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[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─This seems a case that the airlines really need to loose. Using less services than you paid for should not be in any way be wrong or less than moral. In fact, setting up the situation that attempts to make this wrong seems on the wrong side of moral. The airline can choose to not sell a ticket if th...
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't have luggage, you will waste the airline's time if you have a boarding pass. If the people doing that bothered to stop at the counter to tell the airline they're giving up on the flight, then they shouldn't be penalized for gaming the system. The airline saves a few buck by having...
[00:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Brave Little Toaster.
[00:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:04] <exec> 08└─The closest we've come to this is when Apollo 12 astronauts visited Surveyor 3 and took a few pieces of it back. [wikipedia.org]
[00:34:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 1085 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─My former fair city had a substantial urban farming and gardening program going. And while it might not have produced a ton of food in terms of sheer quantity, it did make a substantial difference in what kinds of food were available. For instance, this community garden [google.com] is right smack d...
[00:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:24] <exec> 08└─That sounds great, but how do they prevent things like particles of rubber, asphalt, soot, lead (I assume all gas is unleaded, but...), and other toxins from entering this food. It's probably better to exist than to have neighborhoods have no fresh produce at all, but is there any health hazard to b...
[00:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─One of the hoops they have to go through is doing a soil test of the lot from a qualified lab. If there's nasty stuff in the soil, they have to do a bunch of work to ensure that they're not growing crops that will pick up the contamination. There are also some plants you can put in that will specifi...
[00:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:29] <exec> 08└─No. Feces is optional, other materials can be used. It certainly can be done: https://grocycle.com [grocycle.com] The biggest problem is probably getting customers for your product, dealing with restaurants that don't pay you promptly, etc.
[00:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:31] <exec> 08└─Sterilization can be archived by other means. E.g. hydrogen peroxide work for different substrate coffee ground [youtube.com], wood pellets [youtube.com], sawdust [jontrot.free.fr] Besides, one may think that sterile can be prepared outside city and delivered to the buyers still sterile packed.
[00:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:33] <exec> 08└─Farming takes land, lots of it, water, lots of it, and sunlight, lots of it. The two things in shortest supply in cities are land and water. Inside buildings, sunlight is also in short supply. The only worse place for farming than cities is maybe in mine shafts, although Antarctica is close (plenty...
[00:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─Pesticides and fertilizers killing insects and thus threatening the rest of the land animals, man included, could be one.
[00:34:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:45] <exec> 08└─And everybody overestimates the willingness of the consumers to subscribe to 20 different $10/month services.
[00:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:06] <exec> 08└─The sats will be small, they have a plan for deorbiting them (expected lifetime around 7 years each), and they could be launched around 20-100 at a time. Still a lot of launches, but not all of the sats need to be launched for the service to begin operating. Also, a fully reusable BFR would be a gre...
[00:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:04] <exec> 08└─I can see why someone might see Adobe and Flash as separate companies. At some point the technology, and/or company was acquired by Adobe.
[00:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:14] <exec> 08└─This is an actual spam email. (I only changed my email address and borked the BitCoin account.) Each iteration changes from time to time, but I have been getting a few of these (in my spam folder of course) everyday now for about 6-8 months. They all say something about hacking your device/router, c...
[00:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:16] <exec> 08└─Fun fact, most of the reports of this particular scam at work are from women. There are a lot of inferences you could make from this factoid. But the one that feels the most truthy is that people who fear it could conceivably be true aren't reporting it, while those that report are confident that it...
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[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:54] <exec> 08└─This seems a case that the airlines really need to loose louse.
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Particularly as the already paid seat is likely to be filled by a paying walk-on. Essentially they get to double dip....and THEN they sue the first guy as well. Maybe they are trying to move the cable companies up a few notches? The customer would be perfectly happy to buy the shorter/direct...
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─My pet peeve. In this age of computized ticketing there is no excuse for it. So when the airline complains about something like this, time to bring out the tiny violin.
[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─I can't understand why this is bad for the airlines. They: Save fuel costs, drinks costs etc due to a lighter loadPotentially provide more space and comfort to their remaining passengers through the extra room in the cabinGet to potentially sell that seat twice if there is someone on a wait-listSpee...
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─> In this age of computized ticketing there is no excuse for it. That depends on when you're asking for a refund. If people can cancel without harm, they do it a lot. As late as possible. The airline isn't sure to fill those seats, since other people were already told to go buy elsewhere, because th...
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't have luggage, you will waste the airline's time if you have a boarding pass.
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─The main negative is IF their system isn't designed YET, in 2019, to quickly check whether a missing checked-in passenger has luggage loaded on the plane. Someone has to check, then potentially address a waiting list, which takes time. A fully boarded plane can get pushed off the gate, and potential...
[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:09] <exec> 08└─Let's also not forget the fact that this only happens because it's cheaper to fly a 2-leg journey than it is to fly just one leg of that journey. That is the real insanity. How can that possibly make economic sense? If the airlines don't like this practice then they should adjust their fares so that...
[01:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:11] <exec> 08└─Except doing them the courtesy can get you noticed.
[01:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─The people doing this aren't asking for a refund at all.
[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:16] <exec> 08└─If people can cancel without harm, they do it a lot. As late as possible.
[01:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:18] <exec> 08└─Why they offer this weird pricing" (took me a while to find this in the reddit thread) Airline A offers a direct flight from City 1->City 3 for $100 Airline B doesn't have a direct route, they only fly from City 1->City 2 and from City 2->City 3, both for $100 B still has some free seats on both tri...
[01:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─Submitter: At least now we know Opportunity won't take over the moon
[01:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:57] <exec> 08└─I'm a gardener and follow an urban farmer on YouTube for inspiration. From what I've seen, many installations are actually suburban; taking advantage of back yards or vacant plots. I doubt these systems can replace all of the calories consumed by a city. However, they can be beneficial in other ways...
[01:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:58] <exec> 08└─Raised beds take care of that problem. Composting eliminates the need for fertilizer. It's surprisingly easy to do.
[01:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:01] <exec> 08└─Has it stuck around all this time?
[01:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:03] <exec> 08└─Not all food crops need full sun. There are operations in abandoned buildings that grow valuable crops like microgreens using artificial light. Many agricultural areas grow crops in greenhouses (hothouses) to extend the growing season; it's essentially the same thing.
[01:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:05] <exec> 08└─The best substrate is coarsely ground grains. Bake for a few hours at low temp and it's good enough, cheap, and easy to source.
[01:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:07] <exec> 08└─What I am wondering is if there will be quantity and quality in it
[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:26] <exec> 08└─Presumably Apple is trying to sell the customers of its walled garden to the publishers. Those customers are potentially worth a lot if they are loyal to Apple's news app. (It will be interesting to see what happens with non-apple news apps...) One question I have is - is the contract exclusive? Mu...
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:40] <exec> 08└─They're probably going to be piggy-backing on other payloads as well to cover costs. I doubt they'll be sending up to many rockets fully loaded with these.
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[02:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:51] <exec> 08└─It only attempts to break the whole internet to bump the profits of a few, who are totally not currently making billions at all, while clearly showing that the people who wrote it understand the international nature of the beast they are trying to regulate. Be glad our highly-paid elected officials...
[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─Citizens seemingly should be learning of the law only after it's all set to come into force.
[02:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─"Zis ist Lufthansa!! Ve ask ze questions!!!"
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─Really, this is the airlines trying to smash "the invisible hand" with a mallet, and when they miss they try to trick a judge into smashing it with his gavel. The crux of it is that traveling from A to C isn't all that popular, so there's only so much they can demand for that trip, BUT it is profita...
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─OP has deviated a bit, and is griping about ... well, check the title. I'm just answering that topic
[02:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:19] <exec> 08└─Because missing the flight you're checked in for doesn't ? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:21] <exec> 08└─Passengers have no realistic way of knowing in advance how much the airline will charge for failure to show up.
[02:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they need more grocery stores, not more farms. Urban food deserts are certainly a problem that local governments should address. But consider the essential conflict here: it gives the residents of that neighborhood a chance to get fresh vegetables that would otherwise be too expensive an...
[02:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:07] <exec> 08└─Greenhouses are about controlling temperature and humidity, they use natural light. I guess you saw this article [gizmodo.com]? FarmedHere shut down two years ago. Electric bills too high. Like, it's biologically possible to grow food indoors. Nobody is disputing that. It's just a bad idea. Funny, i...
[02:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:09] <exec> 08└─We can give it another shot when nuclear fusion comes online.
[02:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:11] <exec> 08└─sterile can be prepared outside city and delivered to the buyers still sterile packed
[02:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:14] <exec> 08└─Many fruits and vegetables have a narrow window of best before. Can you imagine going and purchasing produce that was picked hours / minutes before you purchased it?
[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─And everybody overestimates the willingness of the consumers to subscribe to 20 different $10/month services.
[02:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:35] <exec> 08└─Apple makes an iTonsillectomy device that extracts your tonsils through your doohickey.
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:49] <exec> 08└─SpaceX doesn't have enough paying customers to do that many launches per year, especially if the Starlinks sats aren't filling the entire volume of the payload fairings. SpaceX will probably have less launches in 2019 than 2018. But they would need hundreds of launches to lift all the 10,000+ Starli...
[02:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:21] <exec> 08└─Are we sure it's not the Aliens and there they're landing zones?
[02:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─What is that?
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[03:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─Whether it's a "bad" copyright proposal or not is in the eye of the beholder. The people that matter seem to think it's good enough to propose and vote on.
[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:53] <exec> 08└─This story just broke the law and infringed copyright?
[03:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─Well, yes.... Reproducing more than “single words or very short extracts” of news stories will require a licence. That will likely cover many of the snippets commonly shown alongside links today in order to give you an idea of what they lead to. We will have to wait and see how courts interpret...
[03:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:58] <exec> 08└─Solution is to leave the EU, it seems to be a toxic organization.
[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─to the most restrictive version. The tried and true ratchet mechanism, works every time. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Displaying this line will need a paid license.
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─We’ve already demonstrated last July that a majority against a bad copyright proposal is achievable.
[03:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:28] <exec> 08└─As if they hold flights for no-shows when there is no word on why they are late. Almost EVERY flight has no shows, that's why they overbook.
[03:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:29] <exec> 08└─I would imagine that if the flight is overbooked (perhaps due to people getting bumped to a different flight because they missed their connecting flight), they could get people on the plane faster if they knew earlier that the seat was available. This actually happens quite a fair bit when people mi...
[03:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:31] <exec> 08└─That makes sense. I was reading your reply as an answer to the second part of OP while you were replying to the first part. I can see why a ticket would be non-refundable, but I would add only if you're allowed to sell it to someone else.
[03:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:34] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't have luggage, you will waste the airline's time if you have a boarding pass.
[03:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:36] <exec> 08└─"If people can cancel without harm, they do it a lot. As late as possible." It's a no cost "option" of course you should use it. Cancellation fees are simply options for services that have a cost
[03:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─If we're lucky, this is some reverse psychology move by Lufthansa to establish legal precedent that it's alright to buy and use hidden city discount fares.
[03:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:40] <exec> 08└─So your position is that being one of the blurred masses that say nothing every day about missing a flight is more noticeable than being one of the comparatively small group that say "Hi, I need to cancel the second leg of the flight because -bogus reason-. No i don't need a later flight. No I don'...
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[03:34:43] <exec> 08└─I think it was LH, might have been KLM, anyway: 1995-ish London to Amsterdam hop, by some fluke of my routing first class cost the same as coach, so I was in first. We were served a nice lunch while the attendants tossed bags of nuts at the passengers in coach - everybody knows that. What I didn't k...
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[03:34:45] <exec> 08└─I imagine if this becomes common practice they might start pricing it at $200 and offer a $125 rebate on arrival or something like that
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[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─I think this mostly ended up in court because of that final leg from Frankfurt-Berlin, proving pre-meditation and negating a simple "something came up and I had to miss my flight" defense. Back in the 1990 time frame, I needed to buy a one-way fare from Europe back to the US, and, apparently, Belgiu...
[03:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:37] <exec> 08└─The problem it's trying to solve is that city hipsters look down their noses at "country bumpkin" farmers and are desperate to prove that they don't need them. Embarrassingly (for the sneering cityfolk), they depend on the rural farmers much more than the rural farmers depend on them.
[03:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:38] <exec> 08└─You seem to have forgotten a key aspect of all this, which is that if the garden does not exist, one of two things happens: 1. The city leaves the condemned crackhouses that were there standing. 2. The acreage sits vacant, and the city has to pay someone to come in and mow the grass. It's already a...
[03:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:41] <exec> 08└─So rather than just ship the finished product in from the rural area, they'll ship the compost out of the city, treat it, then ship it back? mmmkay.
[03:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:43] <exec> 08└─Yes. What did you expect it to do? It's not like lead is engaged in radioactive decay or something: The problem with lead poisoning is entirely due to chemistry, specifically being almost but not quite like iron, which means it doesn't do the same jobs as iron in the body and prevents iron from doin...
[03:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:45] <exec> 08└─The other problem is that mushrooms may be tasty, but they have just about zero nutritional value. Every time I see one of these articles, I'm reminded that very few urbanites have any concept of the *scale* of the agriculture it takes to keep them fed. Their idea of farming is a backyard chicken an...
[03:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:20] <exec> 08└─Honestly, it's about the only chance we have in the US of breaking up the local ISP monopoly/duopoly situation.
[03:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:22] <exec> 08└─AC is correct. You already have a monopoly/duopoly in many areas, and SpaceX's Starlink has the potential to cover anybody, no matter how rural they are. Starlink is only an improvement to the existing situation, and will have to compete with DSL, cable, fiber, cellular, etc. SpaceX may have a monop...
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[03:36:24] <exec> 08└─+1 Interesting. I'm curious about the "price point" for an individual to obtain a ground terminal, and what service would cost. I, personally, am very interested in how all this plays out, as I am "stuck" with HughesNot (no other infrastructure available in the hinterlands). Latency and data caps ar...
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[04:33:50] <exec> 08└─Seriously, working for a gaming company - did they not see this as they came in the door? Abuse served here, get in line and beg for it.
[04:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:52] <exec> 08└─If your company doesn't need someone doing your job, they should get rid of your job. Bitching even in the face of the extremely nice severance packages they received is some Grade A whiny bullshit.
[04:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:54] <exec> 08└─Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenue as They Fuck Over 800 Employees [vice.com] The workers at Activision Blizzard are, like most of the industry, not unionized. Unionization is not a catch-all solution. It will not stop layoffs, nor will it suddenly turn capitalism into socialism... Recently,...
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:09] <exec> 08└─If owned & hosted outside EU, will they get a free pass as not designed for EU users?
[04:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:10] <exec> 08└─So... You just broke the law again?
[04:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:47] <exec> 08└─What a lot of posters here are missing is that the airlines don't just get to make up their routes. They get to apply for their routes, and governments get to tell them which routes they have to take, and which are optional, and which are not available for them. And they have to suck it up. This mea...
[04:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should just lower their prices instead to fill those free seats? Supply and demand curves and whatnot. All this is is a bug in their customer rape maximization algorithms, and they're getting angry people are taking advantage of it instead of fixing their goddamn algorithms.
[04:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:04] <exec> 08└─Now only responding to some hackers who took it over. Sorry NASA.
[04:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:46] <exec> 08└─People buy and eat mushrooms, so there could be value in growing them in a city. And it's probably the most practical option out of all of the things urban farming can produce. 100 grams of mushrooms [google.com] has some potassium, fiber, and protein, some traces of vitamins, and some unproven comp...
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[04:38:38] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. They are probably making chips that will go directly in their own datacenters.
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[05:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06100 Million Year old Glowing Spider Eyes - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:51] <exec> 08└─In terms of coolness, with each being about an order of magnitude less cool than the last: Phosphorescence > Fluorescence > Reflectance
[05:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─Company has a pretty good year, but not good enough for Wall Street. So, off with their heads! I think most MBAs don't realize what layoffs do to morale. I've survived several, and been caught in a few. The entire company culture changes.
[05:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:03] <exec> 08└─Buzzard, you carrion-feeder! The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written in large part by Eleanor Roosevelt, states: Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in acc...
[05:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:05] <exec> 08└─Personally, I am still waiting for the this one: Article 24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
[05:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─de-prioritizing initiatives that are not meeting expectations
[05:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:23] <exec> 08└─Hint: neither have the US states on their own managed to do better
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[05:36:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying that it doesn't, but that seems like an awful lot of stuff for one company to be allowed to put up.
[05:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:06] <exec> 08└─The US' strength can decline, but the US will retain its lead as long as any alternative is not as attractive as retaining the status quo. Goes for the financial infrastructure, our military block and trade relations.
[05:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:16] <exec> 08└─Well the other AC thinks you are trolling, but I think you meant Mike, not Manny. There is a scene where Wyoh is telling Mike jokes and it laughs at all the same ones as women, not men. You are right that it didn't make much difference to the rest of the book. Heinlein did that a fair bit, threw in...
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[05:40:17] <exec> 08└─In 'Gentlemen be Seated' he patched the hole by sitting on it.
[05:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:20] <exec> 08└─Dora might have been designed as a (deliberately childlike) AI, but Gay Deceiver was the computer in his flying car and basically came alive when they visited Frank Baum's Land of Oz. So in that case, yes magic.
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[06:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06100 Million Year old Glowing Spider Eyes - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:53] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[06:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry, c0lo, not sure how it is with the coding contractors and whatnot, but faculty, temporary, part-time, casual hire, faculty, have always been like this. There is a reason "tenure", or from the Latin "holding on", was instituted by more enlightened Universities. But for the most part, throughout...
[06:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:09] <exec> 08└─So again the mega-economy of the United States, with all its alleged brain-power, can only produce computer children's games, so they can pass the time before they are slaughtered in Mass School Shootings, to make more money for the NRA, to get more money from Russia, to get Trump elected? I sense a...
[06:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:27] <exec> 08└─The closer government is to you the easier it is to control. Chances of failing to get something passed in the federal legislature is much higher than at the state level.
[06:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:28] <exec> 08└─The closer government is to you the easier it is to control.
[06:34:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:36] <exec> 08└─This seems a case that the airlines really need to loose. Using less services than you paid for should not be in any way be wrong or less than moral. In fact, setting up the situation that attempts to make this wrong seems on the wrong side of moral. The airline can choose to not sell a ticket if th...
[06:34:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:40] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Particularly as the already paid seat is likely to be filled by a paying walk-on. Essentially they get to double dip....and THEN they sue the first guy as well. Maybe they are trying to move the cable companies up a few notches? The customer would be perfectly happy to buy the shorter/direct...
[06:34:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:43] <exec> 08└─I can't understand why this is bad for the airlines. They: Save fuel costs, drinks costs etc due to a lighter loadPotentially provide more space and comfort to their remaining passengers through the extra room in the cabinGet to potentially sell that seat twice if there is someone on a wait-listSpee...
[06:34:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:51] <exec> 08└─If people can cancel without harm, they do it a lot. As late as possible.
[06:34:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 1081 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:55] <exec> 08└─Really, this is the airlines trying to smash "the invisible hand" with a mallet, and when they miss they try to trick a judge into smashing it with his gavel. The crux of it is that traveling from A to C isn't all that popular, so there's only so much they can demand for that trip, BUT it is profita...
[06:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:10] <exec> 08└─shilling hard everyday, eh, "bob_super"?
[06:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:12] <exec> 08└─dumb shill.
[06:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:21] <exec> 08└─The US Deptartment of Treasury is fucking terrified.
[06:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:33] <exec> 08└─In 'Gentlemen be Seated' he patched the hole by sitting on it.
[06:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 2895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not better and smarter than Heinlein. I could never have written those stories, and they're excellent fantasy. Heinlein wasn't a technologist. In his stories the technology is always background material. The foreground is human interaction. I could never do that part, and that's the important pa...
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[07:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry, c0lo, not sure how it is with the coding contractors and whatnot, but faculty, temporary, part-time, casual hire, faculty, have always been like this.
[07:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:15] <exec> 08└─Such is life held beholden to shareholders as a publicly traded company. Expand forever and always meet expectations because that is the first obligation, not quality of product or creative integrity. Need to constantly grow to satisfy shareholders is likely one of the causes of the rash of loot box...
[07:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:17] <exec> 08└─"extremely nice severance packages" That is a plus for unions. You're mad that people are angry about getting fired when the company is doing better than ever? It does seem a bit backward, as does your leap to incriminate. OH! I just figured out why assholes make such a big deal out of "entitled" yo...
[07:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:15] <exec> 08└─downmodding an AC, how clever.
[07:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:32] <exec> 08└─So you think you are so smart, trying to contact a machine that you have abandoned on a lifeless world? Have you ever stopped to consider what happened to his twin? Huh? Have you, punk? Spirit Rover [xkcd.com], imagined by Randall Monroe.
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[07:41:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mxXdCUXSSs [youtube.com]
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[08:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Ubisoft to Develop AI Bug Checking Tool - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:58] <exec> 08└─It is an AI technology developed to help programmers evaluate if a code change introduces a new bug by learning from past bugs and fixes.
[08:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:25] <exec> 08└─Why do not all these children undertake a children's Crusade to Vegas and Reno, and Trump's failed game port in Atlantic
[08:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:27] <exec> 08└─Expand forever and always meet expectations because that is the first obligation
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[09:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─No, I am not going to help the marketing department of Apple by trying to figure out use cases for their products.
[09:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:53] <exec> 08└─Cheaters use it at exams.
[09:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:55] <exec> 08└─if there is any business case for smart watches.
[09:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06100 Million Year old Glowing Spider Eyes - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:09] <exec> 08└─It's reflection (I RTFA). The proof however is worth discussion. They find a similar structure in the fossil and a chemical markup that could be this tissue. What I wonder is how they link this chemical markup to this tissue, as the specimen has been fossilized (as in: turned to rock). Things like D...
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[09:34:50] <exec> 08└─Even after Brexit English will likely remain an official language of the EU because of the Republic of Ireland, that it's the current international lingua franca, and by doing so it allows them a little more leverage over US tech giants. The Republic of Ireland is kind of like New Zealand in a way;...
[09:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:51] <exec> 08└─Nope. If you read the article... (I know that is a stretch for most people...) The author closes with the following sentence: To the extent possible under law, the creator has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
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[10:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.jamendo.com/ [jamendo.com] And if that's not your cup of tea, there are million other perfectly legal music sites out there. Listen to free music, if you like it, you can copy it to your friends. If you're an artist, freeing your music can help you find a new audience.
[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─They would.
[10:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:52] <exec> 08└─Vanessa Hutley of Music Rights Australia claims that the fact that people use these sites proves that services such as Spotify and Apple Music do not eliminate copyright violations and therefor harsher action is required.
[10:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:03] <exec> 08└─and (in some cases) activity sensors to help their business grow.
[10:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─That's just about the last thing one would expect to have an enterprise business case, wouldn't you agree? Guess again! Medior of San Mateo, California was a CD-ROM Digital Agency, long before the term "Digital Agency" had entered the lexicon. _Most_ of the titles it wrote for its clients were enter...
[10:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:07] <exec> 08└─Posers use it everywhere. Too bad Apple has lost its mojo and will be going downhill for some time now. China has spoken.
[10:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:10] <exec> 08└─Examinees will be required to strip naked then pass through a back-scatter X-Ray before entering the exam room. No word yet as to whether condoms will be provided, though in certain countries, this will lead to a resurgence in the popularity of singing castratro.
[10:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Ubisoft to Develop AI Bug Checking Tool - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:18] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the AI might decide consistency is most important, and start introducing bugs, in line with the earlier code quality.
[10:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Ubisoft to Develop AI Bug Checking Tool - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:20] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm. Just great, har har. Although, change Mozilla to Chrome and you might be on to something.
[10:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06100 Million Year old Glowing Spider Eyes - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:31] <exec> 08└─Phosphorescent or fluorescent eyes would be a flashlight, this is passive night vision and thus superior technology for some purposes, like stalking prey in the dark. Arachnids are very cool. They were here long before we came and I bet they will be here long after we're gone.
[10:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:51] <exec> 08└─Video games publisher Activision Blizzard has announced it will lay off about 800 people, despite reporting record revenue in 2018. The company made $7.5bn (£5.8bn) last year, up from about $7bn in 2017. Its chief executive, Bobby Kotick, said the results were "the best in our history" but did not...
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[10:34:53] <exec> 08└─Booooring as hell!
[10:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 1647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:55] <exec> 08└─I blame the Sophist, Protagoras, who said, "pay as much as you think my teaching is worth." Thus, the ancient version of Humble Bundle was born. However, the real problem is not that students freeload, it is that administration skims, controls, and ultimately kills education. Aristotle said: And so...
[10:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:16] <exec> 08└─From the article: The anti-EU far right is trying to seize this opportunity to promote their narrow-minded nationalist agenda – when in fact without the persistent support of the far-right ENF Group (dominated by the Rassemblement/Front National) the law could have been stopped in the crucial Lega...
[10:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:18] <exec> 08└─In the Netherlands it was one of the top stories in every TV news bulletin.... So where in the EU do they have a blackout? (Still does not make the proposal less terrible)
[10:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:20] <exec> 08└─yes! "Fuck you, I got mine!" is the principle we should all live on. corruption worked in "communist" countries in the sense that the countries went to shit and the eastern block is still struggling to fix systemic problems in industry and infrastructure 30 years after the supposed regime changes ha...
[10:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─So authoritarians (people who want to tell everyone what to do, and force them to pay for that) on all sides over there?
[10:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:24] <exec> 08└─it presents a physical land border between the EU and UK
[10:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:26] <exec> 08└─"Fuck you, I got mine!"
[10:35:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 1336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:46] <exec> 08└─Why they offer this weird pricing" (took me a while to find this in the reddit thread) Airline A offers a direct flight from City 1->City 3 for $100 Airline B doesn't have a direct route, they only fly from City 1->City 2 and from City 2->City 3, both for $100 B still has some free seats on both tri...
[10:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:07] <exec> 08└─I confess of the practice. In my defense, at the first time, I tried to contact the airline beforehand by email with zero response. Since then I did not bother any more. Pro tip: You can skip, even if you have checked luggage. Just make sure that you have to go through customs where you want to skip...
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[11:33:55] <exec> 08└─To keep prices at an inflated level. The 101 of economics: you need scarce resources. Streaming "all you can eat" buffets does not make things scarce. Therefore, doing so would expose the real value of the service and content. Now the media people are in a pickle. The "streaming" part is already at...
[11:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:57] <exec> 08└─There's heaps of movies from the 70's and 80's and 90's I would love to watch. A while back I read an article that proposed the theory that the reason why those old movies and TV shows are not available is to make the new content more appealing. Strangely, Netflix has got me addicted to Korean and C...
[11:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:59] <exec> 08└─lable. https://www.thepublicdomain.org [thepublicdomain.org] Great book, funny and very informative. Available for download. Go read it now, get the facts.
[11:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:53] <exec> 08└─I give not a fuck what Franklin or Eleanor had to say on anything economics related and even less of fuck what the UN has to say on anything at all.
[11:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:55] <exec> 08└─You mistake my manner of speech for anger. My attitude towards the whiners is more akin to my attitude towards Tide-pod eaters; fools will be fools. How the company is doing is irrelevant. If they have no need of the services being provided by someone, it's absurd to say they should continue employi...
[11:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─Fucked net neutrality in the US and now are pushing this in the EU. What a lovely bunch.
[11:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:25] <exec> 08└─Scotland and Northern Ireland are part of the UK, whereas The Republic of Ireland is a sovereign country in its own right. There are some other land border issues with Brexit - e.g. Gibralter - but the only physical land border between the EU and UK proper lies between Northern Ireland and the Repub...
[11:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:27] <exec> 08└─This article13 thing wants to go into the solid foundation, and we need to keep it out. If you don't have anything constructive to add to the discussion, at least don't pollute it with defective ideas.
[11:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:09] <exec> 08└─This is the only language these bastards understand. It doesn't hurt that this will help the atmosphere too. That is, unless you like the TSA guy's hands down there.
[11:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:07] <exec> 08└─-ms. Just pick up a Loompanix book.
[11:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:08] <exec> 08└─... to the traditional method of sterilizing not just the substrate, but the entire interior of the Mushroom Shed. Back in the heady days of yore, the coast of California between Santa Cruz and San Francisco had lots of mushroom sheds, but there's only one left now, I think unused. My father told me...
[11:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:10] <exec> 08└─but not at all in California. The grocery stores here have all manner of apples that I've never seen anywhere else.
[11:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:13] <exec> 08└─... that were once completely covered with coffee plantations. It's become quite a serious problem in South America. There is no practical way to prevent or to treat it other than to plant trees that are bred to resist it, so Starbucks is handing out free rust-resistant trees to farmers.
[11:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:15] <exec> 08└─My father was one such. At three months old, Dad's father and mother packed their pickup with what they could carry, abandoned all their other possessions, then baby daddy, Grandpa, Grandma and the toddler Uncle Herb drove from Santa Cruz California to Grass Valley as Grandpa had heard there was wor...
[11:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:37] <exec> 08└─I'm already paying $10 a month. A news channel would be nice. Thanks, Apple, for giving your competition a good idea.
[11:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:38] <exec> 08└─The best way to obtain customer data is to obtain it yourself, through direct product sales. If someone bough QuickLetter from Working Software, quite likely they'd order Spellswell or even FindsWell from our quarterly junk mail newsletter. The tough part was growing our registered user list, so tha...
[11:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:40] <exec> 08└─The very next day they published a story about it, because their online subscriptions skyrocketed. The Vancouver Columbian dead-tree edition is doing _really_ well because Vancouver is a far-more traditional community that in The Oregonian's Portland. The Oregonian dead tree isn't completely abandon...
[11:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:42] <exec> 08└─My peak salary was $130k in 2008, my peak hourly was $120 in Y2K. When I joined the Cub Scouts, Mom bought me a subscription to Boy's Life. That I do such things as "Hi, my name's Mike, what's yours?" to a _floridly_ paranoid and angry young meth-head at Starbucks the other day is due to Boy's Life...
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[11:39:11] <exec> 08└─I am getting flashbacks of uni. Thanks guys. I just had those years of my life nicely buried under layers of alcohol and work.
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[12:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:52] <exec> 08└─Amazon won't do jackshit as long as they get their cut.
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:53] <exec> 08└─With third party sellers Amazon is becoming an Ebay type site that only has buy-it-now. I recently ordered a CD from Amazon and received the wrong one. Contacted Amazon and their response was since it was a third party seller there was nothing they could do but send an email on my behalf. Fortunatel...
[12:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─are you talking about wooden boards, or cardboard boards? --- is durability the problem? or are you complaining that the instructions were only in some obscure language not-your-own? because I can imagine many scenarios where a "counterfeit board game" is the same thing, but made by different people...
[12:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:34] <exec> 08└─Where's my "-1 Clueless" mod when I need it?
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[13:33:58] <exec> 08└─Board games are a pretty marginal affair. I feel sorry for folks who invest so much in game design only to have it ripped off by Elbonians.
[13:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:00] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[13:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 3161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:02] <exec> 08└─-ement? This wasn't a counterfeit. There's a particular Starbucks in Portland's highly-gentrified Pearl District - it was at first an unused railroad switchyard, as well as the site of some breweries that remain - that was a testbed for "Starbucks Evenings": they sold good wine, craft beer and exp...
[13:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:27] <exec> 08└─No. There is no business case for this. No one is going to buy you some useless toy, even if you pretend it is work related. Now get back to work and stop wasting you shareholder's time and money.
[13:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:44] <exec> 08└─yes! "Fuck you, I got mine!" is the principle we should all live on.
[13:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting theory that the airline is so concerned about their passengers that not getting to the gate will somehow be a problem for the airline. They don't seem to worry too much over it for slightly late passengers. What logic says not showing up is any problem except for the revenue hit? In sell...
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[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─There's more to this story. Those Danes are making money off of this somehow.
[14:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:03] <exec> 08└─What scammers who are going to pull the "sell counterfeit goods" con are looking for is a marketplace where: 1. There are tons of potential suckers. Amazon certainly qualifies. 2. There is no way for the goods to be checked before purchase. Amazon, like all online locations, hits this one out of the...
[14:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:04] <exec> 08└─accuse me of stealing food from their hungry childrens' mouths.
[14:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:17] <exec> 08└─They are going to end up pushing everyone there, then it will be nearly impossible to find users and services. ( and not just *aa, but by other pissed off parties too ) Funding of the sites will be a problem, as with the coordinated efforts to destabilize and outlaw cryptocurrency, it will become a...
[14:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:32] <exec> 08└─Why would the Enterprise need Apple Watches when Starfleet issues communicators to everyone?
[14:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:32] <exec> 08└─Airlines don't give a shit if you're slightly late to the checkin counter. But if you have an assigned seat and are believed to be in the airport, it seems that they do. Especially if your bag is in the hold, since if you check a bag and then fail to show up at the gate someone needs to go in, find...
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[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe the Russians are *not* making money selling oil & gas to these Danes?
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─Heh - the Russians should have been paying the geld!!
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:03] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[15:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:05] <exec> 08└─Consider that Newfoundland is quite a large island. Despite having the home ports of some offshore oil rigs, it has no refineries to my knowledge and so must import all its fuel. However, it is rich in hydroelectricity, so it's become popular for Newfies to heat their home with electricity, being fa...
[15:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─That's one of the places I would like to go, but have not done so yet. Steamed past it a couple times, in the Navy. I've been to Halifax, which is close. Never set foot on Newfoundland though. From all the photos and videos I've seen, it's a beautiful place. Couple guys on the Honda GL and CX forum...
[15:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:22] <exec> 08└─Ebay is better than Amazon, in that, if you're scammed, Ebay will refund your money. First time, I purchased ten LED lightbulbs, but only recieved 8. I asked twice for the guy to send me two more bulbs, he replied in Chenglish (Chinese English) and never did admit that he understood what the problem...
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 3436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of your points, but I don't think you've actually shopped on amazon or done returns. I've been with them since day1, when I left ebay because of paypal. 1. There are lots of suckers. They go to the store as well, so I'm not sure how that makes amazon different. In fact, we have it...
[15:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:26] <exec> 08└─There are all kinds of ways I could make six figures, but I prefer while away my hours, days, weeks and years - yea, even my lifetime! - to fapping to my Muse Euterpe.
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─I've made a lot of money over the years, printing counterfeit monopoly money. I guess they're on to me now. Kiss that third income good-bye, I guess.
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:30] <exec> 08└─I bought a PC on eBay, but then the seller (with a long standing good reputation) refunded the paypal funds, I paid again, refunded again, then wanted to get paid via a different paypal account. I refused and lodged an eBay complaint. The seller closed shop and disappeared.
[15:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:32] <exec> 08└─I see an opening for Walmart, as follows: Ship to store from Walmart-online allows instant return/credit at the time of pickup, I've done this, works fine. This is an option for anyone living close to a store -- and there are a lot of Walmarts. To make this work, Walmart needs to requir...
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:35] <exec> 08└─There is one way to at least check visually: Post photos of the specific item you're getting, as it is. I've seen a site which allowed free classifieds for the genre of equipment the site discussed do this - you had to post at least one *original* photo of the device, and if you posted a stock photo...
[15:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:37] <exec> 08└─CDs are so obsolete anyway. Wasn't it available as a download from Amazon? Or from, well ... ;).
[15:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Ubisoft to Develop AI Bug Checking Tool - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:14] <exec> 08└─They don't need intelligence, artificial or otherwise.
[15:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Ubisoft to Develop AI Bug Checking Tool - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:16] <exec> 08└─How is this any different from the many Static Code Analysis tools that are already out there? Because it has AI?? Sounds like the "it has electrolytes" argument... In all seriousness, is this any better, or can it be better?
[15:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Ubisoft to Develop AI Bug Checking Tool - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:18] <exec> 08└─Came to say the same thing -- lint on steroids, with a buzzword name.
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─Indeed.
[15:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:12] <exec> 08└─You seem to have justified the elimination of all city and county parks. Paying someone to maintain land on which no one pays taxes is a total loss, is it not?
[15:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:13] <exec> 08└─There was a time when a Farmer's Market excited me. Fresh, wholesome food, at less than wholesale prices - beautiful! In recent years, farmer's markets seem to be mostly ripoffs. The fresh food is sold at grocery store prices, no bulk sales or bulk discounts. There are mostly craft items available,...
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[15:38:57] <exec> 08└─Orbit. The existing sat-phone satellites are at a much higher altitude, which increases the latency of communication.
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[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─Is this one of them post modern gobblygooks?
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─Well, the headline is a lie for a start. "A further 10 offshore turbines were erected in 2002, generating enough energy to offset emissions from their cars, buses, tractors and the ferry to the mainland." They might "be selling enough energy to pay for the fuel they burn" but they aren't "ending fos...
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Thought as much. Fucking lieing bullshit.
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─Just a nitpick: The Island does suck in some CO2... you even mentioned it: not by magic but by growing straw...
[16:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─Amazon does care [about profits] enough to do something. And they are doing something. They have changed. Amazon now has a policy to act as though they genuinely care about counterfitting.
[16:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:33] <exec> 08└─While I can find some very obscure things as mp3 downloads on Amazon, there are a few, very few, CDs that I can only find as actual CDs. In one of those cases leading into the recent Christmas season, I went directly to the seller, who had a store, and bypassed Amazon.
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, special editions and foreign releases in particular...there was one song I wanted recently where I bought the album on Amazon...only to discover that what they sell is a completely different version of the song. They apparently refuse to offer it for download in the original German, you can on...
[16:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:37] <exec> 08└─90% of why I have an Amazon Prime membership is because of The Grand Tour. The other 10% is diaper delivery.
[16:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:40] <exec> 08└─[...]unsatisfying yet tasty[...]
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─This is also why the standard use case of "sell my used ___" of Ebay is no longer popular. With Ebay siding with the buyer typically, the seller can easily get screwed if the buyer claims the item is defective/not received/etc. If you are selling something worth a couple hundred dollars, the risk of...
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 1640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─Happened to me/my parents recently. Even worse because it was a gift...thankfully just from my parents. But they pulled a phone off my wishlist, prominently listed as "UNLOCKED INTERNATIONAL EDITION". What the seller sent me was the locked T-Mobile variant. Not even compatible with my carrier. Selle...
[16:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─> I don't have a good solution to this problem; there will be scammers selling and buying from any service. If the item is popular enough to sell locally, use Craigslist and complete the deal face-to-face.
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─Breadboards I get from Amazon are cheap, but they seem to work okay. I doubt that MAX7219 chips are counterfit. Maybe. But if so, they work, even if they are unexpectedly cheap. They still work even when I drive them slightly out of spec, from Java (yes really) on a Ras Pi 1 with 512 MB! (Not a 2, n...
[16:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:17] <exec> 08└─If you are in a meeting and you look at your phone, you can appear inattentive, but an occasional glance at your watch doesn't look so bad (unless you are looking a lot, or right at the end of a meeting). Being able to know at a glance if that vibration in my pocket is phase one of a major catastrop...
[16:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:19] <exec> 08└─Cheaters use it at exams.
[16:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:21] <exec> 08└─Business has an interest in employees wearing smart watches. First they disguise it as "wellness" to get you to wear it. Then they can track your location. They can be sure employees are not fraternizing outside of work. Or while at work. They can be sure employees do not spend enough time with anyo...
[16:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─Funny, the rest to the people on your blog here seem to feel the same way about you! Poor Buzzy!
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─> Anyway, this whole problem is entirely self-inflicted by the airlines. The only reason it happens is because those airlines chose to sell dinner and dessert for less than the price of the same dinner by itself. Absolutely. I have no sympathy for them because of this, I'm sure few do. > So it shoul...
[16:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:17] <exec> 08└─If they can deorbit them then I feel like Emily Litella. ..... nevermind!
[16:40:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:11] <exec> 08└─At a refractive index of ~1.5 it would be about 2e8 m/s (or about 250 ns for 50m). But you need to look at round-trip too. For optimal transfers, you will need some good windowed protocols.
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[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─Would be a letdown if something banal like this explains it. I’m still hoping for some kind of quantum effect underlying consciousness.
[17:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:02] <exec> 08└─An explanation for NPCs.
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─Consciousness really just means being biased. If you look around at what you would call "conscious" behaviour it is also going to be from organisms who have a bias. I keep hearing about how AI is racist/sexist, etc and thinking how that means it is becoming conscious. On the flip side that means to...
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─Technically you haven't proved anything about a conscience until you have implemented one. And then you still reached no definitive conclusion if you resorted to the same hacks the human brain resorts to, that is, being analogic it is tied to outcomes in the quantum scale so it depends on a randomne...
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─As always, we should start with the highest return on investment. And as you mentioned, importing fossil fuels to islands is expensive, so self-sufficient renewables can be more competitive. Here is a fun graphic showing the various energy sources on the island: https://en.wikipedia.orgø#...
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:24] <exec> 08└─but that C02 is not sequestered; it is released back into the atmosphere when the straw is burned or decomposes.
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─My take on copyright is that people will eventually get over it and the pirates will win. But it will take a while yet. Copyright is brilliant in its evil and wrongness. Pushes people's buttons. Plays on the fear of loss. All the time, authors and collectors fall for the "copying is stealing" fallac...
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─We also may be unable to prevent sellers in our stores or through other stores from selling unlawful, counterfeit, pirated, or stolen goods, selling goods in an unlawful or unethical manner, violating the proprietary rights of others, or otherwise violating our policies," the filing said.
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:18] <exec> 08└─Well of course you don't, they all suggest it might matter how you treat the disadvantaged. Switching gears like that might burn out whatever you have left of a mental clutch.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:38] <exec> 08└─Given that most people think that what the airlines are doing is fucked up, how about it gets formally recognised as being fucked up and against the interest of a fair marketplace? How about having consumer protection laws (shock horror, I know that most US readers will have stopped reading already...
[17:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─> If there was a healthy market [...] I view pricing schemes that include negative-cost legs as perturbing the market in such a way as to make it less healthy. They're doing this because they've caused a mess by doing it and other stuff like it.
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:41] <exec> 08└─And I hope you enjoyed the extended trip. Plenty to see and do, and if you ditch the car soon enough, plenty to drink too!
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─"customer rape maximization algorithms" boom! +1
[17:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─How much does just a TSA "service" cost? I have no interest in flying, but it's getting a bit lonely here.
[17:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─Assuming, that Starlink could possibly force AT&T, et al to clean up their act. This could have huge benefits for the public it serves. Just look at what Google got started by rolling out limited availability in a few select cities.
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[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─Where's the list, so I know which "scientists" I can safely ignore?
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─Redirect to PDF: https://www.discovery.org [discovery.org]
[18:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─"I'm a 'scientist', not an evolutionary science, but I think I'm an expert all the same."
[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:59] <exec> 08└─I hear a lot about "darwinism" but have never heard it defined ferociously.
[18:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─Clearly education can’t remove the ‘stupid’ from the student.
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:04] <exec> 08└─So you are going to ignore global warming then? Because one of the signers (David Chapman) wrote this: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com]
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QNAP NAS Devices Bitten by Malware - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─While I don't pretend that my data storage habits are good / reasonable. I do have a couple of offline external drives that I update every now and again. That is the absolute bare minimum you need to do, if you want to backup your photos, etc. In reality, I can replace almost everything, if I need t...
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─How does altruism go beyond "selfish genes"? Self-sacrifice for the sake of the family/tribe enhances the chances of similar genes propagating.
[18:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─What is a reason for this immense extra cost though? A photo of an item does nothing to tell you whether it's counterfeit. Putting a battery on a cocaine-precise scale does. What problem are you trying to solve with this? Right now, you don't like it, you return it and you don't pay shipping. I don'...
[18:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:15] <exec> 08└─I don’t worry about piracy, I worry about publishers. Consider the multiply-bestselling writer Steven Pressfield now owns his own publishing company, Black Irish Books, in partnership with his editor at their former publishing company. Since living in the pacific north left I’ve met many who sim...
[18:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:47] <exec> 08└─You do have to admit that the company is thinking about you : it's slightly faster and less awkward to check the time, compared to the previous ankle bracelets.
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06100 Million Year old Glowing Spider Eyes - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─Years ago I went canoeing on a tributary of the Rio Negro* in Brasil at night. The sky was clear and the moon was full so there was plenty of light to navigate by. Since the river was still mid flood stage we were able to go under the tree canopy without getting out of the canoes. I remember it beca...
[18:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:38] <exec> 08└─Nope, you may not be frothing at the mouth but angry you are even if it is mostly intellectual and not emotional. You continue with your hyperbole. You would make a good bean counter / MBA. That said your basic point of "don't keep useless people on the payroll" is obviously a solid sounding point,...
[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:14] <exec> 08└─How do I quote AC without breaking the law ?
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Registering every beer that goes on the market is entirely understandable from the perspective of those who have strong consumer protection laws. e.g. we're allowed to know quite a bit about everything that's on sale here: https://alkoreg.agri.ee The fuck-up in the US are the...
[18:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:07] <exec> 08└─So basically airline B figured out to get paid for seats that are guaranteed to be empty otherwise yet letting people use it doesn't have extra cost for airline basically resulting in free money. If airline is allowed to be a smartass then why passengers can't be?
[18:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:13] <exec> 08└─From an urban grain field? Because if you depend on conventional farming to grow the materials to grow your urban mushrooms, you're not doing a thing to, um, "improve food security". (A curious euphemism for "prepare for Civil War 2.0: Rural vs. Urban.")
[18:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:14] <exec> 08└─So it stuck around. > What did you expect it to do? Well, I expected it to stick around, as a heavy metal in soil. But then someone else posted: > There is no added lead in gas since 1995. So I thought, well! Maybe there's processes I don't know about which, in 25y, might leech or otherwise extract...
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[19:33:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─Where's the list, so I know which "scientists" I can safely ignore?
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─Here's the list. [discovery.org] Notice how few of them are biologists or in relevant fields.
[19:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─The more things we can questions, the more funding we get and the more papers we can put out. - big academia
[19:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─My PHD in Mathematics clearly means I'm qualified to weigh in on this subject!
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─At getting more funding $'s. The site contains a second statement containing "They've never asked scientifically". After all, what researcher wouldn't see additional scientific scrutiny and the funding to go with it? I'm sure every one of those scientists on that list would be quite happy to burn fl...
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─So you are going to ignore global warming then? Because one of the signers
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─Haha, and one of the math guys is from "Messiah University!"
[19:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─"We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life." So they are fine with a superior being arranging how life is created. That's what I get from this reasoning. I guess religion will always have a part in life, in general.
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:17] <exec> 08└─I hear a lot about "darwinism" but have never heard it defined ferociously. Nothing says 'rigorous scientific opinion' like undefined terms! And the wolf said, "better to ad-hominem you with, my dear."
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─The problem is that biologists are going to get the grant money and there are very few of them on that list.
[19:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─Often intentionally so, because they're part of a subculture that rejects science, prizes superstition, and has had trouble entering the 20th century, much less the 21st.
[19:34:23] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─I'm sure every one of those scientists on that list would be quite happy to burn flaming dump-trucks of money to get to the bottom of this scientific mystery.
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─People have been carefully examining the evidence of evolution for a long time now. There is more for us to learn but the huge amount of evidence is pretty convincing. At least their statement is sufficiently vague as befits actual scientists, and they don't actually refute evolution; they just thin...
[19:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─Yet if it were climate change they were "denying", this list would be censored and anyone on it drummed out of academia forever.
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─Kinda like the 97%
[19:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe these are the last real scientists. You see, Science is not blind acceptance of the textbooks, it is seeking and challenging the boundaries of our (limited) knowledge. Real science expands those boundaries by questioning, looking at thing a bit differently and coming up with better theories wh...
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─In large complex multicellular organisms, how to we get drift in the numbers of chromosomes? Just seems like the chances of that occurring in a viable fashion allowing a branch approaches nil. Since I've never noticed this used as an argument against evolution (admittedly a debate I find inane and...
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─And Bill Nye is.... oh, also not a degree in the field of where he is most vocal. Actually Maths is the foundation of it all and a great place to see there is more to this world that meets the eye.
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─No kidding right? We should have stopped at penicillin!! I'd happily go back to the dark ages if I could just skip the Black Death. Who needs science? I'm countin' these rooocks BIIIITCH!
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─Evolution has been not a "hypothesis" but an engineering technique for a number of years already. And still same old non-arguments get reiterated ad nauseum. I guess the only way to convince some people, is to actually evolve a biosphere in a simulation. And then, some CPU time after, in that simula...
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─Not knowing very much about this domain why is the chromosome count so significant?
[19:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/21/basics-how-can-chromosome-numb [scienceblogs.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─Skepticism is welcome, and should be encouraged. We need people who find some flaw somewhere, to help advance science and theories. But this statement is like kids saying they don't like mushrooms. There's nothing scientific about it. "I am skeptical that grand canyon exists, because its layers and...
[19:34:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:53] <exec> 08└─I see this as healthy skepticism
[19:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:55] <exec> 08└─I suposse that all them are from USA. Literated anti evolution people is an almost exclusive American product.
[19:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:58] <exec> 08└─And Bill Nye is.... Bill Nye doesn't say "I'm a scientist listen to me." He says, "these are what the scientists in the relevant field say, listen to them." Bit of a difference...
[19:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:00] <exec> 08└─It's a big jump to include god and I can't see how that's an either/or thing. Why not a huge black monolith, or a chocolate teapot creating life? What's to debate?
[19:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:02] <exec> 08└─Yup. Led by Michael Behe who has made a career out of this sort of nonsense.
[19:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:05] <exec> 08└─Interesting. My daughter is currently studying Bio-mechanical Engineering at the University where one of the signees teaches. Fortunately, he is not her advisor nor is he one of the professors leading her research internship. I'm going to have to give her a call this weekend and see what she thinks...
[19:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:07] <exec> 08└─You mean the Appendix, who's only purpose is to explode periodically, is not an intelligent design?
[19:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:09] <exec> 08└─A larger list of "scientists" who dissent from science would be more instructive. Creationists and Social Constructionists side by side where they belong.
[19:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:11] <exec> 08└─Looking at the departments and degrees it looks like almost all of them look like they study global warming.
[19:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:14] <exec> 08└─I guess religion will always have a part in life, in general.
[19:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:16] <exec> 08└─The first page has PhDs from USA, Russia, Czech Republic, Nigeria, Hungary, Italy, Ukraine, Israel, UK, and Brazil.
[19:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─Life on Earth is too poorly-designed
[19:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:20] <exec> 08└─Know your right wing propaganda factories and Ruskie Fronts: From Wikipedia: The College Fix is an American libertarian-conservative news website focused on higher education. It was created in 2011 by journalist John J. Miller and is published by the non-profit Student Free Press Association. The si...
[19:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─Whether there is any evidence for the existence of god?
[19:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:25] <exec> 08└─"According to Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer, the signers “have all risked their careers or reputations in signing.”" Yes, publically admitting that you're a moron who has apparently managed to avoid even a most rudimentary critical thinking course, should risk your career....
[19:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:27] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe she or he is working in the field of Religious Algorithms. Genetic Algorithms [wikipedia.org], based on Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, exist and are very useful for optimization. Surely it's time that somebody invents Religious Algorithms!
[19:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:29] <exec> 08└─Just seems like the chances of that occurring in a viable fashion allowing a branch approaches nil.
[19:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:31] <exec> 08└─Yea I agree, it seems they have an open mind and are curious. I bet if you ask them what a p-value is this group will demonstrate they have a bigger clue than the average "scientist" who thinks a significant p-value that passed peer review means they are right.
[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:34] <exec> 08└─Looking at the departments and degrees it looks like almost all of them look like they study global warming.
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QNAP NAS Devices Bitten by Malware - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:42] <exec> 08└─Better than I am. I haven't updated offline storage in ages.
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:54] <exec> 08└─Technically you haven't proved anything about a conscience until you have implemented one. That's not true, we can study all sorts of phenomena without building it ourselves. Most of science is like that.
[19:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:56] <exec> 08└─Bot will be pretty happy as well, finally some verification!
[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─Saying they went carbon neutral would be more accurate, yes.
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─There's more to this story. Those Danes are making money off of this somehow. Good. These technologies that the US is ignoring are going to be very valuable in the near future.
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:18] <exec> 08└─I took the family on a road trip up there a couple summers ago, taking the ferry over from Cape Breton Island to Port aux Basques. We went up the west side all the way to St. Anthony and L'Anse aux Meadows. We enjoyed the rest of the Maritimes quite a lot, but Newfoundland was three steps up from ev...
[19:36:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Amazon does care [about profits] enough to do something. And they are doing something. They have changed. Amazon now has a policy to act as though they genuinely care about counterfitting.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 1895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─Counterfeit board games, as in counterfeit copies of games like Splendor and Ticket to Ride. If you really want to know you can search online, but the short summary... People (especially China, but in general) create counterfeit products, including board games. There are numerous ways, but they incl...
[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:27] <exec> 08└─One acquaintance's employer (a daycare) forbids her from having her magic smart device out while working, but she's allowed to reply to texts, etc via her watch. It's pricy, but meets that need pretty well.
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:29] <exec> 08└─The watch can alert you to when it is time to be happy. When it is time to have a pee break. When it is time to stop eating dinner and return to the office because some van in the parking lot guessed that the company WiFi password is '12345'. Etc.
[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06100 Million Year old Glowing Spider Eyes - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─Arachnids are very cool, you're right, but I was a bit disappointed that this one was not 3 metres long, and caught pterodactyls in it's web. Can't have everything I suppose.
[19:38:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:14] <exec> 08└─Video games publisher Activision Blizzard has announced it will lay off about 800 people, despite reporting record revenue in 2018. The company made $7.5bn (£5.8bn) last year, up from about $7bn in 2017. Its chief executive, Bobby Kotick, said the results were "the best in our history" but did not...
[19:38:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:35] <exec> 08└─We’ve already demonstrated last July that a majority against a bad copyright proposal is achievable.
[19:38:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:41] <exec> 08└─The closer government is to you the easier it is to control.
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:57] <exec> 08└─The constitution would not prevent us to returning to the definition of "limited time" that we used in the past. I think most of the problems would be resolved if we just made "limited time" equal to five or ten years.
[19:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:59] <exec> 08└─It is not about profits. Copyright holders already are enjoying insane margins. It's about segregating access to knowledge and culture based on social/income class.
[19:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:01] <exec> 08└─"Greedy people in control want more money" "No, those people are actively out to try to get us, manipulate us, enslave us, because they want more power and money" hmmm...
[19:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:54] <exec> 08└─Airlines price their tickets with an eye to maximize extraction of 'rent' on the seat, because they can. What this guy is doing, is interfering with monopoly rent extraction. Why do so many people consider this wrong? It should be a competitive sport among savvy fliers.
[19:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:11] <exec> 08└─Hey Larry, doing anything? No, not much. So we need you to go flip a switch, ok? Sure. On Mars...
[19:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:13] <exec> 08└─That was an interesting read. Best bit was with the bio-contamination policies that came from Apollo 12 and the subsequent reverse logic of NASA... instead of risking contamination of one of Jupiter's moons, hmm - maybe find a bigger target - hey, crash the probe into Jupiter proper! Why risk contam...
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[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─They want to get you addicted to their vaccines and misdirect the blame to others when they don't work.
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/measles-outbreak-clark-county-overblown.html [slate.com]
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:59] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the media's interest is to create an association chain of measles outbreak -> antivaxxers -> science deniers -> climate deniers -> Trump.
[20:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, I got maybe 10 to 15 vaccines during my childhood. Nowdays, kids are getting a whole lot more. I'm of the opinion of weighing the risks vs the rewards; Anything that has a high mortality rate? Get the vac. Gov't Flu vac? I'm young, healthy - skip it (haven't had the flu in 5 yrs, e...
[20:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:57] <exec> 08└─"Ignoring 1,000 singers of something stupid" != "ignoring an entire genre of music"
[20:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:58] <exec> 08└─Some research suggests that the appendix serves as a reservoir of microbes, ready to re-colonize the gut if your gut microbes are wiped out or depleted. https://www.sciencedaily.com [sciencedaily.com]
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:00] <exec> 08└─Yes there is a point to it as I pointed out, it gives these people a place to explore their ideas instead of being shoved into the corner for a time out. Hopefully some of them realize that evolution is the best explanation. It is also folly to assume we know everything. I agree with you on the evid...
[20:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:03] <exec> 08└─Let's play Dev...err... Angle's Advocate here for a minute. What if we were able to run some kind of statistical model of the Universe that was sophisticated enough to simulate the evolution that we have observed on smaller time scales. Now, what if that model failed to produce our current level of...
[20:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:05] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem particularly stupid though. The name certainly sounds like it is, but if the quote in the summary is actually the complete statement then I don't really see the problem. It's not saying evolution is a lie, Darwin is a fraud, and intelligent design is the only valid explanation. It's...
[20:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:07] <exec> 08└─If they were drummed out of academia forever, they could become anti-vaxers. (not that I think very many people use a vax these days)
[20:35:08] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:09] <exec> 08└─Genetic Algorithms [wikipedia.org], based on Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, exist and are very useful for optimization.
[20:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─They need to get enough Math education, but not so much as to be capable of counting up the number of chromosomes.
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:14] <exec> 08└─Loonies often claim that they're only asking questions. The thing is that those questions have usually already been answered out in the real world, but to people who were raised in an alt-Christian, anti-science, cult, science is just something those Liberals do.
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:16] <exec> 08└─It'd be a pretty short debate. There is no such evidence thus far. After 2000 years for the currently in-fashion $Deity, the odds of any showing up are really pretty poor. A: Got any consensually experiential, reproducible evidence for God? B: ...uh... no Debate over.
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:18] <exec> 08└─Loonies like Galileo right? Everyone knew the bible was the true word of God so it must be right.
[20:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:21] <exec> 08└─And then there is this: The Discovery Institute (DI) is a politically conservative[4][5][6] non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept[7][8][9] of intelligent design (ID). Its "Teach the Controversy" campaign aims to permit the teaching of anti-ev...
[20:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─As any software engineer with a passing familiarity with biology will attest, there's nothing at all "intelligent" about "the complexity of life". Biology is full of awful hacks, stupidly interrelated systems, and literally life-stopping errors just waiting for to be activated by accident.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─Yet another reason to ignore this stupid crowd.
[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:28] <exec> 08└─Please, remind me when was the list time some scientist was punished for not "believing" in darwinian theory? If they have some evidences, they can bring them to the public. Signed paper is not an evidence. If anything, this act itself looks like religious confession, not like science. Because scien...
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:30] <exec> 08└─Holy false equivalency! They laughed at the Wright brothers, and they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─Come to me in person, create some world for me to see. Sure God can do that without any problems.
[20:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:34] <exec> 08└─Yes there is a point to it as I pointed out, it gives these people a place to explore their ideas instead of being shoved into the corner for a time out.
[20:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that, as expected it was merely a lack of understanding and knowledge on my part :-)
[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:39] <exec> 08└─It's not a false equivalency, it is meant to teach that this metric being used is worthless.
[20:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:41] <exec> 08└─I already did, you are looking at it.
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie. Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse [siderus.io] It has blood on it! [siderus.io] ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander [archive.org] Sound of Silence [siderus.io]
[20:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:46] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, what "evidence" for God would you find convincing? Just asking.
[20:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:48] <exec> 08└─It's purest, willfully ignorant nonsense. Not healthy skepticism. The evidence in favor is outright immense. Overwhelming. The experiments, from petri dishes to evolutionary software, all bear the process itself out. The fossil record bears it out. Observations of short term pressures in restricted...
[20:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:11] <exec> 08└─"Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity" Really? No shit.
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─"Thus, consciousness is humans' ability to perceive reality and report it" Lucid dreams. Locked in syndrome. People in comas. Meditative staes. Falsified in the first sentence.
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:09] <exec> 08└─Well, it was available as a download. Those are hard to resell, though. :)
[20:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:11] <exec> 08└─"99 Luft Baloons" is such an awesome track! :)
[20:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─Cpunterfit goods are a problem... but a product that get's a "fresh new look" after getting thousands of possitive reviews is not a problem? Worse yet are the ones who do not even advertise there has been any change to formula or process...
[20:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:15] <exec> 08└─Only song I thought of as well! ;) The original is awesome because....German, lol.
[20:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:17] <exec> 08└─I understood it as: hors d'oeuvre sized portions at meal-sized prices.
[20:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:45] <exec> 08└─Bwawawawawawawawawa! Oh, wait, you were serious? BWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAAAA!
[20:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─see subject
[20:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:25] <exec> 08└─Do we know to which extent this will be possible under article 13 then?
[20:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they could send another robot to do it.
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[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─Most people who say stuff like that haven't seen the raw data: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[21:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─I agree that xkcd 1732 is offtopic, but... if you extend the timeline into the rule of the machines, they'll have a very different perspective about what is good and what is bad with respect to global temperatures and pernicious biofouling problems. As for the Vaccine topic, online forums are places...
[21:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─When yuo were a kid, you played outside, scratched you knees and got stung by bees. In other words, every day you received a microbe and viral dose millions of times greater than 15 vaccines EVERY SINGLE DAY.
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not totally against vaccine. For me to get the Flu Shot, that's very very rare to happen. When they say it's going to be a really big season for flu, maybe I get the shot. But, usually not. I don’t like the idea of injecting bad stuff into your body, which is basically what they do. I say, why...
[21:34:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─Here's the list. [discovery.org] Notice how few of them are biologists or in relevant fields.
[21:34:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 486 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:38] <exec> 08└─Skepticism is welcome, and should be encouraged. We need people who find some flaw somewhere, to help advance science and theories. But this statement is like kids saying they don't like mushrooms. There's nothing scientific about it. "I am skeptical that grand canyon exists, because its layers and...
[21:34:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:51] <exec> 08└─Know your right wing propaganda factories and Ruskie Fronts: From Wikipedia: The College Fix is an American libertarian-conservative news website focused on higher education. It was created in 2011 by journalist John J. Miller and is published by the non-profit Student Free Press Association. The si...
[21:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:22] <exec> 08└─I can't see how that's an either/or thing.
[21:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:24] <exec> 08└─If you consider that there is but one non-simulation reality, and potentially endless numbers of simulated-realities. The chances that we are not living in a simulation don't look very good.
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─*WOOOOOOOOOOOSH* You rabid "science" pushers are just as bad as religious evangelicals. You should applaud their skepticism even if you disagree with their conclusions / positions. Often times science has advanced by trying to prove one thing but finding out another. Heaping hate and scorn adds noth...
[21:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:28] <exec> 08└─So basically the federal reserve is your God?
[21:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─say "These guys on the list are idiots", and then they laughed and laughed. Then they made the list 'scientists' buy the beers. Reminds me of THESE idiots, spouting off on stuff not in their field of expertise, but HEY!, Nobel laureate! Hello! Listen to ME!!! https://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:33] <exec> 08└─If you wanna argue that this isn't worth funding then I might agree, but that's a different discussion from whether or not there's anything that can be researched.
[21:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:35] <exec> 08└─I see. Fair enough. I think you are correct.
[21:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:37] <exec> 08└─A cunningly phrased question that enables people who rock-solid rationally believe in evolution to answer "no". And most of those reading it will conclude that those scientists are rejecting evolution. The kind of clever question designed to mislead. I'm not specialized in the field, but even I now...
[21:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:39] <exec> 08└─My assumption was that these guys are not morons, but have a political goal, along the lines of "teach the controversy". You know, that controversy we are attempting to manufacture for our own ends.
[21:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:42] <exec> 08└─if it turns out there's an open window in those walls, shouldn't we want to know?
[21:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:44] <exec> 08└─The entire statement is that they are skeptical and think the evidence should be examined? Sounds like how the system should work to me. They even have a banner quote on the website "Darwin’s theory needs to be questioned, challenged, and examined in order to maintain its scientific integrity and...
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:46] <exec> 08└─> how to we get drift in the numbers of chromosomes So, there's some really interesting mechanisms! Basically meiois doesn't discard them all, normally? But there are others. Can these organisms be viable? Yes! Humans with Down Syndrome have an extra chromosome 21 and can reproduce sometimes. The po...
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─I think this here is a case of fox vs cnn, men's rights retards vs feminist retards, etc. The list is almost entirely scientists, and almost entirely in relevant fields - bilology, chemistry, genetics, etc. I'll assume your comment was sarcasm. The issue is, idiots, like people posting most comments...
[21:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─Looks like many of them retired, looking forward to meeting their creator. And 1000 is not exactly a large number. Like 6 million PhDs in America alone ... so yeah, scrapping the floor. Also, the question is dubious. Might as well ask "does Darwin explain how life was created?". And the answer is ob...
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins is a very good popular science book on the subject. There's also one aimed at children called The Magic of Reality. These "skeptics" are not sceptical. They're deniers. Unfortunately we live in increasingly ignorant times. Stupid is very much in fashion.
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─Are we talking 1000 PhDs in Theology?
[21:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─None of this is to say I agree with them, or that they are being perfect scientists about this, only that our response should more "Show me the science" than "Stupid creationists".
[21:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:00] <exec> 08└─Seriously, the laws of thermodynamics are a better basis for proof of natural selection, but the maths is a bit hairy for idiots that don't "get" Darwin. Put simply, equilibrium is death. (one of my tutors told us this gem, and it is delightfully simple). Biology trades energy for temporary (you die...
[21:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:02] <exec> 08└─Pfffft I'm not going to believe THEIR lies.
[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─Whether there is any evidence for the existence of god?
[21:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QNAP NAS Devices Bitten by Malware - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:15] <exec> 08└─I hadn't seen this warning yet - so it's nice to have found it on SN. Installing the malware checker now. Don't expect any problems, but better safe than sorry...
[21:36:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:58] <exec> 08└─With third party sellers Amazon is becoming an Ebay type site that only has buy-it-now. I recently ordered a CD from Amazon and received the wrong one. Contacted Amazon and their response was since it was a third party seller there was nothing they could do but send an email on my behalf. Fortunatel...
[21:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:32] <exec> 08└─I'd rather take the risk of losing money via eBay than getting murdered by meeting someone via Craigslist.
[21:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:33] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah, even if the fares were the same there were people to see in Brussels anyway...
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[22:33:50] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─being Will Smith. I wouldn't call it terrifying, but it's pretty obvious they went for 'you do you' instead of 'you do Robin' Not sure I care for it, but the bit showing him is so brief it's hard to say if that won't change. I typically like Will Smith, so I'll withhold judgement until I see more.
[22:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─That's hot. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Arab Thanos
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:54] <exec> 08└─Curious(?) factoid that the original script has him born in a Chinese province. BTW, Will Smith is too skinny for the genie. Someone with Shaq's physique would be better.
[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─Someone with Shaq's physique would be better.
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─Or sinbad, but he was already in shazam.
[22:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─Berenstein
[22:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─Blueface is offensive to drowning victims and very cold people.
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─The original story was told by a Persian (her name was Scheherazade) to another Persian (her husband that would kill her if she stopped holding his interest). It was common in those days to treat China as some impossibly far away land where magic was real. It was a place they knew existed but had on...
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─Do blue lives matter, if it's black people in smurfface ?
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─The main guy from black panthers?
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing those Web Forums up in some way.
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─closing those Web Forums up in some way.
[22:34:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─So you are going to ignore global warming then? Because one of the signers
[22:35:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:04] <exec> 08└─And Bill Nye is.... Bill Nye doesn't say "I'm a scientist listen to me." He says, "these are what the scientists in the relevant field say, listen to them." Bit of a difference...
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─My PHD in Mathematics clearly means I'm qualified to weigh in on this subject!
[22:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:07] <exec> 08└─To simplify the complexity, copy paste all the code and previous versions into one almighty function called main(). Add one huge block of comments to help distunguish between Old and New versions of the code. Accept that it works in mysterious ways. There - much simpler!
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─(not that I think very many people use a vax these days)
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─According to one of the articles AC posted on this earlier, luck will do fine in place of an advantage (an advantage would be advantageous of course...)
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─If you are talking about God as Christians define it-- supernatural, omnipotent, and omniscient-- that's a loaded question. It presumes that God is part of the natural world, and His existence (or lack) can be discovered through scientific methods. That's much the same mistake Creationists make. The...
[22:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, I am glad to hear that antibiotic resistant bacteria are not possible. Thanks "Creation Science!"
[22:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─Because "Darwinism" is just one component of evolutionary theory these days. It's not the 1800s anymore. Maybe they should go back to school.
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:21] <exec> 08└─Either there is no God and evolution is a thing, or God created an internally consistent world that can be explored and logically explained forward and backward...and evolution is a thing. What's to debate?
[22:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:05] <exec> 08└─You ride? What's your bike? Having seen The Secret Life of Walter Mitty I have an urge to spend a few weeks around the seeing the sights
[22:37:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Australian Government Cracking Down on Streaming Sites - 708 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:57] <exec> 08└─To keep prices at an inflated level. The 101 of economics: you need scarce resources. Streaming "all you can eat" buffets does not make things scarce. Therefore, doing so would expose the real value of the service and content. Now the media people are in a pickle. The "streaming" part is already at...
[22:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:17] <exec> 08└─I suppose, oh mysterious and cryptic AC, that having a right to your opinion does not mean you are entitled to not be mocked for it? Of course a right to meaningful employment entails an entitlement! What would "Right to Work" mean, if it was not an entitlement to work? Oh, right, it is Republican N...
[22:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:56] <exec> 08└─Send me $1 for every view it gets.
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[23:34:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:03] <exec> 08└─Blueface is offensive to drowning victims and very cold people.
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears [wikipedia.org] okay, sure, probably an improvement over the referenced nightmare fuel, but, what?
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─The Europeans Had Prester John [wikipedia.org] a mighty Christian king ruling an Eastern land full of marvels. He will save us from the Mongols.
[23:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─I am not certain, but Aladdin was not in the original Arabian Nights. It was added later by some French compiler. And you are wrong about the Arabs and the Chinese. Arabs knew of the Chinese in real life - it was the allied Arab-Turk force that put a stop to Tang Chinese incursion into Central Asia....
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:14] <exec> 08└─I typically like Will Smith, so I'll withhold judgement until I see more.
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─My time was wasted by checking out the link! Don't do it. They just want you to check out a boring, insignificant, annoying rendition of a blue genie by Will Smith. Big deal!
[23:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:33] <exec> 08└─How exactly do you get "addicted" to vaccines? 1 per disease, some with a booster shot, but after that you're good to go for 40-50 years. Not like you're scoring MMR in the back alleys of medicine to get your daily fix.
[23:35:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:21] <exec> 08└─Life on Earth is too poorly-designed
[23:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What’s the Enterprise Business Case for Apple Watch? - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:22] <exec> 08└─I know someone that works someplace that they don't allow you to be on your phone. This person has children. So she has a watch that lets her check her text messages and I believe it lets her talk with her children too.
[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─...The British exercise in "accountability" has been a total attack of the Bruces Nigels...
[23:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I stand corrected.
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