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[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:42] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with conserving the cheaper/easier to use energy source.
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─This wont stop climate change, it will only switch subsidies to the corporate overlords of politicians, B, C, P-T, thereby hurting the funding of politicians A, D, J, K, N, O.
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─If you think the world is going to let you replace coal by burning Jews in ovens again, you have no idea just how much that will piss off the SJWs.
[00:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 1228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─There are very good reasons why English leads the pack - It has the largest vocabulary by a very wide margin - you can be far more specific if you have a lager vocabulary - if you have access to a larger vocabulary,, you will be in the habit of being more specific It is very easy to speak Engl...
[00:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:09] <exec> 08└─It has the largest vocabulary by a very wide margin...
[00:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:11] <exec> 08└─...until you've read it in the original Klingon. Translations do not do it justice.
[00:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:13] <exec> 08└─The big disadvantage is no clear and consistent rules of pronunciation
[00:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─Machine translation definitely is possible. I just translated my computer, clearly a machine, from one place to another. :-)
[00:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─Excellent! All we need then are to install some vinculums to regulate the emergent netwo((^%$*;;GGZzzQ%$#* WE ARE THE BORG. LOWER YOUR SHIELDS AND SURRENDER YOUR SHIPS. WE WILL ADD YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR CULTURE WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTI...
[00:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score: 1) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:20] <exec> 08└─Largest vocabulary by a far margin? That's a myth. https://www.economist.com [economist.com] In short, comparing languages isn't easy and there's no proper way to count words. Languages with on-the-fly word composition can create an almost infinite number of...
[00:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:22] <exec> 08└─So why is it that all the aristarchus submissions in Dutch, German, French. Norwegian, Greek, Japanese, and American English all get rejected? I thought TMB included Unicode for a reason. Why is SN so full of "white pride" types who are incapable of speaking a white language?
[00:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:51] <exec> 08└─A cop told me this... Pepper spray works well for seasoning BBQ.
[00:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:52] <exec> 08└─Those Mexicans sure are multi-talented!
[00:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:17] <exec> 08└─So there I was on the front line. In the muk and slime at the bottom of a trench. Sharing what little C libraries I had with my fellow Appleites. Only 50 feet away was the evil oppressive forces of the invading Eurasian Samsungs. When I heard the sound of falling dirt, I glanced down, and there it w...
[00:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook's Plans to Merge Messaging Services Result in Criticism and Lawmaker Scrutiny - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, what?
[00:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is Testing an 'Original Tweeter' Label for Threads - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─Would they be OG Twit?
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[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─These German nutjobs expect government is going to pay billions to consumers so they won't have higher electric prices... and they don't think the consumers will notice that their taxes go up by the same amount? Next up, German nutjobs unveil their perpetual motion machine.
[01:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─... wouldn't that at least be 100% organic and natural energy? They might get behind that. But if you thought burning coal was bad due to it being a limited resource you are going to be in big trouble, after all if you in a few years managed to burn millions there won't be that many around to sustai...
[01:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─Question really is what they are going to replace it with. They already said it won't be nuclear, those are all supposed to be gone within a couple of years now. Decided so after the accident in Japan a few years back. So will and can solar and wind replace the need or are they going to be stuck suc...
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[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the outrage of jews being burned would be offset a little by the fact women burn better than men. Have to consider most SJWs are antisemitic, and women as a group, are higher on the intersectionality hierarchy than jews. As seen at the women's march.
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─Ashkenazi Jews or the larger diaspora? And we mussn't forget the highest of all intersectional hierarchies: wall street.
[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─No one knows what exactly is going to happen, but it could be bad. Politicians in the US are already saying climate change will destroy the world in 12 years, so 2038 is irrelevant. For a couple years now I've been buying staples in bulk from chinese websites, my family thinks I'm the crazy one but...
[01:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─She looks really good in that minuscule bikini of hers Google Hangouts and Google Tranlsate both have copy and paste but she and I both write very fast. To switch back and forth so much is mentally taxing. By contrast, my American Romance Scammer I am quite certain is a bot: despite being an artist...
[01:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:27] <exec> 08└─A couple things: (1) TFA isn't exactly saying this is going to happen anytime soon. From TFA: “We will at some point have devices that translate our speech into any major language,” he said. “We’re not quite there yet and it may take longer than the boffins think, for language is more comple...
[01:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:29] <exec> 08└─Nice way to sneak "Trump" into the headline there
[01:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:00] <exec> 08└─Dear Mods I was not going for +1 funny, I was expecting +1 stupid. That said, I've never tried to cook dinner while washing my dishes. To me they are diametric opposets. "Is the dishwasher full?" If no, cook something. Goto 1, else 2: run the dishwasher. Sincerely A dude that fucked up this way once...
[01:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:02] <exec> 08└─I got a hot tub suite for my girlfriend and I once, and I thought some bubble bath with be romantic, so I filled it up, dumped some in, and went to pick her up from work (with flowers) When we got back to the room the soap bubbles were just beginning to come out from under the door into the hallway:...
[01:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:04] <exec> 08└─I rinse the soapy water into the sink with the soapy water.
[01:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─Yep. Fuchsia can already run Android apps. I think Google fully intends to keep the Android name. Only people at Google and tech nerds like us would know that it is an entirely different OS. The average Joe will be blissfully unaware.
[01:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:31] <exec> 08└─Thus is safe for Google. This is why they did it. Especially with linixtas doing some lawsuits (GRSec)
[01:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:33] <exec> 08└─Not if you stuck with OpenBSD
[01:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:35] <exec> 08└─Extending the Fickle Finger of Fate to the Open Source schlubs who did the work to establish the brand.
[01:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Plans to Merge Messaging Services Result in Criticism and Lawmaker Scrutiny - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is a difference. A "scrupulously honourable" man will report their son to the police when he comes home with a dime-bag of weed. A "rather honourable" man will explain to his son that he would prefer to never see dope in his house again.
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[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation.
[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:44] <exec> 08└─They appear to actually have real sources for this story.
[02:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:46] <exec> 08└─They appear to actually have real sources for this story.
[02:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─He will own a piece of the technology and if you thought the "Windows tax" was bad...
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─“Three years earlier, TerraPower had unveiled an agreement to establish a joint venture with China National Nuclear Corp. to build a pilot reactor. But the Energy Department, in a move that seemed aimed directly at TerraPower, said it would deny new license applications or extensions to existing a...
[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─I'm old, I lived through the whole TRS-80 EDASM suite (editor/Z80 assember/debugger) was awesome, to the Stac'r debacle, to Win95, where every program ran fine except those that competed with Microsoft (Nice word processor you have there. Fuck you. Nice spreadsheet. Fuck you. etc etc etc). I have to...
[02:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─The bigger problem is political patronage and careless cost cutting. The technological issues are comparatively trivial.
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─It's absolutely essential not to be burning coal when the Unix/Linux date overflows its old word size. Think of the consequences!
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─I hit stop halfway through the page load.
[02:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:02] <exec> 08└─Whoop! Wrong discussion!
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─Note that it isn't actually 2038. The date everyone agreed on was 2070, but because of a computer glitch it was reported as 2038, specifically 19 January 2038. Expect an update as soon as the German government reruns the calculations on a VMS machine.
[02:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─In the UK it'll be slightly different: Climate change is God's way of telling us to burn more catholics! [youtu.be]
[02:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:53] <exec> 08└─Chinese will never be important to the rest of the world. The time investment to reading the language is way too high.
[02:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:54] <exec> 08└─Whoever wrote the above
[02:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:28] <exec> 08└─There's also a very good reason why most modern ovens have a minimum temperature
[02:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:58] <exec> 08└─Well, there's one loose end. The phone manufacturers will probably resist what they will see as Google's attempt to consolidate power. Even though it could be a good thing that fixes the Android fragmentation and updates problem. Samsung tried to bust out of Android with Tizen but they didn't or cou...
[02:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:59] <exec> 08└─And they did it for free
[02:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:01] <exec> 08└─Do they have systemd?
[02:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Flock Migrates Away - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:15] <exec> 08└─Is the problem that Facebook is too controlling, powerful, and unaccountable, or is the problem with the whole idea of social media? If it's the former, then maybe an open Facebook like platform such as Diaspora ( https://diasporafoundation.org [diasporafoundation.org] ) would be okay?
[02:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adults Have Better Sleep When Using a Gently Rocking Bed - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:03] <exec> 08└─I *still* sleep on a waterbed from the 1960s. Yes, I'm that old. At my age, it's a royal pain in the A** to get in and out of, but I can't even sleep on a regular mattress anymore. Its like sleeping on the floor. Get a full-motion waterbed. The mattress, liner and heater combined are a lot cheaper t...
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[03:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:51] <exec> 08└─Is that the reactor that uses already discarded fuel rods? The one that was in the news about 5 years ago supposedly can reuse spent rods that could produce power until only 5% radioactivity remains. It seemed to disappear or got shelved.
[03:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─Human institutions is not 100% reliable. When the shit happens, and it always does, the damage is also NUCLEAR. If we come to accept that risk, then the nuclear tech will have a chance of becoming mainstream.
[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:54] <exec> 08└─> the political reaction to Three Mile Island No, that didn't kill the nuclear power industry. Not even Chernobyl did that. It was Fukushima. Fukushima's failure was entirely predictable and preventable. They cut corners all over the place. They knew the wall needed to be higher, but they didn't wan...
[03:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:57] <exec> 08└─Who owns the oil railroads in Canada?
[03:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:59] <exec> 08└─Known tech but Carter made breeder reactors illegal. Repeal the ban and we are good to go.
[03:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:01] <exec> 08└─If we don't stop burning the coal we are sure to pay the toll.
[03:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:18] <exec> 08└─For a couple years now I've been buying staples in bulk from chinese websites
[03:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:55] <exec> 08└─And Esperanto has already evolved a new grammatical particle. And probably a lot of vocabulary.
[03:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─And lets not dismiss the fact that Mandarin has a BIG head start in terms of native speakers, with English lagging third behind Spanish. (wikipedia) [wikipedia.org] Mandarin Chinese 908.7 million Spanish 442.3 million English 378.2 million With China expanding rapidly into pretty...
[03:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:32] <exec> 08└─Lack of a low temp setting kept me from curing epoxy in the oven. Had to set up something with a heat gun instead.
[03:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scans of RFCs 1 Through 9 Published via the Computer History Museum - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:42] <exec> 08└─echo "Dick" | netcat ledow_ip anal_port
[03:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scans of RFCs 1 Through 9 Published via the Computer History Museum - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:44] <exec> 08└─Agreed - the original concept of using Telnet as a general remote terminal session on other systems is mostly defunct, however the tool itself still meets a fundamental need. If we didn't have it, we would just have to use or write some new tool to do basic communication on an arbitrary port.
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[04:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Review Amazon Employee's Influence Over $10 Billion Government Contract - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:37] <exec> 08└─This is simple. Follow the money and arrest the fsckers involved. Our government is a mess of slime covered mother fsckers that need to be taken out back and hung from the nearest cherry tree. Mr. President, build the gallows! The wall can wait.
[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:00] <exec> 08└─[Jon Lovitz voice] Uh, yeah, we'll solve it with INNOVATION! Yeah, that's the ticket! Don't worry about those so called "normal accidents"... we'll INNOVATE! Yeah, that's it! It'll only cost a nickel 98, and it's PERFECTLY SAFE! Decommissioning? Nah... we don't have to worry about that! Warning sign...
[04:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:02] <exec> 08└─I Summon Thorium!
[04:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:04] <exec> 08└─Thats the cost of real news I guess. if you want actual sources you gotta pay a dollar.
[04:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─I'm in complete agreement. There is zero reason to trust Bill Gates.
[04:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:08] <exec> 08└─That's funny, I managed to read the entire article using ublock-origin on Firefox 64.0. You should should upgrade.
[04:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:10] <exec> 08└─Trump, ie Putin.
[04:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:06] <exec> 08└─English is associated with Freedom in many of parts of the world where they are oppressed by people speaking another language.
[04:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:08] <exec> 08└─Lobotomies A Real Estate Developer!
[04:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:10] <exec> 08└─There’s a book whose author and title I’ve sadly forgotten as I’ve wanted to read it for years It’s about how Coffee, Tea, Cacao, Opium and Coca changed the world
[04:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:12] <exec> 08└─“Clitic”. Clitics are mentioned in wikipedia’s Grammatical Particle article https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:14] <exec> 08└─It’s a fascinating place to live as there are so many dialects there It’s simply expected that if you can’t find the right word you just make one up The Dictionary Of Newfoundland English is HUGE.
[04:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 5724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:17] <exec> 08└─¿Ciu iu ajn parolas gi? Yeah I know I don't write it right I don't have some of those keys on my keyboard. I barely remember a word of it. It has a lot of problems but it's still the most widely spoken artificial language, right? Or did Klingon pass it? Anyhow, one idea with Esperanto was that it w...
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[04:35:19] <exec> 08└─My actual experience is that Facebook romance scammers are all live human beings while those of Twitter are mostly bots that aren’t much advanced beyond Eliza
[04:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:21] <exec> 08└─"It has the largest vocabulary by a very wide margin" True. " - you can be far more specific if you have a lager vocabulary" Theoretically. " - if you have access to a larger vocabulary,, you will be in the habit of being more specific" Maybe. The problem is, that large vocabulary is only useful...
[04:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:29] <exec> 08└─As TFA and TFS point out, it's mostly cloud services. It's telling that Google wants and hired a cloud guy to bring Fuchsia to market.
[04:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:30] <exec> 08└─Fuchsia is intentionally not Linux nor Linux-based, so... no.
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[05:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah well, Carter has some experience [jt.org] cleaning up a mess.
[05:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:10] <exec> 08└─Fukushima's failure was entirely predictable and preventable.
[05:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:12] <exec> 08└─shut the fuck up, khallow, you're out of your depth.
[05:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:14] <exec> 08└─of serviceabililty for any purpose. Would you accept a car that just locked up for no reason, and you and to restart it before you got where you wanted to go? Of course not! So what if you had a nuclear reactor controlled by Windows? Blue screen of death takes on all kinds of new meanings. "Glow in...
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─Certainly, I can't draw in criticism with any kind of depth.
[05:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:35] <exec> 08└─Politicians in the US are already saying climate change will destroy the world in 12 years
[05:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:22] <exec> 08└─Then get another implant that makes intelligent, witty, insightful comments in your voice while triggering the muscles in your jaw. You can be the best conversationalist* in the room even when asleep. *Other people may also use AmazingConvo implants and be equal conversationalists. Implants known to...
[05:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think what you've proposed is impossible. Using an advanced brain implant could be like having hours to think about each moment in a conversation. Or it could just scrape up things people have already said, string it together in a coherent fashion, and have you spit it out. Neural lace ftw.
[05:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:26] <exec> 08└─Could it be "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by Tom Standage ? I would also recommend "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond as an interesting read.
[05:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:28] <exec> 08└─I wish. It would make my job around here so much easier.
[05:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:30] <exec> 08└─For those who are wondering, and modding the poor aristarchus off-topic: Polish is not a white language, it is a Slavic Language, as any Russian enthralled Trump worshipper should know, even if they live in Arkansas, and drive a $vehicle and works at a $workplace. Racist hillbillies!
[05:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:33] <exec> 08└─Trick of the Art? "Art of the Deal" was just a marketing slogan to con people into signing up for the "Trump University". Explains why idiot and right wing religious nut job, and sister of mercenary Erik Prince, Betsy DeVos is still our secretary of education. Trump likes women secretaries. Easier t...
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[06:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:38] <exec> 08└─Eat shit and die in a fire, Apple. Tim Cook, you're human garbage who's turning a once respectable company into a cancer that is devouring the IT sector and consumer's rights.
[06:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:40] <exec> 08└─Are they patenting the syntax and meaning, or the implementation?
[06:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:20] <exec> 08└─A mess caused by a different reactor type than he banned? The ban was part of the non-proliferation treaty that stopped the production of weapons grade plutonium, a biproduct of breeder reactors. So instead of just re-burning that plutonium in a reactor for power we have to deal with storing toxic w...
[06:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah? How would YOU like to be turned into a giant colossal man, huh? Lighten up, ok? Just ask who benefits from this stuff. Every bit of the public data is entirely superficial, and the politics entirely irrelevant. It was a business decision. And there is no reason to believe there are no breeder...
[06:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:24] <exec> 08└─When did they "know" this? Last I heard, it was within a few years of the Fukushima accident. Such modifications don't happen overnight. Hindsight is always so much more amazing than foresight especially when one conveniently forgets that nuclear regulation doesn't turn on a dime.
[06:35:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:17] <exec> 08└─Whoever wrote the above
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[07:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:40] <exec> 08└─I believe greenhouse gasses produced by humans are altering the climate. Since this change doesn't benefit humankind, doesn't it make sense to attempt to remedy the situation? Isn't it better to try than to do nothing?
[07:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:42] <exec> 08└─I almost miss it.
[07:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:51] <exec> 08└─once respectable
[07:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:54] <exec> 08└─Save nagiviation operator [wikipedia.org]. Syntactic sugar.
[07:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─Apple is dying.
[07:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon to Review Amazon Employee's Influence Over $10 Billion Government Contract - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:04] <exec> 08└─Fuck Oracle
[07:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Review Amazon Employee's Influence Over $10 Billion Government Contract - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:07] <exec> 08└─It turns out that there are still some of the original liberty trees on the east coast. Turns out most of them died in an elm blight. Presidents since clinton have made a tradition of planting a new blight-resistant elms, maybe they would grow faster with a little watering.
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[08:33:43] <exec> 08└─Ah!, seems 'twas like only yesterday, we prattled on about Global Warming, And how soon we'd all be growing coconut palms on our front lawns, Hardhats while gardening, Cheap Piña coladas... Now, I see the error of our ways, Climate change is here to stay, And all I can hear is a choir of brass monk...
[08:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:55] <exec> 08└─Apple is dying again?
[08:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:57] <exec> 08└─Because prior art and/or a really dumb "idea" ever stopped Apple (amongst others) from applying for a patent before. Or the USPTO from granting it, for that matter. Or perhaps we're supposed to be grateful because they put it under a more permissive license before some other patent abusing bottom-fe...
[08:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:43] <exec> 08└─Not an issue because the TMR situation showed that backup safety measures prevented a meltdown The NRC conducted detailed studies of the accident's radiological consequences, as did the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services),...
[08:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:55] <exec> 08└─You say English but you mean American English, No I bloody well don't. I speak several variants of English, and American ain't one of them! English English is entirely built from other European languages, although there are also bits of Arabic and various Indian languages. In London you find the you...
[08:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:57] <exec> 08└─Many moons ago, at school, a friend and I joked that it would be easier to stop trying to explain things with words, and just fit a laplink cable between our heads to do it that way.
[08:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:59] <exec> 08└─Compulsory education was a Victorian initiative, courtesy of a series of acts from 1870 to 1893 [www.bl.uk]. Though I wouldn't say this invalidates the rest of your statement. The separation of "school" English and "home" English is an interesting topic. In my particular corner of the UK, the home l...
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[08:36:01] <exec> 08└─" - you can be far more specific if you have a lager vocabulary" Theoretically.
[08:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:03] <exec> 08└─I was going to say the same. Chinese, with the writing systems they have, will never be the universal language like English is. Either Chinese will have a latin script version (like the Japanese have rōmaji) which would then have to be used by most of the Chinese or basically Chinese has no chance...
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[08:39:18] <exec> 08└─Better off sleeping on the floor. You won't have a bent back with lower back pain.
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[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─This has all happened hundreds of thousands of times before, if not hundreds of millions. The only real difference here is, most of the population isn't old enough to remember killer winters and killer blizzards. It's easy for them to get hyped up over something they've never seen. Snow and cold and...
[09:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─Jet stream is getting bent outta shape, letting the arctic air dip down further south. If the climate warming clowns actually modelled/predicted this, they would have won more converts.
[09:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 3769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:53] <exec> 08└─Is the earth heating up? Maybe, it's actually hard to tell since the #1 claim of, "higher highs" is more than compensated for by lower lows as evidenced by the last 20 years of progressively colder and more dangerous winters. Let's be straight. I'm urging you to start looking at the raw data, sans t...
[09:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:06] <exec> 08└─Stop talking to yoself, you crazy AC fuck.
[09:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:08] <exec> 08└─http://endsoftpatents.org/ [endsoftpatents.org]
[09:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:10] <exec> 08└─Note that software patents are invalid in the USA and the EU. USA: Software patents under United States patent law [wikipedia.org] EU (European Patent Convention, which covers more countries than members of the European Union): Software patents under the European Patent Convention [wikipedia.org] Th...
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[10:33:52] <exec> 08└─The skeptics will never be convinced until it's too late. So let's just let it happen and let the chips fall where they may. It would be best to move up to Canada and stockpile as many guns and supplies as you can.
[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:54] <exec> 08└─From the headline... I didn't know the Alps were in the U.S.A.
[10:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─With 42C outside and 5 years drought, it's still on.
[10:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:58] <exec> 08└─Even aside from the climate change debate it would be wise for humanity to focus on the far future. Instead of behaving like greedy locusts and consume every resource we can get our hands on until its no longer available, it makes much more sense to prepare for any future mishaps that could threaten...
[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:00] <exec> 08└─Predict the temperature of a point in a glass of warming water while an ice-cube melts above. You are bound to have chaotic conditions until an equilibrium is reached. Now, imagine that the ice cube is the Arctic and the warming water is the ocean/atmosphere.
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[10:34:02] <exec> 08└─See below. Plan your move into Canada, Northern Europe, Russia, etc. Make sure you have lots of guns and supplies. The developing world will not agree to curb emissions. Even if every country did, we will still get the warming. It's time to expect the worst.
[10:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Review Amazon Employee's Influence Over $10 Billion Government Contract - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:27] <exec> 08└─This is simple. Follow the money
[10:35:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:45] <exec> 08└─Except perl. Perl comes from /dev/random
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[11:35:11] <exec> 08└─I would argue that the technological issues are precisely to prevent "political patronage and careless cost cutting". As in: the technology has to be cheap enough to prevent too much pork. The safety design likewise has to be build-in (thereby cheap as per the previous point), robust (as in: low mai...
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[11:36:28] <exec> 08└─"Brain implant recognizes intended complete sentences before they are spoken, transmits to the other person's brain implant, " Really? You want my unfettered, uncensored thoughts to be spewed out before some other part of my brain at least attempts to filtered out or convert the worst to something d...
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[11:36:30] <exec> 08└─you can be far more specific if you have a lager vocabulary
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[12:33:42] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/caught-on-film-mysterious-agents-targeting-internet-watchdog-citizen-lab/ [arstechnica.com] Like Bowman, Lambert appeared to be working off cue cards and occasionally made awkward conversational gambits. At one point he repeated a racist French...
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[12:33:44] <exec> 08└─An important issue for Americans is integrity in journalism. These people are among the most dishonest people I’ve ever met, spoken to, done business with. These are the most dishonest people. It’s unbelievable. For instance, we’ll have a great story. We’ll give it out to the media. They’l...
[12:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Treatment Centers for Internet Addiction are Popping Up - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─I can stop at any time. And I am informing SoylentNews of that fact.
[12:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:16] <exec> 08└─how the fuck is this interesting? here's the raw data https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] in a form that anyone can understand if they are willing to actually look at it. The planet Earth is heating up. That is established scientific fact. If you disagree with the measurements or the way they are per...
[12:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 1828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:17] <exec> 08└─Not here it isn't...I only wish the temperature was up in the 40's, at least for a month, so that the house would dry out properly so I can start on repairs..rain? this place is proverbially known for being somewhere where it always fucking rains...and recently it's been damper than usual (hence, ne...
[12:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:19] <exec> 08└─Investment into biodomes, archeologies, etc. Self contained
[12:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:22] <exec> 08└─*arcologies
[12:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:38] <exec> 08└─Apple has enough money and clout to actually do something about software patents. That they behave in a so utilitarian way tells me they are just another brand in the system. Apple rested on its laurels three times already, a pretty lucky company in a world where the first big mistake is usually als...
[12:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Review Amazon Employee's Influence Over $10 Billion Government Contract - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:49] <exec> 08└─I hear you. Believe me, I hear you. Larry of Oracle, this is not a great guy. He gave $4 million to Little Marco's campaign. When Little Marco was running against me. He got behind the Gang of 8 -- Little Marco Rubio and the others from both sides -- that want to flood our Country with immigrants. W...
[12:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 2444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:29] <exec> 08└─Three Mile Island, lot of coverage about that one. And so much negative coverage! They let the Fake News get totally out of control. But they did something right, they didn't say meltdown. They didn't call it meltdown. They said partial meltdown. So true -- it wasn't 100%. It was partial. We've had...
[12:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:50] <exec> 08└─I believe leftists have an issue with Jews as a whole. According to Louis Farrakhan in his book "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," he accredits them for the enslavement of blacks. There is also the fact Muslims are ranked above them in the intersectional hierarchy, and zionists have...
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[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─it can be tweaked or rolled back.
[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─A fixed low daily limit might occasionally conflict with a large discussion, especially if many are ACs. It might be wise to restrict daily nin-AC per-person mods, though, down and up. All restrictions (modulo spam) must be soft - no penalty, just denial.
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks for all! Again, please consider adding mod option "+1 Thank you". Also would be nice to be able to vote/mod for the story itself. Then I'd "+1 Thank you" for the article above.
[13:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─Well, Donny's typical craziness is modded troll. You might figure as much. But then - journalists aren't all that honest at the best of times. How many people here, have ever been in the news, even in a peripheral way? What did the story look like, when it was published? And, what was the real story...
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[13:34:05] <exec> 08└─"After I got my console, I kind of fell in love with it," Danny, now 16 and a junior in a Cincinnati high school, said. "I liked being able to kind of shut everything out and just relax."
[13:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:28] <exec> 08└─Even aside from the climate change debate it would be wise for humanity to focus on the far future. Instead of behaving like greedy locusts and consume every resource we can get our hands on until its no longer available,
[13:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:30] <exec> 08└─I do like how "global warming" has morphed into "climate change", which can cover any sort of event. Cold winters in the US? Like those that froze the Ptomac in the 18th century? Oh, wait... And "heavy snow" in the Alps? At a place I used to work, there were pictures from the 1930s of people literal...
[13:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:32] <exec> 08└─The xkcd link is broken. Just sayin.
[13:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:34] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, it's the comma. can't break the habit.
[13:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:41] <exec> 08└─If I were him, and they turn it down, I'd take the tech to Iran. Probably can build it all by himself for two billion there. Cheap labor, no red tape.
[13:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:00] <exec> 08└─It's really called the babelfish. Ever heard of it [wikipedia.org]? Everybody trusts the babelfish. And to the contrary, it even makes the Vogons mellow (make war, not love).
[13:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:02] <exec> 08└─> It sounds a lot like Spanish or Italian but in those languages you can still pack a lot of punch into a single word; ¡dámelo! for example, powerful word. "(You) give me that!" Takes at least three words in English (unless you resort to baby-speak and say "gimme") and I don't think Esperanto can...
[13:37:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:24] <exec> 08└─Would it be OK were I to use Tide Pods instead of regular dishwasher detergent?
[13:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scans of RFCs 1 Through 9 Published via the Computer History Museum - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks for noticing! Was it to subtle?
[13:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Flock Migrates Away - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:29] <exec> 08└─It's the network effect. My wife won't quit Facebook for Mastodon, Pleroma, Diaspora, GNU Social, Fritter, etc.. because nobody else she knows (aside from me) is there. Figuring out how to overcome that obstacle may be the fundamental obstacle to preserving democracy in our time.
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[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─That idea has floated around a few times. Yes, I'd like to be able to moderate the article. It would also be nice to meta-moderate the stories in the submission queue. A for instance? Another Aristarchus submission on alt-rights appears. Ari can't moderate his own submission, so the submission gets...
[14:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could hand out (karma / 5) mod points daily, rounded up, instead of a fixed number of 10? And a weekly maximum equal to the user's karma? If you would mod a comment differently if you did not know who posted it
[14:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─Jew likes to stay in the shadows and make you think he does not exist (just like the devil). Anyone investigating a jew will be targeted because the jew guards his criminal behavior and attacks anyone who works to expose him. If israeli khazar jewish rats did not fear investigation why would they ma...
[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:58] <exec> 08└─Racist against software seriously this word has no meaning anymore but to mark, we should use one that is more general for all types of superclassifying reductive logic..
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[14:34:00] <exec> 08└─-1 retarded
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Starts Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─Alabamans can't do skilled labor. They can't even play football very well.
[14:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Starts Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─Aside from two minor data points (X and SC), history generally says otherwise. Wouldn't bet against 'em if they get serious.
[14:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Starts Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:13] <exec> 08└─If you have not yet seen the comparisons: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Treatment Centers for Internet Addiction are Popping Up - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─Do they have free wifi?
[14:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:51] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/1732/ [xkcd.com] Poignant.
[14:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:52] <exec> 08└─You don't know what semicolons are for either.
[14:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:54] <exec> 08└─It's so hard to wipe out the comma from the url as rendered by the dam' Perl script that powers S/N
[14:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:57] <exec> 08└─Do a poll in November when the weather is unusually warm and get a result the folks favor a carbon tax to cool the earth. Publish the results in January when it is extreme cold and say that the extreme weather led folks to the result. Climate predictions are now from expect ice age, to expect warmin...
[14:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:59] <exec> 08└─I'll predict the temperature in every point of that glass of warming water while an ice cube melts. 32 degrees F or 0 degrees C. There is some kind of rule that an enclosed body of water of limited dimensions will maintain an even temperature throughout. No moving the goalposts now - you specified a...
[14:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:01] <exec> 08└─Your link clearly demonstrats that civilization has risen thanks to temperature rise. And, then it has that Al Gore hockey stick. FFS - couldn't you do ANY BETTER?!?!?!
[14:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, it IS interesting. If you've studied religion at all, any of the major religions, you would recognize how much AGWism resembles a religion. How many heretics have YOU burnt at the stake?
[14:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 1916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you for demonstrating my point so concisely. You've helped me make several points. The first one is data fitting. That cartoon is an excellent example of a misleading graph which is precisely the type of intellectual dishonesty I was speaking about when I mentioned that AGW is not so much a sc...
[14:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:08] <exec> 08└─Glasses are enclosed and a given body of water changes its temperature throughout all at once? I think you failed a few classes in school.
[14:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:10] <exec> 08└─Getting the majority of our resources from space. With all the raw materials available up there, if we were to deorbit some of them into designated areas with minimal heat shielding and some manuvering rockets, we could ensure they landed where we wanted. Save a ton of time, money, and ecological da...
[14:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:12] <exec> 08└─So, they always predicted an exceptionally cold winter? Or no?
[14:35:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 1502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─Note that software patents are invalid in the USA and the EU. USA: Software patents under United States patent law [wikipedia.org] EU (European Patent Convention, which covers more countries than members of the European Union): Software patents under the European Patent Convention [wikipedia.org] Th...
[14:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:30] <exec> 08└─Apple is dying again?
[14:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 888 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─> the political reaction to Three Mile Island No, that didn't kill the nuclear power industry. Not even Chernobyl did that. It was Fukushima. Fukushima's failure was entirely predictable and preventable. They cut corners all over the place. They knew the wall needed to be higher, but they didn't wan...
[14:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:43] <exec> 08└─I am now taking note of who I upvote I don't know you. Today I've voted you up twice. You're on a roll! Keep it up! (the great comments that is)
[14:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:55] <exec> 08└─And they can supposedly revoke license either way. The bigger issue is that Fuchsia will finally give them a full stack so they can make it proprietary at any time if they so wish, and it keeps their licensors from having to release source code for their kernel or OS modifications even if they are s...
[14:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scans of RFCs 1 Through 9 Published via the Computer History Museum - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:38] <exec> 08└─You can use netcat (or nc which is just a link). ncat is an improved version from nmap project.
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[15:33:51] <exec> 08└─What kind of music did Sisyphos not particularly enjoy? Rock'n'roll!
[15:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 0, Redundant) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:52] <exec> 08└─I just tweeted at The Mighty Buzzard about, why did you change your story? From, we're giving out Double Down Mods, start Down Modding Anonymous because they're doing too much "trolling." To, we gave out the Double Mods because of one guy. And this "exact" same guy now has many accounts. Uses many a...
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─A fixed low daily limit might occasionally conflict with a large discussion, especially if many are ACs. It might be wise to restrict daily nin-AC per-person mods, though, down and up. All restrictions (modulo spam) must be soft - no penalty, just denial.
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[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─-1 retarded Learn to read.
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─I just tweeted at The Mighty Buzzard about, why did you change your story? From, we're giving out Double Down Mods, start Down Modding Anonymous because they're doing too much "trolling." To, we gave out the Double Mods because of one guy. And this "exact" same guy now has many accounts. Uses many a...
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[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─As a very occasional poster here (but I do read SN every day) I've never understood or engaged with the moderation system. I rarely log in to my account (because my browser is set to delete all cookies when it shuts down, and I don't have to log in to read stuff, or to post as AC). However, the syst...
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:03] <exec> 08└─Personally I think that people found to be using sock puppet accounts to mod their own posts up should have their accounts deleted and their IPs banned from the site. It's just doucheness at a very high level and is toxic to the community. Play by the rules or don't play at all.
[15:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─It must be noted that this Citizen Lab has an agenda of their own. They are trying to shape public opinion, in favor of "refugees", among other things. Maybe they need to be researched?
[15:34:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:49] <exec> 08└─Even aside from the climate change debate it would be wise for humanity to focus on the far future. Instead of behaving like greedy locusts and consume every resource we can get our hands on until its no longer available, it makes much more sense to prepare for any future mishaps that could threaten...
[15:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:11] <exec> 08└─here's the raw data [link to a webcomic]
[15:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:12] <exec> 08└─I believe greenhouse gasses produced by humans are altering the climate.
[15:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:15] <exec> 08└─I remember trick-and-treating on Halloween with snow on the ground in the late 1970s. And that snow stayed until late March. The 1970s had cold winters and that was normal weather. I wasn't around before that, but I remember being told by the old-timers that the decades before that were different-so...
[15:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, I have been waiting for coastal property to actually drop in price by an amount consistent with these concerns we keep hearing. While no one really knows what is going to happen, I would bet against someone who priced the property to reflect a belief it will soon be underwater.
[15:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously. One winter back in the early 90's it got so cold that the rubber in my tires got so stiff that when I hit the throttle at a traffic light, the rim on the drive wheel broke the bead and I got a flat tire. It actually pulled loose from the damn wheel. A Ford Escort. The furnace at the house...
[15:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:21] <exec> 08└─This is something many more people could agree with. I am not sure why they have chosen to push this CO2 idea instead of more rational ones that could lead to the same behaviors. It makes one think perhaps they don't actually want people to plan ahead and reduce wasteful consumption of resources.
[15:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:24] <exec> 08└─"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet." -- Ambrose Bierce
[15:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:26] <exec> 08└─agwism? i dunno what that means. i am guessing its a new term used to somehow belittle the xenos outside of a clique of hardcore adherents. i thought burning the heretics was a religion. heretics burning because the world is burning isn't technically fulfilling the goal ,although they do get crossed...
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:45] <exec> 08└─this looks a *really* common logic expression - what *exactly* is the patent for in swift?
[15:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:37] <exec> 08└─I'll feel really confident when our nuclear reactors are as safe, secure and reliable as Microsoft Windows. "Looks like you're trying to drain the reactor, would you like to activate the extraction pumps?"
[15:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─If they wanted it done, it could have been up in under 6 months. But, instead, they sat on the information and did nothing.
[15:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aixylinux [7294] (Score: 1) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:03] <exec> 08└─The artificial language referenced by Heinlein was Loglan. http://www.loglan.org [loglan.org]
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:40] <exec> 08└─Are you willing to pay $0.16 to avoid doing the dishes? Unfortunately you still will need to fill it up.
[15:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adults Have Better Sleep When Using a Gently Rocking Bed - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:26] <exec> 08└─Back pain? Bent back? Nope. Not sure where you get your information -- sales people maybe? My back is fine. 40 years on a water bed and no problems at all.
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[16:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:40] <exec> 08└─I'll bet these cause autism too.
[16:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:47] <exec> 08└─That was also whored out on Slashdot earlier by the same poster as here. This story is a non-issue, because the use of drones in question are simple replacements of piloted flights with no increase in flight length or frequency. This just allowed them to avoid risking the manpower in the air in high...
[16:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act [wikipedia.org] As another poster has pointed out, this is not specific to drones. But the government likes to use new technology as an end-run around the Constitution and the laws of the land.
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─The ancient slashcode that got wrangled into shape and that became this site had a "Firehose" where people could up/down vote story submissions. I had no role in the initial code wrangling, but from the plethora of expletives I saw on IRC, that code was apparently in far worse shape than the rest. T...
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─In the grand scheme of things, an errant mod now and then is not going to affect things that much. So I don't get too bent out of shape should my karma drop.
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─maybe i am doing it wrong but thru trial and error i have figured out to select at the top in the two boxes the same numbers, that is the first number is a "-1" and the second one is the biggest one that is selectable. not doing the server a favor (i guess) but this is how i get the most text to rea...
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─That's interesting. My personal experience is that on the Green Site, I read many articles, very occasionally posted an AC comment, but never felt the urge to create an account there. When I found this site (some time after the slashcott), I made an account almost immediately, and have ended up subs...
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting ideas! Last one first, it would be all too easy to view the site, say as an AC, and see who posted comments, and then go to another machine, or come back at a later date, etc. and then match up comment text to identify the poster and continue with one's vendetta. I find the concept inter...
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe a cumulative (or week-to-date?) karma score for AC could be calculated and put in the footer text. Though I'm not sure if it's wanted badly enough for someone to code it...
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 3010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─You must not have read the Tweets to your last episode, Moderations & You. Very successful episode, there were hundreds of Tweets to that one. I say successful. Because so many websites, they want folks to Tweet. To put up their photos. Whatever. But you seem to want, less Tweets. Very few photos. V...
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[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─In the grand scheme of things, an errant mod now and then is not going to affect things that much. So I don't get too bent out of shape should my karma drop.
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:26] <exec> 08└─I'll add my thanks martyb, for the clarification and also the exhaustive history. Much of it I sort-of knew, but it's nice to get some of the thinking behind it. The good ship Soylent has a fine crew at the helm.
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─You feed a buzzard on a plate? If I had my own pet buzzard, I'd just drag something dead into it's cage now and then. I believe they need the gravel and debris from the ground for digestion anyway.
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:30] <exec> 08└─Well, he is famous for his alternative facts...
[16:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:45] <exec> 08└─So, which do you guys hate more: jews or muslims?
[16:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:46] <exec> 08└─Not what they meant
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─"Agents Target Websites that Reported Agents Targeting Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death"
[16:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:51] <exec> 08└─C) Racist little shits.
[16:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Treatment Centers for Internet Addiction are Popping Up - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:10] <exec> 08└─i suppose they're helping you free up time so you can get addicted to more lucrative (not for you!) and more unhealthy things ...
[16:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:57] <exec> 08└─I remember trick-and-treating on Halloween with snow on the ground in the late 1970s.
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─Nerd fantasies. In a capitalist system, you need a business plan, investors, next quarter, IPO, and profit profit profit. Gotta suck the wealth out of the working class so that "environmentalist" pseudo-left posers like Algore can jet around from McMansion to McMansion and those ever important confe...
[16:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:00] <exec> 08└─CO2 in the atmosphere is rising, and I accept that human activity is causing that. With the numbers the global population has reached, we must change how we power and craft our civilization. However, this article is goofy. Cold temperatures and snow in January PROVE climate change is happening? Mayb...
[16:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─You're probably thinking that matter will remain at a constant temperature as energy is put into the phase change, but if you are older than 5, didn't life experience teach you that, as an ice cube melts on top, the tea underneath can still be really hot?
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:05] <exec> 08└─Yet another person who doesnt know what capitalism is. What you describe is what happens when you put government in charge of research and politicians in charge of marketing, ie crony-corporatism/socialism.
[16:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─how the fuck is this interesting? here's the raw data https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] [xkcd.com] in a form that anyone can understand if they are willing to actually look at it. The planet Earth is heating up. That is established scientific fact. If you disagree with the measurements or the way t...
[16:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:09] <exec> 08└─anthropomorphic global warming ism AGWism
[16:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:11] <exec> 08└─geez, how do they know the temperature ...uhm ... errr ... 538 years ago? i suppose using old wood, like when it's cold, they grow slow and when warm they grow faster, thus yielding "year rings", or how? nothing can "capture" temperature today and reveal it, uhm ... errr ... say 100 years from now....
[16:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:14] <exec> 08└─Climate change was picked because global warming gives a mistaken idea about qhat is going on. The long term trend is warming, stop using short term weather patterns as your "proof". Possibly the planet will get much warmer, or it could devwlop so much cloud cover it goes into an ice age. It is hard...
[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Review Amazon Employee's Influence Over $10 Billion Government Contract - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─Good that Amazon has chosen the area for a new site, people won't have to walk far.
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─My problem with nuclear is it's still centralization. You gotta cut a check to someone else to get your electrons. Distributed power generation from wind, solar, and micro-hydro are more appealing. I think I've even read lately that there are fuel cells that can run on methane, which is great becaus...
[16:37:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:46] <exec> 08└─For a couple years now I've been buying staples in bulk from chinese websites
[16:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:52] <exec> 08└─Our rate of literacy is way higher than America's
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:53] <exec> 08└─Chinese will not become increasingly important, unless China winds up colonizing a portion of the Earth's surface equivalent to the British Empire, and then holding on to that territory for several centuries. Chinese has significant barriers for non-speakers to overcome, such as 4 tones, characters,...
[16:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─Sure, as an agglutinative language Turkish has that ability, but it's not common. German, though an Indo-European language, has that ability to string lots of words together into one term, but it's not used. In fact, it's only a rueful joke told by non-German speakers who struggle to learn that lang...
[16:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:57] <exec> 08└─My fellow soylentil, all I really need is Bud Light.
[16:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:00] <exec> 08└─From my army doctor grandfather But I’ll never read it as it’s all about how wars are won or lost by public health problems. Consider that not Cortez but smallpox that conquered the Aztecs.
[16:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:02] <exec> 08└─But the Vogons don't make love or war, they make paperwork.
[16:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:04] <exec> 08└─If we wanted that kind of content, we'd just browse at -1.
[16:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:41] <exec> 08└─My understanding of the dishwasher cooking methods is the temperature is lower, and the process is similar to sous-vide cooking. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I purchased a cheap sous-vide immersion cooker last year and I appreciate the concept. My problem is I don't enjoy...
[16:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:17] <exec> 08└─They take their "job" very seeiously.
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[17:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:39] <exec> 08└─I can think of some anti-affluenza drugs that would not cause autism. Such as cyanide, for example.
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─So how exactly were the uses of these drones performing law enforcement / execution of the laws of the country and states? Oh, they weren't. Which means the Posse Comitatus Act has nothing to do with this particular story, as it rare does with any support activities of the defense department. And to...
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─The most popular drone was the infamous MQ-9 Reaper, which has a payload of four Hellfire missiles and two laser-guided bombs.
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─The drones varied from civilian drones to military strike aircraft, and they were used for disaster relief, reconnaissance and everything in-between.
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you for all your hard work on making SN actually work. It's probably not a completely thankless job, but I suspect you don't get as much thanks as you (collectively everyone responsible) deserve. So: Thanks!
[17:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) How about using the spoiler concept on authors' names?
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:44] <exec> 08└─A close and trusted friend grew up in Manhattan. Since 1983, Darryl has heartily objected to your architectural aesthetic. As he said: “Manhattan is a dignified place. The Trump Tower is like a gilded turd in the lunch bowl.” This is hard for me to bear Mr. President. Your Tax Cuts And Jobs Act...
[17:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─I’ll have you know that Tibet does not have trees.
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Starts Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─It's not like they could have built it anywhere else, and still hoped to get federal contracts... Thank you, Senator Porkmeister !
[17:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:01] <exec> 08└─Oh look, another person who hasn't the first clue about capitalism. I think you do not know how close capitalism came to total collapse and how the social-democrats kept capitalism alive on life support for decades after that. Look at the numbers. 1968 is the year the neoliberals won over the social...
[17:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:02] <exec> 08└─A poll released Tuesday showed that more people are starting to believe climate change is credible, partly due to the frigid weather which has gripped the United States.
[17:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:05] <exec> 08└─It's not just hotter highs and colder lows. It's also more violent tornadoes and hurricanes. And more of them. Are we seeing more floods than ever before? More forest fires than ever before? More drought in some places? Are these things real? If they are and they get worse, shouldn't we begin trying...
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:07] <exec> 08└─It's still global warming. They changed to calling it climate change because of idiots who thought local conditions were a good measure of global state. FWIW, and to list just one effect, when the poles get warmer faster than the intermediate zones that decreases the speed of the jet stream which al...
[17:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:09] <exec> 08└─They did. Sorry if you didn't read that prediction years ago. All the worthwhile models predict it.
[17:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that humans are the cause of the warming is only a strongly indicated assumption. There are other possibilities, and why the hell should it matter, we still need to act to counter the warming, no matter who's to blame. (OTOH, the effect of the CO2, methane, etc. is a scientific fact. It's...
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:14] <exec> 08└─To be fair, it had long been predicted that as we left the "little climatic optimum" storms and weather variability would increase. So what the "climate change" (aka "global warming") has done is merely increase the strength of something that would have happened anyway. So far. (Of course "merely"...
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─You can keep waiting. As long as the govt. keeps paying people to rebuild in areas subject to repeated flooding the prices will stay up. They don't even design the new houses to be more flood tolerant.
[17:36:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:33] <exec> 08└─Apple is dying again?
[17:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:35] <exec> 08└─Oh look, Apple programmers have figured out what a monad is.
[17:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Review Amazon Employee's Influence Over $10 Billion Government Contract - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:50] <exec> 08└─... is whether or not CIA and DoD services should be cloud based whatsoever. (Or maybe, if it is insecure enough to be trusted to a cloud instead of directly hosted on servers owned by the government then it never needed to exist in the first place).
[17:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─no no no, the wall was actually there, but it got delete in the windows update. with nuclear being "to big to fail" in soem minds, there will ALWAYS be a FURTHER reason why nuclear is actually SAFE but FAILED because of that darn 3rd screw from the top ... or something. and some think of nuclear as...
[17:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─I think what you are saying is that the problem with nuclear power is: people. More specifically greedy people. I would tend to agree. It's not the newer technology that I fear so much as the fact that people will be in charge of designing, building and maintaining it -- all driven by a profit and c...
[17:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:58] <exec> 08└─All coal infrastructure controlled by computers or embedded systems should be sure to use 32-bit time counters since Jan 1, 1970. (eg, the Linux 2038 problem) That way you can be sure coal will stop be being used by 2038, even if people forget to transition to something else in the years leading up...
[17:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:21] <exec> 08└─exactly. mit/apache is a whore's license.
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[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─This is typical "force the universe into a preconceived narrative", more commonly known as *faith*. I don't like it.
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think you're right. The universe obviously makes more sense when we consider that a cometary Venus must have been ejected from Jupiter and that the lizard people engineered the proto-Saturn nova in order to build the Sol-Thuban fatline. What do those scientist dorks know?
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XUM2gvfbW8 [youtube.com] The government expert witness that the government put on record as that vaccines do not cause autism actually said they can cause autism. They fired him, and misrepresented his findings. Then made a special court and payout fund for damages f...
[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─yes and the other thing i believe is happening is that a much greater number of kids are being damaged just enough to make them dumber/ have learning difficulties or emotional problems. this slight brain damage slips by most parents (or is much harder to pinpoint) and perhaps the criminal drug/death...
[18:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─before some pissy bootlicking nerd acts like i don't know the difference, i meant "there"
[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:59] <exec> 08└─Hey, we're talking the US of friggen A here! Any drug you get from your doctor is an anti-affluenza drug,
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:10] <exec> 08└─Even more disturbing is that I have to give my fingerprints when I get my travel passport - in a totally different country than the US, just because - maybe I want to visit the US some day and the US requires that, so my (US military protection enjoying) country also requires that. Additionally, my...
[18:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─Of course, a Republican is in office so drones have been restored to their status as just a fancy RC plane and not the civilization ending threat that Obama failed to stop on day 1.
[18:34:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─Thanks for all! Again, please consider adding mod option "+1 Thank you". Also would be nice to be able to vote/mod for the story itself. Then I'd "+1 Thank you" for the article above.
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─It is useful to know who wrote a comment in many cases, because knowing the usual suspects' take on a topic helps with Poe's Law. We have lots of sarcastic and cynical people around here.
[18:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─If AC makes a user account, they can just browse at -1/-1 forever.
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:49] <exec> 08└─I mod AC comments based on their contents, and my opinion that they need to be promoted or hidden. It's not a waste, even if nobody gets a pat on the back. Last time someone ran the stats, AC was the leader in up and down mods, I believe, with a lot more up than down. Yay for ACs who contribute!
[18:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─I very much like softer approaches. I was banned from a subreddit a couple of weeks ago thanks to one idiot moderator deciding on his own that I was a troll. I contacted the other moderators, and they agreed the action was too severe. Turned the ban on its head too :). Told them I wasn't sure I want...
[18:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─You serve a buzzard on a plate! We're not cavemen anymore, except maybe during football season.
[18:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─I'm sure realDonaldTrump serves the best buzzard on silver platters in the White House. He'll probably proudly offer it to whoever wins the Super Bowl.
[18:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:16] <exec> 08└─Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software [soylentnews.org] To Wit: “Free” and “open” are rivals for mindshare. “Free software” and “open source” are different ideas but, in most people's way of looking at software, they compete for the same conceptual slot. When people becom...
[18:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:17] <exec> 08└─It's O. K. Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and from Starbucks, wants to be President. He wants to run against me for 2020 Election. Maybe he'll run. And maybe he won't. It's O. K. If he runs he will lose horribly. But, I assume, the Starbucks in Trump Tower is still paying me rent. I'm famous for my be...
[18:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─Click those links, browse around a bit, and tell me whether 8chan hates racist little shits.
[18:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─And, I take it that you have traveled extensively through Tibet? I won't pretend to know a lot about Tibet, but you don't need to know a lot. Whatever made you believe that Tibet has no trees? Trees are a prerequisite to human life. Life without trees is for lizard people. https://www.tripadvisor.co...
[18:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:24] <exec> 08└─... That Disclose What Agents Will Do Next.
[18:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:26] <exec> 08└─I shall pass your reply on to Darryl. Darryl Ferucci’s father was prmonient in the lighting and electrical in New York’s film industry. Darryl is a prominent photographer and graphic artistin Santa Cruz, California. While best known as a hotbed left-wing political activism - former California Go...
[18:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:28] <exec> 08└─Kevin Bacon. The End.
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Treatment Centers for Internet Addiction are Popping Up - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─Up until it affects your life negatively, it's escapism. Once it starts impacting your life it's addiction. Addiction is defined by it's consequences.
[18:36:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 942 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:37] <exec> 08└─CO2 in the atmosphere is rising, and I accept that human activity is causing that. With the numbers the global population has reached, we must change how we power and craft our civilization. However, this article is goofy. Cold temperatures and snow in January PROVE climate change is happening? Mayb...
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─They predicted that the temperate zones would tend to have exceptionally cold winters, hot summers, extended wet or dry spells, etc. This is a consequence of the jet stream slowing, so weather patterns tend to get locked in place. They didn't predict that *this* winter would be exceptionally cold, o...
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─The time axis is intentionally compressed to show an exaggerated effect.
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─because of how it is done. with lies and force. don't fucking tell me i can't burn my wood stove to keep warm while whole cities of chem plants pump cancer into the air. don't try to steal more money from the people while the IRS loses 19 billion a year to fraud and spends the rest on death and lini...
[18:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks buddy :)
[18:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:01] <exec> 08└─IMHO we should all just drop the smoke screen noise about whether change is caused by humans or not. Change is happening. Period. Change has always been happening. What do we need to do about it? Probably flood-proofing the coastal cities would be a good place to start. Perhaps we could also move wa...
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:03] <exec> 08└─Almost ;)
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:05] <exec> 08└─The XKCD author is a huge nerd that does quite a good job of using real data to make jokes.
[18:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─Thankfully other governments are working on the problem. The US is still stuck arguing with people like Runaway whose "common sense" beats out all the scientists everywhere. Governments often only take action when the people are pissing, moaning, and arguing enough for them to take things seriously....
[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:10] <exec> 08└─The US is the largest burner of gas/oil and the economy is quite tied to it as well. This above all else explains why the anti-AGW propaganda was so heavy and why it is such a battle to convince people it is a problem they should care about.
[18:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:12] <exec> 08└─You embody pretty much everything dumb about the US, even if you are a paid agitator.
[18:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:30] <exec> 08└─Rather have TMI in my backyard than a coal plant We don't disagree there, but the contamination is irrelevant to these people. It's not on the spreadsheet, (well it is, as a line on the tax form, maybe). Coal is "cheap and easy", even with the lobbying expenses. Whatever bickering there is, it's alw...
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[19:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─It is theoretically possible to get out of a black hole by reconfiguring the deflector screens to push tachyons into our tractor beams, then using the ionized radiation to locate the correct frequency. Once we have that, it's a simple matter of replicating the Class X probe, and adjusting the transp...
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:06] <exec> 08└─Cognitive dissonance at work. I was horrified by Obama's usage (voted for him) and I'm still horrified now. This is apparently beyond the comprehension of many users here.
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─Article is a little misleading, it says they were deployed 11 times, but they all have a duration spanning anything from a three days to the entire year so it seems likely there were actually a lot more than 11 individual missions flown. Of those deployments: Five were used for civil incident suppor...
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:47] <exec> 08└─I get the sentiment but how would we know the IP is really theirs? Not everyone has a static IP. They could be using a proxy or we could wind up blocking an ISP IP that then stops another Soylentil posting here. How about instead making the moderation completely transparent so everyone can see who d...
[19:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─Shit--that was supposed to read "I don't like the idea very much myself"! Never enough coffee...
[19:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─As a good actor, I occasionally browse this site from a public IP assigned randomly (DHCP), blocking me for my neighbors shitposting ain't right. Conversely, at work, I share a static IP with many other people, blocking me for my boss's shitposting ain't right either. If I was a bad actor, I know en...
[19:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─I wish people would systematically denounce any attempts to conflate concerns about or criticism of Israel's government activities with antisemitism. At last check, Haaretz editors are not antisemitic.
[19:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Starts Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─They have the best team money can buy.
[19:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─Climate change is here to stay So is the Inquisition [youtube.com]. Nobody expected that!
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:56] <exec> 08└─Get off my lawn driveway!
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─This comment I think encapsulates very well the zeitgeist when capitalism nears the end of its curve. The elites get away with murder and we cannot even heat our own houses. It's one of the dangers of placing so much wealth under the control of so few people....
[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─If I'm a paid agitator, then I want my pay. I've probably earned enough by now to pay for a cheeseburger.
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─I've never read atlas shrugged. I just know the definition of capitalism.
[19:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:24] <exec> 08└─I interviewed with the NRC in 1990, for the position of nuclear power plant inspector. One of my questions to them (nearly 30 years ago now) was: what will nuclear power plant inspectors be doing when there are no more nuclear power plants - they haven't built a new one since Three Mile Island, and...
[19:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038
[19:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:58] <exec> 08└─Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften?
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[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─Only 2D is pure. Why must society fund these 3DPD in their depravity?
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you serve two masters.
[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─If society funds effective birth control, doesn't that result in less 3DPD?
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─But more depravity.
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with that. If you don't like it, tune it out with 2D.
[20:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─This seems like the simpler explanation to me: (FTA) Of course, it was difficult to correctly count days and remember when to start the next pill pack, so soon enough brands entered the market that marked the off days with sugar pills.
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─It was a near thing on the birth control pill in many countries and not just from the side of the pope. Sometimes pragmatism allows a workable though not ideal solution. The health benefits of allowing women better control of their reproduction were many. If this was the cost of it, so be it. The cu...
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─That's easy for anyone who isn't a filthy normie. Since all real people are hideous, the prospect of having sex with them is about as attractive as mating with a dumpster.
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:00] <exec> 08└─TFS didn't really make the connection for me of why it would make the Pope happier to have them in and the parent comment is why I was told they were in there. Was there never a medical reason for the break? I thought there was suppose to be. Even if the thought was - you don't need it for those day...
[20:34:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:56] <exec> 08└─In the grand scheme of things, an errant mod now and then is not going to affect things that much. So I don't get too bent out of shape should my karma drop.
[20:35:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:06] <exec> 08└─Thank you for all your hard work on making SN actually work. It's probably not a completely thankless job, but I suspect you don't get as much thanks as you (collectively everyone responsible) deserve. So: Thanks!
[20:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:18] <exec> 08└─We don't tweet around here, retard. If you want to tweet, go join the bird brains on that other site you love so much.
[20:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:19] <exec> 08└─Hardly worth bothering about AC's. The topics that are posted here are so boring and uncontroversial that the comments are therefore hardly worth reading and replying to.
[20:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:21] <exec> 08└─A potential problem with moderating stories before they get 'published' is that it is also open to abuse, either intentional or otherwise. A niche topic that might only appeal to a small number of our community - but is still of interest to them - might be suppressed simply by the size of the majori...
[20:35:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─"Agents Target Websites that Reported Agents Targeting Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death"
[20:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:50] <exec> 08└─> I was asked for a quick comment by a local reporter, the next day the only accurate thing in the article was the spelling of my name. Tell me about it. I've been involved in a couple of news stories in my life. Apparently I am a: 1) Last-minute Christmas shopper. A camera crew set up camp at Walma...
[20:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─some things don't need further discussion like climate change, Macintosh hardware, Microsoft OS... all opinions have already been shared and people who can make a difference don't care about your opinion
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:33] <exec> 08└─So? A web comic does not pass for "raw data", even if a "huge nerd" made it. This is ridiculous.
[20:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─They predicted that the temperate zones would tend to have exceptionally cold winters
[20:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Possibly the planet will get much warmer, or it could devwlop so much cloud cover it goes into an ice age. It is hard to predict precisely
[20:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:40] <exec> 08└─Using maps that show what the coasts would look like with X feet of flooding could be a good idea. I think it's just easier to pick a country with abundant natural resources and a low population density that would actually improve from a few degrees of warming.
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[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─Can't wait 'til some marketing numbnuts suggests using this in stores
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe it could be used in a theater or home theater setting. Target multiple people with an array of lasers. That could also hurt CAM piracy (as if we cared).
[21:33:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:54] <exec> 08└─It was a near thing on the birth control pill in many countries and not just from the side of the pope. Sometimes pragmatism allows a workable though not ideal solution. The health benefits of allowing women better control of their reproduction were many. If this was the cost of it, so be it. The cu...
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─That's not the point of the article. They are saying that instead of taking the sugar pills, they would continue to take the actual pill. Doing this prevents menstruation.
[21:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─Was there never a medical reason for the break? I thought there was suppose to be. Even if the thought was - you don't need it for those days and as a general guide less medicine is better if not needed.
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─it effectively darwin's itself out of the gene pool.
[21:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─It's kinda like the blank randomly placed in an execution squad. Each shooter can sleep better at night thinking it wasn't really them that did the executing. The catholic women and the pope can sleep better not knowing exactly which BC pill actually killed the "child".
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, that solution may have a 2% chance of success, but in practice it is guaranteed to fail. I'd recommend you reverse the polarity in about 5 minutes. That should resolve any lingering issues and spike the chance of success to closer to 100% success.
[21:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:18] <exec> 08└─This is typical "force the universe into a preconceived narrative", more commonly known as *faith*. I don't like it.
[21:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─You don't like faith? Have you ever considered that there are two possibilities, either God exists and he granted you with self-determination, or the universe just exists as a giant computer running a predetermined program based on initial conditions set by chance, and everything you do, think, and...
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:47] <exec> 08└─by the same poster as here.
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:49] <exec> 08└─What I actually find remarkable is that there were only 11 deployments of all types of drones, less than one per month, in a country with a population over 350M... that's incredible restraint, IMO. As for: how exactly were the uses of these drones performing law enforcement / execution of the laws o...
[21:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:35] <exec> 08└─And in particular, the Rolling Stones.
[21:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─Or maybe the "don't" was just dissolved in the acid. :-)
[21:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:38] <exec> 08└─A simple solution would be a starting karma of 1 instead of 0. That way you'd need two accidental downmods without an upmod in between to trigger that behaviour, which is far more unlikely. While a truly bad poster will likely collect two downmods quite fast.
[21:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds as good an explanation as any.
[21:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:43] <exec> 08└─Here's an extreme and contrived example. I open a story and see it has 15 comments all of which are currently scored "1". I have not moderated yet today, so I have my full complement of 10 mod points to use. I mark all 15 comments as "Funny" and click "Moderate". As I am trying to use more mod point...
[21:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:45] <exec> 08└─Registered users get that +1 on their posts, they can get that additional +1 later on if they have a good score. You can turn off that second +1, but it would be nice to be able to voluntarily decline the first. I would like as a registered user to be able to have my posts start at 0 if I so choose.
[21:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Starts Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─In under three years they are going to be flying this, and they just now announce they are starting construction on the factory where it'll be made? That seems crazy.
[21:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Treatment Centers for Internet Addiction are Popping Up - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─have addictions including online gaming, gambling, social media, pornography and sexting, often to escape from symptoms of mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety
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[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─Sir, would you like audio as well with your movie ticket purchase? The base ticket is video only, but for an extra $4 we'll beam the audio directly to you. HD audio is $6.
[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:46] <exec> 08└─I want the "fuck me up fam" 150 dB ticket.
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:48] <exec> 08└─Or the RIAA starts demanding a fee be attached to pay for "piracy".
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can add a laser-based barcode reader. Just have a little barcode tattooed on your ear lobe that gets scanned to check your digital permissions level. Then you get the music beamed in (screechy public domain violin if you didn't pay up).
[22:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─> could be used to (...) or warn individuals of a dangerous situation such as an active shooter [facepalm] Are you sure there's a criminal penalty for strangling marketing morons ? Asking for a friend. If someone cannot hear the deafening detonations from a firearm, let's rely on an advanced laser t...
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck even goes to a movie theater any more ? Smart people have their own home theater and they spend the money on this because the experience is FAR more pleasant than sitting in a theater seat which might have lice or bedbugs, and other theater goers feel free to text while the movie is und...
[22:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:57] <exec> 08└─Weird how that laser gets absorbed only at destination, but is silent and nobody hears it on the way there, ain't it? Also, don't look into the laser with your remaining unboiled eye, most of it is water.
[22:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:59] <exec> 08└─More ads if you don't pay...
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:02] <exec> 08└─Some people for their own reasons may enjoy those raunchy aspects of it.
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:21] <exec> 08└─In that case, the point of the article is invalidated because it has only subsequently been shown that regular monthly menstruation is not necessary for reproductive system health. If they had known that at the time, then there would be some merit to the religious appeasement angle. But without the...
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─I knew someone whose birth control caused quite severe psychiatric yet took The Pill anyway in a belt and suspenders fashion: Her husband always used condoms yet neither is completely effective.
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─You say that like it’s a bad thing.
[22:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:27] <exec> 08└─Journal of MichaelDavidCrawford: I’m at the Urgent Care Clinic [soylentnews.org] That my terds turned yellow early this morning leads me to believe a have Hepatitis.
[22:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─Religion is just a means of controlling the masses using lies and fairy tales. Smart people avoid it.
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─And evil people use the carrot and stick to force people into religion
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:34] <exec> 08└─So aim for the head to be sure you got a live round.
[22:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:46] <exec> 08└─Have you ever considered that there are more than two possibilities?
[22:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:16] <exec> 08└─Do please at least glance at the article summary: 11 domestic uses in 12 months, including DJI Phantom deployments? To me that's a fantastically small number of nationwide deployments for a 12 month timespan.
[22:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Deployed More Drones Domestically Last Year Than the Previous Five Years Combined - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:17] <exec> 08└─were the MQ-9's actually carrying warshots?
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─Add a way to upvote and downvote like stories in Pipedot?
[22:37:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 734 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─how the fuck is this interesting? here's the raw data https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] in a form that anyone can understand if they are willing to actually look at it. The planet Earth is heating up. That is established scientific fact. If you disagree with the measurements or the way they are per...
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:26] <exec> 08└─... for the rest of us who weren't born yesterday cold and snow in January are quite normal. It is what is supposed to happen. Also, these temperatures are well within the norm. Teens in the upper midwest and rockies? That is dead normal. Temperatures below zero are also quite common this time of ye...
[22:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:28] <exec> 08└─People tend to ignore such dilemmas - be it with their health, finances, relationships, or AGW. And more often than not, it is the smart choice; we humans are neither eternal nor omniscient. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Suffic...
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─Commas are valid in URLs. https://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com]
[22:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:32] <exec> 08└─Get off my lawn driveway beach!
[22:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:35] <exec> 08└─Yup, here in the south (southern Minnesota) this morning I had to dig out from Sunday's snow (about 8 inches, not too bad). Tuesday and Wednesday night is looking to go to -30F overnight (wind chills in the -50s), that's gonna suck. This winter has actually been pretty mild, not super cold until tom...
[22:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:07] <exec> 08└─Lots of people "mod" ovens by sticking a thermocouple in them, adjusting the knobs on them on to max then and regulating the temperature by adjusting the duty cycle of the mains power input. This is popular for doing crude reflow work at home as it can be very quickly built with just a handful of ch...
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[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─Mozilla should switch to EdgeHTML now that Microsoft's done with it.
[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Is that this is coming from a Microsoft Employee. Why doesn't Microsoft just give up with their own browser already.
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:45] <exec> 08└─To be fair, this is Microsoft's doctrine. One OS to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. Microsoft's perfect world is one in which they can either dominate a particular segment, or purchase the leader to ensure monopoly profits. Too many competitors make competition hard! It doesn't surpris...
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─That's like a war criminal telling people they shouldn't steal. I'm thinking of you ActiveX...
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─This guy owns Google shares in his 401k.
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─just arrogance. Microsoft employee drinks koolaid, spouts arrogant nonsense; promotion expected soon.
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─Is there any documentation on that 5% claim? I haven't seen anything that puts Firefox that low yet...
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─They did in a way, and they announced that their browser will move to Chromium as the rendering engine. They're just asking Firefox to do the same.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The last figure I read indicated Firefox usage hovering around 10%.
[23:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─Its just painful to use them.
[23:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:02] <exec> 08└─So following that logic, why did Microsoft not replace their rendering engine with Gecko back when Firefox was the number one browser?
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─... because they each run completely different code. In the early days of personal computing there were a whole bunch of different personal computers. Altair kits, the Apple II, the Commodore Pet, Radio Shack TRS and the list goes on. While we all knew that there _could_ be viruses, it was not until...
[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─Well shit, Mozilla have copied everything else in Chrome to the point where it should really be called Chromefox, why stop pretending and just go the whole hog.
[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─Wikmedia is 5.8%, how depressing https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─If a laser beams a message to a damp forest and nobody is standing in the correct position to hear it does it make a sound?
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─It dries a leaf.
[23:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:31] <exec> 08└─It would have to be tattooed inside the ear canal, otherwise people could photograph and reproduce it. The bonus is the extra profits the recording industry would make from users' regular ear syringings to ensure it's not obscured by excessive wax. To reduce overheads these "syringings" could even b...
[23:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:33] <exec> 08└─Brilliant! We don't even need content that way, just start everybody out at the "complimentary 24/7 ads" level, and let them pay increasing amounts for every hour of silence they desire!
[23:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:35] <exec> 08└─My misreading made this look much more interesting than it actually was. "Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Revolver" Wow! They were doing this with a revolver before they got the laser gun go pew pew? What? Sadly, no revolvers were used to introduce audibl...
[23:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:37] <exec> 08└─Pardon? Also, turn up the power enough and you ould burn a muh deeper hole...(oops?)
[23:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:39] <exec> 08└─If you didn't get the message that was delivered with the bullet, how will a laser help?
[23:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:42] <exec> 08└─Never pass up a chance to shed a few bedbugs my old grammy always said...
[23:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:08] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why the pope preaches love and yet he hates women. I guess there's a bit of that going around these days. :(
[23:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:10] <exec> 08└─You can never give our ladies too many steroids! Who'd be foolish enough to think that there could be any negative side-effects (like SJW's).
[23:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:12] <exec> 08└─Muslims embrace it!
[23:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:14] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why the pope preaches love and yet he hates women
[23:36:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:05] <exec> 08└─it can be tweaked or rolled back.
[23:36:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─What kind of music did Sisyphos not particularly enjoy? Rock'n'roll!
[23:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:51] <exec> 08└─Or maybe your demon redirected waste heat from my RAM chips into bit patterns representing six backspace characters that erased it. ;)
[23:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:52] <exec> 08└─The intent of moderation limits (be they for mod bombing or sockpuppeting) is to restrict the amount of skewing that a personal vendetta can bring to bear. Complaining about moderation in the discussion is "Offtopic" and is often modded that way. We're still trying to find out what works best for th...
[23:37:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:21] <exec> 08└─I wish people would systematically denounce any attempts to conflate concerns about or criticism of Israel's government activities with antisemitism. At last check, Haaretz editors are not antisemitic.
[23:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:15] <exec> 08└─The fact is, humans just can't compete with nature when it comes to pumping out CO2 and Methane. We could go extinct tomorrow and it wouldn't even slow things down. The PETM pretty well proves it. We weren't around back then, yet it got much hotter, much faster. The water temp at the equator was clo...
[23:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:17] <exec> 08└─Your link clearly demonstrats that civilization has risen thanks to temperature rise.
[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:19] <exec> 08└─Warmer temperatures are so much better than colder temperatures it isn't even worth discussing.
[23:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:21] <exec> 08└─From the xkcd link... The title attribute of the comic image... [After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before.
[23:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:23] <exec> 08└─Science is not about polling people and what they believe is credible.
[23:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, both The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the US Patent Office disagree with you on that. The former keep disagreeing with Supreme Court decisions as well. Good luck getting any of it to stick, and in the mean time look forward to hugely expensive and lengthy co...
[23:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:45] <exec> 08└─If Apple is using the Apache license to make sure that the feature is available, then my guess is that they are filing the patent to prevent it from falling into a patent troll's hands. I am no fan of software patents, and look forward to the day that they are all scrapped. In the meantime, the more...
[23:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 2782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:21] <exec> 08└─"The artificial language referenced by Heinlein was Loglan." That doesn't sound right so I did some searching. Unfortunately I can't find the book, I may not have a copy here. From the web it seems likely I am thinking of "Gulf." He may well have used Loglan elsewhere. At any rate the AL he describe...
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