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[00:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─The one memory that stands out, is trying to hoard the quarters that my wife kept begging me for. "I know your pocket is full of quarters, give me some!" as she patted my outer thighs, then pinched the inner thighs. Wicked woman had no shame!
[00:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:05] <exec> 08└─And the only cure is MORE COWBELL!
[00:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:07] <exec> 08└─I just wanted to shoot alien bugs.
[00:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:09] <exec> 08└─On one memorable occasion I managed to get to the third level! Even better for me was when my cousin showed me best strategy in Space Invaders, and I could regularly get to the fourth level! Come on now, everybody hum "Pinball Wizard" with me.
[00:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─Usually would get about twenty keys in, around quarter of a million points. Got a full million once, which must have been about eighty keys. It was a coffee table version, which was fun (and better suited to the restaurant environment). It's really not that hard of a game, especially compared to tod...
[00:34:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 603 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:28] <exec> 08└─It's the traditional rulers of the UK who are pushing so hard for Brexit, as it suits their needs. With the help of Rupert Murdoch, and his upper class Tory friends, Brexit is being imposed on the UK, despite it being a disaster. Do you wonder why some many of the hard-line Brexiteers are moving t...
[00:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:43] <exec> 08└─It was Rome that invaded England, not Rommel. Might work though, the Italians could come in and offer decent cooking instead of meat-and-three-veg and mushy peas, build a wall up north to keep the Caledonians out, and Bob's your uncle. Or at least Berto's your uncle after the invasion.
[00:34:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:58] <exec> 08└─After voiding the Paris accords, evading the Rome Statute, violating the Geneva Conventions, and reneging on The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, what do you expect from a Rouge state full of Red Pillars and the Stable Genius?
[00:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:34] <exec> 08└─He’s such a fool to not eat with women alone. Everyone should be able to be accused of sexual harassment 30 years later!
[00:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:35] <exec> 08└─Baton Rogue?
[00:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:38] <exec> 08└─So, from the context, I presume you are referring to Red China?
[00:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:40] <exec> 08└─The Army is capable of amphibious operations as are the Marines. You didn't go to Canoe U did you?
[00:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─*rolleyes* How does the Army and the Marines get to the amphib landing? Hint: It's an entirely naval operation, until the infantry leaves the confines of the Gator Navy hulls. At which point the Army or Marine commander assumes command. And, yes, that shore commander assumes command of Naval Gunfire...
[00:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Servers 'Stranded' in Space and Still Running - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:27] <exec> 08└─Also depends on the hardware, for things like Tandem and Stratus systems the uptime is typically "since it was first plugged in". There's a company I know who were still, the last time I heard, running a Tandem CLX. It ran through the Loma Pieta earthquake, among other things.
[00:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Servers 'Stranded' in Space and Still Running - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:28] <exec> 08└─Get him a beer and TMB will catch it for you.
[00:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:02] <exec> 08└─This seems like your low point. Bitching about beer. Deplorable!
[00:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:04] <exec> 08└─I don't have a thing against Fruity Pebbles in a bowl with milk, just in a beer bottle. I know how to do the brewing thing, I just generally make cider instead. It's a lot more forgiving, simpler, and it's difficult to find a good cider in TN.
[00:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:06] <exec> 08└─Hipster nonsense aside, I still don't have much use for IPAs. I generally alternate between a nice Belgian pilsner or porters and stouts from the UK, though I do have a fondness for copper colored ales of the non-India variety. I've had entirely too many IPAs that just weren't worth drinking. Out of...
[00:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:08] <exec> 08└─Come on you guys! Stop modding that stupid comment Informative, it's a stupid joke. I really don't mind if people want to drink Budweiser, or Coors, or any of those bland American style lagers, it's a free world, and come the revolution we won't be putting people against the wall because of their...
[00:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:10] <exec> 08└─A few years ago the trend seemed to be to pack as much hops in as possible (as many hops as possible?) and IPA's tended to be often undrinkably bitter, but that trend seems to have subsided a bit, and there are a few really nice beers of that style where I live anyway.
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:12] <exec> 08└─fair nuff
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:29] <exec> 08└─Trudeau would happily pay $1.4 billion to send his former attorney-general to space. She fucked him real good!
[00:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:31] <exec> 08└─That will work too. Can you get her pregnant in time for launch? Do the math, now - we want her at about 8 months at liftoff!
[00:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Sanitation System Halves Healthcare Associated Infections and Cuts Related Costs By 75 Percent - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:12] <exec> 08└─Powerful interests have motivation to suppress this kind of science. And we know that sometimes, some of them do engage in that kind of anti-social knowledge suppression. Some years ago, I saw an article in, as I recall, Science News, about an experiment in which a woman did not shower or bathe for...
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[01:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:12] <exec> 08└─Clyde.
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─I'm only okay at video games but once I get a table down (a couple days monkeying with the same table for the harder ones) I can play pinball until I get tired of playing it off of a single quarter. Well, maybe not a single quarter nowadays because of inflation but you know what I mean.
[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know what you mean. I suppose it's a dollar now. The only pinball game I got that good on was the Addams Family game a friend had in his bar in the 1990's. We actually don't have 25 cent pieces where I live, so it was 20 cents per game. It still seemed like a lot of money in 1980.
[01:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:18] <exec> 08└─Excellent creimer tier humor
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:20] <exec> 08└─I didn't get good at pinball until the 90s and I could drive to the arcade after school and work. Riverboat Gambler was the first one I ever made my bitch I think.
[01:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:23] <exec> 08└─a local pub/barcade has a tabletop multi game machine. No need to hold the side, just lean on the lever!! Of course, be careful not to spill your beer :-)
[01:35:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:21] <exec> 08└─"tax cut". LOL. My taxes are a lot higher than last year, much more than my increase in income would justify. I guess I am just not wealthy enough to benefit from Trump's gift to the ultra-wealthy.
[01:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:47] <exec> 08└─Baton Rogue, Runaway! Rogue! As in a stick that has run amok! A wild stick! A stick for the clueless, a clue stick! Which could, or may not be, a cue stick. You need one.
[01:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:49] <exec> 08└─Ohboy! Don't you miss the days we were all fighting Nazis, side by side? Punching those bastards in the face! Loved it, no matter what branch or nation of the Alliance you were in!
[01:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:51] <exec> 08└─Want some unity? Close all overseas bases that aren't paid for by the host country, and halt all foreign military operations.
[01:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:53] <exec> 08└─Now you're forgetting the role that the Coast Guard had in piloting some of those landing craft.
[01:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:55] <exec> 08└─Don't recall any Marines bring involved in D-Day.
[01:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:58] <exec> 08└─Close all overseas bases that aren't paid for by the host country...
[01:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:40] <exec> 08└─He probably just tweeted "Hey NASA, let's DO this!" What. a. twat. The only thing worse than having him in government is that when he's tossed out it will probably be a conservative government that will be worse.
[01:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:41] <exec> 08└─If you've seen her picture, you'll know the answer is no. She's half Indian, half buffalo.
[01:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:33] <exec> 08└─Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars. It's funny watching magnificent seven and seven samurai back to back: at times a scene for scene, word for word rip-off, lol.
[01:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:35] <exec> 08└─God forbid you succeed in cockblocking streaming media only to have them start their own Oscar-alternative ceremony show that eventually eclipses yours...and excludes non-streaming productions.
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rarest Humans - A Set of Semi-Identical Twins - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─I like where this is headed. Let me expand on your notation. We have 7th2 and 8th2 suggested above. nthm son ⇒ nth son of an nth son of an.... nth son. Then we can do really mystical stuff like 7th7, who is able to just godmod through whatever quest.
[01:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Campaign Pushes Government Intervention on 5G - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:42] <exec> 08└─The beauty of it is that, if it fails, Trump can gloat about how socialism was tried and failed everybody.
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[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:05] <exec> 08└─Learn C and you can benefit from decades of work by adults, instead of trying to use your toy languages for everything.
[02:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, was gonna say, even an 8-bit ATTiny25 can run C or C++, as gcc has official support for AVR. Using Python for this kind of thing is pure stupidity and should not be enabled. I like Python well enough for what it's designed for, but this sure as hell isn't it. This is the same kind of evil that...
[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─Is there a good cross-platform curses-style library available? It's difficult to get something like that to work under a Windows cmd shell, but at least on Linux, the interactivity in curses apps gets faster over time as CPU speeds increase and pty code stays the same. It's very handy to ssh in/out...
[02:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─I had a weekly budget that included video games. My memory is pac man came out a year before Street Fighter (caveat: at my arcade). I remember first playing SF and thinking "yeah, I'm not wasting quarters finding/remembering hidden combinations" Then I saw 2-3 people watching some dude playing SF an...
[02:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 2006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:28] <exec> 08└─... Except I never played Pac-Man. Instead I played Tempest and Asteroids. At least in the arcade. At home my Dad got a Heathkit computer for his work. I asked him I could play video games on it. He said: "If you program them yourself". So I did. A VT100 terminal with primitive ASCII graphics with a...
[02:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:30] <exec> 08└─Pac-Man is more of a driving game than a maze game. As you’re playing, you’re jamming that joystick left and right, up and down, movements that shifts your right shoulder forward and back, rocking your body side to side.
[02:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─Meh... I started with Pong at the local Pizza Hut.
[02:34:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:44] <exec> 08└─The people have changed their mind having seen how shit brexit really is. If the people haven't changed their mind, then the result will be the same as before - 17 million will vote to remove the rights of 65 million.
[02:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Versus Google Over Facial Recognition - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:18] <exec> 08└─Conducting mass surveillance on the populace is damage.
[02:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─It's not the bitterness itself. I can dig on bitter in a stout most any day that it's not sweltering outside. It's that they're almost universally very weak on the malt flavors, either because of the malt itself or because they overpowered the shit out of what flavors it did have to start with.
[02:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─That's fair. I have tried many IPA's that were all hops, and nothing else and I did not enjoy at all. There are some available locally however that I think are pretty good. If you've given up on the style, I entirely understand.
[02:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Campaign Pushes Government Intervention on 5G - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:49] <exec> 08└─And tyranny, meaning they're not letting American companies in. Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.
[02:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sanitation System Halves Healthcare Associated Infections and Cuts Related Costs By 75 Percent - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:37] <exec> 08└─We love gold the best, don't we? I went with gold & marble for my apartment. And I'm very happy I did. I get so many compliments about it. Everybody says it looks like a million bucks. In fact, it was much more than that. I'll tell you, it wasn't always gold & marble. Originally we went with Angelo...
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[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:08] <exec> 08└─Yup. As most of my work lately has been of the microcontroller variety, I'm right there with you. If you need bloated bullshit to make it easy for you, there's plenty of java shops and web design out there.
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─Try this [sourceforge.io], though I sure haven't. Windows shells are a real cat shit smoothie compared to almost anything else. It's quite depressing, really. Expect a lot of the ncurses functionality not to work, or to be weird and broken, and to be inconsistent across Windows versions.
[03:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:32] <exec> 08└─The _original_ Donkey Kong, none of that newfangled Mario bullshit. (Hey Kid! Get Off My Lawn!) I often watched the second best, and I could see what he did to get beyond my own maximum level but he had a special magic that I myself did not possess. Then: In my Sophomore Year, our Financial Aid Appl...
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[03:34:34] <exec> 08└─FUK SHT CNT TRD DIK
[03:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:36] <exec> 08└─It drew people away from the holy Atari Asteroids machine of awesomeness.
[03:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─Mine was Silverball. We got the timing on that loop in the center down cold (from either side), and would show off hitting the loop and catching the ball with our eyes closed.
[03:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:10] <exec> 08└─This seems like a complete non-problem. If "hard Brexit' means revert all customs & immigration regulation to its pre-1979 state, with no new concessions (which is what I *think* it means), why not just resurrect all the relevant systems that HMG were running in '79? As an added bonus, just about al...
[03:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe something Islam got right...
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Versus Google Over Facial Recognition - 2059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─As a very strong privacy advocate, I agree with you in principle, but fixing it is complicated. 1) Words fail me in trying to describe my feelings whenever any case is decided against common sense, let alone never even heard. 2) IIRC from civics classes, judges don't make law. In extreme cases they...
[03:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:40] <exec> 08└─I was drinking IPAs before they were cool. Fucking hipsters.
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[03:37:41] <exec> 08└─211 is the police code for "armed robbery," and after drinking a couple of those that's exactly what you will do. Source: drank that shit almost daily for a couple years.
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[03:37:43] <exec> 08└─Absolutely true. I'm an IPA scumbag but those are just horrible for such an occasion. The best thing you can do for a crew working on your house is buy them a 6-pack of Bud or Corona...just be sure to give it to them after they pour the concrete.
[03:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:45] <exec> 08└─Some people like their coffee strong and black. Some people like their coffee loaded with cream and sugar.
[03:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:48] <exec> 08└─Ditto. It's really not as terrible as it could be. The Beast and Shitz are both worse.
[03:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:50] <exec> 08└─I can't believe you said that without so much as a double entendre.
[03:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:11] <exec> 08└─Of course it's plainly apparent that to supply fuel in LEO orbit or in Lunar Orbit is what we want. But nobody ever mentions why that's never been so much as talked about: To launch so very much liquid fuel, to handle such large, inertially-massive tanks of liquid gas would be dangerous. Just imagin...
[03:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:12] <exec> 08└─While I personally do not regard men as attractive in any way other than for purely intellectual reasons - for their writing, for their code and the like - Justin Trudeau is one of the very few for whom I pop a woody through no other means than the simple contemplation of his photograph.
[03:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:15] <exec> 08└─Just once I've seen an accurately scaled diagram of the Apollo Trajectory; it went quite far South on the way out then quite far North on the way back. Or vice-versa. That accurately-scaled diagram indicated that it was quite a lot more to the North or to the South than the diameter of the entire Ea...
[03:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Used Universal Forensic Extraction Devices (Phone Cracking Devices) Found on eBay - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:37] <exec> 08└─Quite right. Excuse me if I've missed something obvious (which is quite possible, since I've lived in America), but it occurs to me that, given the USA classifies cryptographic tools as "munitions", shouldn't it be just fine & dandy for anyone to own them, by virtue of the second amendment?
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[04:34:07] <exec> 08└─summary [youtube.com] (10m13s)
[04:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, was gonna say, even an 8-bit ATTiny25 can run C or C++, as gcc has official support for AVR.
[04:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:21] <exec> 08└─I think part of the problem goes something like this: Manager: "Great news! Apparently we can use Node.JS and then we don't have to hire anyone else because Gilbert the web designer knows JavaScript already! We're doing that!" Acquaintance who knows real code: "Gilbert's code is really bad, and Java...
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[04:34:23] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Illustrates my point nicely.
[04:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:25] <exec> 08└─And Perl, how could you forget Perl?!
[04:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:51] <exec> 08└─I didn't play Pac-Man much because Ms. Pac-Man had appeared by the time I started getting interested in arcade games. I got to the 3rd maze of Ms. Pac-Man, and a few times beat it 3 times, but never could beat it 4 times in a row to make it to the 4th and final maze. The power pills had such a short...
[04:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Campaign Pushes Government Intervention on 5G - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:19] <exec> 08└─Sulla! Evidently you did not read the fine Original Submission, which provided links showing how the Vulture Capitalist in question donated some megabucks to the Donald re-election campaign just before the mid-term elections. Coincidence? Maybe. But, probably not. More like corruption. Which is no...
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[05:34:08] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[05:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Crew Dragon 2 Docks With ISS - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─If Roscosmos can delay the competition, maybe Russia can get another $400 million.
[05:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to get something like that to work under a Windows cmd shell,
[05:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:53] <exec> 08└─Forgot ASS, TIT, CLT, BUM, COK...
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[05:34:55] <exec> 08└─POO, FRT, SOB OK, I'm bored...
[05:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:29] <exec> 08└─well, there go most of those theoretical savings..
[05:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:30] <exec> 08└─except even countries with 'hard' borders have IT links to other countries. Without these links, all the stuff that happens at borders (good an bad) gets far far slower.. Interpol alerts, revoked passports, visa validation..etc etc. Your gift christmas cake may go off before you make it through Cust...
[05:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:22] <exec> 08└─We'll see if the "Netflix and chill" generation really cuts into the box office
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[05:39:23] <exec> 08└─Dinner, movie, and a bowel movement.
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[06:34:24] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is that you have to pull in that huge runtime just to be able to run the application.
[06:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:54] <exec> 08└─Pac-man came out in 1980,street fighter (the original with the giant rubber buttons) in 1987, but street fighter 2, the one everybody remembers, was 1991. Really two completely different generations of games.
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[06:34:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/logos/2010/pacman10-hp.png [google.com]
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[06:34:57] <exec> 08└─That doesn't seem to work. Just google "Pac-Mam"
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[06:35:00] <exec> 08└─BAA RAM EWE
[06:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:34] <exec> 08└─Is the other big less friendly nations building one covertly? Agreements aside, if your frenemies are doing it covertly and you're not then you're being naive. Whether you should follow suit and do it covertly or officially is a different matter. Do we really think the Chinese and Russians are just...
[06:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:35] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about something like this? : https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Should give you a nice orange skin tone just like your homeboy.
[06:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:28] <exec> 08└─On one hand, he's probably right that streaming is more similar to TV broadcast - they target the same distribution medium and there's already an award for that called the Emmy Awards which is what he's saying. We have Emmy's for TV broadcasts and Oscars for cinemas. That is an existing split. Sure...
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[06:39:29] <exec> 08└─That's a good list. I'd add assigned seating. I fucking hate assigned seating. You know what, cinemas? I have assigned seating in my living room and it's both the most comfortable and best viewing location and I don't have to fight anybody over it. The first time I saw the barka loungers that have t...
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[06:41:29] <exec> 08└─Clothing on the space station contains silver. It is single-use, worn for weeks.
[06:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sanitation System Halves Healthcare Associated Infections and Cuts Related Costs By 75 Percent - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:30] <exec> 08└─You don't need much roentgenium to kill all the bacteria. Just a thin coating of a dilute solution containing roentgenium is enough to kill everything, largely due to the 100-second half life and resulting radiation.
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[07:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:05] <exec> 08└─'represents freedom at your fingertips'
[07:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:07] <exec> 08└─Don't forget all the warm fuzzies [youtube.com] they purport to provide. Still, probably beats Uber for corporate governance.
[07:35:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 924 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:20] <exec> 08└─The people always vote wrong: - The choices of society presented to them always end up profiting megarich tax evader fuckers. - The candidates they get to vote for are always the same critters, whose sole real job it is to do the bidding of the aforementioned megarich tax evading fuckers - and get h...
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[07:36:43] <exec> 08└─And Iran. And Israel. Israel needs it to have leverage over the US.
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[07:36:44] <exec> 08└─Depends. If the customer is US Government, then ultimately having those functions distributed amongst several Congressiinal districts is...important. Even Amazon...er ... Blue Origin figured that one out. I bet BO & ULA get the new EELV contract. ULA because... and BO because Congress will ultimatel...
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[08:41:37] <exec> 08└─I should, perhaps, have linked directly to Wikipedia:Scriptio continua [wikipedia.org], rather than Wikipedia:Punctuation [wikipedia.org].
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[09:34:05] <exec> 08└─Well do they have the highest wattage or not?!
[09:34:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 2006 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:58] <exec> 08└─... Except I never played Pac-Man. Instead I played Tempest and Asteroids. At least in the arcade. At home my Dad got a Heathkit computer for his work. I asked him I could play video games on it. He said: "If you program them yourself". So I did. A VT100 terminal with primitive ASCII graphics with a...
[09:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:46] <exec> 08└─Not really, although adding up all the various numbers seems to be something few people are actually prepared to do, or if they have are not drawing attention to it because it's not positive for Brexit and anything counter to the "Will of the People" is going to attract a lot of flack from the pro-B...
[09:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─I won't say that there weren't any Marines there - but they certainly did their share of landings across the Pacific. Given the choice to participate in the Normandy landing, Iwo Jima, or Guadalcanal, a rational man would probably just flip a coin. I can't see anything to recommend one above the oth...
[09:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Versus Google Over Facial Recognition - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:10] <exec> 08└─> Privacy is not a concrete thing. Did you even read the summary and/or have a basic understanding of US law? You can't sue someone for abstract concepts, or else everyone would be suing everyone else for causing "spiritual damage to religious beliefs" or other handwavy nonsense. See, in order to su...
[09:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Dismisses Suit Versus Google Over Facial Recognition - 1886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:12] <exec> 08└─I will argue that privacy is not a very abstract thing when the law wants your ass for some vague concept such as indecent exposure. You are merely making the case for those who have already stated that US Law is fucked up. Privacy is poorly defined across the board, and especially poorly defined in...
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[09:37:43] <exec> 08└─There's more to cosmic rays [wikipedia.org] than just alpha, beta, and gamma rays (Helium nuclei, electrons, and high-energy photons), and they can have energies far higher than radioactive decay events (there is a nice graph of cosmic flux against particle energy iin the article), which means that...
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[09:37:45] <exec> 08└─Link for the blockquote above: http://www.cosmic-ray.org [cosmic-ray.org]
[09:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:55] <exec> 08└─Awwww, man up! Do it for science!
[09:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Campaign Pushes Government Intervention on 5G - 3626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:02] <exec> 08└─Like I said, across the Western Hemisphere, Socialism is dieing. And Troika of Tyranny is the last 3 still doing it. Used to be a lot more -- Grenada and so many. But it's down to the 3. It's a lot like, you go to an orgy and you're having a great time. But almost everybody finishes, they go home. A...
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[10:34:09] <exec> 08└─I don't believe so, but they do have, as I recall, 7 antennae in the box, which gives them surprisingly good range and coverage. We have one in the understairs cupboard on the ground floor and get good signal in the bedroom on the second floor (or third floor, if you're American and don't count from...
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[10:34:11] <exec> 08└─irrelevant to the claims, so likely no stronger. they tested special network traffic, with only one device, in a lab, and managed 'slightly better' performance. they didn't test multiple devices, connected in a normal house, using normal traffic.
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[11:34:06] <exec> 08└─Yet Another Tracking Device. This tracking device has more utility than most, I suppose. If, that is, we all agree that high definition mapping is utilitarian. Of course, it will ultimately encourage people to be looking at the screen of a GPS enabled device, instead of at the road. That, or surrend...
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[11:34:07] <exec> 08└─not just tracking, more pulsed microwaves, yeah! here's solid people talking and showing what's happening at that intersection https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] .. outside https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] .. inside
[11:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BT 'UK's Most Powerful Wi-Fi'? Not According to Ads Watchdog - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:18] <exec> 08└─I cut loose from BT about 3 years ago. The line to my house was broken by trees (not mine, along the road half a mile away ), and they took 6 weeks to do anything. Then they would not recompense me for anything other than a pro-rata part of the standing charge. Meanwhile I was having to drive 10 mil...
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[11:34:35] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the best way to ensure a robust process is to have two (or more) competing factions.
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[11:35:34] <exec> 08└─That was my original understanding of what a "cluster fuck" was: Octel had at first three Sun 3/280 servers, then I installed a fourth. For the truly ignorant reason that the build tools didn't know to check for read()/write() error codes all three then four boxes were hard mounted on each other. Hi...
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[11:36:02] <exec> 08└─> The people always vote wrong: Speak for yourself... Study history some. Try wikipedia for "Glorious Revolution", "Great Reform Act", "Suffragettes Movement", "Great Strike" for a mix of democratic and non-democratic reform in UK. If the current generations are too indolent to manage the powers tha...
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[11:36:38] <exec> 08└─I’m sure you’ve heard the joke before, but for the benefit of those who haven’t… You have to be careful when talking to the different branches of the Armed Forces: If you ask the Army to secure a building, they’ll set a defensive perimeter around it; if you ask the Navy, they’ll send an...
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[12:34:42] <exec> 08└─On the other hand with more options for getting people up and down (a crew dragon escape option would raise escape capacity, for instance), ISS crew size could increase again and Roscosmos could start taking space tourists up again.
[12:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:00] <exec> 08└─The micro controller boards that are using micropython are nothing like the ATTiny series. They typically contain everything that the AT chips have plus WiFi, Bluetooth, Lora, full WEP/WPA/WPA2 authentication built in. Depending on model (ESP32 [wikipedia.org] for example) they might also have accel...
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─While many intelligent commentators are bemoaning the woeful state of British politics with regard to the Brexit issue, few are pointing out that in a representative democracy such as the UK, the electorate are responsible for putting the politicians in power. Leaving the EU will have consequences f...
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[12:36:13] <exec> 08└─the 2 political sides
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[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─What are you doing, going to your drug dealer's house? SUBMIT!
[13:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BT 'UK's Most Powerful Wi-Fi'? Not According to Ads Watchdog - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:26] <exec> 08└─Your telecoms and their tech support sound exactly like ours here in the US. I'm not really surprised.
[13:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:35] <exec> 08└─Are they showing profit though? If they're not, fuck em. I'm not a twentysomething who can afford to call coin toss bets investments anymore.
[13:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Crew Dragon 2 Docks With ISS - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:47] <exec> 08└─Possibly. I don't think NASA will be anywhere near using the full capacity of the SpaceX or Boeing vehicles. They don't want 7 deaths in one go. But a more frequent launch schedule and multiple vehicles available for evac should be possible. Maybe a lucky Russian will get to splash down in the Atlan...
[13:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Crew Dragon 2 Docks With ISS - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:48] <exec> 08└─awesome! even if "useless" still happy the boss could agree to add solarpanels to the spaceship. totally bad form of the ISS crew: they didnt give the blue globe a hug and not even a nod or wink to ripley :(
[13:35:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, was gonna say, even an 8-bit ATTiny25 can run C or C++, as gcc has official support for AVR.
[13:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:02] <exec> 08└─I think part of the problem goes something like this: Manager: "Great news! Apparently we can use Node.JS and then we don't have to hire anyone else because Gilbert the web designer knows JavaScript already! We're doing that!" Acquaintance who knows real code: "Gilbert's code is really bad, and Java...
[13:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:09] <exec> 08└─I just assumed anyone who still uses perl knows why they're still using perl and has the sense to not use it in utterly inappropriate places.
[13:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:11] <exec> 08└─Have to disagree. It would take me less time to write easy to use abstractions for handling all of the above than it would anyone to figure out how to trim down a python script to fit demanding space and responsiveness requirements. And once you've written the abstractions once, you never have to ag...
[13:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:13] <exec> 08└─Windows shells are a real cat shit smoothie compared to almost anything else.
[13:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:47] <exec> 08└─Damn, that's some Tommy-level shit.
[13:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:48] <exec> 08└─We have some great opportunities to shoot bugs in the Navy! Would you like to know more?
[13:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:50] <exec> 08└─You were programming a game with multiple enemies on an 8080, whose ISA is largely a refactor of that in Datapoint programmable terminals. The challenges you may have faced resemble challenges faced by modern-day Game Boy homebrew game developers once they realize how weak the 8080's [HL] addressing...
[13:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─hahaha. the peaceful commercial space industry is working toooo good. time to "make problems" in space so the military/industrial complex can provide "protection" with tax payers monies for those that dont want to compete fairly but have a direct line into the ear of policy makers ...
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[14:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─Play songs like https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─Just wear some high quality ear plugs, and a pair of high quality ear muffs. For extra points, install speakers in your muffs, and play your favorite music to yourself. Then, you can stand at the counter, shouting, "EXCUSE ME, CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER?"
[14:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─And you can scribble any old name on the paper cups, just like you do now!
[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─Nahhh - I'm just an asshole. This year, at work, we've switched from a long-time health insurance provider to a different one. They mailed letters Jan 30 or Feb 1 that everyone had to provide proof that they were legally married to the beneficiaries named on documents. I didn't provide the proof the...
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[14:34:35] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't matter if they had 50 antennae on the one box, really. There's a limit to the power output from such a device (otherwise everyone would just put a million antennae in, each at 5W, and you'd end up with a 5 million Watt transmitter in everyone's home which would end in anarchy. An old Drayte...
[14:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:45] <exec> 08└─Can we please stop using this stupid term: "ride-sharing." They are a ride-hailing service, if you can't bring yourself to use the word "taxi."
[14:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:20] <exec> 08└─Python is the new Perl.
[14:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:58] <exec> 08└─Xevious's background music was too repetitive and was a sort of punishment if I got better at the game. At one point I simply had to get away and left my active game going for someone else to resume (some younger kid was hanging around checking coin returns for money). Gyruss was far better as a gam...
[14:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:20] <exec> 08└─what do you expect
[14:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 2490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:44] <exec> 08└─Why are wars fought? You said the Battle of New Orleans (in 1815) was unnecessary, fought only because the slow communications of the time were not up to quickly delivering the news that the war was over. But a whole lot more war and fighting than that is unnecessary. For instance, the American Civi...
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[15:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:11] <exec> 08└─Most Starbucks locations don't seem to be in a physical arrangement where employees would commit suicide by jumping to their deaths. Are there other protections Starbucks could use to prevent employees from committing suicide? Managers within the organization would find it very undesirable to have t...
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─That would work pretty well these days, because if anyone complained about your inability to hear you could state, "I'm deaf, you insensitive clod!" If the customers or Starbucks persisted, the employees would chalk up an instant win with a discrimination lawsuit.
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is a way to hypnotize employees to be immune to the music played in Starbucks? Or some kind of drug? But then, these would be an additional cost to the organization.
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is a way to hypnotize employees to be immune to the music played in Starbucks? Or some kind of drug? But then, these would be an additional cost to the organization.
[15:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:20] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I had the impression that Starbucks employees already had undergone this procedure as part of their new employee conditioning.
[15:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:22] <exec> 08└─Don't know about Starbucks, but I've been in a few restaurants were the music was so loud everyone had to yell so the people taking the orders could hear. In those cases the idea probably was to "encourage" people to use the drive-through instead of eating in. More than a few hours exposed to that a...
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[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─> ...and ripping out all of our speakers from the ceiling." Not repetitive, but annoying none the less: Used to live about 100 feet from a business that operated 24/7. At one of their side doors (facing my house) they had a PA horn tied to the internal building PA system. The horn might have been in...
[15:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaea CRISPR Systems Grab DNA Memories During Interspecies Mating - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:32] <exec> 08└─I hope they get properly introduced to each other before exposing their genomes.
[15:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:42] <exec> 08└─I think that it would be better to develop AI that can deal with the world without the need for highly detailed maps. Self driving vehicles need to be able to deal with the unexpected, instead of a world where every detail is regulated.
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─They may not like the maps made from my driving...in the snow (when there are no other cars around) I slide all over for fun and car-control practice. Come to think of it, the cameras are probably covered with snow & ice in those conditions anyway, so maybe it doesn't matter?
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BT 'UK's Most Powerful Wi-Fi'? Not According to Ads Watchdog - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:57] <exec> 08└─Well do they have the highest wattage or not?!
[15:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Unmanned Crew Dragon 2 Docks With ISS - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:21] <exec> 08└─Too bad the ground crew didn't attach one of those plush cuddly alien face grabber toys to the face of the Ripley mannequin.
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:45] <exec> 08└─Learn C and you can benefit from decades of work by adults, instead of trying to use your toy languages for everything.
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─I remember when I played I'd duck and swerve my head in response to what was happening on screen. Arcade, I often made it to first orange, I think I made Apple once. Then I got the Cornsoft Group's SCARFMAN for my Model III TRS-80. Eventually we got Pac-Man for our Atari 2600, and I worked that to t...
[15:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:04] <exec> 08└─So many Dems said, "oh, we don't need Wall -- put in camera, put in Drone, put in the modern digital." And some of them, incredibly, said Wall is IMMORAL! Well, walls work. And walls never ever fail. Cyber, you look at it funny and it stops working. You call the repair guy, guy shows up, the cyber i...
[15:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:12] <exec> 08└─The Geneva Conventions have been routinely violated since Guantanamo and torture were normalized under Bush & Cheney. Those practices were continued by successors.
[15:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:13] <exec> 08└─Why are wars fought? It often seems to be a form of population control. Except - the wrong gender suffers the losses. Someone is going to mock that, someone else is going to say it's sexist, but a nation's fertility rate has almost nothing to do with the number of men available. It all depends on th...
[15:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─At that moment the look on the faces of all the crooks who have squirreled away trillions of US dollars in offshore accounts would be one for the ages. It could only be exceeded by the look if they were arrested after having lost all that loot.
[15:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:18] <exec> 08└─I bomb your dictionary and launch an all-out assault to steal the plans to find a flaw in them. For I am a member of Rouge One.
[15:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:20] <exec> 08└─The US suffered 75,000 casualties taking Okinawa in WWII. In a sense, they paid in blood for the territory the base is sitting on. Same deal with Germany. If the locals don't like it, then they shouldn't start wars as they did because there are consequences for defeat. By historical standards they s...
[15:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:22] <exec> 08└─The Emperor really should have an Imperial Fleet.
[15:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:25] <exec> 08└─That summary of US politics explains so much about you racist fuckwads. Sadly a huge number of non-asshole conservatives got caught up in the propaganda machine and have no idea what they are actually supporting.
[15:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:27] <exec> 08└─Everyone should be able to be accused of sexual harassment 30 years later!
[15:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:29] <exec> 08└─"Service Guarantees Citizenship [wikiquote.org]"
[15:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:28] <exec> 08└─IPAs have become the soy latte from Starbucks of beers. Primarily consumed by pretentious dickhead hipsters, have a million gimmicky flavors to choose from, and serious connoisseurs of beer avoid them by default.
[15:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:09] <exec> 08└─Not to mention stolen from Monty Python. Who probably stole it themselves. That said, it still causes a grin. ;)
[15:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:10] <exec> 08└─As if there was any other good beer but stout. (Though yes, I fully confess my sins that at one time I drank Zima regularly and liked it.)
[15:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Will Contribute to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:35] <exec> 08└─> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the step would "push the boundaries of innovation". He's gonna send prostitutes to the moon?
[15:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:34] <exec> 08└─I know a lot of people buying projectors instead of TVs these days too. I stream shows (and play games) on a 100" screen that's less than ten feet away from my couch. All it takes is a heavy curtain and some screaming kids in the apartment next door to turn that into a cinema experience...
[15:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:35] <exec> 08└─Horse and Buggy advocates want requirements for automobiles to be preceeded and followed by a man waving red flags to prevent the automobiles from frightening the horses. And auto racing clubs want to exclude electric vehicles. And mainframe companies don't like massive clusters of microcomputers co...
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[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─inb4 Apple already patched this six months ago.
[16:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─When I was young and worked in retail stores, the muzak playing was noticeable, but the songs were recent soft rock. When I started working in real jobs, I didn't have to listen to someone else's music, because generally they don't pipe in music in the computer industry. But when times were tough in...
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─the Music is Actually designed To keep people fRom lIngering in the store after eXchanging their hem (hard-earned money) for sugar carrier.
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:26] <exec> 08└─Time / training oneself to ignore repetitive sounds. That said, I've only ever worked one job that had a short-looped repetitive track system and yes I hated it too. One might make up one's own lyrics and think them in your head. "Who pours? Who steams? Who makes your latte?" I'd presume that the st...
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[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─torture*
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:31] <exec> 08└─and yet we all have to endure it. the important thing in life is however, never step out of character... once i worked as cleaning dude in a drugstore. the cashiers were instructed to keep asking everyone who came to pay for their thing of they want something more and are sure that they are not miss...
[16:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:33] <exec> 08└─The amount of whinging this sounds like after the amount of jobs in retail I've had where either the over the air radio or a Sirius XM station was used just speaks to the snowflake syndrome the up and coming generation exhibits. They've always had a repetitive rotation, day in and day out, and nobod...
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─Sugar carrier? Perhaps this is a regional thing. Here, it's much more likely to be a double whatever with skim milk, and MAYBE some artificial sweetener if they've no regard for their health. The sugar junkies go to D&D.
[16:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:37] <exec> 08└─Some kind of drug? Like, maybe, all the free caffeine you can stomach? In my experience, once the mania sets in, listening to the same songs on repeat gets less annoying, and may even be something you start humming along to. Perhaps that's just me though.
[16:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:40] <exec> 08└─I replaced the shitty elevator music cassette with Twisted Sister... Corporate got mad when they called and were put on hold.
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 1982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─Agreed, though I'm less confident than many that this sort of AI is going to be perfected soon. The danger with many machine learning algorithms used as a basis for AI these days is that it's hard to figure out what "rules" the algorithm is actually making decisions on. You have enormous sets of wei...
[16:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:01] <exec> 08└─Married people die sooner and incur higher costs for psychiatric medication and services. What the insurer is doing is not much different from offering a premium discount for not smoking. It might potentially fall outside the letter of the law in your state, but it's hardly nosy.
[16:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BT 'UK's Most Powerful Wi-Fi'? Not According to Ads Watchdog - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:15] <exec> 08└─BT Hubs give you more cancer than most and that is just from the hub user interface. It will also give you brane damage.
[16:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BT 'UK's Most Powerful Wi-Fi'? Not According to Ads Watchdog - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:17] <exec> 08└─Should also mention they run on linux...and are very locked-down..and probably not gpl compliant.
[16:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:28] <exec> 08└─I know it more complex than that, but I seriously wonder what Lyft and Uber intend to do to actually make their services profitable as a corporation. Right now it seems to be a hope that if they only get enough volume they'll make up it up on margin. If I had time I'd try to analyze just how much mo...
[16:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:30] <exec> 08└─CNET used it correctly, and I've been using "ride-hailing" when I talk about it. It's the Forge Vee-Pee who goofed. Venture capitalists and investors must like the allusion to the "sharing economy".
[16:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─Nobody would drive for them if it wasn't profitable. Because people are rational decision-makers.
[16:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Crew Dragon 2 Docks With ISS - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:47] <exec> 08└─next time a flame-thrower? i kid, i kid ... ^_^
[16:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Crew Dragon 2 Docks With ISS - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:48] <exec> 08└─there's a episode where archer has to ritually chop wood to appease the aliens because his dog peed on a "sacred tree". just wondering what the aliens will think if they don't get a hug and are meet with "unholy gasmasks"? ^_^
[16:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 3111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:13] <exec> 08└─The important consideration that you are missing is selecting the most appropriate language for the task. MicroPython contains provides dictionaries, lists, and many other higher-level data structures out of the box. In C they are not available in the minimum language specification so that that have...
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:53] <exec> 08└─My grandparents had an IBM 386 as well as an Atari. Played me some CD-Man, Duke Nukem 1 ep.1-3, Battle Chess, Mahjong, and (A Risk clone. I think it was called Empire or something, I forget. Couldn't find it on google it's not "Classic Empire".) on the computer. Played Spy vs Spy, Dig Dug, and some...
[16:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:49] <exec> 08└─Bad, but not quite 75,000 bad? https://www.historyhit.com [historyhit.com] By the time the Battle of Okinawa came to an end on 22 June, American forces had suffered more than 45,000 casualties, including 12,500 killed. Japanese deaths may have been higher than 100...
[16:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:51] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot, reread the GP's post, that was not a typo.
[16:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:53] <exec> 08└─The national debt isn't anywhere near the point where it's a problem. The real issue is that what we're doing with that money. If we rolled back the Trump and Bush tax cuts and cut our military spending back to pre-9/11 levels, we'd be running a surplus of over $150bn without cutting services that p...
[16:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─Why? They serve different functions, even if you did roll them all into the same force, you'd still wind up with those issues. The real issue is that we still aren't providing the marines with their own budget item. I guess you could arguably eliminate the army, because it's doesn't do anything that...
[16:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:58] <exec> 08└─Latinos can't be racist, that's news to me. If they're not racist, then they're some of the dumbest people to walk the face of the Earth. One of the main pillars of the GOP over the last 30 years has been that foreigners and people of color are bad. Also, the GOP seems to focus far more on Mexicans...
[16:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:00] <exec> 08└─Y'know, it's amazing. Here I am all white and male, and yet, I have never been accused of sexism or racism. I wonder if not being sexist or racist has anything to do with it...
[16:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Servers 'Stranded' in Space and Still Running - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:52] <exec> 08└─You mess with the system clock for games that use it for things like seasonal events or the like. That you don't have to wait until October to get all those cool Halloween Costumes in Terraria.
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[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─"Largest?" By what, budget? Number of people? Acre? "It is aimed at enhancing the government’s agenda of promoting democratic access to information with the objective of sustainable economic development." What does this mean really? Are they gonna develop software or develop policy? Sounds more li...
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─What are India's target milestones there? They've got some big obstacles to overcome. Their constitution nominally guarantees all citizens a clean environment, and to that end they've reduced air particulate levels through a couple pieces of legislation but that's only local concerns. As far as I ca...
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─Seems, after further internet searching, like they mean square footage of office space specifically devoted to developing open source projects, excluding offices run mixed between for-profit ventures related to open source like the former red-hat headquarters.
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─The Paks don't have any part in instigating tensions between India and Pakistan? Seems to me that the Paks attack Indians, more often than Indians attack Paks. There happens to be a dispute about the borders. India would like to see that region developed, and has made overtures at cooperation betwee...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─I mean, it takes two to tango, and the factors behind the conflict are complex, but Pakistani military incursions into Indian territory: 0. Radical groups within Pakistan are not without blame, and the government should do more to control those groups' support of Kashmiri independence groups, but y...
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reveals “High Severity” Flaw In MacOS Kernel - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─Somebody at the NSA, Mossad, or some other electronic surveillance agency is going "Dammit, they found that one!"
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reveals “High Severity” Flaw In MacOS Kernel - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─Win XP is obviously the most secure, it doesn't need any more patches since years ago!
[17:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─So they didn't want to take it anymore?
[17:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipedown_(campaign) [wikipedia.org]
[17:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:52] <exec> 08└─I have not really noticed this, probably since there isn't a Starbucks in town and even if it wasn't I would never pay several bucks for a coffee in a paper cup. That said I have wondered how all the retail people deal with it during x-mas when they pipe like jingle-bells and other santa songs on a...
[17:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:54] <exec> 08└─Except, I'm pretty sure it's illegal to lie to your employer, the judge, and the jury. It's a totally different situation, if you're actually deaf.
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─In a whisky bar I used to help run, we had Scottish music playing. Music has the role of providing (a) background noise and (b) atmosphere. a) The background noise is needed when the place is basically empty - when you first open, for example. The first customers into an otherwise empty locale often...
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─While that kind of thing could get on people's nerves. Perhaps you needed more sleep or a job that doesn't deal with that kind of thing, or anger management courses.
[17:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:01] <exec> 08└─> a trendy place will play top-40 Sorry, top-40 is not trendy...
[17:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:03] <exec> 08└─Been there, and I empathize with you. I'm the employee, not the neighbor. We started out with 4 outdoor speakers. I couldn't figure out how to turn them down, so I cut wires to two of them. Those are the two that pointed toward the little subdivision across the road. Even after cutting those wires,...
[17:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:05] <exec> 08└─For SERE-training they use banjo music.
[17:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:07] <exec> 08└─There are lies that everyone cares about, and there are other lies that nobody bothers with. If the lie you are telling falls within a narrative many people accept, it will be overlooked or excused in all kinds of creative ways. Lying about disabilities or various flavors of victimhood has become co...
[17:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:10] <exec> 08└─Set up an LRAD to reflect it back at them.
[17:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─If Starbucks sound system is IoT based, then maybe some well-meaning customer could cause the sound to periodically go silent for a while.
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─Depending on the sound track, it wouldn't take but a couple of repeats for insanity to occur. When you find yourself having fits of rage over that kind thing, it's likely not due to the music. Much more likely, you're under a lot of stress, and / or need more sleep. What does get really old, really...
[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─Dungeons&Dragons was pretty sweet.
[17:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:19] <exec> 08└─sugar carrier
[17:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:21] <exec> 08└─Or he simply needed some kind of drug that his employer could have provided.
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:43] <exec> 08└─What the insurer is doing is not much different from offering a premium discount for not smoking.
[17:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─OTOH, it's often quite difficult to figure out what "rules" the non-automated drivers you encounter are using. So the real determinant needs to be quality of results. But trying to get unfudged numbers for that is ... difficult.
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─sometimes I need to run over the criminals -- I don't want my car deciding that it doesn't want to squish the person that is about to shoot me
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 3790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─The aim of the game is to ride the hype train until you can replace drivers with driverless vehicles. That will require either borrowing money to buy a fleet of driverless cars outright, or partnering with car companies to rent driverless cars and split proceeds. Make no mistake, these companies wan...
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─As you get older, your retirement portfolio should consist of a lot more stable/secure investments, with much fewer risky investments. Probably the best advice I ever got was to make sure I put money in early and never touch it. My place of employment has a matching program, been here for 10+ years,...
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:18] <exec> 08└─The profit we're talking about is for the investors, not the Lyft driver. Lyft as a company and Uber as a company got massive investments and have been bleeding money for a long time. At least that's the impression I've received. I'm not much interested, so I've not really looked into it.
[17:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Crew Dragon 2 Docks With ISS - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:35] <exec> 08└─Would be funnier if the ISS crew attached one for the return trip.
[17:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:00] <exec> 08└─Python is the new Perl.
[17:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:43] <exec> 08└─*yawn* Despite the fact that you are "correct", we still had fun with it. You must be the life of every part in your county, right? No one would refer to you as a curmudgeon, would they?
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[18:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Scalable Graphene Yarns for Wearable Textiles Produced - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:04] <exec> 08└─A short in my short shorts? Oh the horror!!!
[18:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Scalable Graphene Yarns for Wearable Textiles Produced - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─What happens if a short develops in your underwear, though?
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─Raise taxes on open source facilities to pay for the services all the people working for free will require from the government. Itemize the services used by each (both open source vs not) worker to determine the amount to tax.
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, I'm pretty contemptuous of Muslims in general, and Paki Muslims in particular. That isn't racism though. Find a more fitting word, alright? But, I'm glad that you can see that both sides are at fault. IMO, the Pakis own something near 75% of the fault, and India owns the rest. The Bloombe...
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─Dafuq?
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately your statement implies that the radical groups within Pakistan are not directly or indirectly encourage by the Pakistani government. Something which really just isn't true. https://www.brookings.edu
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I'm not getting into the weeds on this. Runaway purposefully over-read a statement to create a sentiment I don't back. I responded that the context was more complicated. The blame game on India-Pakistan goes back fucking 70 years, more if you count ethno-religious disputes that existed lo...
[18:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reveals “High Severity” Flaw In MacOS Kernel - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:37] <exec> 08└─This looks an awful lot like the FUSE system in Linux. The user is in control. If a privileged process trusts the user-controlled files too much, bad shit happens. Well, don't blame the OS if you are being dumb.
[18:34:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I had the impression that Starbucks employees already had undergone this procedure as part of their new employee conditioning.
[18:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 894 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:52] <exec> 08└─Don't know about Starbucks, but I've been in a few restaurants were the music was so loud everyone had to yell so the people taking the orders could hear. In those cases the idea probably was to "encourage" people to use the drive-through instead of eating in. More than a few hours exposed to that a...
[18:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:03] <exec> 08└─So they didn't want to take it anymore?
[18:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:20] <exec> 08└─Let's start the one-up game [youtube.com] ... gently.
[18:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─> Maybe there is a way to hypnotize employees to be immune to the music played in Starbucks? Or some kind of drug? A friend of mine said the best sex she's ever had was when thoroughly stoned at a Starbucks because her boyfriend was closing the place. Which goes to prove that it is indeed possible t...
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─Ahh, That brings back the memories
[18:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:25] <exec> 08└─If you are in Starbucks, send a message to their customer service complaining about the noise. I don't know if they read it, but they sent me a $5 credit. If they start having to pay people to visit their stores, maybe some genius will figure out there's something wrong. Then corporate can ride in l...
[18:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 2143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, somebody modded this "troll" just for expressing a less popular opinion? Yeah, I generally frown on the "snowflake" rhetoric too, but in this case it seems a little deserved. This is an article where employees are repeatedly comparing canned music in a workplace to Guantanamo-style torture. Yes...
[18:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:30] <exec> 08└─I put it on loop.
[18:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:32] <exec> 08└─My contribution: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:34] <exec> 08└─At Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, the gulag is the "it's a small world" ride.
[18:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:37] <exec> 08└─Your "shitty elevator music cassette" had one big advantage: it was licensed for public performance. Corporate would have rightly feared a copyright infringement lawsuit from Dee Snider's music publisher over your having performed Twisted Sister's copyrighted music through a transmission to the publ...
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─Most Starbucks locations don't seem to be in a physical arrangement where employees would commit suicide by jumping to their deaths. They weren't even trying to kill themselves, just escape. Unfortunately, where they landed is also a Starbucks so they failed.
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─I would venture a guess that they had the annoying music turned off.
[18:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─Bagpipes. You know why bagpipers are always walking around when they play? They're trying to get away from the music!
[18:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaea CRISPR Systems Grab DNA Memories During Interspecies Mating - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:52] <exec> 08└─They're exposing themselves at the gene pool? For shame.
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:09] <exec> 08└─So you advocate driving tests and licenses for automated cars? The precise "rules" aren't so much an issue as the resulting ability to drive safely.
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─Now that right there is a whole bunch of khallow!
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─MicroPython contains provides dictionaries, lists, and many other higher-level data structures out of the box. In C they are not available
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:27] <exec> 08└─I use a small microcontroller board that is provided by Pycom (Lopy4 [pycom.io]). Read the specification [pycom.io]. I can program it in MicroPython, Lua or other languages. The cost is €34.00. Please tell me of the SBC that can match that specification for the same price or less.
[18:37:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─The one memory that stands out, is trying to hoard the quarters that my wife kept begging me for. "I know your pocket is full of quarters, give me some!" as she patted my outer thighs, then pinched the inner thighs. Wicked woman had no shame!
[18:38:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:03] <exec> 08└─We have some great opportunities to shoot bugs in the Navy! Would you like to know more?
[18:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:11] <exec> 08└─I have never been accused of sexism or racism. I wonder if not being sexist or racist has anything to do with it...
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I realized that after I responded. Still ... the insanity of the clear bottles. Light does quite a number on the more subtle flavours in beer, and it's noticeable after a few hours (by more refined tasters than myself, but still). There's a reason you use dark glass for beer. Now, on the oth...
[18:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:56] <exec> 08└─A major upside of alcoholic drinks is that the alcohol kills most of the nasties that can give you water-born diseases. That's a big reason why people. especially richer people, have tended to prefer booze over milk, juice, and water since all of recorded history. And if you want to know why some hi...
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[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─Hahahahah racist little runaway was born in the wrong century, the crusades were a long time ago dooderino
[19:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:23] <exec> 08└─and the musrats are starting shit again.
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─You can probably blame the British who have the responsibility for the Partition of India [wikipedia.org], although some of the blame could probably be placed upon the Hindu and Muslim nationalist movements [wikipedia.org]. Could the British have done a better job? - quite probably yes. Would it hav...
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─this site attracts personality types that are non-conformist.
[19:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:31] <exec> 08└─For people who develop hearing loss later in life, the continuous nonstop ringing sound (tinnitus) is often a source of more stress than anything else. In extreme cases it leads to suicidal thoughts, but in general, it typically causes various problems associated with stress. Usually the best soluti...
[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNnWpeV--4Q [youtube.com]
[19:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:36] <exec> 08└─OH! found 10 hour version with translation. Enjoy!
[19:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:38] <exec> 08└─Forgot the link https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:40] <exec> 08└─You don't need to suffer from idiotism when you are trying to do your job. Listening to some crap music is not what the workers are being paid for.
[19:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─It took me years to stop hating Motown after working at one place. There was a guy who played it on the radio, and the station was not DJ'd, it was just a playlist with a lot of repetition. At least the commercials changed... sometimes. You can almost set your clock to some of these stations, but if...
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─I figured it wouldn't be that, but I immediately thought of Wind Him Up [youtube.com]
[19:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:47] <exec> 08└─> Set up an LRAD to reflect it back at them. Wrong target. AC here, the 24/7 business was owned by a rich guy who lived elsewhere. If I blasted (or even reflected) the PA speaker back at the brick building it would accomplish exactly nothing. Well, the "echo" might amuse/puzzle any smokers who were...
[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─too bad people won't demand that the data and software that uses it be foss.
[19:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:15] <exec> 08└─You couldn't ever go camping. What would you do if you drove your car to a foreign country, where the professional association that licensed the maps was completely different?
[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:49] <exec> 08└─They only need automation because they couldn't quite get to "plan A : bankrupt all taxis, limos, and public transport with our VC-subsidized higher-convenience rides, before raising prices and turning a profit". In the case of Uber, add at least 7 expletives and actionable statements to that senten...
[19:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are so many industries which would be so much more profitable without the people involved. But it's OK, they'll all magically get other jobs somehow, right? The economic expansion that will create will surely fill in the holes so that all the sub-$22 K / year people will find new and bett...
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─Waymo doesn't come with that baggage. They are entering into the market with driverless from the start.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─Well, you know what they say... *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Learn to code! :'(
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─I was referring to the Big 2. Waymo didn't rush to break all the rules and VC-subsidize their way into as many markets as possible. > They are entering into the market with driverless from the start. Well ... They wish. But they haven't dared ditch the safety guys yet.
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:42] <exec> 08└─code primarily in an interpreted language?
[19:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played the Game - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:23] <exec> 08└─This has NOTHING to do with PacMan. Of course the left hand is on the game. All the one-handed games were played that way. You had to put your hand somewhere. Also there is WAY too much written about the body language. If you were slighty-above or above average in height, you needed to lower your he...
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:04] <exec> 08└─income taxes are for idiots, cowards, traitors and sellouts. which are you?
[19:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─> seems to be a form of population control. Bingo. > Except - the wrong gender suffers the losses. Oh no, in simplistic the "it's a man's world" view, that's the correct gender. In that view, when it comes to children. women go for quality, men more for quantity. Life is precious vs life is cheap. T...
[19:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:31] <exec> 08└─Has nothing changed since 1945?
[19:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:33] <exec> 08└─The trick is to dig as far as possible and then declare all debts void. No, the trick is to dig as far as possible, and then take away everyone's earned benefits (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) that we've paid into all our lives and use the stolen money (it IS our money, after all, even if it is h...
[19:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the R-lite position of "taxation is theft!!@!@!!!"
[19:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Servers 'Stranded' in Space and Still Running - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:30] <exec> 08└─There is a Star Trek joke about them disabling the Borg by sending them Windows.... Linux Servers Stranded In SPACE. - good headline! Options from here: * toss them out to float down on their own - Linux are tough! * call Elon M. and he can beam to them a refreshed Linux image - for the heck w...
[19:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Craft Beer Coming to the U.S. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:22] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, for sure. There's a beer for everyone. (Well, not teetotalers, but you get my drift).
[19:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:48] <exec> 08└─Its amazing how many "American" cultural touchstones are just remakes of Japanese classics. Magnificent Seven (Seven Samurai),... Funny you mention Kurosawa considering so many of his movies were just recycled Shakespeare! Throne of Blood is MacBeth and Ran is King Lear...
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steven Spielberg Wants to Make It Harder for Streaming Films to Compete at the Oscars - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─Which isn't a bad thing, for the record. Cross pollination makes art better.
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[20:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe, perhaps, some day, we might vote for people that will change the law. I can dream, right? In the meantime, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:07] <exec> 08└─From TFA: We are, however, committed to ensuring that our business remains strong and sustainable. We have ample liquidity [...]
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─labels for its opioids carried warnings about the risk of abuse and misuse
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─If you don't like the law, why don't you just buy your own laws, like the Sacklers did? Bootstraps!
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─Purdue will probably give the bankruptcy court the same incentives they gave the Doctors to prescribe that shit... Lots of lap dances.
[20:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Scalable Graphene Yarns for Wearable Textiles Produced - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:23] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia, underwear gives you skid marks!
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─Not that long... A little over 17 years, or about 71, if you wanna get real. No wait, it was after the fall of the Ottoman empire. Yeah, that's it.
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─I think they're famous for their underwater basket weaving. Probably have good weed and hash.
[20:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:46] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the story we're discussing is in Kerala. It would be pretty damn hard to be any further away from that scary border and still be in India!
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:48] <exec> 08└─I wanted to focus on India's sustainability plans because English language sources about it suck ass. But I had to mention current eventsTM so now we're here.
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─psychotic, science-denying, far-right asshole
[20:35:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─I replaced the shitty elevator music cassette with Twisted Sister... Corporate got mad when they called and were put on hold.
[20:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:04] <exec> 08└─Retail is real work, you elitist goon.
[20:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:06] <exec> 08└─On the day when a branch office was being closed down and everyone was getting exit interviews...one of the techies put on cassette of Johnny Paycheck, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Since the small crew from corporate wasn't familiar with the office space, they didn't hav...
[20:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:08] <exec> 08└─Technically yes. But the infringement might go on for a long time and be heard by many, many people before the rights-holders would do anything. One of these claims happened here (many years ago) with a bar playing broadcast radio instead of going through Muzak or other copyright-paying music suppli...
[20:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:10] <exec> 08└─It's not simply a less popular opinion, it's needlessly dismissive and unresponsive to the actual situation. Yes, canned music has been around since forever, but if KISM played the exact same playlist every day, they'd be out of business in eight of them. Not really generational, except in as much a...
[20:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─I don't remember it happening in the X-Files, but it did happen in Millennium (which was by the same people) in the episode A Room with No View [wikipedia.org]. The song was Love is Blue [wikipedia.org].
[20:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:15] <exec> 08└─Someguy might be onto something with "torcher". It kind of looks like what it does.
[20:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:07] <exec> 08└─Please tell me of the SBC that can match that specification for the same price or less.
[20:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─The Raspberry Pi does NOT have LoRa nor SigFox built in, nor does it have most of the specification that I linked to. The WiFi and BLE are significantly less capable. It doesn't have a sleep mode which requires only 25 microamperes but is still capable of responding to interrupts from the GPIO pins....
[20:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:00] <exec> 08└─Stop projecting. Yanks don't like to do the right thing unless cornered. However I notice that Russia *has* kept to their signatures. I used to be a fan. Now I believe that Churchill was right in his estimations.
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[21:34:05] <exec> 08└─Sinking ? That ain't sinking, that's merely a drift. Honsu moved by 2.4m in about 6 minutes in 2011. Top that or stop talking like it's a big deal ! If the river starts going the other way again, you can call that news...
[21:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:07] <exec> 08└─Not enough sand.
[21:34:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:16] <exec> 08└─From TFA: We are, however, committed to ensuring that our business remains strong and sustainable. We have ample liquidity [...]
[21:34:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:19] <exec> 08└─If you don't like the law, why don't you just buy your own laws, like the Sacklers did? Bootstraps!
[21:34:21] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 1123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:22] <exec> 08└─Most of the country already does, but the people who live in communities most savaged by addiction reliably vote for the party that is actively hostile to changing the laws and holding drug pushers like Purdue accountable. They'd rather vote on issues like abortion, guns, and blame their problems on...
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:24] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree. The two parties offer the same possibility of holding the Sacklers responsible, which is zero. Both parties were holding their hands out to the corporations at election time, and corporations are happy to contribute to both parties. The only real chance of change, are third parti...
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─Wrong one. That was InsysT: Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan [soylentnews.org] The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make [soylentnews.org] (Subsys) Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opi...
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─Those people may not be far wrong: the Sacklers are Jewish.
[21:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─HR1. Who is spearheading that? Who is obstructing it? Democrats are far from perfect, but the difference is night and day for anyone with a modicum of moral clarity. HR1 is a sweeping anti-corruption bill, and the GOP is against it. Just repeat that to yourself over and over until you understand. It...
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:33] <exec> 08└─Corporations get what corporations want regardless of party. If President Obama cared about the oxy flowing into this country he would have done something about our Afghanistan opium expedition that ensures that our pharma companies have a steady supply of white gold. Everytime we have a situation w...
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─Some people don't actually like being in pain. Some nonsense excuse for the "war on drugs" or "for the children" blanket arguments to torture cancer patients(or _ANYONE_ in pain) is awful. If people want to use drugs then have fun using drugs. For anyone who is in pain(which is most people at some p...
[21:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:09] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, but... As I understand it, before the British India wasn't a country, so calling the amalgamation of it into administrative districts that eventually turned into countries a partition sounds a bit wrong. You can find historic parallels for India being a nation (I'm not sure about Pakistan...
[21:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:10] <exec> 08└─Dr. Asshole, paging Dr. Asshole! We have a prolapsed anus in need of immediate surgery!
[21:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─Well, perhaps not the Ottoman Empire. Possibly the Ghanznaids [wikipedia.org], or maybe even as far back as the Samanid Empire. [wikipedia.org]
[21:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reveals “High Severity” Flaw In MacOS Kernel - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─don't blame the OS if you are being dumb.
[21:35:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is a way to hypnotize employees to be immune to the music played in Starbucks? Or some kind of drug? But then, these would be an additional cost to the organization.
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:34] <exec> 08└─til: musak [wikipedia.org] is still a thing [wikipedia.org]. i guess intermediation works in mysterious ways?
[21:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure the comment is troll-worthy, but it certainly expresses the view that workers should just suck it up and accept any conditions the boss forces on them, and I disagree with that view quite strongly. Why should the staff at Starbucks have to endure endless repeats of awful show tunes jus...
[21:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:38] <exec> 08└─This is an article where employees are repeatedly comparing canned music in a workplace to Guantanamo-style torture.
[21:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:40] <exec> 08└─And who could forget this classic [youtube.com]? Also make sure you watch this one [youtube.com] right after (or before) to cleanse your palate.
[21:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:42] <exec> 08└─Abusing the monitor, tower, speakers ... it's not their fault, they're doing a great job. Just: patch in a different set of wires and play your own stuff,add a remote to cut the volume,change the CD,write an unhappy open letter to Lin-Manuel Miranda that the songs are great but they're being used fo...
[21:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:44] <exec> 08└─"I'm not suggesting that working at Applebee's is the same as being at Guantanamo, but the principle's the same."
[21:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 2388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─I used to work at a very large indoor mall. The store I worked for was an open air kiosk in the center of the main aisle, noplace to go, noplace to hide, "customers to the left of me! customers to the right of me! oh dear gods they're EVERYWHERE!" The mall had the requisite crappy muzack playing sys...
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─In this case "profitable conduct" means "in a manner less likely to incur death or bodily harm." Fewer people dieing in car crashes is a good thing. Insurance companies are a clumsy, imperfect, but ultimately well-intentioned means of working towards this goal.
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─Ben Franklin said something about those who would surrender liberties in exchange for safety - they deserve neither liberty nor safety.
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota, Carmera Will Create HD Maps for Self-Driving Cars Using Autobrake Cameras - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─I did not enjoy finding documentation for all 11 of my kids. It's a pain in the ass. I have to fax birth certificates, which is supposedly a bad thing. My state prints that annoying EURion constellation on the birth certificate, which most modern scanners and fax machines will refuse to process. I h...
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Files for IPO, Says It 'Represents Freedom at Your Fingertips' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:55] <exec> 08└─It's all right here at your fingertits. [youtube.com]
[21:39:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:41] <exec> 08└─The history of human civilization is a millenia long struggle of ordinary people trying to escape subjugation by powerful people. It's the eternal struggle - the 2 political sides broadly represent the two forces. Go back to every point in history and rulers are crushing little people. In the long g...
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[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─Considering a good portion of the city are up on stilts...
[22:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the problem with earthquakes is that they don't move the whole island. [stuff.co.nz] Bits of the South Island moved 5 metres in about 90 seconds during 2016. The bits that didn't want to come all fell over. There is also the statement that "over a decade that's a centimeter. Over 50 years, n...
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─They do if they thrust-fault their way from Canada into the US, eh.
[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:14] <exec> 08└─I suppose eventually it'll sink to the center of the earth as long as the people stay with it that'll solve the problem. ;)
[22:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:16] <exec> 08└─No, centimetres don't turn into inches if you leave them lying about the place long enough.
[22:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:19] <exec> 08└─Build a wall to keep them out!
[22:34:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:32] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree. The two parties offer the same possibility of holding the Sacklers responsible, which is zero. Both parties were holding their hands out to the corporations at election time, and corporations are happy to contribute to both parties. The only real chance of change, are third parti...
[22:34:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 1606 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─HR1. Who is spearheading that? Who is obstructing it? Democrats are far from perfect, but the difference is night and day for anyone with a modicum of moral clarity. HR1 is a sweeping anti-corruption bill, and the GOP is against it. Just repeat that to yourself over and over until you understand. It...
[22:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:39] <exec> 08└─You don't understand. They have so much money that their bank account ruptured, hence bankruptcy.
[22:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:41] <exec> 08└─Let's be clear that one party can put whatever they feel looks good (whether they actually practice what they preach or not), in a bill that they know has exactly 0 chance to pass.
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─Some people don't actually like being addicted. When you're selling basically heroin, perhaps you should tell your patients that and disclose the very real downsides? People react differently to addictive substances. Be happy if you can have them for breakfast, lunch and dinner but don't be a simple...
[22:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:46] <exec> 08└─In fairness to AC, it's getting confusing to keep track of the many scandals, between tech, pharma, and the government... We're gonna have to help the people relax, by bombing Iran, or the NCAA, or something ...
[22:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:48] <exec> 08└─Some people don't actually like being in pain.
[22:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:50] <exec> 08└─I agree. I was on Rx Fentanyl for 10 years, got fed up with the side effects (memory problems, constipation, even a seizure) and slowly quit everything. That crap turns you into a zombie. It took a year to slowly detox and adjust to the pain. My pain tolerance is now so high I can have dental work d...
[22:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:53] <exec> 08└─Some people don't like knowing what the truth is. When you're making false equivalencies, perhaps you should state that you might not know what most providers actually tell their patients. (Unless, of course, you'd care to share your medical credentials, AC, that would indicate what you know of besi...
[22:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:55] <exec> 08└─the people who live in communities most savaged by addiction reliably vote for the party that is actively hostile to changing the laws
[22:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not an MD but I can read. These are documented facts. Federal officials said that internal Purdue Pharma documents show that company officials recognized even before the drug was marketed that they would face stiff resistance from doctors who were concerned about the potential of a high-powered...
[22:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:59] <exec> 08└─Absent any reason to believe otherwise, I'm going to operate under the assumption that these efforts are sincere. Democrats tried and succeeded in passing sweeping health care reform that, though flawed, did improve a lot of things. Instead of working to improve it, conservatives have been picking a...
[22:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:35] <exec> 08└─India had been ruled as a (pretty much) single entity under previous empires (The Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire). The British obtained power over the inhomogenous India states/principalities via the East India Company, but following the Indian Rebellion of 1858, the British government took d...
[22:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:37] <exec> 08└─If you were administrator of Israel, how would you address the conflicting religions? Sometimes there isn't an obvious answer.
[22:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─I've got the ultimate ear worm for you yanks! and i'm not even american! Here goes: Celino and Barnes, injury attorneys.... HAHAAA BUUUUURN IN PAIN!
[22:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:06] <exec> 08└─No, Starbuck's principle product is coffee-flavoured milk.
[22:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:08] <exec> 08└─You are framing a demand as an observation.
[22:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:10] <exec> 08└─His point was that it's over-the-top to compare actual torture to repetitive store music. Like how a person isn't an actual Hitlerian figure because he or she disagrees with you on some comparatively minor topic. It's an extension of godwin. That's not a troll.
[22:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─Except it's not. The U.S. Army turned to psychological warfare, blaring rock music at "deafening levels," gunning the engines of armored vehicles against the Nunciature's fence, and setting fire to a neighboring field and bulldozing it to create a "helicopter landing zone."
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[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Print Your City? 3-D Printing Is Revolutionizing Urban Futures - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─Waste, for example, is recirculated and fabricated to meet new needs such as energy production.
[23:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─There are laws against public masturbation you know. Go whack off your crime fantasies somewhere else.
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:23] <exec> 08└─Didn't they in-fill / raise the whole city by 6 ft back about 100 years ago? Just rinse and repeat.. oh, more $ today, yes...
[23:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─No, centimetres don't turn into inches if you leave them lying about the place long enough.
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─See this interesting video [youtube.com] about the last time they had to raise the city.
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:30] <exec> 08└─Except in CA, the wall will go South, a few mm per year.
[23:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:59] <exec> 08└─The only reason it won't pass is due to the Pro-Corruption party. Why do you defend the Pro-Corruption party?
[23:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:01] <exec> 08└─In God we truss.
[23:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:03] <exec> 08└─I'm going to operate under the assumption that these efforts are sincere. Their game has a name: Villain Rotation [salon.com]
[23:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:05] <exec> 08└─Then why don't we give them something that does a good job of relieving pain but doesn't make them physically addicted, push them to heroin, and get them killed by overdose? Oh, wait, I know why: Because according to US government official policy ever since the Nixon administration, cannabis (which...
[23:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:08] <exec> 08└─I don't even need to read past the byline. Greenwald is a troll propagandist for the tribe of far-leftists and anarchists who hate the West so much they'll side with the enemies of America out of political expediency. They are so far out on the fringe they can no longer see a difference between main...
[23:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:10] <exec> 08└─Troll or not, this is what the party practices. far-leftists and anarchists who hate the West Ah, okaaay! Now we know where you're comin' from, sorry for not noticing... thankyoueverymuch :-)
[23:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma May File for Bankruptcy to Disrupt Lawsuits - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:12] <exec> 08└─-aka- "three golden sword brand" cant recall the chinese characters for now. also ... can we get opium refill cartridges for vaping?
[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSouthernDandy [6059] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Scalable Graphene Yarns for Wearable Textiles Produced - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─Wearable Textiles? What will those boffins think of next...
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Free and Open Source Facility Launched in Kerala, India - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:53] <exec> 08└─Hello, you've reached the central pharmacy. Dr. Cheeks is currently out making his rounds, and is a little behind. He'll get back to you shortly.
[23:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reveals “High Severity” Flaw In MacOS Kernel - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─My first reaction was also "this is not a bug, this is merely unsurprising surprising behaviour in a condition where you would not expect any defined behaviour". You done fucked with (a file on) the filesystem, someone accessing that filesystem via a memory map should not expect the file it sees to...
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─My wife got stuck in that ride for a couple hours. It was not pretty.
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:30] <exec> 08└─"I identify as deaf".
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I think that is it. No wonder I never could find any info searching for it. It was probably one of those shows I watched while flipping channels between multiple shows anyway. Forgot about that "Millennium" spin off, it wasn't a very memorable series. Now I'll spend another 20 years trying t...
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─This is a starbucks: https://www.insidermonkey.com (page 13 being the 6th sugariest drink)
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks' Music is Driving Employees Nuts - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─My father once did similar as a senior in Catholic school with some friends, except they replaced the annual Christmas Assembly record in favor of Simon & Garfunkel's 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night. Their school's administration was not amused (though the auditorium full of teenagers sure as hell was).
[23:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:33] <exec> 08└─Never heard of SigFox and I never claimed anything about power consumption which doesn't seem as relevant if you're scripting a UI with python as it would for a datalogger. It is possible to run the LoPy4 on lithium batteries for weeks or months without needing recharging.
[23:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LittlevGL Brings GUI Tools To Micropython - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:35] <exec> 08└─If all you are arguing about is the choice of language then that is surely a matter of personal preference assuming that both have the same choice of libraries for the various functions
[23:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:57] <exec> 08└─It's the traditional rulers of the UK who are pushing so hard for Brexit, as it suits their needs.
[23:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:59] <exec> 08└─Government itself is a taming of the absolute power of monarchs. Some want to get rid of govt.
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