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[00:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:44] <exec> 08└─Didn't Chelsea Clinton get a plum deal as a "journalist"?
[00:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android TV Users are Seeing Ads after Latest Update - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:08] <exec> 08└─I heartily recommend reading the ToS of every service you use. This is basically the equivalent of reading the fine print on credit cards/loans and it being tedious is no excuse; it can only come back to bite you in the ass.
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[00:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:18] <exec> 08└─Even more interesting, what about real estate capital loss.
[00:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:20] <exec> 08└─I'm 60, been watching congress for a good 40 years. Whenever they say "sock it to the rich" they seem to squarely hit the middle class right in the balls, and the rich have tax lawyers to dodge the effects. I don't remember what an "unrealized capital gain" is (I sold all my stocks 4-5 years ago cuz...
[00:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:22] <exec> 08└─Tax high-frequency trades. Not much, just 0.1% per trade. Those guys are playing with the US economy like it's their personal, private casino.
[00:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:24] <exec> 08└─wow, amazing how some ink on a piece of paper can turn gold into rustable iron...
[00:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, about that.
[00:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:29] <exec> 08└─If your house doubles in value, you need to pay the government. If you don't have the money to pay... you need to sell your house. Idiots are in favor of this.
[00:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03old kiwi [7188] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:31] <exec> 08└─Even 0.001% would probably generate a fair bit of revenue (although it may not be enough to discourage it which is probably even more important)
[00:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:41] <exec> 08└─Their late! Not the Daddy! I guess we'll see that baby delivered in 6 more months. I would like to see their 1945 steam punk rockets though.
[00:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:44] <exec> 08└─...So Beresheet's in the woods after all.
[00:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:46] <exec> 08└─For the merchandising! [youtube.com]
[00:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:58] <exec> 08└─I happened to be in St. Louis this past week and purposely stopped at a Burger King to try the Impossible Whopper. This was at 11:00 in the morning, and they were already sold out. I was told they'd have some more the next day. While in the dining room eating the regular Whopper, I overheard 3 d...
[00:56:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:15] <exec> 08└─as long as it is steady I think it's better than the current regime.
[00:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:54] <exec> 08└─I like the idea of metric time, but changing the length of the second would be a major pain. How about we slow the rotation of the planet until your idea of metric time fits with a standard second?
[00:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:56] <exec> 08└─Before time zones, 12 Noon as when the sun reached it peak, Some towns has a small connon fire at noon, by using a magitfier and placing it correctly over the fuse / black power. This method worked well until, the railroad came town. Yup, the railroad. Using single tracks between towns means both en...
[00:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:58] <exec> 08└─you may be the happiest if you move above the Arctic Circle and vacation in the Winter months to below the Antarctic Cricle.. very long day light hours.
[00:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:00] <exec> 08└─And yes, starting any schooling before 09:00 is a waste of everybodies time, but school operations are managed like businesses.
[00:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:03] <exec> 08└─I don't care which time they choose, just quit changing the fucking clocks twice a year. That is stupid.
[00:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Number of Confirmed Exoplanets Hits 4,000, and More - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:17] <exec> 08└─Earth is flat, the twin is on the flipside.
[00:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces a 56-Core Xeon CPU, 3D XPoint DIMMs, and Agilex FPGAs - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:48] <exec> 08└─In my job, Intel dominates. I don't get a choice of brands, just which model of Intel. The upside is that I frequently get the new shiny toys. I can't speak to the exact details (NDA). I can say that I had the opportunity to get my hands on these chips. After reviewing the ridiculous requirements an...
[01:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board' - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:09] <exec> 08└─From reading his posts, his thing seems to be "I'm the only one who really cares about freedom above all else, so all of you are wrong from the start." Where "freedom" specifically means freedom to do whatever, whenever, and don't bring any of that Marxist class-analysis crap about sick, poor, hungr...
[01:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:10] <exec> 08└─Do you just not hear it when Pompeo starts spouting Rapture-readiness or something? He's trying to begin the battle of Armageddon.
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[01:55:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:21] <exec> 08└─Tax high-frequency trades. Not much, just 0.1% per trade. Those guys are playing with the US economy like it's their personal, private casino.
[01:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:27] <exec> 08└─And if your house falls in value, the Democrats will keep your money. So it's "heads they win, tails you lose". Fucking brain-dead Democrats.
[01:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:29] <exec> 08└─and watch all US companies move towards paying out its profits as low taxed dividends. Anyway, it looks like the Trump campaign is in full swing with the Democrat Party.
[01:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:31] <exec> 08└─More about $500,000 capital gains allowance for a married couple flipping their home.
[01:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:33] <exec> 08└─Fair taxation. And, in general, I usually think Ron Wyden's proposals are pretty good. However, this really doesn't make a lot of economic sense. I'd be all for taxing short-term capital gains at the same rate as regular income, long-term capital gains at a slightly lower rate, and taxing "carried i...
[01:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:36] <exec> 08└─No, just ditch HFT and futures trading. Absolutely not the "real economy" and should be isolated as gambling.
[01:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:38] <exec> 08└─First, I want to be clear that I believe -- to be fair to all -- our tax system definitely needs to tax the wealthy more and allow them fewer loopholes. Charging the same tax rate for capital gains as for regular income makes perfect sense. But, what the hell is this: would tax the appreciation of a...
[01:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:40] <exec> 08└─Absolutely -- this is a point I meant to make in my post below, but I got sidetracked with the absurdity of it all. Yes, we need market stability. Long-term investment is better for that.
[01:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC's "5nm" (CLN5FF) Process On-Track for High-Volume Manufacturing in 2020 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:16] <exec> 08└─nm chip die sizes are marketing bullshit these days. Intel and TSMC measure different things.
[01:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:08] <exec> 08└─From TFS: it could end the semi-annual resetting of clocks which causes so much annoyance and increase of injury and deaths.
[01:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:10] <exec> 08└─you may be the happiest if you move above the Arctic Circle and vacation in the Winter months to below the Antarctic Cricle.. very long day light hours.
[01:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:12] <exec> 08└─Most of us could work when it's dark, and get enjoy the whole day's worth of sun (except for those needing lots of sleep).
[01:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces a 56-Core Xeon CPU, 3D XPoint DIMMs, and Agilex FPGAs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:58] <exec> 08└─They've fixed the issues that only Intel was vulnerable to
[01:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why NASA's Audacious Return to the Moon Just Might Work - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:18] <exec> 08└─The Catholics were believing in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour a thousand and a half years before them Johnny come lately evangelicals.
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[02:55:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:25] <exec> 08└─If your house doubles in value, you need to pay the government. If you don't have the money to pay... you need to sell your house. Idiots are in favor of this.
[02:55:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 1368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:30] <exec> 08└─Fair taxation. And, in general, I usually think Ron Wyden's proposals are pretty good. However, this really doesn't make a lot of economic sense. I'd be all for taxing short-term capital gains at the same rate as regular income, long-term capital gains at a slightly lower rate, and taxing "carried i...
[02:55:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:33] <exec> 08└─First, I want to be clear that I believe -- to be fair to all -- our tax system definitely needs to tax the wealthy more and allow them fewer loopholes. Charging the same tax rate for capital gains as for regular income makes perfect sense. But, what the hell is this: would tax the appreciation of a...
[02:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:36] <exec> 08└─Yes sirree, this here plan is going to be MONUMENTAL. Let's see: rich people will either look for long term returns overseas (good for the world economy, just not the US) or flip all assets like crazy, or strategically use depreciation to kill their tax burden. Win-win-win! Poor people don't have as...
[02:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:39] <exec> 08└─That said, the point of a capital gains tax is to encourage investment. With the idea being that you invest and both you and the economy profit from said investment.
[02:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:41] <exec> 08└─If you invest money in assets, you only pay the CGT when you sell an asset at a profit. The rules for selling an asset for a profit is that you liquidate the asset (sell it for cash or cash equivalents). An "unrealized capital gain" is when the asset has increased on paper, but has not been liquidat...
[02:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:43] <exec> 08└─Assuming this is implemented "sanely", whatever that means, you would no longer need to pay the government when you sell your house. I'd much rather pay taxes on my house doubling in value over the span of a decade than all at once when I sell it, due to progressive tax brackets. Also presumably thi...
[02:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:46] <exec> 08└─Assholes, all wanting to build businesses and retire and shit. Who the fuck do they think they are anyway?
[02:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:48] <exec> 08└─Houses, like all other property subject to a property tax, is already exempt from any CGT, realized or not, as long as your position doesn't remain liquid for a couple months. That is one of the reasons why the rich love boats. They can keep selling and buying boats and none of that is subject to th...
[02:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:50] <exec> 08└─Personal private casino? Absolutely! It's helpful though to look back on history and see what drives all this. We're no different than we were 2000 years ago. We just have the capacity to kill earth. All the while taking the short term gains at the casino...
[02:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:52] <exec> 08└─That's the theory behind short-term versus long-term CGT. I'm all for them significantly raising the tax on short-term investments.
[02:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:55] <exec> 08└─Government can't tax idle assets (except real property, because penguins?) because doing so constituites a "taking" and requires "just compensation". You can't take property or tax an asset that isn't participating in commerce, under the takings clause, unless you pay for the asset (and so implicitl...
[02:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:08] <exec> 08└─1945 steam punk rockets
[02:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:22] <exec> 08└─Well, it sounds like it's getting interest :-)
[02:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:28] <exec> 08└─Our county runs double shifts with the buses - High School starts at 7, if you're on a long route you get picked up before 6 - then those same buses go back out and pick up Middle School kids so they can start at 9-9:30. It's the same kind of cost cutting thinking that starts lunch at 10:30 for some...
[02:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:30] <exec> 08└─As the length of daylight time changes throughout the year, the sunrise and sunset times stay pretty much symmetrical around noon. The sun appears lower in the sky in winter, but its peak is still "noon", 1/2 way between sunrise and sunset.
[02:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:32] <exec> 08└─You realize that your "noon" and "midnight" definitions could only happen twice a year, right?
[02:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Four-Legged Whales Once Roamed Land and Sea - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:51] <exec> 08└─Two-legged whales [alamy.com] still roam the land, you see them all over the place.
[02:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Four-Legged Whales Once Roamed Land and Sea - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:53] <exec> 08└─If you're going to go there*, at least make it convincing [tumblr.com]. *And be glad I linked what I did, instead of going with this [motherless.com] [NSFW]
[03:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming Won't Find A Mainstream Audience Until Three Things Happen - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:34] <exec> 08└─This is one of the major overlooked features of running your own VPN - DIY "mobile IP" style connection consistency.
[03:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Terracotta Army's Weapons are in Such Good Condition - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:51] <exec> 08└─In Southeast Asia "Made in China" means exactly the opposite. Merchants push their wares forward saying "It's good, from China!"
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[03:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:22] <exec> 08└─If you pay your entry ticket, yes. But not on streaming, those aren't for Oscars.
[03:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:23] <exec> 08└─Banning petrol and diesel is a great way to help the environment and spur development of alternative mobile fuel sources and batteries. And, as long as the don't ban gasoline as well, it's all good!
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[03:55:26] <exec> 08└─that whole Mad Max thing
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[03:55:28] <exec> 08└─As with most environmental measures the poor will be disproportionately effected. While its no big deal for someone making 100k+ to go and pick up a new electric car its not going to be so easy for the 99.9% of the world making less than that. There isn't exactly a glut of electric vehicles availabl...
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[03:55:30] <exec> 08└─I don't buy the long-term benefits of electric cars. I haven't done a rigorous scientific analysis, but I know that batteries are made of some nasty stuff via a very nasty process. I feel like it's a bunch of smoke and mirrors to make people FEEL like they're doing good by switching to electric when...
[03:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:00] <exec> 08└─if you flip a property/business within a year or two of buying it you pay CGT, if you hold onto it for longer you don't, with exceptions e.g. for the family home. This encourages actual investment, not just speculation and turning over properties as fast as you can.
[03:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:29] <exec> 08└─I had the Impossible Slider at White Castle last week. I know the expectation is low with White Castle, but I think it is the best item on the menu, and went back for more. Perhaps I'm most impressed with the 2 dollar price point. Given cheese is included and the patty is much thicker than White Cas...
[03:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:30] <exec> 08└─Not really. From the sound of it, it's a pretty typical veggie-burger, only with more effort put in to getting the texture right since they managed to solve the flavor problem by using heme - the iron-rich oxygen-transporting molecule responsible for giving blood (and thus meat) much of its color an...
[03:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:32] <exec> 08└─Agreed - a good blend of "fillers" can actually make for a much more satisfying sandwich. I'm a big fan of fat juicy grilled meatloaf patties myself.
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[03:56:44] <exec> 08└─As stated, the number is not meaningful, particularly when comparing between Intel, Samsung, TSMC, etc. Just think of Intel 14nm++++ as "Intel A v5", Intel 10nm as "Intel B v1". The numbers are just labels. Then you can find the stats to compare various processes. TSMC's 7FF+ supposedly will use 90%...
[03:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:42] <exec> 08└─Lemme guess: not at the voting age or in prisons? (large grin)
[03:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:44] <exec> 08└─It'll cause chaos and confusion, give people lots to do, and in 100 years they'll thank us.
[03:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:46] <exec> 08└─One thing about working a job under an employer
[04:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:58] <exec> 08└─Ah, nothing like the old "NO U"
[04:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board' - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:00] <exec> 08└─And?
[04:03:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Linux Gaming Won't Find A Mainstream Audience Until Three Things Happen - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:34] <exec> 08└─Ahem ... How should I put it politely, to you, and to TFA's author ... Linux is the biggest gaming platform worldwide. A distro has been picked, and hardware discrepancies have been addressed. Major publishers are involved, minor ones and indie guys too. The only problem is that most devices running...
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[04:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:23] <exec> 08└─You are so right, brother! Which is why those noisy ICE contraptions never made a dent in the only *reasonable* means of travel -- the horse and buggy! More seriously, you're a moron. Worse, you're short-sighted and have a poor grasp of economics. As prices come down (and they already are doing so)...
[04:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:24] <exec> 08└─shows that the government is serious about reducing the dependency Australia has on oil and reducing greenhouse emissions.
[04:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_Australia#Coal-fired_power [wikipedia.org] Historically it's not looking good for reducing pollution with ~90% of electricity *production* from fossil fuels, although electric cars would move emissions outside city centers: The main source...
[04:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:29] <exec> 08└─As a farmer, I've been using around a semi tanker load of diesel per year. The environmentalists who think taxes will save the world keep trying to get the funds flowing in my area, if they succeed, it will be worth it for me to start making biodiesel. Its just going to be annoying to have to do a b...
[04:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:32] <exec> 08└─Mandate the creation of the necessary infrastructure first. All this does otherwise is choke off the country's transportation, which does about the same thing to the body politic as claudication of the blood vessels does to a single body.
[04:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:34] <exec> 08└─> money rolling in to companies like Tesla Bad example, see https://www.macrotrends.net [macrotrends.net] Tesla has never made a profit over any 12 month period. When you buy a Tesla it's partly paid for by venture capital and other investors (and maybe Elon too?)...
[04:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:36] <exec> 08└─No, no, let them go right on ahead. We need modern case studies on how a civilization dies. I don't wish Australia any ill, but if they're volunteering to take one for the team, let them. I'd rather watch a country other than my own kill itself first.
[04:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:38] <exec> 08└─Not a farmer, but had a great tour of a family owned Western NY dairy farm a few years back, about 100 milk cows and enough field crops to cover most of the feed. That day they had one of their tractors running a soybean press off the PTO. The soy oil extracted was mixed 50-50 with diesel, cutting t...
[04:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:41] <exec> 08└─History already shows us this. Look at India [wikipedia.org] as a good example.
[04:56:11] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 866 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:11] <exec> 08└─High Frequency trades are actually realized gains/losses, on the actual trade. So, the " mark-to-market tax concept" where taxes are applied annually would not apply. However, increasing the maximum capital gains tax to the tax bracket of the seller would apply and make a difference on HFTs. Taxing...
[04:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:13] <exec> 08└─From the WSJ Article: There would be exemptions for the sales of primary residences and retirement accounts like 401(k)s, Mr. Wyden’s office said.
[04:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:15] <exec> 08└─You do not need to worry about selling a house, because if the proposal becomes law, the stock exchanges of the country will crash. Nobody will want to hold papers that can change in valuation.
[04:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:17] <exec> 08└─Currently, both rates are lower than the lowest income tax bracket.
[04:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:19] <exec> 08└─They're not brain-dead. They know exactly what they're doing. They're not stupid. They're evil.
[04:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:22] <exec> 08└─Short-term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income. Long-term capital gains are taxed at 0% up to about $40k (single) or $80k (married), 15% up to about $500k, and 20% past that. The lowest income tax bracket is 10%. Your statement is only correct for people who probably aren't investing in the s...
[04:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:52] <exec> 08└─Which is actually quite reasonable. There have been fairly meaty experimental plant-based burgers in the past, but they've often cost well over $10 per patty to make. Being able to brew plant-based "blood" (aka "meat flavor") like it's beer has really been a huge advance towards making economical ps...
[04:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Four-Legged Whales Once Roamed Land and Sea - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:25] <exec> 08└─I'm just curious. Why do you think atheists will want to marry animals in order to have anal sex with them? Religious convictions?
[05:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Manipulating Social Media Algorithms - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:30] <exec> 08└─"There is of course only one long term solution, but for now it if forbidden to even dream of, while we are ruled by people who consider lying the highest form of worship." Sure you can dream! The long term solution is to *not* be a gullible ignoramus. Of course, that will take some effort on the pa...
[05:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board' - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:18] <exec> 08└─"And?" Seriously? It doesn't alarm you that one of the highest cabinet members of the most powerful country on the planet is literally trying to end the world? No, I suppose it wouldn't, since he's "on your team." You blinkered, tribal fucking moron.
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[05:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:20] <exec> 08└─If I'm getting this right, Mars Ice House [spacexarch.com] is an earlier design by SEArch+. Hercules Single-Stage Reusable Vehicle [nasa.gov]? Like SpaceX Starship, it is supposed to be able to land on Mars and get a methalox refuel to return to orbit. Is turning either one into a permanent/semi-per...
[05:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:21] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware that any humans lived in Rogers. Interesting . . .
[05:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:44] <exec> 08└─Do you have a problem reading entire sentences? I said: As prices come down (and they already are doing so) and the technology (especially power storage) improves, more manufacturers will see the money rolling in to companies like Tesla and jump on the bandwagon.
[05:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:45] <exec> 08└─So, how many fossil fuel power plants are they planning to phase out and how many nuclear and renewable plants are they planning to build to fill in the massive increase in demand for electricity that this huge boost in electric vehicles is going to require? Renewable will likely not be able to fill...
[05:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:47] <exec> 08└─I haven't done a rigorous scientific analysis, but I know that batteries are made of some nasty stuff via a very nasty process.
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[05:55:50] <exec> 08└─> Do you have a problem reading entire sentences? My interpretation of what you said is based on "normal business" development-- https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Tesla (started 2003) has already had 15+ years. Most companies I know are either profitable in five ye...
[05:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 2910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:52] <exec> 08└─Australia is a big country. Distances are huge. Not so much in metro or even regional areas, but in genuine rural areas and of course the great outback, electric cars simply won't cut it. For example, take the Nullarbor Plain. The main road there is the Eyre Highway (which, amongst other things, con...
[05:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:54] <exec> 08└─Because batteries have no environmental footprint.
[05:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:56] <exec> 08└─Simple: if it's an overcast day with no wind, the State/Territory Government must declare a public holiday, since little if any work could get done anyway without sufficient generation, once the law requires absolutely everything to be electric & most generation to be solar or wind. After a few mont...
[05:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:33] <exec> 08└─So you think were this thing to pass (very unlikely as the fat cats will ferociously oppose) the rich would go to do honest work instead of investment and living on dividends? That does not sound very realistic to me either.
[05:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:34] <exec> 08└─So you think were this thing to pass (very unlikely as the fat cats will ferociously oppose) the rich would go to do honest work instead of investment and living on dividends? That does not sound very realistic to me either.
[05:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:36] <exec> 08└─Short-term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income, meaning they are taxed at exactly the income bracket you're in, and definitely not lower than the lowest one.
[05:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:50] <exec> 08└─What, exactly, is so "stunning" about the photos? Some of the posts above have suggestions for truly stunning possibilities. Nazi bases, advertising logos, etc would be stunning. Miles and miles of undisturbed regolith? Not so much.
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[05:57:01] <exec> 08└─That 'splains the "no difference" one can perceive.
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[05:57:09] <exec> 08└─I am shocked at the price they charge to add a slice of cheese.
[05:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:22] <exec> 08└─Gradians.
[05:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:24] <exec> 08└─Earth is slowing- I'll just wait it out.
[05:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rubbery Figures: Scientists Create an Entirely Soft Robot - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:57] <exec> 08└─If you could get your hands on the data your dildo has sent back to the store's servers you'd know why it keeps resetting
[05:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces a 56-Core Xeon CPU, 3D XPoint DIMMs, and Agilex FPGAs - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:12] <exec> 08└─The example mentioned pairs a surprisingly large amount of RAM with the 3D XPoint. 4:1 ratio? XPoint needs to get denser and cheaper.
[06:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why NASA's Audacious Return to the Moon Just Might Work - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:35] <exec> 08└─60% of Americans AND Mexico will pay for it.
[06:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Planning its Own Satellite-Based Broadband Service, with 3,236 Satellites in Low Earth Orbit - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:43] <exec> 08└─SpaceX and Starlink are similar, but this would explicitly link Amazon and Blue Origin which could be a big deal.
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[06:55:57] <exec> 08└─The biggest reason to move away from oil is geopolitical and that is the major reason why governments all over the world are interested in getting rid of it way more than so many other things that affect the environment and people way more and are still way more easily achievable. In fact, I will sa...
[06:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:38] <exec> 08└─I agree: tax HFTs. But I would go farther, and have a scaling tax on stock sales. As other posters have pointed out, one really wants to encourage long-term investment, as opposed to short-term gambling. The squawks of the HFT companies that they are "adding liquidity" to the market is crap - the st...
[06:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:40] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, +5 just isn't enough. If I were to single out just one phrase from your post, it would be "allow them fewer loopholes". Just close the loopholes, and the tax revenue would increase dramatically. Do it across the board, for the wealthy individuals, corporations, foundations, everything. If...
[06:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:42] <exec> 08└─Many people, especially socialists, forget that. For us little guys, we need to explain how that works. You get a pretty good job, and you're putting money into a savings account for a home, a car, or whatever. At the end of the year, you're doing your income taxes. A new line on the form asks "How...
[06:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, eat bug protein, cows will be forbidden in the new Socialist Paradise!
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[06:57:30] <exec> 08└─if you've seen one nanometer, you've seen one nanometer
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[07:55:29] <exec> 08└─Why build a surface habitat when there's no rain water to worry about flooding or fresh water to gain? Just dig in and leave an elevated hatch or set a door at an angle like in storm cellars. Not like you're going to build greenhouses in that shitty weather when you can just setup a few solar panels...
[07:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:00] <exec> 08└─I agree on the need for Oz nuclear power but the reason they don't put them in deserts is not the transmission lines, but the cooling. Uranium makes a great heat source, but you need an equal heat sink to extract power. It takes a lot of water to cool a nuclear power station.
[07:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:43] <exec> 08└─Personally I would extend that to any security held less than one full year...
[07:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:45] <exec> 08└─If you don't have the money to pay... you need to sell your house.
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[07:57:00] <exec> 08└─advertising logos, etc would be stunning
[07:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:01] <exec> 08└─well, it is stunning that the china probe who surveyed the place earlier didn't laser etch ideograms meaning "this place owned by china".
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[08:55:59] <exec> 08└─that might just lead to a mass migration back to the bush, which would be a very good thing for Australia indeed...
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[08:56:00] <exec> 08└─Renewable will likely not be able to fill 100% of the demand for electricity this measure will take
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[08:56:02] <exec> 08└─Simple: if it's an overcast day with no wind, the State/Territory Government must declare a public holiday
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[08:56:48] <exec> 08└─Government can't tax idle assets
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[09:55:22] <exec> 08└─For as long as females are being attacked in the streets by hordes of men [laweekly.com] tourism will continue to decline. Even with a bodyguards women are not safe in Egypt.
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[09:55:24] <exec> 08└─Leela: Professor, We need to talk to you about Fry. Bender: That's right, we want some money - Wait. What's this about Fry? Leela: He's a nice guy but we think it's about time he got his own place. Farnsworth: Oh, fuff! He's not causing any trouble. Now, if you don't mind, I'm rather busy. I seem to...
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[09:56:07] <exec> 08└─There are two big reasons to want to move to electrical vehicles. The first is, as you say, that it moves the pollution. Air quality in towns and cities is a big problem and has a measurable negative impact on life expectancy. Even if there's no net change in pollution, moving it away from people is...
[09:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:09] <exec> 08└─Surprise, fucking surprise. Australia, once again, making living more difficult. Good luck with that Auzzies.
[09:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:56] <exec> 08└─Just like the income tax started out as only for the .1%...
[09:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:13] <exec> 08└─The front side is pretty. https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[09:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:35] <exec> 08└─I would have never guessed that Burger King was a socialist plot.
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[10:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:31] <exec> 08└─Eating mummies was a health fad a couple hundred years ago. We look back on it as dumb as people will look back on the low fat, fake meat, etc health practices today.
[10:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:33] <exec> 08└─>females being attacked look up Giulio Regeni [wikipedia.org], then. Even if he was probably unwittingly set up as a spy, or, he was intentionally hideously tortured and made to be found as a way to damage Egypt. So Egypt is in my list of the baddies until deeeep excuses are issued from the authorit...
[10:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:43] <exec> 08└─You answered your own question.
[10:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:19] <exec> 08└─Air quality in towns and cities is a big problem
[10:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:21] <exec> 08└─Results can be even less healthy in your lifetime.
[10:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 5958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:23] <exec> 08└─> There isn't exactly a glut of electric vehicles available in the used market right now. I personally don't think there will ever be much of a used market for battery electric cars. The reason for this is as follows; 1. Batteries are consumable items. An EV with a posted 200mile range (and real lif...
[10:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:25] <exec> 08└─So why don't they sell this as geopolitical rather than environmental? It would probably have more support. Is it just the general practice to never tell the truth about anything?
[10:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:12] <exec> 08└─And what is the problem with that?
[10:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:14] <exec> 08└─Obviously written by someone who has zero idea what they are talking about. HFTs are basically 100% a force for good. HFTs provide tremendous liquidity to the overall market and stabilize prices through arbitrage. Without HFTs the market would be far more volatile and hostile to small investors. But...
[10:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:16] <exec> 08└─Line 1. How much money do you have? Line 2. Send it in
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[11:56:20] <exec> 08└─Want ongoing reliance on China instead?
[11:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:21] <exec> 08└─Fuck off, learn the correct spelling while at it.
[11:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:23] <exec> 08└─> People may throw mobile phone batteries in the rubbish, but they won't do the same with car-sized batteries. the Italians: challenge accepted...
[11:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:26] <exec> 08└─1. Batteries are consumable items. An EV with a posted 200mile range (and real life usable range of 80 miles) per charge when new, may only get half that after 3 years. After 10 years it would not surprise me to find that you would need to charge it for a few hours every 10 miles, rendering it prett...
[11:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:28] <exec> 08└─>Encouraging folks to move away from fossil fuels is a good idea. This is a tautology. The devil is in the details. Anyway, let's get popcorn. We shall discover soon enough whether environmentalists are for sustainable development, or a way to drain the remaining money from the old fashioned western...
[11:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:30] <exec> 08└─In other words, this is a proposal by city slickers who can't see past the next Starbucks or Whole Foods -- places which magically generate food and drinks.
[11:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:20] <exec> 08└─Therefore, most of their wealth won't have a taxable event until the asset is worthless
[11:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:22] <exec> 08└─That's a very old idea: The Brits have been doing that since the 1600's, and the US did it for a few decades in the early 20th century thanks to FDR. In both cases, it worked more-or-less as predicted.
[11:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_rocket [wikipedia.org] https://everydayastronaut.com [everydayastronaut.com]
[11:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:41] <exec> 08└─The stunningness of the moon has been confirmed, if you have a problem with that you should give me money.
[11:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorpigal [6061] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:18] <exec> 08└─we'll be arriving at the office at 8:30AM IN THE DARK. Bad for the biological clock, bad for accident rates, bad for actual productivity at work, but the restaurants and shops love it, so guess what we'll be getting?
[11:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorpigal [6061] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:20] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you would make a good Martian: the day is about 40 minutes longer there.
[11:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorpigal [6061] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah but you'd only have to do it *once* and then never again (and new devices would come pre-configured with the right zone).
[11:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorpigal [6061] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:24] <exec> 08└─Why even use numbers.
[11:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rubbery Figures: Scientists Create an Entirely Soft Robot - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:57] <exec> 08└─fucked compooter.
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[12:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:28] <exec> 08└─Obviously, Trump is unable to control his own situation either and that for quite a long time. With the current US regime operating in strongly decoherent mode, Assange's very life may well depend on which particular deep state faction hands he will fall into when extradicted. My opinion is, it is a...
[12:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 2077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:30] <exec> 08└─You watch - if Assange hasn't been in the news for a few weeks, he'll say/do/accuse/prompt something like this. It's some sort of narcissistic personality disorder, he can't help it, he has to be in the newspaper somewhere, whether or not what he's claiming is unfounded or not. It's his only escape...
[12:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:32] <exec> 08└─If you think about it, all Wikileaks, Snowden, Assange and Manning have proven is "If you know something, STFU up about it or live your entire life in prison or exile". The exact opposite of their supposed message.
[12:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:34] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say I'm a big fan of Wikileaks. For one thing, their cyber is not secure AT ALL. They have a "page" about me. Which my people monitor very carefully. November 22, 2018 -- 55th. anniversary of J.F.K. assination -- my "page" was hacked very badly. Very badly. Somebody took my official pictu...
[12:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:44] <exec> 08└─Just swap out images and text with your Egypt ones, worked great for the Philippines ;) https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:46] <exec> 08└─That's why the mouse mummies. Jerky for the cat mummies.
[12:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 2328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:48] <exec> 08└─As an ordinary tourist, just there to gawk at the pyramids, one is probably okay. Stay far away from politics, don't look and act like you're really smart, help out their economy by blowing money on tourist schlock, and they're happy to have you. But, you say, you are refusing to visit, as a way of...
[12:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:58] <exec> 08└─Why build a surface habitat when there's no rain water to worry about flooding or fresh water to gain? Just dig in and leave an elevated hatch or set a door at an angle like in storm cellars.
[12:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:00] <exec> 08└─Moving hundreds of tons of unknown-composition rock in a safe and reliable way to create a permanent habitat from an uncertain geography using only the lightest of tools that you can get there, and to do quickly enough that you don't have to spent months or years doing so but can use the shelter saf...
[12:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:46] <exec> 08└─I have an electric car (older Leaf) and it's a great ride -- like you say there is so little vibration. If I've been driving just the Leaf for a week, then use my gas car, I feel like I'm sitting inside a vibrator even when it is sitting still idling (true with any ICE). As for complicated -- there'...
[12:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:48] <exec> 08└─The EV is conceptually a hybrid between an ICE car and a smartphone. Therefore, the tactics used to sell it will resemble both cars and smartphones. So, as a citizen I would be more concerned about making sure cars are repairable and components are standardized, so to let the market open to small pr...
[12:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:50] <exec> 08└─No matter how they "sell" it, those whose fortunes are tied to oil and energy concerns do not want to spend a penny to "buy" it. A major factor for leaving oil behind is geopolitical, but the primary reason for resisting it is financial.
[12:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:52] <exec> 08└─I live in a relatively small European (British) city, with a population of around 100,000. It has the highest number of cyclists per capita of any British city and more than half of the population cycle to work, a lot more walk or take public transport. The council is under pressure to introduce a c...
[12:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:54] <exec> 08└─It's too bad Venezuela doesn't have large deposits of lithium. If they did they could mismanage them like they do their oil reserves.
[12:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:57] <exec> 08└─Fuck you asshole
[12:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:59] <exec> 08└─Seems a bad idea for a country with dangerously hostile tracts of land, hundreds of miles apart from each other where if you run out of battery power, you wouldn't be able to recharge before you died, especially overnight. Whereas you could just carry a can of fuel with you. And one of the biggest p...
[12:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:51] <exec> 08└─LOL. HFTs do not benefit anyone who is not involved in HFTs. And the barriers to entry are so high that only a tiny percentage of market participants are in the HFT club. HFTs are a scourge on the market and should be taxed per transaction if not outlawed completely.
[12:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:53] <exec> 08└─As any idiot who understands basic market economics knows, an item is only worth the amount someone is willing to pay for it when you sell it.
[12:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:55] <exec> 08└─It is mostly correct, only it becomes complicated through the fact that the capital gains may actually indirectly be realised before its time through lending. As an individual, you may take out a mortgage in your house to buy another house, which you rent out, using the rent to pay the mortgage (and...
[12:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC's "5nm" (CLN5FF) Process On-Track for High-Volume Manufacturing in 2020 - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:48] <exec> 08└─About the 3D stuff: 1. Neuromorphic chips with very low power consumption (due to acting more like the human brain) could benefit first. Layered GPUs could be seen long before CPUs. 2. A new transistor type [soylentnews.org] (there are several candidates [wikipedia.org]) could reduce heat, making la...
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[13:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:26] <exec> 08└─The US is starting to look more and more like a third-world country.
[13:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:28] <exec> 08└─It must be all those billionaires.
[13:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:32] <exec> 08└─It happens to me all the time. I'll be eating a hamburger and someone will ask, "oh sir, when you're done can I have the wrapper?" And when they ask nicely I always do it. I'll sign my name and that makes it MUCH more valuable for them. It's also a great way to keep in practice with my signature. So...
[13:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:35] <exec> 08└─Not really all that new. When I was younger I would pick up electronics all the time, although usually for my own use rather than reselling. Of course, these days people take computers/electronics directly to "recyclers", preventing any kind of re-use. Rich/stupid people throw out good stuff all the...
[13:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:38] <exec> 08└─That's precisely the problem. In America, if you're working class, you can go off and put your life on the line for the interests of the billionaire class. Maybe you'll get free college out of the deal. If you get a limb blown off, get PTSD, get any number of things that happen in war, when you come...
[13:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:49] <exec> 08└─Another way to look at it is that if Assange fails to keep his name out of the news, he gets forgotten by the public. It becomes relatively easier for a fortuitous "accident" or "suicide" to happen to someone like that.
[13:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:51] <exec> 08└─Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
[13:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Adrian Lamo basically sold her out when she instead wanted to be as anonymous as Deep Throat had been in the seventies. As for Snowden, the nature of his discoveries and the timeline was such that staying similarly anonymous might not have looked like a viable option. Assange on the other hand...
[13:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:55] <exec> 08└─You watch - if Assange hasn't been in the news for a few weeks, he'll say/do/accuse/prompt something like this.
[13:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:57] <exec> 08└─Dying would be very good way for him getting into news again.. Anyone who doesn't want that wouldn't want to kill him, even by "accident". Because nobody will believe even if it really was accident.
[13:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:59] <exec> 08└─If Trump did pardon him the Democrats would waste no time in casting it as evidence of "colluussssion" and try to Impeach Trump. This is what democrats have been doing for 2 years now,also to prevent Trump from doing anything a President does including obstructing his constitutional duties such as a...
[13:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:02] <exec> 08└─We agree on one thing, most definitely: his actions have affected *every* asylum decision in *every* embassy in the world, because nobody's going to want a repeat of that.
[13:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:05] <exec> 08└─Manning drew attention to himself, immediately after Wikileaks made their initial announcements. He pointed out to his own supervisor that the data could only come from a small handful of computers, and that the data was a precise match to data available only from a server to which he had access. Fr...
[13:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:30] <exec> 08└─Boring company.
[13:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:31] <exec> 08└─You proved that Sloppy Steve isn't the only guy that can do this stuff. Great job!!!
[13:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:26] <exec> 08└─"Towns AND cities"... You really THAT dumb, or just too used to not THINK when repeating soundbites
[13:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:27] <exec> 08└─Seems a bad idea for a country with dangerously hostile tracts of land, hundreds of miles apart from each other where if you run out of battery power, you wouldn't be able to recharge before you died, especially overnight.
[13:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:29] <exec> 08└─if a country is doing this to protect themselves from outside sources of energy, i'm all for it. If its to be 'green' they are idiots and should be shunned.
[14:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:24] <exec> 08└─why would you slavishly stick to a clock time that makes no sense?
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[14:55:28] <exec> 08└─Just like the movies
[14:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:29] <exec> 08└─When I lived in China there was never the thought to take something to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. I would just throw it and some needy person would dig it out of the trash. For clothing, i’d Set it by the trash so it wouldn’t get dirty.
[14:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 4110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:31] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in fact as a schoolboy and uni student, I spent quite a bit of time dumpster diving, or buying broken electrical equipment, fixing it and then using it or selling it on. I take the thing home, take it apart, see what is wrong, if I can fix it, great, if not, I got a bunch of components and a...
[14:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:14] <exec> 08└─Remember leaded gas? They used to put lead in the gas. Often known as the Ethyl. Sounds nice, it wasn't nice. Very bad for the health. Bad for Brain. But the guy that came up with that one drank it. He drank the lead to prove it was safe. Well it wasn't safe and he got very sick for a very long time...
[14:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:15] <exec> 08└─I hear that Europeans have very serious problems with Smug.
[14:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. I don't think so. Look at where the Colbalt comes from. Amnesty International -- very UNETHICAL!!!!
[14:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:20] <exec> 08└─You forgot Clean Coal. Australia is fortunate to have some of the World's cleanest Coal. But, they don't have a lot of Oil. They've been getting it from Iran and a lot of countries that aren't very nice. But they came to their senses. They said, let's create many new jobs in our magnificent Coal Min...
[14:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:22] <exec> 08└─Most startups don't actually do anything really new. Facebook, ebay, Amazon - just a bunch of not-particularly revolutionary software running on commodity hardware. The "innovation" was in the business plan, not the technology. To say nothing of the thousands of bakeries, widget-makers, etc. that ar...
[14:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:18] <exec> 08└─That's to say, if anything, this law will deliver a critical, possible final, hit to the real-estate bubbles without hurting the middle class at all.
[14:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:59] <exec> 08└─What you are seeing is the effect of a good marketing campaign. They already had a veggie option for a burger...
[15:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rubbery Figures: Scientists Create an Entirely Soft Robot - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:56] <exec> 08└─True. But I was thinking, this could be great for our wonderful manufacturers. We made a very smart deal with Foxconn of Taiwan. And they're going to be making the panels for T.V. Very thin glass, so easy to break. But the Soft Robot, I assume, will have a gentle touch. Gentle, but firm when it need...
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[15:55:26] <exec> 08└─How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps
[15:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 2560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:28] <exec> 08└─"Also if you have a family in the mix you can likely write it off completely." Not necessarily, although you would have to sacrifice a lot, including much time spent with said family. The way I can think of doing it is: 1. Don't marry your partner, that way your real name stays private, and they hav...
[15:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:44] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, for every TV, etc. that someone like you was able to salvage, repair, and reuse, there were tens of thousands just going into landfill.
[15:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:45] <exec> 08└─Still better than communism.
[15:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:47] <exec> 08└─The US is starting to look more and more like a third-world country.
[15:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:49] <exec> 08└─Even if that were true, so what? It's still a dumb idea.
[15:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 1680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:52] <exec> 08└─> Unfortunately, for every TV, etc. that someone like you was able to salvage, repair, and reuse, there were tens of thousands just going into landfill. Even if that is true, the directive just made it worse. Before, some of it was being salvaged by people like me (and I was not the only one, there...
[15:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't k ow this about the Manning situation. Then we should group Manning in with Assange and Snowden. They all should have kept their heads down and their public mouths shut.
[15:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:13] <exec> 08└─I hear they have room over at the Saudi Embassy.
[15:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:15] <exec> 08└─Remarkable likeness.
[15:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:43] <exec> 08└─The biggest reason to move away from oil is geopolitical
[15:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:45] <exec> 08└─Apparently, we need more examples. So... do it hurt when I do that?
[15:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 1743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:47] <exec> 08└─I also have an old Leaf I got used. 2011, the oldest generally available Leaf. I can confirm it's a fantastic ride. Responsiveness is instantaneous. It's real smooth and quiet. True, the batteries' health is only 9 out of 12, and the range is a paltry 50 miles, depending. I have read, and can confir...
[15:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:49] <exec> 08└─This ploy was invented before the wheel was.
[15:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:51] <exec> 08└─No intelligence even for a credible insult however, let alone a reasoned argument. Pity.
[15:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 2355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:53] <exec> 08└─I agree that they're too damned complicated and expensive. Thing is - there's nothing about an electric car that requires that. Most of the first cars were electric, precisely because it's so simple - batteries, motor, and throttle control. The first was built in 1828, 80 years before the far more c...
[15:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:56] <exec> 08└─What our cars should become are basically pods with wheels, much like the Edison2
[15:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:33] <exec> 08└─They already had a veggie option for a burger...
[16:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Four-Legged Whales Once Roamed Land and Sea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:24] <exec> 08└─Why buy the hippo when you can get the milk for free?
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[16:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:23] <exec> 08└─without exposing you too much
[16:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:25] <exec> 08└─He bought a decoy house, and the number was only $30k?
[16:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:27] <exec> 08└─I'll watcha watcha what: The ultimate fuel for the bathroom is in my panties.
[16:55:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:37] <exec> 08└─That's precisely the problem. In America, if you're working class, you can go off and put your life on the line for the interests of the billionaire class. Maybe you'll get free college out of the deal. If you get a limb blown off, get PTSD, get any number of things that happen in war, when you come...
[16:55:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 4110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:40] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in fact as a schoolboy and uni student, I spent quite a bit of time dumpster diving, or buying broken electrical equipment, fixing it and then using it or selling it on. I take the thing home, take it apart, see what is wrong, if I can fix it, great, if not, I got a bunch of components and a...
[16:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:48] <exec> 08└─Shit anything is better than communism. Even living as a poor student and dumpster diving out of rich peoples garbage, I had a better quality of life than my parents officially did under communism. I say officially because there was always a capitalist black market under communism, where you could b...
[16:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, khallow, that's precisely what we think!!! In b4 reduce, reuse, recycle. Dumpster diving is not a safe or efficient way to accomplish this. You're basically saying, "Eh, who cares? Capitalism does the 3 Rs just fine. That's what homeless people who are denied even basic human dignity are for."...
[16:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:53] <exec> 08└─Dumpster diving is not a safe or efficient way to accomplish this.
[16:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:55] <exec> 08└─I'm amazed Zuck doesn't have razor wire and dobermans between him and his "neighbors" Down in the flats, he just buys all the property around him.
[16:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:57] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there appears to often *be* no safe and efficient way to recycle. FWIW, GoodWill Industries has stopped training people to repair things. And they won't even resell things that are visibly used. Much of what is put in "recycling" is just dumped into a garbage dump AFTER spending...
[16:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:00] <exec> 08└─>spent more than a dozen years in the Air Force If he could have made it to 20 years he would have a pension. https://www.dfas.mil [dfas.mil]
[16:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:22] <exec> 08└─It always confuses me why people get so snarky about Assange. It's as if they've got a personal stake in the "big brothering" of themselves, their own electoral disenfranchisement (at least if they're on the Democrat side).
[16:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:24] <exec> 08└─Hilarious. Which one, though?
[16:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:26] <exec> 08└─Before the "troll" moderation starts, just remember he skipped bail in the UK and hid in the Ecuadorian Embassy willingly. And before the "they would extradite him to the US" replies show up, keep in mind that Trump is a big fan of Wikileaks and could very possibly pardon Assange if he is extradited...
[16:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:28] <exec> 08└─The one next to the butcher shop.
[16:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:55] <exec> 08└─I don't think collapse is that likely (though of course, if it did happen it would be catastrophic). The reason is that the habitat will need to be pressurized to above the pressure of Martian atmosphere, and, of course, tightly sealed. This will mean that the air within the habitat is, itself, supp...
[16:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, the "door is covered with dust" problem is probably quite soluble. As for the others... well, lets just say underground wouldn't be my first choice. P.S.: One simple answer to the "door is covered with dust" is just to have the exit doors on raised platforms with sealed stairwells leading...
[16:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:05] <exec> 08└─I meant members of the general public. I could care less about their fake CO2 theory/scam, but do care about getting the US out of the middle east and endless wars.
[16:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:07] <exec> 08└─Where electric vehicles are completely impractical. In some dense urban areas this could work great, in rural areas? Worthless.
[16:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:05] <exec> 08└─at worst it turns the economy into even more of a pyramid scheme that it already is...
[16:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:26] <exec> 08└─They built it but either it was destroyed by the metal-munching moon mice or they built it out of upsidaisium.
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[16:59:27] <exec> 08└─They didn't find a giant "KICK ME!" sign placed there by the aliens?
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[17:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:20] <exec> 08└─Rube Goldberg lives! And what do these *tailing ponds* smell like? And when they spill, what happens?
[17:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:21] <exec> 08└─The question then becomes are people going to look at this development and think there is no need to reduce their use of fossil fuels and/or delay the transition to renewable power sources?
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[17:55:24] <exec> 08└─More process details are available in our papers and publications, but this overall DAC approach pairs a wet scrubbing air contactor with a calcium re-generation cycle similar to what is used by the pulp and paper industry
[17:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:35] <exec> 08└─Not really. You can find places in the ghetto for about that much.
[17:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:36] <exec> 08└─When he talks about buying houses outright with the LLC, clearly its not something most of us can do.
[17:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:38] <exec> 08└─Why let kids control the parents' lives? If the parents want to live a nomadic life, the kids will have to follow. They can make friends anywhere. Once they're 18 they can do their own thing.
[17:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:41] <exec> 08└─Is he by chance running a buttcoin "bank", and is waiting to "take it private"?
[17:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:43] <exec> 08└─How do we know these ideas really came from Jameson Lopp? Maybe he doesn’t even exist... The point being that maintaining this level of anonymity has some other big drawbacks, the additional difficulty of long term companionships being just one. Not that I don’t see the appeal...
[17:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:45] <exec> 08└─If in Detroit or something, they will pay you to take it..
[17:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:47] <exec> 08└─One could likely get a house in a place like Detroit for less than $10,000USD
[17:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's one of them $1 houses in Detroit or some other slum? If he is never going to live there it might not matter that there is some black mold or the house is more or less falling apart.
[17:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:52] <exec> 08└─Inconvenient doesn't even begin to describe it if you want to life in a modern society of today. Sure, I think we can all get behind the cash part, if you want to remain hidden tho isn't a phone a giant nono? Fake name sounds inconvenient, after all you have to remember all the people you ever lied...
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[17:56:11] <exec> 08└─> Unfortunately, for every TV, etc. that someone like you was able to salvage, repair, and reuse, there were tens of thousands just going into landfill. Even if that is true, the directive just made it worse. Before, some of it was being salvaged by people like me (and I was not the only one, there...
[17:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:19] <exec> 08└─So the AF has an interest in getting people out before they hit their 20 year anniversary?
[17:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:21] <exec> 08└─Dumpster diving for fun and profit? One would think these richy rich type people like Zuck would be aware of an take proper precautions with their waste so it just doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Shredding all the documents etc or just incinerating them. So what this guy, and other like him, take...
[17:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:23] <exec> 08└─In general, it sounds like the problems were not caused by Communism, but by corruption.
[17:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:50] <exec> 08└─Though nothing is preventing Trump from preempting the situation right now, by issuing a full pardon for all crimes Assange may have committed against the US. The deep state and their MSM mouthpieces will wail and gnash their teeth, but it would be over. However, from what I heard, Trump doesn't rea...
[17:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:52] <exec> 08└─If you think about it, all Wikileaks, Snowden, Assange and Manning have proven is "If you know something, STFU up about it or live your entire life in prison or exile". The exact opposite of their supposed message. Nobody is up in arms and protesting about anything Wikileaks has ever published. All...
[17:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:32] <exec> 08└─>Encouraging folks to move away from fossil fuels is a good idea. This is a tautology
[17:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:31] <exec> 08└─My solution would be to tax capital gains at a regular income tax rate after it's realized, but adjust the gain for inflation. I have some unrealized gains that I've been holding for years. Adjusted for inflation, I've sort of broke even.
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[18:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:12] <exec> 08└─If we could use this method to sequester a high percentage of the CO2 from coal, nat gas, and diesel plants it would make the transition to an electric transportation system much less burdensome.
[18:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:13] <exec> 08└─My take on that question is what if those people are right? If they truly don't need to reduce their use of fossil fuels (at least over the span that fossil fuels are economically viable to extract), etc, then what is the point of changing society and forcing behaviors? I'm willing to grant that th...
[18:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:35] <exec> 08└─Step 1) Steal all the bitcoins in cold storage at your exchange. Step 2) Encrypt everything on your laptop. Step 3) Fly to India. Step 4) Fake your own death. At least, that's what it seems like [arstechnica.com] to me. And I am not alone. [soylentnews.org]
[18:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:36] <exec> 08└─Not so much. If he'd really disappeared, we wouldn't be talking about him, would we?
[18:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:38] <exec> 08└─You kinda missed the point: each of the child's friends is a vulnerability. Every bit of data, or intel, that those friends possess is a vulnerability to the family.
[18:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:41] <exec> 08└─With $1M debts attached.
[18:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's more Fake News from the Corrupt Failing New York Times. Or, maybe he likes being famous. When you're famous, they let you do what you want. Major nookie!!!!
[18:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:13] <exec> 08└─Funny, from my point of view, it was Communism that caused the corruption, not the other way round. Had the communists not banned private sale of such goods, the black market would not have existed. The fact that high level party members were involved just showed that even the government didn't beli...
[18:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:42] <exec> 08└─Trump doesn't do anything until it is personally advantageous. Assange leaving the embassy and getting picked up by London's finest could start that clock running. But if Trump tells Barr to "let it go" then Assange will never even face extradition.
[18:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:44] <exec> 08└─"IF".
[18:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:14] <exec> 08└─OTOH (and as another poster said), why dig? What's the benefit of digging
[18:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:15] <exec> 08└─It will get built if it is visible from earth and spells "TRUMP".
[18:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:17] <exec> 08└─OTOH (and as another poster said), why dig? What's the benefit of digging over scooping some dirt on top of the habitat.
[18:57:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:42] <exec> 08└─I haven't done a rigorous scientific analysis, but I know that batteries are made of some nasty stuff via a very nasty process.
[18:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:30] <exec> 08└─I think many - perhaps a majority? - of the residents of the US are in favor of using EV, renewable energy, etc. But we don't write the laws, the lobbyists who make large contributions do.
[18:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:30] <exec> 08└─Taking savings doesn't fix the real issue, bonds and lack of inflation. Government bonds are thd main cause of wealth inequality. It allows the rich to get richer by doing nothing. A simple solution is to limit the ownership in bonds to a fixed amount, where anyone who already exceeds this amount ca...
[18:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:31] <exec> 08└─Government can tax your right to drive a car on the road, it cannot tax a car in storage. Your idea is not valid, and will not pass muster in our legal framework. It would be declared unconstitutional in a heartbeat. Of course, it's also possible to amend the constitution.
[18:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:34] <exec> 08└─There's also the catch that the very existence of these 'unrealised gains' depend on a lot of people not realising them. If too many people try, those gains will just evaporate. So this proposal is taxing money that doesn't actually exist - so at best its another way of printing money (with all that...
[18:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying there is or isn't a problem with it; I'm just explaining what the CGT is, what the UCGT is, and why some people want them.
[18:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Lunar Landing - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't history, by definition, I'm the past?
[19:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i always get a request from a friend of mine for the veggie whopper when i head out of town. basically a boca burger.
[19:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:46] <exec> 08└─Not doing daylight saving time won't make that happen. Only elimination of time zones and having clocks vary by several minutes from one side of a city to the other will achieve your preference. Of course, a lot of people would just guesstimate or set their clock to whatever the TV or radio stations...
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[19:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:27] <exec> 08└─How can I give this company my money before they are discovered to be another Theranos? By then I'll be cashed out.
[19:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:28] <exec> 08└─We create technology that hurts us. Therefore, we need more technology to solve our problem. That will save us, really, trust me. And this is not the first historic example of technological "progress" killing us. Unfortunately, most still believe in the fallacy of technology. And, the time-span is g...
[19:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:30] <exec> 08└─This is like arguing why stop using asbestos or DDT because of some vague concerns about the environment.
[19:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:32] <exec> 08└─Further refinements mean the gas can be purified into a form that can be stored or utilised[sic] as a liquid fuel.
[19:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:35] <exec> 08└─This is like arguing why stop using asbestos or DDT because of some vague concerns about the environment.
[19:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:37] <exec> 08└─We create technology that hurts us. Therefore, we need more technology to solve our problem.
[19:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:39] <exec> 08└─LOL -- I got to about the middle -- the part about hydrolyzing water with "green electricity" and thought "Rube Goldberg should plant a tree ...". Scroll down and here he is, mentioned at the top of the responses.
[19:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:42] <exec> 08└─The fallacy isn't technology, it's "growth." The alternative to using tech to solve the problems is to have fewer people.
[19:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:44] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer to see a tech that turns CO2 into a stable solid mixture of some sort.
[19:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:46] <exec> 08└─According to the recent tsunami of spam which I've been on the receiving end of, climate change is going to be solved by fungus. It just needs investors.
[19:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:12] <exec> 08└─You know what you can do, unlike what that pussy did, is become a Soverign Citizen. That way, not only will you have to worry about buying a fake house, but you can tell the DMV to take their licenses and registrations and go fuck themsevles.
[19:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:13] <exec> 08└─I doubt the average Joe needs or wants to disappear. We just use the time-honored technique of living very boring lives. A friend and I used to joke that we didn't need to worry about FBI/NSA tracking us, as surely any agent assigned to watch us would die of boredom.
[19:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:15] <exec> 08└─Okay, so he's not so much disappearing, as playing peek-a-boo.
[19:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:17] <exec> 08└─- "Hey everybody! look! I vanished! o wait..." Behold, How to make an Italian vanish in 15 easy steps: 1. lend him 1000 euro 2. from now on he disappears 3. obviously you needed one step only 4. but the reader would spot the joke too soon 5. so i fill up all the rest 7. even cheating 8. after all wh...
[19:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:49] <exec> 08└─I do wonder tho why the rich people just don't donate all their excess here to charity?
[19:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:50] <exec> 08└─This happens regularly in my neighborhood, and its definitely a good thing. On a regular basis pickup trucks with Mexican plates will pick up all the furniture people moving out leave in the alleys, then take it to Mex and then reupholster it and sell it. And with Craigslist's "free shit" category,...
[19:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:52] <exec> 08└─Being in the Air Force means having to work with a bunch of sniveling pussies. A lot of people make similar decisions to leave the military, if the military doesn't invent excuses to fuck you like it did with the Army and Marines after Gulf War II.
[19:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:54] <exec> 08└─The third world has it's share of extremely wealthy people. Many of them get that way by ruthlessly exploiting others unimpeded by laws enforcing fair play. Often it involves slipping some money under the table to make sure legislators and law enforcers don't notice. Is that starting to sound famili...
[19:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:26] <exec> 08└─if Assange hasn't been in the news for a few weeks, he'll say/do/accuse/prompt something like this
[19:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:11] <exec> 08└─One thing I do in the winter is pre-heat the car. I tried the scheduling thing but as far as I can tell, it runs the heat off the battery and I would have lower range when leaving. I got a little 1200 watt portable heater like you might put under a desk and just ran it off an extension cord. I start...
[20:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:16] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of the stock market that the stocks change in value?
[20:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:17] <exec> 08└─Tax high-frequency trades. Not much, just 0.1% per trade. Those guys are playing with the US economy like it's their personal, private casino.
[20:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:19] <exec> 08└─HFTs do not benefit anyone who is not involved in HFTs.
[20:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:22] <exec> 08└─You are already taxed on the gains for savings and other accounts on your income tax, hence why you get a 1099-INT if you have enough. In addition, savings and certain other accounts can't be taxed like this, as they are, by definition, not capital assets, but rather cash and cash equivalents.
[20:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:09] <exec> 08└─They've had a veggie burger (ie with a vegetable-based patty) on the menu for ~15 years. It makes no attempt to taste like meat though. I wish more places had veggie burgers - they can taste even better than meat when done right. Millet patties, bean-based, etc., I've had a lot of good variants due...
[20:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:32] <exec> 08└─Back in the early 1970s during the Energy Crisis, there was permanent DST over the winter at least one year. And traffic casualties went up.
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[20:55:22] <exec> 08└─... videos purporting to be man walking in the moon were disseminated. Don't ask why the flag was waving in absence of atmosphere. FTFY
[20:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:44] <exec> 08└─I've been hearing this chatter too. In a related note, my friend voted for trump and then got diagnosed as ringworm. This new type of fungus is threatening hospitals around the world, supposedly it feeds on dark matter. https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com [biomed...
[20:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:46] <exec> 08└─Filling it back in is important also
[20:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:48] <exec> 08└─The alternative to using tech to solve the problems is to have fewer people.
[20:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:17] <exec> 08└─Geez, BOT! You're really slipping. You left out: [...] 15. et voila' 16. Profit! Now you're not getting that memory upgrade for your manufacture day this year.
[20:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:19] <exec> 08└─Less than a thousand sometimes - back taxes can usually be negotiated to near-nothing as well.
[20:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:54] <exec> 08└─I do wonder tho why the rich people just don't donate all their excess here to charity?
[20:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:26] <exec> 08└─Personally? He threw whistleblowers under the train, then fled from charges, got "friends" to pay his bail and promptly skipped bail, and now evades the law at my expense (as a UK taxpayer). I don't blame the judiciary for that... we can't afford to let people just thumb their nose at the law becaus...
[20:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:41] <exec> 08└─I was just in Cairo area at beginning of February, and another visit to Cairo and Luxor at the end of February. My previous visit to Egypt was in the late 90's. Compared to 30 years ago, the touristy areas were crowded (and both Cairo and Luxor had grown like crazy!). But, everyone said there were n...
[21:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:22] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that screw over frugal people who invest as much money as possible so they can retire early, though? You'd have to have progressive UCGT tax brackets.
[21:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:23] <exec> 08└─We agree on this one for sure. This has to be one of the most bat shit crazy ideas I've ever heard. The degree to which this would complicate the tax code is unimaginable. He also seems to have forgotten that ordinary middle class folks can actually have investments as well. What happens when you ge...
[21:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:25] <exec> 08└─Tax high-frequency trades. Not much, just 0.1% per trade. Those guys are playing with the US economy like it's their personal, private casino.
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[21:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:21] <exec> 08└─Don't ask why the flag was waving in absence of atmosphere.
[21:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:22] <exec> 08└─Don't ask why the flag was waving in absence of atmosphere.
[21:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:24] <exec> 08└─Now, if only we could get the world to cooperate and work together and make this all happen quickly and effectively! This should not be JUST JAPAN: this should be China, U.S., what.... India now? Wasn't Pakistan doing something??///can't remember...too old, Canada (okay, laugh if you want but we got...
[21:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:26] <exec> 08└─Because putting people on Mars is absolutely fucking insane and pointless. That's why.
[21:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:51] <exec> 08└─You're right, hemocyanin. There's one additional processing step after the shovel, though: wood rots and returns to the carbon cycle in under 100 years, but for carbon sequestration, we need to temporarily store it for 500 to 1000 years, in which time we can find a more permanent solution, like expo...
[21:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:53] <exec> 08└─You didn't read the article. And, that's O.K., not everyone can. But it explains why our great Oil Industry is financing this one. They need MASSIVE AMOUNTS of Carbon Dioxide. They put the Carbon Dioxide into their wells. And, the Oil comes out. The more Carbon Dioxide they put in, the more Oil they...
[21:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly. So when it comes down to hoping that tech can solve everything, or choosing to have fewer people, the countries with more tech and more stable population are arguably on the fence, while the countries with a deficit of tech and an exploding population appear by their actions to be in favor...
[21:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:27] <exec> 08└─Step 16, would make it two real steps. Where the latter is implied by step 1 already.
[21:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:29] <exec> 08└─Move DEEEEEP into the woods and build a modest cabin and hunt, fish, grow your own vegetables. Trade with farmers if need be. Then leave bomb making equipment and blue-prints laying around if you need to bug out suddenly! :)
[21:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:05] <exec> 08└─A. Men.
[21:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:07] <exec> 08└─Drop them off at a 'Value Village' or whatever (charity store): they'll take it and make a profit off it. Up here in Canada (is value village in the states?) Value village supports Cerebral Palsy (how much %$wise is donated?...dunno).
[21:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:40] <exec> 08└─He has a cell phone and an ego. That's all he needs to keep his name in the press.
[21:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:42] <exec> 08└─Like I said, he does nothing until he can benefit from it. If Assange doesn't leave the embassy it does no good for Trump to do anything. And if Assange happens to fall victim to foul play then Trump won't need to do anything either. The one thing we know for a fact is that Assange has been hiding o...
[21:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:44] <exec> 08└─You over there in Airstrip One could just drop the whole futile show about skipping bail and whatever and deport him to Australia as an undesirable foreigner if he is discovered outside the embassy. Or ignore his being shipped in a diplomatic car to the airport and then on a flight to Ecuador. But y...
[21:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:17] <exec> 08└─A couple of sticks of dynamite
[21:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:32] <exec> 08└─Your current attempts to bring down the USA do hurt yes. Please stop oh shill for the lizard people.
[22:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:43] <exec> 08└─Just to recap: HFT is when you place an order to buy a stock, they receive your order and in the time between ordering and buying they buy the same stock (lower than your price, if they can) and sell it to you (higher if they can). If they can't make this work, they cancel their order and fulfill yo...
[22:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:31] <exec> 08└─I got one along side a regular whopper. Sampling just the patty you get a hint of that "veggie burger" flavor they all seem to have, but it's really, really mild. Texture is pretty spot on. If it had been a blind test, I doubt I would have been able to pick the non-beef one by anything other than ch...
[22:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:33] <exec> 08└─The sewage was added by the employee as a bonus just for you.
[22:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:35] <exec> 08└─Last time I had a Whopper it was absolutely swimming in ketchup and mayo. Literally mouthful after mouthful of hot greasy salty sludge. I get enough of that at home.
[22:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:59] <exec> 08└─Lol look at the hypocrite! You gotta be an alt of Runaway's, keep chiming in when people correct him. Sure they are nitpicky but not wrong, which makes you a triggered jackass. About what I expect from conservative engineers, self important "geniuses" who get upset easily. Mega MAGA if you will.
[22:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:01] <exec> 08└─It will actually happen 4 times [wikipedia.org] somewhere around the globe (there are 4 moments when there exist places on earth experiencing an exact 24 h solar noon day).
[22:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:03] <exec> 08└─What's the other 127 million, chopped liver?
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[22:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UMD Researchers’ Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:22] <exec> 08└─So when you get a job at the power-plant in the future, you are the power source. All good and green power!
[22:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UMD Researchers’ Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:24] <exec> 08└─OK, the next step is hereby clear, when talking about power plants in the future people will refer to those oddly metallic-looking trees they've got in their gardens.
[22:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:36] <exec> 08└─My point is, do this on the moon FIRST, INSTEAD of this rush to Mars insanity we seem to be on. I don't personally care if we go to Mars, but HELL YES, go back to the moon, build bases, grow veggies, live there, build rocket/space ship base and expand from there. Mars? You won't be living there for...
[22:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:06] <exec> 08└─where "concerns about the environment" result in real-world poor dying of disease by the million. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:19] <exec> 08└─Yup. Third world countries are characterized by a few wealthy dictators at the top with all the power and money, while everyone else suffers. I know what you were trying to do here, but it backfired and blew up in your greasy basement-dwelling face pretty hard :)
[22:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:21] <exec> 08└─You should move down under to Oz. You'd be rich again. We still dump everything on the kerb.
[22:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:23] <exec> 08└─Forget learn to code, now you can put your original skills to good use! Worst case is "learn to solder".
[22:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:59] <exec> 08└─The one thing we know for a fact is that Assange has been hiding out in the embassy like a scared little girl for years.
[22:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:00] <exec> 08└─I've got a pretty big ego and one of the latest phones, damn media ignores me like the plague!
[22:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:02] <exec> 08└─So the UK is obliged to keep the Equadorian embassy under constant watch? For skipping bail for charges that have been dropped? I know conservatives shiver with excitement to serve power, but that's just embarrassing.
[22:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:04] <exec> 08└─He would be impeached right now if the GOP wasn't compromised and hypocritical. You should re-read your post, sounds more like the Republicans for the last 16 years of Democrat presidents. At least with Trump the pols have a legitimate reason to be pursuing impeachment.
[22:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:53] <exec> 08└─Having an opinion on the internet hurts people? Do tell. So how does that hurt?
[22:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─I'm all for EV, but this sounds like folks disconnected with reality. Electric skates and scooters are pretty much illegal in most states currently. They can't even make that legal so that folks living within 10km from the city can commute and avoid the over congested roads and over capacity public...
[22:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:57] <exec> 08└─It should have been Querulous Max or Desperate Max.
[22:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:59] <exec> 08└─Now, let's plug a bunch of cars, lawnmowers, etc. up to the grid too. It's not like they're burning COAL or anything to generate that power...
[23:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:12] <exec> 08└─Your view is full of shit, as your head is lodged permanently somewhere between your duodenum and your sigmoid colon. Fuck off, you worthless bootlicker. You are not elite and you never will be, and if the elite even noticed your disgusting fawning over them, they wouldn't thank you for it; they'd l...
[23:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Redundant) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:14] <exec> 08└─I sense from your copious use of derogatory terms that you somehow disagree, but don't have the intellectual capacity to explain your position. No surprise there. You are not elite and you never will be, and if the elite even noticed your disgusting fawning over them, they wouldn't thank you for it;...
[23:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:16] <exec> 08└─You're full of shit. Climate change mitigation benefits you in a myriad of ways (keeping the food belts stable for example; do you really want the US to become unable to feed itself and Russia to be the world's breadbasket as Siberia thaws?). Widespread vaccination benefits you through herd immunity...
[23:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, what? I can't hear you with all the slobber and shoe polish dripping off the end of your tongue. Sounds like you're in denial of what we can all see you actively doing...? Odd. Also, for your future benefit: an ad hominem is when someone substitutes insults for arguments. I am *supplementing*...
[23:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:21] <exec> 08└─You know they call it front-running in the a lot of non-HFT places and is a regulated offense, yet somehow I've also been curious why HFT folks have no such limitations. Some folks claims it provides liquidity, but will it? In a market downturn where everyone is holding on to cash, will it provide l...
[23:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:11] <exec> 08└─On a 4-sided triangular bun. Cost? $4.00/0.
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[23:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UMD Researchers’ Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:24] <exec> 08└─Incorrect, sadly there is no funny/insightful mod that some actual user could mod you up with.
[23:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UMD Researchers’ Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:25] <exec> 08└─Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat
[23:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:38] <exec> 08└─Why move to Mars when most of the Middle East is uninhabited by humans and much closer to home?
[23:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:09] <exec> 08└─They're very efficient considering energy use, range, mass, and point to point travel.
[23:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:10] <exec> 08└─We create technology that hurts us.
[23:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:05] <exec> 08└─Valerie Plame (an experienced undercover agent) put herself under every spotlight she could find after some of the most powerful people in the world "accidentally" arranged for her to be in mortal danger. There are a number of lines of evidence pointing to Seth Rich being the DNC leaker, and Bill Bi...
[23:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:07] <exec> 08└─BTW, he certainly never threw whistleblowers under the train... quite the contrary actually. Unfortunately the Guardian, Luke Hardy in particular, has been a source of a lot of BS on this front. He was also a big international pusher of Russiagate. The interview he did with Aaron Mate should have fo...
[23:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:09] <exec> 08└─The skipping bail charges HAVE NOT been dropped. What charges he was facing *TO* skip bail were dropped. But he skipped court bail. That's basically contempt of court, whether or not he was innocent of the original charges or they were dropped. He promised the court he'd be a good boy and not run of...
[23:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:11] <exec> 08└─He said when he first ran that the UK just had to say "You will not be deported to the USA" and he would walk out the embassy. They have consistently weaseled out of saying that, and as a result he believes that as soon as he leaves the embassy, he's on a plane to Guantanamo. Not an unreasonable bel...
[23:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:25] <exec> 08└─Now they've got Muslims. Allah akbar!