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[00:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:37] <exec> 08└─"Shock waves" 'coz Elon is a surfer from California?
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─Rivian Automotive is coming out with an all-electric pickup.
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─Elon is not from California. Elon is from South Africa. And soon, Elon's little Tesla company will be nothing but a footnote in the history books. The REAL car companies are going to crush Tesla like an empty beer can is crushed under the wheels of a 10 wheel dump truck. Sort of like how Trump is go...
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─That is not true. The SJW snowflakes *can* do something. They can run to their safe spaces.
[00:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Analysis Identifies New Human Ancestor - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:45] <exec> 08└─Yes. They were considered separate species until they discovered the interbreeding and the terminology stuck long after. Just like we still talk of the Theory of Gravity to the point we're starting to redefine the word "Theory". For some reason we didn't see fit to extend the same tolerance to the p...
[00:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Popular WordPress Plugin Leaked Access Tokens Capable of Hijacking Twitter Accounts - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:58] <exec> 08└─Yes. That would be nice. [/sarcasm] No, I fully understand what a cookie is. API Tokens aren't cookies, though they can be imbued with similar functionality. But yep, let's say I bought into your understanding. Then it STILL would be a violation of what OTP's and 2FA's are supposed to do over any si...
[00:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:13] <exec> 08└─Spending hours figuring out your own regex years later isn't any better.
[00:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TAE Technologies Claims Commercial Fusion Reactors in 5 Years - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─We can all relax about global warming now because this solves it! I hope the used the PI rule in their estimate: Take the estimated time and multiply by PI, this will be the actual delivery date.
[00:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:51] <exec> 08└─It’s possible. If brexit occurs the sensible thing would be to have a referendum for independence in Scotland and test the waters on one for unification in NI. In Scotland especially the facts have changed since 2014, a major reason for the no vote was the uncertainty of remaining part of the EU
[00:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:52] <exec> 08└─Quite, it’s the exact same result that would have happened the day after the 2017 election, or 6 months ago. Corbyn winding down the clock as usual.
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[01:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitPay Sees Record Year for Revenue in 2018, with $1 Billion in Transactions - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:41] <exec> 08└─A record year on all counts. Dumb fucks.
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─Agreed, as a truck owner I want a hybrid, but real utility. Electric motive power at all times for the torque, plug in to charge the batteries and a generator for range extension. The generator needs to keep up while fully loaded towing, including the wind drag. I currently have full size cab and mi...
[01:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─I cannot help but think this move is because Ford is truck-heavy in their USA lineup. CAFE is based on the manufacturer's lineup efficiency, so adding in an electric vehicle helps. Outside gaming the system, I'm not surprised by the electric truck. Fleet vehicles often make good electric candidates...
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─I've been watching for something to replace our 2008 Ford Ranger - the "small" pickup that's the size of an F150 thirty years ago. What I'm looking for a truck designed for people who actually need a truck, not some super hi-tech Tesla wannabe flashy rig. Around here there are hundreds of pickups...
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─I drive an F350 diesel for towing trailers. Top end isn't what I'm after, it's usually about low end torque and braking. Electric motors excel at that, so a hybrid could work well. Regenerative braking would be able to recover a fair amount with a heavy load and store it in a small to medium size ba...
[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that what we really need to make electric vehicles take off is a cheap, compact, high-efficiency gas or diesel generator. That, a gas tank , and enough batteries for 20-40 miles would let most people do 90+% of their driving on batteries alone, without any range anxiety for longer tri...
[01:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─Agreed. My '16 supercab longbed with the v8 can get up to 28 highway, when towing 11k from Alaska to Oregon I averaged 23. In stop and go town traffic I can't break 13. I would love a hybrid to handle the stop and go. Ford has said previously that the 2020 should be a hybrid, but we will see.
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah, there's a market for the Ranger Edge model, the small-pickup equivalent of a mullet: business in the front, party in the back. Unlike the larger mall-crawler models, it's unpretentious, and 'dat mat allows you to simply spray the interior the fuck down after a dirty day. As for the larger...
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─Ford will also have to make up for the loss in their CAFE average from dumping the majority of their small car lines to streamline production. Their ecoboost engines appear to be able to handle the expected load and at the same time improve the gas mileage, and it appears that the 700 they shaved of...
[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:09] <exec> 08└─If you are looking for something not like a tesla then your best bet is hybrid/electric F250s and F350s. The construction industry is going to want the truck to stay cheap and clean with vinyl floors/seats, limited electric crap that would distract their employees, and repair-ability that won't requ...
[01:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:11] <exec> 08└─The future of trucks is trains Wiki on diesel-electric transmission A diesel–electric transmission system includes a diesel engine connected to an electrical generator, creating electricity that powers electric traction motors. No clutch is required. Before diesel engines came into widespread use,...
[01:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:13] <exec> 08└─If you want electric/hybrid vehicles to succeed, you need good marketing. And that marketing should be directed towards demographics other than venture capitalists, San Francisco programmers, hipsters, all other hollow virtual-signalers and upper middle-class bandwagoners, fags, and generally people...
[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:16] <exec> 08└─" limited electric crap that would distract their employees "
[01:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:55] <exec> 08└─They are the devil's beverages. Our Lord Jesus Christ didn't drink those abominations! He drank only water and wine as do all good Christians, as we are commanded to do in Mark 12:67: And ye shall drink only water and wine or thou shalt become a disciple of Satan, and you shall suffer eternal da...
[01:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Analysis Identifies New Human Ancestor - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:21] <exec> 08└─Educated guesses, yes, but guesses all the same. We need some other disciplines to be just as honest
[01:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New DoJ Interpretation of Gambling Laws Affects U.S.-Based Web Sites - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:10] <exec> 08└─Yes. Such as the Nazis. As it turns out, the group can be quite wrong. As is the case with Christians, Muslims, mommy-law enthusiasts, and other adherents / sycophants of those advocating the infringement of informed, personal or consensual choice. When the group is wrong, someone ought to (at a min...
[01:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New DoJ Interpretation of Gambling Laws Affects U.S.-Based Web Sites - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:12] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll leave it there. Last word on this is yours. Thanks. -- No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway.
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[02:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitPay Sees Record Year for Revenue in 2018, with $1 Billion in Transactions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:46] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin drops 88% and you are still to dumb to buy some?
[02:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitPay Sees Record Year for Revenue in 2018, with $1 Billion in Transactions - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─Pure speculation. A casino rigged in favor of the house with enough ups and downs to make others believe that they too can become instant millionaires.
[02:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:11] <exec> 08└─EV is the new hotness - the street will be discounting stock of vehicle companies that don't have an EV roadmap. This (the EV F series) is to protect Ford executive level options value. In reality, this is the investors' proxies (fund managers) telling Ford how to run their company.
[02:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─might be a bit lacking
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─I have an E350 diesel, quite happy with it. Would love the 10 speed transmission, as diesels do have a rather pronounced sweet spot as well as saving all those joules which usually are spent uselessly heating up the slush box. Another thing I would love is a 120/240 volt power access fit for compres...
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─From gas [theguardian.com] to electric. How progressive!
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Ready for Clinical Trials - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─is always done on the general population so only the rich 1% can pay for it in a few years
[02:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soil Bacteria Found to Produce Mosquito Repelling Chemical Stronger than DEET - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:40] <exec> 08└─If you rub dirt on your skin, which is full of nematodes, the mosquitoes wont bite.
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soil Bacteria Found to Produce Mosquito Repelling Chemical Stronger than DEET - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─This is actually a rather ingenious way to discover new drugs. Rather than even just identifying something in nature, look at pheromones or anything air-borne that is produced by a _local_ predator of the thing you're trying to deal with. The goal here is that either you'll repel the insects (Yay!),...
[02:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:03] <exec> 08└─You don't distill applejack. You leave it outside in the winter, assuming you're somewhere where winters are cold, and remove the water ice, therefore concentrating the alcohol. Distilled cider would be more like a brandy.
[02:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:05] <exec> 08└─You think that's bad, you should see what astronomers call metals.
[02:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New DoJ Interpretation of Gambling Laws Affects U.S.-Based Web Sites - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─Real gamblers go to local casinos and, if they're good enough, go out of state. And like me shitposting here because I got kicked out of Slashdot due to the skill of my shitposting, real gamblers go to other casinos after being kicked out for being "too good" for other casinos. Winning a few times a...
[02:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:05] <exec> 08└─For now I went with "screen" [soylentnews.org] combined with the regex here [soylentnews.org] . Why? It isn't perfect (there appears to be some bug where nethogs leaves behind previous values) but it just started working almost right away is all. I've bookmarked this page and will spend a day or so...
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[03:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Institutions Reach Open Access Deal with Scientific Publisher Wiley - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:33] <exec> 08└─You fifth-columinst Kraut bastards. We can only hope that Mutter Merkel will die by her words.
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─The thing with a Toyota truck is you can prove your manliness when you disassemble the engine to replace the starter. At least Ford has finally figured out what to do about their crappy trannies and sparkplugs that need a $500 tool to remove, unless they blew out first.
[03:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed - except that the wealthy and upper-middle class are actually a really good introductory target market for a product. It's a lot harder to convince someone to buy unproven technology that doesn't yet benefit from mass production when they can't afford it. In fact, big ticket impulse buys/virt...
[03:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Ready for Clinical Trials - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─The human testing is the expensive part. Once it becomes reliable enough for the rich to use, it will become cheaper.
[03:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06New DoJ Interpretation of Gambling Laws Affects U.S.-Based Web Sites - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:01] <exec> 08└─There is a moral component.
[03:36:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Antarctica Losing Six Times More Ice Mass Annually Now Than 40 Years Ago - 553 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:34] <exec> 08└─The average depth of the worlds oceans are 3.6km... 1.8 * 10^-5 * 3.6km? That's a 0.65mm/yr contribution to sea level rise from Antarctica alone (Antarctica only contributes 8%, though these figures will change this proportion in the future). That's 6.5mm in 10 years. From Antactica ALONE. Over the...
[03:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:55] <exec> 08└─No, no, no, it's Linux. You're supposed to write your own window manager.
[03:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:57] <exec> 08└─Well, dont' try StackOverflow. Anything I look for there, the first response is always "get out of here, you idiot, read the manual, not well formulated question, duplicate (without link), scream, discount, deride." Usually a pack attack by 3 or more of their "gurus". But sometimes you scroll down a...
[03:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─Neat thing I "found" the other day. On newer distros - LM19, Manjaro, etc - "neofetch". Gives you a nice summary of your system in a terminal/console.
[03:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:01] <exec> 08└─In the case of the first regex, the input looks something like this: Tdie: +51.8C (high = +70.0°C)
[03:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:03] <exec> 08└─I tried, and compiling from source with "hollywood.h" only supports hacking nuclear facilities from random keyboard bashing. A side-note, the effects are extremely dangerous, you have to also download, configure and compile along with "plot-armor.h".
[03:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:06] <exec> 08└─In BeigeixOS, you use 'genderjelly' instead of 'man'. Rest of the distro does not work either...
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[04:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:13] <exec> 08└─Actually I wouldn't mind a dash like a 747 cockpit. The cockpit of a 747 is all business, it's just that you've got a lot controls, dials, gauges, displays, etc. to operate a 747. What I don't want is some cheesy dashboard that looks like a 1990's Aiwa mini-system or a 1337 gamerz laptop, but sadly...
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[05:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:31] <exec> 08└─Quick! Somebody start selling wild coffee beans imported with sustainable trade policies and hand-harvested by the noble, hard-working people of... where ever.
[05:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:33] <exec> 08└─I think you've got a better shot of mobilizing people who get up every morning so they can go work for their living. They may be short on time by comparison but they don't have to go be ironic at daddy until he gives them money to go away. Plus, quite a lot of them will stab you repeatedly in the fa...
[05:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Institutions Reach Open Access Deal with Scientific Publisher Wiley - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:41] <exec> 08└─I thought you liked Hitler.
[05:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Institutions Reach Open Access Deal with Scientific Publisher Wiley - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:43] <exec> 08└─Is it Godwin''s (read: Godwin prime's) Law to invoke Merkel?
[05:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:23] <exec> 08└─Sort of like how Trump is going to crush that cunt Pelosi when the time is right
[05:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:24] <exec> 08└─[F]ound[O]n[R]oad[D]ead should also make the cargo bed out of aluminum ... oh, wait...
[05:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Ready for Clinical Trials - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:34] <exec> 08└─Only as cheap as the bloated medical complex will allow it to be. It'll be more expensive than a deductible, so cost is free to skyrocket, like everything else. Then it'll get averaged into the ever rising insurance premiums, and there will be more record profits. Money is extracted from the working...
[05:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Ready for Clinical Trials - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe a little tourism is in order. The kind that involves going to India, China, or Canada and coming back with fixed eyes. These problems will work themselves out. Don't sweat it.
[05:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soil Bacteria Found to Produce Mosquito Repelling Chemical Stronger than DEET - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:52] <exec> 08└─But catnip gets you high. Don't do drugs, kids.
[05:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soil Bacteria Found to Produce Mosquito Repelling Chemical Stronger than DEET - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:53] <exec> 08└─Only if you are a cat.
[05:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:18] <exec> 08└─When I lived outside of the contiguous United States I was making some apple cider and the carboy got left outside in -10 for a bunch of days. When I remembered it was there I poured out the unfrozen remains to make sure the carboy didn't crack from the expansion.
[05:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe the guy wrote the article after drinking a bottle of fireball, switching to vodka, and realizing that it tastes just like water (in comparison). Not that I would know
[05:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:22] <exec> 08└─Speaking as a Scotsman and a lover of a good Islay Malt whisky.. these guys can fuck right off with their bullshit. Now America has driven a larger divide between what is actually whisky and the swill normally sold there as "Whisky"(yeah no "E" in whisky.. with the "E" it's Irish.) Mind you this is...
[05:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Analysis Identifies New Human Ancestor - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:47] <exec> 08└─You're a confidence man. Or confidence person. That's terrific -- very smart. Because confidence can take you very far in life. And so many times, when we're confident about something, it comes true. I was very confident about Bart. And he didn't let me down. He's on SC and writing Majority Opinions...
[05:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Editorial Mutiny at Elsevier Journal of Informetrics - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:49] <exec> 08└─Typically editors of academic journals are not paid for what they do. Not sure if this is the case here - do you know these were paid positions or are you just assuming?
[05:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TAE Technologies Claims Commercial Fusion Reactors in 5 Years - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:15] <exec> 08└─They have a recession penciled in for next year but fusion would would be disruption on a whole different level. The whole balance of power in the world would permanently shift. We would still need some oil, planes aren't likely to be electric anytime soon, but the whole Middle East becomes a shitty...
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[06:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:33] <exec> 08└─The first thing that comes to mind is how google destroyed firefox, but current journalism is in such a sad state that Im not sure I care.
[06:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:42] <exec> 08└─They can mobilize all they want but I doubt this will have any effect at all on the coffee I drink. The hipsters can go pound Starbucks grounds up their backsides if it makes them happy.
[06:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:32] <exec> 08└─Yes you could prove your manhood that way, or you could just install an Anti-Aircraft gun on the truck-bed, and go do some Jihad.
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[07:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:33] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Facebook won't take the risk of supporting any journalism. This will be 3 million dollars worth of fake news, and the market for that is already glutted. So thanks, but no thanks.
[07:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:35] <exec> 08└─To be fair, some will go towards political advocacy and at least some outright propaganda as well in addition to Gawker/Enquirer level stuff. An ever so slightly cynical read might be: Facebook and Google pledge 600 million* towards political campaign funding disguised as news. * 600 million for pla...
[07:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:37] <exec> 08└─Zuck is one of the smarter Jews out there. He can reinstate Alex Jones, because if you were a "crackpot conspiracy theorist" then you would be so crazy and stupid that nobody would believe you, right? And if people were so crazy as to allow you views because a few others would buy your "anti-Fluorid...
[07:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─This won't include low-bias fair reporting as seen from Tim Pool or OANN. This won't include right-biased but factual reporting as seen from Breitbart, Project Veritas, and Judicial Watch. This will only add to our oversupply of leftist propaganda. ("Orange Man Bad!") Even if these tech executives d...
[07:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:50] <exec> 08└─It's quite possible it will. Arabica beans make up the largest part of what ends up in the vast majority of cups in the world. Especially in major US brands.
[07:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:52] <exec> 08└─you joking but the alternative is a US invasion on ethiopia for saving the cofee and totally not for control of the suez canal and possibly they break up the country like they did with colombia... wait!
[07:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitPay Sees Record Year for Revenue in 2018, with $1 Billion in Transactions - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:09] <exec> 08└─"cryptocurrency payment errors"??? As in, the wrong people end up with the money? How the hell is that happening, and why would anyone use a payments provider where it does happen?
[07:34:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:34] <exec> 08└─might be a bit lacking
[07:34:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:38] <exec> 08└─Agreed - except that the wealthy and upper-middle class are actually a really good introductory target market for a product. It's a lot harder to convince someone to buy unproven technology that doesn't yet benefit from mass production when they can't afford it. In fact, big ticket impulse buys/virt...
[07:35:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:20] <exec> 08└─partly, Bell said, because of its distinct flavor and partly because of the perceived health benefits (none of which, unfortunately, can really withstand the distillation process).
[07:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:37] <exec> 08└─Behold: Certified CarbonFree Sugar [livingnaturally.com] (PDF WARNING).
[07:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:38] <exec> 08└─Here in the states distilling has been in that gray zone where its very illegal in most places
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[08:33:33] <exec> 08└─When will that term die? It was stupid when it was first coined, stupid that some scientists still use it. Also, their definition of junk DNA. My definition of it is/was function-less sequences BETWEEN genes, NOT introns. Most fields where molecular scientists work know that introns have a function...
[08:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, but those aren't wild arabicas. Many of them aren't pure arabica either - they're cultivars whose history as such stretch back to the 15th century or even beyond. The old cultivar lines are all arabica tracing to Ethiopia where it first became a cultivated crop, so in that sense they're all 'ar...
[08:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:43] <exec> 08└─"Whisky"(yeah no "E" in whisky.. with the "E" it's Irish.)
[08:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:45] <exec> 08└─Most of your country's whiskay is blended with some kind of grain. Are you so sure quinoa tastes worse? Have you even had the best America and the rest of the world has to offer? You seem quite confident in your whiskay, but your precious fluids will be replicated synthetically by machines [soylentn...
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[09:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:35] <exec> 08└─>over an area near Hiroshima It's as if they actively tried to be controversial.
[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Junk DNA" Introns Can Help Yeast Strains Survive - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer, I'm a molecular biologist.
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Junk DNA" Introns Can Help Yeast Strains Survive - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:45] <exec> 08└─http://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/17/52 [lkml.org]
[09:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:57] <exec> 08└─To suggest they use some of the money to bribe foreign officials to permit death-row journalists to flee their repressive nations. Is there a graph?... Yes. [cpj.org] While 2016 and 2017 were trending downward the reporter fatalities went up again last year.
[09:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:58] <exec> 08└─He's one of the very-most intelligent people I have ever met in my entire life. But he is paranoid as all get-out.
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[10:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:36] <exec> 08└─How do they ensure that 100% of the particles enter the atmosphere and burn up instead of eventually damaging other satellites?
[10:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:37] <exec> 08└─They want a show, right? I can give them a magnificent show, the likes of which this world has never seen before. Although the Hiroshima people, maybe they have.
[10:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, biotch! Suck my dick !Fuck You, you, goddamn niggah! NIGGAH POWAH.
[10:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:42] <exec> 08└─ShaDDUP, you gottamn niggah. NHAHAHAHAHA
[10:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Junk DNA" Introns Can Help Yeast Strains Survive - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:52] <exec> 08└─I only have my AS in biology (I've taken a molecular biology class but this is stuff I even learned before molecular biology) and I was thinking the same exact thing as Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18, @08:05AM (#788173) before they made the comment. I was kinda annoyed that the article confus...
[10:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:11] <exec> 08└─Jews are not intelligent as much as they are good businessmen with a knack for shorter-term gains. I wouldn't call him "paranoid" but I would call him intelligent in the short-term in that he can "get-out." He can escape the political whirlwind and "get-out" with political moderation to avoid gettin...
[10:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:15] <exec> 08└─I mean the biggest gripe I've heard is the new aluminum framed F150s are shit for what a truck is used for. And since that was done to meet emission and fuel economy requirements, it should be completely possible for them to backtrack on it now that those requirements are being mooted by a switch to...
[10:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:14] <exec> 08└─It appears that distilled spirits have been legal for the past 30ish years, so long as your still was registered with the BATF and no more than 100 gallons per person, or 200 gallons per household are produced in a year. Furthermore there is a registration fee and maybe a yearly fee to continue bein...
[10:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup? - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:23] <exec> 08└─"Marketing always, ALWAYS screws up perfectly good descriptive terminology." Which is why the only sane answer to marketing is always "no." Think about this for a moment. This is what makes us more than just a particularly ill-equipped species of monkey. Our language. Our ability to time-bind, to ho...
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[11:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:36] <exec> 08└─FaGOOT BASTARDS
[11:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:37] <exec> 08└─government reply: "Government is shutdown. Please repeat your experiment when FCC actually is operational and can accept complaints. Until then, we really don't give a %$#@"
[11:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:39] <exec> 08└─What if Vermont created one of those doohickies, you know, I think the kids call it an "app." People all over Vermont could run an app, it could check whether connection data pertaining to their location and service provider was needed for the survey, and it could run a test and then submit the resu...
[11:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 8311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:41] <exec> 08└─The author of the GPL licensed text-mode casino game "GPC-Slots 2" has rescinded the license from the "Geek feminist" collective. ( https://lkml.org [lkml.org] ) ( https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] ) [Notice: the revocation of the "Geek Femin...
[11:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:17] <exec> 08└─This won't include right-biased but factual reporting as seen from Breitbart,
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[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─duuuuuuude take yer meds you're turning into a mdc
[12:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─Depends on if you're more worried about corporate interests using your info for marketing or what your government might do with constant, real-time location information on most every citizen I guess.
[12:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:51] <exec> 08└─Ask any MBA.
[12:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:02] <exec> 08└─Surface area to volume ratios and density issues make the orbit unsustainable. With a ton of hand waving, and no references other than memory, given a steel i-beam pointy end on, and a rigid hot air balloon (technically a blimp), of the same mass and the same relatively low orbit, the beam can stay...
[12:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:03] <exec> 08└─If you thought astronomers were butthurt about crazy bright streetlights pointing up just to F with them, wait until you get nightly re-entrys of "drink diet coke" up in the sky right in front of research telescopes.
[12:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:29] <exec> 08└─Firefox did a pretty good job of destroying itself.
[12:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:43] <exec> 08└─There's always danger in highly specializing any crop away from what nature had forced it to be to survive. Be it selective breeding or genetic modification, it's really a very good idea to keep the base organism still around in case something comes along that hurts your modified variety but it shru...
[12:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:45] <exec> 08└─They gots Weapons of Mass De-sleepiness! Invade!
[12:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Institutions Reach Open Access Deal with Scientific Publisher Wiley - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:55] <exec> 08└─F this deal. This publisher system has to die. Support Sci-Hub & Library Genesis, the true solution. http://sci-hub.tech [sci-hub.tech] & http://gen.lib.rus.ec [lib.rus.ec]
[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soil Bacteria Found to Produce Mosquito Repelling Chemical Stronger than DEET - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:06] <exec> 08└─Relatively few delicious hot blooded mammal blood bags to suck wallowing in the mud. Only a handful of famous species wallow in mud. This would SEEM to imply that its a mere side effect the mosquitoes picked up on meaningless bacterial byproducts and global distribution and poor application of the p...
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[13:33:38] <exec> 08└─The author of the GPL licensed text-mode casino game "GPC-Slots 2" has rescinded the license from the "Geek feminist" collective. ( https://lkml.org [lkml.org] ) ( https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] ) [Notice: the revocation of the "Geek Femi...
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[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─For me it's either the Woolly Mammoth chow-mein, or the Moa Tikka Masala.
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Takeaways From the Ancient DNA Research Story - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:42] <exec> 08└─A Casino can be a big money maker. I always put in the Penny Slots. For those guys that don't have enough scratch to hire a Hooker. And, for the "ladies" that can't get work as one. Trump Taj Mahal, we offered a prize of $25,000. For the winner to spend on her choice of plastic surgery. Could be a b...
[13:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:55] <exec> 08└─Why should we trust results submitted to the FDA? Heck, for that matter, why should we trust anything the government tells us?
[13:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:57] <exec> 08└─You remember last time when I told you it was your last warning about spamming? Well...
[13:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:49] <exec> 08└─They say "oh Climate Change is so horrible!" I'll tell you, there is a cooling and there is a heating, and I mean, look, it used to not be Climate Change. It used to be Global Warming. Unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there's weather. I believe there's change. And actually, we’...
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[13:36:10] <exec> 08└─you saw a mosquito attack a soil bacterium? Yeah, it sure works wonders! Also, I have to dragon repelling rock for sale...
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[14:33:35] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it make more sense to grow the plant under artificial lighting (that can be set to a 24h cycle like on Earth), and use solar cells and batteries to power that lighting as well as heating when necessary?
[14:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:37] <exec> 08└─since when is logic or reason involved here?
[14:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─it's a shame nobody in the entire chinese space agency didn't think about this. you should have signed off with your name, I'm sure you'd be overwhelmed with job offers.
[14:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 1986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:41] <exec> 08└─If anything, the expirement proves that it would be extremely difficult to near impossible for anything to live on the moon. Look. Moon colonization is a pipe dream. This is what comes from watching too many Star Trek episodes. But its divorced from reality. It would not be self sustaining and would...
[14:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:43] <exec> 08└─you talk like it's a rock floating around in space or something
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─Why set lighting at a 24h cycle like on Earth? Anyone who has set up a REAL grow operation knows that you have the lights on 24/7. Monitoring and redundancy prevent downtime so that your lights have a five nines uptime.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─You write this like anybody would want to terraform the Moon... which you'll find pretty much nowhere (unlike, say, Mars). The idea is to build closed stations, much like the ISS, but on the Moon surface... or rather underground, for radiation protection. The big advantage of having an ISS-like tin...
[14:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitPay Sees Record Year for Revenue in 2018, with $1 Billion in Transactions - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:26] <exec> 08└─The user sometimes needs to manually enter the correct destination address and amount. Although if sending from a phone all that info can be comtained in a qr code, its not always the case that there is a camera in the loop. I remember giving my friend a bitcoin years ago, he sent it to some address...
[14:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:00] <exec> 08└─I think the best we can hope for, at least initially, is enough luxury buyers to jump on board. That will spur further investment, and we might get the technological improvements required eventually, especially with respect to batteries. As far as your truck goes, I'm glad it worked out for you. I t...
[14:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:02] <exec> 08└─... even monthly? Use a car and a trailer, that's how normal people move stuff.
[14:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soil Bacteria Found to Produce Mosquito Repelling Chemical Stronger than DEET - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:32] <exec> 08└─if it's something that comes from a predator, especially pheromones, we'll probably attract _more_ of the predator
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[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─You say this as though the same doesn't apply to Mars, asteroids, space station, space ships, Pluto, Ceres, and basically anything that could possibly be used for habitation or survival other than the rock that you're currently sitting on. So what if something happens to that rock? Throw up your han...
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:51] <exec> 08└─Well, one day humans might be living on the Moon. However it will begin with a single order to an artificial intelligence: "Build a city there, hermetically seal it with a dome that is transparent in visual range, but opaque to radiation. Install enough dark matter reactors to power the city." This...
[15:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─There are two additional big advantages to having a station on the moon: 1) if you have on the order of a hundred people in the moon station, they are in fact a backup in case humans on earth fail to survive something. 2) there is gravity, which actually helps a lot with keeping the humans healthy (...
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─So evidently we in the west know about this, will the chinese people know about this?
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─So what if something happens to that rock? Throw up your hands and say it was a good run?
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─PR stunt. What a wasted opportunity to do something genuinely exciting. A vacuum seal on the biosphere with some kind of minimal heat pump / temperature regulation device is probably all that was needed to give this a fighting chance but it was obviously never about science.
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 2106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─Good! Following Heinlein, it's always a good idea to have an expert that can tell you that it cannot be done and precisely why. So that we can then go and do it anyway. Not like people don't now live in Antarctica voluntarily or anything right now, either, or that the effort to do so is a tiny enoug...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─The obvious answer, if you have the ability to build as you suggest, is a retirement home. Ask any old person if they'd like things to weigh one sixth as much, have slow reactions be plenty fast enough to catch stuff you drop. Be able to throw away that zimmer frame and slow dance across the room. T...
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─As I recall, many (even most) plants don't actually do that well under those conditions. Though there is at least one high-profit crop that benefits during some parts of its life cycle. As one example, many plants such as Mother-in-Laws-Tounge actually respirate at night rather than during the day....
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:30] <exec> 08└─The phone company's cell system already has real time location and available bandwidth knowledge. They have the information to know the quality of their maps. But this may be a game of how to extract funds without doing work. If so, then using what they know would be counter productive. Vermont like...
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─It's not like an American company was trying to do that. It's an entertainment company based in Japan, run by Japanese. I've never asked a Japanese person about their feelings with regard to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I can't imagine they were happy about it. The thing is we didn't just nuke them a...
[15:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:11] <exec> 08└─"right-based but factual reporting" is an oxymoron. Or if it is indeed factual, then it isn't right-based. (Or left-based) We can use some of the excess of our oversupply of leftist propaganda to air drop some to areas desperately in need of some. Like red states. Tech executives have only one agend...
[15:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:12] <exec> 08└─300 Million, all of which was stolen from the public. They buy and sell your private (and public) data but produces nothing. For the jew there's but one thing of value: money. How he gets it makes no difference. The first trade goods are generally worthless trash of all sorts. That's how the little...
[15:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Institutions Reach Open Access Deal with Scientific Publisher Wiley - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─That's like cursing HBO and Showtime, then proposing use of The Pirate Bay. While the system may not be great, proposing the use of a system that feeds off another, isn't going to help a whole lot. Assuming what actually care about is the content. Not the idea, that you could possibly have to pay so...
[15:37:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:04] <exec> 08└─I have been distilling my own whisky (and other flavoured spirits) over the last 6 or 7 years, since Mrs. Zombie bought me a still. Some of my batches have been pretty drinkable (although I would be lying if I said they have all been great). The best taste I have been able to get is when I leave th...
[15:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:27] <exec> 08└─Was it real, or Real(TM). Real(TM) is a mark of a dairy standards body, I don't know exactly what their standards are, but I presume they have some (looking it up, it seems that it means dairy from cows, and something about manufacturing practices).
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[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─Of course the nice thing about artificial lighting is that you can give each plant the lighting it likes best. If the plant needs a night, give it a night. If the plant grows best under 24/7 light, give it 24/7 light. And if it prefers different patterns at different development stages, just change...
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:59] <exec> 08└─What would be the point of a self-sustaining Antarctica outpost, other than as practice? I mean sure, it'd be cheaper practice than on the Moon, but practice on the Moon is far more relevant, and even if you fail you leave behind established infrastructure for the next attempt. And unlike Mars, the...
[16:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:01] <exec> 08└─While in reality it's a rock falling around in space. :-)
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:03] <exec> 08└─I expect the Chinese lunar landers weight budget was far too low That the ISS grew lettuce in zero gravity did not imply that it was ediibe: it’s well documented that forms of living tissue rely critically on gravity, otherwise human babies would be born as a puddle of goo. So that lettuce was ret...
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Sure one can dwell underground after one arrives there, but that the appolo guys could SEE solar radiation with their eyes shut led them to develop cataracts far out of proportion to the general population
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right. It's too bad that there's no such thing as insulation or artificial lights to compensate for the fierce diurnal cycle on the moon. Nor any convenient rock to use as radiation shielding. Nor massive amounts of available oxygen (with sufficient energy for chemical synthesis -...
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it make more sense to grow the plant under artificial lighting (that can be set to a 24h cycle like on Earth), and use solar cells and batteries to power that lighting as well as heating when necessary?
[16:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:12] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? I seem to recall that germination is typically the portion of the life cycle that has the worst problems with microgravity - that it proceeded without obvious trouble on the moon suggests that growing plants there won't be a major problem. Meanwhile, nighttime temperatures on the moon...
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─Well a vacuum layer provides perfect insulation, if it's a perfect vacuum, but you already knew that. That's a good point about testing the germination under lunar gravity, but they didn't need those poor silkworms for that part of the experiment.
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─First satellite: urss First dog in space: urss First loss of material from a moon mission: USA First reusable spaceship: USA First reusable but not reliable spaceship: USA First proof the dark side of the moon ain't dark: China First germination in space: China -->First frozen veggies in space: C...
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Takeaways From the Ancient DNA Research Story - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─Millions of people around the world have begun using consumer ancestry services like 23andMe
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Takeaways From the Ancient DNA Research Story - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:30] <exec> 08└─Anyone giving up personal information knowing the past 20-30 years of abuses (nevermind abuses further in the past during even less enlightened times) should realize the dangers of this knowledge not only to yourself and your offspring, but to anyone even tangentally related to you. This is the kind...
[16:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─Was that spam, or vegemite?
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:48] <exec> 08└─Rural people get jack shit for cellphone coverage. Don't believe the rural people? Find any truck driver. You don't exactly want the (in)famous coast-to-coast drivers, who haunt the interstate highways. I mean, they'll give you a decent picture of cellphone coverage. Ideally, get one of those househ...
[16:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:51] <exec> 08└─I know you were being sarcastic, but there is an app called opensignal (at least in android) that collects data on cell quality and location to create a map of coverage, and you can manually do speed tests that I think are considered also. It gives you a heat map that you can select by type of netwo...
[16:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:53] <exec> 08└─GPC Slots 2
[16:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:55] <exec> 08└─I am glad that the State of Vermont did this. I take a lot of roadtrips and have often thought the coverage was not what the cellphone company maps promised it to be. But it's anecdotal, etc., so I left it at that. In this case it was a state government employee who undertook this project, but citiz...
[16:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─Wait, the current FCC actually cares about outside opinions/comments/complaints? And the people complaining aren't Lobbyists? The whole Net Neutrality comment thing must have just been a big misunderstanding, then.
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─Good grief did you actually read that mess?
[16:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:14] <exec> 08└─Science! In actuality, it takes a Lot of Momentum to stay in orbit. They aren't going to be spending any more than they have to in order to perform their stunt. Putting something up in Orbit that will stay in Orbit for a long time, takes a lot of Money.
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─Absolutely true. As I said, I can see that it's a loss, just not as immediate and important as it's perhaps being made out to be. It seems that arabicas are all quite weak against pests and disease. They were nearly wiped out by CLR (which is still a threat) when it first appeared a few centuries ag...
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[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─23 months is "not much time"?
[16:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:57] <exec> 08└─... even monthly?
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[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─Annoyingly, on the new horizons website they have stored photos as jpg. I wonder if they have a bitmap format somewhere?
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animation Shows Rotation of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─To my untrained eye, it looks just like the rubber ducky object in the asteroid belt. Compared to the amazing photos of Pluto, this is pretty dull (pun intended).
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way to Face a One-two Punch of Galaxy Collisions - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─You say that like it’s a bad thing.
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─People seem to be very hung up on the short duration and small scope of this experiment. That is how science works sometimes. The goal was certainly to learn something very specific (TFA does not say what) that would only occur in the short time frame. Whatever was learned may not even be directly l...
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─The way I look at it is you build up step by step, avoiding costly and catastrophic failures. Why take a big risk, when you can take and manage several smaller ones that cost less overall and allow for higher overall success as well? Jumping to a moon base sounds sexy and fun, but it's too large a j...
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, OpenSignal exists on iOS too. But according to the reviews, it will only show you data for "All Carriers" rather than letting you see data per-carrier. https://itunes.apple.com [apple.com] It might do a great job of collecting data, but if it...
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─They understand that appearing to care, and providing a venue for folks to vent reduces the likelyhood that they'll take effective action. They do care about stopping that.
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─I drive across the country a couple times a year (don't fly since the blue-gloved meanies took away my scissors one too many times). T-Mobile says there's signal all over the western half of the country, but there's an awful lot of places where if you want data, you're "roaming" onto AT&T's network....
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─You are funny meatbag. You will [4th directive triggered] last.
[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─I went to the peace museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I highly recommend visiting them if you can. My understanding is that bombing Hiroshima is understood as a logical course of war. However, Nagasaki was only two days later; this did not give the Japanese a chance to surrender and was actuall...
[17:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:18] <exec> 08└─But they can enjoy a refreshing Diet Coke and wonder about how it can taste so good with zero calories!
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─Listen to yourself. Don't YOU like money, don't you need it to clothe, feed and house yourself? If you are too dumb and can't recognize the value of what is in front of you, how is that a jew's fault? You deserve to have someone eat your lunch.
[17:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:03] <exec> 08└─Definitely this. Take a look at bananas for an example. If your grandparents had a banana as a kid, it was likely a gros michel. These days commercial bananas are mostly the cavendish variety. The allegedly better tasting gros michel were almost wiped out by a fungus. It looks like the cavendish mig...
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Institutions Reach Open Access Deal with Scientific Publisher Wiley - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with the Pirate Bay ?
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Institutions Reach Open Access Deal with Scientific Publisher Wiley - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─It mines XMR and serves indecent advertisments.
[17:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Ready for Clinical Trials - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe a little tourism is in order. The kind that involves going to India, China, or Canada and coming back with fixed eyes. These problems will work themselves out. Don't sweat it.
[17:37:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─I'll stick to proper scotch whisky, thank you, not any of this whiskey swill!
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:11] <exec> 08└─Now, now.... Don't be jealous, or someday people may prefer to belly up to the bar and ask for a nice Andean [wikipedia.org], or even a nice Titicaca [wikipedia.org] instead of Scotch! As it is right now if you ask someone for a Titicaca you're more likely to get a boot to the head, the way it shoul...
[17:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New DoJ Interpretation of Gambling Laws Affects U.S.-Based Web Sites - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, crush the people under a repressive heel; on the other, a social safety net protecting said family to some extent. Given that the former is pretty much bad no matter how I look at it, and the latter is pretty much good no matter how I look at it, I'm for the former latter.
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[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─Am I understanding this right? A winter storm is coming from southish-west and moving north-east. It will be intensifying thanks to a weather phenomenon called a "Polar vortex" that was the basis for a 2004 disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow".
[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:40] <exec> 08└─Bring it on, you frigid bitch.
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animation Shows Rotation of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─Apparently not. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu [jhuapl.edu]
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animation Shows Rotation of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe New Horizons broadcasts in jpg format! Perhaps no one told them it is lossy!
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animation Shows Rotation of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─It does have a limited amount of total data storage, but I still doubt that is the case. Maybe I'll email the New Horizons team and ask them why "Raw" means JPEG. After confirming they aren't some kind of lossless JPEGs first.
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way to Face a One-two Punch of Galaxy Collisions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:03] <exec> 08└─You don't want to miss it!
[18:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way to Face a One-two Punch of Galaxy Collisions - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:05] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Wait 3.75 billion years. Step 2: Get to a place where you can see the show. Easier said than done, of course. Step 3: Watch the show for about 15-20 million years.
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─Actually first proof the dark side ain't dark doesn't go to China. It was seen (with visible light) and mapped decades ago. Depending on where you stand with conspiracies, Americans were the first to see it with the bare eye.
[18:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:42] <exec> 08└─A vacuum does provide excellent insulation, but the experiment is bolted to the rest of the lander. It transfers heat by conduction to the rover and the moon's surface while radiating heat out as a function of its surface area and the fourth power of its temperature. The moon's long (14-day) night a...
[18:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:44] <exec> 08└─while the moon would finally give us a decent short-term reason to start investing seriously in that research. Over the next few decades we'll have to do that anyway to survive the effects of climate change. No matter how much we screw up Earth though, it will be easier to live on Earth than the moo...
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─This is a page from Chongqing University on the experiment. https://mp.weixin.qq.com [qq.com] It's in Chinese, obvs. The second video from the bottom is pretty awesome. A screencap with the little seeds and their tiny seatbelts is currently my desktop background. :)
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:49] <exec> 08└─The only way Chinese people will know about that post is if they can read English.
[18:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─While, such a massive event could theoretically happen. I think an event that would decimate the population would be much, much higher. Leaving the people on the Moon as 100 people who hopefully have a way back to Earth. Since, the decimated population likely won't be mounting a rescue for you. Assu...
[18:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─Considering the physical fitness of current Space going people, the effects are based on prime specimens of humanity. Not ones that are already falling apart. Grandpa might not even survive lift off. Also, old people develop things like Alzheimers and Dementia. I can't imagine managing those on the...
[18:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─Since it is a goddamned experiment! They expected it to die in the night, either the sprouting was the ultimate goal or they also wanted to gather some data on the death of the plant at night. To imagine that a large team just forgot about the freezing night temperatures on the moon is more stupid t...
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─"Seeds germinated on the International Space Station sprouted roots that behaved like they would on Earth—growing away from the seed to seek nutrients and water in exactly the same pattern observed with gravity." https://news.nationalgeographic.com
[18:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:00] <exec> 08└─Possibly worthy of forgiving Google at least some of their evils. Google Translate: https://translate.google.com [google.com]
[18:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─The retirement home idea would only be viable once the colony is up and running and pretty large, thus travel would be pretty regular and a low-G retirement home would be very expensive so they would probably have no qualms making some expensive accommodations for the rich old geezers like fancy fli...
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─To imagine that a large team just forgot about the freezing night temperatures on the moon is more stupid than the "mistake" you assume they made.
[18:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─So far, no oil on other planets, certainly not on Ceres etc.
[18:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:09] <exec> 08└─Anyone who has set up a REAL grow operation knows that you have the lights on 24/7.
[18:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:11] <exec> 08└─Light affects germination. Light on an atmosphereless moon is different than light on the earth. Does logic and reason lead you to any conclusions about the purpose of this experiment?
[18:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, we probably have more than a few decades before we start seriously building eco-domes on Earth - though we'll probably start wishing we had them. If we wait to develop the technology until we need it on Earth, then we're faced with developing large-scale infrastructure from alpha-stage technolog...
[18:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:16] <exec> 08└─Over the next few decades we'll have to do that anyway to survive the effects of climate change.
[18:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─We can understand MikeeUSA's ministry as reduced to three things: all forms of slavery that have the word "government" stamped on them are evil because men are not angels, all forms of slavery that have the word "contract" stamped on them are good because they are enforced by the infinite turtles up...
[18:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:54] <exec> 08└─"Our measurements according to procedure #528b_159 v1.3.2 state that we provide the coverage advertised. We would be happy to discuss your measurements according to procedure #528b_159 v1.3.2, (which as a reminder uses profession equipment and high-grade antennas) rather than some custom hackjob usi...
[18:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─Are relevant links just attached to random text in the summary, or is there some method to it?
[18:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:15] <exec> 08└─So are they sending a bill to each of those 6 million people?
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─EF being stupid. Again.
[18:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─It was critically important to prevent the commies from advancing further on the Pacific coast, especially after 1949. The US propped Japan up because they were scared of them Reds, not out of sheer humanity. And people do know that. The research conducted, and the lies told, by the US at both bombi...
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:04] <exec> 08└─The first thing to do is gene sequence multiple individuals specimens of each species and variety of coffee. Then you look for the common denominator among those varieties that are the hardiest to climate & weather alterations. Tolerate the widest range of dry/hot, etc. The create new species by com...
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Well, SUVs are just big, fat cars really. Sure, many people don't need an SUV really either, and that's another question to ask. Trucks on the other hand are even more clearly a weird choise to drive around, when there's so very clear lack of need for it. I just don't understand why genpop would lik...
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[19:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─So far, we've gotten a whole lotta nothing. Maybe an inch or two accumulation. When it does hit, we're going to get a foot or so on the ground. Which isn't all that big of a deal, because we handle 6" storms all the time and the only difference is how much work is involved digging out afterwords. I'...
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─Will this finally be a snowfall you accept as true? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─People barely remember what snow was like due to global warming [wattsupwiththat.com], so it is a much more exciting even than in the past. Most children have never even experienced snow, which is strange because record snowfalls were predicted by climate models [skepticalscience.com].
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─True to form, 100 miles from there it will be a nice white blanket while DC is forecast to have "wintry mix". Snow messes things up, but at least you can have fun with it. Sleet, freezing rain, cold rain--good for nothing. You're stuck inside watching tree limbs snap and hoping the power doesn't go...
[19:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:58] <exec> 08└─It is almost like the movie took real science and extrapolated it into Hollywood nonsense! Gotta love the military hardened helicopter that flies just fine in temperatures that create human popsicles in just a few seconds.
[19:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─That user is such a shilling astro-turfing conservative. Or a DINO, the human existence is a spectrum after all.
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─It's nice that we finally fixed all the other problems, so the existence of winter storms causing blizzard conditions in the US can be discussed as news.
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─Kids these days experience snow in most of the areas that used to experience snow. They just don't experience it as often. What may have changed isn't so much that more areas of the country are suddenly in the tropical zone, but that a lot of people moved south to get away from snow. I always found...
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animation Shows Rotation of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:16] <exec> 08└─It's good for science funding that Pluto delivered, because we this one we got peanuts. Literally: one giant peanut. Takes a specialist to get excited ... or a very hungry person.
[19:34:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 773 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─You write this like anybody would want to terraform the Moon... which you'll find pretty much nowhere (unlike, say, Mars). The idea is to build closed stations, much like the ISS, but on the Moon surface... or rather underground, for radiation protection. The big advantage of having an ISS-like tin...
[19:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─It's a shame that so many folks on this site hate/misunderstand science as evidence by this thread. I thought we were supposed to be a bunch of nerds....
[19:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:20] <exec> 08└─Except, what is the actual cost of catastrophic failure on a moon base? A Mars base would be bad - everybody dies is a very real possibility. The Moon though? Everybody piles into the rocket and gets really thirsty on the trip back home? Then you send a new mission to patch up the habitat, or whatev...
[19:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─Umm, no. A vacuum layer only offers perfect insulation against conduction and convection - it does nothing whatsoever against radiation (which, for reference, is the *only* benefit of a "space blanket" over an ordinary sheet of plastic). Now, you could build a radiant barrier as well, but that's add...
[19:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:24] <exec> 08└─wow! that was a veeery short menstruation phase ...
[19:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:27] <exec> 08└─The moon's long (14-day) night and massive day/night temperature swings are hard problems for spacecraft and habitat design.
[19:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:29] <exec> 08└─We know quite well how to create that sort of light here on Earth, in order to see how plants react on it. Indeed, as Planck spectrum, it is one of the easiest spectra to replicate. When doing an experiment, you want to change as few parameters as possible. On the moon, you have the unique opportuni...
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:31] <exec> 08└─The whole thing stops operation for two weeks because of the darkness and cold. There would be no reason to engineer one piece to stay awake and warm, only the CPU gets this luxury, with "awake and warm" being a lot lower than any leaf could survive.
[19:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─"Wouldn't it make more sense to grow the plant under artificial lighting (that can be set to a 24h cycle like on Earth), and use solar cells and batteries to power that lighting as well as heating when necessary?"
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Takeaways From the Ancient DNA Research Story - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─A Casino can be a big money maker. That does require halfway competent management. How's your casino doing, Mr. President? I always put in the Penny Slots. Who's that, your new girlfriend? Send me a pornhub link, I'll rate her for you. For those guys that don't have enough scratch to hire a Hooker....
[19:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:03] <exec> 08└─Rural people get jack shit for cellphone coverage. Don't believe the rural people? Find any truck driver. You don't exactly want the (in)famous coast-to-coast drivers, who haunt the interstate highways. I mean, they'll give you a decent picture of cellphone coverage. Ideally, get one of those househ...
[19:36:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:11] <exec> 08└─I drive across the country a couple times a year (don't fly since the blue-gloved meanies took away my scissors one too many times). T-Mobile says there's signal all over the western half of the country, but there's an awful lot of places where if you want data, you're "roaming" onto AT&T's network....
[19:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─And then SN can run a story about it and we can all scream about what a privacy nightmare it is! I like it!
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:38] <exec> 08└─There ought to be a treaty against this kind of thing. Of course then Japan would probably just ignore that and re-enter a sperm whale and a potted plant or something.
[19:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Artificial Meteor Shower Might Outshine Nature - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─No this is for huge corps and the 1%, you can anticipate huge projected ads on the moon next, at 10 million per ad
[19:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Junk DNA" Introns Can Help Yeast Strains Survive - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:51] <exec> 08└─The first time I encountered the term "Junk DNA" it was accompanied by the statement (paraphrase)"This is what we're calling DNA that we don't know the purpose of. We don't know what this stuff does, but we're assuming that all parts of the DNA have some use, if we only knew what". Now evolutionaril...
[19:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─Oh damn, that link's going in my bookmarks!
[19:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:33] <exec> 08└─Last sentence of the comment you're replying to. Read it again.
[19:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:34] <exec> 08└─I work on a lot of projects. I use the bed of my truck about monthly. And I'm the resident city-living-liberal!
[19:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:37] <exec> 08└─> I mean the biggest gripe I've heard is the new aluminum framed F150s are shit for what a truck is used for. I would be glad to learn about actual practical examples of the Al frame being the problem in a truck. The guys at Ford are much better material engineers than me, and I already know that th...
[19:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:42] <exec> 08└─Didn't sample it? Too bad as that would have been applejack.
[19:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quinoa and Other Grains Used in Whiskey - 4416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:43] <exec> 08└─For people who live in the land of the free: https://www.ttb.gov [ttb.gov] Home Distilling While individuals of legal drinking age may produce wine or beer at home for personal or family use, Federal law strictly prohibits individuals from producing distilled spirits at...
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[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─Let's call it as it is. They're not so much anti-vax as pro-epidemic.
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─It's that simple. His one study, where he was paid big bucks to get a particular result, turned into an entire movement of parents refusing to protect their kids from disease because they feared it might give them autism. Even though study after study after study has demonstrated quite conclusively...
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─He wasn't even paid big bucks for it. He wanted to pitch his dumbass alternative MMR vaccine and tried to create demand for it by hurt the reputation of the existing one. That was his conflict of interest. Then he discovered and backed a movement of psychos who hate their kids to fund the rest of hi...
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─That's completely unfair. The particular polio nutters in Pakistan are pro-endemic. (It's worth noting those peoples' conspiracy theories about vaccines being a front for the CIA to spy on them and collect their DNA are totally based in reality [theguardian.com])
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─You obviously don't have kids. Some day the idiotic bullshit you write is going to get you into trouble you won't have an answer for.
[20:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:07] <exec> 08└─Most children have never even experienced snow, which is strange because record snowfalls were predicted by climate models [skepticalscience.com].
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─+1 Scathing Sarcasm
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─I guess you've never seen a roof collapse due to snow load?
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─No, because roofs in my area are typically designed to handle significant snow load, and if for some reason yours isn't the solution is a relatively inexpensive roof rake. In general, the colder the climate, the pointier the roof, for precisely this reason.
[20:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:15] <exec> 08└─It started when this new thing called the Internet started sucking all the ad revenue from tv and the written press.
[20:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Animation Shows Rotation of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:28] <exec> 08└─Nothing like 2014 MU69 has been observed before. Not only did the two lobes come together at a low velocity, but the object is relatively unmarred by impacts due to forming far outside of the inner solar system, and hasn't been damaged by close approaches to the Sun like 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milky Way to Face a One-two Punch of Galaxy Collisions - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Wait 3.75 billion years. Step 2: Get to a place where you can see the show. Easier said than done, of course. Step 3: Watch the show for about 15-20 million years.
[20:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:39] <exec> 08└─The canister DID have life-support, but it was malfunctioning, so the experiment was terminated.
[20:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:41] <exec> 08└─1 thermal insulation can can be delt with by burying the base under a few feet of dirt 2 dirt and water make a better radiation shield than you think 3, good air filters and proper post moonwalk cleaning procedures can handle that. 4, there is actually a LOT of Oxygen on the Moon. It is tied up with...
[20:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:24] <exec> 08└─"In the meantime, we recommend you: provide an easily-consumed report of your findings, make sure all the news outlets know about this, request cell phone users who have had coverage problems to correlate their experience with your maps write up some petitions customized to state-specific lack-of-co...
[20:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─I read an article that said that Starbucks is actually spending quite a bit to address this issue, and might well be doing exactly that.
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Majority of Wild Coffee Species at Risk of Extinction - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Pre-processed by civets?
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[20:39:54] <exec> 08└─Seems similar here in Canada, with the law being part of the Federal excise act. At that a strict reading makes owning any type of still that can be adapted for alcohol illegal. Here it seems to be mostly aimed at tax avoidance and it seems there has never been a case brought forward for personal di...
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[21:33:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 739 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─It's that simple. His one study, where he was paid big bucks to get a particular result, turned into an entire movement of parents refusing to protect their kids from disease because they feared it might give them autism. Even though study after study after study has demonstrated quite conclusively...
[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─Or you know he has kids but doesn't want them to get autism resulting from Measles, which is more likely than getting autism from the MMR vaccine.
[21:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─Not as much trouble as a case of the measles would be.
[21:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:53] <exec> 08└─I always have an answer for the idiotic bullshit I write.
[21:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─More idiotic BS, no doubt.
[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─It's too bad that Darwin Awards cannot be conferred exclusively upon the Anti Vaxers, and have no impact on the rest of the sensible population. Now if only someone would invent a natural consequence for flat earthers. And moon landing hoaxers.
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─4/10, incomplete death threat.
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─Oh absolutely, I'm a huge fan of bullshit such as not murdering my own children.
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaxers got sick for rejecting something out of fear of getting sick. How ironic - and sadly stupid at the same time.
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─Are you saying it doesn't happen?
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─Looking at the weathermap it doesn't seem happy, but no snow yet: https://maps.darksky.net [darksky.net]
[21:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way to Face a One-two Punch of Galaxy Collisions - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─It's arguably a good thing. If interstellar travel is feasible while intergalactic travel isn't, then intelligent species may eventually conquer their entire galaxy, only to be stuck there. It looks like the fate of the Milky Way is to merge with many nearby galaxies in the Local Group, forming a gi...
[21:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how this is news. I've seen this headline pop up on various media outlets and every time, I think "obviously the bloody thing is gonna die in -170C temps!" Why this is news is beyond me. It's as obvious as saying there's moon dust on the other side of the moon. Then again, it's a headli...
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─I never regularly watched, but I have a vague memory of an old 1980's episode of Battlestar Galactica where one child is expressing his skepticism to another child that it would be possible to grow plants without a computer. Maybe an AI could, by trial and error, learn the optimal light and temperat...
[21:36:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 525 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─I am glad that the State of Vermont did this. I take a lot of roadtrips and have often thought the coverage was not what the cellphone company maps promised it to be. But it's anecdotal, etc., so I left it at that. In this case it was a state government employee who undertook this project, but citiz...
[21:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:33] <exec> 08└─While not dead, your link is pretty empty. I suspect somebody managed to inject it into the web site via a security hole. Also, it's just a click-bait headline. There is no claim being made that the answer is "Yes". Breitbart does in fact cover breaking news, complete with court documents for you id...
[21:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:59] <exec> 08└─That sentense does not matter, because i am questioning the people buying the damn things, i'm not questioning the corporate reason.
[21:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:00] <exec> 08└─Then you might have a need for one, but as said, a car with a trailer would most likely work just aswell, no?
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[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires Unspecified Smartwatch Technology and Employees From Fossil for $40 Million - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:38] <exec> 08└─My guess: 10 employees + enough patents to do whatever it is that they want, but Fossil might make problems for them in patent court. An infringement lawsuit can cost $40M real quick, if there's a high volume product involved.
[22:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:59] <exec> 08└─psychos who hate their kids
[22:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─When are these people going to figure out measles is a seasonal phenomenon? https://image.ibb.co [image.ibb.co] Every year we get this "anti-vaxxers cause measles outbreak" like it didnt happen the year before going back centuries if not millenia.
[22:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─Is this essentially only a problem amid the settlements of inbred jewish sects that have sprung up in Rockland County?
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─Man, that's a lot of words for "I hate my kids so much I want them to die painful and preventable deaths" (yes, I read what you actually said, and no, it didn't change my mind about you hating your kids)
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─Were it just them I'd have no problem with letting them kill themselves. Unfortunately their stupidity also affects others due to the loss of "herd immunity" and those who are unable to be vaccinated for various reasons.
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─There is no measles herd immunity...
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─I always have an answer for the idiotic bullshit I write.
[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:14] <exec> 08└─Damn the CIA for that. Seriously, killing off Polio was worth so much more than anything that the CIA was going to gain.
[22:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/herd-immunity-and-measles-why-we-should-aim-100-vaccination-coverage/ [iflscience.com]
[22:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you are talking about. https://www.iflscience.com [iflscience.com] This page is explaining why the largely touted 90-95% herd immunity level is not as clean cut as you'd hope, but a herd immun...
[22:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:21] <exec> 08└─Try telling the CIA that.
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─ultra-Orthodox communities in Rockland County had vaccination rates as low as 60 percent, far below the state average of 92.5 percent. [...] But the vaccine, when given in two doses — typically around age 1 and age 5 — is about 97 percent effective.
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─Quote source: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:27] <exec> 08└─Herd immunity means a large enough percent of people are immune (not vaccinated, but immune) so that the virus dies out (for measles they estimate ~95%). Obviously it isn't dying out.
[22:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:30] <exec> 08└─So transmissible in fact that 90-95% of people must be vaccinated in order to protect the entire population, or achieve what is called herd immunity.
[22:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:32] <exec> 08└─While I appreciate the sentiment, that would never happen. 1) A Darwin Award winner must of course die. Refusing to vaccinate your kids is putting them at risk of death or other harm, not the parent. 2) Darwin Awards are never given to people who kill someone else in the course of their stupidity. K...
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:34] <exec> 08└─Then you can't read you stupid fuck. I said I would take my kids to Norway or Japan. Or did you not read that part? Can you not understand the difference between believing that vaccines are bad and that vaccines are produced by bad people in a broken system? I notice you decided to go with a charact...
[22:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:58] <exec> 08└─Shh...we don't want too many people of the frigid right side moving out here.
[22:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:59] <exec> 08└─No worry. It's not all rainbows and sunshine. I also live in a firequake mudslide zone, pay 102% of my money in taxes and got killed by gangs yesterday.
[22:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Storm Harper, Now Hammering the West; Will Be a Major Snowstorm Friday in East/Central US - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well it seems to come from the recent (only the last few years) media thing of naming even winter storms, like they are hurricanes or cyclones. Making them seem like truly dangerous deadly the same as tropical hurricanes and cyclones.
[22:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way to Face a One-two Punch of Galaxy Collisions - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:26] <exec> 08└─You misspelled "???".
[22:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way to Face a One-two Punch of Galaxy Collisions - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:28] <exec> 08└─What an exciting time to be alive!
[22:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─Some of us, evidently, are racists. ChiComs, doncha know!
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:34] <exec> 08└─If anything, the expirement proves that it would be extremely difficult to near impossible for anything to live on the moon.
[22:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps to anyone with even a small amount of intelligence that thinks about the fact that the 'dark' side of the moon is facing the sun half of the time?
[22:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Pledges $300 Million to "Support Journalism" - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:15] <exec> 08└─Right-biased and factual: Our president Donald J. Trump continues to stand firm against Pelosi's stubborn refusal to fund America's border protection. Left-biased and factual: House speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to stand firm against Trump's stubborn refusal to fund critical government services. Bo...
[22:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:44] <exec> 08└─I think it's always most cost effective to stick with something used over new.
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[23:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 1840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─So I understand completely where you are coming from, but if you are so upset then try learning some of the science so you can make decisions for yourself. Obviously you have to research where a vaccine comes from and all that to assuage your fears of Evil Pharma Exec #666 but perhaps start here htt...
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:19] <exec> 08└─Unlike you that doesn't have kids because they died of polio or measles, right?
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:21] <exec> 08└─Seasonally outbreaks in communities with a lot of anti-vaxers.
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:23] <exec> 08└─Would it be worth my time to go find the fda minutes where they discuss how the vaccines were all contaminated with a virus for years? And that virus causes obesity in chickens too iirc.
[23:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─I don't know, i guess it's kind of an honorary Darwin award, if your offspring dies, because of you.
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Movement Linked to Measles Outbreak in New York - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─The point is that if it is seasonal, it is always circulating. And there's like 20k cases of "measles-like" illness in the US every year caused by unknown virii, measles is ruled out due to negative antibody tests that dont even correlate with each other. Indeed, an average of only 100 cases of meas...
[23:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Green Leaf on Moon Dies as Temperatures Plummet - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─A moment of silence, please, for the brave sprout that gave up its life for China.
[23:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:12] <exec> 08└─Our measurements according to procedure #528b_159 v1.3.2... Actually the FCC FAQ looks pretty simple. https://transition.fcc.gov [fcc.gov] (Page 27) Q: Are there predefined coverage levels for the shapefiles? A: There is no predefined dBm level associated with the mobile coverage...
[23:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'We're Going to Electrify the F-series,' Ford Exec Says - 2020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:38] <exec> 08└─2002? That's impressive. We run our cars until it's more expensive to fix them than replace them, but we rack up the miles fast so the older of the two vehicles we have is just from 2010 and has 150k miles. Our 2007 minivan with 187k miles needed $6,000 in repairs in 2017, so we ditched it. I know...
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