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[00:33:49] <exec> 08└─Duh... they ordered him on AliExpress.
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─*Look at that S car go!*
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:53] <exec> 08└─In most cases, companies are prohibited by law from discriminating based on national origin. WTF, that is exactly backwards. I'm at a similar large defense contractor. We get to do slightly better at my local office, because of clearances. We can state that citizenship is a job requirement. Oddly, w...
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─That'll be 5500 euros for littering and creating a driving hazard.
[00:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─You misread me. I was stating that they'll give native-born American patriots shit for smoking a joint, during the background investigation, in the past year. Meanwhile, Mister Ching-Chong Chang who has lived all his life in China, maintains extensive contacts in China, and is a card-carrying member...
[00:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.exploretalent.com/resume/sunriselee/306292 [exploretalent.com] "Acting / Modeling Profile"
[00:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:48] <exec> 08└─I see this news outlet doesn't both with the niceties of here history: They include Sunrise Lee, whom prosecutors have described as a former exotic dancer [scmp.com]
[00:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:50] <exec> 08└─If that's not enough to you, then please eat up all the "not-propaganda" you wish. But have the decency not to feed your slop to others.
[00:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─Trump's tax cuts for the rich results in the US deficit having hit one trillion dollars. A survey or corporate and trade association economists made it resoundingly clear that the tax cut did _not_ affect hiring decisions in any way. If we had a marginal - that is, an incremental - tax cut on Capita...
[00:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:51] <exec> 08└─only paid by those who earned one million or more on such gains, that all by itself could house every American homeless person within a year or two. That marginal rate would only need to be a few percent.
[00:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:53] <exec> 08└─Just ask yourself why someone would want to do this. Are they financially strapped? Alone? Sick, and can't get medical treatment? The person in this story did this out of some type of desperation. Here in the U.S. we are no better. My company is requesting volunteers leave the company if your time t...
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[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:44] <exec> 08└─If the official goal of H1-B is to allow highly qualified people in, then that makes sense. Given my experience of grad school, I'm guessing that means the overwhelming of H1-Bs will go to Indians and Chinese nationals, plus a few Europeans. Probably not an accident, but not a big change either.
[01:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─I've seen some 'Master of Deceit' diplomas from Unis in Bangalore. Could be good addition to our sale and customer support dept, bring some on H1B.
[01:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─Is their a degree higher than PhD because the H1B PhDs I’ve met barely meet the Masters criteria.
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─S Car Go... Escargot? Last time I looked, those weren't all that fast, and I did not much like the taste of em either.
[01:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─And by the time you do realize it, the only choice that will prove effective will be the nuclear first-strike option on all targets of importance in China, launched from SSBNs parked close to the Chinese coast so the warning time is minimized.
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─With our mission control and commands routed through Chinese technology whose inner operation is unknown to us thanks to United States IP Law.
[01:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─Force FB to knock this shit the fuck off. Having a nice platform to keep track of my friends and family should not mean you know every fucking detail of my life. Sounds to me FB needs to increase their "contributions" to the Senators, as it stands in our current environment it's not enough. / not sa...
[01:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─I'm still sort of wondering if despite Facebook coming about because Zuckerfuck is a creepy as fuck stalker if FB is getting all this negative attention because they're not caving to the Five Eyes' demands. But then there's the plans within plans within plans aspect. The negative attention on FB jus...
[01:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:00] <exec> 08└─Do not take Adderall if you have high blood pressure. Adderall can have weird heart effects. Concerta is better.
[01:35:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 994 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:27] <exec> 08└─Like in the US, where native-born non-criminal citizens are locked up in prison and told they have to work, paid $1 per day, until they earn enough money to purchase evidence of their innocence from their own government? (see page 20: https://www.amnestyusa.org) [amnest...
[01:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:04] <exec> 08└─... who did not know how to sleep on the street. Consider that there's been a blind man, who when he wins the lottery about one of out three nights, sleeps at The Portland Rescue Mission. Some homeless people flatly refuse housing or even shelter. "Jesus did it, I can too!", "I CAN'T SLEEP INDOORS!"...
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:05] <exec> 08└─You have it exactly flipped, a lot of grown children have moved back in with the parents The aging parents are STILL taking care of their kids https://aeon.co [aeon.co]
[01:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:31] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything in this that suggests proof of Generative Grammars or Deep Structure or other such absurdities. (Just my opinion, but while Chomsky rightly called out Skinner on his BS, Chomsky's own BS subsequently has kept language cognition studies in their infancy for decades, as people hav...
[01:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:33] <exec> 08└─3 days after birth the child has already been listening to their parents for a few months. So I question the assertion that this is "innate".
[01:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_drive_form_factors [wikipedia.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] (147 * 101.6 * 19) / 149.5 = 1898.119 * 1 TB = ~1.9 petabytes You will very quickly see a clear path towards massive...
[01:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:27] <exec> 08└─None of these were new. None of these were particularly old. They are not constantly connected. They are primarily for sneakernet type use. I would guess none of them had more than a hundred or so hours of use... ;-D
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[02:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─Is their a degree higher than PhD because the H1B PhDs I’ve met barely meet the Masters criteria.
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they be forced to hire Americans first?
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─If only a powerful politician who had previous experience with educational institutions could comment here on the financial opportunities in providing masters and doctoral programs overseas ... oh well.
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─If you mean white males, no.
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─Why? Americans, that is to say people born here, are falling behind in just about every metric you can think of, from math to science to reading and so on. We need outside help as much as possible to make up for the complete failure of the education system stateside which has been completely steamro...
[02:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─Chinese have learned to play the long game? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(2013_TV_series) [wikipedia.org]
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:14] <exec> 08└─I was stating that they'll give native-born American patriots shit for smoking a joint
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─Last time I looked, those weren't all that fast
[02:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─Force FB to knock this shit the fuck off. Having a nice platform to keep track of my friends and family should not mean you know every fucking detail of my life.
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─I don't feel like subbing this since we've had a lot of Facebook lately. Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics [arstechnica.com] Facebook hires one of its biggest privacy critics to oversee WhatsApp privacy [cnbc.com]
[02:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:14] <exec> 08└─How many lap dances did you receive for this post?
[02:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:16] <exec> 08└─Since we're trading ADD med recommendations: my young son had tried them all. The one that worked best for him was dexmethylphenidate, otherwise known as Focalin. It's basically a more purified version of Ritalin, the chemical you recommended (methylphenidate). Less irritability. Technically, Ritali...
[02:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:18] <exec> 08└─My initial thought was that the Sales Director was the one doing the dancing. "Make it rain, gurl, make it rain"
[02:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─Well, we could just make it a law you have to be productive, and if you aren't we ship you off to wonderful New Eden where you have a second chance at productivity......as fertilizer. Or, alternatively, go old school with green crackers....
[02:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:24] <exec> 08└─You know, questions like this really ought to go into your journal.
[02:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:26] <exec> 08└─...are generously extended up to one year's free room, board, and healthcare.* FTFY. And remember, we're talking accomdations more comfortable than many Americans can afford. Probably even nicer than your government-issue crazy hobo shack.
[02:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:28] <exec> 08└─I think what judges really understand, are the contracts they signed to keep a for-profit prison filled to near capacity.
[02:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:31] <exec> 08└─Install uBlock Origin in Tor Browser. This will make you slightly easier to deanonymize, but you won't get v& for downloading most kinds of number sequences. Remember: if two people across from you in the library start fighting, they're crisis actors trying to bait you into getting up to help while...
[02:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:33] <exec> 08└─At least the younger, healthier prisoners should be make to work for their keep.
[02:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:56] <exec> 08└─Expected behaviour is: 1) Joe User sticks USB into computer. 2) Joe User formats USB using Nautilus 3) Joe User can now write files to the USB he formatted two minutes ago. Instead Joe User is told that the USB is read only, and being just Joe User, is baffled. In other words, it's assumed that if f...
[02:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:58] <exec> 08└─I use flash drives with Openwrt/LEDE. Granted they’re little OSes, I’ve been going a few years on one of those disks.
[02:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:00] <exec> 08└─Probably not related but... Most USB drives are already formatted, and some have a small hidden partition. The first thing I do is wipe the partitions and reformat.
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:02] <exec> 08└─I don't see why it should be slow. You did scrub it didn't you?
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[03:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin to Provide Multiple Orbital Launches for Telesat - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar [wikipedia.org] Telstar is the name of various communications satellites. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first...
[03:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:05] <exec> 08└─Mexicans, Guatemalans, Brazilians, Jamaicans etc, etc, are all Americans.
[03:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:06] <exec> 08└─Still living up to your name I see. 1/ Neocons didn't fuck up education, that was the leftist 'everyone must be equal' program that screwed up all the smart kids.* 2/ US companies aren't screaming out for foreign workers, they are screaming out for lower wages and as any capitalist knows, the most r...
[03:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:08] <exec> 08└─why aren't foreign countries screaming out for American workers like America is screaming out for non-American workers? Is it perhaps because Americans are stupid and lazy
[03:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─In fairness, some of the Indian ones are probably better than [wikipedia.org] most of the Indian ones, too.
[03:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:13] <exec> 08└─Immigrants are willing to come into America because they will make more money here than they will in most of their home countries. There is also the huge potential of eventually gaining American citizenship. Americans going elsewhere will not commonly make more money elsewhere, nor is citizenship in...
[03:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:57] <exec> 08└─Of all the things Facebook is doing this has to be the least creepy of all. If somebody comes to me and says "Let me watch everything you do, and I'll pay you" then I know what the score is. It's up-front. It's clear. Yes - it involves children; well; teenagers actually - but a teenager is grown up...
[03:35:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:47] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that the answer to that problem is not to keep the judicial and prison systems more attractive than the street. How about some actual help for the (near-)homeless elderly ?
[03:36:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:02] <exec> 08└─> At least the younger, healthier prisoners should be make to work for their keep. Private US prisons do that very well. Using the Constitutional exception for the convicted, pad their bottom lines, while underpaying workers and therefore driving non-slave companies out of business. "Prevailing Wage...
[03:36:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:09] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure in most other species, the offspring don't take care of their parents in old age. More often than not, they come into direct competition with them. But I guess all you know how to do is fuck up the planet.
[03:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:44] <exec> 08└─it is tens of thousands of dollars cheaper to house _everybody_ then to provide services to the homeless or to keep them in jail.
[03:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:45] <exec> 08└─as fertilizer. Or, alternatively, go old school with green crackers....
[03:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:47] <exec> 08└─I think it's more insidious than that. They seem to want people who might fall prey to traps like drugs and crime to go ahead and fall, to get them into prison and out of society rather than trying to help them not fall prey in the first place. Sure, for profit prisons are a huge structural machine...
[03:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:24] <exec> 08└─There probably ought to be an amendment preventing any such dynasty from happening.
[03:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:26] <exec> 08└─Why didn't Soviets say anything?
[03:40:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:42] <exec> 08└─I have a 2MB SDCard from an ancient digital camera. My son puts it in his camera and complains that it only fits one photos on it before running out of space. He knew it was small, since the rest of my cards are like 32GB cards. I'm surprised it even worked at all in a modern camera. He nearly shat...
[03:40:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:46] <exec> 08└─Plus when you use fewer atoms to store the same amount of data, the atoms wear out faster and you end up with atom dust instead of storage media.
[03:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:17] <exec> 08└─It's possible to reprogram a flash drive so it looks like it has more space than it does. This is cheaper than actually making the drive bigger. When the drive tries to write to nonexistent space, it freaks out and dies or switches to read only mode. The cheap eBay stuff is most prone to this but it...
[03:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:19] <exec> 08└─USB3 is flakier than USB2, the connection is just not physically as good. Downgrading the connection to USB2 can revive a lot of USB devices. Also, it's often the port, not the device. Combine this with the RF problems and USB3 is just not a very reliable technology.
[03:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:21] <exec> 08└─Here's your problem with floppies, and possibly other removable media: http://www.mpc3000.com [mpc3000.com] Which is why I apply the NoVolTrack fix first thing on every fresh install... cuz I still use the odd floppy now and then.
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[04:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:46] <exec> 08└─Many places in FL are spread out, forcing you to use a vehicle instead of walking. Sidewalks may be non-existent.
[04:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:47] <exec> 08└─I have driven in every state on the East Coast(except Rhode Island) plus a few more ... Drivers in Florida are the absolute worst. Why? - Seniors who are too old to drive - Tourists who - - - Don't know where they are and fly across 4 lanes of traffic at the last minute - - - Are from foreign countr...
[04:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:47] <exec> 08└─Uh, wow, didn't expect such an in-depth analysis of a joke post referencing The Humanity Bureau and Soylent Green. I shall mod you interesting.
[04:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:11] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is my background, but I totally want to pronounce that Señor Hat.
[04:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:06] <exec> 08└─I donno, personally I'd err on the side of banning research into mind reading technology.
[04:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:22] <exec> 08└─A lot of the early USB3 stuff itself was also a bit flaky and didn't adhere well to the standard. Or in some cases in order to be quick on the market they weren't built using the final standard and it shows. Same thing happened with the original USB too, a lot of the stuff pre-iMac is pretty spotty....
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[05:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:48] <exec> 08└─Florida is the Belgium of the USA.
[05:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:50] <exec> 08└─Now I like to tease Florida like anyone else, but calling them Belgium??? The worst word in the galaxy? You monster! * apologies to any Belgians, it is a HHGTTG reference
[05:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:52] <exec> 08└─Filled with chocolate and beer? Mmmmm ....
[05:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:54] <exec> 08└─No, hitmen [imdb.com]
[05:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:20] <exec> 08└─There's no denying.
[05:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:21] <exec> 08└─There is also the huge potential of eventually gaining American citizenship.
[05:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:23] <exec> 08└─Previously, an initial lottery granted 20,000 visas only to those holding advanced degrees granted by U.S. institutions — master’s degrees or doctorates — and then a general lottery granted 65,000 visas to all qualified applicants.
[05:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:25] <exec> 08└─Except the white males in US, they are white trash first, Americans second.
[05:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:28] <exec> 08└─This means they start to prefer master and PhD degrees from foreign universities. The graduates are less likely to be saddled with study loans, thus able to accept lower wages.
[05:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:30] <exec> 08└─Worthless degrees abound from India, where cheating is a way of life.
[05:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:49] <exec> 08└─Chinese outfits lure you with YUGE YUGE sums of money for corporate secret/tech. You don't have to be Chinese, but maybe it helps.
[05:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:50] <exec> 08└─You didn't even answer the question. How is this propaganda? Medical rep gives lap dance to sell drugs, ooooh the brainwashing!
[05:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─So instead of doing the honorable thing and just hanging yourself or bashing your head on the wall you prefer to kill the cops? Eeesh, most likely you'll just get an ass kicking before the ass .. umm. ya you know
[05:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:07] <exec> 08└─Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
[05:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:09] <exec> 08└─-ts. Thanks! When I worked for Absolute Software in Vancouver BC - they make Lojack For Laptops, I expect they also made "Where's My iPhone" for Apple - they told me that THIRTY PERCENT OF LAPTOPS WIND UP STOLEN. However, that was in 2007. I expect it's a lot less, but I expect it's quite a lot _mor...
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[06:33:44] <exec> 08└─G L O B A L W A R M I N G
[06:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:45] <exec> 08└─You should have moved to Florida, the Belgium of the USA, like all the smart kids did. That's why Florida is the Belgium of the USA, up-to-the-brim full of smart kids. And crocs.
[06:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:48] <exec> 08└─I thought they're calling it "climate change" now to invalidate that argument.
[06:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:50] <exec> 08└─Americans are the only idiots who worry about wind chill. Russia is colder, but they probably don't even have an expression for it.
[06:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:52] <exec> 08└─and soon to be under water...
[06:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:04] <exec> 08└─If your'e too poor to drive, is your' life worth anything?
[06:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:06] <exec> 08└─That and snowy conditions, dangerous mountain roads...
[06:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:08] <exec> 08└─There should be a "Why can't we have both?" law of titles, on the line of Betteridge's.
[06:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─If intent matters, then many could be "neither"
[06:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:13] <exec> 08└─If you can't even punctuate, are your opinions of any value?
[06:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:22] <exec> 08└─AC was referring to how Dread Pirate Roberts (the silkroad founder) got busted.
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[07:33:50] <exec> 08└─G L O B A L   W A R M I N G [abc.net.au] There, I said it! January 2019 was Australia's hottest-ever month on record going all the way back to 1910, according to the monthly climate review released by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). It followed the hottest December on record for Australia —...
[07:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:52] <exec> 08└─C L I M A T E I S N O T W E A T H E R
[07:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:54] <exec> 08└─You can laugh at this two ways. One the one hand, we have the news blathering about how this has never, ever happened before. This despite the fact that it happens about one winter in three, and despite the fact that the -56 was "four degrees short of Minnesota’s all-time lowest temperature" - so...
[07:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 2826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─For all the idiots who think they're being clever by picking up a handful of snow and going "hurpaderp shore cud use summa that global warming, hyuk hyuk hyuk..." The planet, which is (near enough to) a globe, has a steadily-increasing net energy balance as a result of radiative forcing, mainly by g...
[07:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:58] <exec> 08└─So, no record maxima, but increasing averages [hamiltonproject.org] should have you worried.
[07:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:01] <exec> 08└─My high school friend Chris Bixler is now a long haul truck driver. He's heavily into photography. During a polar vortex a few years ago, he posted a photo of the Florida State Line sign in a snow-covered landscape. Now, I _do_ agree that Florida during that particular Climate Change Incident was li...
[07:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:03] <exec> 08└─This is a problem of philosophy (or politics) with bradley13, not science. The data don't fit his worldview, so they are ipso facto false and/or falsified. I have no idea what to do about people like this, or at least no ideas that don't involve a wood chipper.
[07:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:20] <exec> 08└─Car mania reached a peak in the 1950s and is still near it. It's just nuts the way people judge one another by their cars, and think cyclists and pedestrians are dirt. And it goes even further. Compact cars barely rate higher than pedestrians. There are a lot of rude drivers out there who are much m...
[07:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:22] <exec> 08└─It's worth the size of your universal basic income check. Currently $0.
[07:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:24] <exec> 08└─How Diverging Diamonds Keep You From Dying https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's time to enact some common sense regulation and ban these dangerous assault vehicles.
[07:34:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:42] <exec> 08└─Is their a degree higher than PhD because the H1B PhDs I’ve met barely meet the Masters criteria.
[07:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:58] <exec> 08└─If a white MAN can do the job, yes, preferably a white MAN.
[07:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:20] <exec> 08└─However, I never did think to ask her why she never suggested Ritalin. I'll drop her a dime to ask why. My blood pressure is arguably quite a lot higher due to my Difficulty With Task Initiation than would be the case with the 10 mg of Adderall I take twice daily. To actually get high with Adderall...
[07:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:40] <exec> 08└─The other day I read an article about the CEO of Mt. Gox. He was in solitary for I think a year. The article didn't say whether his cell was lit 24/7, but it did say that he was forced to sit up in a specific spot. If he fell asleep, the guards would always wake him back up. The accommodations might...
[07:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:41] <exec> 08└─Aww, you care about me :) Don't worry, that didn't abuse my SAN score hardly at all; I've seen such awful things that some random pissant on the intertubes doesn't even register. Again, my flaming retorts are for the benefit of anyone who might come by, see that giant floating Baby Ruth in the meme...
[07:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, this again. Yeah, yeah, "the $RACIAL_SLURS are outbreedin' us!" Has it occurred to you yet that a proper economic model, not even a post-scarcity one, would do an easy end-run around this whole problem? No, of course it didn't; you're marinated in zero-sum thinking because it justifies your no d...
[07:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:14] <exec> 08└─What about copyright?! The babies could be stealing movie lines and song lyrics! They must be a new tax on babies to compensate MAFIAA and perhaps some pennies for the artists.
[07:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the kind of thing an asshole would have on his luggage...
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[07:40:18] <exec> 08└─They're 9 months old and will have been learning for some of that time.
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[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─Either Telstra is really full of it (plausible), or they don't know how to hire. We're still picking up decent developers at $work. Then again, this place is a helluva lot nicer place to work than Telstra =)
[08:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:47] <exec> 08└─They probably eat curry now. I'd rather eat dragon meat!
[08:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:50] <exec> 08└─Dovahkiin?
[08:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─Telstra is LYING in an effort to make their behavior look less objectionable. This reminds me of a lowlife idiot I knew who committed adultery while his WIFE was 8 months pregnant. His "reasoning" was that since his wife didn't want to have sex he was forced to get sex from another woman. This is a...
[08:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:54] <exec> 08└─Some day you'll get yours.
[08:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:12] <exec> 08└─You say it like its a bad thing Truthfully, it isn't. A planet with temps on par with the PETM would be a tropical paradise even in the arctic and antarctic. Rainforests would be everywhere and you could skinny dip in the great lakes with out so much as a shiver. Coastal property values would reduce...
[08:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:14] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what to do about people like this
[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:16] <exec> 08└─Which is just fascinating, since this is supposed to be driven by global warming.
[08:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:18] <exec> 08└─Appears that the IRC server is frozen. Perhaps solid. Will wait until Spring, but if it has not thawed by then, perhaps the damage is irreparable.
[08:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:20] <exec> 08└─R A N D O M U S E O F L E T T E R S P A C I N G I S A N N O Y I N G
[08:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:23] <exec> 08└─so what do you do when ALL of central america wants to go to canada because they don't like starving or being killed by heatwaves and hurricanes? I assure you, a wall 30 m high would not stop them.
[08:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Betteridge [7289] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:44] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The answer to this headline's opening question is still a definite No.
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[08:35:19] <exec> 08└─3/ Racism has fuck all to do with it. Patriotism and nationalism maybe.
[08:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:03] <exec> 08└─Wow! You are so easily triggered! You see poor white trash with huge families also. High birth rates during hardship is perfectly natural. And prosperous countries are suffering low birth rates. Nothing "racial" about it. But since you brought it up, show me one non-white prosperous country! You sho...
[08:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:05] <exec> 08└─Some parts of it are attempting to, but they're not succeeding, hence the pushback :) So let me get this straight: your new strategy to stop me from calling out straining, steaming, grunting, stenching bullshit is to...what exactly? Feign concern for my health? Lie through your teeth about your incr...
[08:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:29] <exec> 08└─Seems to be a GUI for git rather than a version control system per se. I like and will probably use it, but it's just another frontend to git.
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[09:33:55] <exec> 08└─30% or more in potential savings [igniteoutsourcing.com] annual and even quarterly wages cost reductions earn management bonuses. code quality can tank, yet, so long as products ship close to expected dates, with even 10% of planned features, delivery bonuses are assured. tl;dr, once all our coders...
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:21] <exec> 08└─How is that different from today? People should be free to live anywhere they want to live productive law abiding lives and nations should welcome them whoever "they" are as a valued member of the tax base.
[09:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─Ocean acidification dooms Florida, the limestone [wikipedia.org] will dissolve [kobeemanatee.com] from under their feet (grin... or maybe not)
[09:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─Something something blah blah blah -- "The fact that the cold that used to be all over the planet is now it's freezing specific places out while it fries the rest is totally proof of global warming, isn't this obvious?" How come scientists can't take a little literary license and write stuff like th...
[09:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:47] <exec> 08└─You get what you vote for: Assault vehicles, Assault weapons, Assault politicians.
[09:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:08] <exec> 08└─They also collection information on non-useds (i.e. people who do not allow themselves to be used by Facebook) via shadow profiles. If you don't use a bunch of additional tools such as uMatrix, Facebook is still going to collect data about you. Not to mention, any data they do get will inevitably en...
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[09:38:10] <exec> 08└─Guess this is what happens when you decide to either not have kids or allow your family to degenerate to a point where you have nobody to take care of you when you are older.
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[10:34:07] <exec> 08└─G L O B A L   W A R M I N G [abc.net.au] There, I said it! January 2019 was Australia's hottest-ever month on record going all the way back to 1910, according to the monthly climate review released by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). It followed the hottest December on record for Australia —...
[10:34:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 2826 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:10] <exec> 08└─For all the idiots who think they're being clever by picking up a handful of snow and going "hurpaderp shore cud use summa that global warming, hyuk hyuk hyuk..." The planet, which is (near enough to) a globe, has a steadily-increasing net energy balance as a result of radiative forcing, mainly by g...
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[10:34:24] <exec> 08└─BU T RA N DOM U SE O F LETT E R SP A CIN G WO U LD LO OK LIK E T HI S!
[10:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:25] <exec> 08└─MYSPACEBARISNOTWORKINGWHILECAPSLOCKISQUITEWELLTHANKYOU.
[10:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:27] <exec> 08└─Not very 'global' though, is it?
[10:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:30] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile the chinese are building "ghost cities" all along their coasts and throughout africa to handle all the climate refuges they expect from inland and the north. Historically, chinese dynasties are overthrown during grand solar minima, so they are acutely aware of where famine strikes and the...
[10:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:53] <exec> 08└─people judge one another by their cars
[10:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:47] <exec> 08└─When your family or relatives live in China they also have other means of persuation.
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[10:36:52] <exec> 08└─current drug pusher
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[11:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:45] <exec> 08└─Who is writing emails to trees? Children and drunk/stoned people I hope.
[11:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:47] <exec> 08└─I talk to the trees But they don't listen to me I talk to the stars But they never hear me The breeze hasn't time To stop and hear what I say I talk to them all in vain
[11:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:49] <exec> 08└─Do they print them out and keep in them in a binder? Or would that be considered cruel and tree-cide (or whatever that word would be).
[11:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:51] <exec> 08└─Nobody here but us trees!
[11:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:53] <exec> 08└─I suppose it also has implications for the paperless office: do trees have to work from home?
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[11:34:12] <exec> 08└─I bet Indians are happy. I hope Aussies are too.
[11:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:44] <exec> 08└─In the case of the oceans, more CO2 in the atmosphere means more pressure of CO2 downward into the oceans, which is consuming the carbonate and shifting the buffer system from carbonate-bicarbonate to bicarbonate-CO2.
[11:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:46] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. Tropical paradise it may be, but not for humans and maybe not even for animals. There [wikipedia.org], this is how your paradise looks like [opb.org], with dead and rotting fishes [theguardian.com] for a starter.
[11:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:48] <exec> 08└─Neither global is the cold weather in US. Betcha that the end of 2019 will still show a higher annual average temperature over the whole world.
[11:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:50] <exec> 08└─That is exactly his point silly. Its cold in the US, warm in AU. Somewhere in between in Europe at the moment. But GLOBALLY it is going to be yet another too warm year.
[11:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:52] <exec> 08└─ˢᵗᵒᵖ ˢʰᵒᵘᵗᶦⁿᵍ!!!
[11:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:55] <exec> 08└─Do not forget the beavers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Basically unless the plan is to have a beaver holocaust they are going to triple atmospheric CO2.
[11:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:57] <exec> 08└─And this is Melbourne, with the long term average summer temperature of 25C-26C. So, yes, global warming.
[11:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:59] <exec> 08└─Building "ghost cities" along their coasts sounds counter-intuitive to me: I'd expect them to plan to move people away from there due to rising sea levels.
[11:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:01] <exec> 08└─Try WALLOPing it, see if that shakes the ice off.
[11:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:00] <exec> 08└─The primary goal of H1-Bs is to change the supply/demand dynamic of highly skilled positions. If you can increase the supply of qualified applicants for a position, you can pay them less.
[11:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:23] <exec> 08└─In this case he was Chinese. Just saying, to save people from reading TFA.
[11:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:34] <exec> 08└─that is a really good question. Why russkies preferred unmanned missions to the moon and shut up about america? but, if you think about it for a moment... - no, Ivan Ivanovski, this request from USSR is completely unacceptable under any circumstance! - will you let me speak with your President? you...
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[12:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:55] <exec> 08└─It doesn't even rhyme!
[12:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─Who is writing emails to trees?
[12:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:58] <exec> 08└─> tree-cide Arboricide Alas various internet dictionaries have not verbalised it yet, so it is a noun for now. The root (no pun intended) comes from latin - arbor (tree) and caedere (to kill),
[12:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:00] <exec> 08└─We're out fo'rest of the day, wood you like to leaf a message?
[12:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─Couldn't possibly care less. Their apallingly poor service lost me as a customer a long time ago.
[12:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:22] <exec> 08└─Chinese outsourcing?
[12:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:04] <exec> 08└─W oof!
[12:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:06] <exec> 08└─Just wait a little while for the average to catch up
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[12:35:08] <exec> 08└─They are preparing for a different climate change than you are thinking of, the colder temperatures that have accompanied the grand solar minima in the past.
[12:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:10] <exec> 08└─Depends on the coast really. There are plenty of places where the land rises fairly steeply. Not saying I know anything about where the chinese are building cities, but just being close to the ocean doesn't necessarily mean you will go under if the water rises.
[12:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:12] <exec> 08└─None of which were caused by warmer temps. Most of these mass die offs are the result of nitrate and fertilizer run off from large scale commercial farming operations. Take a look around you at any place that gets both warmer and wetter, tell me about things that actually die, there are a few, frank...
[12:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:15] <exec> 08└─Most of these mass die offs are the result of nitrate and fertilizer run off from large scale commercial farming operations.
[12:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:40] <exec> 08└─With cell phone use and everybody nose down in their phones these days... when it comes to distracted drivers vs distracted pedestrians, it's usually the pedestrian that comes up short.
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[12:36:16] <exec> 08└─We need outside help...
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[12:36:18] <exec> 08└─That would be true if naming conventions in the English language made sense. Unfortunately...
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[13:33:50] <exec> 08└─>...simply by the distinctive shape of its border 2019 still mentioning borders??? All that Soros money is going to waste on your bigoted minds. BTW elements should not be labeled, they should choose by themselves what to identify in. You also missed the movie about helium not being content with his...
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[13:33:51] <exec> 08└─Gold, even.
[13:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:53] <exec> 08└─Gold is just an odd lead.
[13:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:09] <exec> 08└─+1 Please Don't
[13:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:17] <exec> 08└─In the 2000s or 2010s, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota matched records that had been set earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:43] <exec> 08└─Man, I love that flick. Every time this guy [imdb.com] shows up in a movie and someone asks "Who is that?" I'm always answering "It's the Canadian." I get a lot of WTF looks. My social circle has no taste in movies.
[13:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:45] <exec> 08└─Cars don't kill people...BUMPer STOCK cars kill people.
[13:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:47] <exec> 08└─Just south of Disney I saw a bumper sticker on an old pick-up with a gun rack, that said, "If they call it the Tourist Season, why can't we shoot them?" FYI Most dangerous vehicle in Central Florida, a rental mini van fully loaded with kids and luggage and an exhausted driver liable to turn left or...
[13:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:49] <exec> 08└─Come to Italy and your idea on cyclists will change. They are indeed the worst. Worse than scooters, worse than, dare I say it, old ladies in SUVs. - no lights - proceed in pairs which is not allowed here under any circumstance - don't use the designated lanes because hey the car lane looks more com...
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[13:36:28] <exec> 08└─"1/ Neocons didn't fuck up education, that was the leftist 'everyone must be equal' program that screwed up all the smart kids.*" AND the conservatives squeezing all the money OUT of the schools. --Who needs class sizes under 40 students per teacher. That's just idiotic! What they should do is force...
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[13:37:56] <exec> 08└─Welcome to America, land of the free (if you can afford it)
[13:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:57] <exec> 08└─I think that she was. FTFA: > [Sales directory] Lee, a former stripper, had no experience in the pharmaceutical industry before working at Insys, prosecutors noted... Brown recalled ... “She [Lee] was sitting on his lap, kind of bouncing around, and he had his hands all over her chest.’’
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[14:33:58] <exec> 08└─> Year of the Periodic Table Funny, they call it Year of the pig [wikipedia.org].
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:15] <exec> 08└─Dear Tree, I can see you outside my window at the asylum. Regards, Napoleon
[14:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genes Behind Lager Yeast's Cold- and Sugar-Loving Success Revealed - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─Isn't it kinda racist to assume genetics could have any impact on performance or behavior? I mean, every scientist knows that those yeast behaviors are a mere social construct of the observer and don't really exist outside the minds of racists. What if one of the cold loving yeasts identified as a b...
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[14:34:39] <exec> 08└─Companies like this can't shrivel up and die quick enough.
[14:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile the chinese are building "ghost cities" all along their coasts and throughout africa to handle all the climate refuges they expect from inland and the north.
[14:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:30] <exec> 08└─The late 1970's called. They want their "Florida will be underwater in a decade." prediction back.
[14:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─You can be blind as a bat in one eye and not able to see out of the other and there will still be a doctor that will give you a driver's license waiver for eyesight in Florida.
[14:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:40] <exec> 08└─The U.S. is #2 in the world [oecd.org] in spending on education and has been in the top 3 for as long as I can remember. Why should we give the schools a thin dime more when they completely waste what we give them?!
[14:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:04] <exec> 08└─Ze might not necessarily identify as Chinese; you can't presume these things. Next you'll tell me ze is "male" without any evidence to back that up either.
[14:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:32] <exec> 08└─> And here's the rub: there is little practical difference between teenagers and adults of lesser intellectual stature. I make no ethical statement but legally a teenager is considered to have a "protected" status e.g. they are not permitted to drive, it is illegal to sell weapons etc to teenagers....
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:33] <exec> 08└─Governments are reigned in by giving them less money and power, not more.
[14:39:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:26] <exec> 08└─as fertilizer. Or, alternatively, go old school with green crackers....
[14:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:39] <exec> 08└─It's two sides of the same coin as they say... Judges *have* been caught literally selling children to prisons (ie, the "kids for cash scandal": https://en.wikipedia.org)...this [wikipedia.org] increases their own personal power by giving them more wealth. At the same time...
[14:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:41] <exec> 08└─I've got 2 kids who are going to be dependent (in differing degrees) on the social support systems when we die - all else being equal, they're going to have 40 years or so where we can't directly support them, and 30 years or so when we're just dead... There's no way in hell (barring a large lottery...
[14:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:43] <exec> 08└─The hick town I lived in from 2006 to 2013 has judges, police, commissioners, and school board officials who are the children and grandchildren of publicly outed KKK leaders from the early 1900s, when the KKK more or less ran the town openly hostile to catholics, jews, blacks, hispanics, asians, you...
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[15:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga, Using Trial and Error - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:46] <exec> 08└─"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga, Using Trial and Error - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─.... even if it is really cool .... :P
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga, Using Trial and Error - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─If they perfect this one, I'm staying in politics. Because that was a big part of my old job. Making the tallest most beautiful building -- with the least materials.
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 1692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─Andy Liveris of Dow Chemical, and from Dow Chemical -- tremendous guy. I love that guy, very dearly. Very dearly. Dow gave a million bucks so my Inauguration could be the biggest, and best ever. They’ve given us plenty of money. You know what? When they need something from me a month later, two mo...
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[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─Let's build a wall around those distinctive borders! It shall be a great wall, tremendous, the best that has ever been seen. It shall keep out all those subatomic immigrants which only want to rape all the good element, although some I assume are good particles. We have to protect our Gold, Silver,...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─I voted for Trump... This asshole that keeps posting here with a POTUS name needs to be banned.
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Hydrogen has already decided it was assigned to be a nonmetal and has transitioned to be a metallic element in the table.
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─How does the table capture the essence of biology?
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:27] <exec> 08└─hey now, the apple doesnt fall far from the tree, especially when inbred or made as a frankenstein contraption of outsourced contractors with white executives at the top demanding stone fruit from a pear tree. or was it they were stoned. what was the question
[15:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:51] <exec> 08└─what matters is that when they came and took the jews, i didn't do anything, because I wasnt jewish. that is the most direct and perhaps inappopriate example, but the context applies. doing nothing because you don't care may very well mean no one will care about you either. when they come to take yo...
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─https://electroverse.net/grand-solar-minimums-and-the-fall-of-empires-a-great-crash-looms/ [electroverse.net]
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─I swear, Canada is 10x worse than the US when it comes to windchill. The media knows that reporting a windchill of -40C will be much more dramatic than reporting the ambient temperature -25C so they go with the windchill. Then everyone runs around screaming 'It's -40C outside'. Then when you try to...
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:46] <exec> 08└─That said, wind chill is likely a better predictor for frostbite than temperature.
[15:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:03] <exec> 08└─If you can't even punctuate, are your opinions of any value?
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─This is just generally true of much of the United States. The places it isn't true are exceptions.
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/spending-on-tertiary-education.htm#indicator-chart [oecd.org] You spend 35.2% of education money on public schools. You spend 64.8% of education money on private schools. Hmmm... why are the poor less educated than the rich? And why do the rich stay rich and the poo...
[15:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:22] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of very smart, very hard working people coming from some of those countries. We don't make those in the USA anymore, so it's tempting to take the risk with some of them. Education here has been decimated to allow the students to pass the tests, but learn little more. That's why ketch...
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:33] <exec> 08└─Because the healthcare providers are not at fault for the opioid crisis, maybe????? Maybe if you were the one in genuine chronic or extreme pain you'd be grateful for a little relief from it. Maybe providers don't push opiates unless someone is in chronic or extreme pain or is immediately expected t...
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[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─It is strange they had him as interim for so long and just now made it "permanent". I could see that they mislead customers/investors too much regarding "10 nm" and now are in danger if they reveal that to any outsiders.
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:14] <exec> 08└─Hell no, that guy is magnificent, whoever he is. You know he's not an AI because he always posts minutiae relevant to the discussion. And for obvious reasons, I do enjoy me some informative trolls.
[16:34:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─We're out fo'rest of the day, wood you like to leaf a message?
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─Trees are more intelligent than Abbos, so that makes sense.
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:59] <exec> 08└─You have alternatives?
[16:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:01] <exec> 08└─You need to elect someone who will slap tariffs on India for trade imbalances and the unfair trade practice of dumping IT talent
[16:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:03] <exec> 08└─Population Australia: 25,238,000 => 1200 software engineers. Or 47 SEs per million per year Population India: 1,324,171,354 => 44000 software engineers. Or 33 SEs per million per year So yeah, obviously India gets more Software Engineers, may I also suggest to their board of directors that India a...
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─For those going outside naked.
[16:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─If the Indian education system churns out Doctorates and Masters in a manner similar to this https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] style of learning, accrediation, and validation of skills, then I fear that Americans have been doing it wrong all these years! I mean... my parents gr...
[16:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:10] <exec> 08└─Argh it didn't log me in. Well. let it be known I thought that picture in the first link is classic; it's an old article but I still am amazed by it! My high chool wouldn't let us even listen to a transistor radio, let alone cds or tapes or anything pre-recorded, nor books or anything at all, and an...
[16:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:13] <exec> 08└─It doesn't just hurt Americans, it hurts everyone with the skill in question across the globe.
[16:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─Meh, I'm personally in favor of demanding performance if you want state money (which I'm not in favor of to begin with). If your local school is doing a shitty job compared to similar districts, damned right they shouldn't get more money. They should either be closed down or everyone employed by the...
[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:17] <exec> 08└─Apt nick.
[16:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:19] <exec> 08└─you know that "protect and serve" slogan from the police? well you can either "protect and serve the regular guy" -> that makes you a peace officer ... OR ... you can " protect and serve the powers t that be" -> that makes you an enforcement officer most police officers these days are the latter, th...
[16:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:57] <exec> 08└─I've been told by a friend that even Chomsky doesn't believe in his transformational grammars any more as describing how the brain works. Furthermore, he isn't the original discoverer of transformational grammar. That was the guy who wrote down the grammar of Sanskrit several thousand hears ago. He...
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[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─Link to academic paper does not work.
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:56] <exec> 08└─I think the reporting was published before the DOI was activated.
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─A bean counter, just what they need to come back as a technological innovator. "improving execution and aggressive capturing addressable markets using ambigous technologies."
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─This feels like the CEO search failed. It took 7 months to ultimately give the job to the guy already doing it. He also previously told employees at an All-Hands that he didn't want the job. In the last 7 months investors have waited patiently for news on new products: specifically the release of th...
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─He's not too old. And not too young. He's going very far, because he knows Financial. I really think that Financial is the future of Computer. And frankly, of everything. Our government is now doing Computer Payroll. Where the Computer writes the checks. I said, we're sending out so many checks, rig...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─That's not a very satisfying explanation. I think they just saw him as a safe choice, and he will be deferring to others that Intel has hired, some poached from AMD: https://www.marketwatch.com [marketwatch....
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─Intel poached some big names from AMD recently, including Raja Koduri [soylentnews.org] and Jim Keller [wikipedia.org] (the guy behind Zen, actually poached from Tesla). It seems fine to have the finance guy running the show with some massive legends in charge of the technical aspects. Time will tel...
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─Didn't that Raja heavily over-promise and under-deliver at AMD? Then start playing the blame game for the failure? That is what I have heard, but no idea if it is accurate.
[17:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga, Using Trial and Error - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:28] <exec> 08└─I always prefered Mohiam's version. "Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind."
[17:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:05] <exec> 08└─That would be in poor taste. I mean, how would you like it, if someone started printing out letters to you on paper made from human skin? Even, if they only used skin from humans that had died naturally. That would be very disturbing.
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─These statements always omit the second half: "lack of programmers available" .. at the price point we want to pay. I'm sure there are plenty of skilled programmers in Aussieland. They just are not able to work full time at 1/5th the pay; the rate that these companies can offer to Indian citizens an...
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:29] <exec> 08└─OK. Global warming. That doesn't translate into evenly spread global warming, or local warming. When the jet stream slows down because the arctic is warmer that it used to be, the barriers to arctic air flowing south weaken, causing "polar vortex", i.e. polar air at polar temperature, to spill south...
[17:36:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:37] <exec> 08└─I have driven in every state on the East Coast(except Rhode Island) plus a few more ... Drivers in Florida are the absolute worst. Why? - Seniors who are too old to drive - Tourists who - - - Don't know where they are and fly across 4 lanes of traffic at the last minute - - - Are from foreign countr...
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:02] <exec> 08└─Case in point: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] FYI ^^ Is Sarcasm. Love me some Red Skelton.
[17:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─Please name these few more non-existent states on the E. Coast.
[17:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─In every endeavor ever conceived of or will ever be conceived of, if you mix ease of access and lack of accountability to guarantee disaster. Comprehensive, difficult, and regular skills tests, combined with real penalties would solve the death problem. However, it would be economically undesirable....
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[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─I would argue, that it may not hurt those in developing countries. Sure, it may eventually turn into a negative, but I'm thinking right now it's not. In fact, all this outsourcing to India could be extremely helpful to the local population. It sure isn't helpful for the American populace, though. It...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:53] <exec> 08└─But if you knock something to the bottom and then start judging it from there, you will get bottom results. If the school system got funding like the private system, they would be able to vet and hire better teachers, have smaller class sizes, get the 'slower' or 'problem' kids a '''separate but equ...
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[17:37:55] <exec> 08└─AND, we need more of this: http://www.swanson.school.nz [school.nz] https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Kids actually playing in the school yard, NOT standing around bored and filled with frantic energy when they go back into the classroom.
[17:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─If doctors just blindly believe whatever a pharmaceutical rep tells them then they should be replaced by algorithms. There is really no other point to a doctor.
[17:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:01] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that Orange Roughy said that we need more refugees from Norway (and more Eastern European Models, of course).
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[18:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Because now they will be CRISPR.
[18:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:56] <exec> 08└─Though it's slightly more expensive, and least we don't have to put up with this bullshit. I'll gladly pay an extra 10 cents/banana and let the rest of the country be GMO guinea pigs. (I refer, of course, to USDA Organic regulations)
[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:58] <exec> 08└─I don't usually put my bananas in the crisper. I leave them on the counter at room temperature.
[18:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─Except that you're not going to have that choice. Cavendish bananas are going extinct due to TR4, just like the Gros Michels did ~60 years ago. Severe disease vulnerability is one of the big risks of a monoculture after all, made all the worse when the pretty much the entire population is clones. Fa...
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─He'll end up promoting his ilk in the entire organization, which will then go to the pigs.
[18:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─Auzzies been licking too many toads
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:03] <exec> 08└─But it does have rhythm.
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:05] <exec> 08└─The Government gave a bunch of trees official E-mail addresses so that people could report on the status (downed limbs, infections, etc.). People said "hey! A tree with an E-mail address? I'll write to it!". Letters include: Dear Rose Gum, Over the past year I have cycled by you each day and want yo...
[18:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings [wikipedia.org]
[18:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:10] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of abos, but they can't into komputah.
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:38] <exec> 08└─That's a bad analogy because the jews are obviously behind outsourcing.
[18:35:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─This is a problem of philosophy (or politics) with bradley13, not science. The data don't fit his worldview, so they are ipso facto false and/or falsified. I have no idea what to do about people like this, or at least no ideas that don't involve a wood chipper.
[18:35:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:59] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what to do about people like this
[18:36:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 837 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:33] <exec> 08└─OK. Global warming. That doesn't translate into evenly spread global warming, or local warming. When the jet stream slows down because the arctic is warmer that it used to be, the barriers to arctic air flowing south weaken, causing "polar vortex", i.e. polar air at polar temperature, to spill south...
[18:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─you are the idiot leaving all the industrial capitalism fuckups out of your clever wall of text. Well you and the retard who moded you 5: informative
[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:37] <exec> 08└─i spent enough winters in Chicago to know that, while the exact number can be debated, the 10MPH wind is what transforms an uncomfortable temperature into a scared-for-your-toes EL platform wait...
[18:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:39] <exec> 08└─> you could skinny dip in the great lakes with out so much as a shiver. Two things: - People swim in the great lakes without shivering already, despite the fact that their bathing suits have no thermal effect - In most places, regardless of temps, skinny-dipping in the great lakes will get you a fin...
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─I only got a fairly mild dose here in northern Ohio: we were down to -5F or so at night, +10F during the day or so. This wasn't even the worst one in recent years - a few years back it was at something like -15F. But no, this didn't used to be normal, and in fact is exactly what was predicted by tho...
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Thus judging them vs their peers.
[18:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─That ain't no shit.
[18:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:10] <exec> 08└─Outsourcing is the opposite of what's being done with H1-B. You're harming India by taking their best and brightest and harming America by depressing wages. Putting data centers or what not in India is actually a good idea for both nations. It provides cheaper services for the US population and/or f...
[18:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:16] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, as for me, my wife is disabled and has been for 15 years, I will likely die at work. An uncovered emergency surgery for me a few years ago means I'm still several years from paid off on it. So that pretty well wiped out my savings. Like you I hope to be able to save enough to retire for a fe...
[18:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:17] <exec> 08└─Does anyone in government actually listen to Orange Roughy (great name, old fish that live out of touch with the rest of the world) when he's spouting non-sequitors like that? How many refugees leave Norway every year?
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[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:46] <exec> 08└─What's the size of the pores as compared to bacterium? Seems like a great apartment building for a colony of something.
[19:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─You mean it weighs 20-25% of what the original did?
[19:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─If you understand what was said, why ask for clarification?
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─Article author here, we simply delight in searching references to our work so we can see the confusion. High level trolling if you will.
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:04] <exec> 08└─Or maybe specialty growers will continue to provide it, but at a higher price. Commercially unviable does not mean extinct. And even widespread, devastating pests can be avoided. Consider Phylloxera, which Australia has managed to avoid with prudent quarantines while every vineyard in Europe was (an...
[19:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:06] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, they'll start marketing "organically grown GMO bananas" next.
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't count on that. If it were that simple, do you think we'd be having all those issues and concern? Probably not. And if it's not commercially viable, then why bother? There are many types of bananas out there, it's just that most of the aren't produced in the kind of massive quantities that...
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─I prefer inorganic fruits and vegetables.
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─...or whatever the next, probably considerably less appetizing, breed of bananas ends up being. So true! Cavendish were considered trash bananas before all the Gros Michels died out.
[19:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─Then why all the trouble to preserve trash? Or, if humans will happily consume trash, why bother preserving the good stuff?
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga, Using Trial and Error - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:38] <exec> 08└─Are you able to play Jenga, sir?
[19:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:55] <exec> 08└─Your support really nails it, BAN THE TROLL!
[19:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:57] <exec> 08└─Suck my dick, nigger. Yes, get on your knees, scumbag.
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─Like this? The elements themselves are produced by a complex chain of stellar nucleosynthesis processes,
[19:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─You think writing emails to trees is weird? People got death threats over Spruce vs. Cedar... Others tuck their dead trees with a warm blanket before going to sleep or even take it to bed with them. And lets not forget the rumored Catalonia vs. Madrid riots that apparently started when a German stud...
[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genes Behind Lager Yeast's Cold- and Sugar-Loving Success Revealed - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─You should put your straw men away and talk with some of us actual humans.
[19:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:57] <exec> 08└─I don't know why I threatened myself, guess I really do deserve to be punished.
[19:36:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─BU T RA N DOM U SE O F LETT E R SP A CIN G WO U LD LO OK LIK E T HI S!
[19:36:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─In the case of the oceans, more CO2 in the atmosphere means more pressure of CO2 downward into the oceans, which is consuming the carbonate and shifting the buffer system from carbonate-bicarbonate to bicarbonate-CO2.
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:58] <exec> 08└─I don't know who troll-modded you. This would work. Given that most of the country seems to be about on the level of a kid's show with all the "mad scientist" props anyway, this may very well be what's needed to bring it to their attention and make it stick.
[19:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─Yyyyyyup. I know all about all of these, having done earth science way back in college (useless, it was). Knowing all of this is like the climate change equivalent of being able to read the Necronomicon and understand fully what it means, while everyone else goes about blissfully unaware of what's s...
[19:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:02] <exec> 08└─... in parts of the midwest beer cannot be delivered b/c it would freeze in the truck. Won't somebody think of the ales, lagers, stouts, porters, malts, bocks, pales, pilsners, and wheats?!?
[19:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─exactly what was predicted by those egghead climatologists
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─Average(20 20 20 20 20)=20. Average(21 1 41 21 21)=21.
[19:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:08] <exec> 08└─mean(c(21, 1, 41, 21, 21)^2) = 601 mean(c(21, 1, 41, 21, 21))^2 = 441
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─Some of us have a direct perception that circumvents all the math. We are keenly waiting to be proven right/wrong.
[19:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:13] <exec> 08└─I commend you for tirelessly making this rebuttal. Most of the people advancing the argument you're addressing are not acting in good faith. They know their reasoning is fallacious and not even superficially plausible to an educated person--they don't care. It's some combination of trolling, disinte...
[19:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:15] <exec> 08└─As the values become more uniform, the two results converge: mean(c(20, 20, 20, 20, 20))^2 = 400 mean(c(20, 20, 20, 20, 20)^2) = 400 Of relevance here, temperature scales with the 4th root of radiative power: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─It's some combination of trolling, disinterest, nihilism, and cynical self-interest that compels them to spread this nonsense.
[19:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:18] <exec> 08└─I'm generally not a fan of ink. Certainly not for myself, and I don't even like to see it on other... but the first thought that came into my head is that this scene is just begging to be tattoo flash.
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[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─It dulled my drill bit I could not bend it either I have a couple pieces of sheet that were given to me by an Air Force machinist It looks just like sheet aluminum. Last I mentioned this here someone ask “How did they form it into sheets?”
[20:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─It's also just as corrosive/explosive... You charge your prosthetic in an acid bath?
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─VICE did a bit on bananas, and one shown was completely brown, and delicious, when ripe. The brown was a problem, as consumers have been educated to only buy yellow bananas. There are varieties which are also green when ripe, and those too are being cast aside for the same reason.
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be "Thank the Earth Mother for organic"?
[20:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:15] <exec> 08└─If poorly trained consumers are the problem, "off-color" varieties could still be grown for processed foods such as smoothies [campbells.com], breads, ice cream, baby food, etc. [shape.com]
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─Could work as a strategy - get some real top tech and let the finances get the direction. He was instrumental in poaching the top tech, and that ain't nothing.
[20:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:01] <exec> 08└─The abundance of heavy elements tell us that we are the products of a supernova Iron is the most stable element. Energy was lost by making everything heavier
[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genes Behind Lager Yeast's Cold- and Sugar-Loving Success Revealed - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─He should start small and talk to the yeast.
[20:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genes Behind Lager Yeast's Cold- and Sugar-Loving Success Revealed - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:39] <exec> 08└─Those yeast are doing something useful. Why punish them like that?
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─Stupid bird come in! (no not you this time TMB) I'm sure there are plenty of dead crows after that cold spell, get to eating PhoenixDumDumDum!
[20:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:14] <exec> 08└─Oh we're thinking. Let us know where we can hork some free beer.
[20:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:16] <exec> 08└─Have we Americans forgotten that boots, scarves, gloves, hats and coats exist for a reason?
[20:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─also lots of records elsewhere [smh.com.au]
[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, someone who didn't experience it ! We're talking about temperatures at which the question is whether you can change your clothes when you get to work, because to stand outside waiting for a train/bus, you need at least two layers of pants (preferably ski ones), and some seriously padded shoes an...
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe for prisoners or army grunts who can't choose what to wear. And if you're riding a bike or scooter, the airspeed has little to do with the wind.
[20:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─You know, I don't remember hearing from A ark or C ark lately?
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:28] <exec> 08└─The data in the list misleading. 1) The data is listed state wide. I live in California, we have Death Valley. You can set thousands of local heat records and never beat the highs from Death Valley. 2) Some meteorologists dispute the accuracy of these early records. 3) Many records have been set for...
[20:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:03] <exec> 08└─Florida loves development. Hates spending on infrastructure. So you get lots of roads with no sidewalks and with no shoulder. And to make it even better the roads often have drainage ditches very close to the road bed. So pedestrians, bikes and scooters have no place safe to be.
[20:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 734 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:24] <exec> 08└─Why? Americans, that is to say people born here, are falling behind in just about every metric you can think of, from math to science to reading and so on. We need outside help as much as possible to make up for the complete failure of the education system stateside which has been completely steamro...
[20:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:56] <exec> 08└─Backatcha bird brain =P
[20:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:57] <exec> 08└─And, INCREASE is exactly what they are doing: The department said the rule change will result in an estimated increase of up to 16 percent in the number of H-1B visa holders.. If you were hoping Trump was going to decrease the amount of H1-B visa holders then he is now doing the opposite.
[20:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:59] <exec> 08└─You sound like a Trump supporter. How do you feel about the fact that this change is INCREASING the amount of H1-B visa holders by 16 percent?
[20:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:52] <exec> 08└─If I were trump, I would kneecap the H1-B and other similar programs immediately. Meanwhile, back here in reality, Trump proposes to INCREASE H1-Bs [msn.com] The proposal is designed to increase the number of H-1B beneficiaries by 16 percent, or 5,340 more workers.
[20:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:37] <exec> 08└─"I'll drop her a dime to ask why." Errr, you have to supply drugs for simple questions and answers??
[20:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:39] <exec> 08└─If I knew then what I know now I would have gone to med school!
[20:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:41] <exec> 08└─?? A doctor getting a lap dance? Who would want that tattooed on themselves?
[20:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:14] <exec> 08└─Seems I've got myself a new fanboi~ You do! I like you a lot! You're really funny, and so contradictory! You hate the truth for its presentation, a pair of brown shoes in a world of tuxedos.
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[21:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:49] <exec> 08└─It is a CIA program to search out potential psychics. DO NOT THINK ABOUT WHAT LED UP TO THE CRASH!
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:51] <exec> 08└─I feel that reading this comment has made me lose control of my mind, am I being assimilated?
[21:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:53] <exec> 08└─Literally who?
[21:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Clyde_Bruckman%27s_Final_Repose [fandom.com]
[21:34:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 488 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:18] <exec> 08└─Except that you're not going to have that choice. Cavendish bananas are going extinct due to TR4, just like the Gros Michels did ~60 years ago. Severe disease vulnerability is one of the big risks of a monoculture after all, made all the worse when the pretty much the entire population is clones. Fa...
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when they can make a banana split!
[21:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:30] <exec> 08└─Then why all the trouble to preserve trash?
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Interim CEO Robert Swan Becomes Full-Time CEO - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:47] <exec> 08└─Fine by me. This is a fitting karmic death for what they did to AMD in the late 20th and very early 21st century. I can't think of a better way for that company to die than the equivalent of intestinal obstruction and toxic megacolon.
[21:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga, Using Trial and Error - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:59] <exec> 08└─Does the robot know it is wasting its time? Sounds like most people today...
[21:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:20] <exec> 08└─Tom Lehrer's Elements [youtube.com] Or, an updated one [youtube.com]
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Send Email to Trees in Australia - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─I didn't write it... Take it up with Alan Lerner.
[21:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genes Behind Lager Yeast's Cold- and Sugar-Loving Success Revealed - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:00] <exec> 08└─You. Are. Obsessed. Every single goddamn thread that even looks remotely related to anything to do with genetics or DNA, you come in and shit all over it. We get it, you're a "scientific" racist. You have so very little to say that saying it once was enough. We all know what you think.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─what matters is that when they came and took the jews, i didn't do anything, because I wasnt jewish. that is the most direct and perhaps inappopriate example, but the context applies. doing nothing because you don't care may very well mean no one will care about you either...
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know the GP's source, but I got the same info from the Scientific American. Only a couple of years ago, but they weren't reporting on new research, but telling people about old established results.
[21:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:44] <exec> 08└─Can you find it online?
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:46] <exec> 08└─If they’re making the same uninformed point *against* global warming, certainly.
[21:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by "against"? It is fine to take warm weather as evidence for global warming but not cold weather?
[21:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:25] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world is not much better. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (in 2013) Bangladesh: 21,316 Brazil: 46,935 China: 261,367 India: 238,562 etc
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─Yep. My experience is from going through the border for Canada. When they ask for citizenship, "American" is a non-starter.
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─It's usually the case that immigrants are above average for the population they come from. You've immediately eliminated those too sick, unmotivated, low intelligence, etc, etc to make the trip. There are of course exceptions. (Changed the title because Nagas are pretty cool and letting them immigra...
[21:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:03] <exec> 08└─You're a little behind the times. All 50 states now allow providers to eprescribe Schedule II-V medications [pharmacist.com]. However in many cases the added security and software to do so is of a sufficient enough cost that the provider finds it easier to still require paper refills - nothing yet s...
[21:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:36] <exec> 08└─Except none of that is true...? Aside from the funny part; I've inherited my mother's sarcasm. Now, you can keep trying to troll me, and I can just ignore you and/or keep dropping -1s on you, if you like. Orrrr you can go find like, literally anything else more productive to do, but who am I kidding...
[21:42:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 868 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:54] <exec> 08└─Git the software isn't the same thing as Gitlab/Github the websites and businesses. Git the software was designed from its beginning to be easily hosted by just about anybody. Setting up your own git repo server is quite doable, taking up something like an hour or two at most of a mediocre admin's (...
[21:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:38] <exec> 08└─It's all due to DannyB's Law Of Conservation Of Political Correctness and Logic, which simply states that: The amount of logic in a statement multiplied by the amount of political correctness in that statement always remain constant. You can trade political correctness for logic, and vice versa, but...
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[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─Seems to me the components would cost more than $149. Am I missing something?
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─Allwinner ARM chips are cheap as fuck, and the rest of the specs aren't really top of the line either. If Amazon can sell a 7-inch tablet for $50, $150 seems believable for this.
[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─Pine64 had announced the phone a few months ago and now the company is ready with the prototypes and plans to ship development kits in Q1 2019. [...] Pine64 aims to provide physical switches through this phone to allow users to disable or enable the wireless components, cameras, and speaker for priv...
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─I have a Pine64 and it's a great single board computer. The video performance isn't all that bad. It can run a modern browser fairly well compared to other single board ARM computers.
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─That that date was "the day the music died" in the song "American Pie" by Don McLean. And the three men I admire most The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─Tour buses, traveling 300-plus miles on a given night through the frozen rural Midwest, broke down often, leaving the musicians sick and frostbitten.
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─Like as in elemental titanium? "pure" titanium? Because wikipedia lists that tensile strength as 63,000, and plain old fucking oak at 77,000.
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─This paper describes a nickel-based cellular material, which has the strength of titanium and the density of water. The material’s strength arises from size-dependent strengthening of load-bearing nickel struts whose diameter is as small as 17 nm and whose 8 GPa yield strength exceeds that of...
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:26] <exec> 08└─Titanium is formed by sintering, rather than casting or forging. So it is more akin to ceramics than traditional metalworking. So now we are going to have wooden metals? It is not all that surprising, since some cultures have had fifth elements, in addition to the normal Greek "Earth, Air, Fire and...
[22:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:50] <exec> 08└─, the Cavendish can be picked more unripe and will have a relatively long storage life They are stored unripe under gas, and then when required, immersed in a different gas to ripen them. If you put your ripe bananas next to unripe avocados, the gas will ripen the avocados in hours. They will, of co...
[22:35:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga, Using Trial and Error - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
[22:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:40] <exec> 08└─Courtesy of the Trump speech generator... https://trump-speech-generator.herokuapp.com [herokuapp.com] People always ask me about Ethanol-fueled, It's fantastic. Let me tell you about Ethanol-fueled. I do very well with Ethanol-fueled. I love Ethanol-fueled. No one loves Ethanol-fueled more than me...
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─Q E D
[22:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019: International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements  - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─Nitpick - energy was used not lost.
[22:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:47] <exec> 08└─You have alternatives [to telstra]?
[22:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:55] <exec> 08└─I don't mind paying more tax, but I really think that tax should be based on disposable income rather than total income.
[22:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:56] <exec> 08└─Well, see, that's the thing, you came to me, not the other way around, You could have ignored me, but you didn't, so who's the "fanboi"? Did the rant make you feel better?
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[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─My guess is the Librem folks are going after a higher point in the phone market, while the PinePhone is targeting the low end only. Functional, but low end on specs, features, etc. The higher you try to hit in the phone market the more competitive, fast changing and expensive it gets. Especially for...
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─My guess is they aren't guaranteeing open hardware/software, just that it runs linux and has physical switches.
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─Not at all. you can buy decent Chinese phones all day long for ~200 so 150 and cut the margin a bit, more than doable.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Been looking at Android phones this week, and the choices are not inspiring. I want a phone that uses a SIM card, can be or is unlocked, has a removable battery, doesn't cost more than $300 (really, over $200 is too much), has okay performance, and for which there is an acceptable alternative OS suc...
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458270/you-can-if-you-must-run-windows-7-on-an-android-wear-smartwatch [theinquirer.net]
[23:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:03] <exec> 08└─"How are they doing this for so much cheaper and faster than the Librem 5?" According to to picture in TFA, they forgo li-Ion batteries for 2 AAA batteries.
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-BlackBerry-Passport-32GB-Black-AT-T-SQW100-3-GSM-GLOBAL-UNLOCKED/183619321960?hash=item2ac0908068:g:VZ8AAOSwfshbE8OX:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true [ebay.com] I use the Priv personally or the Classic when I am making calls, but Sulla's AC friend appears to be quite happy with...
[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─Try seond hand A series samsungs. My A5 is working very well on Lineage, inlcuding through several updates. Battery lfe isn't as good as good as the J series, ut still acceptable.
[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─Even if its lower power, its still good to have an 'open' option.
[23:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─Millenials...
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 0660 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:23] <exec> 08└─Buddy Holly survived and became supervillain Red Mantle. Big Bopper became Dragoon. At least until Jackson Public retcons them like he did The Sovereign/David Bowie.
[23:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Metallic Wood" Has the Strength of Titanium and the Density of Water - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:39] <exec> 08└─> or prosthetic leg that's also a battery. Prepare for a spate of news stories about people whose legs caught fire or exploded. "You're not supposed to get it wet!" But, if you don't, over time it gets real stinky. And, define "wet": does that include sweat?
[23:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:04] <exec> 08└─I think you mean "Thank the United States Government."
[23:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Being Used to Make Bananas Resistant to Disease - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:06] <exec> 08└─I just had a vision of a remake of Clone Wars, but with bananas and an assortment of other fruit.
[23:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genes Behind Lager Yeast's Cold- and Sugar-Loving Success Revealed - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─Awww, I enjoyed seeing his comment sit alone for so long. How about we just downmod his shit in the future and not engage, see how quickly he wigs out.
[23:37:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Telstra Outsources 1500 to India after Whining about Shallow Local IT Talent Pool  - 698 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:01] <exec> 08└─These statements always omit the second half: "lack of programmers available" .. at the price point we want to pay. I'm sure there are plenty of skilled programmers in Aussieland. They just are not able to work full time at 1/5th the pay; the rate that these companies can offer to Indian citizens an...
[23:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:28] <exec> 08└─Didn't used to be normal? How long back are you considering "normal" to be? Back in the 1990s and 1980s, most of Ohio had winter days down to the -20s. I looked it up really quick to verify dates, but I knew it happened because I remember it -- I was there at the time. This is not unusual. It doesn'...
[23:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Cold Temperatures Experienced Throughout United States - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:29] <exec> 08└─And if you're riding a bike or scooter, the airspeed has little to do with the wind.
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─Tourists, pensioners and madmen. What's not to hate about it?!
[23:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homicidal Motorists or Suicidal Pedestrians? Florida Leads the Nation - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:09] <exec> 08└─Combine that with people who think they are entitled to leisurely stroll across the street with traffic coming in every direction. Yes, it's the law to give pedestrians the right of way, but if one came from a northeast state where they are used to pedestrians with the sense to look around and cross...
[23:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:07] <exec> 08└─It doesn't concern my personal finances but academically I always hope every President will do something about it and I'm always disappointed but never surprised.
[23:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H-1B Visa Lottery will now Favor Masters & Doctorate Degree Holders - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:09] <exec> 08└─More of a reply wasn't warranted given the extreme absurdity of the content of his post. Have to take issue with your assessment though. Actual buzzards are also fond of fermented things but they don't fish.
[23:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:28] <exec> 08└─TMYK: Before some marketing guy got involved, Orange Roughy was called Slimehead.
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