45] <exec> 08└─Im the OP AC, and I just want to say this post reads like gibberish.
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─You said you want to leave me alone, but you'll shoot me or call the evil tax funded cops if I walk on "your" land unfairly granted to you by an evil interventionist government and take a perfectly natural dump there every day. note to readers, I am not actually a left-anarchist, but their beliefs m...
[20:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─I'd like to compare the numbers if possible.
[20:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:03] <exec> 08└─If you factor out the i you can compare them.
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:06] <exec> 08└─Can't factor out the i for too complex numbers.
[20:38:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─So it seems that the current government is continuing the abuse pioneered by the Harper government of packing lots of issues irrelevnt to the budget into the budget implementation bill. This should have been an independent bill, to be debated and voted up or down on its own. I support the restrictio...
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─That all seems like a weird way to run a country.
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:12] <exec> 08└─That's just for the politicians. They get an extra long summer or Christmas break. The rest of the country continues to pay the bills and run normally.
[20:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─Hey, leave my Grammer out of it, OK?
[20:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:50] <exec> 08└─being "well spoken" means to speak in the manner of the SE of England
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:38] <exec> 08└─now maybe people can get off their asses and make the scum state legislators around the country unban all the other illegal weapons like baseball bats and scarier than normal knives.
[20:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:39] <exec> 08└─I thought they carried yardsticks and pointers.
[20:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:42] <exec> 08└─Amusing. Ban nunchucks but never mind that thing that can put a hole in someone's head from 50+m away. That thing that has killed more people than anything else, including mothers who happened to have a hand gun in their bag when their toddler started playing with the bag. Need a National Nunchuck A...
[20:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:44] <exec> 08└─Where do you think the nuns get them to break across undisciplined children's buttocks? Also having recently talked to some subs in the BDSM scene: Do you realize nun outfits combined with corporal punished has for hundreds of years been raising generations of submissives into the lifestyle? God rea...
[20:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:39] <exec> 08└─If you're *routinely* transporting plywood and 16 ft. siding then of course you need a truck. OTOH, I'm not a contractor and rarely need to do such things. When I do, I'll rent a truck and rental is dirt cheap vs. having to fill up a truck all the time. Not to mention, I enjoy being able to park and...
[20:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:40] <exec> 08└─Were fun, but with every year, and thanks to every overly irresponsible driver, it becomes a big harder to find somewhere to go out driving and actually enjoy your car. Personally if it wasn't for the SUV culture in america, I would love to see keicars legalized here, so you could zip around at 55-6...
[20:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:42] <exec> 08└─such a passion for antique vehicles!
[20:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:44] <exec> 08└─Most people prefer to ship a car to the junk yard than get it retitled, and anyone who has bought alien sale, lost title, etc car may have some bad stories to tell. Making it easier to clear/reissue titles would go far towards keeping existing cars available and in the system, and make it better for...
[20:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:09] <exec> 08└─Those problems are a direct result of the criminalisation in the first place. Make something illegal and people have nowhere to go to do it legally. So they have to be sneaky about it. Community supported ‘safe’ rooms for drug injection have done a lot to help clean up the mess in countries/citi...
[20:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:10] <exec> 08└─That doesn't change the fact that Cuomo's a stupid whore.
[20:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:13] <exec> 08└─yes and "drug" use and self destructive addiction to dangerous synthetic substances is different behavior and caused by different things. a dangerous lack of pigs kidnapping people's fathers and kids is not the cause of either...
[20:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:15] <exec> 08└─I really don't want my neighborhood inundated in a miasma of eau de skunk
[20:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:32] <exec> 08└─i wish Scandinavian countries didn't have such a love for government.
[20:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:34] <exec> 08└─And so finding out the largest group of Muslims on the planet isn't a bunch of Arabs is probably surprising to many people in the West? If you compared countries around the world, I think you would find the majority with an ultra-wealthy upper class, and a above average wealth middle class are in fa...
[20:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste in Pacific Ocean - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:07] <exec> 08└─He calls it a rubber, it must be made of rubber :)
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[21:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:01] <exec> 08└─See a shooting star? That's money. Asteroid slams into Jupiter? Money. Interstellar object enters and exits the solar system? More money. Rings of Saturn gradually fall into the planet? Moneymoneymoney. That's money being lost forever. We should be capturing all of it within the next few hundred yea...
[21:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:03] <exec> 08└─At least one extinction-level asteroid strike, likely 2, hundreds of super volcanoes, the end of total solar eclipses being possible, the development of several new phyla of animals, the continental plate for south america will have reconnected with Europe and Africa(probably), and the earth will fi...
[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─Got a mod that rhymes.
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─This is what you're looking for. [theregister.co.uk] You're welcome. It looks like 1 olympic sized swimming pool can be converted into walnuts: 29875712.5, grapefruits: 4780114 and other such useful comparisons. Some research might be required to determine what a Bulgarian airbag is, turn off sa...
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─doesn't south america still need to cross the entire pacific in order to reconnect with africa? or is there any actual reason to expect it to simply stop moving away from africa, and reverse course?
[21:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─My mum's pretty old. She can remember when Paul McCartney was in a band.
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─The last total solar eclipse is about 600 million years out. Unless that's a really old popular mechanics article. https://www.popularmechanics.com [popularmechanics.com] There's a last due to *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hid...
[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─I'm definitely gonna miss them.
[21:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:55] <exec> 08└─Interaction between 2 individuals can be governed by rules to which those individuals have agreed in advance; property can be defined by such agreements, making property voluntary. Certainly, interacting in a way that is not well defined by such an agreement opens one up to the anti-profitable scena...
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─After the Heavy launched, I distinctly remember Elon saying that it meant the end of expendable Falcon 9, that any payload too heavy for a return would use a Heavy instead as it would be better all around. I assume that doesn't apply if they have a 9 that needs to be retired anyway. Or maybe SpaceX...
[21:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─Meatbags in space: for the fulfillment of earthlings' utopic science fiction (and for aliens' most dystopian tales, at the same time)
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:55] <exec> 08└─Bots are the 21st century slaves.
[21:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:22] <exec> 08└─Frankly, it's batshit insane. This is why our Congress and president often score lower in popularity than bird flu.
[21:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:02] <exec> 08└─The claim is fundamentally wrong in that the Saxons did not conquer the Celts. The Saxons conquered Roman Britain, which was inhabited by the Romano-British. These were a blend of Romans and Celts whose official language was Latin. The blend varied, being most strongly Celtic in the western extremit...
[21:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:04] <exec> 08└─Not even the hard-arse bully in the dark alleyway survives the coming of the millennial?
[21:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:55] <exec> 08└─But, the bogeyman has one, and I'm scared of the bogeyman. I swear he hides under my bed at night sometimes.
[21:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:56] <exec> 08└─Attila the Nun
[21:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:58] <exec> 08└─Nah... its safe for Michaelangelo cause he has no genitals, so no accidental wood on wood.
[21:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:58] <exec> 08└─What kind of hatchback do you have? First one that came to mind was outback because I read outback instead of hatchback my first read through, its gas mileage averages 24. My v8 F150 gets an average of 20. My v8 has abnormally high mpg, but the ecoboosts are getting that in a full size pickup. If we...
[21:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:46] <exec> 08└─Those people in the Muslim world became wealthy almost exclusively because of the West's insatiable appetite for petroleum. Add to this the fact that the West has developed innumerable technologies for improving the quality of life for the average individual (including petroleum-based products), and...
[21:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia: A Country That Became "Crazy Rich" - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:47] <exec> 08└─It's not at all surprising that they do: Scandinavians have a long history of raping and pillaging wealthier people to buy off loyalty from the masses of the tribe. A government is just the sophisticated organization of this behavior.
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[22:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:02] <exec> 08└─... is that such diseases are a symptom of mankind's failure to organize. Unlike an airborne infection, this sort of thing is a matter of basic protocol and sexual restraint.
[22:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:03] <exec> 08└─sexual restraint in anathema to the modern liberal democratic project
[22:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─We have a disease problem in Africa. Some people think we should get rid of nuclear weapons. I have a plan. No disease is resistant to being vaporized and then ionized into hot plasma. If we add in Pakistan and Papua New Guinea, we also cure Polio. Don't you want to cure Polio? Think of the children...
[22:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─Add in the Middle East and U.K. and you'll have cured the world if mohammadism.
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─Hepatitis C is actually more common from non-sexual activities. Notably blood transfusions followed by contaminated food and water due to improper santitation. Solve the sanitation problem and provide cost effective solutions to test blood for Hep C. and the rest becomes a minor problem. This isn't...
[22:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─Besides the fact that the solution involves basic protocols for hygiene, waste-management, and de-contamination, there is also the fact that these issues arise from a population that is way too large. That brings us back full circle to sexual restraint. Native westerners (i.e., white people) tend to...
[22:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:15] <exec> 08└─I saw Africa in the title and was thus thoroughly unsurprised to find the above garbage being pushed. The nice thing about the non-censorship of comments around here is that such racists can't bleat about censorship and are left to stand on the "value" of their ideas.
[22:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─Hepatitis C is not sexually transmitted. It is only transmitted through blood, so only if you consider 1000-person years of people that have rough, bloody sex (e.g. fisting) then you might observe several cases. https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com] http://...
[22:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─The OP couldn't be clearer. You're the one ignoring what OP said: "this sort of thing is a matter of basic protocol and sexual restraint." And, as the other AC said: Those protocols (hygiene, et al.) become all the more important as a population grows, leading the discussion back to sexual restraint...
[22:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:39] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I just looked up the projected movement. I cannot speak for the actual analysis of what tectonic forces are at play.
[22:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:40] <exec> 08└─You need to convert to seconds. If one year was like one second then Saturn's rings would disappear within: 100,000,000/(60*60*24*365) ~ 3.17 years
[22:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holographic Acoustic Tweezers Able to Manipulate Multiple Objects In 3-D Space - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─(disclaimer: I RTFA - the original one [pnas.org] is Open Acess) 1. No info on the sonic pressures involved - they only mention that they manipulated spheres of expanded polystyrene and for manipulating 12 of them they used 9.5W of power. Around 20 (the max limit they achieved without experiencing a...
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:25] <exec> 08└─I don't respect your voluntary agreement that you own your property. It's actually mine. Who's to say I'm wrong? You, the guy with shitpiles all over your lawn? Your entire ideology is built on a lie. All of it. Some of mine is, but your delusion that mutual 2 party agreement creates permanent unive...
[22:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:26] <exec> 08└─You can interact with another individual in any way that you wish. But, again, as already stated, it is dangerous to behave in a poorly defined way, because the consequences will also be poorly defined. There is profit in agreement, and that is why agreements have value and are therefore largely "an...
[22:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:44] <exec> 08└─Still, you should be able to compare the magnitude of the numbers even if they are complex. Then again, is that the right comparison? Because I would obviously prefer to spend -$100 than $10, even though the latter has a smaller magnitude... *throws arms up* Argg!
[22:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:34] <exec> 08└─What do we even know about the culture that existed before the Celts invaded England from Gaul (Germany)?
[22:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:31] <exec> 08└─Some wankers walk around the streets smoking.
[22:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:32] <exec> 08└─This is new York. They pretty much are banned.
[22:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:34] <exec> 08└─Nope. Women. They feel safe in a larger vehicle.
[22:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:35] <exec> 08└─Is there a significant difference in insurance cost between trucks and hatchbacks?
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Years of Opposition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Plans Cannabis Legalization - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:04] <exec> 08└─I think legalization would decrease those problems as well. If shooting dope isn't a social or legal life sentence, today's junkies could be shooting up at home or in a supervised facility and still hold down a job without being harassed by cops or exploited.
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[23:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:28] <exec> 08└─Uncontaminated food and proper sanitation are anathema to the conservative republican project.
[23:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:29] <exec> 08└─Rape isn't exactly unheard of in Africa. Even collective rape to "cure" Lesbians: Reference: https://www.borgenmagazine.com [borgenmagazine.com] There's other myths for "Rape as a cure". Such as raping babies to cure your AIDS infection. Reference: http://...
[23:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:31] <exec> 08└─It's been noted that people who are conservative have also display a strong sense of disgust for "unclean" things. This is well documented, and also explains the nature of the more rigid orthodox religions, which emphasize ritual cleanliness. So, sorry, but your insult just doesn't work.
[23:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:34] <exec> 08└─Provide a study that rape is a common mode of transmission otherwise your evidence of "myths" and rumors are just anecdotes. AIDS is also caused by a positive-sense RNA virus, but that virus is not HCV.
[23:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:36] <exec> 08└─The OP doesn't know anything about virology or public health. You and the OP should stay away from the science stories and go back to trolling the political ones where your ignorance will be less apparent.
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:38] <exec> 08└─Add in the Middle East and U.K.
[23:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:40] <exec> 08└─You do not know de wae.
[23:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─You mis-understand, they make sure THEIR food is uncontaminated and THEIR neighborhood is clean...
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:42] <exec> 08└─There will always be a strongest individual or strongest group. Ultimately your contracts will have to be enforced by it/them or the contracts are meaningless. That individual or group will claim a monopoly on force and become the ruler. This is unavoidable. The better forms of government attempt to...
[23:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─What keeps Tyranny at bay is competition; what keeps the United States on the straight and narrow, despite its immense power, is not democracy but rather the fact that the citizenry is well armed, and poses a deadly competition to would-be tyrants in the centralized government(s). That is to say, i...
[23:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:00] <exec> 08└─The article also isn't obvious if we are throwing away a used or new Falcon 9. You have to end of life these rockets eventually, so this seems to be an ideal application for a rocket that has flown a few missions and is ready to be scrapped.
[23:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:48] <exec> 08└─Hello fren, there's a way around the ban [fakeposters.com]
[23:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:49] <exec> 08└─No. Clubs are MUCH easier to use without knocking yourself silly.
[23:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:52] <exec> 08└─The bullets are beyond your control, your mind may see it as giving in to the inevitable. The nunchaku handle will be under your control, and if you twitch and knock yourself silly all your mates will laugh at you laying on the floor drooling.
[23:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:53] <exec> 08└─OK, it's a Civic and technically not a hatchback but with the fold-down seats it's able to handle long stuff, just not wide stuff. I tend to think of it as a hatchback. It's a coupe. Real highway mileage 34 mpg. My old car was an '85 Mustang which was a true hatchback and I could put a twin mattress...
[23:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:55] <exec> 08└─I just bought a 20year old diesel van. Craigslist. Because it had such an elegant design. So damm simple. The whole engine is pistons, gears, cams, pushrods. The only thing in it actually using electricity is its E4OD transmission, which will fall back to mechanical mode. Just last week, I finally g...
[23:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:37] <exec> 08└─Hello fren, it's not easy being the vanguard against nazis and transmisogynists. Also, "electrical properties" is not straightforward as there are different implementations.
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