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[00:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:42] <exec> 08└─Did they consider turning that land into rice paddies? I doubt it would work for multiple seasons, but maybe for this one? They could rent the equipment for one season.
[00:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:43] <exec> 08└─Googled the flood areas, found the obituary for my Uncle Bill. He died last month, was mom's older brother (mom died 5-6 years ago). He was 83 so no surprise, just sad. Dad died last year, turned out mom had all the phone numbers stored somewhere we couldn't find. Googling, turns out Bill's wife die...
[00:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:45] <exec> 08└─There's not much really of the negative effects of climate change that will mess up the park for tourism.
[00:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:48] <exec> 08└─When people don't have money having lost their crop, do they still pay your "well positioned for global warming" company? Or is the company targeting only the "people who always have money" market segment?
[00:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:50] <exec> 08└─They plant in these areas as it is close to water. The river however floods out every few years.
[00:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:52] <exec> 08└─On an individual basis, how would it be different preparing for a GW catastrophe as opposed to some other civilization threatening event? Secure a food supply, water supply, etc. It might change where you would go to avoid coastal flooding and might change the plants you'd grow for food. It possibly...
[00:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:54] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: There are over 250 million acres of cropland in the US. The temporary loss of 1 million acres is not only statistically insignificant but also completely normal. Droughts, floods, fire, blight... there are always large swaths of cropland lost each year. The agricultural and cattle industri...
[00:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, look at how this pilot is powerless to stop those trim wheels: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] No wait, he just grasped them with no effort. Ad there is no way to turn it off: https://www.theairlinepilots.com [theairlinepilots.co...
[00:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:27] <exec> 08└─This does not require additional training. The memory items on all 737s for runaway trim are identical, regardless of the variant. They are the ones who didn't follow the procedure. Doesn't matter if it was MCAS or a short in the wiring or what, THE STEPS ARE THE SAME.
[00:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:29] <exec> 08└─Seattle Times [seattletimes.com] - "Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX system baffles some involved in developing the jet": A faulty reading from an angle-of-attack sensor (AOA) — used to assess whether the plane is angled up so much that it is at risk of stalling — is now suspected in the O...
[00:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:31] <exec> 08└─Hardware problem solved by software
[00:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 8798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:33] <exec> 08└─Not a pilot either, and no longer an engineer / software dev working on stuff that flies, however I have maintained an amateur interest in the industry since those days, particularly crash investigation where software involved. tl;dr - Boeing screwed up, painted themselves into a corner where the on...
[00:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:36] <exec> 08└─Quadcopters are also a good example: With software they can move with unbelievable agility. Without software, they're impossible to pilot.
[00:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:06] <exec> 08└─Was there any death notice in the Oregonian?
[00:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:20] <exec> 08└─But, being an American, I expect to pay twelve dollars for a twelve dollar steak, and I expect my choice of potatoes, rice, or pasta, along with a couple of veggies.
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─Then they suggest getting others to refund the ticket price, apparently with no intention or ability to pay those others either. But in the meanwhile, their suggestion for people stranded far away from home? Go begging and spend money you don't necessarily have.
[00:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strong Solar Flare Shows Sun's Magnetic Field Ten Times Stronger than Previously Thought - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:15] <exec> 08└─The title sounds quite different from the reality of what they found. It's not the overall magnetic field of the sun at a distance. We know that well having flown magnetometers on quite a number of spacecraft. It's how strong the field is where it's concentrated in the magnetic loops of the corona d...
[00:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover How Mosquitoes Zero in on our Sweat - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:31] <exec> 08└─Crawford is that you? I feel his presence.
[00:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Signs Executive Order to Strengthen Infrastructure from EMP Attack - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:35] <exec> 08└─There will be a market for that wood and people willing to supply it.
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[01:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─...or any of it's members for christs sake!
[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:34] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. How have they been immoral?
[01:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:58] <exec> 08└─Just plant water hungry crops.
[01:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:00] <exec> 08└─Wonder if Mother Nature is angry at all those "Red States"?
[01:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:02] <exec> 08└─statistically insignificant
[01:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:04] <exec> 08└─That's why there is insurance https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:41] <exec> 08└─Just avoid third world (African, Asian, Russian) airlines. Nobody else had an issue with the airplane.
[01:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:42] <exec> 08└─Fly-by-wire can be safe
[01:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:15] <exec> 08└─The cretin has it coming, but the real culprit is the militarized police culture. Gun righters are loons. They outta go after the civil forfeiture and swat teams terrorizing the civilians, but they don't say peep about this lunacy. And that's why they are loons.
[01:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:37] <exec> 08└─Or maybe they could advertise the real price, 18% higher, on the menu! Hidden fees are a scummy practice. When they are implied aspects of the service, they are even worse.
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[02:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:31] <exec> 08└─Using the Lord's name in vain in comments, etc.
[02:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, it has traded its values. "We" had no reason to follow some trends in computing, yet "we" did. All those that things fuck up the user and developer hard, like interface fads or moving to the cloud or changing APIs at quick pace, are today strong among FOSS, when it should be against it. Gosh, I...
[02:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:34] <exec> 08└─Open Source Software is not Free Software. That dirty hippy Stallman told how many times now. The ugly hairty Jew is right, once again.
[02:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:37] <exec> 08└─Speaking of OSS (Open Sound Server, not Open Source Software), OSSv4 seems to generally work better than pulseaudio. Too bad OSSv3 burned bridges with the FLOSS community and now we have to suffer shit for sound servers. We should have been more practical like the BSDs or forked OSSv2 and merged bac...
[02:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:39] <exec> 08└─when FOSS was the exception, people did it because they were either ideologically and morally inclined to, or because they foresaw that this model would bear good fruit. But then, FOSS success made it so that non free software hasn't got a chance in many scenarios. So what happens? that people with...
[02:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:07] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: There are over 250 million acres of cropland in the US.
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─You would be amazed how many don't actually read TFA or realize that TFA makes it clear how trivial this flooding really is to the nations agriculture biz. If we had straight sunshine now until May and June, maybe it can be done
[02:38:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 8798 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:44] <exec> 08└─Not a pilot either, and no longer an engineer / software dev working on stuff that flies, however I have maintained an amateur interest in the industry since those days, particularly crash investigation where software involved. tl;dr - Boeing screwed up, painted themselves into a corner where the on...
[02:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:48] <exec> 08└─Airbus A320 had...issues... when it first came out with its software, too. Airbus philosophy then was "Otto Pilot Uber alles" - the autopilot would not disengage if pilot inputs contradicted the autopilot, whereas Boeing's systems then would. This did result in a few crashes early on. One incident i...
[02:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:50] <exec> 08└─Here's a training video from before the -MAX was on the market, shows stab trim runaway and how they dealt with it -- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The cachunka-cachunka a few minutes in are the trim wheels being powered to a nose-down trim.
[02:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:53] <exec> 08└─Boeing 737's had a bit of a edge condition (design flaw) with its rudder actuators in the 80's as well. It was a hydraulic double-action actuator, IIRC. Anyways, at a certain set of conditions and inputs, instead of continuing to push the rudder the direction it'd been pushing it, it'd suddenly kick...
[02:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:55] <exec> 08└─most modern fighter jets by design are right at the edge of dynamic self-stability, if not just past it (F-16 comes to mind, as well as the X-29 forward swept wing test plane). So they rely on fly-by-wire systems to maintain that sense of stable flying to the pilot, since the pilot is not able to ma...
[02:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:57] <exec> 08└─"No application survives first contact with its users"... Thank you, you've provided the best background so far.
[02:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─Diagnosing a problem with the MCAS isn't really the pilots job
[02:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:02] <exec> 08└─The video linked to in the last discussion on this subject showed that there was indeed effort required to turn that wheel on a 737 simulator. I suspect that as conditions vary, the force required to overcome that trim wheel is going to increase. However, your second point is perfectly valid. All th...
[02:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:34] <exec> 08└─Let me play prosecutor: Gaskill's scheme was telling the swatter to go for it but defrauded the swatter in the process by using false representations. Gaskill's benefit was not getting shot at (I do have a hard time equating that to fraud, money, or property) which is worth a great deal. But yeah, w...
[02:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:36] <exec> 08└─They have JOBS again. Something the Clinton-Bush-Obama generation had no hope, no chance for. Last summer, youth unemployment reached a 50 year low. Shaping up to be even better this year. Because of your favorite President!!!!
[02:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 2411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:59] <exec> 08└─FAA rules are fuel to get to your destination, then to divert to another qualified destination, and then 45 minutes on top of that. That's to take off, not to land; if you land with less than your 45 minutes of reserve it's not a problem, it's what the reserve is for. Individual airlines have their...
[02:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strong Solar Flare Shows Sun's Magnetic Field Ten Times Stronger than Previously Thought - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:48] <exec> 08└─Fine, I'll go at night so I don't burn up.
[02:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover How Mosquitoes Zero in on our Sweat - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:04] <exec> 08└─Another thing that kind of works is a fan. Mosquitos can't fly for shit so if you put a gentle airflow through the area they can't land.
[02:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Office Depot Fined for Rigging PC Malware Scans to Sell Unneeded $300 Tech Support - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:07] <exec> 08└─I'd have to consider that on a case-by-case basis. Of course, most surgeons are driving new cars, or collector cars, and they have high dollar, reputable garages working on those cars. They don't drive into the shop on the grungy side of town, which serves as a chop shop part of the time.
[02:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter may Tag Rule-Breaking Trump Tweets - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─I did not mention the Golden Throne.
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[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World First as Living HIV Patient Donates Kidney in US - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:28] <exec> 08└─The doctor who transplanted a HIV positive kidney has now succumbed to AIDS.
[03:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:42] <exec> 08└─When Microsoft acquired The Linux Foundation in 2016, it ceased to be moral.
[03:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:44] <exec> 08└─I game on my gaming phone [wccftech.com]!!!
[03:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:46] <exec> 08└─That dirty hippy Stallman told how many times now. The ugly hairty Jew is right, once again.
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:16] <exec> 08└─So sorry to hear about your loss, especially when you stumble upon it like that -- no opportunity to mentally prepare for the news. My heart goes out to you.
[03:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:18] <exec> 08└─It strikes me that there are a great many farmers that we pay to mow the fields. Produce nothing, just keep the land in a farmable state. Ya know, in case a disaster happens. Is this such a disaster? Should we be telling those farmers to get to work? (From the other comments, it sounds like now, jus...
[03:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:20] <exec> 08└─And remember the dust bowl era in the 30's? Yea, that's all been recovered.
[03:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:22] <exec> 08└─I've noticed a lot of fakenews effort being put into OMG FOOD PRICES WILL SKYROCKET!! -- when logically it should have an effect of maybe 2% (allowing for some shit-rolls-downhill with regard to costs). If the flooded areas were the only arable land in the U.S., then we'd be in trouble. As it is......
[03:38:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:41] <exec> 08└─Note that Mr. Travis is not an aircraft designer.
[03:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:09] <exec> 08└─So, you can fly a brick, if you have enough power available?
[03:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:10] <exec> 08└─Boeing made the system use only one AOA sensor so that there didn't have to be a warning light so there didn't have to be sim training so Boeing didn't have to pay Southwest millions. Allegedly.
[03:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:12] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that the airframe is inherently unstable after putting in larger engines No, the stealth fighter is inherently unstable. The 737 is not. Reduce power, let go of the controls, and the airplane will recover, including this one, once you pull the breaker and manually set the trim fo...
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[03:39:14] <exec> 08└─you're! goddammit!
[03:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:17] <exec> 08└─So you are driving your truck and all of a sudden one of the brakes engages and locks solid or the thermostat readout spikes or the engine starts having ignition failures. Are you really suggesting that you would sit there and diagnose the problem? I'd hope not, you'd make sure you got control of yo...
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[03:39:19] <exec> 08└─I know from first-hand experience those things are a bitch to turn. My point was that they are not super difficult to stop turning, especially since they have a sort of "ratcheting" or clicking behavior.
[03:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:54] <exec> 08└─You're making that all up, aren't you? All the doctors I know are older than me. I have met an attractive young veterinarian, recently. I think the youngsters like animals better than they like people. Or, maybe she just likes animals better than she likes incels? ;^)
[03:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:55] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. You're forgetting how good the economy was while Clinton was in office. You're not the magic fairy who granted all of America's wishes in the job market. You're just another tired looking fat-assed fairy. NOTE: I am not crediting Clinton with the wit, intelligence, or wisdom to make the econ...
[03:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:57] <exec> 08└─You obviously only pay attention when you want to. I support gun rights, AND I have called for the end of civil forfeiture, AND, I have called for more accountability of the police. If we all exercised our gun rights, the police wouldn't be so willing to come crashing through your front door. Go buy...
[03:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:59] <exec> 08└─Mens Rea. The Act is not culpable unless the Mind is guilty.
[03:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:01] <exec> 08└─Let me play prosecutor: Gaskill's scheme was telling the swatter to go for it but defrauded the swatter in the process by using false representations. Gaskill's benefit was not getting shot at (I do have a hard time equating that to fraud, money, or property) which is worth a great deal. But yeah, w...
[03:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:25] <exec> 08└─Disputing the charge is an excellent idea, but it won't necessarily credit your card right away. But the point is, the airline SHOULD have the money to do the refund since it didn't expend resources for the already paid for flight. If it doesn't, either the customer or their credit card will get sti...
[03:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Office Depot Fined for Rigging PC Malware Scans to Sell Unneeded $300 Tech Support - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:33] <exec> 08└─And they're taking their computer to Office Depot or Geek Squad... If they're doing their internship, they aren't driving expensive high end cars yet. But the question remains, where is the market and it's miracle solution that doesn't involve the bad ol' government enforcing those pesky laws?
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[04:37:31] <exec> 08└─This just seems like a bad idea. An HIV positive person has enough health concerns already without giving up a kidney.
[04:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:48] <exec> 08└─Is Linus mentioned in comments?
[04:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:23] <exec> 08└─When a farmer "mows the fields" there's usually a purpose: they're cutting hay so they can feed their livestock come next winter. But the grasshopper wouldn't know that.
[04:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:25] <exec> 08└─It is a decent idea. But not economically feasible. I can walk you through the math. But I will let you work out what it would cost to run hundreds of miles of pipe to move water around. Just to dump back out on the ground.
[04:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:27] <exec> 08└─Except for there being fewer and fewer tourists with the means to visit.
[04:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:29] <exec> 08└─When people don't have money having lost their crop, do they still pay your "well positioned for global warming" company?
[04:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:31] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just say you work for Xanterra?
[04:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:24] <exec> 08└─If you have the necessary reaction time, power, and control surfaces, yes you can. All you need is the right amount of power and using the control surfaces, you can get a proper angle of attack to fly anything. The real problem is maintaining stable control over the lifting-body aircraft or missile.
[04:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:25] <exec> 08└─Makes a lot of sense. Where is that AC who keeps saying third world pilots just have to remember how to deal with runaway trim? Meanwhile, five other warnings are going off and your plane is heading for the dirt, which is not far away. And now we have Boeing acting as if they did nothing wrong. They...
[04:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:06] <exec> 08└─Where's the '+/-0 What the fuck are you blathering on about?' mod when you need it?
[04:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:08] <exec> 08└─Right. And if you aren't shot 87 times and/or have the bad luck to shoot a cop, you're going to jail for a long, long time. You really need to take your medication [tweaker.org] Runaway.
[04:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:10] <exec> 08└─The cops get nothing for falling for the trick. No consequences for the use of excessive force. I am not particularly in favor of punishment, but damn. The cops should have to make changes. They royally screwed up and killed an innocent. Maybe they shouldn't be allowed to carry lethal weapons.
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[04:40:35] <exec> 08└─But the point is, the airline SHOULD have the money to do the refund since it didn't expend resources for the already paid for flight.
[04:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strong Solar Flare Shows Sun's Magnetic Field Ten Times Stronger than Previously Thought - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:24] <exec> 08└─You're committing the fallacy of composition. Just because one narrow sort of measurement was way off, doesn't mean that all measurements are similarly far off.
[04:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strong Solar Flare Shows Sun's Magnetic Field Ten Times Stronger than Previously Thought - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:26] <exec> 08└─What theories depended again on the strength of the magnetic fields of solar flares?
[04:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover How Mosquitoes Zero in on our Sweat - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:43] <exec> 08└─And if the bloodsuckers all die off, there are hundreds or even thousands of non-vampiric mosquito species for other critters to eat.
[04:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Planet's Prodigious Poo Problem - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:50] <exec> 08└─So what?
[04:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Planet's Prodigious Poo Problem - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:51] <exec> 08└─Couldn't we ship the surplus to Fernando Poo? Sounds like it's made for it.
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[05:37:37] <exec> 08└─perfect love.
[05:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World First as Living HIV Patient Donates Kidney in US - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:38] <exec> 08└─And an HIV patient lacking a kidney has enough health concerns without getting a different variant of HIV. Still if an HIV donor with a similar strain of HIV as the target patient gets killed in an accident, then those health concerns pretty much evaporate.
[05:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World First as Living HIV Patient Donates Kidney in US - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:40] <exec> 08└─If the donor isn't dead is what I meant.
[05:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World First as Living HIV Patient Donates Kidney in US - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:43] <exec> 08└─No I'm not.
[05:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:40] <exec> 08└─It's sobering to realize all your grandparents are dead, and you're down to 1 aunt (mom had 5 siblings, dad 12-13, mom was youngest, dad oldest) who is only 10 years older than you. Like the passing of a generation or something.
[05:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:35] <exec> 08└─I'm right here. They are the pilot, they need to know the memory items, period. Now, I'm not saying Boeing did nothing wrong, but the accident wasn't Boeing's fault either; the pilots could have prevented it with the memory items. Yes, repeated trims would be disorienting, especially if the annuncia...
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[05:43:56] <exec> 08└─Dairy farms around here, along with chicken farms and pig farms. The chicken shit in particular is strong shit with enough nitrogen to easily burn plants. You go through the farming country here and you smell the shit as they're always spreading it on the fields.
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[06:37:25] <exec> 08└─'Naff said.
[06:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:27] <exec> 08└─With the recent EU regulations and how the US been trying to force everyone not to buy Chinese, the Europeans started canceling orders and backing out from contracts left and right.
[06:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:29] <exec> 08└─The one easy to win? Btw: are you tired of winning yet?
[06:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:31] <exec> 08└─Hard to believe I won and am winning. Approval Rating 52%, 93% with Republicans. Anomalous said it -- LEARN TO CODE. Sorry!
[06:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:40] <exec> 08└─Why can't they just turn the fields into rice paddies? And hockey rinks in the winter? They should at least try to save that water for California's next drought.
[06:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:18] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this. One of ours - one of our greatest - has fallen. We should not forget. And per his wishes, we should fight his third death. MDC MDC MDC; oh wayback machine, record this: MDC was here, just days ago, and is with us still in ways.
[06:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:19] <exec> 08└─Barring the South, or certain known rougher areas, like LA or parts of NYC. Today? It's fucking everywhere. Doesn't matter if you are black, white, red, yellow, or pink, if the cop's finger gets itchy you're going in the ditchy. Then they get a paid vacation, and in the worse case have to find a job...
[06:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:46] <exec> 08└─Since WOW suggested getting a refund from the travel agent, it seems likely there are some who did booj flights on Wow. Of course, they were talking about European travel agents, so there may be none in the U.S. But they didn't just wake up one fine morning thinking everything is fine, read a report...
[06:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changes in Onset of Spring Linked to More Allergies Across the US - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:19] <exec> 08└─Interesting world we live in where they banned Sudafed to stop people turning it into Meth so now we buy Meth and turn it into Sudafed. 2019 really is the best.
[06:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Onset of Spring Linked to More Allergies Across the US - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah but that doesn't really explain the past several thousand years of warming and cooling, it just claims things were a-ok without us around and says if you don't agree you are a Nazi.
[06:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Onset of Spring Linked to More Allergies Across the US - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:23] <exec> 08└─Early spring? Human-induced climate change Late spring in the same place? Human-induced climate change Early spring the next year in the same place? Human-induced climate change No matter what happens, its the fault of Humans. Hurry up and give up your rights so things can go back to normal you fasc...
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[07:37:32] <exec> 08└─Inverted yield curve, housing starts collapsing in Sacramento as well. Mass layoffs starting 8n the bay area.. Finally the recession is starting I guess.. Hopefully it will be less bad then the last one..
[07:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:33] <exec> 08└─That's a big big part of it. And that's why I founded the National Council for the American Worker. Something Ivanka's been helping with. We now have 6.5 million pledges to eduIndustriescate & train our beautiful students and workers. The biggest being IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industri...
[07:37:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 785 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:58] <exec> 08└─when FOSS was the exception, people did it because they were either ideologically and morally inclined to, or because they foresaw that this model would bear good fruit. But then, FOSS success made it so that non free software hasn't got a chance in many scenarios. So what happens? that people with...
[07:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:45] <exec> 08└─To further add to Mr khallows arguement, one million acres is an area of 25 miles by 64 miles. Draw it on a multi-state map and you would have trouble finding it again. The area will also likely be better for farming after the water goes down, further reducing the impact of a very small crop loss. O...
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[07:38:47] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the gp is referring to those ridiculous subsidies where farmers are paid not to grow crops in order to keep prices 'stable' (higher than market).
[07:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:43] <exec> 08└─I had the same problem on my car. It turned out to be a cracked reluctor ring; I had to replace the axel (half shaft?) for that wheel, since the ring itself could not be removed from the axel.
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[08:37:44] <exec> 08└─California has truly become a State of Disaster. I said, be sure to get out and vote for Republican John Cox for Governor. I said, he will make a BIG difference! I gave him my FULL endorsement (not something I do easily). Many Californians listened. But unfortunately, election was rigged. Big time!!...
[08:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:14] <exec> 08└─Richard Stallman was right. What Free Software failed to do was extend those methods to business methods... There should have been a Free Software collectively developed version of the Co-op movement so we could sack the Silicon Valley bosses and financiers. Imagine what Free Software style Co-Op fr...
[08:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:55] <exec> 08└─I'm having a bit of trouble following that, could you explain it using a car analogy?
[08:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:56] <exec> 08└─"one pilot out of five" ??? - you can't seat five in a 737 cockpit - there were seven pilots in total, that we know of, who have faced erroneous MCAS, six failed to cope, one flight survived only because the jumpseat pilot (the extra one) had time to go get a book out and say "maybe try this" - read...
[08:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:42] <exec> 08└─Proper procedure should be to not shoot until clearly threatened. Especially while being under cover.
[08:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:44] <exec> 08└─You're a Bill fan. And Bill blew a tremendous Bubble, that's true. You did great with your stocks. With your A.O.L. Pets.com. And frankly, I did magnificently with those too. But, the Clintons are owned by Wall Street. And Bill did the repeal of Glass-Steagall Act. Something that set us up for Great...
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[08:41:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the clarification and description of FAA practice. For those interested here are a couple of articles: one on ICAO practice from Aviation stackExchange: Aviation StackExchange: What are the ICAO fuel reserve requirements? [stackexchange.com] and one from Skybrary: Skybrary: Fuel - Regulat...
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[08:42:53] <exec> 08└─They aren't even native to there, originally they were Siberian Hamsters that were introduced by Russian settlers fleeing persecution during Stalin's Borscht Purge in the 1930s.
[08:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Hamster wheel engaged" ??!? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:54] <exec> 08└─I can't remember how I came up with 8-bit Wagner
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[09:37:40] <exec> 08└─I asked this on the green site too -- if you have to get laid off, what would the best month or least worst month for it to happen? The answer can vary by state and country, if you like.
[09:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:11] <exec> 08└─The Free Software Movement had real power. I remember commercial software developers begging for us to stop as our movement gathered steam. Our communities were where issues were hashed out and things got done. Unfortunately we lacked leadership (either lacking diplomacy like Stallman, apathetic abo...
[09:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:13] <exec> 08└─I thought the relevant term is FLOSS, not FOSS; or am I out of date? The L is important to some folk.
[09:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:15] <exec> 08└─F is for Free, might not work, might be shit, might be vapourware forever OSS is for Open, collaborative development as a better way to produce shit that works That's it, it's always been that way. Linux (the kernel) has always been that way - Linus thought the GPL was a useful licence to use for co...
[09:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:56] <exec> 08└─To the pilot, there is no difference between the AOA sensor and a short in a trim motor. But, he must diagnose that the trim system is malfunctioning and bypass it. At that point, he returns to the terminal, and reports that the trim system has been bypassed, because it was misbehaving. You're right...
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[09:39:57] <exec> 08└─OK, got ya. That did seem to be the case. The copilot stopped that wheel turning, but struggled to rotate it the other direction. When the pilot found a moment, and a free hand, the two of them rotated it with little problem. After the first few clicks on the ratchet, the copilot was able to rotate...
[09:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:59] <exec> 08└─You are already on a karma score of 5, so I can't vote you up, but I agree - a very good summary. Theres a couple of crucial points you make that I don't think have been highlighted elsewhere: [MCAS] assumed that if the pilot re-trims they trim the aircraft back to neutral. This assumption turns out...
[09:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:47] <exec> 08└─Thank you for supporting the 2nd. Amendment! And we have a lot of 2nd. Amendment folks in Kansas. Trying to take back the power from the Gun Control "people." But, they're having big problems. And one of the biggest -- the schools. We want Good Guys with Guns in all the beautiful schools of Kansas....
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[09:40:48] <exec> 08└─"You shoot first. And then you win." Gandhi. Same with nuclear, by the way.
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[10:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:35] <exec> 08└─The smallest nuclear power plant in the United States produces 582 megawatts with one reactor.
[10:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:36] <exec> 08└─The plan calls for the construction of a 409 megawatt (MW) / 900 megawatt-hour battery installation at what will be called the FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center.
[10:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:24] <exec> 08└─The L was added later to clarify the meaning of Free.
[10:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:25] <exec> 08└─some people still seem to think the Cathedral was proprietary, it wasn't, it was Free, specifically FSF/GNU.
[10:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:27] <exec> 08└─The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) trade group. As such, its membership consists of corporations. Corporations are a legal and regulatory construction, and so have no capability to have morals.
[10:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:11] <exec> 08└─That's just not how they do things [youtube.com] around those parts.
[10:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:13] <exec> 08└─That's his point -- it's so expensive and crowded that nobody goes there anymore.
[10:39:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 1435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:23] <exec> 08└─Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe [eetimes.com] In essence, these critics say, Boeing’s response to the challenge posed by Airbus was bumping passenger safety to a middle seat in economy class while financial considerations were upgraded to First Class. Boeing denies this Among...
[10:39:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 1213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:46] <exec> 08└─Seattle Times [seattletimes.com] - "Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX system baffles some involved in developing the jet": A faulty reading from an angle-of-attack sensor (AOA) — used to assess whether the plane is angled up so much that it is at risk of stalling — is now suspected in the O...
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[10:40:15] <exec> 08└─What a nonsensical post. 300 planes and 2 crashes with all passengers killed. Try telling that to your bus company or metro with a straight face.
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[11:37:27] <exec> 08└─Japan has a 99% conviction rate. Good luck with that.
[11:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:26] <exec> 08└─> some people still seem to think the Cathedral was proprietary, it wasn't, it was Free, specifically FSF/GNU oh. Anyway I started having problems with the cathedral and the bazaar. The cathedral gave us systemd and the bazaar gave us npm. I would say, to stay in the metaphor, that the cathedral may...
[11:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:03] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhhh - let's not go overboard with pushing guns in schools. Yeah, we want guns in the schools, of course we do. But, it probably isn't necessary that EVERY staff member be armed. Let us instead, fasten on this phrase: "anyone that's incredibly gun adept". And, let's drop that one word, "incredibl...
[11:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:04] <exec> 08└─Thank you, we agree 100%. The ones that are beautifully gun adept, we'll get some of the most amazing guns to them. The not so adept, we'll send to Gun School. Until they're VERY GUN SAFE. 100%. Then we give them guns. And it won't be everybody. Only the SMART ones. The ones that can learn Gun. And...
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[11:41:06] <exec> 08└─"only in America" Don't think so. You've forgotten China? Arabia? Israel? Parts of Africa? Asia? The Phillipines were in the news a few years ago for their handling of certain tribes in remote areas. Mexico? It would be fair to state that it is most common in the US, of all developed western world c...
[11:43:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Researchers Discover and Abuse new Undocumented Feature in Intel Chipsets - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:23] <exec> 08└─Well, further example of why undocumented hardware is a net negative to end users. Not that we have any real choice in the matter.
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[12:37:37] <exec> 08└─Beautiful thought. We love nuclear, don't we? Let me tell you, if they want nuclear the approvals are going to be very fast. I'll approve that one as fast as I approved Keystone XL. Get those papers on my desk and I'll put a beautiful signature on them. We want coal & nuclear for Florida. Not solar....
[12:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:39] <exec> 08└─I think you've misunderstood how the power is generated, the storage center stores energy obtained by burning manatees to drive turbines, a thousand pounds of blubber burns really well. So there won't be any manatees left to police things. That job will be done by the gators.
[12:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:41] <exec> 08└─lets hope it works and doenst turn into the poster child for "solar battery" failure. the 3mile-chernobyl-fukushima poster child but for solar so to speak. anyways i am not putting all my eggs in one basket, and would recommend to distribute the danger from a hurrican fallout over many many geografi...
[12:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:55] <exec> 08└─You forgot, "Sad!" As an addendum this time. Sad!
[12:40:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 1404 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:14] <exec> 08└─"one pilot out of five" ??? - you can't seat five in a 737 cockpit - there were seven pilots in total, that we know of, who have faced erroneous MCAS, six failed to cope, one flight survived only because the jumpseat pilot (the extra one) had time to go get a book out and say "maybe try this" - read...
[12:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Hamster wheel engaged" ??!? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:22] <exec> 08└─N/A
[12:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Planet's Prodigious Poo Problem - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:01] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if it's better long-term or not because it's absolutely necessary immediate-term. Multi-crop farming does not scale. You can't use one machine to harvest all the crops at once and you can't harvest them individually without destroying all the other crops grown with the one you're h...
[12:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Planet's Prodigious Poo Problem - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:02] <exec> 08└─Bzzzt! With current methods we produce more than enough to feed the planet. Current methods are astoundingly inefficient compared to what we're already able to do but don't because why bother. Further efficiency advancements aren't really even being explored. Thus you are wrong.
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[13:37:30] <exec> 08└─Making smart people go OMGWTFBBQ for over a hundred years.
[13:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:49] <exec> 08└─the 3mile-chernobyl-fukushima poster child but for solar so to speak.
[13:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:28] <exec> 08└─Shhh! You're contradicting the Narrative.
[13:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:29] <exec> 08└─From TFS: The U.S. government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned of what could be an "unprecedented flood season" as it forecasts heavy spring rains.
[13:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:24] <exec> 08└─All those places would be described by Trump as "shitholes".
[13:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover How Mosquitoes Zero in on our Sweat - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:04] <exec> 08└─I had one of those fans with a net bag on it by the front door help to keep the front door area clear so that you wouldn't suck mosquitoes in the house every time you open it.
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[14:37:45] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, big wing shaped solar panels in a hurricane. Yeah almost anything will survive a hurricane better than that.
[14:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:25] <exec> 08└─Yogi? is that you??
[14:40:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:53] <exec> 08└─When somebody dies everyone involved ends up carrying some of the weight.
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[14:43:34] <exec> 08└─fat lady singing?
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[15:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─If no pain from menstruation or childbirth, I think we have to reject her from womanhood. After all, without pain she has never truly experienced those things and only has a bathroom rapist's understanding of them.
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:25] <exec> 08└─*yawn* From my understanding, some women suffer horribly from both menstruation, and from childbirth. Other women, not so much. So, should we classify women, and put them in groups or classes, based on how much they suffer? How 'bout you name all those classes for us. That should be entertaining.
[15:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matter Waves and Quantum Splinters - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:34] <exec> 08└─Going to need some very small tweezers to get out those splinters.
[15:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:55] <exec> 08└─This is simply misleading. Before the manatees are converted into direct energy they are propelled down a shaft containing turbine blades by gravity. This is a hybrid hydro-aquatic-mammal system that not only converts their kinetic energy into electricity, it stuns the manatees so they do not suffer...
[15:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:56] <exec> 08└─A nuclear plant might produce more megawatts, but unlike a nuclear plant which attracts earthquakes, a battery storage plant full of LiIon batteries will only attract hurricanes. The physics is similar to how trailer parks attract tornadoes.
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─A battery energy storage plant should be augmented by a "clean coal" plant to generate the energy which the batteries store. The existing natural gas plants should not be dismantled, but instead should be used to burn the clean coal. That way we create the mostest number of jobs in FL. Conveniently...
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[15:38:01] <exec> 08└─*sigh* didnt get my drift. its not just that the 3 pronge nuclear disaster poster children are radioactif in nature but rather that they are centralised. solar doesnt have the requirment of having to be centralized ... at all. now florida is pretty exposed to natural wind disasters so solar is perfe...
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[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─It won't. Once the collapse is under way, BRICS will move away from the US dollar, further deepening the crisis. Martial law will be declared, and World War 3 will begin soon after. It's a long way from here to the next gas station.
[15:38:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:47] <exec> 08└─The Free Software Movement had real power. I remember commercial software developers begging for us to stop as our movement gathered steam. Our communities were where issues were hashed out and things got done. Unfortunately we lacked leadership (either lacking diplomacy like Stallman, apathetic abo...
[15:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:55] <exec> 08└─If so, I hope nobody is using his name in vane or in vein. The 3rd tempation of Linus . . . Ballmer then showed Linus all of the CPUs of the world and their splendor. "These I will give you", he said, "If you will bow down and click I AGREE to my EULA."
[15:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:57] <exec> 08└─But you forget . . . corporations are people too! And thus they have morals! And like any valuable resource, morals are a marketable commodity.
[15:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:59] <exec> 08└─Slightly longer explanation: https://www.gnu.org [gnu.org]
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just say you work for Xanterra?
[15:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:50] <exec> 08└─http://wiki.iceagefarmer.com/wiki/Main_Page [iceagefarmer.com]
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─You would be amazed how many don't actually read TFA
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[15:40:55] <exec> 08└─> Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe Counter example of that: Q. How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A. None. We'll get the device driver team to fix it in software.
[15:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:56] <exec> 08└─uh, that list soon to include US.
[15:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:59] <exec> 08└─Not a problem my man. You see the problem with a bad sensor causing ABS failure requiring the replacement of the half-shafts, if we were to use a car analogy, is like the sensor detecting window level failing so your have to replace the driver side door.
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[16:37:31] <exec> 08└─For making supersoldiers. Just need to add genes for massive muscle growth and unthinking loyalty.
[16:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:33] <exec> 08└─From TFA But though having this mutation may sound like a dream, there are downsides. One is that she is quite forgetful; prone to losing her keys and her train of thought midsentence. The other is that she’s never felt the “adrenaline rush” that other people talk about, she said.
[16:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:35] <exec> 08└─Promoting Elsevier is a no no these days...
[16:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:37] <exec> 08└─Damn, I didn't realize that RandomFactor was one of those mutant thingies! At least he/she isn't one of the lizard people.
[16:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:39] <exec> 08└─Wow, you're kind of desperate aren't you? Grasping at straws, trying to diminish any woman in any way possible?
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:41] <exec> 08└─Linking to != promoting. Just ask any file sharing or news site.
[16:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─So, CRISPR her with a pit bull?
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matter Waves and Quantum Splinters - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:53] <exec> 08└─oh ... and there i thought they were actually shaking it like putting the whole BEC fridge in a eartquake simulator and turning it up to e11even ^_^
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─" ...can deploy that electricity later in the afternoon when people return home from work and turn on their air conditioners, running up electricity demand." wow working in florida must suck. i would demand air conditioning at work ...
[16:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World First as Living HIV Patient Donates Kidney in US - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:46] <exec> 08└─There are two main types of aids. These are broken out into multiple groups. These groups are broken out into multiple strains. Giving the recipient a set of different strains sounds non-optimal. Presumably they accounted for this, but TFA doesn't bring it up.
[16:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 437 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:37] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: There are over 250 million acres of cropland in the US. The temporary loss of 1 million acres is not only statistically insignificant but also completely normal. Droughts, floods, fire, blight... there are always large swaths of cropland lost each year. The agricultural and cattle industri...
[16:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:07] <exec> 08└─Nobody else is sufficiently specific about their employer that identification is trivial -- except for Ethanol-Fueled, but then I am skeptical about his employment claims.
[16:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:08] <exec> 08└─Nobody else is sufficiently specific about their employer that identification is trivial
[16:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:10] <exec> 08└─Not to the people who work or live on those 1 million acres.
[16:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:12] <exec> 08└─We'll have to redo the windbreaks the next time the dust bowl repeats itself. Ass u me -ing we have a chance to do so.
[16:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─I didn't have to Google it. Following a stay in Yellowstone a couple of years ago, your employer continues to send emails to me.
[16:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─Well, for every person on a return flight, there will be passengers outbound, so there isn't an option of "dropping off passengers at home". The lessors of the planes would be pissed that their equipment is getting used without pay, and the bankruptcy administrators would not permit it anyway. Doing...
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[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchanges' Karpeles Appeals Conviction - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe he believes in Magic?
[17:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:12] <exec> 08└─As TFS notes, they don't say what the batteries are. If they are Lithium Ion or a related technology, then a fire could be very bad. It wouldn't spread nuclear contamination, but it would spread toxic pollutants over a wide area.
[17:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:30] <exec> 08└─Silly question since you have no control on when you will be laid off. Unless, could it be, you are a boss trying to make the lay-off easier on your employees? Just before Christmas, that’s the best time.
[17:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:12] <exec> 08└─Even in the early days, most of the people doing open source (and not insisting that they called it Free Software) were doing so for pragmatic, often economic, reasons. That applied even to a lot of FSF people. Even Stallman didn't start out on an ideological crusade, he just wanted to be able to fi...
[17:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:10] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to grow a stand of trees in the Texas Panhandle, during a drought?
[17:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 1318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:16] <exec> 08└─All other issues such as criminality aside I've not yet seen anyone address the sensor failures and the failure rate. The software changes are an improvement and with a redundant set of sensors driving MCAS now errors in the sensors can be detected. Because there was effectively no redundancy there...
[17:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:10] <exec> 08└─And when you get out, you're a lot older and the world outside has little resemblance to what it used to look like when you went in. That I think is the real punishment.
[17:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:12] <exec> 08└─"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit...
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Airline Wow Air Collapses and Cancels all Flights - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:42] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, those little nobodies who had the nerve to actually support the airline by buying tickets can just go fuck themselves like the worthless sacks of shit they are, AMIRIGHT?!?
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[18:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─We don't want to let Facebook have too much influence.
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─The mainstream media has way too much power over speech. It is exactly because of regulations passed that limit competition (ie: cable monopolies and FCC laws that restrict the use of various broadcast frequencies to private entities). But that's OK because it serves corporate interests.
[18:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:37] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood [wikipedia.org]
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:39] <exec> 08└─I don't believe for a second that Zuckerborg wants anything other than a framework that he can point at and say "we followed the law". He and his minions will always take advantage of loopholes to increase profits on the sale (or "sharing") of personal data.
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─They don't need to be. Moderate public posts and leave private ones alone.
[18:37:43] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─He's also looking to codify barriers to entry to ensure that no competitors have even the most remote chance of getting started. Low barriers to entry allowed companies to get established and Zuckerberg means to put an end to that in order to cement FB into place permanently.
[18:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:46] <exec> 08└─Many regulations serve corporate interest because they get proposed by those corporations already at the top, even (and perhaps especially) if they vocally complain about them later (it's a way to have the cake and eat it too --- hike prices "due to regulation" while watching gleefully as said regul...
[18:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:48] <exec> 08└─Not without protest [youtube.com].
[18:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:51] <exec> 08└─It is surprising how many people don't understand this. They're pulling the same con that Big Tobacco did.
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:53] <exec> 08└─Broadcast frequency monopolies exist for a perfectly sound technical reason. If anyone were allowed to use any particular frequency band, then unless all of them agreed on a protocol for how to multiplex usage (e.g. by restricting use to only low power levels), then no one would be able to use that...
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─At least he/she isn't one of the lizard people.
[18:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matter Waves and Quantum Splinters - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:18] <exec> 08└─you kids get your bose-einstein condensate off my lawn!
[18:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:46] <exec> 08└─Replace natural gas with coal? Tell me, Mister Troll, what coal company you have stock in? Coal is the filthiest fuel on the planet. If you were fishing for a "funny" mod, you missed it by a mile.
[18:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:48] <exec> 08└─The future will probably have lots of centralized solar plants and home panels. The home panels will get cheaper and better to the point where everyone will want them. Home owners could get the solar roof tiles that look more stylish, or small, very efficient, and lightweight panels. Add in subsidie...
[18:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 1709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:47] <exec> 08└─Damn FatPhill, maybe after all Trump calls it like I unconsciously think. To be honest when I meant only in America, yeah I was thinking in places where the rule of law and the civil liberties are something that is central to the cultural fabric. Which is sad, because America is founded on the value...
[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Planet's Prodigious Poo Problem - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:44] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if it's better long-term or not because it's absolutely necessary immediate-term.
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[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:46] <exec> 08└─The fox guarding the hen house. Nice try.
[19:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:47] <exec> 08└─Almost always what they are really after is regulatory capture for their own benefit. They'll use regulation to raise barriers to entry for would-be competitors, as this is a common effect of such laws, carve out special exemptions for themselves, etc. The only thing certain is that a corporation wo...
[19:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─This was also my first thought reading this. I suppose, if you can't choke off the air supply of these nasty little upstarts by deplatforming and demonetization, the next step is to just get the government to drive them out of business for you.
[19:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:51] <exec> 08└─Just like Amazon, who grew due to the sales tax exemption for mail order, then lobbied for comprehensive sales taxes once they had gone brick and mortar, and wanted to guard against more nimble online only upstarts.
[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─China gets criticized for tightly controlling the internet, well that’s where we are headed. Apologies China for all that misdirected criticism in the past. you were right, we need to control what the masses see!
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─Since all governments always agree on everything it won't pose a problem to follow all 190+ countries' laws and regulations.
[19:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:58] <exec> 08└─Authoritarian dickbag. No censorship by law, remove barriers to entry by making ISPs "dumb pipes" and let people host their own conte t if they want. I'm cynical enough to think this was the point of FB all along. They censored plenty of shit, but somehow the worst most divisive crap gets through......
[19:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:01] <exec> 08└─They will destroy our free internet, built on the vanishing freedoms of the US. They want to replace it with Television 2. Maybe they will call it Facebook or whatever. We might have another chance with the emerging crypto ecosystem. However, Mark would be happy to ban all of it. Let's see how it go...
[19:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:17] <exec> 08└─Nahhh, it's only that you can't be a mutant human AND a lizard person. Unless, you're a hybrid? :^)
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─I find your logic sstrangely compelling.
[19:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─(cont) By the way, I approved the nuclear for Saudi Arabia. Known as Part 810. That one's a Michael Flynn number, he wanted to do the partnership w/Saudi, Russia "people" & U.A.E. but his friends from Russia, unfortunately, changed their minds. And Saudi is our best friends in the World -- after Isr...
[19:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:59] <exec> 08└─The afternoon and evening require more power for two reasons. The first is that most homes have their thermostats set back during the day and businesses are set back at night. In the afternoon period, which are also the hottest part of the day, you have both the home and business air conditioners ru...
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[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─heat a growth cell to nearly 1,370 degrees celcius. It also squeezes the cell under 394,625kgs-per-square-inch of pressure.
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─and while asking for these regulations, they'll also ask for tax cuts so THEY don't have to pay for it.
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:55] <exec> 08└─Why do people KEEP making Zuckerberg money? Drop FB and watch him DISAPPEAR!
[20:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─Moderate public posts
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─100: "Living without pain and fear" (course fees: retroviral therapy lab costs: $200) 101: "Living your fullest life and gaslighting guys who complain about pain or fear" (prerequisites: 100) 201: "Street fighting techniques to get back at those guys who bullied you in school" etc.
[20:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:18] <exec> 08└─Too much work. Just send the guys in for the hand-to-hand stuff [youtube.com], and add the genes for sharpshooting and artillery calculations.
[20:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:20] <exec> 08└─Whoops, scanned too quickly and came up with the wrong kind of "class". Ah well.
[20:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:01] <exec> 08└─I'm very rich. But, not everybody is rich like me. "People" want to save money, right? So when they go to work, nobody's in their apartment, they turn Air Conditioner off. And their apartment becomes very hot. Very hot. And they have a wonderful day at work, they come home, they want to be nice and...
[20:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:03] <exec> 08└─Um duh, he pretty much spelled it out [yahoo.com] in the post.
[20:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 3214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:21] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I didn't forget. But I'll addendum this. California is a SAD State of Disaster. One of the saddest. And that's for many reasons. But they all boil down to, too many votes for Democrat Party. Some of those votes are real. But many are Fake -- known as Voter Fraud. "People" coming across ou...
[20:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:02] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to grow a stand of trees in the Texas Panhandle, during a drought?
[20:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:04] <exec> 08└─Ok, sorry about the spam then. If you're interested, I could see if there's a way to turn the spigot off. I don't know if the email generator is coming from corporate HQ (which is a reality unto itself) or our local reservations office. The latter I can fix with a phone call I think, but it's probab...
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[20:42:18] <exec> 08└─I agree but they need that space for non violent drug offenders.
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[21:37:28] <exec> 08└─Someone please tell MDC's executor there's something he wanted public: The CD with my hearing's recording arrived the very next day. I intended to post it on my website but neglected to do so right away. The CD got buried in my storage locker. I still have that CD. Someday I'm going to publish a tra...
[21:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:30] <exec> 08└─Are US people really twice as fat as the rest of the world?
[21:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:32] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that even for really skinny people they throw away most of the remains. The smaller limit is probably to keep people from requesting that their parakeet be made into a diamond or something.
[21:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:34] <exec> 08└─Here [algordanza.com]: Our diamond synthesis equipment are powerful machines. Their potential is fully demanded for the creation of Memorial Diamonds. They have the ability to generate a pressure of 60’000bar and temperatures of 1'400°C. This procedure is called HPHT-one crystal-synthesis.
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:37] <exec> 08└─Or you know you could do it. You can find the persons name in his last post/will and look them up in either Portland OR or Vancouver WA. When I called the Clark County Records Office on Friday the impression I got was that MDC was still in the morgue. I would be interested if you had more details. A...
[21:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─Are US people really twice as fat as the rest of the world? According to Twitter, they believe in deh "Win" theory of "Survival of the fattest!"
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─Shame on you, μfirkin is a unit of volume! Zambonis would have been more applicable.
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:44] <exec> 08└─FFF system [wikipedia.org]: firkin - mass - 90lb
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:46] <exec> 08└─If a guy’s first wife died he could diamond ize her remains and use them as the wedding ring for his 2nd wife. Which wife would dislike that more?
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:48] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, I should have dug deeper. From the mid 15th century until 1824 the beer firkin was defined as 9 ale or beer gallons. The beer or ale firkin was redefined to be 9 imperial gallons in 1824. It is therefore exactly 40.91481 litres or approximately 1.445 cubic feet.
[21:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─They don't need to be. Moderate public posts and leave private ones alone.
[21:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:07] <exec> 08└─Almost always what they are really after is regulatory capture for their own benefit. They'll use regulation to raise barriers to entry for would-be competitors, as this is a common effect of such laws, carve out special exemptions for themselves, etc. The only thing certain is that a corporation wo...
[21:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:17] <exec> 08└─And he was willing to live under a bridge for it. Hey, could someone please TELL MDC'S EXECUTOR to save the CD from his storage locker which was contained this government exchange! He wanted it made public! Please respect his wishes! The CD with my hearing's recording arrived the very next day. I in...
[21:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:19] <exec> 08└─The manifesto is being banned because it outlines exactly what the government is now doing, banning all sorts of weapons. That was part of his plan and he admitted it. He was also an eco-fascist, fighting for the environment, and the left doesn't want us reminded that environmentalism is frequently...
[21:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a bit brazen to use the country's media to ask government to outright violate it?
[21:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─No, the government should not be tossing out the concept of free speech and regulating it just beacuse its "online". Dumbass, you have a private platform, dont like content on it, delete it. You get to choose as its your "house", so to speak. Invite the Feds in, and its no longer yours. They also ha...
[21:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:26] <exec> 08└─People are slowly moving away. I tried to help this by setting up my own, but i was banned from discussing it.. And when they 'own' the market, its hard to compete with a new startup.
[21:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:47] <exec> 08└─Link the company site [algordanza.com] then.
[21:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, fuck, wrong story.
[21:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matter Waves and Quantum Splinters - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:00] <exec> 08└─MDC loved physics! Someone please tell MDC's executor there's something he wanted public: "The CD with my hearing's recording arrived the very next day. I intended to post it on my website but neglected to do so right away. The CD got buried in my storage locker. I still have that CD. Someday I'm go...
[21:40:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 388 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:30] <exec> 08└─> some people still seem to think the Cathedral was proprietary, it wasn't, it was Free, specifically FSF/GNU oh. Anyway I started having problems with the cathedral and the bazaar. The cathedral gave us systemd and the bazaar gave us npm. I would say, to stay in the metaphor, that the cathedral may...
[21:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:32] <exec> 08└─If so, I hope nobody is using his name in vane or in vein. The 3rd tempation of Linus . . . Ballmer then showed Linus all of the CPUs of the world and their splendor. "These I will give you", he said, "If you will bow down and click I AGREE to my EULA."
[21:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:37] <exec> 08└─Cathedral software was build by a select group until it was complete and released, Bazaar was more about continous development No software is ever complete. Quite a lot of it appears to escape, rather than be released. The BSDs are cathedral in that there is quality control and release engineering,...
[21:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:39] <exec> 08└─That website is a strange place. The article is from March 18th 2019, the next one down is from December 27th 2017. Nothing in between? Doesn't look like it.
[21:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:41] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'd totally forgotten about this. I wouldn't call it immoral, more that their vales may have changed away from the FOSS.
[21:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:41] <exec> 08└─You left out the big one: The annual Nile floods supported the most successful of the ancient civilizations for several thousand years.
[21:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:49] <exec> 08└─So you are driving your truck and all of a sudden one of the brakes engages and locks solid or the thermostat readout spikes or the engine starts having ignition failures. Are you really suggesting that you would sit there and diagnose the problem?
[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:50] <exec> 08└─It certainly makes you more of one than if you hadn't done either. Knowledge is relative. Here, we have more than just a dude who flew a Cessna. He had experience with both operation of automated flight hardware and how the regulations deal with changes to an airplane from that automated flight hard...
[21:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:47] <exec> 08└─So... everyone bagging the prick, rightfully so and he got what he deserved. But that isn't just the problem here. If someone can prank the police to do shite like this, isn't there something seriously wrong with the way the police are screening their channels? Am I missing something or is it that k...
[21:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quarter of Sharks and Rays Threatened with Extinction - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:26] <exec> 08└─That's the problem isn't it? Sharks and rays are open season, Sharks with rays the tables are turned.
[21:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quarter of Sharks and Rays Threatened with Extinction - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:28] <exec> 08└─Right now only a quarter of sharks and rays might be threatened, but long term they all are. The reason is that once the world-wide fishing industry has finished making the current target species extinct, they will move onto the sharks and rays, even though they're not particularly good to eat. Th...
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[22:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:37] <exec> 08└─Here in America, it's still March 31, not April 1. Hold your horses.
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:39] <exec> 08└─Ugh, that explains it. Stack Overflow's been doing April 1 bullshit all day too. Maybe I'll just call off work tomorrow. Been feeling sad often lately, crying for no reason. April 1 garbage is about the last thing I need right now.
[22:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:41] <exec> 08└─Same thing from July 2017: https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[22:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:15] <exec> 08└─Facebook's chief says the responsibility for monitoring harmful content is too great for firms alone. He calls for new laws in four areas: "Harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability."
[22:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:16] <exec> 08└─Why do people keep watching Reality TV ? Or other low quality crap TV ?
[22:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:19] <exec> 08└─If anyone were allowed to use any particular frequency band, then unless all of them agreed on a protocol for how to multiplex usage (e.g. by restricting use to only low power levels), then no one would be able to use that frequency at all, as anyone who tried to use it would just cause interference...
[22:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:42] <exec> 08└─I've heard about this kind of thing years ago. And it's a big deal because she was a kid once and it's a bad thing for kids to feel no pain. People born with the mutation, while young, need constant supervision because there's no rate-limiter for them getting scraped up and skinning their knees down...
[22:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:43] <exec> 08└─We have pain for a reason, if you dont feel it at all you can easily severely hurt yourself. Its not an advantage.
[22:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Utility to Close Natural gas Plants, Build Massive Solar-Powered Battery - 2447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:28] <exec> 08└─From almost the moment I was born -- passive Income. And my children "work" for me. I mean, can we call it work? I'm sending them all over the World, to Saudi Arabia, to Israel, to China -- many places. And they're doing a great job making so many deals, it's great for our Country and they're making...
[22:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:47] <exec> 08└─Now you're going to see people in SAP and Oracle t-shirts shitting in the street. Careful where you step.
[22:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:34] <exec> 08└─No need for action, I haven't tried unsubscribing. It's not a problem. I would like to go back to Yellowstone some time, so the emails really are not an issue, plus gmail dumps them in the "Promotions" bucket.
[22:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:43] <exec> 08└─Blaming the pilot for everything is simple but what has saved lives over the decades is treating the pilot as one component in a flow of information and control inputs. MCAS set a trap for the pilots. Just because they could have escaped it, I don't blame them for not escaping it.
[22:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Findings Put Boeing's Software at Center of Ethiopian 737 Crash - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:45] <exec> 08└─The sensor failure rate seems unprecedented
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[23:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Intel Discrete Graphics Roadmap Reveals Plans for "Seamless" Dual, Quad, and Octa-GPUs - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─...lithographic limit of dies that is currently in the range of ~800mm. Why have one 800mm die when you can have two 600mm dies (the lower the size of the die, the higher the yield) or four 400mm ones...
[23:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Intel Discrete Graphics Roadmap Reveals Plans for "Seamless" Dual, Quad, and Octa-GPUs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─I fixed it before you commented.
[23:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dead People And Pets Are Being Forged Into Pretty Blue Diamonds - Here's How It Works - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:48] <exec> 08└─Doubtful. If some jackass with too much money is offering you money to make a diamond out of his parakeet, then you do it even if it means sending them to the back of the line in favor of the larger and more expensive diamonds. It's kinda like the bakers who refused to bake the homosexual cake. Thos...
[23:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calls for Government Regulation - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:26] <exec> 08└─Please Mr Government, create a new bureaucracy, paperwork, and oversight officers so that no other competitors can reasonable enter the market. The children and the protection thereof demand it!
[23:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why. - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─Pain and anxiety are feedback. I would think without either life would be very odd, and in some ways disturbing. Sounds like a great genetic modification if your goal is to build useful, disposable tools in human form. I must be getting old. This future rushing at us scares me a little.
[23:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:58] <exec> 08└─I would never fire someone just before Christmas. I wait until just after Christmas. And I'm like, did you get me a fantastic Christmas present? You did, that's great, you get the opportunity and the privilege of serving my agenda a little longer. Oh, you didn't? Too bad, you're fired. Arnold Schwar...
[23:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:59] <exec> 08└─Please close the border. Please close the border. Pleeeeeasseeeee! Fucking do it!
[23:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:01] <exec> 08└─Late winter/early spring or early fall. Doesn't fuck up your holidays or summer vacay. Though that is from a fatmerican's perspective.
[23:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in San Francisco Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:04] <exec> 08└─Lets be sure to remind everybody how many H1-B employees SAP and Oracle use. We're in the middle of a nice trend of seeing leftists eat each other alive, now, let us stoke the flames of hatred and division! HaahaaheeheeHOOOOOOO!
[23:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace? - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:50] <exec> 08└─They saw it was for sale, they bought it, why does that make them immoral? Was it stolen and did they know? I mean, we try not to buy too many stolen things. But, a lot of times we don't know. And we think, "oh that's a tremendous bargain," we buy it. And it's a tremendous bargain for us -- unless t...
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