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[00:35:38] <exec> 08└─The Swedish government disappoint once again with their cultural insensitivity [urbandictionary.com]
[00:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend Their Goat - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:40] <exec> 08└─I'm just waiting for the day when someone gets both the inspiration and the connections to use incendiary grenades on it. These days the fireproofing and exclusion zone are doing such a good job it's bound to up the arms race.
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[00:35:42] <exec> 08└─I'm just waiting for the day when someone gets both the inspiration and the connections to use incendiary grenades on it.
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[00:35:44] <exec> 08└─Don't I know it. The open borders together with gutted police force has made things go to shit. And yet the major parties keep pretending there's nothing wrong (and that they've done nothing wrong). And when the only party leader with common sense is the one of the supposedly far right extremist Swe...
[00:35:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 1437 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─I'm getting rid of my smart phone this holiday season. I won't have it by the time we go back to work in January. I have used iOS and Android devices since 2012 and this entire generation of phones has been a huge disappointment. For all of the lacking security, privacy and battery life, all I've ga...
[00:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:34] <exec> 08└─You only think that I hate foreigners, because I'm talking three or more levels over your head.
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:35] <exec> 08└─Legal and illegal. lol. Who creates your laws? For the Runaway, it is just a matter of picking the most powerful warlord to swear fealty to.
[00:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, I am a racist. I didn't used to be one, but you've called me racist so often that I've just decided to go with it.
[00:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:04] <exec> 08└─Hang on, goatse is clearly the black hole. But what is the white hole?
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Use Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z CPUs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─PPC was a great architecture, would love to have it back for us 'regular folk'.
[00:39:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:31] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the tax-exempt trusts system of the USA, the Kochs and Olins, etc. have their decades-long attempts to eradicate capitalism, education, and democracy.
[00:41:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06ACLU to Feds: Your “Hacking Presents a Unique Threat to Individual Privacy” - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:43] <exec> 08└─In the government's case, if the do it without a real warrant it's a violation of the 4th amendment. Our amendments are rights that were believed to be so self-evident that even writing them down should not be necessary. All rights originate and are reserved for USA citizens except for those specifi...
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[01:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend Their Goat - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:25] <exec> 08└─So naturally, wanting to know more, I visited goat.se. For some reason, it's not what I expected...
[01:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend Their Goat - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:26] <exec> 08└─The city has...placed security guards around it
[01:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:38] <exec> 08└─That's why their software is "thoughtful" - whatever the hell that means. The software is the trojan horse into your private life: it *has* to be sexy so people desperately want to use it and forget about the corporate surveillance it's really designed to conduct. Well, they can keep it.
[01:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:39] <exec> 08└─Blobs are not software. Please cease your assault on the English language.
[01:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:41] <exec> 08└─The other thing that will be blown away by Google software is any semblance of privacy. I'll happily continue to use my Sailfish OS phone coupled to my own cloud services server thanks.
[01:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:32] <exec> 08└─Parent AC is trying hard to make you hate own countrymen, don't disappoint her.
[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:34] <exec> 08└─Technically, those keen on details enough to see through the faking of moon photos (which is a fact for some of them regardless the actual landing on the moon), are likely not buying flat earth theories. But, hey, if your only argument is ad hominem you gotta lump them together to discredit some. Fa...
[01:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:08] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Came for some obvious racist postings from the usual suspects, but closest thing is the GP. /disappointed
[01:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:09] <exec> 08└─Moron... do you not understand the difference in scale between decades and billions of years?
[01:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:11] <exec> 08└─That's because you are a hole-discriminating RACIST.
[01:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Developer of Star Citizen Takes on $46M in Funding at Nearly $500M Valuation - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:56] <exec> 08└─Gotta wait until Q1 for the female player, ArcCrop, and the reputation/law system, and then it should start looking like a game. New flight model also coming Q1. Count on at least one of those things being pushed back to Q2. (Female player was already pushed from Q4 2018. Wasn't ArcCorp in Q4 at som...
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[02:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:43] <exec> 08└─President Xi of China, and I, "President Trump," are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, Huawei, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost!!
[02:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:45] <exec> 08└─*ZTE https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] https://www.politico.com [politico.com] https://foreignpolicy.com
[02:37:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend Their Goat - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:02] <exec> 08└─So naturally, wanting to know more, I visited goat.se. For some reason, it's not what I expected...
[02:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend Their Goat - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:04] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough, that particular site is perfectly safe, despite what the URL looks like.
[02:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend Their Goat - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:06] <exec> 08└─Try a classic like the #76 [wikipedia.org].
[02:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend Their Goat - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:08] <exec> 08└─Or the whole town quakes [thelocal.se]. New approach to taking out the goat I guess!
[02:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:22] <exec> 08└─We’ve signed more Bills -- and I’m talking about through the Legislature -- than any President, ever. For a while, Harry Truman had us. And now, I think, we have everybody. I better say "think." Otherwise they will give you a Pinocchio. And I don’t like Pinocchios. America First!!
[02:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:23] <exec> 08└─Want a 'conspiracy' at least one related. The crying indian (who was actually an Italian) was propaganda sponsored by coca-cola to allow them to switch over to plastic bottles and put the blame on you. Geeze at least use the conspiracy theory that is on topic!
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[03:36:13] <exec> 08└─Most people know of Nokia through their mobile handsets, but their real big money has always been more in telecommunications equipment, which is why when they divested that division of theirs to Microsoft a few years back it was not such a big deal for them. They are actually a serious enough player...
[03:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:51] <exec> 08└─I don't see how spam is a symptom of telecom infra problems, any more so than protesters or hustlers (effectively a physical DoS) are a symptom of public sidewalk problems. I mean, sure, telecoms could block spam, just as we can set up blockades to deter protesters, but I would argue that's not thei...
[03:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:52] <exec> 08└─Phone number spoofing is illegal in other countries Do no call registers exist in other countries (with penalties for abuse) Laws that help make phones usable are part of the infrastructure.
[03:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:55] <exec> 08└─Welcome to a very exclusive club! When cell phones first became "affordable" I bought one before taking a long trip. Luckily for me, it didn't work very well, had trouble roaming and also accessing the internal phone book. So when I got home I took it back, got full credit for the phone, just paid f...
[03:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:43] <exec> 08└─How about the time he went down there searching for nazis and found them, and they licked the americans asses so bad they had to flee home? If it wasn't nazis then who was it?
[03:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:47] <exec> 08└─What long game? The long game of polluting all of its land and water to hell? The long game of skyrocketing lung cancer rates? The long game of rampant and systemic corruption? The long game of raising a miseducated population? The long game on basing decisions on what's most beneficial for a single...
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[03:40:49] <exec> 08└─The various evidence is shared here: https://www.geopolymer.org [geopolymer.org] In short, when chemical engineers interpret various stele they see they describe the process of making limestone concrete. Also, went artificial limestone is sent for analysis th...
[03:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Try Your Hand at Being an Operator at the Roseville Telephone Museum - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:50] <exec> 08└─The entire point is convenience not audio quality. I don't buy phone service to appreciate their audio fidelity, I buy phone service so I can communicate with other people as conveniently as possible. That's partly why textual chat took off and replaced a significant portion of phone calls. It's mor...
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[04:35:59] <exec> 08└─Don't I know it. The open borders together with gutted police force has made things go to shit. And yet the major parties keep pretending there's nothing wrong (and that they've done nothing wrong). And when the only party leader with common sense is the one of the supposedly far right extremist Swe...
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[04:36:06] <exec> 08└─Same like the AfD in Germany - but there the MSM is programmed against them too. I don't know if that is the case in Sweden. You'll hear the epithet "neo-Nazi" thrown about whenever the AfD is mentioned in international media. But at least their official platform is similar to what Merkel's party, t...
[04:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:08] <exec> 08└─Speaking of classics, I think defense next year should include an alligator filled moat. That would be some awesome.
[04:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the correction! Sadly, the misspelling appeared in the linked story. Story updated to note their error.
[04:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:12] <exec> 08└─Appears to be a rustic goat farm/diary/store of some kind best I can tell.
[04:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:34] <exec> 08└─screen notches ... which some people find hideous
[04:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Robot Hand Plays the Piano - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:45] <exec> 08└─My grandmother, a career concert pianist, could play (at least) several tunes with a couple of grapefruit. She just carelessly rolled them around (well, that's what it looked like to me at age 7 or so) her grand piano and out came beautiful music. Classical, blues... it was astonishing to me. It was...
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[04:41:45] <exec> 08└─Long, long before humans or any animals at all existed, life has had to deal with the potential for overpopulation. Any species that cycles from boom to bust and back again is going to be very weak, and highly vulnerable to losing to competitors during busts. And that's only if, during a boom, they...
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[05:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:14] <exec> 08└─has anyone proved ZTE or Huawei equipment has backdoors? Is there any proof that any other equipment suppliers don't have backdoors?
[05:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:39] <exec> 08└─Not sure this is an error, BBC also spells it that way https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]. We understand Gothenberg is not the city's real name, Copenhagen also isn't even close. Florence, italy, Vienna, Austira, the list goes on and on. Don't get me wrong, the butchering o...
[05:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:41] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see it destroyed with style. Steal or recreate the T-Rex robot from Jurassic Park, and send it in to dismember the goat.
[05:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah that sounds quite similar. SD has historically been known as the neo-nazi party, though they've cleaned up their act considerably since. Their policy platform isn't too dissimilar to that of the Moderates ("Moderaterna"), albeit with a more pronounced "we have to put our citizens before those o...
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[05:35:45] <exec> 08└─Not sure they alligators would agrees in with that in the freezing temperatures though. In principle I fully agree though!
[05:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:47] <exec> 08└─Blissfully unaware of the goatse legend...
[05:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:08] <exec> 08└─Well I guess since we're all bitching and moaning, does anybody want an easy mod point suggesting a recent (&lt= 2 yr old) smartphone model that is small and yet powerful? I'm talking 5 inches (12.7 cm) length with a little over 2.5 inches (a little over 6.35 cm) in width that doesn't look fucking g...
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[05:36:10] <exec> 08└─I'd rather live in a country with inconvenient phone laws that live in one where my house could be firebombed and my family beheaded, and then it would be me to go to jail for having dared criticized it. Oh, wait. I live in California, I'm doubly fucked.
[05:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think cats throwing up is all that random. I believe that if one had carpet covering a mere 5% of one's floorspace, one would find that the majority of puke still appeared in that area.
[05:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:41] <exec> 08└─But at least a few of the black holes that formed say 13 billion years ago should be spewing by now
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[05:37:43] <exec> 08└─A-Hem. I think what you all were looking for is: " Kryten: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it. "
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[06:35:06] <exec> 08└─The complaint also spotlights several apps that may not be age appropriate, including "Dentist Game for Kids," which lets the player give the virtual patient shots in the back of their throat. Another game, "Doctor X & the Urban Heroes," requires players to cut clothing off of a patient.
[06:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:18] <exec> 08└─has anyone proved ZTE or Huawei equipment has backdoors?
[06:35:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:54] <exec> 08└─so, when your telecommunications infrastructure is so broken you have to screen or whitelist all your calls, the answer is to give more control over your life to a private company? Pass.
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[06:36:07] <exec> 08└─Australia [donotcall.gov.au]? New Zealand [canstarblue.co.nz]? Not alot of beheadings - or firebombings.
[06:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:08] <exec> 08└─The sig refers to the timing. I think it is more about "I just sat down" or "let's eat dinner now", so it only feels random. -- Life's a beach... and then you dry.
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[06:41:06] <exec> 08└─Long, long before humans or any animals at all existed, life has had to deal with the potential for overpopulation. Any species that cycles from boom to bust and back again is going to be very weak, and highly vulnerable to losing to competitors during busts. And that's only if, during a boom, they...
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[07:35:49] <exec> 08└─It must be a real bitch selling letterbox numbers in that city.. since that must make you liable for any crimes committed at that address.. Map makers must have it pretty bad also.
[07:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:15] <exec> 08└─The Australians have taken a similar tack. Given the financial relationship between Australia and China they would only have done so if there was a real reason. Where there is smoke?
[07:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:16] <exec> 08└─Think that smoke is from the friction from Australian Prime Ministers humping Trump's leg. (And doing their bit for Five Eyes) The Chinese already have a huge (negative) impact on the Australian balance of trade.. They take Oz iron ore, and sell tons of crap. Almosteffectively impossible to find Aus...
[07:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:18] <exec> 08└─Nuses? Meant "buses"
[07:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:45] <exec> 08└─They're supposed to EAT the damned goats, then give birth to them the next morning. You don't just burn them, and leave the remains behind.
[07:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry :( I couldn't find the ä on my keyboard. Maybe I'll just copy/paste in future.
[07:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:48] <exec> 08└─Gang-related gun murders, now mainly a phenomenon among men with immigrant backgrounds in the country’s parallel societies, increased from 4 per year in the early 1990s to around 40 last year. Because of this, Sweden has gone from being a low-crime country to having homicide rates significantly ab...
[07:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:51] <exec> 08└─They've already tried flaming arrows. Reading the description: The city has also erected fences, placed security guards around it and installed a live webcam that broadcasts the goat online.
[07:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:53] <exec> 08└─Just tell ISIL about it. They love blowing this kind of thing up
[07:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:55] <exec> 08└─Pick an minority or create a grouping that seem to involved to some degree, then denigrate and oppress them. That'll fix the problem. Extra points if you can create a media circus to blame them and direct as much fear and hate towards them as you can. That way you can set up an 'us vs them' mentalit...
[07:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:57] <exec> 08└─It looks like their best bet for a working police is to shoot people at the border. Seriously. Why are hundreds of thousands of young men flooding into other countries instead of staying in their own to fight for their freedom?
[07:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:59] <exec> 08└─If this continues muslims will be the majority in these places. What then?
[07:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─I did my best to find a phone that was no more than 5'1'' and released in last 2 years and nothing turned up. I was fortunate enough that my Mi 5 was still functioning and I am using it with all the care I can, until the day it breaks and then I will get fucking angry. that doesn't look fucking gay...
[07:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:25] <exec> 08└─A famine that features an abundance of devices. Just ones that are good enough, and not the better ones I'm asking for.
[07:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:27] <exec> 08└─LineageOS. Turn off anything you don't want; limit access of "apps" to anything else on the phone.
[07:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:23] <exec> 08└─You're probably thinking of an incident in Argentina. It's in the southern hemisphere, so you confused it with Antarctica.
[07:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:24] <exec> 08└─She hates everyone who isn't very much like her, and approves of all her opinions, ideas, and conduct. She can't help it, she's damaged.
[07:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Tinder Changed Dating - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:03] <exec> 08└─Headline should read: How Tinder Changed DatingFucking
[07:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:43] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Lack of a start date usually indicates the "project" never was started (which I think was the gist of the grandparent post). At that point, you're not talking of anything that would have an end date or deliverable.
[07:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:44] <exec> 08└─Lazarus Long is older, right?
[07:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, I was. Chinese have been in Australia working alongside us for two centuries to great benefit and no harm. Come back in 100 years. See if we are still here. Call out 'Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!' and see what answers. Problem is, at that point, doing so may very well be illegal.
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[08:35:39] <exec> 08└─For me, the key sentence is this: "if a site owner is unresponsive to takedown requests, Key-Systems and other registrars can be required to take a domain name offline" It makes sense, as long as "required" means "by presenting a valid court order", which is exactly what happened in this case. qzm w...
[08:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 1678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:48] <exec> 08└─"We understand Gothenberg is not the city's real name, Copenhagen also isn't even close" Gothenberg is a particularly egregious misspelling actually; you meant Gothenburg. Geats Fort, not Geats Mountain. This is actually a /translation/ of the name - Gothen substituted for Göta, burg for borg, so t...
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[09:36:02] <exec> 08└─Can't we just RICO and MPAA and RIAA and be done with it all?
[09:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:36] <exec> 08└─It's called NEGOTIATION. I negotiated with President Xi -- very popular guy by the way, they made him President for Life. And I saved ZTE. Something nobody thought could happen. I made it happen. And possibly I can make it happen for Huawei too. Good things are happening. Maybe things will work out,...
[09:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:15] <exec> 08└─This guy knows how to ritual cannibalize!
[09:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:02] <exec> 08└─They must have got a priest to try it
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[10:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:47] <exec> 08└─The domain system is not 'renting out letterboxes', that's the hosting provider. The domain system is providing maps of locations. You obviously didn't understand my point at all. The hosting provider or ISP is the correct point to 'close the mailbox'
[10:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:49] <exec> 08└─You also seem to have missed the point that Bradley is making. It's not that the domain registrar, Key-Systems, "rented out a letterbox", which is still fine and dandy, it's that they failed to comply with a legal court order to take down the domain they had registered, choosing instead to keep it u...
[10:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:08] <exec> 08└─This guy knows how to read. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tanngrisnir (Old Norse "teeth-barer, snarler") and Tanngnjóstr (Old Norse "teeth grinder") are the goats who pull the god Tho...
[10:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:09] <exec> 08└─Never try to teach a educate a moron; it wastes your time, and it annoys the moron.
[10:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:52] <exec> 08└─Problem with this is that there needs to be a turning point. Some time when a key group of people orientate themselves to taking action. Like the Cronulla Riots. The Lebanese Sydney Gang rapes. The wider population needs to experience or understand the threat. Which is a pity. The internet makes it...
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[11:36:06] <exec> 08└─I called and emailed them in 2014. Was ready to buy a complete system (I mostly wanted a PowerWall as a whole-house UPS, but the only way to get that was to put up panels too. Ok, fine, sign me up). They still haven’t returned my call after almost five years. When someone is trying to give you mon...
[11:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:42] <exec> 08└─it's just Gävle misspelled because someone couldn't find their pricks.
[11:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:12] <exec> 08└─I believe that if one had carpet covering a mere 5% of one's floorspace, one would find that the majority of puke still appeared in that area.
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[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that the allegations against supermicro had more evidence. (reservations about the truth of those allegations aside) No ban, not even a real movement to get one in supermicro's case. That is the real evidence that Huawei is being railroaded for non technical reasons. Sent from my p20 pro...
[12:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─How is Sweden going to fix this problem?
[12:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gavle Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:58] <exec> 08└─That lameness is all Loki's fault. It's always Loki's bloody fault.
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[13:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:13] <exec> 08└─Another outsourcing success story. Fast, Cheap, Good ... pick none.
[13:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:15] <exec> 08└─That would imply they are actually capable of producing good results if you either pay more or wait longer.
[13:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:17] <exec> 08└─Crap, cognitive expectations got in the way of properly reading apparently. Guess it was outsourced.
[13:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Developer of Star Citizen Takes on $46M in Funding at Nearly $500M Valuation - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:53] <exec> 08└─100 beeeellion dollars
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[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─"uses Google Maps as the base" Stealing from Google. Imagine if Google 'stole' from anyone else, how much legal trouble they would get into. But everyone steals from Google and it's perfectly fine. Imagine if these companies had to actually produce their own maps without stealing from Google first,...
[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─1. You can't copyright facts 2. Tracing over an image is not itself copyright infringement 3. Copyright infringement isn't stealing 4. Most of Google's content was provided by third parties in the first place 5. Grab had a much better map at their disposal, but ruined it by using "what Google offers...
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[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─The quote in the summary does not explant why a service using Google Maps is getting in trouble with OSM, so here are my clif notes: 1. Grab uses both Google Maps (customer interface) and OSM (most of the backbone infrastructure): In a phone interview, Ajay Bulusu — head of regional operations at...
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─inaccurate edits that were created by a remote team based in India
[15:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─Stealing from Google.
[15:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─Another outsourcing success story. Fast, Cheap, Good ... pick none.
[15:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunrun Outpaces SolarCity in U.S. Residential Solar Panel Sales - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─installed 163 megawatts (MW) of residential solar panels
[15:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:13] <exec> 08└─And if you are a map maker, and the official authorities come to you with a court order, based on valid law, to remove certain information from the map, then you'll be in trouble if you don't do so. What was your point again?
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─That it is still a bullshit.
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─But it might also be effectively impossible to find Australian nuses, as well. There aren't enough Australian-Albanians [wikipedia.org] to field a surplus of them [wiktionary.org].
[15:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─Me thinks you must be Swedish, Copenhagen is København [wikipedia.org]. Or maybe you just find Danish spelling to be too crazy to take seriously.
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─did you have to install it on company issued hardware? If you had to install it on your own hardware, why did you accept this violation? Make them give you the cheapest whatever with the leastest data plan to allow whatever app to function if they absolutely require your expertise to be avaialble th...
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[15:39:45] <exec> 08└─Something like that, yes. If you're going to practice a craft, you should do it to the best of your ability not half-ass it.
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[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─This sounds like some unintended consequences waiting to happen. Uber drivers don't need parking spots in the city center, but can keep roaming looking for rides. Empty Ubers driving in circles isn't exactly good for the environment or congestion. Maybe if they provide usable and cheap (or free) alt...
[16:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:03] <exec> 08└─Heaven forbid if you have medical issues and can't walk or run. Or not feeling well, or in a hurry... Eventually this will backfire and will cause more harm than good. The streets belong to cars, not pedestrians. The pedestrians are there just to slow down traffic, jump in front of cars and cause ac...
[16:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Legislation to Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 Billion - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:12] <exec> 08└─I have yet to hear of any practical quantum computing. Shor's algorithm for factoring large numbers has still not been implemented at a useful scale. There's a lot of hype, and D-Wave is typical of the of commercial variety of hype. They wildly exaggerate, just outright lie, about the capabilities o...
[16:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Legislation to Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 Billion - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:14] <exec> 08└─WE COOLD BUILT 1/10th A WALL FER THUT! them kumputors shud be ilgal! wayst of or hard erned cash!
[16:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Legislation to Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 Billion - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:16] <exec> 08└─If Shor's algorithm can work, you could consider this $1.2 billion of NSA funding. They need the machines before they can crack the codes.
[16:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─Just wait till you see what graduates brought in by accenture can do for your multimillion dollar project
[16:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:33] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that paying people 1/5 of the going rate in the US is not going to result in quality work?
[16:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:36] <exec> 08└─Google Maps happens to be a bit newer than any of Johann Pachelbel's compositions. I know Disney bribed the U.S. Congress to hide this fact for 39 years, but copyrights do expire after about a century.
[16:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:38] <exec> 08└─Is that 1/5 on an exchange rate basis (relative to how many U.S. Dollars a particular local currency can buy) or 1/5 on a purchasing power parity basis [wikipedia.org] (relative to the local price of rent and food)? Theoretically, exchange rate discrepancies are temporary, and they tend to diminish...
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─"They scour satellite data for inaccurate road placement and missing roads. This may be a good budget source of corrections for countries with long-lived infrastructure, but Thailand's roads are much more organic and the satellite data is out of date" Relying on satellite data - typically 1-2 years...
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:42] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter. Google Maps both encourages such "theft" and doesn't do anything about it when it happens. In other words, it's quite legal no matter how crazy Congress happens to be.
[16:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunrun Outpaces SolarCity in U.S. Residential Solar Panel Sales - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:52] <exec> 08└─Some context would be electrical use in the USA flatlined around 2000 and has slightly decreased, if you're looking for evidence of permanent economic decline or income inequality or whatevs.
[16:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:13] <exec> 08└─we need to replace all these "authorities". i haven't looked into namecoin but it sounds like the right idea if it's distributed dns and registration where consensus is agreed upon by an application on everyone's computer. let these lawyers and pigs try to enforce illegal software instead of us depe...
[16:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:14] <exec> 08└─If you can bookmark a static IPv6 address, you don't need a domain name. Most people don't even type in domain names anymore. The real problem is that the hosting (and that IP address) can be targeted. So we still need decentralized, distributed systems like Tor, Freenet, etc. IPFS [wikipedia.org] m...
[16:37:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 1678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─"We understand Gothenberg is not the city's real name, Copenhagen also isn't even close" Gothenberg is a particularly egregious misspelling actually; you meant Gothenburg. Geats Fort, not Geats Mountain. This is actually a /translation/ of the name - Gothen substituted for Göta, burg for borg, so t...
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─We Can Fix That }O{
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─good thing those guns are illegal. that should make the swedish sleep better at night or more likely to send their teen daughter to the store for bread.
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, he's really dead this time.
[16:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:00] <exec> 08└─It depends on the scale (admittedly you said most, so you are right), I think CERN needed to take the curvature into account, and I know that the Sudan mine's use for detecting WIMPs required the particle accelerator (FERMILAB I think) to aim through the earth. Since they were looking for WIMPs it d...
[16:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:02] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It's like any other model that works. There a space where the model is adequate for the tasks and then, once one needs precision or details not covered by the model, it ceases to be a good model. The flat Earth model is no good for predicting sunrises and sunsets, for example. We use the sph...
[16:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:04] <exec> 08└─If we were fooled maybe then - just maybe - you'd be talking over our heads.
[16:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:42] <exec> 08└─So far I don't think we have witnessed anything that could be considered even similar to a white hole in Space.
[16:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03johnlongjohnson [7223] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:43] <exec> 08└─Likely they are... We should expect to see a high energy GRB as the transition occurs. Afterwards it would be hard to tell the difference between the jets from a normal black hole and the jets from a white hole. You'd have to examine the jets for consistency since there wouldn't be sputter, and then...
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Use Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z CPUs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:01] <exec> 08└─i would like to see reasonably competitive openPOWER/PPC based consumer boards with full and open linux support, as well
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[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe if they provide usable and cheap (or free) alternatives, like public transportation and bicycles, it might work.
[17:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder what effect it will have on revenues in the affected areas.
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─Sydney streets have been ripped up for ages to put new tram lines in. This has killed businesses who depend on foot traffic. Maybe this will help?
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─No, thanks. The rape statistics have gone through the roof. Fix your social problems and maybe I'll visit.
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:36] <exec> 08└─The streets belong to cars, not pedestrians.
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─Possibly. Too many variables to make a good guess IMO.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:41] <exec> 08└─Ah, Fox News, I get it now... USA is #1, and all other countries are shitholes(*). (*): With a better healthcare system, less poverty, less inequality, better working conditions, higher quality of life, happier people, less stress, longer life-expectancy... I could go on, you know.
[17:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:43] <exec> 08└─This could work very well provided there in infrastructure in place to move people to/from the pedestrian-only areas. Rail, bus, biking. I'm all in favor of laying out towns and cities around squares and communities with local stores, housing, parks. Not every city needs to be an industrialized cons...
[17:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:45] <exec> 08└─Isnt that where everyone is letting the government implant microchips under their skin, basically borgifying society?
[17:35:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Trump Signs Legislation to Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 Billion - 1457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─I have yet to hear of any practical quantum computing. Shor's algorithm for factoring large numbers has still not been implemented at a useful scale. There's a lot of hype, and D-Wave is typical of the of commercial variety of hype. They wildly exaggerate, just outright lie, about the capabilities o...
[17:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Trump Signs Legislation to Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 Billion - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder if he will sign the document nationalizing the khazar jewish Federal Reserve bank system. ... and live to sign another document.
[17:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Legislation to Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 Billion - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:01] <exec> 08└─Wut?
[17:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:26] <exec> 08└─Current imagery certainly is available much more frequently than even on a monthly basis. How much are you (or more on point, Global Logic) willing to pay for that? Or coversely: why would the private companies involved in satellite mapping share their work with the world for free? (And yes, "govern...
[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:04] <exec> 08└─I never got out of the habit of typing in full domain names. When I first heard people just typing in in the address bar I was confused...why would you even do that? I see the convenience I guess, but it is simply guaranteed that what they don't want you to see will be missing or on page three. (un...
[17:37:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─has anyone proved ZTE or Huawei equipment has backdoors? Is there any proof that any other equipment suppliers don't have backdoors?
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:41] <exec> 08└─You make a good point, but we have no real evidence. Something is going on, that's clear. I think we can safely assume there are backdoors in place. Not just Chinese equipment, all equipment. Removing a foreign nation's backdoors from our telecoms equipment seems fairly prudent to me. Also maintaini...
[17:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:31] <exec> 08└─pfftpt, the burning goat should keep things warm :-p
[17:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:32] <exec> 08└─Three characters. I can't believe he could make me cringe using just THREE CHARACTERS.
[17:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:05] <exec> 08└─I absolutely love Night Sight! It enables taking pictures in situations where there isn't enough light for a normal shot, and a flash would be ineffective/inappropriate/create excessive glare.
[17:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Tricks to Unveil the Secrets of Topological Materials - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─If the application is a computer that is a billion times better, maybe it is!
[17:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─> I assure [assume] you nobody took the curvature of the Earth into account when they made my residence. Depends on how you look at it, if the builders used bubble levels at more than one location (eg, used the bubble to set each wall vertical), the curvature was there, built into the measurement. O...
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Tinder Changed Dating - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:52] <exec> 08└─I met one good looking woman in Tennessee who started talking about how men were "weird about their butts" when we were getting to know each other at her apartment. i had to leave. I never knew i was so old fashioned...
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[18:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:32] <exec> 08└─Fish more [soylentnews.org].
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:34] <exec> 08└─1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9. Oh, and drink less, now that the wife no longer runs a whisky business. Is that too many?
[18:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:36] <exec> 08└─In 2019 I hope to be able to read at least one book a month. I once was an avid reader but then adulthood happened and time seemed always in short supply. So, 2019 is going to be the year that changes all that. One book a month, starting with the Baroque Cycle.
[18:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:38] <exec> 08└─New years resolution: Want to up the resolution of my desktop monitor to 8k and about 60 inches. Going to need a new graphics card, too... -- The spawn and grandspawn say I never listen to them. Or something like that.
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─1-4, maybe 12 if i decide to become a buddhist monk and forgive humans for their follies.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─Use all my mod points
[18:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:45] <exec> 08└─Pirating for Social Justice!
[18:36:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:01] <exec> 08└─The streets belong to cars, not pedestrians.
[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─While I am all for no cars cities, I can't help noticing consequences. For example, people will get disability papers to drive electric wheelchairs galore. One just have to visit any large event to see it. Bicycles would have to be heavily regulated. Currently Singapore criminalizes bicycle hacking...
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─I'm glad i don't have to go to one of these hypocrite shitholes.
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─No, thanks. The rape statistics have gone through the roof.
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─Let me guess: You're american, right ? It's not like you'd ever have travelled out of your state anyway, let alone your country. And a Merry Christmas to you too.
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Trump Signs Legislation to Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 Billion - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:27] <exec> 08└─Trump: $1.2 billion? Is this for my wall of slotted artistic steel slats? Aide: Not exactly, sir. Trump: Then what am I signing? Aide: It's a bill to fund "Quantum Computing". Trump: What is Qantas Commuting? Is that a caravan of Austrians? Aide: What? Oh, no, it has nothing to do with Australia, si...
[18:36:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 1021 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─The quote in the summary does not explant why a service using Google Maps is getting in trouble with OSM, so here are my clif notes: 1. Grab uses both Google Maps (customer interface) and OSM (most of the backbone infrastructure): In a phone interview, Ajay Bulusu — head of regional operations at...
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─there goes my plan to not drink myself to sleep tonight. fuck.
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:18] <exec> 08└─Meh. This is no different a situation than using credit cards. You get a big bump in ease of use over cash for exposure of personal information. You don't think they sell that, as well as use it themselves? Google doesn't even sell it, and has a pretty good record for data security. It's a trade. Yo...
[18:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrXenos [5818] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:02] <exec> 08└─Ugh, here go the Internet experts again. Fucking douche.
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[19:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:11] <exec> 08└─When resolutions collide. I should exercise more but also lose mass? That hardly seems like exercise then. Spend less time on the internet? That has to be the joke resolution since it's posted online. Write more and less code -- so optimize more then? Check!
[19:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:13] <exec> 08└─It's turned into a real shit show and following it has caused me way too much stress the past few years. Fuck Trump and fuck giving a shit about any of it in 2019... Blindly voting blue down-ticket going forward... Hell, I'm starting to feel better already!
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─- Spend less time replying to random comments :-P
[19:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:17] <exec> 08└─I definitely want to lose _weight_. Let the mass be constant. When I manage to lose weight, then I have finally cracked the gravity question! Welcome stars! That must be the best resolution.
[19:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, I prefer Soylentils. Not one single Soylentil has ever sneezed on me, or coughed on me, or slobbered on me, or farted silently, then tried to blame it on me. Soylentils are better than humans.
[19:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─I plan to slide further into indolence, gluttony, and sloth. Hey, it's what's going to happen anyway, I might was well make it my goal.
[19:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:24] <exec> 08└─Well modding that flamebait reallllllly shows where your head is at. Scratch #12, snowflake brigade is out to prove AGW a lie!
[19:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─Is it only in sweden?
[19:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─As someone who actually does have medical issues that make walking difficult, I assure you I am not about to start using a wheelchair one moment earlier than I absolutely have to. It's probable that I will end up in one in time as I age, but I will forestall that event as long as possible. So instea...
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─Americans. Go figure. The city in the next county is a shithole. The neighboring state(s) is a shithole. The neighboring country is a shithole. And, all other continents are shitholes. That's why they all want to go to Mars, I think.
[19:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:52] <exec> 08└─Awesome. None of us wanted to see your sagging, wrinkled baby-boomer ass anyway.
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[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─Orange man bad, I hate open government now! We should be kept in the dark, this isn't acceptable!
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─:-) Well, there is the EPA if you want to keep everything behind closed doors [envirodatagov.org]. Hey, if the majority says that's okay, then I guess we gotta live with it, right?
[20:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─Orange man not in House or Senate.
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, just "his" buddies, including the ones pretending not to be... Better Reality TV you will never find.
[20:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─It requires that federal agencies must publish any "non-sensitive" info in a "machine-readable" format (essentially in a way that's legible on your smartphone or laptop).
[20:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:01] <exec> 08└─A lot more...
[20:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:02] <exec> 08└─Ten times zero is still zero
[20:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:04] <exec> 08└─Are you kiddin' me? I've been puttin' up with the same LEA fishing expedition since the '70s!
[20:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:07] <exec> 08└─Stick It To The Man.
[20:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:09] <exec> 08└─Either by getting a better job or supplementing with gigs or something...
[20:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:11] <exec> 08└─That you are aware of....
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─Literally or figuratively? :)
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 2461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:15] <exec> 08└─This is quite a list! All good goals that most readers here can relate to. Let's see: 1. Eat better - have been trying to cut sugar-laden and processed foods. Portion sizes and food combinations also count, a work in progress 2. Sleep better - I wish. Unfortunately my partner is a night owl and midn...
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─I've given it some thought and put down 5 things I want to spend my time doing. I'm busy now selling everything that doesn't mesh; probably about 80%+ of these things laying around here. The rest gets donated. Selling the house too, listing it in early Feb is the plan. Less things has meant less thi...
[20:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─I assume 6 meant the Web, most people don't meaningfully spend time on the Internet (the transport layer). Surfing IP packets just isn't appealing to most people. There's absolutely nothing wrong with spending time on the Web. The Web is the modern version of the library, most people would benefit f...
[20:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─1. Eat more cement 2. Stop eating the skin suits 3. Shave my eyebrows 4. Spend less money on peanut butter and bungee cords. 5. Spend more money on electrical tape and miracle whip. 6. Finally empty out the limbs from my freezer, since they're all freezer burned and not very tasty anymore.
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─been there done that Some Italian cities began experimenting with limited traffic zones since the 90s, and reduced the free parking zones till paying for parking became akin to paying a tax, more than acquiring a premium service. Coincidentally, this happened with the rise of malls at the outskirts....
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─Scandinavian countries are rather wealthy, and they can probably afford cars just as easily as any American, but they don't seem to want, or need them.
[20:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:53] <exec> 08└─I suspect that buldings are accessible anywhere in those northern countries. What, they offer tire chains for your wheelchair now?
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─The whole world will become a giant Bourbon Street. You probably won't see too many furniture and appliance stores. Lots of shoe stores maybe... If you take a walk we'll tax your feet
[20:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:17] <exec> 08└─Caller ID spoofing is illegal in the US when done maliciously. Do not call exists in the US. No, I don't consider laws as part of the telecom infrastructure, just like I don't consider the gas tax as part of the US interstate infrastructure. What was your point, anyway? That laws make fraudsters dis...
[20:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:18] <exec> 08└─My point was that other countries seem to manage these issues without resorting to pre-screening or whitelisting, or giving large, privacy-hostile companies more access to information. US laws and methods don't seem to be working (with regard to spoofing, robocalls, etc)
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[21:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:00] <exec> 08└─Since any purchase can be easily reversed everytjing nes to cost more. It is equivalent to another tax. So wece got the realmtaxes and now at leastntwo levels of hidden taxes (inflation and cashless). Of course, they should accept crypto and gice a discount, which has no chargebacks and should be (a...
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─Whatever, on mobile... AB testing has been making typing more and more difficult with each new device.
[21:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:15] <exec> 08└─Go on, DM. You can do it. Say the Republicans did something good. You can even tack on an "even a broken clock is right twice a day" if you need to to maintain your sanity.
[21:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think PDF can really qualify as machine readable. It's quite often display-only as far as computers are concerned unless you make them pretend they're humans and use OCR like we do. It's about the least useful possible file format you can put a document in. Snail-mailing html files on paper...
[21:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─You are not fully 'thinking through' from a Dr Evil standpoint. You need a machine to be able to 'read' a pdf, so therefore PDF must qualify as "machine readable" because a "machine" is necessary to "read" it.
[21:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:21] <exec> 08└─Turns out all 17 nay votes were from republicans with zero nays from democrsts. Would you like to try again?
[21:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 1975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─.@BarackObama [twitter.com] spent millions to try and hide his records, why? He was the least transparent President -- EVER -- and he ran on transparency. Why did Obama believe he shouldn't comply with record releases that his predecessors did of their own volition? Hiding something? This wonderful...
[21:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, 17 is clearly a majority of the party. You have spanked me thoroughly with your logic.
[21:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:59] <exec> 08└─16. Stop making new year's resolutions
[21:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:01] <exec> 08└─A linear explosive array fishing expedition? Damn, where do I sign up?
[21:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:03] <exec> 08└─So... you wish to be more dense?
[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─Here's a question: how fast would the earth have to spin so that the centrifugal force (I know, there's no such thing, bla bla bla) would cause a human at the equator to weigh 20% less?
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─It could have been taken as a threat. The only time progressives are nice to anyone is when they're already thoroughly oppressed.
[21:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─DeathMonkey has a point. I mean I had been blaming them on martyb but since you went and brought it up...
[21:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─Well, #1 & #3 will take care of #4 and #2 commensurate to the amount of effort you put into it. #5 That sounds an awful lot like being exposed to additional sunlight, for very little ROI :)#6? Too Late#7 I'd have to sign up first, along with 20% of all Soylentils apparently.#8 I already migrated fro...
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─1. Start making music again 2. Get another Mexican kicked out of the neighborhood 3. Get a raise 4. Get better at C/embedded programming 5. Wash my fucking car 6. Start running more 7. Start making salads and sandwiches instead of eating out of bags and cans 8. Shitpost on Soylentnews 9. Brag to eve...
[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─7. NOT DEAD [soylentnews.org]
[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:18] <exec> 08└─Miracle Whip is the bomb-diggity. With a few drops of Tabasco sauce mixed into it, it will be unstoppable, but probably less good for your anus. It would be awesome to see Ren and Stimpy eating broiled hogs' anuses though, imagine all of the cubbery-cartoon noises chewing them would make.
[21:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:21] <exec> 08└─You have to go back, Pedro.
[21:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─You're stupid and nobody cares.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─Let's make that a squad goal, buddy!
[21:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─Would this be the same "man" who's footing the bills for your roof, food and meds?
[21:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─Suck my New Year's dick, you sniveling cocksucker.
[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:32] <exec> 08└─Did you keep any used whisky barrels? You should age beer in them.
[21:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:07] <exec> 08└─Having spent some years dealing with a less-mobile elder, I submit that pickup/dropoff is necessary on a practical level. By all means limit the traffic, and use rumble strips and speed bumps, but make it possible to get people in and out of the area. Presumably there is still access for deliveries...
[21:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:08] <exec> 08└─That's wise, there's a reason why they still sell canes and walkers. It's less than ideal to use those, but it is far better than moving directly to a wheelchair or scooter.
[21:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:10] <exec> 08└─I'll put in a plug for Kenda tires here - it's what I run on my motorcycle. https://www.sportaid.com [sportaid.com] https://www.unitedspinal.org [unitedspinal.org] Sorry, don't see snow chains anywhere...
[21:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─Nah, it does a pretty good job of keeping the idiots away from me. Anyone living in a big city voluntarily has made some really incomprehensible life choices.
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─Scandinavian countries are rather wealthy, and they can probably afford cars just as easily as any American, but they don't seem to want, or need them.
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:17] <exec> 08└─So, good music but smelling of piss?
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─Me too but I'm interested in seeing how it works out. I've got a suspicion that it's going to significantly decrease the amount of money moving per square mile but there's not enough data for anything more than a suspicion at this point.
[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:21] <exec> 08└─Almost correct. We want you to go to Mars.
[21:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:24] <exec> 08└─Europe's wang
[21:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─The only thing your shithole country is good for is the 'padding points' other teams get in the ice-hockey standings, pick a league...any league that matters. There is nothing your country makes or exports that matters to the rest of the world. Oh and before you ask, I'm not American.
[21:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:05] <exec> 08└─Worse: Accenture grads supervising Indian visa/offshore coders..
[21:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:43] <exec> 08└─I never got out of the habit of typing in full domain names. When I first heard people just typing in in the address bar I was confused
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[22:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps not a great organization. Certainly useful attached to certain key words at times, however.
[22:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─Cashless < Crashless
[22:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:57] <exec> 08└─Which, with the state of today's technology, looks unlikely to happen any time soon? Our electronics are not ready for prime time. I mean, yeah, the high amperage stuff and discreet components work fine, but the computers? Forget it! They're just too frail in this insane quest for "efficiency". We c...
[22:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:15] <exec> 08└─You are irredeemable.
[22:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:08] <exec> 08└─That's not the first overt homosexual comment you've made on this site when you feel slighted. Hmmm...
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:10] <exec> 08└─You're ignoring politics. Because you don't "give" a Shit. So you're going to vote for the Dems -- BLINDLY -- in the 2019 Election. That's your choice. Your very special choice. And hopefully it'll work out for you. And for America. I think that one will work out. And I don't do New Year Resolutions...
[22:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:12] <exec> 08└─Yeh, sorry for drawing attention towards you Subsentient. Wishing you a Happy New Year and a tolerable continued existence.
[22:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:14] <exec> 08└─16. Not being required to buy a new mattress
[22:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:16] <exec> 08└─You can still make good bone broth with the freezer-burned stuff. Don't waste meat!
[22:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:57] <exec> 08└─We have one too. We just call it Florida.
[22:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 2418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:58] <exec> 08└─At least you recognize that states exist, and can conceive of comparing them to your little European countries. That's more than most of you can see. Fun fact, the average American state (excluding Alaska) is about 30% bigger by land area than the average European state (excluding Russia). Don't lik...
[22:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:00] <exec> 08└─I will drive my car wherever I want and if you don't have parking spots in Oslo I will just park on your lawn. Stupid pot-smoking Euro-eco nimwits.
[22:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:03] <exec> 08└─Not as small as you think, in your braindead state. First of all, Sweden's landmass alone is around 420 000 km2(Yes, Sweden is larger than California). Second, Sweden has municipalities that are larger than some of your states, especially when you only factor land mass.
[22:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:05] <exec> 08└─Norway wants to eliminate the elderly and invalids since they are a drain on the welfare system. If you can't ride a bike, move somewhere else.
[22:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:45] <exec> 08└─They will blind you with the glare of their hair gel.
[22:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grab is Messing Up the World’s Largest Mapping Community’s Data in Southeast Asia - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:46] <exec> 08└─Here is a good spot to take a shit.
[22:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunrun Outpaces SolarCity in U.S. Residential Solar Panel Sales - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:00] <exec> 08└─They don't really make their money on installs, they make it from those leases/power agreements. As a test, my uncle's two sons (who live next door to each other and have different last names due to reason) called to have stuff installed years ago. One said he wanted to buy outright and the other sa...
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[23:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Installs Surveillance Network - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:43] <exec> 08└─They're catching up to USA as a surveillance state.
[23:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Installs Surveillance Network - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─The self-loathing the west seems to have against itself blinds a lot of people to the good things we do because of all of the bad things we do. America is far from what has always been advertised but it is far better than any of the other superpowers out there. Problems regarding civil and human rig...
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[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─"continues China may very well claim the area by right of possession" they are already there and claiming it. Indonesia did the smart thing and beefed up a military presence on one of the islands they claim.
[23:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Installs Surveillance Network - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fuP5we0eQ [youtube.com]
[23:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Installs Surveillance Network - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:51] <exec> 08└─you get a Han living in your house who will make sure you eat pork and drink beer
[23:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:03] <exec> 08└─Either that, or drop bears got to the cables.
[23:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:04] <exec> 08└─The dollar has been crashing for like ten years, right now the fed is pumping it but it likely cant last.
[23:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widespread EFTPOS Outage is a Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─Stumble for an Aussie Cashless Society
[23:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:30] <exec> 08└─The "irredeemables" came back to haunt Hillary. They expressed their feelings loud and clear. She spent big money but, in the end, had no game!
[23:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:31] <exec> 08└─To say that a Republican Congress and Senate did something good? Sure. No problem. When they actually fucking do it. I'm not impressed. At all. With either party. Why did it take so fucking long to formally recognize that the information was ours to fucking begin with? I hope this is including the r...
[23:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:33] <exec> 08└─Of course I am. You can't redeem someone who is already righteous. And since I pretty much never violate my moral code, that's precisely what I am.
[23:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:35] <exec> 08└─Don't take it too seriously, ed. I was just giving DM some well-deserved crap. I have complete faith they'll manage to screw it up somehow. They're politicians. If they actually made everything not suck, they couldn't rile anyone up to vote for them anymore.
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data to the Public - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:38] <exec> 08└─So, about those tax returns ...
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-oawGxLQc [youtube.com]
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─1. Make plans ("resolutions", if you will) throughout the year as usual. 2. Actually stick to them and complete a few more this time. Even spending 5 or 10 minutes on a task sometimes is better than nothing to stop it stalling indefinitely. Actually: 3. Figure out a way to always succeed at 2. 4. ??...
[23:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Year's Resolutions - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that something like F=m*ω^2*r? Both m and r are constant. For the added force to reduce the felt weight, we can estimate the centrifugal force to become 120%. Then the rotational speed must be sqrt(1.2) faster, or just over 9.54%. So, you should be getting into you spaceship and start pullin...
[23:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:26] <exec> 08└─Precisely as small as I think. I checked its size and the sizes of some of our larger cities before I posted. The Los Angeles metropolitan area covered over thirty-three thousand square miles in 2010. It hasn't shrunk since then, I guarantee you. Sweden covers 173,860 square miles. That makes LA one...
[23:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:23] <exec> 08└─That is indeed the Swedish orthography, but, well, there's my nitpick. They aren't different spellings, just different ways to depict the same characters. {Ø, Ö, Œ} are different ways of writing an O+E digraph. The first is traditional in Danish, so strictly speaking I should have used it, but wh...
[23:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:25] <exec> 08└─That's actually what they're called. https://en.wiktionary.org Particularly sense 3, "A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point."
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