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[00:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Linux Graphics Driver Adding Device Local Memory - Possible Start of Discrete GPU Bring-Up - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:05] <exec> 08└─Here, I think it means Direct Rendering Manager right? I don't know what that means, either, though :-)
[00:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:17] <exec> 08└─i cannot hear you now, i'm at sprint
[00:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─He deleted those nasty nasty Tweets. Or possibly, the Twitter Administration deleted them (I would). But he didn't delete his Account. It's not too late, John!!!
[00:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:21] <exec> 08└─If you're around Washington DC, you don't have to go very far to find places where the only available cellphone coverage is Verizon Wireless. If that. No AT&T, no Sprint, in suburbs of Annapolis MD.
[00:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:23] <exec> 08└─Legere mocked the hotel for having everything labeled "Trump" Even the bed bugs?
[00:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─I meant the Russian mobile listening devices.
[00:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:17] <exec> 08└─Here in my little California town, the "dollar store" ... I buy bags of avocados for 99 cents there
[00:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─European countries are smaller; Europeans live in smaller areas; population density in Europe is higher. Therefore, they don't travel as far on a daily basis as the average American does.
[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─Rural folk who drive more aren't gonna be buying no goddamn Teslas.
[00:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:33] <exec> 08└─> It is absolutely expected that when a device is told to use a given DNS and/or gateway it will use it Funny, I don't read the RFC as saying "The client MUST respect any non-IP related configuration pushed via DHCP". All RFCs are carefully worded, and any requirements are explicitly stated with MUS...
[00:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:35] <exec> 08└─Don't use their hardware devices. Nobody needs a Chromecast. Don't use their browser. Nobody needs Chrome (unless you're at work and you have shitty apps written just for Chrome). Or, you can ignore me and find yourself stuck with whatever Google wants. Have it your way.
[00:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:03] <exec> 08└─Imbeciles and idiots are dumber than morons, with idiots being the dumbest. http://www.todayifoundout.com [todayifoundout.com]
[00:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:04] <exec> 08└─In California, idiots are one of six types of people who are not capable of committing any form of crime.
[00:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:07] <exec> 08└─A turtle's shell is a sort of personal wall, and is no defense whatsoever against a human with a few simple tools. A big rock is enough to beat a turtle shell. Another method is to cage the turtle and wait it out.
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─It's not a bug, it's a feature.
[00:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:47] <exec> 08└─Every cloud I suppose.
[00:39:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Arizona Drivers Can Now Use Digital License Plates - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:05] <exec> 08└─So, aside from giving consumertards a woody from throwing electronics where they don't need to be, what the fuck is the point?
[00:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Drivers Can Now Use Digital License Plates - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:19] <exec> 08└─Yeeee-haaaaw!!!!
[00:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Drivers Can Now Use Digital License Plates - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:21] <exec> 08└─I bet you could get the cops to care if you hack the plate to flash "DRUGS" in big red letters.
[00:41:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 858 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:20] <exec> 08└─Here's how it works out for me. Thousands of dollars taken from my paycheck and given to insurance companies that have no need to please me as they don't work for me. Thousands of dollars of medical bills paid from my own pocket because what I need is not covered and/or in-network providers cannot p...
[00:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:45] <exec> 08└─"The Mill" architecture.
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[01:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─I can't help thinking they'd rake in a whole lot more cash if they waited on their IPO until they were showing a profit. If they need the cash infusion to make ends meet, they're not really a fiscally sound investment to begin with.
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Linux Graphics Driver Adding Device Local Memory - Possible Start of Discrete GPU Bring-Up - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─Seems important to me.
[01:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Linux Graphics Driver Adding Device Local Memory - Possible Start of Discrete GPU Bring-Up - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:11] <exec> 08└─The existing solutions are enterprise grade and with prices over six thousands, pretty far away from the realm where one just want to have a little fun with a couple of virtual instances.
[01:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─Even the stains on the mattresses have "Made in Trump" on them.
[01:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:23] <exec> 08└─But perhaps they shouldn't be allowed to sell food.
[01:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:24] <exec> 08└─But perhaps they shouldn't be allowed to sell food.
[01:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:42] <exec> 08└─Do you want supermutants? Because this is how you get supermutants.
[01:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:43] <exec> 08└─Explosions are also valid science.
[01:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:45] <exec> 08└─Whenever human rights come up there often is a misunderstanding that they are given somehow. By definition, once you define it as a human right it is then afforded to all humans on only 1 condition: being human. Governments and others do not create or give it, they can only infringe upon natural inh...
[01:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:48] <exec> 08└─Privacy is defined by the set of social and legal boundaries dealing with access in any one society that we are expected not to cross, or are outright forbidden to cross.
[01:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:50] <exec> 08└─By definition, once you define it as a human right it is then afforded to all humans on only 1 condition: being human.
[01:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:07] <exec> 08└─You may do a 300 mile each way trip once per year, but not many people in the UK do. 300 miles is about half the distance from John O'Groats to Lands End, so if you live around Manchester or somewhere in the north Midlands, 300 miles is probably the maximum one-way drive that is possible without cro...
[01:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:53] <exec> 08└─Network firewalls and blocking ports are bad practice. They shouldn't be utilized, and it's your fault if you break a device by blocking traffic.
[01:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:07] <exec> 08└─It's true. I can't even draw good stick figures. I think my lack of artistic talent is the universe's way of keeping me from being declared a god.
[01:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:08] <exec> 08└─Given our diets, I wouldn't spend much time even speculating, much less investigating.
[01:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:11] <exec> 08└─Hey, man, if you want to take the contributed CSS for the mobile version and tweak it referenced to what's on dev, I'd welcome the hell out of it. My plate's so full at the moment between life and such that we'll be lucky to have another site update of any kind by summer.
[01:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:13] <exec> 08└─Email it to me? What do you mean by "tweak it referenced to what's on dev"?
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[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─Fuck New York. Suck My Fucking Dick You Cock sucking Bastdids.
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's just you. I suppose the early investors are hoping to dump the whole steaming pile on some other sucker at this point. Usually that's done by selling shares to the public, so where is the current lot of money coming from? Also why would anyone loan these guys $1 billion every few...
[02:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:08] <exec> 08└─Surely this type of circus financing HAS to come to a sticky end? Sounds like Uber are in the already-should-be-dead category. Makes you wonder just who has what agenda and keeps dumping in cash 'until it works'...
[02:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:32] <exec> 08└─As discussed in a recent SN article about urban farming, growing your own food is generally a terrible idea that is extremely expensive and does not really work. Most poor people don't have large yards where they can make gardens, and they don't have time to tend them. The inherent problem with food...
[02:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:34] <exec> 08└─Teach self-worth, community, hard work, helping others....
[02:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:36] <exec> 08└─Similarly, across the Pacific, in Japan, there are ¥100 stores (roughly $1 at today's exchange rates) such as Daiso, which have spilled over into neighbouring regions like the Philippines (where the ¥100 has become ₱88). Just as with these pound stores you speak of, they don't really have genera...
[02:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:38] <exec> 08└─I am interested in giving Lidl a shot, but for now, it's Aldi all the way (with some other stores if I need something out of bounds of the limited inventory).
[02:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:40] <exec> 08└─I don't buy a lot of meat. What other than meat and some off-brand imitation products (e.g. Triscuit) has a noticeable drop in quality? Eggs and whole milk taste the same, vegetables taste the same unless they have been sitting around too long, etc. As it turns out, Aldi does stock some more expensi...
[02:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:18] <exec> 08└─I have owned Hondas most of my life. The last Honda I owned that was simple to service was a Civic built in 1995. I have owned an Odyssey and a Pilot since then (family man now), and I can assure you that the ease and cheapness of repairs has disappeared in proportion to the adoption of new technolo...
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:23] <exec> 08└─What project software do you use? Git/hub/lab? Jira? Trello? Wiki? Etherpad?
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[03:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:58] <exec> 08└─Sour grapes NYC, Amazon didn't need ya. Get over yourselves.
[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah New York! You do things slightly differently to us! You must be bad. Also, you know how to spell bastard.
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─Obviously Amazon [nytimes.com] are the problem? [wsj.com] Detroit has nothing on the stupid of today's liberal utopias. Fuck New York!
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:04] <exec> 08└─As the mayor of the nation's largest city, a place that's both a progressive beacon and the very symbol of capitalism, I share the frustration about corporate America. So do many of my fellow mayors across the country. We know the game is rigged. But we still find ourselves fighting one another in t...
[03:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:06] <exec> 08└─That's how Mafia works.
[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─sounds like my kid when he loses at a board game after he thought he was winning. My kid is 6... In any case, you gotta wonder how much people were willing to bend over for Amazon indeed. It's a bit like the Olympics where we finally see some cities saying screw this we don't need the Olympics and t...
[03:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:20] <exec> 08└─Nah, rule of thumb for any new business is expect to lose significant amounts of money for the first three years even if you're doing everything pretty well. The larger the scale you try to place your business on, the more risk you run of reaching the black either taking longer or never happening at...
[03:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─The execs are all in shock. "But, I though congress was all our bitches! They've been giving us all the money we ask for, for decades now! Did those silly bitches REALLY think we were building infrastructure? THAT'S WHAT THEY REALLY THOUGHT?!?!"
[03:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:51] <exec> 08└─Now, *Let's see what happens* Really, this drama could hardly be more contrived.
[03:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:53] <exec> 08└─There is a difference in quality between nailclippers. Cheap ones work, but good ones work /well/.
[03:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:55] <exec> 08└─I've yet to notice a difference in vegetables, but it would supposedly be nutrient/mineral/contaminant content rather than directly sensible.
[03:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:21] <exec> 08└─What's to stop Google setting up a resolver to answer queries on port 54, and hard-coding that into a Chromecast?
[03:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:54] <exec> 08└─I heard decades ago that "You charge an ambush" Presumably that works better if you have a bunch of buddies with the same training though.
[03:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:56] <exec> 08└─Turtles are delicious.
[03:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, maybe. I note that Hillary has a virtual fortress to protect her property. The image of Pelosi's property that circulates via email with HUGE walls is inaccurate, but she DOES have a wall. All of Hollyweird erects walls at their events, to keep the riff-raff out. Walls, walls, walls - everywher...
[03:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty sure runaway is a riff on #walkaway.
[03:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:47] <exec> 08└─The site's CSS has changed some since it was written (before it was written actually but it didn't leave dev until later) and it would need to be updated to account for that since it replaces base.css I believe.
[03:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:48] <exec> 08└─Github [github.com]. I think there's a link on the main page somewhere. Most of the coding is done in vim and tested on our dev server at the moment because the redistributable dev VM hasn't been updated in a long, long time.
[03:44:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 761 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:28] <exec> 08└─Sometimes they surprise you by actually making sane decisions. Belonging to a religious group is not the same as belonging to a race, or just biological subgroup. I could convert to islam (or any other religion) today but you can't really convert race, by becoming muslim I wouldn't change race. It m...
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[04:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─What were the predictions?
[04:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─for some of us to learn the tables.
[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:01] <exec> 08└─where-does-chuck-norrium-fall-on-the-table
[04:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:15] <exec> 08└─And the NYC mayors have always been careful how they work with Mafia, right?
[04:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─There's one thing that tops getting the Divorce from Jeff Bozo. And that's getting the Annulment from Amazon. Congratulations N.Y.!!!
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─From the beginning, this was pretty much a non-story for most of us. If they didn't build a new headquarters, prices might stay stable for a little while. With a new headquarters, prices will increase. Phhhttt. . . .
[04:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:29] <exec> 08└─Surely this type of circus financing HAS to come to a sticky end?
[04:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:03] <exec> 08└─Possibly. You could add a multivitamin. Don't forget to cut out the microplastic-laden sea salt from your diet.
[04:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:05] <exec> 08└─Why do we want to make food more expensive for poor people? And what paternalistic arrogance to presume to know what is best for others and claim the right to force them to do our bidding? Good grief.
[04:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:07] <exec> 08└─Dollar stores are just providing what their customers want
[04:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:33] <exec> 08└─My router running FreshTomato has an option to intecept DNS port and send it to the resolver address you specify.
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:34] <exec> 08└─A restrictive firewall may not allow the outgoing queries on port 54. They might have more success with port 443 -- and there is already a standard for this: RFC 8484 [ietf.org]
[04:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:36] <exec> 08└─I think you will find that Windows has *never* fully used the DNS data that is in a DHCP reply. Windows only uses two resolvers, irrespective of how many the DHCP server to the client. I think there is other information in a dhcp reply that Windows ignores.
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[05:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─And Periodic Table is holding up beautifully -- just like Home Alone 2. A true classic!!!
[05:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─I hear that it might affect prices in New York because some trucking infrastructure that was going to get built will be dropped.
[05:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:20] <exec> 08└─What I hope someone can explain is: what is the point of blasting Amazon now? Did they sign papers and purchase land somewhere else? If not, isn't there still a chance to negotiate and try to win them back? And even if not, what's the mayor of "the nation's largest city" doing talking this way? Is h...
[05:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:22] <exec> 08└─What I hope someone can explain is: what is the point of blasting Amazon now?
[05:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you Mr. Marx but that'll be enough of your nonsense. Prices for food are set so that those producing the food can feed their own families. If they can't do that they stop producing food at all and look for employment elsewhere. Then those who are still producing food charge even more because a...
[05:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:10] <exec> 08└─How about we don't subsidize anything and let the people and their wallets pick the winners and losers?
[05:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:12] <exec> 08└─Local zoning boards. If you have zoning regulations, that that kind of rule could easily be a part.
[05:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:14] <exec> 08└─"to some extent" doesn't cover easily perishable food. Food banks can handle potatoes, beans, etc., but they don't do well with lettuce, grapes, etc.
[05:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:17] <exec> 08└─Why should that rule be a part? We haven't shown that there's an actual problem here. Or that we're making said problem better by making it harder for poor people to buy food.
[05:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:38] <exec> 08└─Exactly so. -- Head: Cannot open 'brain' for reading. No such file or directory.
[05:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:09] <exec> 08└─Don't add a space, add a nonprinting character. The aesthetic is good. The "word" just needs to break on the real word breaks.
[05:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:11] <exec> 08└─Yep, I was going to type this but instead just "yup". Thanks coders and editors and comment participants all; thanks everyone, for making this community worth being part of, in an environment (no js, screenreader compatible) that's not abhorrent. -AC since very very early.
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[06:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:01] <exec> 08└─Like this: Macfarlane Burnet, another Nobel laureate wrote, wrote in 1971 that “the contribution of laboratory science [to medicine] has virtually come to an end.” Yet another Nobel laureate Peter Medawar took him to task, predicting in 1980 cures for juvenile diabetes and multiple sclerosis wit...
[06:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:03] <exec> 08└─He's not entirely wrong but he's significantly off the mark as well. We've all but cured HIV/AIDS, created the HPV vaccine, and there are cancer treatments in early testing that appear to be very nearly a safe and completely effective universal cure. So, it's clearly possible for us to still make se...
[06:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:05] <exec> 08└─there are cancer treatments in early testing that appear to be very nearly a safe and completely effective universal cure.
[06:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─I mean really if I can find someone who really believes this I will bet everything I have on it not happening even without seeing the source. A lawyer will need to be involved because I expect there may be an attempt to do it in some weasely way like redefining "cancer" or "cure". N.B. Medical resea...
[06:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─We've all but cured HIV/AIDS
[06:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:12] <exec> 08└─Pain relief... It's what they ration more than anything else.
[06:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:14] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing Ivan Illich is an alias??? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:16] <exec> 08└─Wrong: "HIV/AIDS has become a chronic rather than an acutely fatal disease in many areas of the world"
[06:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:19] <exec> 08└─In other words, we made it almost non-lethal, provided that you take medication all your life. And no strong warranty offered: Even with anti-retroviral treatment, over the long term HIV-infected people may experience neurocognitive disorders, osteoporosis, neuropathy, cancers, nephropathy, and card...
[06:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:21] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich [wikipedia.org]
[06:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:23] <exec> 08└─Then why the opioid epidemic? It seems like they can't get enough of prescribing pseudo-opioids to their trusting patients.
[06:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:25] <exec> 08└─It makes great fodder for the news cycle, but how about not-even-recent medical progress that's actively being rejected by anti-vaxxers? If he wants to complain about how modern medicine sucks, maybe he could start with just getting these people vaccinated?
[06:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:55] <exec> 08└─NYC didn't actually offer Amazon much at all. All that hand-waving about billions of benefits? Those things were already written into the law, Amazon would just have been able to avail themselves of that. Amazon was ready to go, with broad support among the people of (especially) Queens, until the p...
[06:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:49] <exec> 08└─There's no natural growth in their markets at all, all they can do is try to steal market share from others.
[06:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:46] <exec> 08└─A good question to ask in all of this is where does Slashdot stand now?
[06:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:48] <exec> 08└─This site means the Internet for me. Here, I am not an audience member, I am a member.
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[07:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:00] <exec> 08└─It's probably for the best they didn't put a blank that you can fill in yourself. I don't think the FAA or TSA would look kindly upon that many Apache helicopters at the airport.
[07:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:01] <exec> 08└─Let's just omit the field for sex then as it now has no meaning.
[07:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:03] <exec> 08└─I identify as a hydrogen atom; simple and unstable.
[07:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:22] <exec> 08└─See the second paragraph. Vaccines fit perfectly with what is described. The promise was that measles would be eradicated by 1967 then vaccinations could be stopped. Promise not kept. Now when is the last time you heard a vaccine promised to eradicate a virus? That was the original purpose, it has s...
[07:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:23] <exec> 08└─With so many diseases being genetic, "curing" them would require splicing up people's DNA and "fixing" it. Not a trivial task. The drug that mimics a missing enzyme is much more practical.
[07:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:25] <exec> 08└─A study [hjf.org] ten years ago in Thailand had an HIV vaccine that managed a 32% success rate. That's still not good odds but you don't even get bad odds on something this complicated unless you're on to something. That's wishful thinking, marketdroid speak and/or the brainwashing result of the lat...
[07:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:27] <exec> 08└─Sources for this type of announcement pop up every year or so. Pick a search engine and look. The last one I saw was last fall out of Israel. I'm not saying bet your life savings on it. I'm saying with this many people trying this many different approaches, it's going to happen sooner or later no ma...
[07:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:30] <exec> 08└─No need. Darwin cures those eventually if you allow him to.
[07:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:32] <exec> 08└─No, it is no more likely to happen than if a bunch of monks were praying and waiting for a heavenly revelation about what to do. You can keep adding more monks all you want, it's never gonna happen. But I don't want you to believe me, I want to know how to bet against people like you who believe thi...
[07:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying the announcements are going to cause anything. I'm saying that many scientists looking into it eventually will no matter what you or I believe.
[07:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:05] <exec> 08└─Take the $3 billion in incentives to Amazon. Use it to improve city infrastructure... Roads, Subways, Water System... if there is anything leftover, maybe make a small windfarm on the river or solarfarm on some rooftops. Using that money will add jobs to the economy. It will improve the citizens qua...
[07:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:47] <exec> 08└─Tmo will be the whipping boy, because they are foreign-owned.
[07:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:01] <exec> 08└─It's just the standard "I know better than you what you should do" behavior from academics and the 'intelligentsia'. It doesn't work, because people are contrary bastards who won't behave how the academics think they should. Anytime someone is advocating that sort of rule you can assume they are a p...
[07:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:02] <exec> 08└─Actually at Aldi, I really have not had any quality issues with their food. Their fruits and vegetables are just as good as anywhere else, and yes, they even have organic fruits and veggies as well. All while being cheaper than the mainstream supermarkets. Their meats are also fine, I have not had a...
[07:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:04] <exec> 08└─I am a 6'11" middle aged male with size 15 (US) (I think 49 EU size) feet. I want nail clippers that cut my nail off and not leave something to become ingrown. I do not need (unused) built in emory boards, or a way to leverage extra power (I have enough hand strength) to cut. I do not care if it is...
[07:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:02] <exec> 08└─I've noticed a much higher level of authoritarianism on Slashdot, such as comments professing support of things like the NSA's mass surveillance and the TSA.
[07:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung to Stop Releasing New Blu-ray Players in the U.S. - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:09] <exec> 08└─I can give you one valid use for dvds: RedBox dvd rental kiosks conveniently located at gas stations and such for popping a new movie in to occupy the kids during a long car trip. Obtain dvd in one state, view on the way, drop off viewed movie in the next state.
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[08:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:00] <exec> 08└─I identify as a perl script; simple, efficient, and most folks have a complete inability to understand me.
[08:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:01] <exec> 08└─We've crossed the line from compassion to enabling. Why just this one thing? We shouldn't be so limited... If you are 5'10" and weigh only 90 pounds, but you insist that you are obese, we should all accept your self-identification. It's so wrong to believe in anorexia. All obese people, even ones wh...
[08:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:03] <exec> 08└─These people suffer from gender dysphoria. It's a mental illness.
[08:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:05] <exec> 08└─All that is fine, but there are 2 questions that need to be asked: 1. What is exactly an airline wants to know? Are they interested in knowing which genital you have? Do they want to know how "nice" they need to be while groping? Why do they want to know my gender in the first place? If it is a gove...
[08:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:08] <exec> 08└─Might not be the best idea -- considering the grammar is a little context-sensitive and can't be handled solely via BNF, the TSA may have some problems with that [youtube.com].
[08:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VeasMKII [2271] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:10] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day, i don't generally see how knowing someones gender is going to make a blind bit of different to an airline. This information probably shouldn't be recorded in the first place. People just throw it into forms without thinking.
[08:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:12] <exec> 08└─A simple option of 'Other' beside Male and Female is not a problem. 'Other' do exist. If you think there are people abusing that option, then the solution is not to remove 'Other'. So what should be done to stop it?
[08:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:14] <exec> 08└─"Undecided"
[08:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:40] <exec> 08└─I'm saying I know the current state of cancer research and the idea they could accomplish what you are claiming (I assume based off the marketing materials universities are pumping out) is laughable. There's not a chance in the world. Monks just making shit up would probably have a better chance sin...
[08:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:41] <exec> 08└─sorry, but you're wrong. there are two cases for genetic diseases: 1. death before reproduction: recessive genes will survive in the population, unless you activate a eugenics program. Darwin will not help. 2. death after reproduction: Darwin will not help, unless you activate a eugenic program for...
[08:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:43] <exec> 08└─smallpox was eliminated with vaccines.
[08:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:14] <exec> 08└─what's the mayor of "the nation's largest city" doing talking this way? Is he somehow improving commerce, or society in general?
[08:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:26] <exec> 08└─> they need the cash infusion That's not quite the right way to look at it. Uber's goal is/was to burn money until it achieves a monopoly and then jack prices up and make amazing profits. However it seems like they're having trouble fighting that war of attrition. On the west front, Uber is breaking...
[08:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:13] <exec> 08└─I can't work out whether I am missing the point, you are being sarcastic, or Ari has hijacked your account.
[08:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:15] <exec> 08└─** given that "grow your own" is an expensive proposition when compared with buying them from agribusiness.
[08:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:17] <exec> 08└─In my case, water services are expensive (e.g. sewage services charged based on consumption), weather is hot and has been quite dry for the last 2 years. But even letting aside the costs, most of the crops tend to ripe at the same time. The result is 3weeks of eating your own and buying the same pro...
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[08:41:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, please! Not the original requester, but equally thrilled if this fix went live.
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[09:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:00] <exec> 08└─(Something extremely nasty) Molendez!! They are corporate pirates who make promises and then backstab. One example is the Cadbury's debacle in New Zealand - (google it) - but that is only one of many such tricks they have perpetrated around the world. They deserve no mercy, no insurance money and sh...
[09:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:01] <exec> 08└─Virtually all insurance policies have an "act of war" get-out-of-jail-free clause. No matter what happens to a client, if the insurance company can blame it on a war, the insurance company doesn't have to pay. I'm sure there are exceptions besides the insurance sold to recruits in boot camp. I can't...
[09:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:20] <exec> 08└─If you are born into it, is there any reason to call it 'ill' if you are well functioning? Mentally ill, I can fully understand. Physically ill? That is one hell of a slippery slope. We already have too many things being defined as illness. Apparently, if you aren't an ideal worker, you are ill. I w...
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:21] <exec> 08└─Why is this flamebait? He makes a point. If you can be anything you want to be, then the terms are meaningless bullshit. You will ALWAYS BE male or female. You might wear a disguise to avoid being identified, but when the victim of a crime gives the police a description of you, you will never be "Au...
[09:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:23] <exec> 08└─Good argument. Why do they want to know? Do females get more comfortable seats? Didn't think so. Do males always get the windows seats? Didn't think so. Some difference in the menu offered? Again, I didn't think so. I'm going to get precisely the same service, or lack thereof, whether I'm male or fe...
[09:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─Women and children first purposes, maybe? Beats the shit out of me. Nothing. If you find out someone's been playing silly buggers you necessarily have also found out their actual gender and the issue is moot.
[09:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:28] <exec> 08└─If restless leg syndrome can be called an illness, anything can. I'd say being a hermaphrodite is more of a birth defect than an illness but it's really up to the person in question how they choose to look at it. They can consider it a superpower for all I care.
[09:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:57] <exec> 08└─You're a pessimist.
[09:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:58] <exec> 08└─Yep that campaign was run earlier.
[09:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:00] <exec> 08└─None of those anouncements are about "cancer", they're about specific forms of cancer. Helpful to some people, but not many and who knows how many are every fully developed and actually create a tangible benefit?
[09:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying you're wrong, but I am saying that this type of breakthrough is nowhere near as close as it may appear if you read just the research announcements. To put it into computer terms, today's biomedical/cancer research is basically trying to support legacy code, that is * about 4 billion y...
[09:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:05] <exec> 08└─Doctors prescribing cures just for bribes from patent holders or based on patient's ignorance(antibiotics for flu etc) violate the Hippocratic Oath. There aren't any more regulations needed here. If they refuse to honor even foundational ethical principles of medicine then they'll ignore any regulat...
[09:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:07] <exec> 08└─Damn, you're harsh. Just think about all those kids who might go hungry if the snake oil salesmen are put out of work!
[09:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 2604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:09] <exec> 08└─In some cases, the rationing creates the crisis. Patient gets necessary opoids. Patient gets cut off because the pain "should" be gone. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but the patient is definitely addicted. So the patient resorts to street drugs and eventually ends up in jail, in the gutter, or dea...
[09:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:12] <exec> 08└─We were well on our way with polio but then the CIA got involved.
[09:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 2877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:47] <exec> 08└─What works _really_ well at Grocery Outlet is the stuff that's close to its Sell-By Date, so _every_ time I go there, I examine every item I could _conceivably_ want then note it's expiry. That leads to my regularly purchasing ten-dollar Brie for $1.99. The Mind Simply Reels. At G-O, one must take _...
[09:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:48] <exec> 08└─I Rest My Mother Fucking Case.
[09:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:51] <exec> 08└─Firefox to my great joy - I think it is otherwise 7H3 5UX0R - enables one to banninate cookies by domain. So now I'm ripping off every last journalist that Walks The Earth, as well as their Cousins. Good Times.
[09:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:53] <exec> 08└─I've got some motivation to regard grass-fed beef products as more-nutritious. I could easily verify that assertion - mostly asserted by SJW's and Conspiracy Theorists - because a good friend of mine here in PDX has an MS in Nutrition - but have yet to actually do so. I _can_ tell you that Iron from...
[09:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:23] <exec> 08└─That is absolutely hilarious. I have gotten quite adept at killing screen blockers and overlays manually. There must be a way to hide ad blocking from them.
[09:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:25] <exec> 08└─Well it Bork when a non Google answer is returned?
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[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─Bottom line, if you're paying insurance premiums to cover your data, then the insurance company should pay you when your data is lost.
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:00] <exec> 08└─You nailed it with "too risky to insure". My point is, if the insurance company wrote the policy, and accepted payment, then the insurance company needs to pay off. It's not OUR fault that some insurance company failed to assess the risks.
[10:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:02] <exec> 08└─Look, none of the stock exchanges suffered because of NotPetya, so it is possible to do it.
[10:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:04] <exec> 08└─The answer is that they're not allowed to properly assess the risks when it comes to deployed software. Remember almost 20 years ago when this kind of insurance was just starting to rear its head? The premiums for M$ products were much higher than for the better designed software. That's what looks...
[10:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:07] <exec> 08└─What a surprise!! An assurance company making up excuses for not paying
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[10:34:19] <exec> 08└─All that is fine, but there are 2 questions that need to be asked: 1. What is exactly an airline wants to know? Are they interested in knowing which genital you have? Do they want to know how "nice" they need to be while groping? Why do they want to know my gender in the first place? If it is a gove...
[10:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:29] <exec> 08└─Now now. Pond scum is not a sex. Let's make this a bit more pc before someone gets sued for sexual vilification.
[10:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:31] <exec> 08└─Oh FFS just helicopter up and admit that you are an Apache Attack Helicopter We can see your rotary blades, you know.
[10:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:33] <exec> 08└─You will ALWAYS BE male or female.
[10:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:35] <exec> 08└─True, RLS isn't an illness -- it's a syndrome [wikipedia.org]. It's definitely a real physical condition, though, not just a case where someone is antsy, energetic, or lacking in self-control.
[10:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:38] <exec> 08└─So are all the other body dysmorphias. The analogy was a good one.
[10:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:40] <exec> 08└─I'd say being a hermaphrodite is more of a birth defect than an illness but it's really up to the person in question how they choose to look at it. They can consider it a superpower for all I care.
[10:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:42] <exec> 08└─Fiction has it's place. Science, civil society and aviation are not that place.
[10:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:19] <exec> 08└─Very good analysis, but you got one point wrong, or at least off target. The sons of bitches outright LIED TO CONGRESS, and the lie was repeated often enough that it became "truth". The lie was that "only 1% of opioid prescriptions lead to addiction". I really don't know what the real percentage was...
[10:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:21] <exec> 08└─I prefer hopeful but not expecting it to happen tomorrow. It'd be nice if it did but I'm good just as long as it eventually gets taken care of.
[10:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:23] <exec> 08└─That was a what those of us with a sense of humor like to call a "joke". Gallows humor [wikipedia.org] to be specific.
[10:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:25] <exec> 08└─Think of all the snakes having to slither around with dry skin due to lack of oiling too.
[10:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:27] <exec> 08└─I like water polio better. It's more entertaining when a participant poops in the playing area in the water version.
[10:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:29] <exec> 08└─Was it, though? I read of campaigns in India often enough to cast doubts on that claim. Polio is the one that most often makes the news. Volunteers wander through the villages, trying to get every last child, because - obviously - polio is still a thing. In 2012, WHO published an article that India...
[10:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:32] <exec> 08└─The laws surrounding medical use of opoids need to ho away entirely. None of them are written by doctors and none of them are enforced by doctors (I'm not convinced any of the writers or enforcers have ever experienced more pain than a paper cut). Some of the salesmen need to go. Especially the ones...
[10:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:03] <exec> 08└─The $3 billion was a tax break against projected tax revenue of $27 billion over 10 years. There is no $3 billion in cash for DeBlabbero to spend on subways. Did you go to the same "special school" as AOC and the other socialist retards who fail basic math and economics?
[10:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:16] <exec> 08└─If that's the case, they've been fucked right from the start. The startup cost in creating a competitor is fuck-all compared to most industries. They were never going to have a monopoly.
[10:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:11] <exec> 08└─I invite you to find someone's grandmother and learn the wonders of the mason jar.
[10:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:13] <exec> 08└─The first one.
[10:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:15] <exec> 08└─Doubtlessly _well_ below Naugahyde!! I really _am_ having a good belly-roll. THNAX: Observe: what is morenitor leather made out of -pinterest -wantitall -amazon -ebay -youtube -poshmark [google.com] HOWEVER. I think I've seen these at Powell's City of Books [powells.com] in Oldtown Portland, about a...
[10:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:17] <exec> 08└─I invite you to find someone's grandmother and learn the wonders of the mason jar.
[10:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:19] <exec> 08└─Okaaay. But I would have thought tokolosh's post was pretty much the opposite of marxism. Also, prices aren't set to keep farmers in business, they are set to maximize profit by every entity that handles that food between the farm and you picking it up in the store.
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[11:34:12] <exec> 08└─They are corporate pirates who make promises and then backstab.
[11:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:14] <exec> 08└─What a surprise!! An assurance company making up excuses for not paying
[11:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:44] <exec> 08└─What is exactly an airline wants to know?
[11:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:46] <exec> 08└─Even a true hermaphrodite is going to be male or female, depending on his mood, or whatever. It's pretty much a binary. There was Boy George, of course, but even he dressed as both when he couldn't decide which to be.
[11:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:48] <exec> 08└─True. In fact, I don't have a problem with calling something illness. A good friend of mine, I suspect, is suffering from RLS but he gets offended (rightly so) if someone repeatedly starts pointing that out while he is talking.
[11:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:50] <exec> 08└─I miss the days when they didn't care about your name, let alone what reproductive organs you had. As long as you had a valid boarding pass, you were welcomed aboard. Simpler times.
[11:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:52] <exec> 08└─I am neither liberal nor conservative. I hate identity politics. I haven't put any effort in figuring out which label defines me. I agree to most of what Jordan Peterson says, and I am open to people having character flaws.
[11:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:36] <exec> 08└─Other diseases with the exact same symptoms of polio are rising as polio falls, sounds like a measurement issue to me. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org [aappublications.org]
[11:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:38] <exec> 08└─I can agree that law enforcement are often a bunch of heavy-handed thugs. But, no laws? Not even laws or regulations administered by the medical profession? With no laws and regulations, it would be a free for all, with rogue doctors intentionally over prescribing stuff that the patient doesn't even...
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[11:35:48] <exec> 08└─The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong. There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise. -- (Terry Pratchett, The Truth)
[11:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:50] <exec> 08└─Your wall is crumbling and leaning heavily Give up. I don't think you can maintain this erection.
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[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─I bet I made the same comment I'm thinking of now about linking this [youtube.com] and saying how even Dolphins know the golden rule of puff & pass.
[12:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:58] <exec> 08└─For reals [sbs.com.au]
[12:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:48] <exec> 08└─I am machine, you insensitive clod.
[12:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:49] <exec> 08└─Which is to say, they want to provide better services depending on your gender - in which case they can add an option for 'apache helicopter' or NULL for all I care.
[12:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:52] <exec> 08└─I seriously think it is because they want to know how nice they have to be while groping your genitals. And which gender gets to grope you. I suppose female TSA groper might be uncomfortable groping a penis, and a male TSA groper would try to avoid knowing he gets aroused groping tits of a man. That...
[12:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:54] <exec> 08└─Labelling an AC a “He”, is gender identification and is 0.66 probably wrong.
[12:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:40] <exec> 08└─But didn't eliminate yet the HPV infections or eradicate the virus
[12:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:41] <exec> 08└─If by all but cured you mean be on a lifetime cocktail of expensive medications with significant side effects, then sure. We haven't cured HIV. It's not an imminent death sentence, quality of life with the disease can be improved, but it's still very bad.
[12:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:43] <exec> 08└─provided that you take medication all your 10 short years of remaining life
[12:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:46] <exec> 08└─She is an ex-girlfriend; while we had some tension between us for the two years we were both at the Institute, even then she and I remain close friends. She regards herself as a "Scientific Anti-Vaxxer". I Cried Bullshit when she posted a graph of year vs. average ago of first female fertility or so...
[12:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:21] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't know, maybe we can create a financial product that might help us then. On a whim, lets call it a "bond." Where a municipality can borrow money based on expected future tax revenues for projects of public interest. And spending this money creates jobs, companies with contracts earn more...
[12:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:14] <exec> 08└─The problem here (out on the Montana plains) is that a great deal of driving must be done in very hot or very cold weather, and the environmental systems on EV's consume huge amounts of power.
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[13:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─I *think* you'll find that the company provided assurances, but now does not follow through, so the "typo" may be right. (I'm a different AC)
[13:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:58] <exec> 08└─It had no value before either: The only people who gain any value from knowing what kind of genitals you have are those that are considering interacting with them, i.e. potential sex partners and your doctor. It tells you absolutely nothing when making the decision about whether you should be allowe...
[13:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:59] <exec> 08└─Hydrogen atoms are stable. Of course if you don't leave them alone, they'll react violently.
[13:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:50] <exec> 08└─Not quite. As long as it is a recessive gene (and they all are, or else they "cure" themselves out) , it will always be there, as only up to 25% of population would be "cured", in absence of means of treatment, while of the remaining rest, up to two thirds will be carriers of the faulty gene.
[13:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:52] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we need to create an annoying dumber sibling of the deadly pathogen, able to spread around and infect people, but too weak to knock patients out, so it just gets patients' immune systems angry and spreads bad name for all its kin, including the deadly one. That would be a sort of involuntary...
[13:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:54] <exec> 08└─That, actually, that's how it used to be passed. They didn't call it water polio. But, that's what it was. When the sick kid "poops" and the "poop" gets into the drinking water. Folks drink that "poopy" water, now they're getting sick too. And they're "pooping" too. Sounds so horrible, right? Disgus...
[13:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:56] <exec> 08└─Mind you, we've also declared nearly every minor abnormality under the sun a disease so we can sell pills to treat but never cure it. That needs curtailed at the very least.
[13:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─> gallium, scandium and germanium Good naming scheme if you are looking for funding or political support from the relevant nations...
[13:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:10] <exec> 08└─I always wondered why they named an element after a flower.
[13:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews is... FIVE YEARS OLD! - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:51] <exec> 08└─Chinese browser are safest browser!
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[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─I don't believe it!
[14:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of interesting lunar phenomena out there. The slightly closest full Moon of the year is not one of those.
[14:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─> “snow moon” as a result of the heavy snowfall that often occurs at that time of year Further evidence of global warming!
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Discovery Explains A Great Mystery Of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:07] <exec> 08└─Terry is gone :(
[14:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:17] <exec> 08└─I was just about to reply "must be Australia" when I saw the link url Not shocked. At all.
[14:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─We iz frends Yooz mah suppy liar goods timez
[14:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.livescience.com/63636-octopus-gets-high-on-mdma.html [livescience.com]
[14:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VeasMKII [2271] 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:52] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day, i don't generally see how knowing someones gender is going to make a blind bit of different to an airline. This information probably shouldn't be recorded in the first place. People just throw it into forms without thinking.
[14:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:20] <exec> 08└─Look, twinkle toes, you know that you can't actually legally claim to be an Apache Attack Helicopter.... ... until your rotary blades are complete, you have done at least 20 hours in your new flight (running around an oval making pew pew sounds) mode and at least have had your missile harness worn i...
[14:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:21] <exec> 08└─Every meatbag is a machine. Just of weaker construction.
[14:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:23] <exec> 08└─That sounds like an inaccurate representation of "ill". Are people who grow an extra body part or get an arm amputated "ill"?
[14:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:26] <exec> 08└─You can still get on some trains without verification of your name (not sure about cross-country buses). I expect feds/Congress/TSA to ruin that in the coming decades. Probably if high speed rail takes off.
[14:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:20] <exec> 08└─Ants in Pants was saying, no more smallpox. But you're talking polio, it's not the same. Polio is the one where you see these guys and they have one leg much shorter than the other, one arm much shorter. They're crippled, so ugly. Smallpox is the one where they have the pock marks all over the face,...
[14:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─I think they are priced to maximize profit. With cancer drugs the societal pressure is high to re-reimburse these. There are cost-benefit calculations made and (in Europe) the acceptable cost seem to be around 50k Eur/yr. That's what the drug companies aim for no matter the actual cost (cost per QAL...
[14:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─1. You are wrong in this case. A recessive allele will have negative fitness meaning it disappears from the population (look up fitness). 2. This is debatable and probably wrong. Why are we not dying directly after leaving reproductive age? There is cross-generational care, transfer of knowledge and...
[14:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:26] <exec> 08└─My whole point was, diseases that we thought were eradicated still show up. The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977. Since then, the only known cases were caused by a laboratory accident in 1978 in Birmingham, England, which killed one person and caused a limited outbreak. Smallpox was o...
[14:36:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:50] <exec> 08└─As the mayor of the nation's largest city, a place that's both a progressive beacon and the very symbol of capitalism, I share the frustration about corporate America. So do many of my fellow mayors across the country. We know the game is rigged. But we still find ourselves fighting one another in t...
[14:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:05] <exec> 08└─How many good jobs was this going to bring in anyway?
[14:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:06] <exec> 08└─The mainstream media is where the blame lies. They have put AOC on a pedestal despite the fact that she - by Bill DeBlasio's own statements - has no basic understanding of how things work. She and her ilk have been lionized by the media and the resistance against all things Trump without actually ve...
[14:37:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Uber Bookings Up 45% in 2018, Company Loses Slightly Less Money - 730 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:18] <exec> 08└─> they need the cash infusion That's not quite the right way to look at it. Uber's goal is/was to burn money until it achieves a monopoly and then jack prices up and make amazing profits. However it seems like they're having trouble fighting that war of attrition. On the west front, Uber is breaking...
[14:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:20] <exec> 08└─Produce stands and scaled down markets such as Aldi and Sav-a-lot offer the best hope for the low income areas. Aldi and Sav-a-lot offer fresh produce and stick to their own brand label to avoid the overhead of the marketing of larger brands. Produce stands are a good alternative and can also allow...
[14:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:22] <exec> 08└─At G-O, one must take _great_ care to note the "Their Price" on each items' shelf price label. In general "Their Price" is Safeway's (the American Safeway; I'm unclear whether it's affiliated with the UK Safeway.) If there is _no_ Their Price, then "Our Price" is _greatly_ inflated. For otherwise no...
[14:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:24] <exec> 08└─I'll agree that processing what you grow probably isn't going to fill a lot of jars in one cycle. I have only really processed storebought produce and farm-picked apples (you pick it yourself, it's cheaper). YMMV of course. I think if you do the math, homemade jams/jellies/etc. can be a lot cheaper...
[14:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:57] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "is turning"? This happened a long time ago.
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[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I'm still trying to figure when, why, and how this "supermoon" thing became a phenomenon that people cared about; they've literally been happening for centuries and it's only in the last couple of years (maybe not even that long) that they've gotten any media attention. Give what the link in...
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─I have mixed feelings about it personally. On the one hand, yes, it's not an "every day" occurrence, but "supermoons" happen quite frequently. As do lunar eclipses and most of the random astronomical phenomena mentioned by your daily newscaster. That's one of the reasons why astrology always seems t...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─It's definitely a tabloid media thing, although I've seen a few supposedly more reputable outlets fall into line with this garbage as well. I think they're now trying to do a Gillette [theonion.com] with each other, so it's probably just a matter of time before one of them decides to fuck everything...
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Why are there so many of these ``the moon is barely-perceptibly larger than othertimes'' stories? Because people can go out and look at it without equipment and imagine they can see it?
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─Re:What? rDT interested in science? I don't believe it!
[15:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─"Supermoons" aren't science. They're the product of astrology nothing more. Here's what little science and nonscience there is to my understanding of the matter: - There are ~12 super-ish moons each and every year - ones at perigee (closest aproach to earth in each orbit), they're basically as commo...
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─February’s full moon is known as the “snow moon” as a result of the heavy snowfall that often occurs at that time of year
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─Different places use different words, even within the same language.
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─People have to get their start somewhere. I remember looking up at the moon and admiring the different plains and crests. Then became interested in how the phase of the moon would change depending on its orbital position around the Earth. Later I learned that the moon does not orbit in a perfect cir...
[15:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:37] <exec> 08└─Simply change the form to ask what the persons biological sex is and offer three options: Male, Female, Intersexed. It's that simple. These questions are for physical identification purposes, not psychological. No one should care who you "think" you are, only what you "physically" are.
[15:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─> You can still get on some trains without verification of your name WTF? You have to have name verification on *trains* Land of the free my arse (no name verification on domestic flights in the UK, let alone trains)
[15:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─How you dress or feel has nothing to do with whether you're male or female. We don't actually have any standards for how you must feel for either gender, only norms that almost nobody conforms all the way to. So, be as atypical as you like but I'm not going to think of you as anything but born male...
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─It does if they still do the women and children first thing in the event of an emergency that anyone actually survives. That's pretty fucking narrow as a reason though.
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:45] <exec> 08└─Possibly but it wasn't a car analogy and should be discounted.
[15:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:47] <exec> 08└─Identify as whatever you like. That's entirely your right. Expecting the world to make allowances for you being silly is not.
[15:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:49] <exec> 08└─I halfway-to-mostly agree with most of what I've been forced to listen to by him. He's extremely poor at conveying a message to anyone outside of academia (boring as fuck, long-winded, and uses words with entirely different meanings in academia than in general use) though and generally at least slig...
[15:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:51] <exec> 08└─look at the keyboard expert over here. you are absolutely correct - gender is not used to determine if you can board the plane, nor is that the reason they ask for it. hey buddy - how many international flights have you taken? do you even have a passport? gender, your place of employment, your addre...
[15:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:54] <exec> 08└─Unless you live in Canada and are legally required to use whatever made-up-bullshit pronoun someone feels like using that day.
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─See above re: joke. It'd take a much bigger asshole than I am to advocate eugenics.
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that as well as there being some very good work being done, if slowly, on bringing a vaccine up to useful effectiveness.
[15:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:56] <exec> 08└─Nope, capitalism still. Government granted monopolies (patents, copyright, etc...) work against capitalism and need reform badly.
[15:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:10] <exec> 08└─I propose the name A'); DROP TABLE Elements; for the next discovered element.
[15:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─I even started getting $6/lb chicken breast because the cheap (~$2 /lb) ones around here are like mutation-level huge and get dried out really easy.
[15:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─Apparently they have not been out to a 'rural' area. The stores that are there (you know the mom and pops), are usually terrible. They are stores that have been around for a long time. Their prices are wildly higher than what it should be. That is the scarcity part of economics people like to ignore...
[15:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:57] <exec> 08└─Their meats are also fine, I have not had a problem with them. They do not have a butcher (at least none of the stores I have been in) so everything is pre-packaged frozen or refrigerated meats. I admit that I have received significantly higher quality mouth watering cuts of meat elsewhere, but I al...
[15:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:59] <exec> 08└─Which means quantities absolutely not worth spending a day to put in mason jars and sterilize.
[15:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:22] <exec> 08└─By definition, once you define it as a human right it is then afforded to all humans on only 1 condition: being human.
[15:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Drivers Can Now Use Digital License Plates - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:37] <exec> 08└─so let me get this straight - you Don't want your license plate to read "stolen" if your car is stolen, because some cops "don't give a flying fuck?" It's not for the cops retard. It's for the robber, who absolutely does not want to drive a car with a plate that says "stolen," and it's for me, who t...
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[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─fond geek memories #foreveralone
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:01] <exec> 08└─I would go grab and drop a link the original image, purely in the interests of enlightening folks mind you, but I'm at work. Nope, not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent. Not at this juncture.
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─... for refusing to comment. It's a setup. Let the manhaters stew in their own juices without adding any more spice.
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Scenario: computer scientist needs an image for something, grabs the first thing on hand. what did these guys have on hand? the playboy magazine. say it anyway you'd like, but they were inconsiderate assholes. at a minimum they had playboy at work and they didn't think that this picture would actual...
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─A remarkably honest description of how they see (their definition of) privilege.
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─20 something male looks at nudie pic and scans it into a computer. THE HORROR!!! The puritans have returned. We call them progressives.
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:12] <exec> 08└─Hef always kept it classy. RIP!!!
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─This is (probably, I didn't put any effort into checking) the image in question, cropped as usual: http://img.gawkerassets.com [gawkerassets.com] I straight up don't believe that this elicited inappropriate sexual comments. Perhaps one student in conversation with o...
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─Showing your age there with the Dana Carvey on SNL GHWB reference. Damn, I just showed mine by recognizing it.
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature - Yeats, 1912 Where, where but here have Pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage, To shake their wicked sides at youth, Restraining reckless middle-age?
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─Guys in their 20s enjoying looking at naked women is not something that should surprise or offend anyone at all. Especially guys who spend far more time staring at a screen than talking to women. Anything to the contrary is just as nonsensical, oppressive, and counter to human nature as puritanism.
[16:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─Check out the submission page every few days, you will notice a disturbing amount of on topic science related submissions by TRDT.
[16:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Discovery Explains A Great Mystery Of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:50] <exec> 08└─If anyone assumed this they are idiots. Even if you knew so little about mutation rates, etc that you wouldn't expect it out of principle, people have been reporting variation in the number of chromosomes in neurons for decades: https://en.m.wikipedia.org
[16:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:19] <exec> 08└─Ding! I'd come into the comments to write the same thing if someone didn't beat me to it. Act of War, Act of God--these terms can broadly include a whole lot of exclusions when there is no agreed upon definition of what constitutes digital warfare and how to prove it, or when the accepted 100 year...
[16:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:20] <exec> 08└─No matter what happens to a client, if the insurance company can blame it on a war, the insurance company doesn't have to pay.
[16:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, the most clever act on the part of insurance companies is how they got acts of terrorism blanketly defined as acts of war. I'm not fully sure if I agree with it, but this article [mackenzieinstitute.com] was interesting reading. The point is that while War has historically been reserved fo...
[16:35:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─I miss the days when they didn't care about your name, let alone what reproductive organs you had. As long as you had a valid boarding pass, you were welcomed aboard. Simpler times.
[16:36:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─It had no value before either: The only people who gain any value from knowing what kind of genitals you have are those that are considering interacting with them, i.e. potential sex partners and your doctor. It tells you absolutely nothing when making the decision about whether you should be allowe...
[16:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─It's a bit morbid to think about, but it's likely for identification purposes in the event of a horrific crash. Burned and mangled bodies can still generally be identified as male or female by their bone structure. Knowing how many of each are on board can be helpful in determining the identity of t...
[16:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:20] <exec> 08└─It does if they still do the women and children first thing in the event of an emergency that anyone actually survives.
[16:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─I know somebody who is intersex (that's the current technical term for it). That person uses female pronouns and name, and I've never seen nor cared about the details of her genitals, but she's very clear that they aren't one of the 2 more common packages. She's not what I would describe as "ill" or...
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but the U.K. is in many ways a very backward country. They had an "accident." It wasn't an accident. It was BAD PEOPLE & BAD INFRASTRUCTURE. And they gave away their smallpox bottles after that one. Trust me, the U.S.A. won't have any accidents. Because we have the best people. Working with t...
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5saXZlc2NpZW5jZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzEwNC8zMzEvb3JpZ2luYWwvcGVyaW9kaWMtdGFibGUtZWxlbWVudHMuanBn Doesn't look like any latin script transliteration of a name that would now be transliterated as 'Mendeleev', looks more like 'Mendeumelev', as there's someth...
[16:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:07] <exec> 08└─Hey Stretch, this is a different person replying to your post. Just a logic tip: posting your opinions under the made-up handle "Stretch" in no way improves your arguments. Do you really believe that your handle automatically gives you +1 in an internet argument? That's a basic debate fail. Signed,...
[16:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:09] <exec> 08└─NYC does not have a track record of refusing big developers. When they wanted to build the Barclays Stadium in downtown Brooklyn, the city steamrolled all the citizens and local politicians to do it. The same thing happened with the new Yankee Stadium. They laid out the red carpet for Google on the...
[16:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:11] <exec> 08└─How can you claim the game is rigged if you are both the referee and a player? And throw a tantrum when the guy with the ball goes home?
[16:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:32] <exec> 08└─Which is saying the same thing except spread across more links in the chain. Maximized profit is only very rarely achieved on anything by charging as much as you can possibly get anyone to pay. It's usually achieved by charging as much as you can get nearly everyone to pay. Which is then reflected i...
[16:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 3280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:33] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: In order to understand the phenomenon of penny, nickel, dime, and dollar stores, you need to understand economics. Back in the 1800s there was a monetary unit called a "mille" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency)). It was valued at 1/10th of a penny. As prices rose, shop keepers sto...
[16:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:35] <exec> 08└─Most people have very non-diverse life experiences and don't understand even those very well, yes.
[16:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:37] <exec> 08└─Yup. Most of my life I've seen farms with stands and signs at the driveway offering to sell what they grow directly to you. The produce you'll get from them will be several orders of magnitude better tasting and more nutritious than anything you find in even the most hipster-populated store in the n...
[16:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:40] <exec> 08└─Inflation's not caused by greed, it's in fact highly desired to combat the hoarding of wealth. It is created by the Federal Reserve intentionally unless doing so would cause more harm to the economy than good. If your surplus currency is going to decrease in value, you're forced to put it back in th...
[16:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:42] <exec> 08└─I have bought both at the same time and cooked side by side, it is like they are from different animals.
[16:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:24] <exec> 08└─Of course there are those who have two cars, because it is convenient that both partners can use a car independently (especially if at least one of the partners uses the car to get to work). In those cases, it is typical that only one of the cars is used for long distances, so the other one could th...
[16:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:26] <exec> 08└─Average annual mileage on a car in the USA is over 13,000 miles and only 7,900 in the UK.
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:20] <exec> 08└─Not much; I was using a nexus 7 tablet that had the celluar option, but I had never bothered to get a SIM chip for it (not even T-Mobile's "free" 200MB per month offer they had for a while). As a result, it's been WLAN connected only--well, I also have USB wired ethernet connection for it, but that...
[16:44:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Arizona Drivers Can Now Use Digital License Plates - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:59] <exec> 08└─Why would I do anything voluntarily, god forbid even pay for something, that would make it easier for the State to apply force on me?
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[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─> Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs Found her: https://i.ebayimg.com [ebayimg.com] https://medium.com [medium.com] Doesn't look like a saint :)
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─The image used is entirely SFW, it's not even slightly risqué unless you consider the barest glimpse of an ambiguously uncovered top-of-a shoulder risqué. The NSFW providence is immaterial, I see no reason to care even slightly about it beyond copyright concerns (which I'm pretty shocked by their...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─A thousand points on 500 boobs.
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─Well, DUH! She WAS someone's girl friend. She was Hugh's girl friend, for at least a little while. If you're interested in how many guys called her girl friend over the years, you might track her down, and ask.
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─That kinda puts the lie to the bit in the PDF (linked to in TFS). It said no breasts or butt, but it was still far too sexy. The original photo shoot showed plenty of breast, and butt. Unlike Penthouse, Playboy never felt it necessary to exhibit any more intimately than breasts and butt. But, I beli...
[17:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:39] <exec> 08└─Part of the on going propaganda campaign. Solid move by the Russians.
[17:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─Myyyy dorsal fin. ---Cetea and Chong's "Dolphin Brothers"
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─You're correct on most of that with the stipulation that professional rescuers are several orders of magnitude less cowardly than your average human being. What they consider acceptable risk is not what most people would if it were their own lives on the rescuer end of the line. They would never hav...
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:18] <exec> 08└─I have traveled internationally. So has all of my immediate family. At least where I've traveled, they're looking for a few things on your passport: 1. Are you who you say you are? That's where the photo comes in, along with any other government-issued ID you might be carrying. They're also looking...
[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:20] <exec> 08└─And a lot of healthy people shouldn't have biological kids. From a wisdom standpoint not a "there should be a law" standpoint.
[17:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying you're wrong, but I am saying that this type of breakthrough is nowhere near as close as it may appear if you read just the research announcements.
[17:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:24] <exec> 08└─Great idea, I'll pass it on to the "Green New Deal" team.
[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─What were the predictions?
[17:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:13] <exec> 08└─Avenatti is getting his second wind from a fresh R. Kelly underage sex tape. https://thegrio.com [thegrio.com] Maybe he fapped to the sex tape.
[17:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:14] <exec> 08└─The site gave him a +1 for using his handle. Complain at the right person, you fucking autist.
[17:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:41] <exec> 08└─Plant in waves (succession planting?): Get seeds going, a few this week, more next week, more the week after, so they don't ripen at the same time. Square foot gardening: pack that garden FULL! Plant stuff that ripens early and late so you always have something you're eating. Square foot gardening i...
[17:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:43] <exec> 08└─You're probably right. One of the real reasons that various fast foods are popular is they don't take time and effort to prepare. For some people that's the difference between eating and not eating.
[17:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:45] <exec> 08└─Aldi own their own brand names, but pretty much everything is produced by the same factories as the 'name brands' and just branded/packaged as Aldi. Even the names are a pun on the related name brand. Their purchasing technique is to go to the company producing whatever it is they want, and basicall...
[17:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:30] <exec> 08└─300 miles is probably the maximum one-way drive that is possible without crossing the sea.
[17:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:31] <exec> 08└─No they don't....
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[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:59] <exec> 08└─A massive glob of PHP written by people who actually believe writing things in PHP is a good idea has yet another horrible vulnerability? Say it ain't so!
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─N/A
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─Comments made between friends in conversation are probably not inappropriate. I am not doubting sexual comments being made, I am doubting that they were inappropriate in the context they were made. If the students were talking amongst each other during a lecture loudly enough to be overheard by thos...
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─Umm, no? The story mentions that she was invited to visit Hugh Heffner at his mansion, but declined the invitation.
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─I remember dating her... I was 12.
[18:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:32] <exec> 08└─The image used is entirely SFW, it's not even slightly risqué unless
[18:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:34] <exec> 08└─I'm 100% sure it elicited comments like that from boys in her class.
[18:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─But, she got naked for him?
[18:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─This anticlimatic supermoon bullshit gets more coverage than an eclipse FFS and has to stop! 99.99% of all people on earth give the moon at best a momentarily glance anytime it's up in the sky and are unable to tell the 10-20% size difference of a full moon at apogee or perigee, or in other words,...
[18:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─We can learn so much from animals.
[18:35:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─Let's just omit the field for sex then as it now has no meaning.
[18:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:40] <exec> 08└─How you dress or feel has nothing to do with whether you're male or female.
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─>> You will ALWAYS BE male or female. Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─I did. The right pronoun when you don't know the gender of the person you're talking to has been, through most of the history of the English language, "they". And if you think that's wrong, invent a time machine, learn older forms of English, and go back to tell Chaucer, Thackerey, Lord Byron, Jane...
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─Alas, as per Idiocracy, a common phenomenon is those that should not have kids screwing up and having kids, while people who would make great parents go childless.
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─You're coming at it from the perspective of someone who isn't letting fear make their decisions though. This is not the norm among humans.
[18:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─Part of the reason they don't worry as much about trains: It's a heck of a lot harder to hijack a train. For starters, there's the problem of getting to the controls and the engineer, which often isn't easy or obvious. Second, once you get there, what are you going to do, demand that the engineer ta...
[18:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─"They" is plural, "he" is singular. If you think it is alright to assign multiple personalities to an unknown individual, no wonder so many women have split personalities. It's all your fault, you mysogenist! Wikipedia has some politically correct bullshit on their page, but even they admit that "he...
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:55] <exec> 08└─True, a lot less deadly than a weaponized airplane. But you could do a lot of damage by bombing one of the cars, perhaps derailing the whole train and getting a 100+ kill count. There's also lots of situations where you have many people standing crowded together, ready to be gunned down. But what we...
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[18:37:04] <exec> 08└─He's not entirely wrong but he's significantly off the mark as well. We've all but cured HIV/AIDS, created the HPV vaccine, and there are cancer treatments in early testing that appear to be very nearly a safe and completely effective universal cure. So, it's clearly possible for us to still make se...
[18:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─To an extent you're definitely correct. Cancer is not a disease, it's a syndrome. A collection of similar symptoms that are called by a common name. So curing one variety doesn't necessarily, or even probably, cure the others. Another example of that is the common cold, which is sometimes one of a n...
[18:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, with a virus, what counts as "a strain" is a bit artificial. And with the rate of mutation of the HIV virus, whatever definition you use there are probably strains you haven't noticed. But that doesn't mean that working toward vaccines isn't a good idea.
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand evolution. Even the late appearing genetic diseases generally count as disadvantageous. They just aren't as strongly selected against. But among humans disadvantaging the grandparents usually disadvantages the current children. And you missed a few classes of genetic diseases that...
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but even at low frequency levels there's continued pressure against disadvantageous genes even if they are recessive. It's just a lot lower, and keeps getting lower as the frequency decreases until it's swamped by the noise level. OTOH, many disadvantageous genes are actually advantageous in...
[18:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─We would still have the usual professional standards, ethics, and liability. Also the same body of laws that in general would punish a doctor for deliberately making the patient sick(er) in order to cure them or otherwise through a procedure or prescription. There's no need to single out "fun" drugs...
[18:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 150th Birthday Periodic Table - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─What present should I get it?
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 1815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─The hostility of the prior commenter aside (having rightfully earned his -1 Troll) and your feeding him in your last paragraph.... "Maybe we can create a financial project," is not, "we have an inked deal that will be bringing in $24 billion in tax revenue." And using bonds as you suggest is directl...
[18:40:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 1460 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:18] <exec> 08└─Personally, I go to both. Aldi is where I get most of my foods. While there are a few (very few) exceptions, you can't beat the value and quality for the price at ALDI. They essentially do it by only stocking store brands. They have a few brands, but if you want brand name items, the price increases...
[18:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:29] <exec> 08└─In Kansas, usually avocados are $2 per single avacado
[18:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, you're pretty chill when surrounded by Zombies.
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[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─1) Register each device capable of streaming content to a real person 2) Track all content listened to on each device 3) Tax each person based on how much electricity is used (give discounts for listening to educational materials though) 4) Use the tax revenue to fight climate change by funding educ...
[19:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:02] <exec> 08└─When I listen to a CD I play it through an amp and speakers. The same amp and speakers I use when I stream music. The CD itself has been ripped and is on a NAS, which is always on. Just like the router I stream music through, always on. So explain to me how I save energy one way or the other.
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─Can't tell if this is among the dumbest things I've ever read, or a brilliant ploy to resurrect the dying concept of local music collections to "save the planet". Wonder what the carbon cost of a torrent is...although you'd probably have to chart that in multiple dimensions -- share ratio vs number...
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─I keep my local collection for one reason only. Streaming is *massively* more convenient. Like it is not even close. However, streaming is a form of DRM. It can just 'poof' go away. I do not like that at all. Hence my large pile of local that *I* control.
[19:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:09] <exec> 08└─Some climate change deniers I speak with are skeptical of climate change because of the possible agendas of control behind the people pushing it. Meaning, one world government bullshit being forced down our throats in the form of controls to combat climate change. You're not fucking helping. It's ri...
[19:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:11] <exec> 08└─Solution to what, a modern standard of living? You're free to go off-grid and use only candles you made yourself for light if you like but you're no way in hell going to tell me I'm not allowed to do legal things that I can afford to do. Take a bath, hippie.
[19:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─You save energy by not running a CD player as well as your tuner/amp/eq/speakers/etc...
[19:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:16] <exec> 08└─Emit vastly more carbon regulating an extremely minor contributor than streaming ever could. Consider all those computers tracking all that streaming, all those forms filled out in triplicate claiming educational exemptions. All those investigators auditing the educational claims and all the paperwo...
[19:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:18] <exec> 08└─My way... 1) Call my entertainment manager on my cell phone to book a private concert in Bermuda and hire support staff 2) Take my private jet to Bermuda, the support staff and bands are flown in on separate flights 3) Start a large bonfire 4) Enjoy my playlist HRC
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:27] <exec> 08└─Very good point, but some of us like a little excitement in our lives. :) You know, beautiful day, you're half asleep, and suddenly the biggest fish that nobody will believe grabs the line. It's what you showed up for, but were enjoying the calm just the same. Didn't say I'm a php fan; in fact have...
[19:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:29] <exec> 08└─That, and it's aimed an audience that picks their tools mostly by brand recognition and market penetration rather than by technical merits. Who are adding lots of chunks of code without evaluating them in any meaningful way because of "Ooh! Shiney!". This leads to a dynamic not all that different fr...
[19:34:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─Guys in their 20s enjoying looking at naked women is not something that should surprise or offend anyone at all. Especially guys who spend far more time staring at a screen than talking to women. Anything to the contrary is just as nonsensical, oppressive, and counter to human nature as puritanism.
[19:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:00] <exec> 08└─Me Too
[19:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:02] <exec> 08└─The image used is entirely SFW, it's not even slightly risqué unless you consider the barest glimpse of an ambiguously uncovered top-of-a shoulder risqué.
[19:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:04] <exec> 08└─Of course the choice of subject matter was deliberate. There are all kinds of pictures athat would have made perfectly acceptable test images. I rather suspect Sawchuk was more interested in stirring the pot than projecting his own personal sexual frustrations. He succeeded beyond all reasonable exp...
[19:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:28] <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] Losing my religion [siderus.io]
[19:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:29] <exec> 08└─Well, there are much more informed links to sites concerning so-called "super moons" than Faux News (the original "Fake news"). https://www.timeanddate.com [timeanddate.com]
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:31] <exec> 08└─Check out the submission page every few days, you will notice a disturbing amount of on topic science related submissions by TRDT.
[19:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─" So much for science from rDT" TFTFY
[19:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Discovery Explains A Great Mystery Of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─My suspicion is that they determined the genetic makeup by the proteins produced, in which case the more likely cause is epigenetic variation. I find actual genetic (i.e. DNA) variation quite difficult to believe, and would need some rather convincing evidence. This despite some evidence that there...
[19:36:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 922 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:07] <exec> 08└─The answer is that they're not allowed to properly assess the risks when it comes to deployed software. Remember almost 20 years ago when this kind of insurance was just starting to rear its head? The premiums for M$ products were much higher than for the better designed software. That's what looks...
[19:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyber Insurance claims NotPetya was an act of war - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:15] <exec> 08└─Merriam-webster [merriam-webster.com] assurance definition 3c: chiefly British : INSURANCE
[19:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:26] <exec> 08└─How dare you! If I choose to refer to my volatility as instability that's my right as a hydrogen atom. You can just check your noble gas privilege and quit presuming my molecular properties.
[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:28] <exec> 08└─Did they actually pass that law? I thought Jordon Peterson helped stop that particular piece of insanity.
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─As nice as Apaches are, i identify as A-10.
[19:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─I wish you were right. Unfortunately, all the things that produce pain relief have significant drawbacks. Every single one of them. Among drugs, you can say that different drugs have different drawbacks, but there are none without any, and chronic use makes them worse, sometimes much worse.
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:41] <exec> 08└─Well, but cowpox didn't eliminate smallpox except among milkmaids. Getting something to do just what you want would be extremely tricky. And viruses mutate.
[19:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:33] <exec> 08└─Is it any wonder you know the game is rigged when you, and every other mayor in America who stands to win out over your fellow cities in playing tax roulette, rigged the game? Nobody required y'all to start giving them concessions, but once the first of you did you condemned everyone else to start l...
[19:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:34] <exec> 08└─but just like in california the parasitic state socialists (or whatever they are) attach themselves to areas with private business success and try to extort everyone in the area. i was surprised amazon even entertained this fool hardy plan in the first place.
[19:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:36] <exec> 08└─Amazon should walk away from existence while they're at it. This practice of bribing corporations to get them to come to states and cities in the name of jobs is a clear example of corruption and cronyism.
[19:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:38] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't know, maybe we can create a financial product that might help us then. On a whim, lets call it a "bond." Where a municipality can borrow money based on expected future tax revenues for projects of public interest.
[19:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:08] <exec> 08└─lmao! the bigotry!
[19:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:10] <exec> 08└─yeah. i have a large garden and it's overgrown with grass and weeds and has a couple kale plants and arugula that just can't be killed. besides, that, gardening has been a pain in the ass. of course, i haven't had the money to get the soil right so i think it would be easier if i could dump a bunch...
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[20:33:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─When I listen to a CD I play it through an amp and speakers. The same amp and speakers I use when I stream music. The CD itself has been ripped and is on a NAS, which is always on. Just like the router I stream music through, always on. So explain to me how I save energy one way or the other.
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:07] <exec> 08└─Since we are talking about "streaming". Let us talk about the power consumed by the servers storing all the data, the power used by all the telecommunications equipments between you and them, and the power consumed by the offices used by the companies that create and maintain these services. Remembe...
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─Please specify what the said bonfire consists of. A necessary question when dealing with your family ;-)
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─How many kilowatts does humming a tune to yourself eat up? What about whistling? These are important questions.
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─Make sure the candles are pure bees wax so they'll be carbon neutral! :-) Personally, I support efforts to reduce carbon emissions, but the parent proposal is akin to fixing a leaky sink during a 500 year flood.
[20:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─And spotify saves energy by going bankrupt and powering down their huge-carbon-footprint datacenters.
[20:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:18] <exec> 08└─Story (or at least the summary) is an exercise in oversimplification. What's the lifetime energy impact of a CD that's manufactured, shipped, sold at retail, eventually landfilled? Remember, this is for all CDs manufactured, not just those that are listened to. Ditto for manufacture, use and disposa...
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─iPhones, basement servers, and hard drives
[20:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:22] <exec> 08└─Hookers, dealers, mules and growers all have to make a living, too... put them out of their present line of work and they'll become a burden on society's welfare systems. /s Another thing that has to be taken into account on the physical media side of the spreadsheet is all the overproduced product,...
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant in my case. I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I can learn to play anything on a guitar with enough practice but Row Row Row Your Boat is beyond my abilities if vocal cords are the desired instrument.
[20:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:27] <exec> 08└─Shit, I remember playing that. It kinda sucked compared to Adventure but at least you didn't get a blister in the palm of your hand like with Track and Field.
[20:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─Give up music on a serious music system? Oh hell no. However: let's just turn out all the lights. ALL of them. You want light? Skylights, windows, or go outdoors. Just think of the carbon footprint reduction!!! And hey... no more heating, either. Wear warm clothes when necessary, all you special but...
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:31] <exec> 08└─Redefine the currency in use to be worthless and invent a new currency to use for everything else. Then it'll be free to run! I worked very hard on this solution.
[20:34:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─A massive glob of PHP written by people who actually believe writing things in PHP is a good idea has yet another horrible vulnerability? Say it ain't so!
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─s/t
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─So am I reading this correctly - the big thing keeping 40k WP sites from being pwned is basically that the bad guys must overcome the hurdle of having to register on them? I've recently had a WP site dumped on me to maintain. I had avoided it for so many years.......
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─A lot of Wordpress sites don't allow just any random person to register to the site. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability, so no account = no privileges = nothing to escalate.
[20:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:50] <exec> 08└─Joined the stampede on +1.... shame we don't have a +1 Tragically True mod.
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:52] <exec> 08└─So this is a bug that only affects those sites that infect the web with social media buttons? Bwahahahahahahahaha! Beautiful retribution!
[20:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─Wifi guys got the best patron saint. She was smart AND drop-dead gorgeous.
[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─the magazine existed in the university. this is stated explicitly in the abstract, and the magazine is NSFW. they are inconsiderate because they used it in a publication, without considering the fact that any future discussion of their algorithm would be associated to the playboy magazine. they saw...
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:30] <exec> 08└─I'd call you a faggot, but you clearly aren't. You need help, please see http://id34111.securedata.net [securedata.net] for assistance.
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 1967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─Keeping up with moral standards around the world — like walking a minefield blindfolded — is always difficult. As much as I respect every person as a person — not necessarily their behaviour — I find that the prudish stance of many people these day a step back. So maybe a short trip through...
[20:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:00] <exec> 08└─You missed by at least 25 years. The observant certainly can notice the apparent size and brightness difference. It's not really that amazing but it's noticeable. It's just a very minor curiosity really. Or as good of an excuse as any to look up or have a party (as if an excuse is needed). If it mak...
[20:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:01] <exec> 08└─Because astrologers and pulp journalists think the moon can only cause earthquakes and extreme tides when the sun's photons are bouncing off it.
[20:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Discovery Explains A Great Mystery Of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─How could you get the number of copies of each gene from the protein?
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─So where's the evidence of substance abuse? I see drug use, but for it to be abuse, there has to be negative overall impacts on their life. And these are dolphins we're talking about - they swim, they play, they eat. It's not like having a few hits of puffer with their friends is going to keep them...
[20:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:59] <exec> 08└─My Toyota identifies as a Mercedes, except for the purposes of insurance.
[20:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─My Honda Civic identifies as a Tesla Model S, and how dare those bigoted supercharger stations refuse to offer service!
[20:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dollar Stores - Benefactors or Tyrants for the Poor? - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─Because the free market is purely reactive. You want to make the decision to grow enough vegetables high in folic acid before you see the birth defects show up. Plus weather has shown itself to be remarkably resistant to the invisible hand of the market, so if you want plenty of nutritious food to b...
[20:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Is Not a Science, It Is a Human Right - 1769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:02] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't exist "like a law of nature." A law of nature is in fact objectively true. The circumference of a circle is 2*pi*r. On earth objects in free fall accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 at sea level of earth's surface. There are two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom per molecule of water. These thin...
[20:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:27] <exec> 08└─yeah, i worked on my mom's exploder and it has plastic timing components inside the engine! as you might imagine these might go bad a little earlier than you might like... if they want to ever sell me a vehicle they will have to show me blueprints or some shit. i'm not your victim, ford.
[20:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:23] <exec> 08└─a windows user, no doubt...
[20:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:24] <exec> 08└─exactly. you fund the enemies of humanity and then whine that they screw you too? don't be such a dumb ass whore.
[20:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:26] <exec> 08└─I didn't know they put that in there. One of the routers I use in the parks has fresh tomato on it. I just added the firewall statement and moved on.
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[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A 4.7 km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─The amazing part is when observers across the world (in the occlusion zone) all train cameras (of all kinds of wavelengths) or spectrometers and record with very high precision timing the wavelength intensities. The best occultations can even just use plain (stable) cell phone video for the data. Th...
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 4.7 km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─the weeping angels will get it.
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 4.7 km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─Oy vey, bubala...your sig!
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 4.7 km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─Is 'Occlude'
[21:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:33] <exec> 08└─Yet another post about how your $presumed_innocent_activity is killing the planet, exploiting children and upsetting the little old lady down the street. To buy off your guilt, you just have to donate/conform_to_our_plan/think_right_thoughts/vote_the_proper_way. (We are equal opportunity. We offer l...
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:34] <exec> 08└─It is because they showma average rather than the entire distribution. If a few "neighbors" have empty houses (for sale, on vacation, etc) that drags down the mean a ton. So pretty much everyone thinks they are using more than everyone else...
[21:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─Let us talk about the power consumed by the servers storing all the data, the power used by all the telecommunications equipments between you and them, and the power consumed by the offices used by the companies that create and maintain these services.
[21:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:39] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin isn't worthless yet, but we're waiting.
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:41] <exec> 08└─Those 4 steps are so ridiculous that I can only imagine it is from a Libertrollian.
[21:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:43] <exec> 08└─Mathematical models have proven the earth is going to mend in 11 years if climate change is not stopped. But you people "on the side of climate change" would rather stream music then do anything to help I guess. And fine, make the discount a rebate then. For every hour of noneducational material eac...
[21:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─Hookers, dealers, mules and growers all have to make a living, too... put them out of their present line of work and they'll become a burden on society's welfare systems. /s
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─The list hits all the important points that stakeholders require for an idea to save us from climate change to get off the ground: Increase spying. Check. Increase taxes. Check. Increase propaganda/marketing opportunities. Check. Create more of the problem supposedly being solved. Check. Look at any...
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.energy.gov/eere/ssl/about-solid-state-lighting-program [energy.gov]
[21:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:52] <exec> 08└─That's pretty much what I figured. I mean, I do have at least one computer on 24/7 and my parents leave their television on 20 hours a day, but it can't be that much higher than the average portrayed. It's just a shame tactic to get people to kowtow to the environmentalists. I doubt they expected pe...
[21:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:54] <exec> 08└─and lots of cloths.
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─Nope. That's just profligate waste. No lights. Anywhere.* Unless it's carbon-neutral bioluminescence. * Still you first. -- The pessimist: the glass is half full The optimist: the glass is half empty The engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be The scientist: the glass is full; 50%...
[21:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:12] <exec> 08└─I thought those were synonyms. https://www.dictionary.com [dictionary.com] Sorry dude, but your code is severely wordpressed. Sorry dude, but your code has severe vulnerabilities. See? These are synonyms!
[21:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─At least Wordpress will be able to claim the title of "Worst Security Nightmare" after flash reaches End of Life in 2020. 25 years ago, when browsers and the WWW started coming around, who knew that there would be software so bad, that even Microsoft products would look good by comparison.
[21:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:15] <exec> 08└─Python. You can run it as a web server directly, a CGI script, FastCGI, SCGI, WSGI, and more. There are also a ton of frameworks and other prebuilt pieces that you can use to run your website and make it safe.
[21:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─That's Hedley! But seriously: Yes, brains AND beauty! Wish I could find one...
[21:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─Huh, here I thought that the whole "super moon" was just the biggest and brightest looking moon you can get, that is, that it is simultaneously at perigee and is full. Pretty sure, people like them cause they look impressive. Winter ones more so, as the snow reflects back and you get the brightest n...
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get set for 'super snow moon,' the biggest supermoon of the year - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─That Snow Moon! (say it out aloud)
[21:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, we already have figured out very effective methods of getting high, but a new option is always welcome.
[21:37:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:36] <exec> 08└─You will ALWAYS BE male or female.
[21:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:27] <exec> 08└─I agree. The only issue I can imagine is TSA, with their rule that groping must occur by members of the same sex. However, if the situation is ambiguous, they should ask on the spot, not consult your air ticket. I believe the historical reason is rapid identification of passengers and using the corr...
[21:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they [merriam-webster.com] Language evolves, you go ahead and hold on to your stubborn ways so your grand kids can be embarrassed about your racism AND lack of basic human decency. It would be a shame if kids lost their anti-role model...
[21:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Airlines Will Offer New Gender Identification Options, According to Trade Group - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:31] <exec> 08└─the passport - something you should look into getting, uniquely identifies a person.
[21:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:37] <exec> 08└─I agree, I did feed the troll. I realize that is not the best reaction, but sometimes, they do deserve it. (essentially making me a troll as well.) I do realize that the feds are different from the municipalities and their tax revenues are completely separate. (even though occasionally, the feds wil...
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[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A 4.7 km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultation [wikipedia.org] Ctrl+F "Occlude" = 0 Ctrl+F "Occult " = 3 Big evidence, I know.
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 4.7 km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:11] <exec> 08└─So would the people participating in the practice be known as "occultists"?
[22:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 4.7 km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─Hm. You're right. that's a use for 'occult' I didn't know before. Occlude is arguably the 'less right' word to use in this context. Thanks!
[22:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:54] <exec> 08└─I can learn to play anything on a guitar with enough practice
[22:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:55] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, they'll light it up, but they won't inhale. Might be few dead bodies in there, but that's just part of doing business.
[22:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:58] <exec> 08└─The pessimist: the glass is half full The optimist: the glass is half empty The engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be The scientist: the glass is full; 50% water and 50% air.
[22:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:00] <exec> 08└─With any torrent, assuming everyone that wants a copy runs to completion, the number of downloads equals the number of uploads. So the carbon cost of a torrent is equivalent to each client downloading the file exactly once. (Ignoring a small percent of lost packets, users aborting the download half...
[22:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:03] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket either. But, I can sing pitch perfectly without autotune anything in my 2 octave vocal range. Although, playing the guitar at the same time is much harder if either the vocals or guitar parts are really complicated.
[22:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:05] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile NASA is preventing people from reading their own literature supporting that global cooling is on the way: https://science.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth’s climate system....
[22:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe they can educate you not to fall for climate change hoaxes. Let me guess... you also don't want to vaccinate your child because of the autism.
[22:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:09] <exec> 08└─The Buddhist: There is no glass.
[22:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:28] <exec> 08└─A lot of Wordpress sites don't allow just any random person to register to the site.
[22:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:29] <exec> 08└─AI that scans WordPress plugins for vulnerabilities surely doesn't require that much effort to get results.
[22:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:32] <exec> 08└─There are good options in both Python and Ruby. I've also had to wrangle both JSP and C#.Net, and neither of those were half as atrocious as PHP.
[22:36:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 1967 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─Keeping up with moral standards around the world — like walking a minefield blindfolded — is always difficult. As much as I respect every person as a person — not necessarily their behaviour — I find that the prudish stance of many people these day a step back. So maybe a short trip through...
[22:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─the magazine existed in the university. this is stated explicitly in the abstract, and the magazine is NSFW.
[22:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:13] <exec> 08└─You must be American, where a bare nipple gets a movie into the M rating category, but violence is just fine and dandy at PG. In the USA: Pain/death == Good. Pleasure/life == Bad. Now that is one fucked up set of morals.
[22:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:15] <exec> 08└─I had no idea norms had changed so rapidly, thanks for pointing that out. If it was risqué at the time then it was unprofessional and a bad choice.
[22:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─For his photographer, yes.
[22:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─that photo contrary to a photo of a coke bottle has all the kind of feature you want to test an image processing algorithm. the photo has saturated color, skin tones (that are hard to get rigth) , and a mix of low, mid and high frequencies details.
[22:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:21] <exec> 08└─Per tradition I didn't read TFA, perhaps some patient soul who subjected themselves to it could answer: Are they implying that if it was a male's image that it would have been treated differently?
[22:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:24] <exec> 08└─But why would any woman choose to work in IT when she discovers that people routinely bring nudie magazines to work in this field? Why would this prove or disprove that? Evidence is for that is not at hand. This could be explained if only the torn off portion was brought to work. I worked at a 95% f...
[22:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:26] <exec> 08└─In the 70's every machine shop and mechanic's garage had centerfolds up on the walls. It was the norm.
[22:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Mayor Slams Amazon's Decision to Cancel HQ2 Expansion - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:06] <exec> 08└─Avenatti only faps to old VHS copies of Brewster's Millions.
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[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 062.1-Billion-Year-Old Fossil may be Evidence of Earliest Moving Life-Form - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─I've already got a whole plot lined up for the new Tremors movie, "Tremors Evolution!". Might be a little slow paced, though.
[23:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 062.1-Billion-Year-Old Fossil may be Evidence of Earliest Moving Life-Form - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:02] <exec> 08└─No, that sounds great. I'll put it in my watch later list on Netflix. I'll never actually watch it though, like almost everything in my Netflix watch later list.
[23:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:04] <exec> 08└─Because, idiots read that and think that it supports the denier community. When in reality, it has nothing to do with 'but the earth is cooling!! nasa said so!!'. As we expect the planet to enter a minor cooling phase, we see it warming up to a degree an order of magnitude greater than the estimated...
[23:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:06] <exec> 08└─It doesn't say "minor cooling phase", it says "perhaps the next ice age".
[23:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Environmental Impact of Music Streaming? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:08] <exec> 08└─You try to use more electricity month on month? Wow. Oh I read your later post. You are a stupid kid that lives with your parents and doesn't pay the bills. Really cool bro! In your later post you state that your parents have a TV on for 20 hours a day and you run a computer (I assume desktop) 24/7,...
[23:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barrahome [3580] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:29] <exec> 08└─Language is not the problem, you can write vulnerable code on any language. PHP made it easier to code when they started, people didn't do that much security at all. Blame lazy coder's and they code.
[23:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Complete Website Takeover - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:31] <exec> 08└─But its too simple to attract any AI researchers. I mean 'curl | grep -i wordpress` isn't exactly rocket science.
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Devastating Critique of Medicine Since Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich in 1975 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:02] <exec> 08└─1. You are wrong in this case. A recessive allele will have negative fitness meaning it disappears from the population (look up fitness).
[23:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Automakers Impressed by Tesla Model 3 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:21] <exec> 08└─Were you so busy with your snark that you overlooked "without crossing the sea" in my comment?
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