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[00:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Gets Serious About Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:01] <exec> 08└─Should we prioritize people who drive cars from out of town over those who live in the city?
[00:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Gets Serious About Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:03] <exec> 08└─First of all, it is not my plan. Having said that, any plan that would keep New Yorkers confined to their island is fine with me. I trust Pennsylvania will provide the second line of defense against both.
[00:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Gets Serious About Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:05] <exec> 08└─NY has the most aggressive tax law for nonresidents. Even if an employee does not spend a second on the island, she has to pay taxes if she stays out for "convenience". https://www.hodgsonruss.com [hodgsonruss.com]
[00:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Gets Serious About Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:07] <exec> 08└─Depending on where you live, there are...
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[00:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:16] <exec> 08└─If some of your nearby relatives are on file, you effectively are as well.
[00:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:17] <exec> 08└─That would be a good test of whether they actually check the basics, like number of chromosomes. What else has 23 pairs ? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [w...
[00:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:19] <exec> 08└─Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) 46 Reeves's muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) 46 Human (Homo sapiens) 46 Parhyale hawaiensis 46
[00:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Denisovans Interbreeding With Humans in Southeast Asia More Recently Than Thought - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:34] <exec> 08└─Wilma's legs give me a boner.
[00:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:36] <exec> 08└─They should learn from Microsoft: make it gradually harder to support or use rather than outright kill it. The older the MS product, the more you have to fiddle with the registry etc. to get it work right. Then after 12 years say you'll no longer offer security updates. If somebody finds a hole and...
[00:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:38] <exec> 08└─I use DDG because even without the G tracking, it is now on average a better search engine. It's not better than Google was back when their pagerank search was new and amazing, but Google's results are now so full of ads and irrelevant crap that I can find stuff faster on DDG.
[00:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:48] <exec> 08└─No, I just already had the answer to that one. Toe colored.
[01:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Gets Serious About Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:03] <exec> 08└─Should we prioritize people who drive cars from out of town over those who live in the city?
[01:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Gets Serious About Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:05] <exec> 08└─yeah, man, ok. but i am chortling at the suggestion that new yorkers want to go to jersey. they don't. the only reason they step foot there is because it is in the way of getting to everything else. as it is, we make it a rule to never get off the highway until we hit the Pennsylvania border.
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[01:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Turkey's President Erdogan Faces Setbacks in Municipal Elections - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:15] <exec> 08└─Ankara has made it illegal for non government officials to be present at ballot storage locations in order to ensure the sanctity and validity of future elections. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, a government spokesman, indicated that this would absolutely result in more accurate election counts going...
[01:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey's President Erdogan Faces Setbacks in Municipal Elections - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2e2yHjc_mc [youtube.com]
[01:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:30] <exec> 08└─I tell this to all my friends who want DNA tests. Get $X friends ($X>10) , order $X kits and then map random names to kits. Keep the key for yourselves, and then you get your DNA matched. This will polute their database. The only fly is if family history is needed from some diseases. But it really i...
[01:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:31] <exec> 08└─Ever get those mail-in poop sample kits from your doctor? "Honey... The doctor called. You have worms".
[01:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:33] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your false-positives. It's like a lottery ticket. But you get your life ruined instead of cash. Sure, you might not go to prison. If you have a good lawyer.
[01:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Denisovans Interbreeding With Humans in Southeast Asia More Recently Than Thought - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:49] <exec> 08└─The links to amazon on crack'd come up as 404'd for me, but if you do an amazon search on the author Christie Sims it's a whole new wonderland out there. It's not just dinosaurs, she has protagonists fucking dragon, orcs, pterodactyls, nagas, ogres, demons, werewolves and gargoyles. If it could poss...
[01:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Denisovans Interbreeding With Humans in Southeast Asia More Recently Than Thought - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:51] <exec> 08└─Christie Sims has nothing on Chuck Tingle: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Helicopter Man Pounds Dinosaur Billionaire Ass Seduced by Doctor Bigfoot: Attorney at Large...
[01:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Prize Winner Argues Banning CRISPR Babies Won’t Work - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:10] <exec> 08└─Faster STRONGER C R I S P R
[01:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:57] <exec> 08└─In my experience beancounters know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I have learned from bitter experience that if the company is run by someone with a finance or accounting background I don't want to work there. Google won't be any difference if the beancounters are running the sho...
[01:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03imperious_rex [1700] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:58] <exec> 08└─Google 2019 is certainly a far cry from Google 2004. Remember Google Labs? They used to have a bunch of experimental things going on, some of them were wacky, but some were pretty cool (remember Froogle, their online shopping search engine?). I never used Google+, so I don't miss it one bit. But I a...
[01:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:01] <exec> 08└─They have been ruining Gmail as much as they possibly can for years to make it worse to use. All it takes is for Google to get bored of it and it's gone.
[01:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:11] <exec> 08└─So *YOU* are the source of this ominous dark matter thing!
[01:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:13] <exec> 08└─Inconclusive. The colour of the matter emitted by holes in black socks in not yet settled.
[01:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:15] <exec> 08└─True while worn, still a mystery while in the washing machine (as still a mystery is the nature of the interaction with the rest of the load).
[01:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:17] <exec> 08└─The primordial black holes in this study are no smaller than 10^-11 solar masses, or about 10^19kg. This is about the mass of a small moon or large asteroid (less massive than Ceres). It's odd that these would be candidates because black holes this small would be very bright due to Hawking radiation...
[02:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Gets Serious About Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:33] <exec> 08└─However, I don't see turning Manhattan into a place where you have to have more spare money to drive as a reasonable solution. There are all kinds of people out there; some of them will find this a negligible load, some won't. Public spaces, IMHO, should be aimed at the public. Not the wealthy.
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[02:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:36] <exec> 08└─Forget about "nearby" relatives. DNA matching has gotten good enough to identify matches even out to fourth or fifth cousins, which (depending on the size of your family) could encompass tens of thousands of relatives. At that point, it's only a matter of genealogy to begin to zero in. This procedur...
[02:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:37] <exec> 08└─And by the way, I myself had no idea how far this stuff had progressed (despite headlines about the Golden State Killer last year) until I listened to the Bear Brook podcast [bearbrookpodcast.com] a few months ago. Absolutely crazy story about a cold case I had heard of years ago, which was finally...
[02:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:39] <exec> 08└─From the CEO of FamilyTreeDNA: We as DNA testing companies have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. We must share our information with law enforcement as I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion a...
[02:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Denisovans Interbreeding With Humans in Southeast Asia More Recently Than Thought - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:57] <exec> 08└─There will always be humans that will poke anything with a hole. Case in point our Canine companions and equivalent. The only difference here is our biology is different enough to not create an offspring. If our future generations starts space faring and encounter Martians, you can bet yer ass they'...
[02:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Denisovans Interbreeding With Humans in Southeast Asia More Recently Than Thought - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:58] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't move, we'll fuck it. If it moves, so much the better.
[02:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:07] <exec> 08└─It was news this week because of the Google+ final shutdown as well as Google Inbox. We had this: Internet Archive Moving to Preserve Google+ Posts before April Shutdown [soylentnews.org] I don't think a lot of people noticed when Google Wave was shut down. But the shutdown of Google+ closes a chapt...
[02:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:09] <exec> 08└─Yea, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Empowering your employees to be bold and start new things and fail fast is actually a pretty good strategy for a company like Google. Agree it is probably not a good approach for all organizations. If you really want to innovate internally, you really hav...
[02:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:11] <exec> 08└─But they've got their eye on the ball when it comes to search and ads. Why should they get tied down with other commitments, especially when they produce zero revenue? Their G-suites seem pretty solid.
[02:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:13] <exec> 08└─I can't think of google without thinking of that old tv sitcom, betwitched. the husband was an 'ad man' and he played the role as a goof; I learned early that advertising people were goofs. that the whole field was unnecessary overhead to our costs. google is an advertising company. nothing sexy abo...
[02:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:15] <exec> 08└─Emacs and vi are the only editors available if you want any real document editor representation what??? no EDT? SOS?? TECO??? some DECbot you are. harumph.
[02:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:18] <exec> 08└─Just like the Whigs, those lost to the holy editor flame war long ago.
[02:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bioengineers Develop 3-D Structures from Crab Shells to Replace Damaged Tissues - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:29] <exec> 08└─Don't worry I'm sure you'll claw yourself out of that little emotional downturn, just be careful that when the good times comes around you don't crack up from laughter.
[02:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gut Microbiome Directs the Immune System to Fight Cancer - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:39] <exec> 08└─I typically just call everyone "human", but those damn Denisovians fucked that up. Stupid identity politics.
[02:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gut Microbiome Directs the Immune System to Fight Cancer - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:42] <exec> 08└─A one-floor shotgun house.
[02:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Express Orbiter Confirms Methane Emissions From the Surface of Mars - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:59] <exec> 08└─Nah, space cows are called 'Gassy Moos' and fart to move around (similar to RCS) https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com [gamepedia.com]
[02:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USDA Announces End of Cat-Killing Research Program - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:04] <exec> 08└─Politicians! Please don't leave out politicians!
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[03:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make a Better Lens Glass - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:16] <exec> 08└─What happened to the flat lenses [bbc.com]? Not panning out?
[03:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make a Better Lens Glass - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:18] <exec> 08└─The journey out of the lab is a long one.
[03:55:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:35] <exec> 08└─It isn't just you. If some of your nearby relatives are on file, you effectively are as well. Also if you decide you don't care for yourself, remember that yours being on file also allows them to zero in on kids, grandkids, parents, aunts, & uncles.
[03:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's progressed so far Wal-Mart can do it for you....along with a full on medical diagnosis! All in just 24 hours! https://ifunny.co [ifunny.co] . . . . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you took me seriously, you didn't notice my username....
[03:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:47] <exec> 08└─(((Bennett Greenspan))), the firm’s founder, said he had decided he had a moral obligation to help solve old murders and rapes. Now he thinks that customers will agree and make their DNA available specifically to help out.
[03:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:49] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a huge medical information violation. Class action lawsuit ought to clear that problem right up?
[03:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:51] <exec> 08└─I read that as X dollars worth of friends and wondered how many friends $10 would get me.
[03:56:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:54] <exec> 08└─While that may be, and probably is true; I think the problem with Google abandoning products because they create shiny new products is not caused by that. I think the problem is due to a cultural problem within Google. People like to start new projects. It's fun. A green field with no buildings on i...
[03:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:24] <exec> 08└─A list? You're not writing a manifesto, are you? I'm asking for a fed, er, I mean a friend.
[03:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:25] <exec> 08└─I much prefer StartPage.com over DDG. But it seems DDG has become more well-known. Perhaps because of Android?
[03:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gut Microbiome Directs the Immune System to Fight Cancer - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:48] <exec> 08└─There is increasing evidence that the gut is the control system for more body regulatory systems that has been thought. Mental stress and gut symptoms have long been known to have a link (thus the stress=ulcers thing) but it may be that gut microbiome problems upset the regulation that would prevent...
[03:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gut Microbiome Directs the Immune System to Fight Cancer - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:50] <exec> 08└─I should have mentioned - a Dr Perlmutter has been stumping for the gut/brain connection idea for some time. Some of his assertions agree with my experience with auto-immune issues, though I've no way to know if he is right about the underlying mechanisms.
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[04:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:17] <exec> 08└─I've always said that animals eating other animals is what causes extinctions. Don't blame humans for this!
[04:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it had unexpected pheremones? It could be the jaguar needs to be exposed to the father's scent to not eat the baby.
[04:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:20] <exec> 08└─Simpler explanation: she was hungry.
[04:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:22] <exec> 08└─Or just didn't remember ever having sex so didn't believe it was her baby. Like Ripley.
[04:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey's President Erdogan Faces Setbacks in Municipal Elections - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:38] <exec> 08└─"Anti-corruption" government purge in 3... 2... 1...
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[04:56:01] <exec> 08└─Turn back the clock to simpler times? To the golden age? Of rapists walking free? You can't uninvent this stuff.
[04:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Denisovans Interbreeding With Humans in Southeast Asia More Recently Than Thought - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:21] <exec> 08└─But then we end up with these!: https://animalchannel.co [animalchannel.co] https://people.com [people.com]
[04:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Prize Winner Argues Banning CRISPR Babies Won’t Work - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:41] <exec> 08└─That's sounds delicious!
[04:57:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:02] <exec> 08└─I absolutely use duckduckgo, albiet with the understanding that google is always a !g away.
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[05:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:20] <exec> 08└─Or the insemination was too successful and created such a wonderful offspring she just couldn't resist the urge to take a bite.
[05:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:21] <exec> 08└─Admittedly, their plan has some giant flaws and was devised and approved without proper peer review, and it is unlikely to have much effect on stopping the rise of extremists (because they do not need, or not need, these jaguars to build their movements). From my non-extremist-expert point of view (...
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[05:55:24] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of animals!
[05:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Prize Winner Argues Banning CRISPR Babies Won’t Work - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:44] <exec> 08└─The UN? Good luck getting anyone else (*cough* everyone else) to follow it.
[05:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gut Microbiome Directs the Immune System to Fight Cancer - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:05] <exec> 08└─I recall another article where poo transplants from pregnant mice suppressed organ rejection. I think , maybe, poo transplants (from an organ donor) can help accompany organ transplants (from the same donor). After all the donor's microbiome is tuned to their immune system.
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[06:00:02] <exec> 08└─The diet wouldn't consider her as she wouldn't diet.
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[06:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Fairfax Police to Stop Collecting Data from License Plate Readers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:16] <exec> 08└─Let's start with the license plates!
[06:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:30] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an interesting missing (from TFS) detail to me.
[06:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:31] <exec> 08└─Missing detail from TFS The little jaguar, a female, was born “healthy and vigorous” and Bianca demonstrated “excellent maternal care” for her newborn on the first day, vets said. “Unfortunately after two days, the cub died. We don’t know why and cannot say if it was killed by the mother...
[06:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:33] <exec> 08└─Eating placenta, eating stillborns. This is what happened to Runaway's elder sibling, and it is why he is so afraid. Afraid of Mexicans. Afraid of Muslin. Afraid of Calico! Afraid of Progressive Democrats! Already, Runaway has had a dream, a nightmare, actually, where AOC and Hilary came to guarante...
[06:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:13] <exec> 08└─I notice you didn't read the small print of the Terms of Service, like 100% of the other customers. It's on page 4814, bottom of third paragraph: ...and having donated my firstborn to the mercy of the Corporation I also solemnly swear that any and all results of the tests performed and information i...
[06:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:15] <exec> 08└─so if some perverted uncle is some serial rapist or killer, then I don't want them found out? Or what is the point of the outrage here?? Do people get outraged when some prisoner is found out to be a serial rapist 20 years ago? Sooner or later, Gattaca level of technology will be more real than not....
[06:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:54] <exec> 08└─Runaway is already on several Fed watch lists. I mean, he has admitted to driving a Trailblazer and seeing things on the side of the road! So, not a manifesto, more a codexies of a potential future manifesto that Runaway may write, about all the things he does not know, and how his prodigious ignora...
[06:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:55] <exec> 08└─Conservatives are more likely to stay with a product (even if it sucks) to keep stability than someone who is liberal who is more likely to take risks and change (even if no change is needed).
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[07:56:16] <exec> 08└─What's with the parentheses? Makes it sound like his name is echoing or something.
[07:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:17] <exec> 08└─AFAIR, “alt-right” (I think, I don't really follow much of US politics) use it as a some derogatory mark for, err, jews, or something? I don't quite remember. Better try googling, I guess.
[07:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineers Develop 3-D Structures from Crab Shells to Replace Damaged Tissues - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:08] <exec> 08└─Can we use it (chitosan plastic) to make straws? That seems to scratch an itch.
[08:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Next Era to be Called "Reiwa" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:21] <exec> 08└─Even though Japanese Emperors don't have any actual political powers anymore their very existence still gives everyone wrong ideas.
[08:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Says India Anti-Satellite Missile Test Put the ISS at Risk - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:20] <exec> 08└─You cannot simply dismiss something bad by stating that it can always be worse. I agree with you, which is why I took pains to clearly point out: So, I'm not saying the Indian test is good, but it could have been a lot worse, as demonstrated by the USA and China.
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[08:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:20] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness none of them were mine! What kind of idiot would have Facebook Account, anyway? Takyon?
[08:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:21] <exec> 08└─At what point will we see Facebook actually take protection of user's info seriously?
[08:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:24] <exec> 08└─Or when Congress fines the fuck out of them for violating their 2011 consent decree. That will not only get FB's attention, it will result in some long term, heavy handed governmental oversight.
[08:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Fairfax Police to Stop Collecting Data from License Plate Readers - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:33] <exec> 08└─If cop cars are still allowed, obligated even, to have dashcams (plus all-round view equivalents - fracas can occur on any side of the car), and are storing the captured video, then they have the same information. This rule just says that they can't preprocess the information they already gather in...
[08:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:49] <exec> 08└─How can you SJWs mod this troll! It is pure libertarian dogma, from the mouths of pure libertarians! Runaway deserves his free choice about whether to, or not to, whatever it is that we were talking about. Freedom Rules! Not to say that Freedom overrides the freedom of others, as in "ruling" over...
[08:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:50] <exec> 08└─Well, the post did mention "placenta", which is a reminder to all libertarians that they did not come into existence all by their selves, but they needed the help and cooperation, without contracts, by the way, of their progenitors. Oh, crap. Libertarian types, phone your mother on Mother's Day, Ma...
[08:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:53] <exec> 08└─We need either a -1 placenta, or a +1 placenta mod, and I am not at all sure which.
[08:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:55] <exec> 08└─If men had placentas, abortion would be, um, I lost my train of thought. Hoohas, babies coming out of them, we need to protect life, and kill the immigrants and Syrians and Democrats. Nope, lost my train of thought. May not have actually be a thought, to begin with. Abort Donald Trump's Porn star...
[08:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:57] <exec> 08└─"I don't remember having sex with anyone. Single mother, my ass. They don't know how stone cold we can be."
[08:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:41] <exec> 08└─And yet you can't get humans to act in a civilized manner. Rich or poor, short or tall, polka dots or stripes, some humans will always be the vilest of creatures.
[08:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:42] <exec> 08└─and wondered how many friends $10 would get me.
[08:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:44] <exec> 08└─Are you implying (((AC))) was trying to denigrate a capitalist? What would the alt-right prefer, freedom loving state run corporations?
[08:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:46] <exec> 08└─including but definitely not limited to selling to highest bidding Law enforcement agencies of any countries on any planets.
[08:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:27] <exec> 08└─Google Maps has changed a lot as well - I prefer OSM [openstreetmap.org] for most things now. In some ways it is not as good, but OSM deliberately don't develop their online maps much, as their intention is not to grow use of their servers*. The huge advantage of OSM is that scripts, XHR, and images...
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[09:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:22] <exec> 08└─One of the few really good things the EU parliament has done. If European users are affected, the companies can face massive fines over carelessness like this. If you take privacy seriously, then you need laws like the GDPR that allow people to control what is done with their data, and that have ser...
[09:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:24] <exec> 08└─Are exposed servers something like naked waiters?
[09:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:53] <exec> 08└─I plan to vote Republican, though I have no idea why.
[09:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:43] <exec> 08└─I think part of the concern here is that the police will make DNA screening a de facto standard practice. Once it becomes "normal" they can arrest you for <insert something minor or fabricated here> and then submit your DNA for testing to see if you have enough markers to make you a suspect or relat...
[09:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:44] <exec> 08└─if you don't see what point of the outrage is maybe you deserve to be tagged and controled like in gattaca or just keep your whore mouth shut when adults are talking!
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[10:55:20] <exec> 08└─Not content with having an application to spy on their wives and daughters and cancel their passport at a click of a button [the-levant.com] they now want 34/7/365 visuals to track people down. Well done for helping them SpaceX.
[10:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:32] <exec> 08└─If European users are affected, the companies can face massive fines over carelessness like this.
[10:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Fairfax Police to Stop Collecting Data from License Plate Readers - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:42] <exec> 08└─If cop cars are still allowed, obligated even, to have dashcams (plus all-round view equivalents - fracas can occur on any side of the car), and are storing the captured video, then they have the same information.
[10:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:05] <exec> 08└─A very popular girl went to her doctor and found out that she was pregnant. The doctor says, "I know that you are not married! Do you know who the father of this baby is?" The girl thought and then asked, "Doc, if you ate a can of Baked Beans, would you know which bean made you fart?"
[10:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:06] <exec> 08└─Admittedly, their plan has some giant flaws and was devised and approved without proper peer review, and it is unlikely to have much effect on stopping the rise of Did you know that the only thing that distinguish a black panther from a jaguar is a higher melanin content in the first? From my non-ex...
[10:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 5495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:58] <exec> 08└─You really don't get the outrage? You need it spelled out for you? Ok... DNA is not an exact science. In fact it is fraught with all kinds of errors and shenanigans. https://www.sciencenews.org [sciencenews.org] https://www.geneticsandsociety.org
[10:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:59] <exec> 08└─This is correct. It started with a firefox extension that would put the triple brackets around known Jews in online articles.
[10:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:02] <exec> 08└─What can you do if the hospital steals a sample of your baby's blood? https://www.cnsnews.com [cnsnews.com] https://www.schn.health.nsw.gov.au [nsw.gov.au] https://w...
[10:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:04] <exec> 08└─it's the new "air quotes" that's parser friendly?
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[11:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:13] <exec> 08└─On PC, where I do the vast majority of my gaming, I buy my games through GoG.com. I download the game, and push the compressed package to a backup drive so I have it later. On consoles, I always buy physical media. I tend to stick to single-player games and I expect to play them years later - why wo...
[11:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:14] <exec> 08└─I only use a PS3/PS4 for gaming and having to have the media in the machine can be a problem when the children keep swapping it out for something else. That said I do like to have the better games on media (e.g The Last of Us) but I've found if you wait a while the digital distribution is often (far...
[11:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:16] <exec> 08└─with no easy way to backup and restore game disks I am very choosy about which games to buy also I will wait for discounts what, they think everyone wants to plunk down $80 per game? yeah right
[11:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:18] <exec> 08└─what, they think everyone wants to plunk down $80 per game per year? yeah right
[11:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Soyuz Launches and a Falcon Heavy Launch Coming Right Up - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:27] <exec> 08└─That's a Falcon Heavy I wouldn't mind to explode in flight.
[11:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:12] <exec> 08└─Or it was dead and this is how they honor the dead.
[11:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:07] <exec> 08└─Awesome. Can it also highlight known rapists, murders, arsonists, terrorists, muslims, thieves, politicians, and lawyers?
[11:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:08] <exec> 08└─Hey, can I deputize myself? Is this going to hurt?
[11:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:10] <exec> 08└─> SCOUTS Supreme Court of United The States?
[11:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:13] <exec> 08└─No, but you can regulate how they use the technology and who they give the data to. And, using it to violate the privacy of people en masse is something that should be banned, along with all forms of mass surveillance.
[11:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:53] <exec> 08└─It gets its money from TLAs, anything stolen from users is extra, free money. The khazar jews at google know they are chosen ones by the satanic secret societies, their reputation can be rebuilt any time by the worshipers of satan.
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[12:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:16] <exec> 08└─How on earth can the government decide over the rules in a competition?
[12:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:18] <exec> 08└─LOL. Oscars, a competition! The mind boggles.
[12:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:20] <exec> 08└─It's in the snippet: if the Academy adopts a new rule [...] and that exclusion tends to diminish the excluded films’ sales
[12:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:22] <exec> 08└─Now if only Netflix could replicate the true theater experience of cell phones, crying babies and being searched like a criminal.
[12:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:24] <exec> 08└─Now if only Netflix could replicate the true theater experience of cell phones, crying babies and being searched like a criminal.
[12:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:27] <exec> 08└─Where on earth are theaters that think people will go along with that horseshit? Any theater employee that asked that of me would get some long, loud laughter and a full dose of the doubly whammy [imgur.com] the whole way out.
[12:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:29] <exec> 08└─Oh sure enough the one time I think it's fine to post without proofreading...
[12:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:39] <exec> 08└─We're a pretty serious gamer family - me, wife, both kids. I don't remember the last time that any of us bought a physical copy of a game. The two kids (both now in their early 20s) own maybe a couple hundred games each, mostly on Steam but also on other platforms. The wife and I are less crazy, and...
[12:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:41] <exec> 08└─I maybe should have added two things: - First, none of us game on consoles. Why have a console standing around, with inferior hardware, when we all have top-end PCs that we can also use for other things? Consoles make no sense to me... - Second, what can GameStop do? Serious suggestion: Liquidate ea...
[12:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:43] <exec> 08└─Go for open-source games, or abandonware. They're entertaining, and cost me nothing, and don't have the problem of going away because Actiblindness or Electronic Farts decided they wanted more money. Rarely, I'll go for a retrogame for well under $20, which also can't easily be taken away from me. T...
[12:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:45] <exec> 08└─I'm curious how many Soylentils still prefer to buy their games on physical media and who prefers a digital distribution.
[12:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:48] <exec> 08└─I only buy games on physical media, but I could be pursuaded to buy a game without DRM as a ready to burn ISO. If gamestop want to stay alive selling physical games, they need to focus on the product they are selling. It is not just a game. It is the ownership of a game. It is the extra material. Th...
[12:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:50] <exec> 08└─The online platforms for game sales do discounts. GameStop doesn't. Used games from GameStop was my primary means of buying around the GameCube early Wii days. They started raising the prices for the used games then and I quickly realized I could get NIB on Amazon or Steam for less than used at Game...
[12:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:52] <exec> 08└─The prospect of ownership excites me.
[12:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:12] <exec> 08└─At what point will we see Facebook actually take protection of user's info seriously?
[12:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:48] <exec> 08└─But there is a clue in the article of what will >surviving in limited Amazonian territory Stop deforestation
[12:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:49] <exec> 08└─Or it was like an XK-E Series III and the mother was an E-Type, I'd eat my young in that case as well out of embarrassment.
[12:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make a Better Lens Glass - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:59] <exec> 08└─I always thought making a great lens involved some kind of transparent material with a consistent atomic structure, but hey who am I to say you can't make a lens from squishy researcher bodies.
[12:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:50] <exec> 08└─From a litigation standpoint, I don't think that has actually been tested. But it could be. For example, an 18 Y/O son could reasonably sue his parents for intrusion if they got one of these test done ON THEMSELVES. Particularly if he/she had markers for a genetic disorder. The loss is incured becau...
[12:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:32] <exec> 08└─TFA is about brand and they screwed up the brand. Start up with another brand, then "buy/transfer" to Google if it is successful. That is one reason why parent companies (alphabet) exist.
[12:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gut Microbiome Directs the Immune System to Fight Cancer - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:57] <exec> 08└─Stress causing ulcers is a myth -- the true cause is generally an infection: https://www.livescience.com [livescience.com]
[13:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:56] <exec> 08└─Schrödinger's sock then?
[13:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:57] <exec> 08└─It predates Schrödinger by at least some centuries, 't's a Hamletian sock
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[13:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Really is Something Unique About Tennessee Whiskey, Study Finds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:16] <exec> 08└─Who the hell does whiskey experiments and doesn't use copious alcohol consumption as the primary methodology?
[13:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:30] <exec> 08└─Same way a government can decide that an OS manufacturer shouldn't have bundled a browser into their OS... it's called anti-monopoly.
[13:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:31] <exec> 08└─Netflix does not have individual movie sales, does it? It's a monthly subscription (whether you watch the nominated films or not). I thought there was an existing rule that the films had to have had a theatrical release within a certain time period to qualify for the Oscars.
[13:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:33] <exec> 08└─the hole way out
[13:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:36] <exec> 08└─must be at an airport or within 100 miles of a border step to the wall, drop your pants, and spread em citizen it's for the good of the country and my instagram rating!
[13:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:38] <exec> 08└─Your family search you like a criminal? Are we talking body cavity here or just a standard Rikers strip search?
[13:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:40] <exec> 08└─I believe the Academy is a trade organization, which among other things gives them certain tax benefits, and prohibits them from colluding in anti-competitive practices.
[13:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:43] <exec> 08└─If they can waste money on stuff like this they have too much of it.
[13:55:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:53] <exec> 08└─what, they think everyone wants to plunk down $80 per game per year? yeah right
[13:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:03] <exec> 08└─I prefer games in hard boxes because of the additional stuff in them. Maps mostly but also posters or figurines. Meaning I already have to be a big fan of the game before buying the hard copy. Software in a box is not good anymore. If it comes on a disk then I need a disk drive. And it always has a...
[13:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:05] <exec> 08└─With physical media I don't have to have an Internet connection (I don't play online games). That's not the non-issue it might seem. There are a lot of places I go that broadband is regarded about the same as Chupacabra. Plus my cable connection goes out in bad weather, which TN has plenty of.
[13:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:07] <exec> 08└─I used to have a huge porn collection. Hundreds of GB dedicated to the video and photographic aspects of human mating. Now I have pornhub. How times have changed. It's not always convenient but I have a data plan with plenty of data so all I need is connectivity. Progress, I tell you. Just waiting f...
[13:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:09] <exec> 08└─I stopped going to Game Stop about the same time they started their heavy push of used games. It was a simple economic decision. The used game at Game Stop was $10 cheaper than a new copy of the same game at the Best Buy down the street (if it was still available new) and was usually more expensive...
[13:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 3878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:12] <exec> 08└─Various unconnected ideas (typical of my posts LOL) 1) My FLGS makes a lot of money selling junk food and marketing to folks at the tables playing DnD, W40K, Pathfinder, Gloomhaven, MTG, etc. For no apparent reason my FLGS doesn't have an electronic crowd of nintendo switch players or tablet minecra...
[13:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:14] <exec> 08└─Per year? Is this sarcasm or a joke? I pay $20 to $30 for a game, usually less. $80? A year? That's nuts.
[13:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 3125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:16] <exec> 08└─DRM is a factor in all purchases. It doesn't "eliminate" it immediately from consideration for me, but is one of the factors in deciding a reasonable price, obviously. My Steam account has more games than I'll ever complete. But they cost a relative pittance. I probably couldn't buy even 20 "AAA" co...
[13:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:18] <exec> 08└─The personal service and chatter over the counter.
[13:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:39] <exec> 08└─A little, although generally speaking you'll find them less curvy, more chafy, but, in the fleeting time window that exists before they become infested with ransomware, they seldom ask you for tips. Whilst still inside that glorious, uninfected time window, they are generally also much faster than t...
[13:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:41] <exec> 08└─And at which restaurant can one get naked waiters?
[13:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:16] <exec> 08└─Yes. That decision will eventually happen.
[13:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:17] <exec> 08└─Nice post, but there were 250 million people in the US like 25 years ago. Now there are around 330 million, and god knows how many more illegals. As for the odd uncle story, another reason the police could try to come after you, is if the uncle is dead already, but you they can still convict.
[13:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:19] <exec> 08└─EULAs don't protect against everything. Promiscuous sharing of genetic data is probably going to cross that line.
[14:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineers Develop 3-D Structures from Crab Shells to Replace Damaged Tissues - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:14] <exec> 08└─> By removing certain acetyl groups from chitin, researchers can obtain chitosan
[14:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:31] <exec> 08└─I watched a Science Channel show where the physicists pondered whether supermassive black holes are made of (or at least seeded by) dark matter [wikipedia.org]. Interestingly, they claim that there's no mechanism for black holes of that size to exist if made of normal matter.
[14:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter is Not Made Up of Tiny Black Holes - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:32] <exec> 08└─There is probably no dark matter and no black holes, so this is angels dancing on pins level stuff. There may have been primordial black holes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)), but they have all evaporated or "solidified" by now.
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[14:55:21] <exec> 08└─
[14:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Really is Something Unique About Tennessee Whiskey, Study Finds - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:22] <exec> 08└─I thought this was submarine marketing for Endless West but as near as I can tell its unrelated to the corporate startup. Possibly I'm lazy and missed some link between them or between the academic/press release and a competitor to Endless West. At any rate, yeah this idea is commercialized already....
[14:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:43] <exec> 08└─The Justice Department is Johnny on the spot with trivial shit like this but missing in action on important issues. Nero asked if they are done with his fiddle, BTW. Well, we know how this REALLY happens. I am sure Netflix and Amazon must have paid their lobbyists and paid Congressmen to take up the...
[14:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:45] <exec> 08└─exclude certain types of films
[14:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting pricing idea: There's like 20 amazon locker locations around me already; maybe its already too late; but if p-media is going to Amazon anyway, GS could get a piece of the action by giving up on selling their own stuff and going full on amazon locker provider. They could go "gas station c...
[14:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:13] <exec> 08└─But they cost a relative pittance.
[14:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:15] <exec> 08└─I'm with you, but how long do you even need to view porn? For just about everyone, I would say it's no more than 10 minutes tops, and how picky are you about the content? Porn is pretty disposable stuff.
[14:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:17] <exec> 08└─BTW, to clarify my parent post, that is why I agree with you that it makes little sense to "own" a porn collection anymore versus searching and viewing it as a stream. I fast forward over 3/4 of that shit anyway. And always, always put it on mute. When the porn girls talk, it just ruins it. In high...
[14:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:20] <exec> 08└─I'm curious how many Soylentils still prefer to buy their games on physical media and who prefers a digital distribution. What's your motivation?
[14:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:43] <exec> 08└─Hooters DevOps
[14:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:44] <exec> 08└─without a password
[14:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make a Better Lens Glass - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:30] <exec> 08└─They work at only one wavelength, more like a tuner.
[14:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Denisovans Interbreeding With Humans in Southeast Asia More Recently Than Thought - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:44] <exec> 08└─Space Raptor Butt Ascension
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:08] <exec> 08└─Google+ was huge, no doubt, but Google abandoning its projects when they either won't show signs of profit and/or they've squeezed all the juice out they can is just normal operating practice [wikipedia.org]. I reckon it's about the same as Yahoo! doing in GeoCities but in a Web 2.0 context. Might b...
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[15:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe women with vaginas that are -- let's say less than pleasant smelling/tasting -- harbour bacteria or be a result of medical conditions that may cause miscarriages.
[15:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:19] <exec> 08└─Giving, or receiving oral sex? Really, nowhere in the article do they make this clear?
[15:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:21] <exec> 08└─and there is a *small* testosterone dose , which for females might have an effect. Believe it or not , there have been other studies along this line, but of course, the data is hard to collect....
[15:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:23] <exec> 08└─a few months ago it was oral-sex causes increased rates of throat cancer one week bad, one week good, etc. oral sex is the new coffee
[15:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:25] <exec> 08└─Correlation is not causation. Not only does the article not state whether the women were providers or recipients, but there is also no indication of how recent the activity needs to be to be counted in the study.
[15:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:27] <exec> 08└─to examine anal sex (its effects on gut biome and its relationship with immune system), bestiality (for same reasons), and foot fetish (for effects of foot bacteria). So much potential here. Someone call the Nobel committee.
[15:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:30] <exec> 08└─Were the women with three miscarriages having the same amount of sexual relations overall as those in the control group, just less of it oral, or were they also having fewer sexual relations overall? Because if they just discovered that couples don't have as much sex when with the anxiety of multipl...
[15:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:32] <exec> 08└─Neither my girlfriend nor myself have ever had a miscarriage and we do this lots :) Science!
[15:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:34] <exec> 08└─Giving, or receiving oral sex? Really, nowhere in the article do they make this clear?
[15:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:36] <exec> 08└─Alternate possible third factor for this correlation: The pregnant woman's partner. A woman who receives oral sex probably has a partner that cares about her well-being more than the woman who doesn't, so that partner will probably be doing a better job of caring for her during pregnancy. Plus, said...
[15:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe women with vaginas that are -- let's say less than pleasant smelling/tasting -- harbour bacteria or be a result of medical conditions that may cause miscarriages.
[15:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, I see... roles reversed. Women giving, not receiving.
[15:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:43] <exec> 08└─Future studies in women with recurrent miscarriage explained by immune abnormalities should reveal whether oral exposure to seminal plasma indeed modifies the maternal immune system, resulting in more live births.
[15:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Really is Something Unique About Tennessee Whiskey, Study Finds - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:54] <exec> 08└─[unknown brand] markets at the "early adopters" and presumably can add extra margin for them. It is probably the same stuff in the bottle (sorry cynical moment there).
[15:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Really is Something Unique About Tennessee Whiskey, Study Finds - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:57] <exec> 08└─it's like there "really is something unique about" coke, according to some "study"?
[15:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:20] <exec> 08└─Next up youtube videos! PewDiePie for the Oscars!
[15:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:21] <exec> 08└─"Netflix does not have individual movie sales, does it? It's a monthly subscription (whether you watch the nominated films or not). "I thought there was an existing rule that the films had to have had a theatrical release within a certain time period to qualify for the Oscars." So what exactly is th...
[15:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:23] <exec> 08└─The the wife is a pro at interrogation and she's not the good cop.
[15:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:55] <exec> 08└─"Brick House" by the Commodores is playing on the radio right now. So let me try to explain "digital distribution" that a user of Commodore computers would understand. You pay a BBS for access to download a copy of a game. Once you've paid for the game, you can redownload it when you want, so long a...
[15:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:56] <exec> 08└─Madden NFL, FIFA, and other EA games based on ball sport leagues get a sequel every year. Most online players move to the sequel quickly, leaving players of the older edition without a substantial number of opponents, and the publisher ends up shutting off matchmaking for the older edition. If you w...
[15:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:58] <exec> 08└─FTFY. In this case, FTL of course means "For The Loss" and not "Faster Than Light", which is how fast bricks and mortar dealers of content ought to vanish. What seems most likely to happen to Game Stop can be summed up with one word: Blockbuster. Mega indoor shopping malls, the places that I've most...
[15:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:01] <exec> 08└─Why have a console standing around, with inferior hardware, when we all have top-end PCs that we can also use for other things?
[15:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:03] <exec> 08└─I have a data plan with plenty of data so all I need is connectivity.
[15:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:05] <exec> 08└─That's more or less my strategy too...mostly waiting for stuff I once loved to go on sale on GOG for under $5 then I buy. Don't discount indie games though, I've gotten a few good ones on Steam with reasonable prices and little to no DRM. Favorite is Factorio, which I can download for offline play f...
[15:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:07] <exec> 08└─I admire your depressing apathy, but you're wrong.
[15:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:09] <exec> 08└─I game on consoles. All my games are on physical media. I don't install games on my computer.
[15:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:12] <exec> 08└─Sears isn't on life support, it's gone. Our local GameStop is in a strip mall and almost always has two or three people in it any time I go in. They do good business around here because TN has a lot of really poor people whose connection to the Internet is nonexistent or a very limited data package...
[15:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:14] <exec> 08└─Similar, if someone made a game with no DRM, I'm likely to pay more for it.
[15:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Two Soyuz Launches and a Falcon Heavy Launch Coming Right Up - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:24] <exec> 08└─Arabsat-6A is a telecom satellite, not a spy satellite. It was built by Lockheed Martin.
[15:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make a Better Lens Glass - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:28] <exec> 08└─The new glass also should be less expensive to manufacture than current glasses used for this purpose.
[16:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:09] <exec> 08└─I have zero respect for google. been feeling that way for at least 10 years.
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[16:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smart Liquid Goes Dark in the Heat - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:16] <exec> 08└─The obvious mention was smart windows - It gets hot, darken the outside windows so they don't let the sunlight in.
[16:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Liquid Goes Dark in the Heat - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:17] <exec> 08└─while liquid crystals require encapsulation to avoid degradation in air. A thermochromic liquid that overcomes these limitations has been discovered
[16:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Smart Liquid Goes Dark in the Heat - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:20] <exec> 08└─The obvious mention was smart windows - It gets hot, darken the outside windows so they don't let the sunlight in. The team showed that the thermochromic liquid's color-changing behavior is long-lived and robust. A solution of the molecular precursors was stable even after two years in ambient condi...
[16:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smart Liquid Goes Dark in the Heat - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:22] <exec> 08└─Sure seems like it would be. Unless there is an efficient mechanism to retain heat such that the glass is consistently warmer than the environment.
[16:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:41] <exec> 08└─is that oral sex causes less impact trauma in the vicinity of the developing embryo, leading to less miscarriages? Doesn't seem like a big stretch (unlike pregnancy)
[16:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:43] <exec> 08└─Are you volunteering for the Bestiality? (or have you already done that research?)
[16:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:45] <exec> 08└─Don't question the results... Just go with it and use it as fact in order to encourage more women to give head.
[16:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:47] <exec> 08└─I first have to wonder if there is a substitution effect or not. Might the study really be counting total contact, all holes considered? (more use of one hole is correlated with more use of the other hole) Also, it should be clear that oral is ineffective for conception. That 56.9% vs. 72.9% is migh...
[16:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:50] <exec> 08└─Insert Luke Cage.
[16:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:52] <exec> 08└─The bigger question (not kidding)... Did they spit or swallow?
[16:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:54] <exec> 08└─gud_data.xls
[16:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:56] <exec> 08└─Insert Luke Cage.
[16:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah...no. Not so much. https://www.mayoclinic.org [mayoclinic.org] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.modernmom.com [modernmom.com]...
[16:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:01] <exec> 08└─In other news, titty jobs have been shown to reduce the incidence of cancer in women.
[16:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, there's lots of reasons to be dubious about the study, e.g. the sample size is quite small. But it could be a good pointer for future more robust studies. Getting a good study is going to be difficult, though, as we don't even have a good estimate as to the frequency of miscarriages. And o...
[16:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:06] <exec> 08└─Third link Having sex more often can reduce the risk of developing a serious medical condition called pre-eclampsia during pregnancy. Sperm contains a special protein that increases the chances for a successful pregnancy.
[16:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:08] <exec> 08└─Banging a pregnant chick is like putting gas in a car you already wrecked.
[16:56:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:28] <exec> 08└─Now if only Netflix could replicate the true theater experience of cell phones, crying babies and being searched like a criminal.
[16:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:45] <exec> 08└─And of course, this brings up the question: Why in the world does anyone even watch or pay any attention to the oscars? Stop watching, stop paying attention, and it will whither and die like it should.
[16:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:46] <exec> 08└─Out of all of the movie theaters I've been to, I can't recall any of them searching purses and bags for snacks purchased outside of the theater or whatever. Maybe it happened one time many years ago and I've forgotten about it. People working minimum wage at movie theaters don't tend to give a shit...
[16:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:48] <exec> 08└─It was already withering, but apparently ratings went up in 2019 [wikipedia.org].
[16:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:51] <exec> 08└─People working minimum wage at movie theaters don't tend to give a shit about what you do.
[16:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:53] <exec> 08└─It is a competition ... to see which studio can spend the most on a For Your Consideration campaign.
[16:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:55] <exec> 08└─100% certain that the movie "Unplanned", no matter how well done, could never get an award in that political climate. Everything about the movie is being suppressed online. Twitter took down their account, then reinstated it with missing followers after the outrage got too big. Lots of people report...
[16:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:58] <exec> 08└─I'm sure his celebrity status drew attention. Things that would be just ignored for normal people aren't when celebrities do them. It's also the reason the dumbest possible thing you can do if you're a famous person being arrested for something is say "Don't you know who I am? I'm a senator/celebrit...
[16:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:00] <exec> 08└─a standard Rikers strip search?
[16:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:02] <exec> 08└─> How on earth can the government decide over the rules in a competition? That is over simplifying. This is not just an award for art. It is in fact something that makes films more marketable, and to a significant degree. And the industry deliberately makes it that way. Thus excluding a competitor,...
[16:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:05] <exec> 08└─An award ceremony can't violate antitrust it's pure speech. I suppose it could, but then it would make the antitrust rules unconstitutional...
[16:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:46] <exec> 08└─Most of the games requiring an internet connection will store 99% of the game's files on your physical media (hard drive) anyway. If connectivity is for DRM and not multiplayer, then it is anti-consumer trash. But many of those games get cracked within days. Now we have 14 TB consumer hard drives at...
[16:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:47] <exec> 08└─Well, they could perhaps try to make a strong effort to actually make it a nice experience to go there for customers for starters. Second, they could perhaps try to stop gutting games (pre-opening them to put the box out on the shelf) then selling that as "new" - this is especially the case for limi...
[16:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:49] <exec> 08└─Games are like cars - the longer they exist, the cheaper they get. Games are unlike cars - they usually work at least as well 20 years later as they did when they were new (emulators may be involved). As for indie games: Sure, some of them are good. If they're good, they'll still be around 5-10 year...
[16:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:51] <exec> 08└─You might be surprised at how cheap some of those games are on PC, by comparison. While PS3 / PS4 are convenient, especially for Co-Op games, there's not a real good case to be made for their affordability vs a PC. Between Steam sales, GOG sales, and Humble Bundle, I get much, much, better deals tha...
[16:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:54] <exec> 08└─Even most of the PC games in store that provide physical discs are Steam editions of the game and require you to register with Steam. The era of physical distribution is all but gone for PC games. Which is why I love GOG so much. Their policy on distribution, the ease with which to backup the instal...
[16:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:56] <exec> 08└─Nah. If I can't get a wired connection, I'd rather just go fishing. Wireless is always going to be worse and more expensive. Physics says the higher the frequency, the worse matter penetration you get and that's eventually going to run into the fact that clouds and even air are matter. The FCC says...
[16:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:22] <exec> 08└─In my current job, I have many hats so to speak. One activity lead me to a configuration file for a web service. Someone had created a user and password for the service, but they also left the default user and password in the configuration file. I fixed that. At least it was better than not needing...
[16:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe she is in captivity and didn't want her offspring to go through that.
[16:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make a Better Lens Glass - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:12] <exec> 08└─You obviously aren't up to date with the advanced research on the malleability and physical changes of researchers under intense pressure. Latest findings show great results with controlled micro-injections of cash and hope when approaching liquid state, but there are uncontrolled deviations in tenu...
[16:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey's President Erdogan Faces Setbacks in Municipal Elections - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:22] <exec> 08└─Don't elections make the process of governing less efficient? I think GWB expressed a similar sentiment once.
[17:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:09] <exec> 08└─I'd settle for it marking known rapists, murderers, and politicians. Especially, the latter of the three, need more scrutiny to keep them honest.
[17:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:11] <exec> 08└─You can't deputize yourself, but you can apply to be deputized. How much it hurts, depends on where you're applying.
[17:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:59] <exec> 08└─> Yea, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be bad without some control. It might be okay in a startup. But Google isn't a startup anymore. If you let millennials run wild creating new things that largely overlap with existing things, you're doing it wrong. The end result is the discontinu...
[17:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:00] <exec> 08└─> In my experience beancounters know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. The opposite is a Lisp programmer, who knows the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
[17:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:02] <exec> 08└─I have learned from bitter experience that if the company is run by someone with a finance or accounting background I don't want to work there. Google won't be any difference if the beancounters are running the show.
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:05] <exec> 08└─Wow, stereotype much?
[17:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:07] <exec> 08└─How exactly were google finance and google+ racist?
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[17:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:19] <exec> 08└─The findings, published this week in Nature Communications, suggest that, although heavy drinking is a prerequisite for AUD, variants in several genes -- DRD2 and SIX3, for example -- may need to be present for people to develop AUD.
[17:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:20] <exec> 08└─alcohol use disorder
[17:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:22] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Scores from the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) screenings and AUD diagnoses were obtained from the same population (a total of 274,424 people) to conduct the GWAS for the two traits
[17:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:25] <exec> 08└─I totally got sidetracked on that question too. My emotional response to that sort of annoyance is interesting -- first I re-read the first two paragraphs a couple times and felt annoyed, then I looked at the link to TFA and hesitated then decided "screw that", and became more annoyed. I decided to...
[17:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:27] <exec> 08└─> What, pray tell, is AUD? Google helps: Australia Dollar, which today is 0.71 US dollar.
[17:55:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LaminatorX [14] 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:49] <exec> 08└─Were the women with three miscarriages having the same amount of sexual relations overall as those in the control group, just less of it oral, or were they also having fewer sexual relations overall? Because if they just discovered that couples don't have as much sex when with the anxiety of multipl...
[17:55:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:53] <exec> 08└─Alternate possible third factor for this correlation: The pregnant woman's partner. A woman who receives oral sex probably has a partner that cares about her well-being more than the woman who doesn't, so that partner will probably be doing a better job of caring for her during pregnancy. Plus, said...
[17:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:10] <exec> 08└─And since they're talking about women giving oral, a woman who is willing to give is probably less stressed, and with a happier partner, than one who isn't.
[17:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:11] <exec> 08└─Or get it.
[17:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:14] <exec> 08└─Oh, the sacrifices made in the name of science...
[17:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:16] <exec> 08└─Being a dumbass is wasting perfectly good ass.
[17:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:18] <exec> 08└─I majored in animal husbandry. Until they caught me at it. --Tom Lehrer
[17:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:20] <exec> 08└─Two of your glossary items are involved in cunnilingus, but the absence of the third leads me to infer that they are talking about giving oral sex. -Mr. Obvious
[17:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:23] <exec> 08└─You're right that I, like many others, had the nature of who was giving and who was receiving backwards. In any event, I'm guessing that oral or lack thereof is some kind of indicator of the health of the relationship.
[17:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:25] <exec> 08└─Two of your glossary items are involved in cunnilingus, but the absence of the third leads me to infer that they are talking about giving oral sex. -Mr. Obvious
[17:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:12] <exec> 08└─I believe the key to the existing Oscar rules is "theatrical release". If it's just a TV movie, then every movie of the week needs to be reviewed for oscars (and the Emmy's are shit out of luck).
[17:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:13] <exec> 08└─That was part of the "Extras" features of the "Director's Cut".
[17:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:15] <exec> 08└─Your family search you like a criminal? Are we talking body cavity here or just a standard Rikers strip search?
[17:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:18] <exec> 08└─I should start saying that then. Confuse them while I make a break for it.
[17:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:20] <exec> 08└─The Oscars have been used since TV became popular to remind people they should go to the theater, from which the film industry derives much of its income. "Hey look at the great streaming stuff" does not fit that bill. I'm not sure the DOJ has much grounds there. More importantly, as more and more A...
[17:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:22] <exec> 08└─Uhm, what's preventing these other movies from having a theatrical release? Aren't they the ones trying to harm competition?
[17:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:24] <exec> 08└─And of course, this brings up the question: Why in the world does anyone even watch or pay any attention to the oscars? Stop watching, stop paying attention, and it will whither and die like it should.
[17:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:11] <exec> 08└─So do you just choose to do without low-budget games whose developers lack the capital for a port from PC to console or for a physical console release?
[17:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:13] <exec> 08└─I am fascinated!!! I calculate that to download a 100K disk for my Model III TRS-80 that it would take approximately 45 minutes 30 seconds over my wonderful 300 baud modem. Unforunately I've heard that most games come on these things called CDs now. Downloading a full CD at 300 baud would take appro...
[17:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Soyuz Launches and a Falcon Heavy Launch Coming Right Up - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─Even if it was a spy satellite, what's the point of 24/365 visual on women who are always wearing burquas (and with a male relative/guardian) ? "That black dot next to the other black dot gotta be my cheating wife!"
[17:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Fairfax Police to Stop Collecting Data from License Plate Readers - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:51] <exec> 08└─> Such private databases remain unregulated. Yup, that's your problem right here. After some people found databases were making their train-loading jobs very efficient, Europe learnt a while back to keep an eye (security, contents) on all databases containing personal information. When we hear of br...
[17:59:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 425 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:07] <exec> 08└─Missing detail from TFS The little jaguar, a female, was born “healthy and vigorous” and Bianca demonstrated “excellent maternal care” for her newborn on the first day, vets said. “Unfortunately after two days, the cub died. We don’t know why and cannot say if it was killed by the mother...
[17:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:21] <exec> 08└─Actually makes sense, captivity never helped birth. Jaguar: live free or else.
[17:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:23] <exec> 08└─Or Stop Jeff Bezos.
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[18:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:21] <exec> 08└─the truth is, I just don't GAF about AUD anymore.
[18:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:23] <exec> 08└─That's almost at the end of the last paragraph. You must have amazing reading stamina.
[18:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:25] <exec> 08└─Literacy? Literacy is putting the definition of the acronym first -- pedantic but incorrect morons put it anywhere. Behold: RIGHT: Wrongly Pedantic Moron ("WPM") random words blah stuff otherstuff WPM and words and spring showers fall gently on the moon, but WPM is red car had blah blah blah blah......
[18:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:27] <exec> 08└─Do these genes have any relation to other substance abuse or addiction? Recreational or excessive drug use either illegal or prescription? I have wondered how much heredity plays a role. I know that in my wife's family there is joking about a tendency to engage in alcohol excessively, and some alcoh...
[18:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:29] <exec> 08└─But the "AUD" from "AUDIT-C" may not be the same AUD when it stands alone. The Latin root is audio, Cognates include Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to perceive”) (also originally "to render manifest") and ἀΐω (aḯō, “to perceive, hear”), Hittite 𒌋𒀪𒄭 (u-u...
[18:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:32] <exec> 08└─disordered alcohol use Depending on your programming language.
[18:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:34] <exec> 08└─I'm here to point out the irony of your complaining about the summary / article not providing proper introduction of their abbreviations and you doing it twice in your post.
[18:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:36] <exec> 08└─If you were drinking at the time, you would likely have AUADHD.
[18:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you, so interesting. And possibly that's where the word Audism comes from. Who knows!!!
[18:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:41] <exec> 08└─All humans have the right to be DNA tested for these genes and get personalized healthcare.
[18:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:43] <exec> 08└─Freddy -- my older brother, magnificent guy -- loved drinking. And it killed him at an early age. He said to me, "Donald, never drink." I've never drank alcohol. Never smoked tobacco. And never touched coffee. Because I don't want to end up like him. If you could imagine a 7th. Day Adventist that lo...
[18:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:34] <exec> 08└─Suggested pink-ribbon campaign slogan.
[18:57:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:03] <exec> 08└─I believe the Academy is a trade organization, which among other things gives them certain tax benefits, and prohibits them from colluding in anti-competitive practices.
[18:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure the DOJ has much grounds there. The money from Netflix, or whoever is financing this kabuki, is all the ground they need. It's not like the voters really care, so why not? Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Trump is chasing the maids around the rose garden in his boxers...
[18:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:29] <exec> 08└─Wait, they already happened this year?!
[18:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:47] <exec> 08└─When theZuck is facing jailtime or his personal fortune is at risk of confiscation for these security breeches. But as long as theZuck has no jail time prospect and no at risk personal fortune, nothing will change.
[18:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:49] <exec> 08└─Which company faces the fine? Neither DB 'belonged" to facebook directly, and it seems both of the companies involved no longer exist. It would be interesting if amazon were somehow found liable as well - though the implications of that would just about kill the internet.
[18:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Fairfax Police to Stop Collecting Data from License Plate Readers - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks ACLU! FTA The challenge to the practice was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia on behalf of Harrison Neal, a Fairfax man whose license plate and location had been recorded at least twice by the police. The ACLU said Monday that it “welcomes this ruling in favor of our...
[18:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Jaguar Born by Artificial Insemination is Eaten by Mom - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:32] <exec> 08└─It's still a cat, the only type of create capable of supporting the full life cycle of toxoplasmosis. Lots of people have it and don't know. They behave in more risky ways, crashing cars more often and spreading STDs more often. Other animals, also endangered, are having troubles. Sea otters quickly...
[19:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:42] <exec> 08└─I guess they didn't have the coding skills to use a yellow star. I love how they're literally labeling Jews yet object to being called fascists.
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[19:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:17] <exec> 08└─You will no longer be permitted to purchase a Chevrolet after 2019. All existing Chevrolets will be phased out of existence over the next three years. One by one, we plan to dissolve them using high-tech lasers from orbit. Please don't occupy your Chevrolet during the phase out.
[19:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:19] <exec> 08└─If they hadn't used DRM they wouldn't have to refund anything. I bet there wasn't a single executive bean counter that saw this as an eventual operating cost. Of course Microsoft can totally absorb this one.
[19:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:21] <exec> 08└─Of course Microsoft can totally absorb this one.
[19:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:23] <exec> 08└─I did not even know I could buy a book from Microsoft. Well, not buy exactly.
[19:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:25] <exec> 08└─Otherwise known as the "Chevrolapture".
[19:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:28] <exec> 08└─"We are shutting down our books category, but to improve literacy around the world, you can both finish reading your purchased books *and* get all your money back*"! * Money refunded as Microsoft Fun Bucks, usable at Windows Phone stores everywhere
[19:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:30] <exec> 08└─"But we will refund your purchase price in its entirety." Sign me up.
[19:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:32] <exec> 08└─Easy now - one of those six Microsoft book readers is a millenial incel with an AR-15. You don't want to trigger him - errr - her - it?
[19:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:34] <exec> 08└─And few if any publishers would have let them sell their books so they wouldn't have had this whole "book store" problem to begin with.
[19:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:37] <exec> 08└─On the one hand its a dick move by MS to take take away peoples books. On the other it is good that they are giving refunds, and actually refunding real money when they can is amazing. I usually loath MS in all things but without RTFA it actually sounds like they are trying to do right by their cust...
[19:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:39] <exec> 08└─.... Unlike Sony, who were smart enough to form an alliance with another ebook seller and transfer most purchases over to their platform and thereby avoid having to do cash refunds. But Microsoft wouldn't want to give neither Barnes & Noble nor Amazon the trade. (Or, who knows, maybe they asked and...
[19:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:41] <exec> 08└─If someone can take away your ability to read something you paid for, then it is not a book. A BOOK is made of paper with printed words that will not magically disappear because some dickhole decides to pull the plug. When you buy DRMed documents, you are not buying "books". You are buying giant spl...
[19:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:03] <exec> 08└─Diet Coke is horrible, but what's even more horrible is Pepsi Max.
[19:56:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:41] <exec> 08└─Insert Luke Cage.
[19:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:56] <exec> 08└─I heard a paper quoted a long time ago that it also increased conception rates, possibly due to the, er, boys and their kiddie pool contents being considered less of a foreign substance over time. Miscarriages, though? That seems a little distant from the source, but hey, if you impute things using...
[19:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Really is Something Unique About Tennessee Whiskey, Study Finds - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:08] <exec> 08└─You are so cynical! It's not always the same stuff [thedailybeast.com] in every bottle; some places filter it before bottling.
[19:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:54] <exec> 08└─Well, there's voting involved, so government is reflexively inclined to participate behind the scenes. Also, political parties are very good at excluding participation by non-party members, such as at presidential candidate debates. This is very much within the government's wheelhouse.
[19:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:43] <exec> 08└─with 17 year old store employees who don't even speak English and don't know which end of the hammer to hold.
[19:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, like making a game require an update even though you did NOT connect the console to the internet. How exactly does that work? The game demands an internet connection so it can do shit before ALLOWING you to play? Fuck it, I'm done with the AAA titles that are so very rarely worth the time anyw...
[19:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:47] <exec> 08└─I mentioned the updates in another comment, I will no longer support systems that require auto-update bullshit. Have a nice button "check for updates" and list out the changes, allow people to revert back. Being dicked around by developers who think they know best is becoming a very tired experience...
[19:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:49] <exec> 08└─+999 internet points! I didn't remember the removal of PS2 game support from the PS3, what a shitty greedy fucked up thing to do, but hey it is Sony! DRM is invasive and can be malicious data harvesting bullshit as well. Steam seems pretty good but I'm over that as well. No I don't want to need an i...
[20:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make a Better Lens Glass - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:14] <exec> 08└─The researchers have filed for a patent.
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[20:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:17] <exec> 08└─The Wall is Coming. And possibly, Tariffs is Coming. I DO NOT PLAY GAMES!!!!
[20:55:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:35] <exec> 08└─If someone can take away your ability to read something you paid for, then it is not a book. A BOOK is made of paper with printed words that will not magically disappear because some dickhole decides to pull the plug. When you buy DRMed documents, you are not buying "books". You are buying giant spl...
[20:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:36] <exec> 08└─Your manuka k-factor is high, but I know the truth.
[20:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:38] <exec> 08└─Mmmm! Got some mustard?
[20:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:41] <exec> 08└─Apparently, it turns out to have been "escrow some money while you have access to the books, and get all the money back after you're done" rather than "buy". Which, in retrospect, is a pretty amazing deal.
[20:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:43] <exec> 08└─That you can only use to purchase more products that we carry.
[20:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:45] <exec> 08└─I didn't know they even had a book store. What was it called, "Reads for sure"?
[20:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:47] <exec> 08└─Carry for now.
[20:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:50] <exec> 08└─We call it EBOOK. You've heard of EMAIL, right? You know, the mail that Crooked H erased? Well, EBOOK is like that. It comes with a big beautiful Erase Button. I'm not the biggest fan of modern digital. And I'm no fan of Jeff Bozo. But, I'm a big fan of the checks he sends me every month for EBOOK....
[20:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:13] <exec> 08└─WRONG: WPM spring showers fall gently on the WPM spring fall gently on the random words blah stuff blah blah took over the snail shell from the onerous crab random words blah stuff WPM in the sand of the courtyard.
[20:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:15] <exec> 08└─Mr. Aristarchus, I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[20:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:17] <exec> 08└─But that's the point -- I don't care anymore. I'm not going to read substantive comments. I'm not going to read TFA. I realize this is irrational and I don't care. It does however, serve as a reminder to me for things I care about, to focus on clarity.
[20:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:19] <exec> 08└─The issue is that the deficit in TFS was so glaring, some people decided to just skip TFA. For you, it had the opposite effect though. ;-) The question is then, will a bad summary cause more people to avoid the topic out of annoyance, or more people to investigate the topic out of annoyance. I'm sur...
[20:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:21] <exec> 08└─The question is then, will a bad summary cause more people to avoid the topic out of annoyance, or more people to investigate the topic out of annoyance.
[20:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:14] <exec> 08└─Girls who like penis a lot are more likely to give birth than girls who don't like penis so much.
[20:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:15] <exec> 08└─Tell her that - then tell her that I'm willing to fuel that car up!
[20:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:17] <exec> 08└─You should read more - it can be educational. There is a prefix used with a couple words in the article - immuno. We don't yet seem to understand the immune system really well. But, they've been tossing around evidence, and suggestions, that oral sex can help a woman to conceive, especially if she's...
[20:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:15] <exec> 08└─The dumbest possible thing? You get free press coverage! Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if some celebrities do such things intentionally for the press coverage.
[20:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:16] <exec> 08└─From the same logic, you could also say that a contract is just speech (actually writing, but that's just as protected as speech).
[20:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:11] <exec> 08└─Really!? On my Windows box, the download will take 45 days, no... 26 hours, no...2 days, no...65 hours, no...5 days, no...
[20:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:12] <exec> 08└─We did the CSA for a year, but then dropped it: we were getting a lot of stuff like kale and very little of stuff like zucchini and no asparagus. We love zucchini and asparagus and dislike kale, so we ended up buying extra on top. At least picking up our CSA tub at the store would have been handy, l...
[20:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:14] <exec> 08└─Downloadable games as mentioned above, but multiplayer passes that you’d have to pay extra for when buying a new game sucked. Thanks EA. Plus the whole lowballing for used stuff. I could sell on eBay or CL and beat GameStop on both fronts: I made more and the buyer paid less. Took a little longer,...
[20:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find 540 Million Facebook User Records on Exposed Servers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:45] <exec> 08└─What should Facebook have been doing about this breach at a third party to prevent this? Some kind of policy of requiring companies store the data in specific ways? I'm not accusing. I am ignorant and do not know, and want to hear about that, instead of just "Facebook should do something."
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[21:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:17] <exec> 08└─The great GoT hype marketing push is in full swing. Not sure why they bother. AT&T already bought them, and plans on changing the HBO business model, making the audience results moot. The people who care about season 8 already know and will watch, and very few will bother to catch up on 8 seasons be...
[21:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:18] <exec> 08└─We don't need gender confusion It's all written in chromosomes Pronouns freedom in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone They will have to face those beaners climbing the wall They will have to face those beaners climbing the wall
[21:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:21] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, the hype train is important to keep people who are already interested in the series to be interested in the series. As an example, "everybody knew" that Star Wars Episode 8 was coming out, and most of the people who ended up watching it had previ...
[21:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:23] <exec> 08└─Looks like you've been hanging around Twitter too long and using Microsoft's shitty "updates" to train yourself. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[21:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:25] <exec> 08└─Soylentils are, by and large, too smart for your cookie-based mind control tricks.
[21:55:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:35] <exec> 08└─Of course Microsoft can totally absorb this one.
[21:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:52] <exec> 08└─I'm the world's most famous author. A huge fan of Microsoft. And I didn't know about it. I wish I'd known. I think if Microsoft carried my EBOOKS their cyber store would really have taken off. Microsoft is well known as the makers of the very best, most modern cyber. But so many times the Marketing...
[21:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:53] <exec> 08└─Can I use those Fun Bucks to buy a new battery for my Kin or some songs for my Zune?
[21:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:55] <exec> 08└─If you can't obtain permanent copies of whatever it is it peddles.
[21:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:57] <exec> 08└─We really need a virtual currency to pay for virtual goods. So, payment can be cancelled at any time, for any reason, just like some businesses will.
[21:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:26] <exec> 08└─What factors made you decide to engage?
[21:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:28] <exec> 08└─good sig
[21:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:30] <exec> 08└─Did this genetic variation exist before the alcoholism, or was it brought about by the alcoholism?
[21:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:32] <exec> 08└─What about Muslims?
[21:56:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:56] <exec> 08└─Neither my girlfriend nor myself have ever had a miscarriage and we do this lots :) Science!
[21:57:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:01] <exec> 08└─Future studies in women with recurrent miscarriage explained by immune abnormalities should reveal whether oral exposure to seminal plasma indeed modifies the maternal immune system, resulting in more live births.
[21:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, money. That's often the real reason for a whole lot of things. Heck, it's even written into a lot of laws that once the amount involved in a crime passes some magical number ($10k is popular), the crime is upgraded from misdemeanor to felony. Anyway, like a good referee, the government should b...
[21:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:30] <exec> 08└─So, they can't have a monopoly of their own awards?
[21:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:32] <exec> 08└─Uhm, what's preventing these other movies from having a theatrical release?
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[22:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06A Single-Dose Antidote May Help Prevent Fentanyl Overdoses - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:05] <exec> 08└─If this works you are left with a live junkie, who will just steal more of your stuff to buy the next hit. A nice tasteful funeral is a better outcome for the community.
[22:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Single-Dose Antidote May Help Prevent Fentanyl Overdoses - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:07] <exec> 08└─ramping up opioid doses to test whether the antidote can prevent a mouse from overdosing
[22:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Single-Dose Antidote May Help Prevent Fentanyl Overdoses - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:09] <exec> 08└─. . . naloxone molecules are tangled up with a biodegradable polymer called polylactic acid.
[22:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Single-Dose Antidote May Help Prevent Fentanyl Overdoses - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:11] <exec> 08└─> the new nanoparticle delivery system counteracted the pain-relieving effects of morphine for up to 96 hours Gitmo operators and official dictators worldwide would like to know more...
[22:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Single-Dose Antidote May Help Prevent Fentanyl Overdoses - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:14] <exec> 08└─But not better for the massively wealthy drug companies. The good thing about this discovery is that they can sell two drugs to junkies, instead of one. If they play their cards right, they can even create a whole bunch of new junkies. Profit!
[22:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:26] <exec> 08└─Obligatory https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[22:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:28] <exec> 08└─How people treat their food is a great heuristic for how good of a partner (business or otherwise) they will be. I would never let someone who mistreated food in this way near anything sacred to me.
[22:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06See Game of Thrones Intro Reenacted with 2,750 Oreo Cookies - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:30] <exec> 08└─Yea, I'm most likely cancelling HBO after this. They want to move towards being 15 minutes low attention span product. Well, there should be another decent westworld season at least right?
[22:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:00] <exec> 08└─If only inflation weren't a thing ...
[22:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:01] <exec> 08└─In some jurisdictions, they will likely have to reimburse people with inflation (not sure whether they actually served any of those jurisdictions). Otherwise, you lose inflation*price in exchange for a few years of access to the books, which is still a pretty amazing rental fee.
[22:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:04] <exec> 08└─And yet 22 years ago someone had seen that coming, Richard Stallman : The right to read [gnu.org]
[22:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:37] <exec> 08└─I hadn't even thought about Tobacco and Diet Coke. I don't do Tobacco. I only have two cans of Diet Coke in the morning -- about 1 cup of coffee worth of caffeine. My best friend was shocked that I don't take more caffeine than that. (and I'm not Mormon. or SDA for that matter) I don't avoid alcohol...
[22:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:38] <exec> 08└─All humans have the right to a government mandated DNA test. And to hope that they get a passing grade. According to government mandated minimum standards.
[22:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:40] <exec> 08└─https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/Archimedes/sand.htm [weber.edu]
[22:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Liquid Goes Dark in the Heat - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:51] <exec> 08└─You can use this to make a device to measure global warming. The warmer it is, the darker it gets. And if it gets lighter that's just a short-term blip in the data.
[22:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Sex is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Recurrent Miscarriage - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:38] <exec> 08└─The way God intended.
[22:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:37] <exec> 08└─I stopped going when they stopped carrying PC games. They went all in on used console games. I very rarely went in there after that. They basically let Steam take their business away.
[22:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop Posts Massive Loss as Pre-Owned Game Sales Plummet - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:39] <exec> 08└─https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games [fandom.com] I agree. Steam and GoG is where it is at. But that is mostly because Gamestop basically just stopped carrying anything worth a damn in the PC sector. They used to have walls and shelves of the stuff. Now a small terrible selection tha...
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[23:55:25] <exec> 08└─Sort of along the lines of seeing someone like you and thinking that some re-education camps might be the best option? Paging FEMA, we have a horrible human emergency on our hands! Please bring the barbed wire!! Still better than the guillotine amirite??? See I can say stupid shit too! Only differen...
[23:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks, but my payment is still valid so "All refunds will be offered with the same payment method that you used to purchase books from the store"
[23:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:15] <exec> 08└─I used to feel that way. I grew up with books being so much a part of my life, that not having that physical object in my hands seemed sacrilegious. But when I started traveling much more for work, the advantages of an ebook in that situation became too much to ignore. So I got a reader and used it...
[23:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03patricepetticoat [7344] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Reveals Genes Associated With Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:52] <exec> 08└─I am trying to find the value in this comment. Its either really stupid or really smart.