#comments | Logs for 2019-03-08

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[00:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:07] <exec> 08└─The people who were actually responsible for Diablo's creation were publically mocked by Jay Wilson back when his comedy masterpiece Diablo 3 was released.
[00:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dragon has Docked-But the Real Pucker Moment for SpaceX's Capsule Awaits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:28] <exec> 08└─Actually, it turns out that quite a few people do use this adjective [wikipedia.org] to describe this exact scenario for the engineers here.
[00:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Teams Up with Light to Develop Multi-Module Cameras for Smartphones - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:40] <exec> 08└─That was done years ago: http://www.kurzweilai.net [kurzweilai.net] https://petapixel.com [petapixel.com] https://www.nbcnews.com
[00:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:08] <exec> 08└─If rape had nothing to do with sex, then it wouldn't be rape.
[00:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:09] <exec> 08└─I don't see two crimes here. They didn't commit a simple rape, then cause the woman's death as a separate act. It was all one act, with a pretty simple theme: to humiliate, denigrate, and debase a woman, in the process causing as much torturous pain as possible, and ultimately her death. Rape is alm...
[00:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─Nobody's dying on this hill. People are just recognizing that Valve/Steam has rolled back its permissive policy, which was outlined just 6 months ago. It's highly likely that the game will be self-published and will be far more successful than it would have been if there was no controversy. But we c...
[00:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:14] <exec> 08└─Most of these sorts of games are usually 'trolling'. Basically they make a bad game realize it somewhere halfway then decide to just throw in total crap to just piss people off and get word of mouth. They are usually garbage and play horribly. The so controversial called story is usually non-exista...
[00:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:55] <exec> 08└─Number of days I've worn longjohns in the last 3 years: 0, way way way way way below expectation (I'm getting older, for pity's sake, I should be feeling it more.)
[00:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Ketamine-Derived Treatment for Depression Approved by the U.S. FDA - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:23] <exec> 08└─So does the much cheaper low-dose ketamine (note, no e in front).
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[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─It seems like they actually care about accessibility when putting money into projects like the Xbox adaptive controller and an initiative like this. Either that, or they have to to be ADA-compliant for some contracts. In any case, it's a good bet to trust their hardware (keyboards, mice, etc) even i...
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─I looked at the link. I see some people sitting at a table, manipulating what look like toys. That is, I don't see a blind child with some accessibility thingy, playing on a computer. I see physical objects being played with. "you can continuously connect additional pods like a massive centipede, un...
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─In the very early days of "programming" electronic systems, they sometimes used large physical plugboards. A configuration of wires would be the program, and if you wanted to store it, just remove the entire plugboard wires and all, set it aside, and put in an empty one. Not exactly the same thing,...
[01:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:12] <exec> 08└─Should we poke the eyeballs out of Microsoft's UI developers? Even if it doesn't improve the software, it'll be fun.
[01:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─So, is this just a money sink?
[01:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:25] <exec> 08└─I'll just keep pulling out my old cd's.
[01:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:27] <exec> 08└─My question: does it run (well) in a VirtualBox VM?
[01:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:32] <exec> 08└─That's not comparable, since getting on the front page is more like an endorsement than anything. Aristarchus is free to post the stories in his journals without censorship. Will Steam allow Rape Day to be published on their service elsewhere, just without endorsing it?
[01:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:33] <exec> 08└─At first I thought you were just another clueless feminist claiming that rape was never about sex. But really, you are redefining rape as violent assault in the genital region. So if that is your new definition of rape, what do you call forced non-consensual sex?
[01:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:35] <exec> 08└─"forced non-consensual sex". What do you call the use of force, if not violence? You seem to misunderstand me. The degree of force and violence is what separates a "simple" rape, from a barbaric assault. No, I'm not a feminist. Some of those whackos go so far as to define ALL sexual relations as vio...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:38] <exec> 08└─I also don't think that quantifying suffering is very useful (it just leads to pointless comparisons and what-ifs).
[01:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─I have never seen a fund raiser for climate change research
[01:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:21] <exec> 08└─It is possible we will see every country/continent/region individually cooling while still having global warming:
[01:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:23] <exec> 08└─I believe I started off with "wouldn't it be interesting if..."
[01:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How To Make People Sit Up And Use 2-Factor Authentication - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:48] <exec> 08└─People don't like 2FA because they only have to lose their dongle and they have effectively locked themselves out of everything. Oh I know you are supposed to double down and buy TWO 2FA tokens and drop one in a safe so that can't happen. Until it does. I used 2FA with the Authy phone app and then m...
[01:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How To Make People Sit Up And Use 2-Factor Authentication - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:50] <exec> 08└─Did you not see the part about how U2F is immune, by design, to cross-site account linking?
[01:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop of Crypto-Exchange Owner who Died with Keys to $137m Finally Cracked - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:11] <exec> 08└─Why are you formatting your posts this way?
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[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─Is it a special colored pod, or does Microsoft try to hide it by making it look like the other pods?
[02:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─Only Microsoft's R+D geniuses would consider pod color as a significant differentiator in a product intended for blind kids.
[02:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:21] <exec> 08└─I'm a long way from blind, but depending on the colors used, they might as well be camoflage. Want to hide a bush full of red roses from me? Just let the grass grow up in the vicinity, I'll never see those roses unless I'm standinig almost on top of them.
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution [github.com] They're currently working towards a binary-exact state. Closed-source wise it's likely already been largely reversed by https://www.patreon.com [patreon.com] which is quite a great mod btw. Virtualbox wise, you don't need it. you need to j...
[02:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:42] <exec> 08└─Just like I don't have to bake a gay marriage cake if I don't want to. Supreme court affirmed that right.
[02:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:28] <exec> 08└─No, in Simpson paradox every subgroup can be cooling while still having an overall warming.
[02:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crops Can be Modified by Exposure to Pollen Carrying CRISPR Components - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:45] <exec> 08└─Still not in .gov, but .ve pretty much.
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[03:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Method for Developing Artificial Ovaries - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:07] <exec> 08└─help women fall pregnant I remember some time in the history of feminism, women rebelled against the idea that pregnancy was an impairment, an illness, or an undesirable condition. Now, people "fall ill" pretty frequently - but I've never seen or heard of "falling pregnant". I suppose it's a common...
[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Method for Developing Artificial Ovaries - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:08] <exec> 08└─Let's help people with diseases natural selection doesn't normally catch, create more people susceptible to those diseases.
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Method for Developing Artificial Ovaries - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
[03:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:29] <exec> 08└─Just let the grass grow up in the vicinity, I'll never see those roses unless I'm standinig almost on top of them.
[03:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:42] <exec> 08└─I was just about to do that. Then I remembered 2 was better and got THOSE CDs out.
[03:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dragon has Docked-But the Real Pucker Moment for SpaceX's Capsule Awaits - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:05] <exec> 08└─Apparently not you?
[03:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Teams Up with Light to Develop Multi-Module Cameras for Smartphones - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:18] <exec> 08└─the jointly-developed cameras will feature DSLR-level capabilities
[03:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:55] <exec> 08└─At least when it comes to payment processors, this deplatforming nonsense should be outright forbidden.
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[04:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Method for Developing Artificial Ovaries - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─The word "informatics" in English means something like "computer science" in just about every non-English-speaking country.
[04:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:31] <exec> 08└─Windows has always felt like it's been coded by a thousand engineers with severe ADHD.
[04:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:45] <exec> 08└─The idea of VirtualBox was more to protect the system from any network exploits that may come over the network gaming interface... always restart from a known clean snapshot.
[04:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:07] <exec> 08└─Almost nobody believes that rape is a worse crime than murder, though.
[04:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:58] <exec> 08└─Priorities? Movie ratings consider sex worse than violence. Murder gets only an R, sex gets the triple X.
[04:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:00] <exec> 08└─I don't see two crimes here. They didn't commit a simple rape, then cause the woman's death as a separate act. It was all one act, with a pretty simple theme: to humiliate, denigrate, and debase a woman, in the process causing as much torturous pain as possible, and ultimately her death. Rape is alm...
[04:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:02] <exec> 08└─You'd be silly to be convinced of that. They're a business not an activist cult. Whatever stands to make them more money is what they will do.
[04:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:04] <exec> 08└─Because some people find well done trolling hilarious, which is a positive response.
[04:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:07] <exec> 08└─It is reacting to outside pressure and bad press.
[04:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:53] <exec> 08└─No, in Simpson paradox every subgroup can be cooling while still having an overall warming.
[04:38:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06U.S. Users are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Edison Research Says - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:17] <exec> 08└─Even if you are not "using" Facebook, they still use you. That Messenger on your phone you don't "use" is enough for them.
[04:38:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06U.S. Users are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Edison Research Says - 1017 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:30] <exec> 08└─At the other end of the scale, my local parent-and-toddler group do all their announcements and organising through Facebook (plus a few old posters on places like the church hall noticeboard). Back when my wife was helping to run the group (and did the whole publicity thing) I set up and maintained...
[04:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Users are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Edison Research Says - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:50] <exec> 08└─On my tasty Google Pixel 3 XL... With no third party apps, I can feel safe that nobody might be spying on me.
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[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Method for Developing Artificial Ovaries - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:17] <exec> 08└─And....?
[05:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:34] <exec> 08└─> plugboards Iirc (I was a little kid), these were a standard feature of analog computers c.1960 -- the patch cords were connecting various different kinds of circuitry like op-amps and filters. I still have a thing for banana plugs (single & dual) and patch cords, wouldn't buy test equipment that d...
[05:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:05] <exec> 08└─And by the way, I read your link and agree with you about the wording of the statement from Valve -- it's vague. But also, I think, perfectly realistic for a business acting in the real world. Don't like it? Don't support them. And keep complaining about them. But don't try to pretend this sort of b...
[05:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry: missed the NOT in the last sentence.
[05:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:54] <exec> 08└─No one I know has any idea why the US has been bombing Syria.
[05:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:55] <exec> 08└─That isn't what the data is like. You need to have a variable number of stations in each region for each year and calculate a trend for each, then the overall trend using all the stations at once.
[05:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:57] <exec> 08└─"the large lake that borders both the United States and Canada and is neither fully in either country"
[05:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:00] <exec> 08└─After all, the ISIS invasion of Iraq from ISIS-occupied territory in Syria is public knowledge.
[05:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Users are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Edison Research Says - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:56] <exec> 08└─P.S. I forgot to add "Dadgummit!". The mind must be going.
[05:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World’s Last Blockbuster Has No Plans to Close - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:10] <exec> 08└─I sincerely hope the Anchorage Blockbuster passed along Russell Crowe's Jockstrap to be displayed now in this last Blockbuster, as appropriate for a pilgrimage site. (For those not paying attention to news about the remaining Blockbusters, last year Crowe auctioned off a lot of his random stuff, inc...
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[06:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─They might give news without pretending to chit-chat with one another and crack useless jokes.
[06:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:14] <exec> 08└─Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit
[06:36:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:27] <exec> 08└─A person's artistic vision shouldn't be compromised by what other people find "sick". Plenty of moral busybodies would say the same thing you did about the directors of certain horror/gore movies. And yet there probably isn't a viable legal basis to involuntarily commit any of these people. If anyth...
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[06:38:05] <exec> 08└─You need to have a variable number of stations in each region for each year and calculate a trend for each, then the overall trend using all the stations at once.
[06:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:06] <exec> 08└─This is a reason to spend $15 billion a year to bomb Syria?
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[07:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:14] <exec> 08└─A year or two ago, some manner of reactionary US TV local network _required_ its anchors to verbatim state during the evening news some manner of pro-trump propaganda. That even occurred in ardently-leftist Portland. There were lots of protests from the anchors required to earn their pay as propagan...
[07:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:22] <exec> 08└─End to end encryption means nothing when one of the ends is facebook. It doesn't change anything at all. They still see everything you do and collect everything they can. The only difference is that now it's encrypted (which a. isn't qualified and b. makes you wonder why this wasn't the case to begi...
[07:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─No need to be nasty, i posited both possibilities yet you attack me as if i only said one. Not surprised, anyone up in arms over this story is going to already have serious issues of their own.
[07:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Users are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Edison Research Says - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:15] <exec> 08└─Use, the Red Hat CTO's brother Bruce. Bruce Tiemann is a Chemist; last I heard his focus was on Laser Dyes; he I and a couple others built a _very_ dangerous dry nitrogen laser after I advised Bruce to use a stolen walk-in refrigerator door as one plate of the required capacitor. You Don't Want To D...
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[08:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Method for Developing Artificial Ovaries - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:31] <exec> 08└─If this is the *new* method for developing artificial ovaries, what was the *old* method? Inquiring minds want to know...
[08:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:22] <exec> 08└─The point is that Steam isn't merely picking and choosing what it wants to publish using a set of criteria,
[08:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:23] <exec> 08└─While you obviously prefer to use modus trollens.
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[09:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will Close 87 U.S. Retail Stores - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:06] <exec> 08└─I'm sure whomever worked there will be taught "coding" by this job creator and will be perfectly fine doing coding after they lose this job. /s
[09:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will Close 87 U.S. Retail Stores - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:08] <exec> 08└─The truth is, they don't actually know why they closed them down. As with any other pop up, you first close it out of instinct, only then you wonder what it might have been.
[09:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:15] <exec> 08└─Not Saying Anything is giving away free software and killing off only one of their snooping departments. Where's my tinfoil cap?
[09:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:17] <exec> 08└─The NSA might kill off the phone metadata collection program because they aren't using it. Why would they NOT use such a powerful tool? Because they have a more powerful one.
[09:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:20] <exec> 08└─Windows, Facebook, ISPs, Telcos, Spy Sats... They've had the tools for a long time.
[09:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're actually pretending. Rather, I think that Live On Camera is one of the few opportunities news anchors ever really have to hand out with their own true peers. In a real TV studio, most of their days they would be consuming incoming reports so as to determine what to over on the...
[09:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:06] <exec> 08└─money sink or not, it's a choice between this or nothing. if my kids were blind, I would buy a set when they're old enough. when it comes to Legos, you can always argue that there are cheaper alternatives, so it makes no sense to buy into it. but for instilling the concept of rule-based information...
[09:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:07] <exec> 08└─It looks like you're trying to figure out who programmed Windows. Would you like some help with specific aspects of the OS?
[09:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:09] <exec> 08└─[...] "We're looking at this [Code Jumper] as a career piece," Meador says. Microsoft, Apple and Google accessibility teams have spoken with him about the shortage of programmers who are blind or visually impaired. They're in high demand. "You can be blind and become a programmer. There are a lot...
[09:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 2080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:23] <exec> 08└─No, it's been decompiled. That's all. Even with help of symbol lists and all kinds of debugging information, you still end up with: https://github.com [github.com] which is basically unreadable. There's a reason they're trying to get a binary-ex...
[09:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:25] <exec> 08└─There also was a Diablo III made by Blizzard North (https://www.diablowiki.net/Diablo_III:_Blizzard_North_version) which was scrapped for the real life money auction house-infested abomination we got instead...
[09:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:49] <exec> 08└─Yep, refusing is not a neutral action and will backfire with some other customers. SJW are the stereotypical anti-bigots who fight fire with fire. Guess how that turns up.
[09:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:42] <exec> 08└─Sure it does, the final average isn't just the average of the regional averages.
[09:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:44] <exec> 08└─Because it has nothing to do with me or anyone I know.
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[10:34:26] <exec> 08└─as if there weren't people dying to get on national tv and able to read up news. Cost is not an issue. The real reason is educating the viewer to interact with AI. Since bots and AI are the slaves of the technocracy, you lowly meatbag will have to respect their 'rights'. I tell you, if this is where...
[10:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Method for Developing Artificial Ovaries - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:47] <exec> 08└─they are not just for babies ... you know? And they don't just make estrogen and progesterone. They are kinda complicated and affect the lifespan of women and their quality of life. That's why hormone replacement drugs have risks and ovaries generally have benefits when it comes to your health. My w...
[10:35:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Dragon has Docked-But the Real Pucker Moment for SpaceX's Capsule Awaits - 1095 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:31] <exec> 08└─> This is just like Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury. We were promised a landing, not a splashdown. What happened here? NASA happened. SpaceX follows customer specs. > Even the Russians manage a landing with retro rockets, although they also cheat a bit with a parachute. Highly wrong. They mostly land wi...
[10:35:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Dragon has Docked-But the Real Pucker Moment for SpaceX's Capsule Awaits - 680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:34] <exec> 08└─The chutes attach to the side. [vox-cdn.com] The Soviets had to use a ground landing system for a couple reasons. Their launch site at Baikonur is landlocked, so for safety purposes any crewed spacecraft launched from there would have to be able to land on solid ground in case of an emergency abort...
[10:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 283 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:33] <exec> 08└─The creators of this game sure got a whole lot of free publicity and marketing out of the outrage about it. Which is probably what they were going for when they created their game. Grand Theft Auto took advantage of the same effect back in the day, as have other controversial games.
[10:37:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 681 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:02] <exec> 08└─DM said "The actual policy: It's my printing press, I can print or not-print whatever the hell I want." I said "People asked Steam to remove/reject it. It's not their marketplace, but apparently their noise had an effect." The point is that Steam isn't merely picking and choosing what it wants to pu...
[10:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crops Can be Modified by Exposure to Pollen Carrying CRISPR Components - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:58] <exec> 08└─Who owns the crops?
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[11:34:08] <exec> 08└─I just find this hilarious. Thank you for submitting this story. Why do I have prejudices and maintain stereotypes? Because they are either mostly true all the time, or actually true most of the time. (The ones that are actually true all of the time we call "facts".) It's a purely utilitarian simpli...
[11:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:09] <exec> 08└─Best title on this site since a long time. Thank you :)
[11:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:44] <exec> 08└─Your knee-jerk response was addressed in the article. Your shallow cynicism is part of what enables facebook's entrenchment.
[11:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:46] <exec> 08└─Another poster who didn't bother to read the article. Soylent really living up to its reputation of all snark and no expertise.
[11:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:48] <exec> 08└─How does GP not address the article? It speaks directly to the following from the article: Zuckerberg’s Vision Look again at what Zuckerberg outlined: Private interactions Encryption Reducing Permanence Safety Interoperability ...
[11:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:37] <exec> 08└─There is also OpenDUNE and OpenRCT2 that are based on decompiled code.
[11:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World’s Last Blockbuster Has No Plans to Close - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:09] <exec> 08└─"drawn in part by the store's seven-day rental policy" And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you stay in business.
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[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─The problem with traditional stereotypes is similar to that of (the lack of) privacy. Even if in (not so) ancient times both worked well enough to understand what could kill you before was too late and everybody knew the whereabouts of everyother neigbour around the geographically limited environmen...
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[13:34:16] <exec> 08└─Entirely untrue. Stereotypes are just as useful as they ever were. The problem some people have is in realizing they were never meant to be universal truths, just quick and dirty assumptions that you need to keep an eye on in case they don't apply this time.
[13:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─As long as you understand that you're using a simplification, then I don't see a problem with that; it's a very useful pragmatic tool that gets you most of the way. The ones that give stereotypes a bad reputation tend to be the ones who hold false, perhaps once-true-but-now-outdated, opinions to not...
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[13:34:36] <exec> 08└─They have several phone spying programs. Which particular one are they looking at ditching and what are they replacing it with?
[13:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:47] <exec> 08└─Another magnificent job by China. English Artificial Intelligence Anchor is VERY NEUTRAL. I can hear it in his voice. And he's very fair, he'll never pull a Megyn -- he says EXACTLY what he's told to. And by the way, he won't pull a Gretchen Carlson either. ZERO lawsuits from this guy. Because, how...
[13:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:32] <exec> 08└─This one, according to the Editors, is Softwear. They put it under Softwear. And it's going to have many loving fans. Not just because it's Microsoft -- many people are saying Microsoft Softwear is the best -- but because, no Computer. Where's the Computer? There is none. They got rid of the biggest...
[13:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:50] <exec> 08└─As in bad old game.
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[13:39:11] <exec> 08└─You're joking but you're also right. Trump's pro fossil fuel industry decisions have accelerated global warming and this is likely one of its consequences: increased chance of extreme local (geographically and temporally) weather.
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─Believe me, they need it. And a good dose of "democracy." Justin is very dishonest and weak. And many people are saying it's time for him to resign. Because of the horrible way he bullied his Attorney General. It's called Obstruction of Justice, folks. Sad that it's happening to our so-called neighb...
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[13:41:48] <exec> 08└─Estonia was a country that reinvented its infrastructure, almost every part of it (exceptions being the mechanical things like the presence/absence of roads, tram tracks, and trolley-bus power lines), upon reindependence. Its legal system was put together by academics who knew other countries' syste...
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[14:34:07] <exec> 08└─This title may have been OK on phys.org, but on this site it's definitely confusing. It took me a bit until I realized it's not about log files.
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─For starters, we should be studying how to get currently high-value trees to grow taller, faster, straighter, and to be less picky about where they grow well. Do that and you alleviate most of the pressure on the trees you want to stay put by making them less valuable. Also, I am sorely disappointed...
[14:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will Close 87 U.S. Retail Stores - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:35] <exec> 08└─Are kiosks within stores "retail stores"?
[14:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will Close 87 U.S. Retail Stores - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:36] <exec> 08└─They have a web "page" for this one. They call it "Physical Retail Locations." I wouldn't call it Retail. You go to a Retail Store, they collect the Tax, right? Not Amazon. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, and are putting many thousands of retailers out of bus...
[14:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:48] <exec> 08└─They collected all the metadata and now they are taking a break to sift through it.
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[14:35:00] <exec> 08└─Those folks who say automation won’t take all jobs need to start listing the jobs it won’t take. Bet this one would have been on the list.
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Mass Production of Commercial Embedded Magnetic Random Access Memory (eMRAM) - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─1 Gb = 128 MB
[14:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:29] <exec> 08└─We should start a campaign to block all porn on the Internet on the grounds that since ISPs are no longer bound by net neutrality they ought to proactively restrict access to obscene materials. Let's help the service providers aim for their own feet.
[14:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:27] <exec> 08└─There have been a lot of AC-submitted "damn, the world is so cold" stories lately.
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[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Are we better off breaking it into small pieces, or nudging it to go a different direction?
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─That's what the dinosaurs thought too!
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:09] <exec> 08└─how much force should we hit it with to move it away without causing it to break?
[15:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:11] <exec> 08└─Me, I blew them fuckers up wholesale back in the 80s.
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─I just tap the fire button and my little delta ship puts out a little dot that blows it up, pew pew pew! [freeasteroids.org] It's those damn tiny alien spaceships that are hard to kill!
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─...or about the kind of log you leave in the toilet.
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[15:34:26] <exec> 08└─> taller, faster, straighter, Um, you need to learn a lot more about high value trees. Some of the most expensive are sought after because the grain is wildly twisted/gnarled, and often dense from slow growth. Take rosewood for example (used for the sides of acoustic and classical guitars) -- the gr...
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─The Canadian government was paying their companies, paying their people to cut down trees. They call it logging. I call it Socialism. Read my lips, NO SOCIALISM IN AMERICAN HEMISPHERE. They were sending the "lumber" to U.S.A. It was too much "lumber" -- and too cheap. That "lumber" was doing a real...
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:30] <exec> 08└─"Take rosewood for example (used for the sides of acoustic and classical guitars)" Err, what? Well, yes, it has been used on a few models, but mahogany is much more common for the back and sides. Rosewood is most commonly used for fingerboards. If it's so hard for the feds to figure out what species...
[15:34:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:42] <exec> 08└─I just find this hilarious. Thank you for submitting this story. Why do I have prejudices and maintain stereotypes? Because they are either mostly true all the time, or actually true most of the time. (The ones that are actually true all of the time we call "facts".) It's a purely utilitarian simpli...
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:48] <exec> 08└─Old woman: "Why do you have tattoos?" Hipster: "Tattoos are a personal expression. My tattoos make me unique." Old woman: "But all of your friends have tattoos too." Hipster: "Yes. I'm unique, just like everyone else." Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[15:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:10] <exec> 08└─ren != del, mv != rm It's far more likely they are reconstituting the compromised program under a new name and management to make FOIA searches harder.
[15:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:11] <exec> 08└─*FOIA requests FOIA searches sounds like some archivist's wet dream.
[15:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:09] <exec> 08└─> I can't imagine even a very proficient code jumpist match the pace of anyone that can use keyboard-fu. In case anyone is still reading... c.1970, we had a 100% blind guy in high school who touch typed (typewriter). While his error rate was a little higher than ideal, his output was fast and easily...
[15:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:28] <exec> 08└─which is basically unreadable
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Releases Diablo I to GOG, DRM free - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─D1 & D2 both were awesome games. Then Blizzard made World of Warcraft and the entire company rotted to the core. It's like World of Warcraft was the soul stone. Eventually, they were no match for it and were sucked into the abyss. Then we got D3, which could have been a stupendously awesome game. In...
[15:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─What's really sad about that? I hate to interrupt the Two Minute Hate here, but ignorance of regions outside one's own is a universal trait not one that somehow the US particularly manifests. And yet humanity somehow manages to trundle on despite this supposed ignorance. I think we can best help by...
[15:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:57] <exec> 08└─Then it is not a average, final or otherwise. Words have meaning.
[15:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:59] <exec> 08└─Because it has nothing to do with me or anyone I know.
[15:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:01] <exec> 08└─To follow up on that previous remark, 1) how much of that $15 billion came from you and those people you know? (it's coming to oh, $50 per person) 2) I know that there is this fad to pretend that there's no US interests or allies in the Middle East, but given that there is, why should we spend this...
[15:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:04] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. US carbon emissions have dropped under trump due to his pro-natural gas and high tariff policies. https://www.epa.gov [epa.gov]
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[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─Wine made with those grapes would have been a famous year. In the future maybe a collector's item.
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─Burbon and whiskey is aged in burnt barrels to give it flavour. Applewood smoked bacon anyone? Hickory smoked beef jerky? Just put it in smaller bottles, put it beside the ice wine, and sell it at a premium price.
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─Flash player required. :^(
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─Just get that fat broad's personal vibrator, insert it into any crevice, and watch the asteroid shake itself to bits.
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─Didn't you read TFA? The gravitational pull just sucks it back together.
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─Turn it into ice cubes, gold bars, aluminium cans, and steel beams.
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:30] <exec> 08└─Well, once all the humans are dead...
[16:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:43] <exec> 08└─Trust me, I know plenty about woodworking and the materials thereof. My mouse is right now sitting on a Brazilian mahogany end table I built back in my 30s. I was speaking of species characteristics because we're talking mass logging here.
[16:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─I've read that three times now. It kinda sorta looks like it ought to make sense - but I can't find the thread. Do you ever grammar?
[16:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Good News Is That Whoever Has To Clean Up Solar System Will Have An Easy Job - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:52] <exec> 08└─But where did the large objects come from? Big things blowing up make big and small objects, and if they grew from cosmic dust, wouldn't you expect all sorts of sizes?
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─Where grifters feign their aggrievance, together with an army of useful idiot followers, in grandstanding Twittergasms for attention and free shit sent as apology. This guy used email. Maybe he couldn't risk his twitter account and its followership getting discredited over this? Would have been fun...
[16:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:06] <exec> 08└─I alway try to imply human sanity. That's why I choose to assume that the guy was making a practical joke, sometimes called trolling.
[16:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but do they have *the same* tattoos? I'm sure there are some people who go to the tattoo parlor and pick some random symbol that they think looks cool; but every person I've ever met with tattoos could give you a rather lengthy story to explain every single one of them, and occasionally they'r...
[16:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:10] <exec> 08└─Or as another story pointed out it was simply a very close doppleganger. I have had a few onstances where people thought I was someone else, and we've all seen the "other nationality version of famous person." Is this story amusing? Yes. Does it justify your little hate-fest? No.
[16:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:33] <exec> 08└─Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
[16:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:35] <exec> 08└─Yea! NSA will stop collecting metadata. (eg, who calls whom and when) But secretly they will start collecting the entire conversations and contents of transmissions instead. Who needs metadata when you've got all the actual data.
[16:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:48] <exec> 08└─I'm inclined to agree. There's a lot of bullshit fears around AI: specifically malevolence combined with hyper-competence. Or the stupid paperclip problem which is just amorality+hyper-competence. I can't and won't take those kinds of ideas seriously, because there's a limit to what cognitive advant...
[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:50] <exec> 08└─Management decides what the anchors cover, and how they frame it.
[16:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:23] <exec> 08└─I expect you'll have lots of support from payment processors, drug cartels, hate groups, money launderers and lots of other folks.
[16:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─You posited two possibilities and acted as though they were on semi-equal footing, which they aren't. There is such a thing as a neutrality bias.
[16:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:27] <exec> 08└─no, sex is X. triple X has activity that includes non-procreative benefit; that is, not what God intended as per how the laws are written. In the US, some states still have it on the books that oral/anal/anything else is illegal because it doesn't offer the chance to provide more souls to their crea...
[16:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think you even looked at the simpson's paragraph page, it is all due to varying sample sizes.
[16:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:31] <exec> 08└─I guess endless war it is then!
[16:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:33] <exec> 08└─Blame autocorrect: paragraph -> paradox
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[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─You can make good wine from all sorts of grapes, or even other fruits. They're different flavors, and some of them won't meet the standards that certain wine snobs have set for themselves, but wine expertise is total BS [gizmodo.com] anyways. Drink what you like, don't drink what you don't like unti...
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JediTrainer [1431] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─Just got back from California and did some tastings - California had, you know, a lot of wildfires too. Some of the Monterey-area wineries were quite up front about the smokey taste of some of their wines, touting it as a feature on a few of them! ...I don't get it. I suspect someone's trying this g...
[17:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─Serveur, l'Ondulation des fraises, 19, fumé, s'il vous plaît.
[17:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─It's probably angling for disaster relief funds.
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─Some years ago one of the better restaurants on Miami Beach, The Forge, burned. The Forge had an extensive, expensive, and insured wine cellar. The insurers made the assertion that even though there was smoke damage apparent on the labels of the bottles, smoke would not pass the cork and therefore d...
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─Wow man, and I thought smoke-tainted wine was, you know, like when you fill you're bong up with wine, then, like smoke through it for about a month, then, like, drink it, man. I don't do it often, 'cause, like, man, I REALLY barf. And I don't really get high, just dizzy from all the barfing. Bummer....
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─There's all kinds of smoke. Charcoal from burnt oak and other woods absorbs some of the very same "distasteful" chemicals which smoke from other sources can impart to a liquid. The point of aging in flame treated casks is essentially to carbon-filter the liquid, like activated charcoal in a fish tan...
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─Are the margins on wine so thin that you can't wash the grapes? Ah well, smokey raisins it is.
[17:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─wine expertise is total BS
[17:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─One of my pleasures, while in Scotland, was to meet a wine maker outside of Edinburgh. He had more wines in his cellar than I ever heard of. I spent about three hours with him, and he kept pushing wine at me. Smell, taste, smell, taste, over and over. There were some smells and flavors that were pur...
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. I love to relax in the evening by sipping on a glass of Merlot while having a cigar. Champagne is even better, depending on the cigar. To my mind this just means I would need a lighter cigar with less of a bold "campfire" expression. Unfortunately, those tend towards the cheap and an...
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:36] <exec> 08└─Because they sure do smoke a lot of that in California.(Good for them.)
[17:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─Generally, smoked fish is served that way because the unsmoked flavor of the species is too repugnant to swallow.
[17:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:41] <exec> 08└─Are you getting Cuban cigars here in the US now? I read something about Customs no longer executing you on the spot for smuggling a cigar - don't know how true that was. Man, I'd love to get my hands on a few. I smuggled two boxes into the US while I was in the Navy, but they've been long gone.
[17:34:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:51] <exec> 08└─I just tap the fire button and my little delta ship puts out a little dot that blows it up, pew pew pew! [freeasteroids.org] It's those damn tiny alien spaceships that are hard to kill!
[17:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─about global warning we are already letting it hit by keeping the industrial pollution of the environment instead of stoping it
[17:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:00] <exec> 08└─100% guaranteed method to obliterate an asteroid: nudge it into a collision course with an Earth-size rocky planet at many kilometers per second. ;-) Bad jokes aside, I hope they approach this game of Solar System Billiards very carefully, and very accurately. Miss that bank shot by fractions of a d...
[17:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:02] <exec> 08└─I like the Yin/Yang approach: paint one side white and the other black. If you choose your sides properly (and the rock doesn't spin too much), the differential radiation pressure can be all the course correction you need. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─What would be the point of the troll, if it reflected well on Trump?
[17:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:18] <exec> 08└─Buzz, The parent commenter's points still stand. You can breed a species to have those qualities you mentioned, but they tend to be at odds with the desirable qualities of the endangered wood. All the qualities you mentioned (grows straight, fast, in poor soil) are true of pine trees bred for planta...
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today's Good News Is That Whoever Has To Clean Up Solar System Will Have An Easy Job - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:27] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure there are an abundance of Telephone Sanitizers available to take care of this.
[17:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─The program is due for Congressional reauthorization in December 2019
[17:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─Look at that typical woman on our news.. Perfect arm position, paper never moves, eyes don't blink..... Couldn't be more artificial. I'm not afraid of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Stupidity scars the hell out me and Fux Nuz has that in the bag.
[17:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:25] <exec> 08└─This just looks like sophisticated animation to me. If all the anchor is doing is reading what is being texted to it, that's just animation. Wake me when they start doing live interviews and coming up with their own questions.
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─You *ought* to be frightened of "amorality+hyper-competence", because you're framing the problem wrong. The actual problem is a morality that incompatible with human survival + faster than human reaction time. We can't even imagine what hyper-competence would be like, so that's something that nobody...
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. This definitely goes to show you how truly dumb certain jobs are. Human news anchors are basically just reasonably attractive people who read whatever is stuck in front of them. So yes, if your job doesn't require a lot of thought, you're eventually going to get replaced with a machine. A true...
[17:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─Here's the job they won't take: Top management, or, alternatively, company owner.
[17:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─This is coming out of China. If they do an interview, both sides will be scripted to ensure that the official news line is not crossed. That said, while it may not be AI, it's an artificial human simulation in a job role where the desire is putting a human face on a pre-scripted presentation. And it...
[17:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:36] <exec> 08└─No really, being a computer does not lend magic cognitive advantage that lets a machine circumvent the material realities it's working within. It's meaningless sci-fi narrative injected to make nerds feel smart. I'm not afraid of a machine carrying the 1 to realize nuking Manhattan slightly optimize...
[17:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:48] <exec> 08└─Well, the article *claimed* that even Facebook wouldn't be able to break the encryption, but you can believe that as much as you want to. There's no proof, no design specs, and you can't check the code...not even the spec'd code, much less the code used to implement the process. So, given their hist...
[17:39:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:07] <exec> 08└─It's never been the case that anything that is submitted will be posted to the front page. However, aristarchus has been given a place to post whatever he wants: the journal. It seems to get plenty of attention with about 40+ comments per journal. In this case, Valve/Steam has had to break with a po...
[17:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think you even looked at the simpson's paragraph page, it is all due to varying sample sizes.
[17:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:22] <exec> 08└─What endless war? There's less war now than there's been in centuries.
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[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─If they're going to conduct a review of Musk for taking a puff of a joint, they should investigate any organizations whose staff use addictive drugs and other known-inebriants, too. Alcohol, tobacco (the regular kind that'll just kill you), and caffeine come to mind as reasonable review triggers. St...
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─They had the nuke codes. Thank god we have a non-pot smoker with the nuke codes now. I feel so much better about that.
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─I hope they go after him. why? he's richer than god and it will take someone rich, like him, to get the laws FINALLY changed. the states are legalizing it. its not the devil's weed. it does not cause black or mexican men to rape women. nothing 'they' said about it is true and its long overdue that w...
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─I prefer Musk waste his billions getting us into space instead of legalizing pot
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─This fight could expose a lot of Beltway bandit dirt. Or it could lead to the pot huff moment being officially sanctioned/ignored. Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch [soylentnews.org] SpaceX... Faces Pentagon Audit [soylentnews.org] SpaceX Protests...
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─Who modded you down? But yeah, I agree with Sulla, now is not the time for that. SpaceX needs a nice flow of cash to successfully develop BFR and Starlink. It's a critical time for the company, and even losing a couple hundred million dollars of potential launches would not be helpful. If BFR and St...
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─Why not both?
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─I hate the drug war, pointlessly threatening people's livelihoods for slightly stepping outside the chalk, and obviously selective prosecution. On the other hand, fuck Elon Musk.
[18:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─It's OK to lie in multiple submissions of your SF86, have problematic loans and still get a security clearance, but taking one puff of weed makes you a security risk?
[18:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, fuck Elon Musk.
[18:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:35] <exec> 08└─Exotic foreign agents could entrance you while you are under the influence of the Ganja. Or it could turn you into a literal psychopath on a killing rampage using government-funded heavy machinery.
[18:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─Crank out the same tasting stuff year after year, because that's what people EXPECT just like McDonalds Some amazing tasting stuff can be made with native yeasts, too, but most wine makers will never risk changing the taste of their products.
[18:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:00] <exec> 08└─FWIW, several other wineries have found the grapes acceptable. The one's I heard of were located in Oregon, but there are probably others. So you can still have your "collectors item", you just need to search out the wineries, and their brands. (I'm no wine connoisseur, so I can't give you specifics...
[18:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─Apparently you're not allowed to import them personally but not commercially. So if you drive to Mexico or Canada or pick them up wherever you can bring some quantity back, but you still can't go down to the store and see them on the shelves, and in fact if you tried to sell your personal stash you...
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─A lot of "taste sensations" depend upon the contrast: fruit and cheese, not so great if you put them in a blender and puree until smooth. Ben and Jerry's chunky ice creams, better than the plain mix equivalents, etc.
[18:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:06] <exec> 08└─Well, that kinda sucks. I have zero plans to go into Mexico or Canada any time soon.
[18:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:09] <exec> 08└─The secret is to fly to Cancun then catch the boat to Cuba. Return from Cuba to Cancun with real Cuban cigars and an appreciation of Cuban culture. Then realize that the USA is stupid for keeping this embargo going for literally no reason other than a bunch of rich Miami socialites want hereditary a...
[18:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:11] <exec> 08└─Why Cuba? I smoke mostly Nicaraguan cigars, lots of My Father and Espinosa. From what I understand Cubans often have a quality control problem even across a single box, I have not noticed this from Nicaragua.
[18:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─In fine art, the main reasons for the valuations are rich people trying to make themselves richer, dodge taxes, and sometimes launder illegal cash. It's intentional deception that's all about the benjamins and has jack squat to do with art. By contrast, in the world of wine tasting, it's more about...
[18:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:15] <exec> 08└─Well there has been studies that show that there is basically no connection between price and taste on high end wines.
[18:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:17] <exec> 08└─If an insurer pays out on a car, they own the car and can sell out any parts that have any value. I suspect the same is true for the wine.
[18:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:37] <exec> 08└─Ion rockets are too weak unless you've got several years lead time. A mass driver might be a better alternative. It would reduce the mass of the asteroid at the same time that it catapulted parts of it into selected safer orbits. If you're in a real hurry, you could revive Project Orion, only with t...
[18:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 2241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─Asteroids come in a few flavors and how we deal with them is going to largely depend on what flavor they are. #1 The large rocky asteroids. They should be deflected not destroyed. Because as the article says, if you blow them up, they will just turn into the 3rd type which are damn near impossible t...
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─Dirty snowballs. These are comets and comet like objects.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─Ooops I think you're right, my bad! Still using RTGs to force it to outgas in the direction we want, essentially piloting it around the solar system and maybe crashing it into venus or the sun is the best bet since the rocket fuel is inside the rock, we just need to assert control. https://m.xkcd.co...
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─The definition of hipster is somebody who looks exactly like $x. So, all hipsters look exactly like $x. If they did not look like $x, they would not be a hipster. QED
[18:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─The problem [...] people have is in realizing they were never meant to be universal truths
[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:14] <exec> 08└─Here's the job they won't take: Top management, or, alternatively, company owner.
[18:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't need to "break" it since they are one of the ends, it's specifically encrypted for them, they have the key. I also can't "break" any of the https traffic between a server and my browser, but I don't need to: I can just decrypt it because I have the key. Word choice matters here...
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Jumper Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Children the Tools to Code - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:05] <exec> 08└─A typo in plain text is an annoyance. A typo in code fails to compile or worse. TTS goes at the speed of TTS, a normal guy debugging goes at the speed of his eyesight (sligthly held back by his brain if it's a hard to spot bug). Plus, all the punctuation, parentheses and indentation is understood by...
[18:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:04] <exec> 08└─LOL, ok. There is no endless war the US is spending trillions of dollars on.
[18:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lake Superior Ice Coverage Exceeds 85 Percent, Exceeding Predictions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:06] <exec> 08└─There is no endless war the US is spending trillions of dollars on.
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[19:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─Make Ameriga Greet Agian! Cheers!
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─Clinton lost the nuclear codes for months: http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─I smoked 7 times in my life and went on 7 rampages. Coincidence? I think NOT! Oh, should've clarified, it was Angel Dusted pot, does that matter?
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─Yes. Forget the clearances, Satan Himself is in play!
[19:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─The company could still launch classified missions, just that Musk in person would not have access to the classified data but OTHER employees could.
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─drug-and alcohol-free workforce. It's funny how after-hours alcohol is totally fine but after-hours pot is the devil.
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, should've clarified, it was Angel Dusted pot, does that matter? Of course it does!! What kind of idiot ruins their angel dust like that?
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─Keep praying that he doesn't break his twitter. Some drugs have much harsher withdrawal effects than others.
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─"Musk has a top-secret level clearance because the company he founded and leads is certified to launch military spy satellites for the US government."
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Elon Musk isn't banging the president's daughter, so clearly he's much more of a risk than a guy who quite possibly gave away state secrets to the Russians.
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─Also, I've never come in on Monday with a weed hangover....
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's not fair, I never saved a dozen children from imminent death then lightly criticized one of his plans.
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate Musk so much?
[19:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:21] <exec> 08└─This has been done, but washing the grapes may pull some flavor off the skin and/or remove natural yeasts that aid fermentation and give the wine distinct character. So even though it's not that expensive, you might be paying money to create something that's actually inferior to a smoke-tainted grap...
[19:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─Because Nicaraguan tobaccos (at least the one's I've smoked) all have that "is that my car overheating again?" smell. I've admittedly only had a few though. They aren't generally available where I live and at the tobacconists I've visited while traveling they usually exist, but are a bit harder to f...
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:47] <exec> 08└─All the humans will be dead in 11 years since nothing is being done to stop global warming. So in fact we should be redirecting asteroids at the earth to hope it will save us.
[19:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─At worst the parent should be modded +1 funny or maybe even +1 insightful. Why decided he was trolling? He's right, I made a mistake in my dirty snowball analysis. Age related memory problems, had to update my knowledge. Still it was a good reply and doesn't seem to be trolling at all.
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─While Project Orion is more powerful than a single ion rocket, it, too, would take years to revive the breeder reactors to a level where they could feed it the fissile material needed to make significant thrust. The mass drivers are a fun thought, but that would probably require an on-site crew to d...
[19:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:52] <exec> 08└─...to deflect dangerous asteroids? I think I remember seeing something like that somewhere.
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:55] <exec> 08└─But if the hard pieces just travel together because of gravity, hitting the atmosphere will separate them and burn them individually. At the limit, a few thousand tons of sand hitting the earth would not do any direct damage. Forget redirecting asteroids : We need to grind them.
[19:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroids Are Much Harder To Destroy Than Scientists Originally Thought - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:57] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't rely on this obelisk, is there any more detail on how it works?
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:40] <exec> 08└─Stereotypes are just as useful as they ever were. Sure, when you are using them on others. But when people stereotype you as a racist, you don't like it very much.
[19:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Conservatives are fascists Republicans are racists Men are misogynists Life if going to be so much easier now!
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─*US citizens will (maybe) not spied upon (via phone snooping)
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─[...] Just before they go on their air, they'll be in makeup, getting their hair touched up and the like.
[19:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's New Privacy Initiative Legit and Yet Still a Problem - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:46] <exec> 08└─Obviously people who doubt the sincerity of Zuckerfuck are to blame for any and all of Failbook's abuses.
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[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─This admin has been tearing down the weak remaining barriers to corporate pollution and selling out the US even faster than ever before. Our executive branch is more friendly to hostile dictatorships than to US citizens. I am so angry that this is being allowed to continue through the absolutely tra...
[20:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:26] <exec> 08└─I have an idea. Let's raise taxes and give the government even more money and power.
[20:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:28] <exec> 08└─Its amazing that something like clean water can become a political issue. Again, people have it so good, they forget how bad it can be. Once the water is tainted it can take a human lifetime or longer to clean it up. Whatever happened to "leave this place a little better than it was left for you",...
[20:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─Once the water is tainted it can take a human lifetime or longer to clean it up.
[20:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─Boiling water doesn't remove chemicals like Prozac or Lead. One Prozac-Lead beer coming up for you fine sir.
[20:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:35] <exec> 08└─They have nothing in common with traditionally conservative values...
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Look, two cube sharing ruskies sewing division and discord right before our very eyes.
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─in demockracy everything is a political issue
[20:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:41] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to "leave this place a little better than it was left for you", or was that the local campground sign I remember seeing?
[20:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the info on dissidents he gave the Clown Prince.
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:13] <exec> 08└─I heard you can fit a million doses in the tip of one hypodermic!
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─We will get both. Pot is already well on the way to legalization without taking Musk's money that could be better used to get to Mars.
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:17] <exec> 08└─The USUAL reasons for coming in late on Monday: [_] Sick [_] Hung over [x] Windows 10 problems again
[20:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:20] <exec> 08└─But didn't Georgie have the white stuff under his nose? Maybe that was from drinking his milk?
[20:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─I prefer Musk waste his billions getting us into space instead of legalizing pot
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─NASA's contracts with the aerospace companies -- worth a combined total of $6.8 billion -- require both companies "maintain a program for achieving a drug-and alcohol-free workforce."
[20:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─Musk has the ability to launch multi ton vehicles to escape velocity. He therefore has the ability to launch tungston rods and target them to return anywhere on earth. Nukes, but without the radiation.
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─The feds get pissed. Pretty simple. Don't flaunt it, and no one cares.
[20:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─he's richer than god and it will take someone rich, like him, to get the laws FINALLY changed. Or you could just vote Democrat. They have descheduling bills in Congress RIGHT NOW. It's only Republicans that are going to stop them.
[20:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─Precisely! The elite have stripmined this planet and are now planning to go off-world and let the rest of us slowly rot and starve. Life imitates art, and in this case it's imitating a whole lot of late 20th-century sci-fi. We know they won't be able to do it of course, but they're still going to ru...
[20:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─Several reasons, really. 1. He took a well-planned luxury electric car company, bought a majority stake, then paid a fortune in PR money to make it synonymous with him. 1a. Then he ran it into the ground 1b. Added DRM to cars 2. He's quashed unions, made false allegations of mass murder terrorism to...
[20:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─For some reason that worries me less than the current holder(s) of nukes.
[20:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:40] <exec> 08└─The technological advances that we use in our daily lives started out as luxuries for the rich. I get the concern about escapism but space is not going to be something you can just sit back and live a vacation in forever. Those who are rich tend to like living the life of luxury and flaunting what t...
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─Meh. If the democrats cared they would have done it when they had all three houses. They are only considering it now because they know it won't pass so their pharma overlords are willing to allow them to do it for political gain. As we established in a prior article, Democrats receive more money fro...
[20:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─I work with a lot of people who smoke a lot of pot and they always think they are totally normal the next day. They are all just as bad as the drunks but at least the drunks know they are dragging everyone else down.
[20:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:19] <exec> 08└─Sacrilege! That's like saying a $10,000 ethernet cable from Monster Cable does not provide superior digital audio performance. Or like saying its okay to have a fine wine with dinner -- walmart's finest box! Or wine and cheese whiz. On the subject of fine whines . . . A real whine connoisseur can te...
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today's Good News Is That Whoever Has To Clean Up Solar System Will Have An Easy Job - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─The Vogons can handle it.
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─Please, enlighten us as to how stereotypes have ever been useful? Also, how are you able to tell when the stereotype is based on statistically likely traits or when it is simply bigoted bullshit?
[20:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─Link to that "other story"? Quote from this story: The stock photo giant checked the model release and lo! The guy in the image wasn't even the same dude who was complaining. "He'd misidentified himself," Lichfield said.
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─The conservative rule of stereotypes: Stereotypes I use on others, totally fine. Stereotypes used ON me, the root of all evil and you're a virtue signalling SJW.
[20:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:41] <exec> 08└─That would be them failing to use them properly, yes. They're not meant for accusing individuals with. They're stating something that's true often enough that you need to be aware of it.
[20:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:43] <exec> 08└─You realize what a fierce individualist you're talking with, yes? That kind of makes you an idiot. See above a little ways for why.
[20:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <exec> 08└─Okay, I will then. Let's go with "Black people are violent criminals" for this example. It's not true of all black people or even a majority of black people but it's true enough that it will drastically increase your life expectancy if it keeps your lilly-white ass from walking around ghettos. That'...
[20:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─That's their error, not an error in the stereotype. Much like you shouldn't have to put a "for external use only" sticker on a tractor, you should not have to explain that a stereotype is neither a fine-grained tool nor an infinitely wide brush to paint people with.
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Might Shut Down Phone Snooping Program, Whatever That Means - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─Not so much lean, as completely horizontal.
[20:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:40] <exec> 08└─It is China, they could be lying outrageously. While it it probably possible to build a 3d model that will read text believably it is just as likely they are cheating and doing motion capture and using a human voice(s) as a pattern to process into sounding like their artificial person. But it is obv...
[20:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Refuses to Publish "Rape Day" on Steam - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:19] <exec> 08└─Law enforcement should go after drug cartels, money launderers, and other such criminals when they are found. I don't think it's the responsibility of payment processors to make sure no one does bad things with their service,
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[21:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:07] <exec> 08└─The DPA said it has received dozens of complaints from Internet users who had had their access to websites blocked after refusing to accept tracking cookies — so it has taken the step of publishing clear guidance on the issue.
[21:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─The interesting part is that if you browse with javascript off, 99 times out of 100 the contents of the site that you wanted to access appears anyway, with the cookie banner at the top/bottom of the screen asking the "agree" question. In which case you can read the content, and never agree or disagr...
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's a matter of perspective. The web site owner thinks it is okay to track you all around the internet and dig into every detail of your life. The web site visitor does not think that is okay. I agree with the web site visitor. If the web site owner wanted to add binding terms that they could sneak...
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─The sooner that the EU is blocked off from the Internet (and it has already begun), the better.
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─For a while some sites were using some kind of script that detected that you had blocked most of their 3rd party scripts and put up a big white page with something like: Something has prevented this page from loading. But if I then disabled ALL javascript, the page showed up just fine. Another trick...
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that. I'll enable a couple sources for javascript (especially if it's from their own domain). But as soon as javascript is calling javascript, I say fuck that and move on.
[21:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─If they don't feel like providing a website, that's up to them. The rest of us shouldn't be forced to pretend they have done so, when they have not.
[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:22] <exec> 08└─I was attempting to share a story about killer whales, but keep getting this error: This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again.
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:24] <exec> 08└─Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the “price” of entry to the site are not compliant with European data protection law . . .
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─No, whales are A-OK as far as I know and that's some random bug. One I also run into regularly. Usually things work if you start again and repeat the exactly same motions...
[21:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:44] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that wasn't the idea being implied? Why can't these breweries just get reverse osmosis machines like my friend has for his fish tank to purify their own water? That is what I expected them to be doing anyway. That said, I am in favor of clean water and most of this "pollution" is prob...
[21:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─Hell, that may explain his brain-damaged libertarian gibbering...Hallow was prboably that Ralph Wiggum-looking kid in the back row eating all the wall candy.
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─This admin has been tearing down the weak remaining barriers to corporate pollution and selling out the US even faster than ever before.
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─Boiling water doesn't remove chemicals like Prozac or Lead.
[21:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:52] <exec> 08└─Just how will that remove metals and their salts, glyphosate, or even the usual phosphates and nitrogen compounds?
[21:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:54] <exec> 08└─The EPA rules on wetlands are pretty abusive and some of the worst regulation the US has ever imposed. I think it's sad that it's taken Trump to reverse some of this stuff.
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to "leave this place a little better than it was left for you"
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:59] <exec> 08└─I live in Ohio, USA, ...
[21:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─Shockingly, if you stop punishing companies for polluting, they'll start polluting again. Because just dumping it is a hell of a lot cheaper than disposing of whatever properly. Regulation exists because at some point it was proved that without the regulation, jerks wouldn't act reasonably in the fi...
[21:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:04] <exec> 08└─All of that goes against the core teachings of Jesus to which those people profess belief. I have heard many of their reasons, but explaining the history behind their development does not change their blatant hypocrisy. I enjoyed your comment though. Still angry at the idiocy and hatred.
[21:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:06] <exec> 08└─Because just dumping it is a hell of a lot cheaper than disposing of whatever properly. So is giving the minimum wage dudes taking samples some beer or whatever to do it "right". Do you see them doing that?
[21:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:08] <exec> 08└─I have heard many of their reasons, but explaining the history behind their development does not change their blatant hypocrisy. I enjoyed your comment though. Still angry at the idiocy and hatred.
[21:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:10] <exec> 08└─It wasn't an exhaustive list, you moron.
[21:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─You trying to throw some shade brah? Angry that people think religion is founded in stupidity and evil? Jesus hated religion or so I've heard, that means Christians will be dancing a pretty tune to the Devil's mad fiddle skillz.
[21:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:15] <exec> 08└─Trust me, I am the most anti-religion person in the thread. The problem is religion has gone "underground", and now often masquerades as something else (political parties, science-mimicking research, etc)
[21:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:01] <exec> 08└─After hours? Hell, most places you've just gotta be off campus...you can go out to lunch and have a few beers and come straight back to work and nobody bats an eye, but you smoke a joint while on holiday somewhere that it's legal and you come back a month later you can still get fired for it!
[21:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone can clarify for me: There's no proof it was really weed, perhaps is was herbal tobacco or something and the they played it up as weed. Is that still illegal and would it still affect a security clearance? I treat most podcasts/vlogs/etc as fiction, and the folks in them as actors. I'm...
[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─The War on Drugs is a huge waste of money, weed doesn't really hurt anything, and it being illegal is a convenient excuse to harass people they don't like. Just fucking stop
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah but that guy lives on house nr. 666, so the Pentagon was probably super impressed to serve the Antichrist's son-in-law.
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it's just a coincidence that 95% of the legal pot states are blue.
[21:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─Wow, thank you, great answer, I didn't know most of those details. I tend to look at the good someone does. I'm not sure how to weigh the good and bad that he's done. Often in life bad comes with good, but of course sometimes the bad is intolerable, and those debates rage on around the world. My onl...
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─As we established in a prior article, Democrats receive more money from Pharma than Republicans do. Also, that is a lie. Pharmaceuticals / Health Products [opensecrets.org]
[21:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:51] <exec> 08└─Why else would you support the wall? No ins no outs! Shall we crowd fund you a bunker you can hunker down in and be safe from all the xenoforms?
[21:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─Actually per capita Kansas is the bigger pot smoking state.
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origin and Species: Fighting Illegal Logging With Science - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─No, it would not. For starters, rosewood is a hardwood not a softwood; the grain is going to be tighter and better looking pretty much no matter what you do. Next, you have to assume those creating the altered varieties of trees for the purposes of making money off them know why what they are sellin...
[21:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but while TMB's point that the stereotype that all TMBs are racist is onyl mostly true, and the mistake is to take it as a universal truth which would justify in knowing that TMB is racist, when the inductive nature of stereotype formation only makes it likely that the TMB is actually racist, i...
[21:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:11] <exec> 08└─"And now we will be crossing live to ELIZA on the scene for further reports and an interview with the chief fire-fighting robot."
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[22:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I tried it twice, then from a different browser and got the same error. I was loading up tor browser to try it but then started asking myself why I cared so much.
[22:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─The agency is saying going against the obvious spirit of the law forcing sites to offer a choice to be or not to be tracked does not go. It's pretty candid but it makes sense. The sites are the ones acting in bad faith.
[22:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Anomalous. I came here to say that. We can put a big beautiful wall around our American Internet. And we can do it with American cyber. Like we did for China. They call it National Public Security Work Informational. And it's been keeping the China Internet safe for over 20 years. Keeping...
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─I just block them with the ublock origin element blocker. It works fine.
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─The sooner that the EU is blocked off from the Internet (and it has already begun), the better ... for surveillance capitalism.
[22:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's a "nice" way of saying, don't be Anommanous, get an account. Or go away. And if you get an account, possibly they'll still tell you to go away. And, they won't say it so "nicely" anymore. Don't forget, "winners never quit and quitters never win." Vince Lombardi (dead of ass cancer -- RIP!!). By...
[22:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─Give it up or you dont get access. So the law is going to say you dont get to control access, and you cant refuse to serve 'paying customers'? Socialism at its finest.
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─Looks like you have the Stockholm syndrome.
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─If the site in question has some interest I just right-click and block the banner with ublock Origin and never seen again.
[22:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, I concur- I do all of the above- most browsing with javascript off, often have to disable CSS, and use lots of blockers including ublock0 and umatrix when I'm in the mood (it's awesome though). Every now and then I come across a site that refuses to display anything but a banner saying "please...
[22:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 1736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:38] <exec> 08└─You hit the nail on the head. I don't allow scripts of any kind much less JS. I get that "Let us set our cookie!" drivel all the time. I simply scroll past it & read the content anyway. If the site refuses to serve up the content then I simply get a search engine cache of the plain text of the page...
[22:34:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:49] <exec> 08└─Boiling water doesn't remove chemicals like Prozac or Lead. One Prozac-Lead beer coming up for you fine sir.
[22:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:11] <exec> 08└─Reverse osmosis is not enough. All the extra filtration adds to the cost of production. https://www.lenntech.com [lenntech.com] https://core.ac.uk [core.ac.uk] https://blog.wychwood-water.com
[22:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─Yup. The religious bullshit is useful in getting the vast unwashed masses to go along with what is essentially Vulture Capitalism writ large on a national scale, with the neutering of the clean water rule as part of the leveraged buyout.
[22:35:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:22] <exec> 08└─They had the nuke codes. Thank god we have a non-pot smoker with the nuke codes now. I feel so much better about that.
[22:35:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─I prefer Musk waste his billions getting us into space instead of legalizing pot
[22:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have to mostly agree, and I've felt that way for a very long time. Actually I don't advocate most illegal drug use, but living in a war-torn society is worse IMHO. I would vote to completely stop the war, except I would ramp up the border crossing searches- some huge illegal drug shipments h...
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─In my country, He is known to have mental problems and no credibility.
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:11] <exec> 08└─The (legitimate) reason that drug use could spark a security clearance review is that it could open the person up to blackmail by hostile agents. If he's doing it on a livestream in public view, there's no opening for blackmail. No one can threaten to expose this if he doesn't do what they want. It'...
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─"Waste of money? Who told you that? The War on Drugs is a double-plus good thing!" - The Prison and Law Enforcement Industrial Complex
[22:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:51] <exec> 08└─Kind of an important point not elaborated on in the fine summary. A quick and dirty wiki dive suggest the first compound is merely acrid tasting but the latter might be somewhat toxic.
[22:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:53] <exec> 08└─I can't find quality Colombian products in the USA though
[22:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smoke-Tainted Wine? - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─Mostly. It can be about money too, though. Rich people have been known to invest in very pricey bottles of liquor too, hoping (speculating) that they'll get a decent return. That's basically the only reason you get wines or spirits than cost $10,000/bottle or whatever. It is like the art world somet...
[22:37:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:59] <exec> 08└─Entirely untrue. Stereotypes are just as useful as they ever were. The problem some people have is in realizing they were never meant to be universal truths, just quick and dirty assumptions that you need to keep an eye on in case they don't apply this time.
[22:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:19] <exec> 08└─That asumption is your mistake! Only consider that the average IQ is 100 and realize how dumb most of those average humans you stumble upon everyday are.
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[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:08] <exec> 08└─So it's not tight code but its UI style, a calculator of all thing. BIG FUCKING DEAL. If you want calculator design examples, look to old Casio scientific calculator, or HP calculators for its clean design with tank-like reliability.
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─I think this is something that the Linux desktop/apps/toolkits could learn from to provide a look-and-feel driven by UI/ergonomics design research. Microsoft seems to get (or have gotten) at least this much right and consistent by specifying implementable UI requirements/guidelines against clearly e...
[23:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03patricepetticoat [7344] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─Where the hell is the down vote button on this Subreddit? Actually I was surprised to see the linked article was from Ars (which I like), but it was really short and didn't really do much other than tell me that Windows Calculator is now licensed under MIT.
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:14] <exec> 08└─What more is there to say?
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:17] <exec> 08└─Ars Technica is ... well it is what it is.
[23:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:19] <exec> 08└─Data / Telemetry This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. Telemetry is disabled in development builds by default, and can be enabled with the SEND_TELEMETRY build flag.
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:21] <exec> 08└─I can't see why it wouldn't. Even assuming they're 100% altruistic and only use the telemetry to improve the product (Hah!), a calculator is actually a quite sophisticated and widely-used tool of the sort that could be improved by an analysis of the exact usage patterns commonly seen.
[23:34:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:35] <exec> 08└─Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the “price” of entry to the site are not compliant with European data protection law . . .
[23:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:49] <exec> 08└─I don't blame the EU. I blame advertisers.
[23:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:50] <exec> 08└─Brexit is happening, very soon. And U.K. won't be E.U. anymore. They can be U.S.A., a colony of the U.S.A.
[23:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─If it is enough for these fish it is enough for humans. Aquarium grade is higher quality than human/edible grade. From your third link: Many pesticides are actually molecularly smaller than water.
[23:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:27] <exec> 08└─Methane (CH4) has molecular weight of 16.043 (slightly less than water). Assumign they are all "organic" molecules, I don't think any pesticide could have MW less than that.
[23:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:29] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I'm working very hard for you -- and ALL AMERICANS. Including our Brewers. You elected me because I promised to CUT UNNECESSARY REGULATIONS. Promise kept! I inherited a mess from Cheatin' Obama. And part of that was something called W.O.T.U.S. (rhymes with P.O.T.U.S.). Also known as the W...
[23:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:31] <exec> 08└─Yes it does. When you do the very special "boiling" process we do for Trump Vodka. We call it, Distilling. It makes our Vodka one of the purest. But it's not just for vodka, it works beautifully for water too. Try a Trump & Tonic today!!
[23:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 0659 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:34] <exec> 08└─1953, they did the "law" about that one. Saying, Ohio had been a state for 150 years. It hadn't been a state. But, they made it one. And nobody questions that it's been a state for 65 years now. One of the most important for our Presidential Elections. But I never forget, ALL states are in play for...
[23:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 2099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:31] <exec> 08└─Legalize the production and sale of cannabis, avoid taxing them into the ground, and you don't even need the stepped up border searches. It's expensive and dangerous to operate in the black market, and most people have no particular desire to support organized crime Give them an affordable, legal,...
[23:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03patricepetticoat [7344] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:32] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm? Are these the only two options?
[23:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:34] <exec> 08└─I would say showman, rather than con artist. The line between the two can get blurry, but Musk has pretty consistently managed to deliver on his promises, if not necessarily on schedule. I'd say a con-man rarely has any intention of even attempting to do so. He may claim a lot more personal credit t...
[23:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─"one shared by an unfortunately large number of powerful and respected people. " Well, I think that's the point of the digression. We'll be a lot better off if we can ever simply stop respecting con artists.
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─Extremely unlikely. His company is not the government; his people will talk. It will be legal and proper for them to report the dangerous activity to the government. SpaceX is full of young smart people, you cannot hide anything from them.
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Mountain_(TV_series) [wikipedia.org]
[23:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─All the answers above are using logic, and for that reason are incorrect. Here is the only correct answer: "There is a checkbox on the e-QIP form: 'Are you using drugs?' "
[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:49] <exec> 08└─I'm not racist anymore. I haven't watched a single one since Dale Earnhardt died.
[23:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xinhua Introduces 10 AI News Anchors - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:44] <exec> 08└─Since bots and AI are the slaves of the technocracy, you lowly meatbag will have to respect their 'rights'. I tell you, if this is where your meatbag rulers want to take you, skynet is the less troublesome thing that can happen to you.
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