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[00:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:00] <exec> 08└─Dooom! We are all Doomed! Some are even Domed!
[00:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:01] <exec> 08└─*nix already provides shell scripting which does the vast majority of glue work you could need. For the fancier stuff, there's tons of other tools ranging from awk to python. What benefit could Microsofts "It's a trap" PowerShell provide? I suppose its of interest to those that feel Microsoft doesn'...
[00:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:15] <exec> 08└─So what is "harmful" and who gets to define it? Who cares? It's a tiresome subject that produces no results. It's masturbation. Let's get the tech out so nobody can "define" and restrict it.
[00:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:16] <exec> 08└─The law is hardly matters, it just means the tech will have to blend in well, and be able to throw people off the trail. There's lots to do, but the talent and money is out there. I hope somebody will put it to good use.
[00:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:18] <exec> 08└─That should lead to interesting diplomatic discussions.
[00:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:34] <exec> 08└─I'd feel safer with a telemetry provided by Google, tho. It's even easier and more pervasive, just make every helmet use Google's fonts or some tracking pixels and you are gold. (grin)
[00:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:36] <exec> 08└─It is! The best that H1Bs can provide.
[00:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:38] <exec> 08└─"what will it actually do when deployed?"
[00:07:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:37] <exec> 08└─Dems get to say they "DID SOMETHING" about Net Neutrality.
[00:07:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:42] <exec> 08└─It forces the Senate and president to admit to doing the opposite of what a clear majority of the people want done. No more hiding behind an unelected bureaucrat.
[00:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:02] <exec> 08└─in 2015 Dems IMPLEMENTED NET NEUTRALITY. That is a lie! They did NOT implement net neutrality. They implemented "net neutrality", defined politically, not technically.
[00:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:03] <exec> 08└─Why are you attacking me? I did not mention nor infer FCC. Mushrooms kicking in? You say I misunderstood? I think TV, movies, fiction stories, games, etc., are messing with people's minds. Your post, in its fallacious reference to mine, is a series of leaps of logic, specious statements, fiction, im...
[00:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:05] <exec> 08└─If Republicans stood for nothing, dear, then why shouldn't the Democrats have been able to stop a declaration of a non-emergency?
[00:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:08] <exec> 08└─Oh. Is that the Senate that is also elected by the people but still has a Republican majority? A small majority, but a majority? And the President that lost a popular vote but was still elected by the representational compromise that is the electoral college? How interesting.
[00:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:10] <exec> 08└─Read the bill. Where's the dumb pipe and open markets? Without that, it's NOT net neutrality, outside the political realm. It's just like the ACA it's half-assed bullshit to protect the industry, not to open up access. Oh damn! I just looked it up. It never passed in congress, ever. It was a bullshi...
[00:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:12] <exec> 08└─So fuck you and your cynicism. Telling the truth about corrupt political parties isn't cynicism. Voting for the GOP/DNC is the worse kind of cynicism. Voting them out would be the exact opposite. Why would you claim otherwise?
[00:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:14] <exec> 08└─I think you forgot about President & Senate. Or, you want to forget. And live in the Liberal Media Bubble. Because, your an Editor. And you can tweet in secret, where only the other Editors can read. About every story. But this VERY DUMB story went up. About, House of Representatives passed somethin...
[00:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:17] <exec> 08└─And what do fruits have to say about the issue? I don't know. You'll have to call the governor of California
[00:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:19] <exec> 08└─Let's add a little context here. You *replied* to someone who said: The internet is so important that it deserves a distinct category. We shouldn't be lumping it in with obsolete tech like hard-wired stock tickers.
[00:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, fuck the FCC. Congress is responsible. And the voters are responsible for the congress we have. The democrats AND republicans need to excised from our government, and replaced by people that don't owe favors to their "donors". Then you might get net neutrality. Failure to do so is on the voters...
[00:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:23] <exec> 08└─That all sounds like an odd way to run a country.
[00:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:26] <exec> 08└─Read the bill. Where's the dumb pipe and open markets? Without that, it's NOT net neutrality,
[00:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:28] <exec> 08└─...what people say they want doesn't matter?
[00:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:13] <exec> 08└─Indictment is a political act in and of itself, so I don't think it makes a great deal of sense as a measure of evil. Obama is the president who decided that due process free execution based on secret legal memos was hunky dory. That's a lot more evil than breaking into Watergate for dirt on your op...
[00:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:14] <exec> 08└─Five years before the Soviet Union vanished from the face of the earth, nobody would believe that in five years the USSR would be gone. Whither myspace BTW?
[00:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:16] <exec> 08└─Yandex.ru
[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Young Astronomer Uses Artificial Intelligence To Discover 2 Exoplanets - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:43] <exec> 08└─Whenever I was a student trying to do something cool, all I got was a smackdown.
[00:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:55] <exec> 08└─His language can be viewed as a library where most the usual language overhead is taken away. It has pretty much no learning curve except math itself. Come to think about it, why anybody who does not design computers has to learn a computer language to program a computer? The computer should already...
[00:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:57] <exec> 08└─That was probably because a new language wanted to add some credibility for itself at the beginning. Wolfram done it without any handicap.
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[01:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:59] <exec> 08└─Mass fdisk of windows boxes with ease, why else?
[01:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:00] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Microsoft will be trying to force it down the throats of Powershell 7 users soon enough.
[01:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:02] <exec> 08└─From TFS: "Windows usage has not been growing as significantly, surprising given that PowerShell was popularized on the Windows platform," Lee explains. [...] The next version of PowerShell will thus be available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and the company explains it'll be available with LTS (Lon...
[01:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:18] <exec> 08└─We need to punish the government for censoring the internet. But first, let's work on making censorship impossible. Then we really don't have to worry about what the government, or anybody else says about social media. Let's get those bulletproof servers up and running!
[01:06:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:30] <exec> 08└─Forget about the telemetry, how will they manage Windows updates in the middle of a combat situation? The enemy has learned the perfect time to attack is on Tuesday nights. :P
[01:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:57] <exec> 08└─danny@danny-mint19-vm02:~$ fsck systemd
[01:07:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:10] <exec> 08└─Seeing as it's sheets of the fifth element, why not just call it Leeloo?
[01:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:18] <exec> 08└─Beefene, stronger than craphene.
[01:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:21] <exec> 08└─To the extent that I understand that paper (not much) it doesn't look promising. In at least one place it's talking about "theoretic strength". It also says that how strong it is depends strongly on which direction you are pulling (I'm presuming this is WRT the crystal lattice.) and that in the b di...
[01:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:17] <exec> 08└─You could ask for clarification in a much kinder, nicer, affable, agreeable way. It's okay, you're living up to your username, and I've learned a lesson.
[01:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:18] <exec> 08└─What people actually want does not matter if it clashes with what your ruling class want and the Rs have control.
[01:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:20] <exec> 08└─Surely that will end the predicted internet-apocalypse we're all living in right now.
[01:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:23] <exec> 08└─You could ask for clarification in a much kinder, nicer, affable, agreeable way. It's okay, you're living up to your username, and I've learned a lesson.
[01:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:25] <exec> 08└─The spell checker should have definitely caught that one. I always use "on teh Interwebs" when writing official security reports at work.
[01:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:27] <exec> 08└─The old version I read about, maybe a month or 6 weeks ago, had 2 issues I figured would pop up somewhere, but didn't: Do you have a link that article? I heard nothing about that in any of the coverage I've read.
[01:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:32] <exec> 08└─There isn't any software controlling the wing shape. The article says the wings are designed so that different stresses on the structure cause the wing to deform to the most advantageous airfoil for that phase of flight. It's entirely passive, there aren't even any motors. The article also says this...
[01:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:14] <exec> 08└─Why do you have this permanent knot in your jockstrap about null-hypothesis testing? Did a regression curve eat your cat or something?
[01:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:50] <exec> 08└─[The Tick] Soo...... NotSanguine was Sanguine with a Fedora replacement for the OS. Was not Exsanguinated over Win10 being on the machine but resanguinified an otherwise fine piece of hardware...... But is sstill NotSanguine. Hmmm...... [/The Tick]
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[02:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:03] <exec> 08└─STOP IT! Pickles from the garbage dump? Ewwwwww....
[02:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:05] <exec> 08└─I'm OK with it. It's posted in /dev/random and everyone on Soylent likes pickles (surely).
[02:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, he orders it everytime is goes to McDonald. Qurater Pounder with "1/2 lbs" of pickes by (same size as paddy and twice as thick, Then he fills the top of the "Box" now more big Ma box with ketchup. Dip & Eat, Dip & Eat. I sit on the other side of the restaurant.
[02:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:09] <exec> 08└─It's posted in /dev/random and everyone on Soylent likes pickles (surely).
[02:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:11] <exec> 08└─Bacon? Good Lord! Oh well, it takes all sorts I suppose.
[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─Marry that one!!!!
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─Bacon good. Advertisement bad.
[02:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:28] <exec> 08└─They could have gone with 6.22, now with DriveSpace!
[02:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:29] <exec> 08└─A consistently implemented object oriented scripting language that works across all MS products and doesn't suck to work with. Now they're going to make it work across other platforms? Good stuff. . Microsoft is not to be trusted of course, but this is a scripting language. Going to be interestin...
[02:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:31] <exec> 08└─What was that game that DR DOS 7.0 had? Netwars? Something like that.
[02:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:34] <exec> 08└─> Powershell on Linux No. Not only no, but fuck no. Microsoft is a creeping cancer, a gelatinous mass whose only instinct is to consume and turn everything it touches into shit.
[02:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:36] <exec> 08└─So nobody has anything positive to say about Powershell? Not even anonymous so not to ruin all your tux-cred with the neckbeards? I have not tried it yet -- I have not even checked the syntax, but I will admit that it is mildly interesting. It comes with Windows that the corporate overlords supply c...
[02:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:38] <exec> 08└─> Powershell on Linux No. Not only no, but fuck no. Microsoft is a creeping cancer, a gelatinous mass whose only instinct is to consume and turn everything it touches into shit.
[02:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:41] <exec> 08└─That idea surely must have occurred to the skinwalkers at MS, and they took the gamble anyway. They're evil, not stupid...so unless their egos are getting in the way and they're truly blind, I can only assume they have good reason to believe things won't turn out that way.
[02:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:58] <exec> 08└─So I presume they will be banning Christianity and Bible content any time now.
[02:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:59] <exec> 08└─Wishful thinking, may you be touched by His noodly appendages.
[02:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:01] <exec> 08└─The law does matter. When something needs to be said or a message needs to be delievered, it needs to be accessible to as many people as possible. If you want to just echo your message between between some members of a hidden underground, then fine. But if you need to reach people that can effect ch...
[02:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:05] <exec> 08└─The old version I read about, maybe a month or 6 weeks ago, had 2 issues I figured would pop up somewhere, but didn't: Do you have a link that article? I heard nothing about that in any of the coverage I've read.
[02:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:06] <exec> 08└─Again you are wrong. The FCC is a bureaucracy appointed by the president and congress. Congress has to pass a law, that can't be so easily repealed. They failed. And the voters failed by reelecting them, again! You're just following the mass media spoon fed script. And so next year (or 2024) we will...
[02:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:56] <exec> 08└─No, I am a fan of personal choice, accountability, responsibility, idiosyncrasies, and and individual roles. It is precious and beautiful when found in literature, that is what makes reading fun. However, in real life we have seen that does not work because criminal republicans take advantage.
[02:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:16] <exec> 08└─Is it just me or does this artist's concept [internapcdn.net] look rather similar, modulo the winglets, to some versions of the Arado Ar E555 [luft46.com] Amerika Bomber from 1942?
[02:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:17] <exec> 08└─Tetrahedral arrangements of flying surfaces are not new: - https://publicdomainreview.org [publicdomainreview.org] - https://books.google.com [google.com] - https://en.wikipedia.org [wik...
[02:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:19] <exec> 08└─Now, why exactly do you think that FICO, Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian should be held less liable than your family physician should be? Because there has been a proven history of companies discriminating against people due to their medical history. Whereas for most situations (except for the alr...
[02:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:02] <exec> 08└─Because I wasted the prime of my life torturing rats due to it...
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[03:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:09] <exec> 08└─I'm a PICKLE!
[03:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:11] <exec> 08└─Prosiuuuuuuutes!!!!
[03:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:13] <exec> 08└─I would have been impressed (a little) if the guy had managed to get a printed receipt with McPickles written on it. But what he ordered is just a custom-made Big Mac at the regular Big Mac price, and the story is really about how the girl at the counter thought he was a bit of a retard. How that ge...
[03:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:15] <exec> 08└─It's not news. It's Soylent News!
[03:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:17] <exec> 08└─I couldn't resist. :) This may not register right away, but let me say this: leave your pickle alone for a few nights [youtube.com] [NSFW]
[03:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:55] <exec> 08└─Mobile "Scud" servers can multicast.. Those wall wart computers are the best. Think multiple "warhead". And there's still the classifieds. That still works, doesn't it? Whatever, this whole cat and mouse game will eventually lead to Mad Max. The Great Pirates that run the world will exterminate 6 bi...
[03:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:15] <exec> 08└─How long until this shit is showing up on the streets of US cities? Hmmm - let me answer my own question: About a year after it's in use in London. London leads the fall into 24/7 police state surveillance. We watch them, and we know what is coming our way.
[03:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:03] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you're so bitter. Were you abused as a child? I recommend getting some professional help for your obvious depression and feelings of inadequacy. Good luck. I hope things get better for you, friend!
[03:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:04] <exec> 08└─I find your fact-free ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Facts are for suckers, amirite?
[03:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:06] <exec> 08└─Facts are for suckers, amirite? Evidently they're not for you! You all prefer GOP/DNC propaganda. I hope you get something out of it.
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[04:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:59] <exec> 08└─Exactly why this post is so interesting: https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=New+Report%3A+Global+Warming+And+%E2%80%98Extreme+Weather%E2%80%99+Are+Not+Accelerating [soylentnews.org]
[04:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:01] <exec> 08└─Yes they did https://mg.co.za [mg.co.za] then it is the perfect counter point to Venezuela , they seem to know how to do things right, i’m Sure they’ll do fine.
[04:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:03] <exec> 08└─the perfect counter point to Venezuela Well, that's because Venezuela is full of *Mexicans*!
[04:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:05] <exec> 08└─The fundamentals for life are just easier to attain for people near the equator. Just look at how colorful fish are there vs in the North (indicating extra energy available to flaunt wealth). The equator is prime real estate. Culture and genetics are different as a result of the higher rate of c...
[04:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:07] <exec> 08└─Just look at how colorful fish are there vs in the North (indicating extra energy available to flaunt wealth).
[04:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:10] <exec> 08└─We're seeing more and more people from places like Norway that want to come to U.S.A. To immigrate. Too bad. Our Country is full!!!!
[04:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:12] <exec> 08└─What passes for "colorful" in the North: https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] Tropical fish: https://upload.wikimedia.org
[04:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:30] <exec> 08└─I, don't want a pickle... [youtube.com]
[04:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:32] <exec> 08└─Hard on the Windows Powershell 7 Soyvertisement, we get "Tasmanian Man"? I was thinking, "interbred with Denosivians", but no, pickles, and MickyD's pickles. Could we not have had a nice banned aristarchus submission instead of this vegemite?
[04:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:34] <exec> 08└─Hard on the Windows Powershell 7 Soyvertisement, we get "Tasmanian Man"? I was thinking, "interbred with Denosivians", but no, pickles, and MickyD's pickles. Could we not have had a nice banned aristarchus submission instead of this vegemite?
[04:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:52] <exec> 08└─So nobody has anything positive to say about Powershell? Not even anonymous so not to ruin all your tux-cred with the neckbeards? [...]
[04:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:54] <exec> 08└─That idea surely must have occurred to the skinwalkers at MS, and they took the gamble anyway. They're evil, not stupid...so unless their egos are getting in the way and they're truly blind, I can only assume they have good reason to believe things won't turn out that way.
[04:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:56] <exec> 08└─I've used powershell. It's okay. It really doesn't work as well or provide as much power or flexibility as other scripting languages, but for managing Windows and AD, it provides a modicum of utility. Please understand that powershell isn't like perl or python. It really has no utility outside sys a...
[04:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:17] <exec> 08└─Hmm, if wswswswsws' theory about the nature of the censorship is correct (which seems fairly rational and doesn't require an illuminati-type conspiracy, just a lot of rich fucks acting according to their class interests), a hidden underground might be able to serve as a means of coordination for the...
[04:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:29] <exec> 08└─You just can't stop the insults, can you. It's not a matter of being "thin-skinned", or boorish. It's a matter of my preference for intelligent discourse, which most people understand is undermined by childish flame wars. Something is wrong with you, and I hope you find psychiatric help. They're rea...
[04:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:30] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you're so bitter. :-) You're projectinggg. You all are quite famous for that, especially after Trump. I'm as happy as can be. And watching you people angrily flail about is very entertaining. Thanks for the laughs!
[04:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:32] <exec> 08└─Seeing that something is incorrect and offering facts and arguments that back against it is the *essence* of intelligent discourse. What you *could* have done was to rebut my arguments and we could have had a discussion about the ideas. But instead, you whinged the equivalent of "Mommy! NotSanguine...
[04:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, about that ... even if Warren becomes president she'll still need the House and the Senate to vote in favor of biting the hand that feeds their campaigns.
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[05:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:08] <exec> 08└─More like Snoreway! [youtube.com]
[05:06:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:40] <exec> 08└─From TFS: "Windows usage has not been growing as significantly, surprising given that PowerShell was popularized on the Windows platform," Lee explains. [...] The next version of PowerShell will thus be available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and the company explains it'll be available with LTS (Lon...
[05:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:52] <exec> 08└─Anyone else wondering how they noticed those "usage patterns"?
[05:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─Corporations use one of the toilets that are intended for various subsets of the other 87 (or was it 89?) genders.
[05:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:06] <exec> 08└─You've got less than two days to drop a Goatse picture on their servers!
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[06:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers 3-D Print Metamaterials with Novel Optical Properties - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:14] <exec> 08└─The Original Article [nature.com] is free access
[06:06:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:25] <exec> 08└─Just look at how colorful fish are there vs in the North (indicating extra energy available to flaunt wealth).
[06:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:30] <exec> 08└─Oooh, ooh, i know this one! You're gonna say next that all those hardass Nordics...'scuse me, "northern people" are genetically superior due to the environment they had to survive in, and way less effeminate and weak than those pansy-assed brown people^W^W southern types, right? And naturally have h...
[06:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:32] <exec> 08└─They are leaving it in the ground, not "walking away" from it. There's a big difference. Norway is staying where it is and the oil is also staying where it is, in Norwegian possession, and it may well be extracted in the future. If I have money in the bank and decide to leave it there for my descend...
[06:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:34] <exec> 08└─If I have money in the bank and decide to leave it there for my descendants, that doesn't count as walking away from my money, does it?
[06:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:36] <exec> 08└─but every f*cking story that can be green-spun gets this kind of treatment now.
[06:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:39] <exec> 08└─Norway has known for a long time that fossil fuels are not viable in the long term. Thus they have been divesting for years and for decades have been diversifying the investments of the funds generated by fossil fuels. They've known that petrochemicals must come to an end and have been preparing for...
[06:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:41] <exec> 08└─South American commies spent their oil fortune on Chavez and his generals living lives of luxury while the people suffered. Norway Socialists spent their oil wealth preparing their country for a post-oil world by using the proceeds to invest in other areas. Alaska's dividend program was originally b...
[06:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:43] <exec> 08└─Noticing that certain races are wildly incompetent is RACISS! I virtue signal in public and declare myself a hero! Notice me people!
[06:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:28] <exec> 08└─I used it once, but don't remember what for. Evidently, it was a forgettable experience.
[06:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:10] <exec> 08└─Remember everyone - the Army has 1.2M Soldiers. A $100 pair of boots per soldier is a $120M program. Everyone gets a VR headset right? $479M is just the START.
[06:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:33] <exec> 08└─My father was born in a great place in Germany, so I have great respect for Germany. And for German companies. But I'll tell you, if you want to build cyber in the world, then I wish you all the best. You can build cyber for the United States, but for every cyber that comes to the USA you will pay 3...
[06:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:06] <exec> 08└─You are completely 100% absolutely irrational. If you had 0.001% rational thought, you would realize that if I think you're irrational, there's no intelligent discourse to be had with you. Make sense? No, I didn't think you could handle it. I have better things to do than argue with someone who need...
[06:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:57] <exec> 08└─Death comes to all. Might as well deserve it.
[06:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:58] <exec> 08└─You sound EXACTLY like certain folks that were in 115th. Congress. First thing they wanted to do was the complete & total GUTTING of Office of Congressional Ethics. It didn't happen -- because of me. I said, wait a minute. Did you campaign on demolishing the Ethics Office? Or on the Repeal & Replace...
[06:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:01] <exec> 08└─The Republican Party will become the Party of Choice!
[06:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:43] <exec> 08└─No. Although I keep an eye on ReactOS, and wish them all the best with it, it's just not enough together at this stage to consider in this environment (think > 100 machines, need to run high-end CAD and engineering applications, and print to plotters etc etc - I seem to recall ReactOS wasn't printin...
[06:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:44] <exec> 08└─FYI I've tried O&O ShutUp10 and one or two others, mostly ok but still things kept leaking through. In the end it took some registry hacks and a powershell script alongside of ShutUp10 before I was satisfied. Anything this didn't work on is captured at the border via IPtables or Squid. I'm not at th...
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[07:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:59] <exec> 08└─But, they can't use their Members to make a Family. Otherwise known as the Conjugal. Not good!!!
[07:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:00] <exec> 08└─There have been huge issues keeping contraband out of prisons. The whole security situation is completely insane. Prisoners get cell phones! They have a very easy time getting drugs. They acquire materials to make weapons. Proper security would start with better guards of course, with background che...
[07:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:03] <exec> 08└─Figures. Sometimes I'm deeply ashamed of my country. In the end, it distills to a far, far greater shame in my species.
[07:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:31] <exec> 08└─What they do to be green domestically isn't relevant to how all the lost revenue made from selling oil to other nations is going to be made up. Diversified investing is all well and good but investments typically do not pay back but a small percentage of what was invested per year. That's not going...
[07:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:32] <exec> 08└─Pssst... I'm not sure if you've noticed but unless they drill and sell it relatively soon, they're not going to be able to sell it at all, ever. There is no leaving it for their descendants. That's not going to be an option.
[07:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:34] <exec> 08└─Ooooo, evolution doesn't apply to people cos dat's raciss. For the last few thousand years those who live well north of the snow line died if they didn't prepare for winter. Not a minor evolutionary pressure like slightly lower survival rate or less kids, but flat out DEAD. If they were incapable of...
[07:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:37] <exec> 08└─Actually the different South American nations had more than a few politicians who wanted to do exactly as Norway did and sensibly manage their means of production and natural resources. The US funded their corrupt opposition and assassinated them when failing that. And when even that didn't work the...
[07:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:39] <exec> 08└─Norway is only around %3 arable land and an increasing amount of that is covered by business parks, suburban sprawl, and other forms of asphalt. Their once famous fishing industry is history. Overfishing, warming ocean waters, and way too many imported crabs have killed that off. But, if they've con...
[07:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:01] <exec> 08└─He sends out plenty of Subs. But, most of them are getting Torpedoed!!!!
[07:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:02] <exec> 08└─How could you not be interested in this one? https://phys.org [phys.org] Despite decades of fascination with dolphins, scientists have long overlooked one aspect of the species' anatomy. For the first time, researchers offer an up-close look at th...
[07:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:28] <exec> 08└─6.22, now with DriveSpace! Drivespace and instant removal of USB sticks - at last, genuine proof that "data wants to be free"!
[07:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:06] <exec> 08└─You are completely 100% absolutely irrational. If you had 0.001% rational thought, you would realize that if I think you're irrational, there's no intelligent discourse to be had with you. Make sense? No, I didn't think you could handle it. I have better things to do than argue with someone who need...
[07:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:22] <exec> 08└─What I would be more concerned is about aero-elasticity effects. I once was fascinated by inflatable wings but invariably they had very funny flutter, after some speeds or when coupling the speed with a given flight surface deformation. Also moving parts give rise to funny dynamics appearing out of...
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[08:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:10] <exec> 08└─Why not GURPS, though?
[08:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:12] <exec> 08└─<Bloodninja:> I put on my robe and wizard hat.
[08:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:22] <exec> 08└─Visitation has been a huge problem. Ditching it is one of the many steps needed for security. It's a start. We have a long way to go.
[08:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:57] <exec> 08└─Direct quote: "Haiti? Why do we want people from Haiti here?" Then they got Africa. 'Why do we want these people from all these shithole countries here? We should have more people from places like Norway."
[08:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:58] <exec> 08└─Their investment fund is worth $1 trillion. Norway's social expenditure stands at about 25% of GDP, which was $398 billion as of 2017. All this combined means they'll need a 10% return year-on-year, presuming ordinary Norwegians do not pay taxes for social security.
[08:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:00] <exec> 08└─And Norway is filling up with muslims Whats your point
[08:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:02] <exec> 08└─Why? Will someone steal it?
[08:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:26] <exec> 08└─The alt-right has no experience with clitori, wether Dolphinic or land mammalian. See: Red Pillars.
[08:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:52] <exec> 08└─A consistently implemented object oriented scripting language that works across all MS products and doesn't suck to work with.
[08:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:53] <exec> 08└─This this this! Powershell is not bash. I hated Powershell for so long, because to do things the *nix way is painful(but never impossible). Once I found I had sometime to properly learn Powershell for managing specific Windows/Microsoft processes/systems with very specific goals it just works. As wi...
[08:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:25] <exec> 08└─Not very.
[08:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:27] <exec> 08└─John Brennan has said Obama was responsible for ordering the FBI to attempt entrapping the Trump campaign. Time will tell if something comes of that.
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[09:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:05] <exec> 08└─Because Steve Jackson's a Terrorist Hacker [wikipedia.org].
[09:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:07] <exec> 08└─I still play 3.5e, mostly out of inertia. I remember thinking it was weird that everyone would cling to 2e back in the day, but after the massive investment of time and resources into an edition, I can see why. It is hard ebough to work people's schedules out just to get a session in, so having to m...
[09:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:09] <exec> 08└─Peter Griffin made that mistake on Family Guy [youtube.com] (NSFW)
[09:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when 4th Ed came out, my group switched to Pathfinder. We've stuck with it, though my son has just started playing with his friends and they have gone for D&D 5th Edition. Pathfinder's rules are close enough to 3.5e that you'll have no trouble picking them up, and Paizo have a huge number of w...
[09:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:13] <exec> 08└─Or anything more sophisticated than D&D. It was like Brazil (the movie), all the plumbing was exposed and visible, a whole pile of artificial artefacts added to make gameplay work properly, while 2nd-gen and later RPGs had them more or less hidden.
[09:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:23] <exec> 08└─Anal probe insertion in 5, 4, 6, 3, 9, 2, 3again, 1, Entry. Thank you for using Virtual Prison Visit 2.0, obviously running on Windows10, brought to you by Teledildonics, Inc, a limited liability company that only contracts with "for profit" prisons and universities. See our job listings at, https...
[09:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:01] <exec> 08└─You're right, our country is too full... Why don't you leave to make room for others.
[09:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:03] <exec> 08└─What they do to be green domestically isn't relevant to how all the lost revenue made from selling oil to other nations is going to be made up.
[09:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:05] <exec> 08└─lern 2 rite
[09:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:07] <exec> 08└─Unbelievably Stinking Assholes will "liberate" it.
[09:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:09] <exec> 08└─There is no leaving it for their descendants
[09:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:12] <exec> 08└─I don't agree. I don't agree. Norway, in the early 1940s, used to be great. It's great no more. Too many Radical Muslims. And, too many Socialists. Their country is CIRCLING THE DRAIN!!!!
[09:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:14] <exec> 08└─I'll see your lubricants, and raise you chemical feedstocks.
[09:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:16] <exec> 08└─I'll see your lubricants
[09:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:18] <exec> 08└─WMD-carrying terrorists taking over Norway, liberation by the Free World needed.
[09:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:21] <exec> 08└─Well that's not a condescending summary at all. I think you'll think that Norway are one of the most affluent nations in the world because they don't throw money away on wars, invest in their people, and have a vast range of assets beyond just oil, as well as being the masters of forward-thinking. A...
[09:08:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:00] <exec> 08└─> Powershell on Linux No. Not only no, but fuck no. Microsoft is a creeping cancer, a gelatinous mass whose only instinct is to consume and turn everything it touches into shit.
[09:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:12] <exec> 08└─I use power shell every day. I am happy it exists on windows. Far better than VB or c# or perl. It is standard on all windows machines. It works. It does take some getting used to. I am a Linux guy working in a windows centric shop. Without power shell this job would suck a lot more. Appreciate it f...
[09:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:14] <exec> 08└─What benefit could Microsofts "It's a trap" PowerShell provide?
[09:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03evk [597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:16] <exec> 08└─Powershell has this nice idea of shuffling around objects instead of undefined data streams. So if you pipe a directory listing to something, you don't get a bunch of text that you can parse. You get objects with properties. This isn't a bad idea. For some reason they managed to mess up lots of smal...
[09:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:18] <exec> 08└─Should we discourage such people from moving at least some of their infrastructure to Linux by forcing them to re-implement all their tools in a new language?
[09:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:40] <exec> 08└─Its far worse than you think: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[10:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:08] <exec> 08└─If you really want to have a jack buy a bluetooth-to-jack dongle and you can have a poor man;s version of bluetooth headphones. Honestly though, a phone is a mobile thing and after buying bluetooth headphones i never cared for wired headphones anymore.
[10:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:10] <exec> 08└─My phone sits on my desk all day charge cable in one end (if needed) and aux cable in the other for my headphones. Okay, sure, I could buy an iPod or something to carry around with me for music and books (but not movies) but given that I already have a computer with a screen and lots of storage in m...
[10:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:12] <exec> 08└─"No brave new world, No brave new world, Lost in this place, and leave no trace"
[10:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:14] <exec> 08└─Kogan phones are "good enough" now. Pity the battery is not replaceable. I do like the security offered by iPhone devices but not over losing the audio port.
[10:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:17] <exec> 08└─It was retarded then, it is retarded now.
[10:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:19] <exec> 08└─For listening to music? sure. However, Bluetooth doesn't allow me to put my phone in a pocket or bag when it's freezing/raining, while taking a call on a headset and have decent quality audio and microphone. Maybe this is changing, but the BT profiles allowing for high-quality audio did not support...
[10:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:21] <exec> 08└─I have the exact same use case and I do not need the 3.5mm Jack. Furthermore if your interest is in the audio quality I think the DACs of phones are not spectacular when compared with the digital transmission in the BT. In the end in a free world you get your way and I get mine, but it may be that y...
[10:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:23] <exec> 08└─It was the start of a new strategy that would bring convenience, simplicity, and downright delight.
[10:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:48] <exec> 08└─Do you guys not have smart phones?
[10:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:49] <exec> 08└─Surely it costs more to have people visit the prison.
[10:07:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 798 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:22] <exec> 08└─Actually the different South American nations had more than a few politicians who wanted to do exactly as Norway did and sensibly manage their means of production and natural resources. The US funded their corrupt opposition and assassinated them when failing that. And when even that didn't work the...
[10:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:39] <exec> 08└─then it is the perfect counter point to Venezuela
[10:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:40] <exec> 08└─How does one liberate gigaliters of oil from under the nose of a country?
[10:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:42] <exec> 08└─They are leaving it in the ground, not "walking away" from it. There's a big difference.
[10:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:07] <exec> 08└─On the contrary they have lots of experience Why do you think there are so many of them?
[10:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:08] <exec> 08└─If you RTFA this is less of an advertisement and more about some guy geeking out over his favourite food. Which I thought this crowd might appreciate.
[10:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:10] <exec> 08└─McDonald set up the joke just to be a cool company. Not important, not too much publicity, it didn't become a great meme, just to be there. Thanks to this guy, McDonald's prank got a lot more of visibility: more widespread, and longer time. I hope this guy has been smart enough to get some money fro...
[10:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:42] <exec> 08└─Powershell is not even half-baked. It's just there to keep them from running real tools and to burn through staff time and managment budgets. Letting people use it on GNULinux, FreeBSD, or whatever else will only leave a bad experience with the new systems, slow down the migration, and cause the man...
[10:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:08] <exec> 08└─Leeloophene!
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[11:06:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:14] <exec> 08└─It was the start of a new strategy that would bring convenience, simplicity, and downright delight.
[11:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:15] <exec> 08└─I've been using BT headphones for almost a decade. I tried several but settled on the LG HBS line back when the HBS700 came out. When upgrading or installing systems I could put my phone on a filing cabinet and travel 25 - 30 feet and still have music taking my mind off of what I was doing. Nothing...
[11:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:18] <exec> 08└─Seriously, can someone unearth a one button mouse and whip this retard off the damn internet? Maybe stone them with a few iPods? Honestly, what would it take? Where is boy-rape-story-anon-bot and Ethanol-Fueled when you need them to add the right texture to this kind of story? God damn Apple... Hone...
[11:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:20] <exec> 08└─I think you read the sentence wrong. It was CONVENIENT to take more dollars from customers for more costly wireless headphones. It was SIMPLICITY itself to raise revenue. It was DOWNRIGHT DELIGHT for Apple executives to walk home with more money in their pockets, yet again figuring out a way to remo...
[11:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:34] <exec> 08└─What the fuck, I told you not to message me again!
[11:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:38] <exec> 08└─You keep saying that every country mentioned on SN gets "filled" with muslims. If that's true I assume the countries that they come from are going to be empty pretty soon. Can't you just move there?
[11:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:39] <exec> 08└─On the "does not suck" line (and still work across platforms), I stumbled a while ago on something that may "suck less": IronPython [ironpython.net]. I don't know by direct experience how well it does, but the guy that mentioned it has my respects as a softeng.
[11:08:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:48] <exec> 08└─So what is "harmful" and who gets to define it? How long before we all have to be locked in a cell where we can only hear the current government/religion's propaganda?
[11:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─Everyone is free to take OpenSUSE
[11:10:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:56] <exec> 08└─If Republicans stood for nothing, dear, then why shouldn't the Democrats have been able to stop a declaration of a non-emergency?
[11:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:18] <exec> 08└─And the men that believe this are deserving of nothing but death.
[11:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:20] <exec> 08└─No, I am a fan of personal choice, accountability, responsibility, idiosyncrasies, and and individual roles. It is precious and beautiful when found in literature, that is what makes reading fun. However, in real life we have seen that does not work because criminal republicans take advantage.
[11:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:42] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing this is more intended to fit with electric airplanes, another NASA thing. A battery system potentially can fit into a flexible wing a lot better than a fuel tank can. It might even be part of the structure itself.
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[12:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:24] <exec> 08└─NYTimes summarized it better:Boeing’s 737 Max: 1960s Design, 1990s Computing Power and Paper Manuals [nytimes.com]. The already known factors (larger engines not fit with a lower airframe, no redundancy in AoA sensors, unwillingness to go through a full recertification, pressure on "no extra pilot...
[12:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:25] <exec> 08└─The failure here was a continues regulatory (capture) first and foremost. It doesn't matter what broke and how some 30 years manual suggested it might or might not happen. What matters is that Boeing got away with producing a shitty Frankenstein-of-a-plane that demanded too much of the pilots both c...
[12:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:44] <exec> 08└─I would lose those in no time. Heck, I once lost my wired EarPods, and after a traumatizing experience of searching for a certain USB stick, I have attached widely visible lanyards to those which contain remotely important data (*). So, from my purely personal perspective, no thanks to that stuff. F...
[12:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:59] <exec> 08└─As always, the cool kids are busy getting laid. As for the success of D&D, I'm guessing there's a large population of smartphone-raised kids that can't move into age-appropriate PC or console games so throwing a dice in an RPG is as close as it gets for them... Better than nothing I suppose.
[12:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:14] <exec> 08└─Why do anything when you just internet video it instead. BTW, guys, we don't need to have a civilization now that my Romans have plowed over the Incas and Australians. I got this.
[12:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:07] <exec> 08└─"Renewables are where the money is at these days. Further, there is no ash runoff to ruin the water (and thus the fish) in the country's remaning trout streams" Could you come to Canada and point this out to Trudeau and Alberta? Please?
[12:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:08] <exec> 08└─We're seeing more and more people from places like American that want to come to Canada to immigrate. OUR Country is GREAT!!!
[12:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:10] <exec> 08└─Stupid auto-correct. *America
[12:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:12] <exec> 08└─Find imaginary WMD and invade/start a war and put in a government of YOUR choice.
[12:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:15] <exec> 08└─Once you have a means for the state to control something, then you have a means for the stupid people running the state to control something.
[12:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:17] <exec> 08└─The thing that bugs me here is not the "walking away". It's the lack of reason for doing so.
[12:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:17] <exec> 08└─Powershell has this nice idea of shuffling around objects instead of undefined data streams. So if you pipe a directory listing to something, you don't get a bunch of text that you can parse. You get objects with properties. This isn't a bad idea.
[12:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:19] <exec> 08└─Not the World Surf League, I'm sure, which is what Google tells me for WSL.
[12:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:27] <exec> 08└─You only need to provide your Name and email.
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[13:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:19] <exec> 08└─This whole debacle should have never occurred, but I don't read it as the NYT summarizing the situation better than TFS, but to me it adds additional information to that offered in the summary. It is a prime example of trying to save money by side-stepping the usual safety processes which are in pla...
[13:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:20] <exec> 08└─the loss of lives which cannot be quantified in any financial terms. The insurance companies have it down to the penny.
[13:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:22] <exec> 08└─Looking at one of the charts later, I saw that they didn't actually start losing altitude until the very end. So instead of "losing too much altitude" perhaps "never having gained enough altitude in the first place."
[13:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:24] <exec> 08└─They know how much they are prepared to pay - not how much someone once meant to his/her family and friends.
[13:06:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:35] <exec> 08└─It was retarded then, it is retarded now.
[13:06:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 1572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:41] <exec> 08└─I think you read the sentence wrong. It was CONVENIENT to take more dollars from customers for more costly wireless headphones. It was SIMPLICITY itself to raise revenue. It was DOWNRIGHT DELIGHT for Apple executives to walk home with more money in their pockets, yet again figuring out a way to remo...
[13:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:44] <exec> 08└─From what I have seen from people who have these unwired plugs it is best to have several sets and charge them in rotation. One set for home. Office. Travelling. Swap as need be to charge or if a bud is lost.
[13:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:46] <exec> 08└─I have a good use case for wireless earphones, it's for running or any other exercises, and even then they might get lost or get screwed up in the rain, if the batteries don't short circuit in one's ears and explode. Otherwise, just fuck off. I listen to stuff ALL THE TIME on mp3 player with a 100 h...
[13:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:48] <exec> 08└─I can see why some would prefer bluetooth. Certainly I like the fact my phone connects to my car without me thinking about it, so if I get a call it pops up on the speakers. My phone as a 3.5mm jack though, so conflating "using bluetooth" with "removing 3.5mm" seems rather odd.
[13:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:51] <exec> 08└─Okay, who stole the sarcasm tag?
[13:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:53] <exec> 08└─I will buy the last phone that has a jack in it years from now and keep it going forever if need be.
[13:07:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:07] <exec> 08└─As always, the cool kids are busy getting laid. As for the success of D&D, I'm guessing there's a large population of smartphone-raised kids that can't move into age-appropriate PC or console games so throwing a dice in an RPG is as close as it gets for them... Better than nothing I suppose.
[13:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:09] <exec> 08└─D&D has gotten someone laid... probably.
[13:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:24] <exec> 08└─One would think they would be able to save a lot of money in the transfer from physical visits to screen-visits, no (or less) guards that have to do security checks on the visitors and inmates. Smuggling of contraband should take a nose dive, it's just so hard to hand over physical items via the scr...
[13:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:23] <exec> 08└─BS. The gringos didn't create the drug cartels. We did that all by ourselves.
[13:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:26] <exec> 08└─What is the advantage of IronPython over Python? Its web page [ironpython.net] seems to say it's compatible.
[13:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:28] <exec> 08└─What is the advantage of IronPython over Python?
[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:30] <exec> 08└─Powershell powers hell.
[13:10:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:31] <exec> 08└─Every company assures me they have a legitimate interest in my data. It enables them to improve their revenue product.
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[14:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:22] <exec> 08└─I am basically a libertarian. Nonetheless, as screwed up as Obamacare is, well, right now, the US has the worst aspects of a socialist system combined with the worst aspects of a free market system. Massive government over-regulation combined with corporate cronyism and regulatory capture. Moving al...
[14:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:24] <exec> 08└─I do not want 99% of this supposed "healthcare", and especially do not want to be forced to pay "health insurers". Basically, there are two false equivalence's being made: Health != healthcare != health insurance
[14:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:26] <exec> 08└─We are already living in the economist's disastrous world. Time to expel them all, along with phrenologists and astrologers. Off the planet!
[14:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:28] <exec> 08└─I won't comment on whether this is a good idea or not, but I that you're right in this case. It will never be pruned back, and if you have essentially guaranteed money being shoved in your face, you will naturally try to soak up every last penny of it. There's no incentive on the hospitals, doctors,...
[14:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:31] <exec> 08└─The health care woes will be solved by technology, or not at all. If we can cure most diseases and indefinitely prevent most aging-related conditions (organ failure, stroke, Alzheimer's, arthritis, etc.) then hospital visits, end-of-life care, and health care costs will drop.
[14:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:33] <exec> 08└─The problem with believing fantasy is that it's not reality. The Budget-Minimizing Bureaucrat? Empirical Evidence from the Senior Executive Service [jstor.org] Free market ideology doesn’t work for health care [publicintegrity.org]
[14:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:35] <exec> 08└─Economists tell us that central banks can print money and give to their friends indefinitely without increasing wealth inequality. Also, that if they stopped doing that, inequality would get even worse even though it has created a world with the highest levels of inequality in history.
[14:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:38] <exec> 08└─Damn you autocorrect.
[14:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:40] <exec> 08└─The first rule for a economist is supply and demand. The current system regulates supply and demand is inelastic when it matters. No wonder prices are distorted. The 'affordable' healthcare act just poured more into the payment system which probably made things less affordable overall. This proposal...
[14:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:42] <exec> 08└─Bradley, the reason removing regulations and letting "the free market" solve the problem won't work is that healthcare is not a free market. You are familiar with the term "elasticity of demand?" Demand for healthcare is remarkably inelastic; people still get sick whether an aspirin is pennies or do...
[14:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:45] <exec> 08└─You will have healthcare rationing, dictated by faceless bureaucrats. Sort of like those limitations put on policies by the insurance company's faceless bureaucracy. You will have months-long waiting lists for treatments. As opposed to the months-long struggle to get approval from my primary care ph...
[14:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:47] <exec> 08└─When we're talking about "how much will this guy pay to keep his life", that number tends to inflate quite a bit beyond what it actually costs for the treatment.
[14:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:49] <exec> 08└─The problem with believing fantasy is that it's not reality.
[14:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 2137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:51] <exec> 08└─The problem with a free market system is that it seems to always work best for the well-off and not at all for the poorest people. Modern day capitalism (i.e. free market systems) has shown that many of the assumptions about it are wrong. Free market forces require perfect competition to work, i.e....
[14:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:54] <exec> 08└─Demand for healthcare is remarkably inelastic; people still get sick whether an aspirin is pennies or dollars.
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:56] <exec> 08└─Demand for healthcare is remarkably inelastic; people still get sick whether an aspirin is pennies or dollars.
[14:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:58] <exec> 08└─In the midst of an information revolution, why does it take a doctor's license to get information like a blood test or scan?
[14:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:11] <exec> 08└─They are appealing known biases to distract from the real issues. New is not always better; design is always a compromise of factors and revisions can go backwards. The current problem didn't exist in the 1990s -- it was the changes made to the NEW jets that caused the problem. The answer is not to...
[14:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:12] <exec> 08└─Mentour Pilot (a commercial 737-NG pilot) discussed this at length last week on a live stream: https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[14:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but it did say "financial terms"
[14:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:39] <exec> 08└─Oh man, if it's retarted, it's gotta be good. I love tarts. https://www.aprettylifeinthesuburbs.com [aprettylifeinthesuburbs.com]
[14:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:40] <exec> 08└─You had and can still have BOTH allowing the user the FREEDOM to CHOOSE and having to pay $$$ is not freedom but they sure would love the suckers to believe it is. Furthermore, "poor man" is a slander. Aside from it not being relevant, somebody who has such a new smart phone is not poor in the first...
[14:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:43] <exec> 08└─Um, you do realize that once you get past the "digital transmission in BT" there is another crappy DAC right?
[14:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:45] <exec> 08└─got a NUC and sometimes the TV speakers are just not good enough (getting old) so the NUC-KODI box sends the audio via bluettooth to wireless headphones. the strange thing in programable techno gizmo word was that i already had a bluetooth receiver (my asus zen phone w/ audio jack) and headphones th...
[14:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:47] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Agent Smith kicked Neo's ass while wearing an earbud. If it's good enough for Smith, it's good enough for me!
[14:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:49] <exec> 08└─It's another phanboy discussion! How cuuuute!
[14:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:52] <exec> 08└─It is really simple. If the headphones need their own batteries, you have to deal with even more charging of components (your phone, laptop, and now headphones too). When the headphones run out of power, you either need to use the phone directly (not an option in many cases, nor a preferred method f...
[14:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:09] <exec> 08└─...6 feet under, out of their job or with another boy most likely...
[14:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:24] <exec> 08└─Do we take Bloomberg seriously? They still haven't retracted [appleinsider.com] the iCloud Spy Chip [bloomberg.com] story, have they? Maybe Oil-wealthy Norway faces a political crossroads as climate concerns grow [arstechnica.com] instead?
[14:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:26] <exec> 08└─Warming waters (by less than a degree) killed off the fish. You have to be an idiot to believe this stuff.
[14:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:28] <exec> 08└─I think that is the plan. Trick all the people living near the equator into moving away with a fake global warming scare, then move in when the places they moved to get covered in a mile of ice.
[14:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:30] <exec> 08└─Good point.
[14:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:33] <exec> 08└─Norway seems to have enough money from their investment [soylentnews.org], so what's your problem with how they choose to do with their oil?
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─Pay attention. Bloomberg are professionals with the green paint.
[14:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─Evolution applies to people. But it applies one king hell mountain of a lot slower than culture, not that you have any. God DAMN are you stupid. And predictable. You are the bottom of the barrel, the absolute laziest sort of "thinker" it is possible to be. Look, shithead, the point of intelligence i...
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:39] <exec> 08└─You're gonna say next that all those hardass Nordics...'scuse me, "northern people" are genetically superior due to the environment they had to survive in, and way less effeminate and weak than those pansy-assed brown people^W^W southern types, right? And naturally have higher IQs and more ability t...
[14:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head.
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:09] <exec> 08└─He already got the world's only McPickle Burger, what more does he need?
[14:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:48] <exec> 08└─As a general-purpose shell, I think I'd give it a pass. But it's well suited to performing Windows-related tasks. I use it quite a bit when I'm working on things there. Need to write some tests for your .NET or COM+ application (yes, some of us still write these)? Just suck the interface into your s...
[14:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:50] <exec> 08└─it's the 10th result on the second page. and, yes, I blame Microsoft
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[15:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:03] <exec> 08└─this is terribly invasive. the only camp is to vote out whoever put them there and punish the people that developed the technology to track us like cattle
[15:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:05] <exec> 08└─Imagine if we saved capital punishment only for public officials who abuse their constituents.
[15:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:07] <exec> 08└─Just cover up your serial number...
[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─Find a most wanted terrorist and make masks of his face. Sell them for $10 each and, hopefully, profit.
[15:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:12] <exec> 08└─>There are real concerns that current approaches could generate false positives or let suspects slip through the cracks. Seriously? There shouldn't be - false positives and negatives aren't a "concern", they're a guarantee. Even for far simpler systems than facial recognition (medical diagnostic tes...
[15:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:14] <exec> 08└─I believe those are called Guy Fawkes masks.
[15:06:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:31] <exec> 08└─You will have healthcare rationing, dictated by faceless bureaucrats. Sort of like those limitations put on policies by the insurance company's faceless bureaucracy. You will have months-long waiting lists for treatments. As opposed to the months-long struggle to get approval from my primary care ph...
[15:06:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 2137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:34] <exec> 08└─The problem with a free market system is that it seems to always work best for the well-off and not at all for the poorest people. Modern day capitalism (i.e. free market systems) has shown that many of the assumptions about it are wrong. Free market forces require perfect competition to work, i.e....
[15:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:41] <exec> 08└─Seeing is nice, but if you have no choice…
[15:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:44] <exec> 08└─Because it takes a doctor's training to determine whether a blood test or scan is even needed, and to interpret the results of those tests properly.
[15:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:46] <exec> 08└─The problem with a free market system
[15:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:48] <exec> 08└─We all recognize that the status quo isn’t working.
[15:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:50] <exec> 08└─The government looks like it can't run shit. On the state level look at your local DMV. A fricken nightmare to deal with (at least here in CA). Look at the recent problems with the VA system. Once some outside inspectors came in they decided things were so bad they shut down at least 1 hospital, rat...
[15:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:52] <exec> 08└─I would rather let my body deal with 99% of health issues on its own rather than risk someone with rudimentary understanding messing around with it. Many people think this same way, which why "natural" cures that mostly do nothing are such a big thing. Doing nothing is often better than letting some...
[15:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─even though it has created a world with the highest levels of inequality in history.
[15:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:57] <exec> 08└─Because it takes a doctor's training to
[15:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:59] <exec> 08└─You gotta trust someone. Why not trust a single entity that all eyes are watching, and who, by law, has to be transparent with its constituency?
[15:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:01] <exec> 08└─That means, taxes paid in nature when one cannot raise enough money, no usury, no insurance, only state sponsored solidarity.
[15:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:03] <exec> 08└─Why not trust a single entity that all eyes are watching, and who, by law, has to be transparent with its constituency?
[15:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:06] <exec> 08└─Let people choose to be uninsured.
[15:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:08] <exec> 08└─https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/11/22/highest-inequality-human-history-societies-ripe-social-change/ [nonprofitquarterly.org]
[15:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:10] <exec> 08└─"From my experience, doctors rarely know what they are talking about" I take your point, but it's not quite that bad. For common things that doctors see over and over again, they are pretty good. Certainly better than self-diagnosis via the Internet. For unusual things, not so much. In the end, we d...
[15:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 6454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:12] <exec> 08└─I'm going to assume you're in the US. The problem you have is the target audience. Put aside prejudices, potential abuse of the systems, outright fraud, etc. - that can all be countered by implementing proper controls. Why anyone would want a national system without proper controls, I can't fathom....
[15:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:15] <exec> 08└─To reap the benefits of Medicare for all, the middlemen, administrators, bureaucrats, hangers-on and associated staff will have to go, together with their offices and parking spaces. Total US health care employment is 13 million, excluding self-employed. That is literally millions of people out of a...
[15:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:17] <exec> 08└─I take your point, but it's not quite that bad. For common things that doctors see over and over again, they are pretty good. Certainly better than self-diagnosis via the Internet.
[15:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:19] <exec> 08└─And I don't buy that "all eyes are watching" an entity like the US government. It gets away with way too much for that to be true.
[15:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:21] <exec> 08└─With the US government, at least the population has *SOME* opportunity for control and oversight. The reason folks don't trust the government is because they eventually find out what is going on. Likewise, they have the opportunity to vote people in or out, and make issues of things such that electe...
[15:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:37] <exec> 08└─The insurance companies have it down to the penny.
[15:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:39] <exec> 08└─No biggie, extra costs are just tacked on to the premiums, and the temporary loss is a nice tax deduction written into the code just for them.
[15:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:10] <exec> 08└─> I think you read the sentence wrong. Apple sure said it badly, especially with that word "remove". They could have at least stuck to "replace" or "upgrade". Their choice of words says a lot of things along the lines of what you said. Apple is big and powerful, and can fire customers who don't want...
[15:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:11] <exec> 08└─yeah i thought it was satire, then I realized it was just puffery from someone getting paid to promote the products. it shouldnt be on soylent
[15:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:14] <exec> 08└─More or less. It depends on your audio equipment not on generic, for the masses equipment. So if you have good audio equipment you do not limit it to your generic smartphone, and you can actually extract more value per buck from it.
[15:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:16] <exec> 08└─Replacing one $1 cable that sits in a hole with a $20 fragile, electronic, non-water-resistant device that requires constant charging, changing of the batteries every few years, syncing and resyncing whenever you move them between devices, broadcasts over the air and thus becomes susceptible to secu...
[15:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:18] <exec> 08└─How do I mod an article down?
[15:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:20] <exec> 08└─Remove analog I/O from devices, see where it takes you....
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─Evolution applies to people. But it applies one king hell mountain of a lot slower than culture.
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you can predict the future price of commodities now? I remember 15 years ago, a Ph.D. physicist was trying to convince me that the world was in danger of running out of oil.
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─That's the thing to remember. The people making this choice expect oil to drop in value when it gets regulated out of use for transportation. They're not doing it for the future investment. It is indeed walking away.
[15:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:13] <exec> 08└─Why not ? Don't you geeks always claim that Choice is Good(tm) ?
[15:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:15] <exec> 08└─You could have simply said Powershell Powers Windows. Everyone still would have understood what you mint.
[15:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:17] <exec> 08└─What benefit could Microsofts "It's a trap" PowerShell provide?
[15:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:19] <exec> 08└─and turn everything it touches into shit.
[15:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:21] <exec> 08└─So nobody has anything positive to say about Powershell?
[15:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:24] <exec> 08└─if you are NOT a .Net/C# dev then you have to learn not just powershell, but the entire .Net framework, for a one line script.
[15:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:26] <exec> 08└─You don't think No You don't believe No Never It couldn't be Could they Would they Actually Really Just scrape data Right from our machine Without us knowing No No no no Microsoft would never do that Microsoft is your friend Windows is the happiest place on earth You know this because Microsoft says...
[15:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:49] <exec> 08└─if the UK were truly concerned with harmful content, they would keep the internet free of their own government content. Ditto for any US jurisdictions 'concerned' about harmful content.
[15:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:50] <exec> 08└─It will be more nuanced. They will treat it as though it and its teaching is banned with severe penalties, but without actually banning it in writing that says it is banned. Banning it has been tried before. The worst thing they could do, is for the government to embrace and endorse it -- causing th...
[15:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:53] <exec> 08└─If the UK stops Trump from playing with his tweeter, then Trump will issue an executive order to dissolve the EU. That will really get back at the UK! So there! Whether the order is signed before or after we know what happens with Brexit remains unclear.
[15:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:55] <exec> 08└─How long before we all have to be locked in a cell where we can only hear the current government/religion's propaganda?
[15:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:30] <exec> 08└─And Windows or MacOS don't do this and much worse?
[15:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─Oh dear, I must be doing something wrong: danny@danny-mint19-vm02:~$ fuck systemd Command 'fuck' not found, did you mean: command 'suck' from deb suck command 'fsck' from deb util-linux command 'duck' from deb duck Try: sudo apt install danny@danny-mint19-vm02:~$ sudo apt update...
[15:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:42] <exec> 08└─WOW a WHOLE MONTH!?
[15:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you can't get laid then. Sorry.
[15:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:46] <exec> 08└─This comment is a symptom of the rot that exists within many of the linux elites: the freedom of choice and freedom of use only exists in what the priests allow you to know. Someone had to complain and go through legal channels to find all these issues, and they tried to do the right thing and ended...
[15:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:49] <exec> 08└─The fine print in Open Source Software, tells you a few things. Generally it answers the following questions. Do I have to distribute the source, if I modify it? Am I able to sell what I make with it? Who do I credit? It also usually includes a giant disclaimer telling you to use the software at you...
[15:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─You see! That! Right there! Is why we so desperately need a new Federal Department of Gender! How can we keep up with this without the government's help! Who will assign the various gender codes that all government forms will accept to indicate gender? How will software developers have a standard so...
[15:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:23] <exec> 08└─Indictment is a political act in and of itself, so I don't think it makes a great deal of sense as a measure of evil.
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:26] <exec> 08└─The USSR was "gone", but the people were still there. MySpace is still around. They just aren't the big one or even much of a player. Google will be around for a very long time.
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[16:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:16] <exec> 08└─Authorities always want more power, and facial recognition has been on their radar ever since cheap desktop computers could record video. They've been wanting facial recognition for decades. They're so eager for it, they'll minimize and try to trample upon all kinds of technical and ethical problems...
[16:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:18] <exec> 08└─Concentration, if you continue to insist on something as silly as privacy in this day and age.
[16:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:20] <exec> 08└─LOL, you realize you posted as AC right?
[16:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─In the future we will evolve to all have variants on a few very common faces. It is like how in china they all have the same couple dozen names or how in the projects everyone gets the same haircut and wears jeans and a white t-shirt.
[16:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:24] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention, one of those faces will be Donald Trump. Imagine an entire country of people who look and act like Donald Trump. That is what this facial recognition is biologically selecting for.
[16:07:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 6454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:04] <exec> 08└─I'm going to assume you're in the US. The problem you have is the target audience. Put aside prejudices, potential abuse of the systems, outright fraud, etc. - that can all be countered by implementing proper controls. Why anyone would want a national system without proper controls, I can't fathom....
[16:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:12] <exec> 08└─So why not make them get insured?
[16:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:14] <exec> 08└─We already know the problem with that. Those people go to the ER. All of us paying out of pocket and/or with private insurance end up bearing the cost of the uninsured. So why not make them get insured? Or to you propose that the ER simply lets them die in the street? Oh, sorry, you cannot come into...
[16:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:16] <exec> 08└─No, they'll be solved by preventative care. Most of the health problems in the country can be traced back to things that could be prevented with healthy diet, exercise and stress management. Yes, the is technology involved with the rest, but the bulk of the spending is on preventable illness and ove...
[16:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:18] <exec> 08└─Just like the NHS, you will have healthcare rationing, dictated by faceless bureaucrats. Just like the NHS, you will have months-long waiting lists for treatments. Just like the NHS, half of the people employed in the health care system will be administrators.
[16:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:21] <exec> 08└─We definitely should take care of everyone as needed and bear the costs nationally. This is the best approach because age, disease and accident are no respecters whatsoever of a person's financial state
[16:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:23] <exec> 08└─Statistics are something quite easy to manipulate. I do wonder if in calculating health care costs for people in countries with mandatory/government health coverage they included the taxes they pay? At times they pay over 50% taxes for people in a normal income bracket, afterall.
[16:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:25] <exec> 08└─And if the answer is "I don't know because it's classified", how do you know that the US government got away with it, rather than didn't do it?
[16:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─I have Kaiser because as a self-employed person, it's all I can afford. I scheduled a test that should be done at my age (colonscopy) in December. The My appointment is in May. Not only do I get the worst of NHS, I pay through the fucking nose for it and when the test is done, I'll probably end up p...
[16:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:30] <exec> 08└─With the US government, at least the population has *SOME* opportunity for control and oversight.
[16:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:32] <exec> 08└─We will never ever get medicare for all, not without a bloody revolution first. The existing system is excellent at extracting wealth from the working class while giving them the illusion of choice and the oh-so-important Personal Responsibilty, and so it will never change by a parliamentary process...
[16:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:34] <exec> 08└─There would be a reduction there, but there would also be a massive increase in productivity as a result of not having so many people being sick. This whole lost jobs thing is a terrible basis for making decisions. There are ways around that, the most sensible being to go back to reducing the workwe...
[16:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:37] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, there was a rich asshole named Steve Jobs. He was so rich that he could buy stainless steel mega-yachts and things like that, but was also such an asshole that he refused to help support his own daughter. One day, this asshole got cancer. He was sooo smart that instead of getting p...
[16:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:54] <exec> 08└─No biggie,
[16:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:55] <exec> 08└─Supposedly, they were heading towards mountains where the minimum level for safe flight is 14000 feet. So their altitude above ground may well have been dropping.
[16:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:58] <exec> 08└─General Electric stock is in the toilet due to miscalculated insurance premiums.
[16:08:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bussdriver [6876] 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 1236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:22] <exec> 08└─You had and can still have BOTH allowing the user the FREEDOM to CHOOSE and having to pay $$$ is not freedom but they sure would love the suckers to believe it is. Furthermore, "poor man" is a slander. Aside from it not being relevant, somebody who has such a new smart phone is not poor in the first...
[16:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:35] <exec> 08└─keep the spending without thinking sheeple mr loyal customer
[16:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, the irony. Actually Apple can now start feeling the bite now and figure out in a couple of years how much courage they can stand. Last renewal, 2 years ago, I could still get another 6S. So I did. I am assured that this time I cannot. I survived the Newton Keyboard Dongle with my MessagePad. But...
[16:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:38] <exec> 08└─However, Bluetooth doesn't allow me to put my phone in a pocket or bag when it's freezing/raining, while taking a call on a headset and have decent quality audio and microphone.
[16:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:40] <exec> 08└─I just stick Tiles on everything now.
[16:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:58] <exec> 08└─Try 5e. Seriously. It doesn't really dumb down the math so much as optimize the equations so that the math gets the fuck out of the way of the story a little bit more. That's a bad thing for the folks who played ranger/clerics of Meilikki in 2e (min-maxing munchkins for the young whippersnappers) bu...
[16:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:01] <exec> 08└─Try inviting a chick or two once in a while. They aren't all going to say no and it leads to a more entertaining game on account of it not being a sausage fest.
[16:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 2378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:03] <exec> 08└─My son & I trade off DM roles as we send each other through various adventure sessions. Last time I was a Half Elven Ranger in a land full of Kobolds, trying not to get my guts handed to me on a platter while I worked as a Trail Guide shepherding my charges from point a to point b. I've just started...
[16:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─I meant that the cost of internet access for multiple video calls is nothing compared to the cost of paying guards to vet and escort visitors. Why charge when using the internet from home is better from all parties?
[16:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:30] <exec> 08└─You must be confused because that would never happen unless the country attacked first
[16:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─Why do people keep talking about terrorists taking over Norway?
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─He'd need to make it true first. Renewables are still not going to make you any significant money at the moment. If you invest in everything now some of them will likely make you a lot of money a ways down the road but a lot of them are going to just lose you your investment entirely.
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and ten percent is asking a hell of a lot from your investment manager if losing your principle has to be avoided at all costs. Also, population growth and GDP growth would need to remain in lockstep, which is not remotely going to happen while they're getting so many unskilled refugees (who m...
[16:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:38] <exec> 08└─Oil wells are diminishing profit sources. They start slowing down and eventually stop producing entirely. Exploration is necessary to not have your yearly income fade down to nothing. Even more is necessary to offset inflation. Even more is necessary to offset population growth if you're using them...
[16:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:40] <exec> 08└─Because it's becoming increasingly politically incorrect to drill for or use oil at all. Eventually it's going to be illegal. The same people who think Norway is a model utopia are dooming it.
[16:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:43] <exec> 08└─To some degree, yes, but that's not what I was talking about. Anyone should be able to see a rising movement to do away with using fossil fuels at all though and if it stays even remotely on the same trajectory drilling for and selling oil will not be an option for their grandchildren.
[16:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:17] <exec> 08└─I suppose I could develop a new 'no' command which can generate an infinite sequence of 'yes' outputs. I'm going to patent this new technique I just invented! sudo cp /usr/bin/yes /usr/bin/no People will pay the patent license fee because it will cause 'no' to mean 'yes' again! Trump will be gratefu...
[16:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:18] <exec> 08└─What you really need is this bit: [notsanguine@venkman ~]$ cat fuck #!/bin/sh echo "Yeah! Fuck "${1}"!" echo "Amen Brother!" [notsanguine@venkman ~]$ And you can fuck anything you want! It'll be up on github shortly. Perhaps Debian will include it in a future release. :)
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─So, if you heard/read that somewhere, someone was lying to you.
[16:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/24/clapper_obama_ordered_the_intelligence_assessment_that_resulted_in_mueller_investigation.html [realclearpolitics.com]
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[17:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:07] <exec> 08└─Such events could seriously reduce worldwide agricultural production for multiple years, causing mass famine. Supervolcanic eruptions occur more frequently than large asteroid or comet impacts that would have a similarly catastrophic effect to human civilization, especially now that many asteroid or...
[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:08] <exec> 08└─What's the definition of sensational in context? The dictionary definition of Arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction, especially by exaggerated or lurid details" is less than helpful. Those aren't lurid details, they're kinda non-descript factual statements. Megadisas...
[17:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:10] <exec> 08└─Caution, your next breath may be your last!
[17:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:13] <exec> 08└─Yellowstone is supposedly overdue for an eruption. We want to study and even prevent this. It's possible that we could tap volcanoes for geothermal energy and completely prevent eruptions.
[17:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:15] <exec> 08└─People have been buying gold just because it might possibly be a good idea some day. You can do the same thing with your local grain silo company. And being the friendly helpful neighbor is always the most valuable currency.
[17:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:17] <exec> 08└─Obviously I am in favor of preventing, but I wonder about the side effects...
[17:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03broggyr [3589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:19] <exec> 08└─I thought the super-volcano in Yellowstone last erupted about 630,000 years ago, not 60,000 years...
[17:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:22] <exec> 08└─Tap volcanoes for energy, yes. Completely prevent eruptions ? The supergiant LOL, as they say (then they add something about not ROTFL, cause the floor is lava) The amount of energy you would have to extract is patently absurd ... And you'll never get the financing for such a huge facility, since so...
[17:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:24] <exec> 08└─your local grain silo company
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─"imagine"
[17:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:43] <exec> 08└─Are you seeing Donald Trump everywhere? I'd say to see a doctor but they don't know what to do anyway, you'd probably end up on some pills that make you piss the bed.
[17:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:45] <exec> 08└─I'm quite sure they meant someone who is currently most wanted. As opposed to a long dead guy, who only Britains care about.
[17:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:47] <exec> 08└─Seeing how this is a government entity of non-technical fools who waste money while still going with the lowest bidder...they probably got exactly what they put on paper asking for.
[17:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:49] <exec> 08└─I think most people are mistaken when thinking of AI/Facial recognition, I don't blame them, only people pushing it that way so they can sell their tech or ask to recruit their "AI specialist". Remember that time when the UK police wanted to easily tag porn picture and ended up having false positive...
[17:07:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─Bradley, the reason removing regulations and letting "the free market" solve the problem won't work is that healthcare is not a free market. You are familiar with the term "elasticity of demand?" Demand for healthcare is remarkably inelastic; people still get sick whether an aspirin is pennies or do...
[17:07:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:37] <exec> 08└─So why not make them get insured?
[17:07:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:40] <exec> 08└─Just like the NHS, you will have healthcare rationing, dictated by faceless bureaucrats. Just like the NHS, you will have months-long waiting lists for treatments. Just like the NHS, half of the people employed in the health care system will be administrators.
[17:07:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:49] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, there was a rich asshole named Steve Jobs. He was so rich that he could buy stainless steel mega-yachts and things like that, but was also such an asshole that he refused to help support his own daughter. One day, this asshole got cancer. He was sooo smart that instead of getting p...
[17:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:51] <exec> 08└─they included the taxes they pay?
[17:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:53] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't wealth inequality per se, the problem is how that came to be and where the poorest are. The fact that you still can't understand that means you're one of the most retarded individuals to ever walk the face of the earth. And you probably need your diapers changed. Bezos alone has en...
[17:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:56] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. For example: According to the 2016 Allianz Global Wealth Report, “which puts the asset and debt situation of private households in more than 50 countries under the microscope,” the United States’ Gini score is about .81.
[17:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:58] <exec> 08└─It's not an argument from authority, you may question the quality of medical training, but those doctors have at least been through medical school then been supervised during residency and can lose their licenses if they're incompetent. Not to mention malpractice lawsuits. The medical school educati...
[17:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:00] <exec> 08└─They (at least some) believe it is the breeding of their superior stuff rather than nurture(mostly) dumb luck.
[17:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry it has been tried before. It was called Ark B [fandom.com] and see where that got us!
[17:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:05] <exec> 08└─What basis do you have for saying he would have been better off with the non-"alternative" treatments?
[17:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:07] <exec> 08└─In that case, we can always make a cookbook...
[17:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:09] <exec> 08└─What I'm talking about is preventative medicine. A good diet, exercise, no smoking, etc. can stave off health problems, but these things don't stop aging completely. So eventually you have to deal with expensive health problems. We need drugs or nanobots capable of stopping aging and repairing aging...
[17:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:12] <exec> 08└─I think this quote from the article is particularly apropos: Needless to say, inequality is not good for society. The authors note, Among the many known effects of inequality on a society are social unrest, a decrease in health, increased violence, and decreased solidarity. Unfortunately, Kohler poi...
[17:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:14] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't wealth inequality per se, the problem is how that came to be and where the poorest are. The fact that you still can't understand that means you're one of the most retarded individuals to ever walk the face of the earth. And you probably need your diapers changed.
[17:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:16] <exec> 08└─It's not an argument from authority, you may question the quality of medical training, but those doctors have at least been through medical school then been supervised during residency and can lose their licenses if they're incompetent. Not to mention malpractice lawsuits.
[17:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:18] <exec> 08└─On the state level look at your local DMV. The one I don't actually need to look at because I can do everything online now. How terrible!
[17:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:21] <exec> 08└─Usually, it's calculated as a share of GDP too. The US has an unusually high GDP per capita and it absolutely rocks the health care costs (and does a respectable showing even if we restrict to public spending on health care per GDP to total health care per GDP for other countries). This really is a...
[17:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:23] <exec> 08└─And once again, someone just asserts that "X doesn't work!" without actually trying X.
[17:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:44] <exec> 08└─Normal ebb and flow. When the price drops to the right level, that will be the time to buy. And I really doubt that it was a "miscalculation". Very little is left to chance.
[17:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:45] <exec> 08└─Also, the insurance premium cost and payout caps are based on risk analysis and Boeing's willingness to pay. As such, insurance companies get involved in design safety, testing, inspections, procedures, certifications, etc., so we can also blame them for not doing more studies, design reviews, etc....
[17:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:47] <exec> 08└─There is no retroactive premiums! The costs are spread around the customer base. That's how shit works Ok, so I'm sure you never really run any business, *ever*. Yeah, and I'm sure you're talking out yer ass. The occasional loss is to be expected, and can easily be covered elsewhere. You really are...
[17:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:49] <exec> 08└─No biggie, extra costs are just tacked on to the premiums
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, if you have a reliable BT connection and decent gear on the other side you can avoid the phone DAC issue. But if I were to take a random sampling of all BT equipped gear it would be mass market crap. I made a grade-A generalization and you pointed out the very-minority exception to the norm. I'...
[17:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─I like Bluetooth wireless headphones (not earbuds). You can walk around the house with them, even sleep with them on. I got a cheapo $18 pair that lasted about 2 years before the band cleaved in half a few months ago. Wrapped it up with some duct tape and it still works. But I'll be looking to repla...
[17:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:35] <exec> 08└─Mod article Funny.
[17:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:37] <exec> 08└─I think it is good as well. It has caused several people I know to summon the courage to drop iPhone for new purchases and move to Android.
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─Why not T&T [flyingbuffalo.com], which I assume is still a single-book resource to play and prided itself on not requiring anything else for a session but the base rules? Why not Talislanta [talislanta.com] which is completely free now? (Haven't played that one since 2E). I'd guess that it's because...
[17:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─Prisons have a history of charging exorbitant prices for calls. Why should video calls be any different? Other than that pesky part about not being able to see someone in person, for free.
[17:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:17] <exec> 08└─Smuggling of contraband should take a nose dive, it's just so hard to hand over physical items via the screen.
[17:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:35] <exec> 08└─See what happens after 30 years of moderate to no global warming. The pendulum of public opinion never stops.
[17:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:36] <exec> 08└─That's the nice thing about science, it works whether you believe it or not.
[17:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:12] <exec> 08└─Thank you for clarifying that the disclaimer includes their right to install a trojan. I, so far, had assumed that in OSS all the risks were related to bugs and/or misunderstanding. Now I have learned that there could be already malice and deceit, moreover there is nothing abnormal in such behavior.
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─I just keep thinking of the mono-molecular blade that can cut through anything in some sci-fi stories.
[17:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:52] <exec> 08└─It forces the Senate and president to admit to doing the opposite of what a clear majority of the people want done.
[17:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:53] <exec> 08└─Instead of the legislators actually doing their jobs, which is to find meaningful compromises which both sides will live with, instead we get a political dog-and-pony show where my Elephant punches your Donkey and your Donkey tries to screw my elephant.
[17:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─who the hell is upvoting every single one of this twat's posts
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[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, pointless to worry about volcanoes when the CO2 we exhale will burn us alive anyway. The only solution is to raise taxes, ban some shit, and spy on everyone more.
[18:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:16] <exec> 08└─The last major caldera eruption was 630k years ago. The last known minor caldera eruption was about 174k years ago, forming West Thumb [yellowstone.net] (supposedly similar in size to the eruption that formed Crater Lake, so maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 cubic km). The last known eruptio...
[18:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:18] <exec> 08└─I recall reading, and the Wikipedia entry also says, that the most recent supervolcanic eruption from Yellowstone was about 630,000 years ago, not 60,000 years ago. There have been a number of smaller eruptions since then, and some may have been around 60,000 years ago. The article is blurring the f...
[18:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:20] <exec> 08└─The super-eruptions are each 600,000 years, not 60,000. In fact 700,000 - 600,000. 650,000±50,000 years. The error is more than what human agriculture has existed. But from a geological point of view it is going to explode today. There have been a minor eruption 60,000 ago, that would be a big prob...
[18:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:22] <exec> 08└─since the dawn of civilizations
[18:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:24] <exec> 08└─>then a “volcanic winter” would ensue if global warming continues then this saves us, no?
[18:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:27] <exec> 08└─That's indeed the problem. Scientists and geologists cannot say with 100% certainty that geothermal heat mining wouldn't end up triggering it itself. It's a hair trigger; monkeying with it could make it go off earlier than it otherwise would. For example, since we can only mine the heat of a relativ...
[18:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is, if there is a pandemic and you are self-sufficient in the deep woods, you should be okay. If a super volcano goes off it could block the sun like crazy and kill off vegetation/cause winter everywhere, even for your garden in the woods which WOULD affect you.
[18:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:31] <exec> 08└─*scratching head* It's hard to imagine any biological - especially naturally evolving - agent devastating life on earth, so thoroughly as a kinetic weapon, or a volcano. Think of the theory of the moon, originating as ejecta from a big rock impacting earth. That is one HUGE impact. Everything on ear...
[18:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:33] <exec> 08└─Side effects? If an erection lasts for more than four hours, please contact a physician immediately.
[18:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:36] <exec> 08└─Cixin Liu, 'Through Her Eyes' <sarcasm> The Chinese have it covered. </sarcasm>
[18:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:38] <exec> 08└─Not unless climate change somehow disburses the darkness causing the volcanic winter. OTOH, the volcanic ash does not stop the artificially increased CO2 from trapping the sun's heat in our atmosphere. So it could get both too dark and too warm.
[18:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:01] <exec> 08└─Because wearing the mask of a guy who failed his mission brings good luck...
[18:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:02] <exec> 08└─The terrorists won! Not only are people scared, but their anti-terrorist attempts are failures. Cool...cool, cool..cool.
[18:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:04] <exec> 08└─>public officials who abuse their constituents. There are 10 kind of public officials and both kinds abuse their constituents.
[18:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:19] <exec> 08└─And in the meantime? "If we can cure ... and prevent ..." is a big "if", and it doesn't apply anytime soon.
[18:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:21] <exec> 08└─Nono, THIS time we have Trump who will cut through the deep state that loves regatory capture and we will all be blessed with affordabke care. Oh wait, this came from khallow who doesn't see anything wrong with massive wealth inequality? Woops.
[18:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:23] <exec> 08└─the US Govt spends 3 Trillion on Medicare and Medicaid. That's more than the GDP of the 5th richest country (United Kingdom) in the worldSource [wikipedia.org] That doesn't include what all us suckers pay *in addition* to that...
[18:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks for repeatedly showing what a brainwashed fool you are. People like you are what drive social unrest to such levels thst we get re-education camps. Just gotta fuck people over till all sensible solutions are exhausted.
[18:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:27] <exec> 08└─and I'll show you a tyranny. I'm not sure who coined the original phrase, but while I support medicare for all, it will concentrate a lot of power in the hand of some really untrustworthy individuals so some considerable checks and balances would be required for it to not get abused
[18:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:30] <exec> 08└─And here I thought SoylentNews was just that... why else would there be so much salt?
[18:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:32] <exec> 08└─People like you are what drive social unrest to such levels thst we get re-education camps.
[18:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:34] <exec> 08└─The dead don't complain :)
[18:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:36] <exec> 08└─For common things that doctors see over and over again, they are pretty good.
[18:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:38] <exec> 08└─You can take a behind-the-wheel test online? Did you get a ticket for using your cell phone while driving?
[18:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:41] <exec> 08└─What basis do you have for saying he would have been better off with the non-"alternative" treatments?
[18:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:43] <exec> 08└─Yep! As I said before, "How's the collection of ALL those Billions of dollars going for you NOW Stevie!" Hurt people like crazy to the point they'd be glad to see you die (like Billy Bob Gates) but Hey! You're the richest guy in the Funiverse! And still, no one gives a shit about you. Whats. the. po...
[18:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:45] <exec> 08└─The "Free market" brought us Insulin that costs many diabetes sufferers thousands of dollars per month.
[18:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:47] <exec> 08└─You just need a pot of money to sue.
[18:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:13] <exec> 08└─> they can get royally fucked as the payouts starts rolling while they collected much less in premiums. If only anyone had thought of that problem before ... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:14] <exec> 08└─Never a fan of repeating myself, but you might have missed it right above: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:16] <exec> 08└─> So instead of "losing too much altitude" perhaps "never having gained enough altitude in the first place." Well, unless you hit a tall or flying object, isn't any crash a matter of losing all your altitude without losing all your speed ?
[18:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:18] <exec> 08└─Reinsurance only goes so far.
[18:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:21] <exec> 08└─Far enough for hurricanes ... definitely far enough for planes crashes, unless they happen the day of The Big One in CA or Yellowstone.
[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, bankruptcy is a good thing, works for getting out of their obligations. So the bill just goes on to another company's premium, brothers in arms and all that. And golden parachutes galore for the board of the bankrupt company, which will miraculously *rise from the ashes* like it never happened...
[18:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:25] <exec> 08└─But he demonstrated the solution in a simulator, with no aerodynamic forces - and then it took two to spin the wheels. In Ethiopia one pilot was pulling on the stick as hard as he could. By the way, these wheels are not very responsive, and until you roll them back close to zero, your a/c is still g...
[18:09:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 688 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─Replacing one $1 cable that sits in a hole with a $20 fragile, electronic, non-water-resistant device that requires constant charging, changing of the batteries every few years, syncing and resyncing whenever you move them between devices, broadcasts over the air and thus becomes susceptible to secu...
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─I had to look up these RFID tiles. 20 bucks per sticker is a bit on the dear side, but, China to the rescue, there seem to be batches of 100 reprogrammable RFID keyfobs for 40 bucks. More like it. Might be an option. Also, from cold war lore, there has been this: https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:34] <exec> 08└─Did a Pathfinder published campaign last year which had two major defaults : It assumed we'd stick to being lawful or at least good, and it kept assuming we'd go in through the front door. Much fun was had.
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:53] <exec> 08└─That site mentions "children’s right to see their parents in person". Uh... exposing a child to criminals is child abuse. Children have a right to be abused??? One of the big problems with off-site video visits is that it is difficult to keep children from seeing the video or being seen on the vid...
[18:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:55] <exec> 08└─Private prisons would still charge over 40 grand a year to keep the body for the remainder of the sentence, but they could save a lot of guards, food and real estate ... That's definitely the future! What ? You think I'm cynical ? What do you think is next after you remove visits to people who got l...
[18:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:57] <exec> 08└─You could have saved your keyboard: "because they can" alternative: "because money"
[18:11:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 856 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:45] <exec> 08└─Well that's not a condescending summary at all. I think you'll think that Norway are one of the most affluent nations in the world because they don't throw money away on wars, invest in their people, and have a vast range of assets beyond just oil, as well as being the masters of forward-thinking. A...
[18:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] https://...
[18:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:19] <exec> 08└─And it's getting warmer! I never understood why Canadians don't like that. The Canada Goose down jacket lobby?
[18:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:21] <exec> 08└─I like it!
[18:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:24] <exec> 08└─It's great so long as you're very healthy. Get sick and it's catastrophic. Socialist Healthcare doesn’t work anywhere in the World. It’s good if you don’t mind waiting like 5 weeks to see a Doctor. Very very slow. Frankly, they come from Canada because they want to use our Doctors.
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─I dunno: SOMEONE'S making enough money off it that they're continuing to do it.
[18:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:28] <exec> 08└─Man, have I got a bridge to sell to YOU!
[18:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:30] <exec> 08└─America's great so long as you are Wealthy. Screw everyone else!
[18:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Man Reverses April Fools' Day Prank - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:01] <exec> 08└─Why do you think there are so many of them?
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:09] <exec> 08└─Of course using Open Source doesn't mean you are absolved from any other legal or ethical constraints. For example, just because the license to my Linux system doesn't state anywhere that I'm not allowed to use that software to hack into a military base and explode a nuclear bomb there doesn't mean...
[18:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─There's a reason for the disclaimer, cover their own backsides. While, I wouldn't qualify this as a Trojan. Oh, by the way, we track installs and know what IP sent it. Should have been presented to the user, not just the blanket disclaimer. Claiming what they're doing is akin to a Trojan, is disinge...
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:13] <exec> 08└─By definition, it wouldn't be hidden as it's Open Source, but it could definitely be obfuscated. The Open Source code will definitely make it a lot easier to prove and find exactly where the code is that's doing something.
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─Or that person was discussing one of the several OTHER "net neutrality" bills. Note that OP indicated they heard about it "maybe a month or 6 weeks ago", and the bill in question was first introduced exactly one month ago. There are earlier bills like HR 1006 which I think would more likely have bee...
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─Keep on burying your heads in sand. Keep on telling me to shut up. Keep pretending as hard as you can. And possibly your Fantasy World will come true. The Net Neutrality, the Green New Deal and the everything else. It's the sand that does it!!!!
[18:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:57] <exec> 08└─who the hell is upvoting every single one of this twat's posts
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[19:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:05] <exec> 08└─Librarians are cool people, who can answer almost any question, or at least point you in the direction of the answers you need. That's how I found 42.
[19:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, Makerspaces can be part of a libraries' mission. http://www.ala.org [ala.org] No, a Makerspace != a Library. A Makerspace is about teaching and/or providing access to one kind of thing. Not about teaching / learning, En...
[19:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:09] <exec> 08└─My library has hoopla and freegal. Hoopla give you movies and freegal gives you music, all digital and on demand. How relevant is this? Hoopla is B movie heaven Freegal is all the hits, er, some of the hits from a decades past. (and a whole lot of crappy karaoke knock offs) Technology is gonna mak...
[19:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:11] <exec> 08└─As long as there are desktop computers at the library, people will go there. They can get the new music on YouTube, and the A movies on $PIRATE_STREAMING_SITE, if it's not blocked by the porn filter. One thing I visited a library for recently was to use high-end, large-format scanning equipment.
[19:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:13] <exec> 08└─I like reading books and have been to plenty of libraries. I like to make things but have never been to a makerspace, though I've seen one from a distance. There are too many dudes there with tight pants or strange beards or who are into craft beer. If people are really into making something and goo...
[19:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:47] <exec> 08└─Physical disasters like supervolcanoes and large asteroid impacts really aren't that dangerous in comparison to a high lethality pandemic which can kill as many people, but has a much fatter tail - and often can continue to kill people long after the pandemic itself has ended.
[19:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:48] <exec> 08└─But then you wouldn't call it "winter".
[19:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:50] <exec> 08└─You are right, the cycle is 650,000±50,000 years. Nevertheless, during the modern history (I mean 2000 years) there have been eruptions that caused volcanic winters that resulted in bad crops and famine. The minor Yelowstone eruption 60,000 ago was worse than any modern eruption, so you can expect...
[19:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is, if there is a pandemic and you are self-sufficient in the deep woods, you should be okay.
[19:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:55] <exec> 08└─THe primary action is the actual lava/magma eruption. The secondary, and probably worse, explosion is when the hot lava/magma/whatever hits the water in the caldera and it vaporizes. Well most of it, you're not gonna achieve 100% evaporation. But the evaporation will be fast and violent. This can be...
[19:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:57] <exec> 08└─Asteroids have a probability, but eruptions are cyclic. So don't ask "IF" ask "WHEN". We are not talking about a local disaster, we are talking about a vulcanic winter, that would affect the whole world. So, with such disaster 1% of casualties is too optimistic. be the first impact, but our civiliza...
[19:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:59] <exec> 08└─Buy lead and a bullet mold.
[19:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:02] <exec> 08└─The Black Death was no picnic, but some of us survived. And there was a sudden surge in demand for backhoe rentals, so kind of an economic win, for some people. In fact, some say it was the catastrophic depopulation that broke the feudal system, and allowed for the emergence of a new liberal bourgeo...
[19:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:04] <exec> 08└─Yea, the 1918 epidemic during which doctors overdosed people with aspirin, which has the same symptoms as the flu. Good luck sir.
[19:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:06] <exec> 08└─"Fuck you, got mine" works only so well and for so long. What happens when you poke your head out of your little rathole 730.48 days in, as forecasted? What is awaiting you? Do you truly think you'll be returning to anything even close to what you knew? And the knock-on effects of even another Kraka...
[19:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:08] <exec> 08└─There might not be a total extinction, but consider this: we've already used up all the cheap energy. IF we get blown back to the Iron Age, we won't have the means to kickstart a second Industrial Revolution. Surviving that may be a fate worse than death; our history will be forever frozen in, at be...
[19:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:05] <exec> 08└─The "Free market" brought us Insulin that costs many diabetes sufferers thousands of dollars per month.
[19:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:06] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you think it is science, but if you link to an example you will find NHST (fake science). So please do link to what you think is science.
[19:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 2854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:08] <exec> 08└─I don't think Medicare for all or a short term laissez-faire period is the answer. The first would be long term problematic as parent describes, the 2nd would be a short-term disaster with potentially long term consequences. I prefer to let the free market do what it does well, and government do do...
[19:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─You don't know your history very well, do you? Go research the era of patent medicines and radium in the toothpaste and privately-run asylums. That is, at BEST, what your approach would return us to. Look, I get it, you are a slave to your ideology and nothing as silly as reality or history or facts...
[19:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:13] <exec> 08└─Hahaha the Native Americans and minirities would like a word. The company town denizens would like out of their makeshift debtor's prison, and a host of other issues. Not all the abuses were done by government, but it required government intrrvention to stop the abuse. Get a fucking clue already mr....
[19:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:15] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you think it is science, but if you link to an example you will find NHST (fake science). So please do link to what you think is science.
[19:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─With the next safety directive Boeing should give them a broomstick. Then they can jam it between the control column and front panel while both pilots crank on the wheel.
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─> it is best to have several sets and charge them in rotation I can't imagine this had anything to do with the Beats owner and AirPods manufacturer's "courageous" decision...
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:35] <exec> 08└─People who read MacWorld's opinion pieces about Apple's design decisions have no use for a sarcasm tag.
[19:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:37] <exec> 08└─it shouldnt be on soylent Yeah, maybe not, but I believe everybody here knows how to scroll past a story they find uninteresting. And what the hell? It's a good place for us to fire off some cheap shots about Apple and whoever is nearby.
[19:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:59] <exec> 08└─A few reasons: 1. Popularity and brand recognition. Like many hobbies, you enter the hobby with the most popular variant. Most people outside of gamers know Dungeons and Dragons, but GURPS or {insert system here https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] } is un...
[19:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:22] <exec> 08└─These people are still visiting the jail directly, they are lead into a room with an ATM-sized terminal which handles the video visit.
[19:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:49] <exec> 08└─With that scale of investment fund, a yearly return of 7 - 8 percent would be on the conservative side. Note that we assumed, superficially, that all of that return would be spent on social security. Given that Norway's personal income tax rate runs at about 38 percent, of which slightly more than...
[19:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 3713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:51] <exec> 08└─It can happen if the "people" of Norway demand it. Kuwait, they were having big problems with the Incubators. With, the soldiers from Iraq were taking all the Incubators. And if there was an Incubator with a baby inside, they would dump the baby on the floor. Big piles of dieing babies. But, Nayirah...
[19:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for making my point for me! :) What you have described is culture, not evolution.
[19:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:55] <exec> 08└─For a long damn time it was China, and at the rate things are going it may very well be China again in a few decades. And East Asians have statistically higher IQs than Caucasians, with the notable exception of--you're gonna LOVE this one, Adolf!--Ashkenazi Jews! This line of argumentation you're ru...
[19:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:58] <exec> 08└─So true and we have more VERY VERY RICH people than any other country. We call them billionaires and I, very proudly, am one of them. We have more than China, more than India and more than Germany. Getting richer very quickly, because of me. And we have the richest person -- Jeff Bozo. Should have b...
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:00] <exec> 08└─Read news!!! foxnews.com/opinion/the-multiculturalism-myth-world-leaders-ignore-islams-refusal-to-assimilate [foxnews.com]
[19:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:02] <exec> 08└─The country is not full. It's just your small brain that is full.
[19:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─"Running a script means you agree with Powershell starting a 20GB download of Powershell 10, followed by a full installation of Powershell telemetry. Don't worry, your script result will be preserved (uploaded to our servers) and displayed after the 17th reboot of your New Enhanced Powershell 10"
[19:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 2347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:22] <exec> 08└─Great summation. I'm not a Programmer with a capital P, but I do lots of shell scripting as part of system administration tasks; I've worn both linux and windows hats for the last 15 years and I've done extensive scripting on both OSes. Powershell is to me more of a programming language than a shell...
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─London may lead in civilian surveillance, but the US leads in pushing military equipment to civilian users. Expect these the be in the hands of domestic police as soon as Microsoft decides they need more money these are outdated and ready to replace with version 2.0 360.
[19:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:47] <exec> 08└─I think you've got a bug here. $ fuck the advertisers Yeah! Fuck the! Amen Brother! $
[19:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:48] <exec> 08└─I think you've got a bug here. $ fuck the advertisers Yeah! Fuck the! Amen Brother! $
[19:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:34] <exec> 08└─You're just a hack. Ask who is the fucking troll modding them down??! It's not my problem if you find the truth about your teams and your tribalism to be so offensive. You should look in the mirror instead! That person you see there is the cause of all your problems. It takes your vote to put your l...
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/24/clapper_obama_ordered_the_intelligence_assessment_that_resulted_in_mueller_investigation.html [realclearpolitics.com] Really? You have to go a long way to get from: "One point I'd like to make, Anderson, that I don't think has come up very much befo...
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[20:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:58] <exec> 08└─The field may be closed for the week due to the need for testing to be completed.
[20:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:00] <exec> 08└─The home of Yale, says it all.
[20:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:13] <exec> 08└─A library is a collection of information. Having 3d printers may be useful but why don't libraries then have tools (saws, wrenches, sockets, hammers, bandsaws) to lend out? I'd rather see my library use its resources to expand the information I can access and leave the specialist hardware equipment...
[20:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:14] <exec> 08└─The local well-to-do suburb library has gone down the makerspace path, while the university library has removed like 80% of its books into a warehouse, and added cafe facilities so that people can gab, slurp coffee and eat snacks while maybe looking at one of the remaining books.
[20:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, I have seen libraries that lent out small kits. I think they were more oriented towards kids, but there may have been kits with small tools in them.
[20:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:02] <exec> 08└─Asteroids have a probability, but eruptions are cyclic.
[20:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:03] <exec> 08└─and the disease-based depopulation of the New World.
[20:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:06] <exec> 08└─I stopped reading TFA right there. How many millions of $ went to this? My uncle Joe's cousins brother in law in South Carolina's finest trailer park/Kmart parking lot said the same thing after eating at the Taco Bell.
[20:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:08] <exec> 08└─It might be like winter on Venus.
[20:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:10] <exec> 08└─That entirely depends on how well prepped you are. I'm already fairly disconnected from civilization anyways, so wouldn't lose sleep over it largely disappearing. Not much value in it anymore anyways, at least not from what is visible. I got a place that meets the definition "the middle of nowhere",...
[20:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─And, very successfully. Getting ready to put that one into many Federal Buildings & Parks. But, it's not Soylent (Fake) News. Because it reminds Head in Sand Editors who their President is. Sub torpedoed!!! oann.com/u-s-secret-service-testing-facial-recognition-system-outside-white-house [oann.com]
[20:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:38] <exec> 08└─The real concern is that mass surveillance is happening at all, not merely that there are false positives and false negatives. Why are there so many mealy-mouthed 'privacy advocates' who focus on the most minor issues of surveillance without considering the larger, more dangerous issues [gnu.org] wi...
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:40] <exec> 08└─Ladies, you can speed up the process. Go to Manhattan CryoBank. 369 Lexington Avenue in New York. Ask for the Trump Special!!!!
[20:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:42] <exec> 08└─AI AI AI! AI AI AI!!!1! Can't wait for the crash.
[20:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:44] <exec> 08└─That said, I'm not entirely sure about the privacy angle since you are driving in a public space, but as long as there isn't camera everywhere I guess?
[20:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:47] <exec> 08└─It's not (and fuck whoever even thought about this) the RFK bridge. It's the Tri-Boro bridge and always will be. Who cares about a bunch of fucking cameras? We're talking about bridge names here!
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:49] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate America?
[20:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah! You tell 'em, Tiger! "Science" is complete bullshit! Nothing good ever came from that steaming pile of crap! God provides all we need and all we ever will need. That's why he created us -- so he could take care of us, because he loves each and every one of us. We don't need any fucking scie...
[20:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure this is the system you want long-term. A better solution would be to remove almost all of the regulations, and return to a free-market system.
[20:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:31] <exec> 08└─There's rationing in the US, too, where people who don't have enough money can't get care and simply die of preventable medical issues. Tens of thousands every year, in fact. And you have to love those private death panels, where insurance companies fight tooth and nail to avoid covering life-saving...
[20:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:33] <exec> 08└─Instead of the usual pointless debate, lemme instead question the premise of the post? To say "an economist said" is as useless as saying "a religious person said"; without a qualifier the word "economist" is just as null. So lets click the linky thing and find the Hopbrook Institute only has articl...
[20:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:36] <exec> 08└─Which is why scammers perennially run amok.
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─There are always dangers of administrative bloat whenever you have a bureaucracy. It can be pruned, but too often isn't. But as for rationing, that is already a feature of our healthcare system, we just call it something else. Most call it "I can't afford to go to the doctor" or "these prescription...
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:40] <exec> 08└─In inflation-adjusted terms, I'm now paying at least 3 times as much as before.
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:42] <exec> 08└─So when you suddenly feel weak and have a terrible pain in your chest radiating down your arm, we can absolutely count on you to yell out "whatever you do, do NOT dial 911!"? Especially since you could probably have headed that off a year before with the other 99% of healthcare you rejected?
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:15] <exec> 08└─Let's find out how much Boeing's CxOs and board are willing to pay to not go to jail on a few hundred counts of murder and award that to the families.
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─Ah! But fuck me! Right?
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[21:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:02] <exec> 08└─Government of Ridgefield puts dog in microwave after bath to speed drying.
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─Either way... That's ALOT of gas. I wonder how they transported and spread the fuel on the baseball field. Did they use a liquid fertilizer spreading trolley? Buckets? Fuel truck? Watering Cans? Just pump it directly out of a slip tank?
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:06] <exec> 08└─You mean to speed dying.
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─I want to know whether they tried a turbopump and LOX, since it would have certainly helped the fire dry the field even faster.
[21:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─> 109 Litres? (TFA Says 90L) The metric to metric conversion of Litres to L seems consistent with the decision to spray it on the grass and light it. The only alternative use might have been for Boofers -- a word I could only have learned from the dignity of a Trump Supreme Court Nominee.
[21:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:13] <exec> 08└─I would not be surprised if had they siphoned it out of the gas tanks from the spectators cars.
[21:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:15] <exec> 08└─This is 'murikka! It's 29 gallons. You furriners and "science" (and we know that's a bunch of bullshit!) people can take your "liters" and shove them up your ass! We use gallons here, motherfuckers!
[21:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:17] <exec> 08└─Gallons and gallons of butter.
[21:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:19] <exec> 08└─That's about 5-6 plastic gas jugs from Walmart. Not nothing, but not all that much either. I'm pretty sure the phrase "This way's more fun!" probably was involved in the discussion of correct methods for solving the problem.
[21:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:22] <exec> 08└─That's only a bit under 29 gallons (pretty much what a large pick up truck or large SUV holds in it's tank). Spread out over a baseball field, I'm surprised they could spray it out fast enough to cover the area and get it ignited before most of it evaporated.
[21:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:24] <exec> 08└─They're having big problems in Connecticut. Because they're getting their Gasoline in Liters. Not Gallons. It's called the Metric System. It's part of Socialism and it's destroyed many countries. Look at British Empire. Formerly known as Great Britain. It's not Great anymore. And, they don't call it...
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─Ted Turner once famously hired helicopters to dry the outfield before a game. Of course he was facing big enough fines for not having the field ready that it was almost worth it. But by the time you add up the costs of testing and remediation, these guys might have gotten off cheaper with the helico...
[21:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:29] <exec> 08└─Totally off topic, but just realized that the time stamp on our posts seems to be based on International Date Line (180 degrees) instead of UTC (GMT or ZULU). If it was based on UTC, the time stamp on my last post would be 8:34 PM (or 20:34 UTC).
[21:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:31] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate America?
[21:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:33] <exec> 08└─The phrase you're looking for is, "Hey, hold my beer.".
[21:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:35] <exec> 08└─What kind of testing?
[21:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:37] <exec> 08└─Naw, the problem is there are too many Trump supporters employed in Public Works there.
[21:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:40] <exec> 08└─More importantly: Who fucking cares about high school baseball?
[21:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:42] <exec> 08└─I doubt it. If it had been, there would have been more flamethrowers involved...
[21:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:44] <exec> 08└─More importantly: Who fucking cares about high school baseball?
[21:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:46] <exec> 08└─That isn't really all that much gas. It's at most two car tanks full of gas if you have a tiny car, for most larger cars it's just somewhat more then one tank of gas.
[21:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:02] <exec> 08└─This is quite true and I personally hate that development. I want books in my library, I don't want movies and music and god knows what else. I'm fine with them offering public access to the internet and such but the core function should be books. But then I guess they have taken it upon themselves,...
[21:07:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:12] <exec> 08└─Caution, your next breath may be your last!
[21:07:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm unusual, but my spouse and I feel that we do not want to have a place to hide out and survive the destruction of civilization. My sincerest hope would be that if something that bad is going to happen (nuclear war, volcanic winter, windows 11, etc) then I personally do not want to survive i...
[21:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:54] <exec> 08└─Do you know what will happen if we let all the air out? Why, it would be a scandal [indystar.com]!
[21:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:55] <exec> 08└─Come on now, you know khallow lives in a fantasy world where "rational actors"enact "voluntary contracts" between themselves. It looks like he's one of those preppers I hear about occasionally too. I wouldn't be surprised if he's the A/C who unironically told me vaccines cause autism a few weeks ag...
[21:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:29] <exec> 08└─My guess? Because they get tired of constantly pointing out the elephant in the room to people who insist it's only a mouse, and take a breather to point out that even if it were a mouse, the stated plan is *still* F'ing stupid. That's my excuse anyway.
[21:08:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 1253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:39] <exec> 08└─I am basically a libertarian. Nonetheless, as screwed up as Obamacare is, well, right now, the US has the worst aspects of a socialist system combined with the worst aspects of a free market system. Massive government over-regulation combined with corporate cronyism and regulatory capture. Moving al...
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─Because it takes a doctor's training to
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─We are living with the disastrous world of the economists that our politicians shopped around for. Plenty of other economists, including Adam Smith, have warned against current policies and predicted exactly the problems we now have as a consequence of ignoring the warnings. But their warnings didn'...
[21:10:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 976 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─This whole debacle should have never occurred, but I don't read it as the NYT summarizing the situation better than TFS, but to me it adds additional information to that offered in the summary. It is a prime example of trying to save money by side-stepping the usual safety processes which are in pla...
[21:11:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 916 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:11] <exec> 08└─I would lose those in no time. Heck, I once lost my wired EarPods, and after a traumatizing experience of searching for a certain USB stick, I have attached widely visible lanyards to those which contain remotely important data (*). So, from my purely personal perspective, no thanks to that stuff. F...
[21:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:43] <exec> 08└─No thanks. I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears.
[21:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, blah blah blah.. Do tell! This is why you people lose. You don't need no Russians. Tag! You're it! Once again, please don't be a dick. You know, if you want votes an' all. See, 'cause otherwise, fuck YOU! My vote, any many others' are going elsewhere. That's the best way of saying it, and mean...
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[22:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's First Dedicated Starlink Launch Set for May; Amazon Hired SpaceX Execs for Project Kuiper - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:00] <exec> 08└─As soon as the Californian wingnuts realize that Musk and Bezos are planning on beaming cancer-causing wifi from satellites, it's game over.
[22:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─This is 'murikka! It's 29 gallons.
[22:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:33] <exec> 08└─Who fucking cares about high school baseball?
[22:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:35] <exec> 08└─(This is why visitors to the US feel justifiably ripped off when they order a pint (568 mL) of beer and get something noticeably smaller (473 mL).)
[22:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:37] <exec> 08└─Also, it's about 15 miles from where they tape the Jerry Springer show.
[22:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:39] <exec> 08└─Americans are very... enthusiastic, let's call it... about their various forms of sportsball.
[22:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:42] <exec> 08└─You only need two idiots to start something like this. One idiot if he's popular enough.
[22:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:44] <exec> 08└─What kind of testing? Testing of the decision makers' IQ?
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:46] <exec> 08└─(This is why visitors to the US feel justifiably ripped off when they order a pint (568 mL) of beer and get something noticeably smaller (473 mL).)
[22:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is a close second? : - p
[22:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:51] <exec> 08└─Why remove soil, why not burn them off?
[22:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:53] <exec> 08└─Ran outta beer, that's when they decided to pick up some extra gas on their booze run.
[22:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:55] <exec> 08└─Nope, exploding a whale - with dynamite - as a public works project, very tough to beat. Any idiot can light a field on fire with gasoline, I'm sure it has happened before and will happen again. ------ So say we all.
[22:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:57] <exec> 08└─More than those who care about STEM?
[22:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:00] <exec> 08└─So are Europeans, it's just a different sport.
[22:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:02] <exec> 08└─Most of it will have soaked into the soil. Below the top few mm, there's no air (or other oxidizer) to sustain a fire. There's a reason sand buckets work.
[22:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:18] <exec> 08└─Let me guess... millennial librarians?
[22:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is progress as it now takes making the library a comfortable place for people to want to spend time there. I am fine with there being movies and music available as those are forms of information, of a sort, as well. I have gotten used to online searchable databases of information instead o...
[22:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:22] <exec> 08└─You moron, important stuff is on the Internet now not in books. Books are obsolete as soon as they are printed. You want to know if Kanye and Beyonce are still together? You have to look on the Internet.
[22:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:24] <exec> 08└─millennial librarians
[22:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:27] <exec> 08└─That's me. The library provided the means for me to finally give 3D printing a try, when they got a 3D printer last summer. Been wanting to try 3D printing for years, but I couldn't justify springing for a printer of my own. I don't need to 3D print that often, only a few times a year. And I'd need...
[22:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:19] <exec> 08└─I think you are over-optimistic. More likely a parody of the Mayan civilization, since we've used up all the readily accessible ores. It's true there will be numerous sauce-pans and car engines around, but I'm not sure how useful those would be. The metals are all alloys. Even pennies aren't copper...
[22:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is, investment shares only have value when backed by a government. After a real collapse, the only governments around won't recognize titles guaranteed by the prior government.
[22:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know. He's fucking nuts. But until said apocalypse happens, the rest of us are stuck with him.
[22:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:25] <exec> 08└─If you're going to go that route, better stock up on sulfur and saltpeter. Especially sulfur. And note that guns designed for modern ammunition will foul almost immediately with black powder, not to mention the problem of primers. So it's back to the flintlock. It should be possible to make a blunde...
[22:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:27] <exec> 08└─Wow! And of course he wrote a twenty page paper on the subject with 136 scholarly references and five potential solutions to the problem ranging from things doable to things future technology may provide solutions for? Impressive - he should eat at Taco Bell more often. Or someone should read TFA an...
[22:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:29] <exec> 08└─... anti-vaxxers, Ebola, Muslims.
[22:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:31] <exec> 08└─Venus has a high heat capacity atmosphere so the climate is pretty much the same year round everywhere. That is even though a day is nearly a year long too.
[22:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:34] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be nice if we had a self-sufficient backup copy of humanity stashed somewhere off world?
[22:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:36] <exec> 08└─Something orange, spewing, big, and loud will end civilization?
[22:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:38] <exec> 08└─No, really, human beings settling down, doing agriculture and industry in an organized fashion. That whole time frame had one.
[22:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:25] <exec> 08└─This brave new world is forcing my spouse to move to Android. Good riddance too. Calling iTunes shit is an insult to shit.
[22:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:26] <exec> 08└─The real issue is that this is a step toward eliminating the analog hole. [wikipedia.org]
[22:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Courageous" was Apple to Remove the iPhone's Headphone Jack? - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:28] <exec> 08└─Not more or less. There's a DAC in your ear if you have a wireless earbud. It's not the highest quality but that doesn't really matter because it's in an earbud, with all the limits of that enclosed space, and your ear probably can't tell the difference between hifi and AM radio. Not because there's...
[22:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cool Kids are Playing Dungeons & Dragons - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:53] <exec> 08└─As always, the cool kids are busy getting laid.
[22:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jails Increasingly Phasing Out In-Person Visits in Favor of "Video Visitation" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:16] <exec> 08└─Because niggaz got lots of drug money, and need to share it with they prison wardens.
[22:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:52] <exec> 08└─Goddamn! I love you! You are so cool! But maybe you never really noticed. China never came close to running the world. The whole global thing didn't even take off until the Europeans went on their *Three Hour Tour*... And you do remember the opium wars? Remember who won?? How funny that is. Little t...
[22:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─In the same time, Norway != khallow.
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[23:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Town Spreads 109 Liters of Gasoline on Field and Lights it to Speed Drying - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:49] <exec> 08└─You have to convert the Imperial to Metric, than account for the acreage that is converted to toxic waste...THEN convert the whole thing to French Imperial Metric (measured against the Latinum bars kept in the Cathedral of Ferengi, Paris) As Barbie says, "Math is hard". XD
[23:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:13] <exec> 08└─I suppose so, but it's quite fun having an arch-enemy sometimes. Sort of like a really inept costumed villain who won't actually be able to do me any harm.
[23:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Warning: "Catastrophic" Supervolcano Eruption Could "Push Humanity to Extinction" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:14] <exec> 08└─"Fuck you, got mine" works only so well and for so long.
[23:09:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA - 2432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─To an extent, I agree. If I break a bone, it's got to be fixed, and I'll obviously pay what it takes to fix it. So, yes, some demand is inelastic. However, other things are more flexible. Do I want a check-up this year? Should I go to the doctor with this pain in my shoulder? In my perhaps naive vie...
[23:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: Why FAA-Approved Emergency Procedures Failed to Save ET302 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:10] <exec> 08└─Who cares about the air conditioning when the plane is about to crash?
[23:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:45] <exec> 08└─A consistently implemented object oriented scripting language that works
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