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[00:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:53] <exec> 08└─That salon.com article is a perfect example. Not only is life economically more difficult across the board along with ecological disaster looming over us, but the people supporting these tragedies are also busy spewing their hatred for all things not-them.
[00:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:54] <exec> 08└─This is probably due the risk of child support payments that aren't possible and lead to incarceration = fewer births
[00:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:06] <exec> 08└─Can you call it profit when SN is a non-profit corp? I think (but have no reference) that, "SN has a small surplus to re-invest on internal development", will keep you out of trouble.
[00:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 1461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:07] <exec> 08└─The one thing you should notice here won't be called out anywhere else. Salon is a "big" website with an outsize influence on the culture. And yet it is almost nothing, a plaything sustained by a couple of rich sugar daddies for pocket change. As a hobby. So why? Why was / is Salon a social taste ma...
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[00:09:10] <exec> 08└─Hello comrade, The International Committee of the Fourth International and their publication of record, World Socialist Web Site, will still be around to fight white supremacy. Recently, the ICFI's youth organization, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, held a series of lecture...
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:12] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to troll here?
[00:09:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: 90min Window Opens 2230EDT May15 (0230 UTC May16) - 1433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:29] <exec> 08└─SpaceX reveals new Starlink satellite details 24 hours from launch [teslarati.com] 227kg per satellite, but the satellites don't have the inter-satellite laser communication that a future version will have. Article says that could add 10% more mass. Minor service could begin after a few launches. De...
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: 90min Window Opens 2230EDT May15 (0230 UTC May16) - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─It's actually half that, since each connection requires two links (up and down). And that's assuming all satellites are ground-relay only. If the system is supposed to bounce a connection over multiple satellites before beaming down, then each hop consumes more of the total bandwidth without adding...
[00:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:19] <exec> 08└─All the pirates are using dedicated search engines
[00:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Huawei Boosted the UK Economy by £1.7 Billion in 2018 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:35] <exec> 08└─I fail to see what making a bunch of money has to do with failing to preserve national security*.
[00:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Warning of Legal Problems for Users of Old Versions of Creative Cloud - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:58] <exec> 08└─So in the past, they allowed you to use old versions of the software as long as your subscription was still active. However, they are having a dust-up with Dolby (who is, from reading the article, kind of in the right here) over license payments. Apparently Adobe and Dolby re-negotiated their licens...
[00:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:55] <exec> 08└─After watching the simple formula, YouTube offered me this, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] which was a nice antidote to all the well-written gloom in this thread. "...If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
[00:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:56] <exec> 08└─Engineer probably isn't the right word. If you divide the world into people who need to know how a physical thing works to do their job and those who don't... Both of your doctors and arguably your intelligence analyst fall on the same side as engineers. It is a better division. A welder may not be...
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:58] <exec> 08└─Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Seventy is the Clinton campaign. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com [whatreallyhappened.com]
[00:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Builds New Type 002 Mega Carrier as the Age of Sea Power Wanes - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:50] <exec> 08└─STOVL ... You are responding to a post mentioning the US marines and F-35B. Any ship carrying those guys should qualify as an "aircraft carrier". Well, technically, any ship carrying a helicopter is an aircraft carrier (and so is my car when the neighbor's kid has her drone). But we only count the o...
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[01:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:56] <exec> 08└─Hello fren, Not everyone has the moral integrity of those of us on the left who want to both end white supremacy and support women's rights. [thepublicdiscourse.com]
[01:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:58] <exec> 08└─Found the incel! I blame video games. It is the instant gratification that makes boy-men these days incapable of dealing with a project as long term as raising a child. College students these days can not hang on during a sixteen week long semester, they fade and disappear after only a few weeks. No...
[01:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama-abortion-law-governor-kay-ivey-signs-near-total-ban-today-live-updates-2019-05-15/ [cbsnews.com]
[01:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:02] <exec> 08└─With carrot-top in the White House, optimism for the fate of future offspring hits an all-time low.
[01:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:04] <exec> 08└─dealing with a project as long term as raising a child
[01:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:06] <exec> 08└─Found the gender studies grad -- this knucklehead spent $$$$ just to learn a few extra words to try to insult people with
[01:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:09] <exec> 08└─Moral integrity? Leftist? This is from your link: About the Author Arthur Goldberg is Co-Director of the American based Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), former Co-Director of JONAH, Inc. JIFGA sponsors www.fundingmorality.com, a crowd-funding site for those committed to Biblical values...
[01:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:24] <exec> 08└─Technically, we're a PBC. Which is to say a for-profit corporation whose primary purpose is public benefit rather than shareholder benefit. Which more or less means we're not legally obligated to make decisions based on what would best line NCommander and matt_'s pockets. Anything we take in above a...
[01:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:25] <exec> 08└─Nah, just a little light-hearted snark.
[01:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:27] <exec> 08└─One thing is certain though, if you work in the legacy media you should be learning to code.
[01:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:30] <exec> 08└─Back in the days before deplatforming and social justice warriors setting what opinions were utterable in public, Salon was known for in depth, well written articles. The kind of in depth analysis the MSM of the day did not care to provide to its audience. I had no idea of its current financing, but...
[01:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, so bird brain being true to himself. Mad props yo, gotta respect a playa who stays true no matter how doo.
[01:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:34] <exec> 08└─The news site that blocked users from reading unless they ran internet fun bucks mining code while they did having financial problems? Who would have thought!
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─Actually yes. Mostly we have libertarian anarcho-capitalists shitting things up. A few others trying to APPEAR progressive, but not that many who really have such beliefs. It amuses me a little bit watching you libertarian freedom types scream bloody murder over the very people who share your belief...
[01:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Accidentally Shared User Data With Advertising Partner - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:48] <exec> 08└─Like buttery males accidentally goose stepping into a Klan meeting...
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Accidentally Shared User Data With Advertising Partner - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:49] <exec> 08└─There are no "accidents" in IT security. Any breaches, data compromises, etc. are because someone was ordered to do something or because someone didn't do their fucking job.
[01:10:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:21] <exec> 08└─Ouch, seriously, Kodi is a legitimate piece of software. As far as I know the creator isn't actively supporting "piracy" and Kodi has legitimate use beyond "piracy".
[01:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:46] <exec> 08└─Nonsense, they can be voted out next term. There is no requirement to reelect anybody.
[01:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:48] <exec> 08└─Even better, make it decentralized Yes, please [yacy.net]
[01:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:50] <exec> 08└─Do you mean, sucks beside uncensored Google, or sucks beside censored Google? Many of us just loved Google, when Google was new. We loved it less, as time went on, because ubiquitous tracking. And, loved it less as tracking became more invasive. Depending on philosophy and politics, Google becomes m...
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[01:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Effectively Bans Municipal Facial Recognition - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:22] <exec> 08└─Except they are elected. In fact, the Board of Supervisors [sfbos.org] in San Francisco is equivalent to the City Council in many municipalities. Why are you lying, or if not lying, talking out of your ass? What is your agenda that you ignore the facts and spout off a bunch of bullshit?
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[02:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:20] <exec> 08└─It's known as The Great Replacement. Also known as, the "Mathmatical Theory" that The U. S.A. White Majority Will Soon Disappear -- FOREVER. Don't worry. Don't worry about that one. Because we're working very hard on it. Building the Big Beautiful Boarder Wall. To keep out the Mexican Rapists. Keep...
[02:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:21] <exec> 08└─We need immigrants to make up for the shortfall! The birthrate has fallen below that required to sustain the population.
[02:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:23] <exec> 08└─Don't even bother, just mod the NPC idiots down. "Sadly" for them their bullshit is pretty quickly outed, "fren" is code for "I'm a racist twat." Most amusing is the idea that "fren" is supposed to indicate someone who only repeats a scripted narrative. So because the majority of the world doesn't a...
[02:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:26] <exec> 08└─NPC is a transparent troll, and I hope it's obvious from the content of his posts. He also has a sockpuppet account (see my journal for this...). He's here purely to stir shit. Downmod his ass on sight and move on.
[02:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:28] <exec> 08└─Once you have a kid, you are at risk of child support. You might as well have more kids. Do this as quickly as possible. For example, I got 5 in about 7 years. Once you have a half dozen kids, you are fairly safe. She knows that child support would be inadequate and that few other men would take her...
[02:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:30] <exec> 08└─There is weak demand for more native born kids, so there is weak supply too.
[02:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:32] <exec> 08└─You triggered them in their safe space! For shame Ari, have you no sympathy?? They just want to protek thur kulture!
[02:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─I almost chuckled, but then I realized it probably isn't just dark sarcasm playing off the xenophobia lurking all over the US.
[02:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps men do not want to deal with women who can rob them blind as soon as they find a larger d*k. Many women start looking a few years after the birth of a child, and the government is happy to make the old husband pay for it.
[02:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─College students these days can not hang on during a sixteen week long semester, they fade and disappear after only a few weeks.
[02:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─I remain convinced that Congress is well aware of Dr. Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb", and has done all in their power to implement birth control - without directly legislating it. They are quite clever in passing law to make it extremely financially risky for the males to engage in mating rituals....
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─Hate to break it to you, but dick size is not actually all that important. Insanely more important is putting in the time to make your partner orgasm which can be done in a variety of ways. Put in that effort and you solve your sexual performance problems. Go down on a girl till she gets a good orga...
[02:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:06] <exec> 08└─And what the fuck do you think Stallman was exactly?
[02:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─He's already chosen his allies. You're talking to someone who's been "alt-lite"-converged since before the term existed, which is doubly unfortunate when his self-asserted Indian heritage comes into play...
[02:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Accidentally Shared User Data With Advertising Partner - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:22] <exec> 08└─Any breaches, data compromises, etc. are because someone was ordered to do something or because someone didn't do their fucking job.
[02:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: 90min Window Opens 2230EDT May15 (0230 UTC May16) - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:40] <exec> 08└─Good point. I just want to get the constants figured out so we can plug in some numbers and see that X sats = Y users that can be supported. Actually, a lot of Starlink details are still unknown. Will SpaceX's Starlink subsidiary make itself a giant telco, or will they use middlemen to market and ex...
[02:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Warning of Legal Problems for Users of Old Versions of Creative Cloud - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:03] <exec> 08└─I've got a friend who has a hard drive that never connects to the net. It has made sure old software keeps running, for a non-techie I was pretty impressed by that dedication. The new model is using updates to break old software and force new purchases. Scum of scum.
[02:12:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:23] <exec> 08└─I dont read slashdork so fuck beta!
[02:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:33] <exec> 08└─'Science...it works.' (polite paraphrase) see: physics, in other words, ballistics can get interesting at times... Ballistic coefficient, initial velocity(muzzle velocity), airspeed of weapon(note relation of airspeed, and the relation to 'drag'/wind resistance, and the formulas that influence this...
[02:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:05] <exec> 08└─Replying as Anonymous so i don't tip off my colleagues to the strategy. Whenever i am starting the interview process, i always buy one share of voting stock in the company i am interviewing with. Whenever i am starting a contract with a company, i specify that a single share of voting stock vests on...
[02:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CZB [6457] 02 - 06Herbicide Linked to Human Liver Disease - 697 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:13] <exec> 08└─As a farmer who uses roundup, I keep expecting one of the robot projects to take off, but so far, nobody has made one work. Ultimately, it needs to move through irregular ground, identify weeds from crop, and pluck them. But a minimum viable product only needs to see a plant and pluck it. Roundup is...
[02:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Builds New Type 002 Mega Carrier as the Age of Sea Power Wanes - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:57] <exec> 08└─This thing is made in china. That alone is reason enough to believe it will sink 30 mins or less after it sets sail. This has chinese grade components made in china by the same chinese companies that shit out junk quality knockoffs for import to the USA while claiming its the genuine article. If...
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[03:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:22] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone want to bring a kid into the world when you've got a degenerate wannabe dictator in power? I predict a mini baby boom as soon as Trump is out of office.
[03:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:24] <exec> 08└─You have to admit, there aren't many natives left to HAVE kids, what with the waves of violent, resource-hungry immigrants and everything. You would think there would be some kind of laws passed against that sort of thing, but invaders gonna invade. They should all just fuck off back to Europe! (Tha...
[03:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:26] <exec> 08└─They are quite clever in
[03:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:28] <exec> 08└─"Raise", not "make". Scientists in a lab can do the "make" part of babies, but making a person, a whole, complete, moral, non-incel person, takes years
[03:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:30] <exec> 08└─Because the economy is doing relatively well and the wanna-be remains a wanna-be. Who knows what's coming down the pipeline in the next few elections?
[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─And do not attribute to khallow the ability to recall Hanlon's razor. My God, man! Epic fail!
[03:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─Congrats! You found one of the good ones plus having a big family is fun during the holidays
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─Did we not just have this discussion about avoiding alt-white dogwhistle pieces on the front page just last week? Will the eds never learn? Bad enough to freak out the whine supremacists, but now you have attracted all the MRE types. (Men Ready to Ejaculate, not Meals Ready to Eat).
[03:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─But a little short on cash, can someone spot me $100,000 or so, thanks in advance!
[03:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─I was unaware of Dr. Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" so I did a bit of a search for it. The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (who was uncredited), in 1968.[1][2] It predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and...
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─The article isn't about raising babies, it's about making them. Men decide when marriage happens. It's their decision. But, women decide when babies happen. Men really have no say in that part. So no, video games aren't the issue. Women are deciding not to have babies. Why? As always, look to the ec...
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─By "blame video games" you mean that the solution for countries experiencing exploding populations and crushing poverty might be greater access to video games?
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the rare instance of defending khallow. He is right, though I wouldn't call it incompetence so much as greed. The "population bomb" is marching along just fine and after the last few years I simply can not fathom that the desecration of humanity is anything other than unadulterated greed. Sh...
[03:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:49] <exec> 08└─And do not attribute to khallow the ability to recall Hanlon's razor.
[03:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:58] <exec> 08└─Get woke, go broke.
[03:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:15] <exec> 08└─Salon Breitbart News [wikipedia.org] is a "big" website with an outsize influence on the culture. And yet it is almost nothing, a plaything sustained by a couple of rich sugar daddies for pocket change. As a hobby. [newsweek.com]
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:16] <exec> 08└─Oh I know, just yelling into the wind. At the very least maybe it blunts his acceptance of the more vile shit.
[03:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:18] <exec> 08└─Not this guy. His entire internal universe revolves around himself; his core belief is that he's never really and truly wrong, not really, not about things like this. I should know, I've been dealing with him for years...
[03:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: Postponed 1 Day Due to Upper Altitude Winds [UPDATE 2] - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:50] <exec> 08└─No launch tonight, check back tomorrow.
[03:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:33] <exec> 08└─You pay them first rather than after the fact in a subscription based manner. Some movie gets created, they demo it to theaters, theaters say they'll pay $$ to have it to play, and if $$ is high enough the movie is sold. The theaters can then play it however much and however long they want to, no fu...
[03:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:34] <exec> 08└─I didn't like the tracking, but that wasn't why I stopped using google. It used to be that you found what you searched for; now you get what google thinks you should be looking at based on the words you used, or similar words, or even not very similar words if it gets more ads. It went from being th...
[03:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Boosted the UK Economy by £1.7 Billion in 2018 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:52] <exec> 08└─That's an impressive bit of digging.
[03:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:45] <exec> 08└─Except I believe you actually have to shoot down the plane. So he needs to shoot himself out of the sky 5 times..... He's got to work on getting more bullet fragments into the engine.... Then it's hall of fame time!
[03:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:19] <exec> 08└─Last I heard, education in engineering still focuses exclusively on the technical.
[03:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:20] <exec> 08└─There's always choice 3 - don't be part of the problem. I'm not going to burn democracy to the ground just because there's a crazy person in society somewhere. Freedom means among other things the freedom to be an idiot. Breath in a paper bag or something and chill. This AC is never going to believe...
[03:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herbicide Linked to Human Liver Disease - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:34] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see the weed-picking robot that can kill the roots on bindweed and similar nuisances.
[03:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Builds New Type 002 Mega Carrier as the Age of Sea Power Wanes - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:14] <exec> 08└─China needs a few more near Washington to make sure Americans have no funny ideas about paying their debt.
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[04:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:59] <exec> 08└─There are lots of pages full of leftist lies, many of them locked. An example: https://en.wikipedia.org(conspiracy_theory) [wikipedia.org] That... is absurd. Even the article title is absurd. It should be "Spygate (Obama scandal)". The evidence is thick at this point. What more do you...
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:48] <exec> 08└─Yes! Well I'm not the OP but yes. We need people to pursue non-procreative activities. Video games and contraceptives are an excellent solution. Only the people who truly want children should have them, that will solve so very many of society's problems. I recall the author who created http://freako...
[04:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:50] <exec> 08└─You'd just waste it on hookers and blow, then you'd get out of it saying you impregnated 100 hookers that were too stoned to realize you pulled off the rubber. Is your name Clevon by any chance?
[04:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─The timing is wrong mostly because technology made huge differences that they didn't take into account, but as long as world population keeps growing, eventually you catch up to Malthus. If you go with nuclear power, small apartments stacked high, and a pretty bland subsistance level existence, that...
[04:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:54] <exec> 08└─Only a few minutes' work for the male, though.
[04:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:21] <exec> 08└─Hairy.
[04:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:23] <exec> 08└─A hippy loon. Pretty good beard growing skills though.
[04:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:25] <exec> 08└─Libertarian anarcho-capitalist is the default state of being for an American, so that doesn't say very much.
[04:13:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:13] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you believe a stupid conspiracy theory about a shitty candidate. It makes it so helpful to invent and believe fake bullshit about someone who has done a ton of terrible real bullshit. It's just so great that one person can monumentally misread an autopsy report, and then for the next 30 fuc...
[04:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:28] <exec> 08└─Given that Dilbert didn't go online before 1995, it would have been hard to bookmark the homepage in 1993, no matter which browser. Note: Not impossible; you of course could have entered the URL into the browser bar and bookmarked it; it's just that at that time, you would have to have guessed that...
[04:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herbicide Linked to Human Liver Disease - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:44] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't be surprising. A BMI of 31.8 on *average* - a lot of very unhealthy people in that sample unfortunately.
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[05:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:00] <exec> 08└─But Nazis of all flavors don't like it. This is the equivalent of book burning of the 1900s.
[05:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:02] <exec> 08└─Is there anything being done about it?
[05:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:04] <exec> 08└─Done by whom?
[05:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is a mirror of Wikipedia, how would that be spelled, maybe Rikkipedia? Well, this vidiot seems to have taken that name, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Maybe you can search for another spelling?
[05:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:58] <exec> 08└─Great oversimplification. We’ll see how magic dirt theory works for Europe. Sweden is so racist over half of them don’t want more immigrants. Bigots!
[05:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:59] <exec> 08└─This story may have taken 1st in the category of provoking negative comments and mods, though the other one you mention is a contender. If that isn't flamebait, I can't imagine what could be.
[05:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:02] <exec> 08└─Wow, what do you have against Africans, you racist?
[05:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:04] <exec> 08└─Now you are getting it - thank you.
[05:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:06] <exec> 08└─No, I disagree. You both have an obligation to raise the child as best you can.
[05:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:37] <exec> 08└─👌👌
[05:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:39] <exec> 08└─No, it makes it spot on. My point is they are -all- fake, tiny little tails wagging the dog. Brietbart post Andrew is just another example. With Andrew it was something more, purely on the power of that one man's personalty. You cite newsweek, the magazine that sold for $1 plus assume debt. When you...
[05:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:41] <exec> 08└─When I met RMS (before his current fame/notoriety) he was: a) very introverted unless you got him started on programming or another favorite topic, b) a true elite programmer (that is, hacker, in the traditional MIT usage), c) uncompromising, even way back then.
[05:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:43] <exec> 08└─Pirate Bay is a news site? Weren't they the first to do this?
[05:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herbicide Linked to Human Liver Disease - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:04] <exec> 08└─That would be a place for systemic herbicides. If plants could be targeted individually a large farm might use a few gallons a year. I've heard of organic farmers who would sneak out and carefully apply roundup to problem weeds with a paintbrush.
[05:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Builds New Type 002 Mega Carrier as the Age of Sea Power Wanes - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:47] <exec> 08└─It is a mobile Island. China will sail it across the South China Sea, anchor it permanently, call it an Island of the People's Republic of Xi and claim the surrounding territorial waters. The fact that they can ferry aircrafts just means they get an airstrip on the island. There will be a few more o...
[05:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Intel MDS attacks: RIDL and Fallout - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:03] <exec> 08└─Intel is an anagram for Let In. Caveat Emptor!
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[06:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:02] <exec> 08└─nom, nom, nom...
[06:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:03] <exec> 08└─I'd rather eat a bullet.
[06:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:05] <exec> 08└─Better than the converse, which it has always been. Guinea Worm? Hook worm? Tape worm? Runaway1956 worm? Tsetse Fly? Maggots making America Grate again? Bot-fly larvae in your head! Oh My God! It's full of bugs! (no, not talking about Windows, well, just not right now.)
[06:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:08] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to sterilise the bullet first otherwise you might get an infection.
[06:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:10] <exec> 08└─properly mashed, since there is an ick-factor. but otherwise i see no reason to turn it down, once it's certified as safe. it's obvious from the latest report https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] that either we learn to live sustainably or we're left without enough resourc...
[06:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:12] <exec> 08└─The issue is population. Eating bugs just delays dealing with the issue, it does not solve it.
[06:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:14] <exec> 08└─Well at least humans are still around in these predictions.
[06:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:25] <exec> 08└─Just believing something really, really hard ain't make it real, chum.
[06:10:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:15] <exec> 08└─The timing is wrong mostly because technology made huge differences that they didn't take into account, but as long as world population keeps growing, eventually you catch up to Malthus. If you go with nuclear power, small apartments stacked high, and a pretty bland subsistance level existence, that...
[06:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:23] <exec> 08└─By that time your partner may not be able to have kids anymore.
[06:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:25] <exec> 08└─Janrinock is right! Proclaim this to the highest mountains! Janrinok is correct! Now if only he would accept some aristarchus submissions that support his position. And, we need to cut the balls off these slacker sperm donors. They give men a bad name.
[06:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:27] <exec> 08└─Only the people who truly want children should have them, that will solve so very many of society's problems.
[06:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:29] <exec> 08└─Fuck you in your barren intestinal track, you wanna be homosexual who can only manage to be an incel! Why do you think women reject you? It is the same reason other men reject you! You are a pathetic, self-absorbed ego-maniac that cares nothing about others. So we will ostracize you, imprison you, a...
[06:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:31] <exec> 08└─plus having a big family is fun during the holidays
[06:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, right! Or, you are just an idiot, khallow, incapable of reproduction.
[06:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:36] <exec> 08└─I think it was directed against people of alleged European Ancestry, like David Duke, the Duck call magnate. America, Love it, or Give it Back!
[06:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:38] <exec> 08└─Crafoo, you are a total idiot. I will not have babies with you, and I doubt that any other human being will. Real people, the ones who become parents, do not put self-interest first, only psychopaths like yourself and CEOs do stuff like that. When you die, no one will miss you, and probably no one w...
[06:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:40] <exec> 08└─Short version: Found the Micro-penis!
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[07:09:16] <exec> 08└─I grew up on the coast with a diet mostly consisting of a shrimp, crab, lobster and whatever the hell else they put in ceviche. I love em, my kids love em too! I try to make sure we get some sort of insect in our diet at least 3 times a week.
[07:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:17] <exec> 08└─When you can make a bug taste and feel like a juicy ribeye or a crispy, flaky catfish fillet, I'll consider adding bugs to the menu. I can afford real meat just fine though and I'm not about to stop eating it to assuage anyone's hyperbolic guilt.
[07:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:19] <exec> 08└─Poor TMB! No idea what Catfish eat, particularly in the part of the country he fishes for them in. Bugs would be a step up.
[07:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:21] <exec> 08└─I know exactly what they eat. How do you think I get so many of them on a hook. As long as I don't have to eat it though, what do I care? It's not like a carbon atom from a dead possum's asshole is somehow forever tainted. Once it's been digested it's just another carbon atom.
[07:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:24] <exec> 08└─actually if you educate everyone and raise their standard of leaving the population problem is more or less solved because they have less kids. eating bugs could push back the lack-of-food problems long enough for population growth to reach 0.
[07:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:26] <exec> 08└─The more interesting question is: given the enormous benefits, how can we convince people to get over the grossness?
[07:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:28] <exec> 08└─I eat shrimp. Notably, I do not eat shrimp heads or shells or gills. I do not eat the "vein", which is actually the shit-filled gut. The trouble with "eat bugs" is that I'm expected to eat the entire bug. That is just not happening. I also don't eat the entire chicken, cow, scallop, crab, or shark....
[07:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:40] <exec> 08└─The Great Firewall of the Communist Emperor also blocks aristarchus submissions. And, why cannot I get Soylent News in Hong Kong? White Snake spirit? Monkey King? Why is SN blocked outside the US and UK? White Snake Spirit Supremacists!!!
[07:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:41] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be hard to smuggle Wikipedia onto microSD cards and distribute them. Or they could use a VPN, briefly. The problem is that Chinese people go to Chinese websites under Chinese control. They don't care about truth bombs. Americans don't care about dark web beyond silk roads.
[07:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:49] <exec> 08└─Alas, taking responsibility for one's actions is ... uncommon
[07:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:50] <exec> 08└─What's with neckbeards and STEM.
[07:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:52] <exec> 08└─So, to avoid inciting one side or the other, we can't discuss politics, childbirth, abortion, economics, immigration, inequality, science or a thousand other topics? Moderate up those who make intelligent comments, moderate down those who wish to control the discussion, set your story threshold to 2...
[07:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:54] <exec> 08└─It is what this site was created for in 2014. It is what the community chose to have as their topics for discussion during 2014 and 2015. It is not a general discussion site but a news aggregation site for STEM. The addition of political stories was introduce during the run up to the 2016 elections...
[07:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:57] <exec> 08└─If only unborn aristarchus submissions were given the same chance . . .
[07:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:59] <exec> 08└─Because the economy is doing relatively well
[07:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:01] <exec> 08└─If only unborn aristarchus submissions contained something new worth discussing.
[07:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:36] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/salon-to-ad-blockers-can-we-use-your-browser-to-mine-cryptocurrency/ [arstechnica.com]
[07:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:38] <exec> 08└─With Andrew it was something more, purely on the power of that one man's personalty.
[07:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Warning of Legal Problems for Users of Old Versions of Creative Cloud - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:38] <exec> 08└─Or run it in a VM that's not given a virtual network adapter. Bonus with a VM - you can move the VM file around and it's like a portable app. Goddess, how I wish more proprietary devs released software as portable apps the way that PuTTY and a few others do. Makes me MUCH more willing to pay for the...
[07:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:08] <exec> 08└─A shell is like a bullet, but it can explode. Things above .50 caliber are allowed to be shells. For .50 caliber and smaller it is banned by treaty. It is possible to have a 20 mm bullet, but it wouldn't be done.
[07:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:45] <exec> 08└─Nothing makes me happier than your dumbshit views being the primary available counter-culture to a shitty status quo that, say, makes "tough on crime" bills that ruin millions of lives.
[07:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Effectively Bans Municipal Facial Recognition - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:42] <exec> 08└─citations? Okay. about the board: https://sfbos.org [sfbos.org] The legislation: https://sfgov.legistar.com [legistar.com]
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[08:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeptic [1172] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:01] <exec> 08└─What's the problem? I don't get it.
[08:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:23] <exec> 08└─Bugs are bad for the health, ask any developer.
[08:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe people should just stop f*cking so much. [youtube.com]
[08:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:26] <exec> 08└─TFS is ignoring a massive blocker - cost. If one seeks to purchase edible insects, the cost is something crazy like £10 per 100 grams. That is about 10 times the cost of comparable mass of dried meat (e.g. pepperoni). For example https://www.thailandunique.com [thailandunique.co...
[08:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:28] <exec> 08└─Shrimp, crab, and lobster aren't insects.
[08:11:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:11] <exec> 08└─Technically, we're a PBC. Which is to say a for-profit corporation whose primary purpose is public benefit rather than shareholder benefit. Which more or less means we're not legally obligated to make decisions based on what would best line NCommander and matt_'s pockets. Anything we take in above a...
[08:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:32] <exec> 08└─I thought wage-slave was the default state of being for an American.
[08:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:33] <exec> 08└─Wage slavery is a choice. You're free at any time to play some Johnny Paycheck and become your own boss. Most people don't because they don't care how bad things are as long as they're predictable.
[08:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:53] <exec> 08└─The first rule or Pirate club is you do not talk about Pirate club.
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[09:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:29] <exec> 08└─You haven't heard? They're getting rare! https://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] Ok, that ones a bit too factual to be any fun for the joke....Trying again: https://www.vox.com
[09:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:30] <exec> 08└─Because in a few years you won't be able to afford beef. The Chinese will eat that.
[09:10:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:18] <exec> 08└─You have to admit, there aren't many natives left to HAVE kids, what with the waves of violent, resource-hungry immigrants and everything. You would think there would be some kind of laws passed against that sort of thing, but invaders gonna invade. They should all just fuck off back to Europe! (Tha...
[09:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:57] <exec> 08└─It might also be due to the fact that pregnancy, childbirth, and raising children are fucking wretched endeavors, and more people have access to the gory details of it all and choose to avoid it.
[09:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:58] <exec> 08└─No we did not - you might have discussed it. You are welcome to wait for the next story to come along. Perhaps that one will be more to your liking. Alternatively, log in and you can help us moderate the bad comments from the good. And you can set your threshold so that you do not see the dross at t...
[09:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:00] <exec> 08└─Especially when you consider that the average person can't afford sudden $1,000 expenses. The economy is working for the mega-rich, sure, but that's not an indication that it's all that great for the average person.
[09:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:02] <exec> 08└─We could just post stories about cats...... Ah, but then some dog lover would complain. Fuck it, shutter the site, it's the only option. /s
[09:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:58] <exec> 08└─It is what makes profit for the gambling house.
[09:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Warning of Legal Problems for Users of Old Versions of Creative Cloud - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe Krita is enough for those needing adjustment layers.
[09:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Warning of Legal Problems for Users of Old Versions of Creative Cloud - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:44] <exec> 08└─Goddess, how I wish more proprietary devs released software as portable apps the way that PuTTY and a few others do.
[09:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:26] <exec> 08└─Still living in a dream world. How many whistle blowers are unemployable, today? It's alright, if you got halfway or more to being wealthy, before you blew your whistle. Then you might invest your savings into your own business. But, no one hires a whistle blower, do they?
[09:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:52] <exec> 08└─I think the solution is quite simple: switch from majority voting to proportional representation, parties are going to actually disappear!
[09:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First to Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:53] <exec> 08└─Interesting, this is a viewpoint I don't recall seeing in any whistle-blower article ever. They just tend to never be heard from again....I wonder if even McDonald's would hire them..? It would be interesting to see a study on this. Fate of the whistle-blowers.....perhaps a Netflix movie in there so...
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[10:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:55] <exec> 08└─Future uses could include alerts when an employee is using a work computer for activities such as social media or shopping
[10:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:34] <exec> 08└─When you can make a bug taste and feel like a juicy ribeye or a crispy, flaky catfish fillet, I'll consider adding bugs to the menu.
[10:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:35] <exec> 08└─So why do they cost such an insane amount of money?
[10:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 1736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:38] <exec> 08└─Seriously, do you eat? If you do, you already eat bugs, mouse turds, rat hair, fish pus pockets (not to be confused with hot pockets, which are their own style of gross) mold and a whole host of shit worse than insects. You just don't see it and it's not proclaimed on the packaging. Want to know how...
[10:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:40] <exec> 08└─Did the nomenclature change? I could have swore they were all arthropods. Quick someone update wikipedia! https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:54] <exec> 08└─I suppose there is a very human bias to try to violate basic economic principles and human rights. This is how we got today's Venezuela: vote to get more of other people's money, lose free speech, lose the right to own guns... then you run out of other people's money and fools willing to work for fr...
[10:10:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:19] <exec> 08└─NPC is a transparent troll, and I hope it's obvious from the content of his posts. He also has a sockpuppet account (see my journal for this...). He's here purely to stir shit. Downmod his ass on sight and move on.
[10:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:12] <exec> 08└─If that actually succeeds, it will just result in women dying, more unwanted children in the foster system, more child abuse of unwanted children, and just generally more misery all around. So... win?
[10:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:13] <exec> 08└─RIP Tim Conway. Big STEM guy because, television (the "T" in STEM). And, RIP Luke Perry, another big STEM guy -- star of Beverly Hills, 90210. Burried in Mico Organism (Mushroom)Suit. Also known as the Green Burial!!!
[10:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:15] <exec> 08└─Mate, I had big troubles of stopping myself shouting a FU aloud in your direction. Not only would have been useless but would have annoyed the respectable co-commuters on the train. And the reasons for this: - TFA on social issues (political or not) attract more participation on S/N - here's an exam...
[10:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Twitter Accidentally Shared User Data With Advertising Partner - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:07] <exec> 08└─I had assumed that selling data was their business model. Or does this mean they accidentally shared it without charging a fee?
[10:12:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:51] <exec> 08└─So how will artists and scientists be fairly compensated for their work without a legal framework that protects their work?
[10:12:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:56] <exec> 08└─Copyright is a fairly recent invention. Like, maybe a few hundred years old at most? Throughout history being able to make copies of written works was seen as fundamental truth and the way things should be. So yes, I agree with you. The reason given for governments (us, we the people) granting copyr...
[10:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:13] <exec> 08└─It was meant as a cynical observation on who gets to define "piracy".
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[11:09:06] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the reason that your people are dicking around rather than getting work done is because you haven't been draconian enough. It has absolutely nothing to do with your project plan being stupid, the work being unnecessary, management failing to reward effort, or the brain rest actually impro...
[11:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:08] <exec> 08└─Thief! Stealing company time! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:21] <exec> 08└─It's just an indication: SolarCity was doomed, Tesla bought them to bail them out. Which was just dumb: one broke business buying another. The suspicion is that Musk was actually bailing out friends and relatives whom he had encouraged to invest in SolarCity. AFAIK, SolarCity just isn't very competi...
[11:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:22] <exec> 08└─Foreign buyers aren't buying them to help out Musk. Electrical power is more expensive in a lot of the rest of the world than in USA. E.g. average in AU is about US$0.20 per kw/h. When prices get that high, solar cells and an inverter make economic sense at a higher cost than they would in the USA....
[11:09:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:34] <exec> 08└─The issue is population. Eating bugs just delays dealing with the issue, it does not solve it.
[11:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:54] <exec> 08└─Get Dr Oz and Harpo and the Kardashians to eat them and push them and all the sheeple will want them. I swear, Dr Oz could shit on camera and eat it, and everyone of them would want to do it too.
[11:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:55] <exec> 08└─... all insects are arthropods, not all arthropods are insects. """Arthropods form the phylum Euarthropoda,[1][3] which includes insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans.""" So if you are eating shrimp you are eating arthropods, but not insects. I'm sure there are lots of edible insects but sh...
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, newsflash, eating bits of mashed up corpse is disgusting. We're just brainwashed culturally to compartmentalize meat as being different from gory bits of death. If you kill an animal or insect and mash it up, of course it's going to be gross. Once you're cool with that, vegetarianism is the on...
[11:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:59] <exec> 08└─Nice wikipedia article. Although insectum comprise a subset of arthropoda. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I do get your meaning. Bugs, insects, anything in arthropoda is basically giving the same "ew gross reaction" and therefore must be the same thing. But a scorpion no matt...
[11:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:01] <exec> 08└─All of those are crustaceans, which is one type of arthropod; insects, arachnids, and myriapods are other types. So a lobster is no more an "insect" than a tarantula is.
[11:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:03] <exec> 08└─My standards aren't even that high: when they can manage to make insects taste and feel as pleasant to eat as any of the meat varieties that are common in the USA, then I'll consider eating them.
[11:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:06] <exec> 08└─Nah, the f*cking part is fine; it's the byproduct of doing it without contraception that's the problem.
[11:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:08] <exec> 08└─If you're a Windows user you're already subsisting largely on bugs.
[11:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:10] <exec> 08└─They farm yabbies* in Australia, but it is basically a niche market for up-market restaurants. Mostly we just catch and eat the wild ones. The real problem with farming lobsters/crayfish is how slowly they grow. A crayfish weighing over a kilo or two might be 50 years old. * https://en.wikipedia.org...
[11:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:12] <exec> 08└─REALLY don't look at the standards for chocolate.
[11:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:27] <exec> 08└─They released the DNC EMAILS -- tens of thousands of them. And I hear that those EMAILS were a big thing in my OVERWHELMING Election win (E.C.). But, they're becoming a problem. And we're working on that one very hard, trust me. Chelsey Manning locked up. And, Chief Editor Julian Assange locked up(U...
[11:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:48] <exec> 08└─Unless something major has changed in our society, both the man and woman decide when/whether they're going to get married and when/whether they're going to procreate. One person can insist all they want; the other person still has the option of refusing to participate.
[11:12:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 1461 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:01] <exec> 08└─The one thing you should notice here won't be called out anywhere else. Salon is a "big" website with an outsize influence on the culture. And yet it is almost nothing, a plaything sustained by a couple of rich sugar daddies for pocket change. As a hobby. So why? Why was / is Salon a social taste ma...
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Warning of Legal Problems for Users of Old Versions of Creative Cloud - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─Yep. Basically, all proprietary software guarantees you is more headache. People needing features exclusive of proprietary products are better off forming a consortium paying programmers to add those features to the functionally nearer FOSS package.
[11:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:02] <exec> 08└─Inspectie Veiligheid Defensie Inspector General Wim Bargerbos
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[12:08:58] <exec> 08└─LOL
[12:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:00] <exec> 08└─Another great Microsoft game that has stood, very proudly, the Test of Time. That was loved by the Greatest Generation. And that, now they're bringing to our wonderful Millennials. It's known as Millennial Windows and more and more people are buying that one. And by the way, Microsoft Windows was In...
[12:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder how it would know when changing a password is needed without being a gaping security flaw. Or is this like the feature that locks you out of your account forever if you try to log in from abroad despite the accurate login and password because it's "suspicious" and will no unlock unless you...
[12:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washable, Wearable Battery-like Devices Could Be Woven Directly into Clothes - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:17] <exec> 08└─Even if you succeed in making a battery that can live "in the rough" on clothing, clothing gets wet, with sweat, so the positive and negative potentials will have to be robustly insulated from each other, lest the charge drain away through the conductive fluid. Making something insulated is easy eno...
[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:08] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in Cambodia: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:10] <exec> 08└─Use something jacketed to avoid lead poisoning as well.
[12:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grey Area [3335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:12] <exec> 08└─"One of Life's Most Common Compounds Causes Allergic Inflammation" at https://www.ucsf.edu [ucsf.edu] "Entomophagy and allergies: a study of the prevalence of entomophagy and related allergies in a population living in N...
[12:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:14] <exec> 08└─Eating bugs solves the knife issue though. Once everyone is subsisting on insects there will be no excuse for anyone to own a knife... then we can finally ban the godawful things.
[12:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:16] <exec> 08└─My problem with shrimp - all the way through grasshoppers - is cleaning out the digestive tract before consuming them. Shrimp aren't too impossible to de-vein, most terrestrial bugs are much harder. It is probably healthy to eat your food's poop, I'm just not into it myself.
[12:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:33] <exec> 08└─This is the equivalent of book burning of the 1900s.
[12:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:55] <exec> 08└─If that's the carrot, I don't want to know what the stick would be.
[12:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:56] <exec> 08└─If a story about dogs attracted more interest than other stories should we then concentrate on dog stories? There are other sites that cover such material, but dogs are not SN's raison d'etre. We stick to those topics that we were established to discuss although we often stretch that to edge cases t...
[12:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:58] <exec> 08└─No, I disagree. You both have an obligation to raise the child as best you can.
[12:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:00] <exec> 08└─True, but the comment [soylentnews.org] I was responding to wasn't, it was suggesting that the male's responsibility lasted only a few minutes. Of course, this is my opinion.... and I'm allowed to have one just as much as anyone else.
[12:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Accidentally Shared User Data With Advertising Partner - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:54] <exec> 08└─I said, this one is only a problem for the folks that have more than one account. But, too controversial for Soylent News -- because "I" wrote that. It's a problem for you, Anomalous.
[12:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Accidentally Shared User Data With Advertising Partner - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:56] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, it was "news" to me. And believe me, I use Twitter a lot. From more than 1 account. It wasn't "news" to you. That's O.K., possibly not much is "news" to you. You're last Sub went out, or through in July!!!!
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[13:09:18] <exec> 08└─The beatings will continue until morale improves
[13:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:19] <exec> 08└─When I was a child (DECADES ago), personal computers were new. I thought computers were fascinating because they might allow you to do things you couldn't do before or hadn't yet been imagined. I see now that most of what computers do is just control access of information and spy on people. This is...
[13:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would anyone import american solar panels? That's the problem I see. All the parts come from china, so it's not a quality difference. Since the parts have to be imported from china, assembled by americans, exported to desired country, there is a x2 additional cost on transportation and...
[13:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:38] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would anyone import american solar panels?
[13:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:25] <exec> 08└─Bug or Feature sir?
[13:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:26] <exec> 08└─As long as you only eat stray and wild insects, then who cares. Same as china eating dogs.
[13:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're basically water insects, but they're big enough to remove the gut like we do with our terrestrial meat sources. While I haven't tried to de-vein a mealworm or a cricket, it seems like it would be substantially more difficult, and that's a big part of the yuck factor for moving to the l...
[13:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:31] <exec> 08└─This is another one of those super rich machinations. Basically the plan is to automate everything, give some meager basic income that allows people to still buy their products and push everyone into high density housing. Then they take your car and substitute for fleets of autonomous vehicles you w...
[13:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:13] <exec> 08└─why are you visualizing MREs?
[13:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:14] <exec> 08└─If a story about dogs attracted more interest than other stories should we then concentrate on dog stories
[13:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:16] <exec> 08└─Or, it could be, you know, because it's instinctual? You know, that biology, science-y stuff? Maybe you have not yet experienced women whose biological clocks start ticking, but after you have you will not dismiss those urges so lightly.
[13:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:18] <exec> 08└─Unemployment for African-Americans and Latinos is the lowest it's ever been. Will you allow them to say that the economy feels like it's doing well? The Trans-Pacific Partnership was cancelled. Tariffs have been levied against China. Will you allow American manufacturers to say that the economy feel...
[13:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:21] <exec> 08└─For goodness sake, the story came from CNN and their source was a report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). It was a straight-up story about demographics, which affects everyone on many levels. It was a factual piece full of hard data of the kind we all keep saying we want to see more of, i...
[13:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:23] <exec> 08└─I would add that the community grew out of Slashdot, but even Slashdot from its beginning comprised such stories on occasion because it's "Stuff That Matters." This story is not even a stretch because it's demography, which is a discipline that uses statistics and numbers and modeling and everything...
[13:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:25] <exec> 08└─The population of American Indians is 5.2 million. It's not much relative to the total US population, but then the population of American Jews is 5.7 million. American Muslims number 3.45 million. Are numbers the measure of a population's vigor?
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[14:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:57] <exec> 08└─Is there a way for me to totally turn off RDS? I have never before used RDS and do not intend to start, so it is just a service taking up storage, memory and cycles if it is active. Has anyone here done this? Links or step-by-step instructions welcome! I'm specifically talking about Win 7 Pro x64, b...
[14:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:58] <exec> 08└─Is there a way for me to totally turn off RDS?... Links or step-by-step instructions welcome!
[14:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:00] <exec> 08└─Micro$oft just doesn't care.
[14:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:03] <exec> 08└─Something the summary should have made note of. Microsoft's announcement [microsoft.com], while preening a little about how great they are, noted that Windows 8 and 10 are not affected. TFA said the same thing, and even though the summary and article focus are about how they released a patch for XP...
[14:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:13] <exec> 08└─"Have you tried turning it on and off again?"
[14:09:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─Foreign buyers aren't buying them to help out Musk. Electrical power is more expensive in a lot of the rest of the world than in USA. E.g. average in AU is about US$0.20 per kw/h. When prices get that high, solar cells and an inverter make economic sense at a higher cost than they would in the USA....
[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 2838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─From the local Buffalo News, https://buffalonews.com [buffalonews.com] This is about the solar cell plant (not a battery plant). The facility was built by NY State and is used by both Tesla and Panasonic. ? There may be...
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─First line of the summary: >The "great majority" of solar cells being produced at Tesla's factory in upstate New York are being sold overseas Not batteries or even "solar system components", solar cells specifically.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:48] <exec> 08└─They specifically say the *cells* are being made here, so exactly what parts are you talking about coming from China? Raw silicon? Foil backing? Wiring? The protective case of the panel? Cells are the functional component, and so the place where quality control matters the most. It also sounds like...
[14:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:39] <exec> 08└─People keep talking about overpopulation as the driver for these policies. Well, in industrialized societies, THERE IS NO OVERPOPULATION, BUT A FALLING POPULATION. It's the Third World which is overreproducing. Focus on solving the "problem" where there is one. First step: admit the truth. America's...
[14:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─You're projecting your own squeamishness onto everyone else. I have no problem butchering meat and consider a fine cut of meat beautiful, not gross. You are an anomaly in the history of the human species.
[14:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:43] <exec> 08└─Not forever *taint*ed, but close
[14:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:45] <exec> 08└─I must be the odd-ball, I don't respect any of them or their puppet opinions.
[14:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:47] <exec> 08└─I used to own a motorcycle and wasn't a helmet type of guy, so I've munched a few million. Granted, they're probably at least somewhat more enjoyable when not consumed at speed.
[14:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:49] <exec> 08└─...
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:51] <exec> 08└─It's a temporary problem. Because of the one child policy, they have a population bubble that will crash.
[14:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:53] <exec> 08└─Hint: https://www.bls.gov [bls.gov] Its just another way to hide inflation so everything the gov-corp owes that is inflation adjusted rises slower than actual inflation.First a steak became a burger, next a burger will be substituted with a buger.
[14:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hydrogel That Can Stop Bleeding from an Artery - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:17] <exec> 08└─I'll bite. Back when multiple heart bypass operations were just becoming mainstream (in USA), a friend had one of these operations -- but with a twist. The surgeon removed arteries from his legs to use around his heart, instead of the more common veins. Much tougher material in arteries and his doc...
[14:11:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:47] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone want to bring a kid into the world when you've got a degenerate wannabe dictator in power? I predict a mini baby boom as soon as Trump is out of office.
[14:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:45] <exec> 08└─NPC is a right-wing meme that means to mock left-wing reliance upon talking points. It's a little surprising, given the robust cadre of right-leaning Soylentils, that it doesn't pop up more here. It is interesting though, that it represents an inversion of what was said of right-wing people who reli...
[14:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:47] <exec> 08└─Let's be equal opportunity and do likewise for the snark that is the identitarian left's weapon of choice. But let's be sparing in our downmods, because good information and well-earned challenges to our own assumptions can be lost through excessive zeal. That's my preference. I read it all at -1, r...
[14:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:49] <exec> 08└─Jan the man knows better
[14:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:51] <exec> 08└─we need to cut the balls off these slacker sperm donors. They give men a bad name.
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[15:09:12] <exec> 08└─Really? Ahh such purity! Don't use Windows, even a little bit, never feel forced to to muck about with it because someone else just has to have that game or office or tax software or whatever? Yes, I've turned off RDS before. You can get to the whole list of Windows services through the Control Pane...
[15:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:13] <exec> 08└─start->run->msconfig You can uncheck services/startups from there.
[15:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:15] <exec> 08└─This doesn't affect Windows 95. Oldest version it might apply to (haven't checked) would be Windows 2000.
[15:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─I had started a long reply but you've covered much. Yes, MS keeps rearranging things trying to fool people into thinking the newest Windows is so much different and better. Win10 pops up most of the same applets / snapins that look like XP / 2000. I like that they're still there, but it's tedious to...
[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─You're holding it wrong.
[15:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─Why? Tax dodge? Most of the cost is in assembly. Export US made cells; Create panels in China; Import 'US' panels with no tariff!
[15:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:05] <exec> 08└─Something I can't understand, amid all this talk about climate change and agriculture and consumption of insects, is why nobody proposes eating the edibles that grow all around us, everywhere, all the time. People can buy a bundle of dandelion greens at the corner market, but suggest they pick them...
[15:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 1721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:07] <exec> 08└─Not quite - ethics and environmental impact are also major considerations. Insects are generally accepted to be far less aware and feeling (sentient) than mammals, poultry, or even fish, and so the ethical concerns of farming and eating them are far lower. More practically, they're far more efficien...
[15:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:09] <exec> 08└─As I recall there's actually a company out there already producing insect sausage, meatballs, etc. from insects. I think it was a couple years ago, so maybe they've gone under, or maybe they were actually an environmental PR firm with a proof-of-concept product - or maybe they just haven't gained en...
[15:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:11] <exec> 08└─Can I assume you also refuse to eat salads, nuts, brownies, pizza, lobster, etc. unless it can be made to taste like ribeye or catfish? Personally I love meat, but I don't really care if they can make insects taste like it - only if they can make them taste *good*. Like veggie-burgers - until the Im...
[15:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:13] <exec> 08└─how the hell is this a troll?
[15:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hydrogel That Can Stop Bleeding from an Artery - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:37] <exec> 08└─Given the prices of drugs these days.. Could anyone afford this?
[15:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:09] <exec> 08└─The Left has decided this topic is forbidden to discuss. Why? Because it's a real issue affecting people's lives. Only foolish things that don't really affect people can be discussed. Those must be pushed hardest of all. (Example: trans bathroom rights.)
[15:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:11] <exec> 08└─problem is the male can bugger off anytime leaving the woman to bear the result of a few minutes of fun
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Accidentally Shared User Data With Advertising Partner - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─Good thing the IT department is infallible, I was beginning to think they were actual human beings.
[15:14:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: Postponed 1 Day Due to Upper Altitude Winds [UPDATE 2] - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─Article speculates 25-50 kg of xenon or krypton. That's nearly 11-22% right there. As for the rest of the mass, putting networking equipment in space isn't trivial.
[15:14:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: Postponed 1 Day Due to Upper Altitude Winds [UPDATE 2] - 827 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:23] <exec> 08└─They want each satellite to do 20 Gbps. If it's the same for 12k satellites at 3 different orbits, that's 240 Tbps total. https://bgr.com [bgr.com] Average U.S. internet speed is 26 Mbps. The Starlink target could be 1000 Mbps (I'd expect lower spe...
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: Postponed 1 Day Due to Upper Altitude Winds [UPDATE 2] - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming, the connection is stable, low ping, and had no cap or at worst a 300GB cap, I could be quite happy with 25Mbps. I think I'm getting worse speed than that with my 4G LTE hot spot. I'm also getting a variable ping from 35ms to 100ms (sometimes a higher spike and sometimes disconnected) with...
[15:15:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─Or how do you otherwise propose to protect their work so that they are fairly compensated?
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[16:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:08] <exec> 08└─I am not bemoaning the loss of coal, the energy source most damaging to our environment, health, and beautiful outdoors.
[16:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:09] <exec> 08└─Too bad for Wyoming and Montana, which get significant tax revenue from coal, but it's generally a good thing that coal is failing in the market. On the bright side, those states have plenty of wind to fall back on. In fact, wind farms have been sprouting up all over out there.
[16:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:11] <exec> 08└─Wait don't or you'll get black lung. [wikipedia.org]
[16:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:14] <exec> 08└─It gives me hope to see that even in "The Greatest Economy the World has Ever Seen™", with lots of political support, coal is still not economical.
[16:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:16] <exec> 08└─But the difference is that this time, it isn't "the government" that is shuttering mines, it's the free market. It's the preferable route to the same end. On the playground, it's the difference between your toy breaking, and somebody walking over and breaking your toy. The mood you're going to be in...
[16:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:18] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that extracting the gas from the ground requires loads of dirty fracking fluids.
[16:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:20] <exec> 08└─Diversify when you can, not when you have to or it's just too late. Energy companies have seen the writing on the wall for a long time. They all should be investing in companies that develop new battery technology, NG & LNG delivery and power generation, and renewable options like wind and solar far...
[16:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:22] <exec> 08└─I'm reluctantly forced to agree, but also greatly distressed that natural gas is largely what's displacing coal.
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the clarification! Story updated... please give the site a couple minutes for the change to work its way through the cache.
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:46] <exec> 08└─MS article with 3 comments. What a sign of the times that is.
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─No, my screen is black, because the power's out.
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03WeekendMonkey [5209] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─Just arrived in the mail today, your new "cyber diligence" USB device. Just plug in and click OK when prompted to complete the setup process. Of course, you will need to enable autorun first...
[16:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:25] <exec> 08└─My bad. Overworked.
[16:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─That ^ For as long as the US has produced solar panels, most of our solar panels have been exported. I've read that bit of trivia several times, in the past three decades. Here, in the US, electricity is cheap enough that even our poor people can waste electricity. Few really care about solar, here...
[16:11:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:05] <exec> 08└─If you're a Windows user you're already subsisting largely on bugs.
[16:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:30] <exec> 08└─Ahh, so you’ll eventually self-select out of the gene pool, excellent. Hold off on breeding for a while, it’ll cut into your helmet-less motorcycle riding time.
[16:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:32] <exec> 08└─I'm happy to say that I'm doing my part in this! Er... wait, no I'm not. :(
[16:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:34] <exec> 08└─Because the weeds haven't been domesticated. We can't grow them nearly as efficiently as food crops.
[16:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:36] <exec> 08└─No need for that. The Eloi will eat the bugs, and us Morlocks will eat the Eloi. Nothing wrong with a little long pig.
[16:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:38] <exec> 08└─Because some cockbite decided to bite your cock. Look, people, THIS is a troll post!!!
[16:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:40] <exec> 08└─Why did you post as AC? That was factual gold.
[16:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hydrogel That Can Stop Bleeding from an Artery - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:06] <exec> 08└─How long does it take? Bleeding to death can happen very quickly. If the hemorrhaging isn’t stopped, a person can bleed to death in just five minutes. And if their injuries are severe, this timeline may be even shorter. However, not every person who bleeds to death will die within minutes of the s...
[16:13:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:13] <exec> 08└─Because the economy is doing relatively well
[16:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─What's the problem with whites not being a majority? Are minorities not treated equally?
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:42] <exec> 08└─You seem to think that I alone rejected the story. All the editors rejected the story. Not one of them picked it up to publish it.
[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:22] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is ... ... you can tell genuine progressives by how quickly they silence/shun/banish/deplatform people they don't like. Got it. Thanks for clearing that up. Sound like a swell bunch of guys, committed to open debate and compromise.
[16:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─They can print "Don't be Evil" on a large piece of angle iron and shove it up their collective arse.
[16:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:51] <exec> 08└─Try the place next door. Or open your own. You're not fighting the "system". You are fighting your neighbors.
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[17:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:57] <exec> 08└─We have two cars. It makes sense to me to have one of them be electric. Most of the time we just putz around the city. I probably drive ~30 km/day on weekdays. My wife does less then that. If we get an ecar that has 200km of range, even on a cold day where it loses 50%, it would be very very rare th...
[17:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:59] <exec> 08└─We have two cars. It makes sense to me to have one of them be electric.
[17:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 2309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:01] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. What are tests such as these always fundamentally broken. I looked at the PDF. It's here: https://crain-platform-autoweek-prod.s3.amazonaws.com [amazonaws.com] I read the PDF, hunting for details, and came across this... For e...
[17:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:03] <exec> 08└─In the Tesla world, owners mitigate the cold weather range loss by using the seat heaters (and in the Model S/X, the steering wheel heaters) rather than the cabin heater. They say they can be just as comfortable with significantly less power expenditure. Living in Phoenix, I haven't tested this for...
[17:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:05] <exec> 08└─In my Leaf, you can turn off the cabin heater and A/C. You can control the fan independently. So, while there is no single on/off switch, it can be effectively switched off. I think the same is true for most cars.
[17:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─>>> Do I have to replace them after 8 years? Batteries don't generally fail (although it can happen, much like an engine failure in an ICE), what happens is that over time their capacity reduces. In the Tesla world, it's expected that the batteries will still be at 90+% capacity after 200,000 miles...
[17:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:09] <exec> 08└─The chevy bolt went from 114 MPGe to 65 MPGe at 20 degrees F when running the heater. Cold climate shoppers need to take this into account when doing a full cost analysis against gas guzzlers which give you free heat.
[17:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:24] <exec> 08└─But the difference is that this time, it isn't "the government" that is shuttering mines, it's the free market.
[17:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:25] <exec> 08└─Natural gas allowed the US to actually reduce it's greenhouse gas emission for the first time ever. It's objectively cleaner than coal by a very large margin. There are methane issues, to be fair, but those can be solved with leak detection and repair programs. (which the EPA was working to implemen...
[17:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:27] <exec> 08└─Soooo what is your opinion on environmental regulations that prevent dumping industrial waste? Should we go back to the free market approach?
[17:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─http://www.blackviper.com/ [blackviper.com] http://www.blackviper.com [blackviper.com] I don't see the WinXP stuff - I guess he no longer supports XP. But, RDS hasn't changed since Win2K. Just shut it off.
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:44] <exec> 08└─Muchos gracias! :)
[17:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─I just didn't look far enough into the menu - http://www.blackviper.com [blackviper.com]
[17:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─Win95 was obsolete BEFORE WinXP was released. You should have upgraded to Win2K when you had the chance.
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─At the office, I tunnel to my seedbox, which I use as a web proxy. The last-straw was when I found a site blocked for a major chip supplier that the company does business with, and I needed to download product datasheets. I've changed the admin (root) password on my machine, so that I.T. cannot logi...
[17:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:51] <exec> 08└─Weak and obvious. Do better.
[17:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:53] <exec> 08└─They're not looking for insects to be included with meat, they're looking to have them replace meat. So that's what I addressed.
[17:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:55] <exec> 08└─Probably a legit AC. We have a lot more of those than we have registered users.
[17:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:57] <exec> 08└─no u
[17:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:59] <exec> 08└─Developed countries already have a less-than-replacement birth rate. If that trend continues, too many people won't be a problem.
[17:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:17] <exec> 08└─Why would they? Americans are completely free....
[17:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hydrogel That Can Stop Bleeding from an Artery - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:27] <exec> 08└─At what cost
[17:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hydrogel That Can Stop Bleeding from an Artery - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, right. You have Martin Shkreli pharma types instead.
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[18:09:15] <exec> 08└─I think the point is that AAA probably put the climate control system on some standard temperature like 20C, which gives pessimistic data relative to real-world degradation usage. If you've got a coat on, you probably have your climate control set to (perhaps) 0C in the Chicago winter, and not 20C.
[18:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─"No, I typically might heat the car to 0C or so. Even that gets toasty after too long." Maybe for short trips, but for longer drives people aren't keeping their cars at freezing. You're right, they should have specified, you could say implicitly that their climate controls were set to 75 degrees F a...
[18:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─nefficient resistive heating for cabin heat. In moderate temps (say, above 0C), using the already-installed A/C system as a heat pump to heat the cabin would be much more efficient at a small cost
[18:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:21] <exec> 08└─My wife and I have a Leaf and a gas car. We live about 12 miles out of town -- the leaf is great for my regular commute and running errands. When I have to go farther, the gas car works great for that. I get 4.4 miles per kWh at about a dime per kWh. My gas car get 30 mpg. I use 6.8 kWh to go 30 mil...
[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:23] <exec> 08└─My Leaf is a 2012 model BTW.
[18:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:25] <exec> 08└─Actually no. It'll depend on just how cold it actually is, but in general a heat pump is much more efficient that direct heating - essentially you're using maybe 100W of energy to move 300W of heat from a cold place to a warm place - giving you 200W of heating for "free".
[18:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:27] <exec> 08└─Resistance heating wastes almost no energy... a heat pump loses a fair amount of energy pumping gas into liquid and I suppose you could put the motor into the car so the lost heat goes into the car (not helping in summer.) More fundamental: heat pumps MOVE temperature. In summer, you have cool air r...
[18:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:29] <exec> 08└─A heat pump in relatively moderate conditions (0C) will be about 3 times more efficient than electric heating, but rapidly loses efficiency below there. Units can be built to operate much, much colder, but then they don't work (or work well) for cooling.
[18:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:32] <exec> 08└─An electric car as 1 of 2 cars is a great idea. The interesting question though is ... if you can manage on a single (ICE) car, is it more eco to buy an electric car for the short runs and keep the ice car, or just use the existing ice car all the time? It's certainly *cheaper* to only have the 1 ca...
[18:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:34] <exec> 08└─OK, great. What does "climate control" on or off mean? Most importantly, at what temperature is climate control set to?
[18:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jlv [3756] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:36] <exec> 08└─I've driven only BEVs for 5+ years. IMHO, MPGe is a useless number.
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─Not true. Its burning releases less CO2 but its mining(and pipeline leaks, and truck leaks) releases a substantial amount of CH4 which is a very powerful greenhouse gas. The lifetime heat forcing effect of each molecule of methane is about 30x that of carbon dioxide, about the same as substratospher...
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:24] <exec> 08└─Well, it is a Toy operating system, nothing that serious STEM peoples would have anything to comment on.
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:41] <exec> 08└─More distraction! You'll need another core to deal with this stuff soon, meatbags.
[18:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─When I was 20ish, packet networks, MUDs and the internet got to the general public. Considering the potential disruption the revolution could cause in many aspects of life, I predicted it would be vehemently opposed by the incumbents. Little did I know that the incumbents had already been bent on de...
[18:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:23] <exec> 08└─But a lot of people view this as a problem https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] (Low USA birth rates) Guess it depends on which article you read last whether it is a problem or actually desired
[18:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:24] <exec> 08└─I've eaten Crickets, ants, and Mealworms. I'm raising Hornworms now. These are a brilliant green herbivorous moth caterpillar that gets as big as your finger. The former group all have chitin shells or exoskeletons, which can cause allergies in some people. They were palatable when cooked (breaded a...
[18:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:27] <exec> 08└─And so they will - every time you eat fish, it replaces steak as your entree. Same thing with insects. Doesn't have to replace it all the time to do a whole lot of good. Also, headline aside, the article says nothing whatsoever about replacing anything - just about getting people to eat insects on a...
[18:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:29] <exec> 08└─President Trump (and a whole bunch of scared white people) would disagree with you.
[18:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:31] <exec> 08└─Someday I want to try them. Preferably before being forced into it Blade Runner 2049 style.
[18:12:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─But Nazis of all flavors don't like it. This is the equivalent of book burning of the 1900s.
[18:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:50] <exec> 08└─there is a liberal bias in the human mind
[18:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:51] <exec> 08└─You would love to get you some white snake, wouldn't you?
[18:13:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 957 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:32] <exec> 08└─Hate to break it to you, but dick size is not actually all that important. Insanely more important is putting in the time to make your partner orgasm which can be done in a variety of ways. Put in that effort and you solve your sexual performance problems. Go down on a girl till she gets a good orga...
[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─I am still an editor but I am no longer Editor in Chief. I have no influence over what other editors do or do not do.
[18:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:40] <exec> 08└─I am no longer Editor in Chief
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:42] <exec> 08└─Downmod his ass on sight and move on.
[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:45] <exec> 08└─Nah it is just people being reactionary with good reason. There are enough real racists around here that we get dog-whistling bullshit stories that are used as a springboard for spewing racist propaganda. By your use of "The Left has decided this topic is forbidden to discuss." I take it you're one...
[18:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 2185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:10] <exec> 08└─"The bullets slow down due to air resistance, and the geometry of the firing solution can put the plane into the path of the bullets. For example, imagine the plane is flying level and shoots it's gun. The bullets start to drop. Now imagine the pilot drops the nose, so the plane is making a beeline...
[18:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:11] <exec> 08└─Did it? Do you have a source? I almost made the same claim but found no source, leaving it a vaguely recalled anecdote which might not be true.
[18:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:13] <exec> 08└─"AK47 muzzle velocity is 710 m/s. F16 max speed is 670 m/s. F35 max speed is 536 m/s." The muzzle velocity for the MK 112 "Vulcan" carried by the F16 is reported to be 594 m/s. https://en.wikipedia.org
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[19:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for finding this. I read the summary, the initial pages with the above info, read a bunch of pages after, and tried to scan for "temp patterns" in the rest. Guess I missed this. At least we know it's 72F, and I don't know anyone that sets their car to 72F, when it's the winter. Only exclusion...
[19:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─The glory and the downfall of the heat pump is right there in the name. It doesn't heat or cool, it just transfers hot or cold from one place to another. If you want to cool, then it needs somewhere to dump heat. A radiator, more or less. It makes you cool by transferring the heat from where you are...
[19:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:21] <exec> 08└─Use whatever units you want, when keeping the car warm doubles the amount of electricity used it puts a serious damper on the value proposition.
[19:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jlv [3756] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:23] <exec> 08└─Background: I had a LEAF for 5 years and 34K miles. I currently drive an S (34K miles in 2 years) and my wife drives an X (just 6 months old). We are 100% BEV. No ICE cars for us. We live in New England and the winter temps regularly get to 10°F-20°F range. Maybe one or two 0°F a year. Seat heate...
[19:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:26] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see more studies like this conducted by more neutral parties. Triple-A is an organization that champions the ICE. The magazine they send around to members was filled with regular hit pieces on electric cars as recently as four years ago. EVs have been selling like hot cakes in Norway, wh...
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─It's true there's little waste - heating is typically very close to 100% efficient, because heat is the thermodynamic waste-pit of the universe. However, being 100% efficient at what it does (generating heat), doesn't mean that what it's doing is the most efficient way to accomplish what you actuall...
[19:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─it's expected that the batteries will still be at 90+% capacity after 200,000 miles (300,000 km).
[19:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:32] <exec> 08└─One of the cars is my wife's. We need (well not NEED, but...) 2 cars.
[19:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:34] <exec> 08└─>>> to see the actual results Well, if you had followed the link I so helpfully provided, you'll see that the data is from real-world usage, with a smattering of data going up to 250,000 km. Is that close enough for you? It also has data for an EV that doesn't have a temperature-controlled battery -...
[19:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─That math is a good point and the answer is almost definitely no. It mostly only matters to single people though. My wife and I need 2 cars anyway due to work schedules and location. Both of them don't need to be able to do long range trips though. We considered it heavily when we replaced her car 2...
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:38] <exec> 08└─Resistance heating has an efficiency of 1 or 100% (kinda by definition). Every watt of power going into it generates a watt of heat. Within their rated temperature range, a heat pump has an efficiency of 3 to 6 - 300% to 600%. Every watt of power going into it (compressing and pumping gas) generates...
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─"This AC is considering an electric car, and I'm fortunate enough to have an attached garage to keep it warm-ish, probably above freezing, even if the outside temp gets down to 0F (-18C) which is a typical low for my location. That means that any trip will start with a cool (not cold) battery & cabi...
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─>using the already-installed A/C system as a heat pump The question I would ask is, is the AC actually a viable heat pump? In theory there's very little difference between a refrigeration unit and a general-purpose heat-pump, but in practice... practical design choices and optimizations (like the op...
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:45] <exec> 08└─The sample size in the provided link is small with sparse datapoints beyond 150K kms. I'd also like to have more confidence in how the batteries hold up with Canadian winters and the constant freeze/thaw that happens here. If I'm going to drop $40k, I want to know it's going to work as advertised. H...
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:04] <exec> 08└─It was a matter of time, we would have reached this point decades ago had politicians taken the problem seriously. We shouldn't be subsidizing fossil fuels at all, we should be subsidizing clean technologies.
[19:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─I literally just addressed the methane (CH4) problem... Yes, it's C02 equivalence is 25 (not 30), but those emissions are almost all preventable. You need to compare the cost of extracting natural gas to extracting coal. Extracting coal is way more dirty and energy intensive than nat gas. And, it ha...
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 1776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of Workers Who Cleaned Up the Country’s Worst Coal Ash Spill Are Now Sick and Dying [nrdc.org] three days before Christmas 2008, more than 1.5 million tons of coal ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, broke out of a Tennessee power plant, pouring into the Emory and Clinch rivers and cover...
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:10] <exec> 08└─The free market would have shuttered those mines decades ago. The only thing keeping them in business has been subsidies and measures that make it harder for renewables to compete.
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─I'm definitely not coming at this from a "coal is good actually" perspective. That seems to be the intuition you've developed. Just that the change the markets have brought us have left some of the biggest and nastiest externalities sitting on the table exactly where they were when we started.
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─Neither am I re: natural gas! But, if we want to tackle this problem it seems wisest to focus on the biggest polluters, first.
[19:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:53] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the reason that your people are dicking around rather than getting work done is because you haven't been draconian enough. It has absolutely nothing to do with your project plan being stupid, the work being unnecessary, management failing to reward effort, or the brain rest actually impro...
[19:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:27] <exec> 08└─> Why on earth would anyone import american solar panels? The point is they do. American manufacturing making export goods. It's a very good thing. It also shows that Tesla's solar branch isn't using its capacity, which is bad for Tesla, but given that installations are still climbing, it also means...
[19:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─...in a fair fight with your bare hands and no technology or tools.
[19:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hydrogel That Can Stop Bleeding from an Artery - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─Because extremity bleeds that are bad to risk bleeding out could have a tourniquet on it (or clamp it if exposed). Then put the dressing on and cure it. Then restore the blood flow before the tissue distal to the tourniquet dies. For other classes of injury you're going to be applying pressure anywa...
[19:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:02] <exec> 08└─I blame video games.
[19:15:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:28] <exec> 08└─Salon Breitbart News [wikipedia.org] is a "big" website with an outsize influence on the culture. And yet it is almost nothing, a plaything sustained by a couple of rich sugar daddies for pocket change. As a hobby. [newsweek.com]
[19:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:11] <exec> 08└─And which, a brace or three newspapers? Some kinds of rote responses are really too inane to be used in practice. Do upgrade your stockpile.
[19:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Joins Australia's Piracy Crackdown by Tweaking Search Results - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, if you can't be bothered, so be it. But thanks for illustrating the source of the problem.
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[20:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shelves of Shame: Recycling Offenders in UK Supermarkets - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:15] <exec> 08└─No, plastic recycling is not the answer. Using less plastic, ideally none, is. Recycling is a joke for plastic. Metals are another story. Just use cardboard or paper so it can rot.
[20:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shelves of Shame: Recycling Offenders in UK Supermarkets - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:16] <exec> 08└─Replacing with cardboard or paper is not an option. That would put an enormous strain on the resources. Prevention is the best strategy. You know, less(1) is more(1).
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─Seems like this could be partially alleviated by housing the battery so it shares cabin heat and is at least as well insulated from the outside as the rest of the cabin. Could this be a problem in summer though? These batteries actually produce a little heat as they are discharging, don't they?
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─Model 3s use waste heat from the motors to heat the battery. There is no dedicated battery heater: if the car isn't moving and it needs to heat the battery, the motors are used as pure heaters. It's possible that the newest Model S and X cars also do this.
[20:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine that the lifecycle costs (both $$ and, for example, CO2) would ever favor the second car. There's a lot of energy involved in building a car. That said, choosing the right EV means you don't need the second car. Tesla is the only manufacturer who provides that right now, but compani...
[20:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 2071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:02] <exec> 08└─"My understanding is that a bi-directional heat pump is typically considerably more expensive than a dedicated AC - and I assume there's good reason for that." Sure, and the reason you mentioned (optimal refrigerant for cooling versus compromise choice that will work for both) may well be part of it...
[20:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:04] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, when you got to Buffalo, you stopped at the Supercharger at Clarence Mall, next to Eastern Hills Mall? Barnes & Noble store nearby and about a half mile from this AC's house. Don't think I've ever seen more than three Teslas charging at once at that location.
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─After a working in the mines [youtube.com] for a long time, you definitely run a serious risk of contracting black lung, along with other societally concomitant concerns [youtube.com].
[20:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:49] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen any mitigation mention turning off the service. The bad file, termdd.sys, seems to be embedded deeply enough that it can't be turned off. For example, Fast-User Switching uses Terminal Services. I'm looking at XP, and even with all remote turned off in the System Properties, Terminal...
[20:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fitbit-Style USB Tracker Proposed to Improve Cyber Diligence - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:21] <exec> 08└─... do I need windows to use this? If yes, then it can monitor me all day long, while I additionally disable its USB port... (no windows - no problem :) )
[20:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─People say "education", but it is not directly education, but rather the 2 following consequences: 1/ More years of schooling before "entering the adult world" 2/ Ability to get a job and earn decent money on her own Both have the effect of delaying when a woman marries to start a family. In Western...
[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─Note to mods: parent comment is not a troll. It is new information pertinent to the article. Jesus, we have a mod label for posts that trigger you -- "Disagree" -- but you can't disagree with object facts, right, just get mad that someone brought them up, which I guess *is* considered a "Troll" by t...
[20:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─way to fight hate speech!
[20:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:27] <exec> 08└─Unless its Mormon
[20:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:29] <exec> 08└─Unless something major has changed in our society, both the man and woman decide when/whether they're going to get married and when/whether they're going to procreate. One person can insist all they want; the other person still has the option of refusing to participate.
[20:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: Postponed 1 Day Due to Upper Altitude Winds [UPDATE 2] - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:49] <exec> 08└─all they have to do is put up a website and people will flood in. people hate their ISPs with a passion like white fire.
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[21:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford NPE Litigation Database - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:15] <exec> 08└─Does that mean "No NPEs" allowed?
[21:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford NPE Litigation Database - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:17] <exec> 08└─A couple years ago, some 90's born kid brings a vintage instamatic camera to a party. Some startup had crowdfunded a replica of the instant developing film that was so popular decades earlier. We shoot a photo and... nothing like the original experience, with the photo appearing in a few seconds wit...
[21:09:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─My wife and I have a Leaf and a gas car. We live about 12 miles out of town -- the leaf is great for my regular commute and running errands. When I have to go farther, the gas car works great for that. I get 4.4 miles per kWh at about a dime per kWh. My gas car get 30 mpg. I use 6.8 kWh to go 30 mil...
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[21:10:09] <exec> 08└─Huge incentives to purchase a BEV in Norway, compare to neighbors Sweden and Finland -- same climate, no incentive and relatively low BEV sales. Iirc, Denmark(??) was a big market for Tesla until the government incentives were cut off and then sales collapsed.
[21:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:11] <exec> 08└─The most we ever paid for a vehicle was $19,000 for a brand new pickup truck in 1999. After that, it was $14,000 for a brand new Miata in 1991. The most expensive used car we ever bought was $12,000. My main beef with auto battery power is the cost of the battery packs - which can range to $20K and...
[21:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─> Batteries don't generally fail (although it can happen, much like an engine failure in an ICE), what happens is that over time their capacity reduces. I read that you reach a cliff effect, sometimes around 40-60%, where the most degraded modules can just short and cause the rest to not work anymor...
[21:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 1909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:15] <exec> 08└─> Surely... you'll have a reduced range for the entire trip. The battery either needs to be heated (draining said battery) or will be pretty much the same temperature as the outside. Not quite, these batteries have some internal resistance, so they self-heat to some extent when discharging and when...
[21:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─And battery fires are good reasons to keep them on the outide of the firewall.
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─As above [soylentnews.org] you don't have to imagine, they have already managed the distance..
[21:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows XP Patch to Prevent WannaCry-Style Attack - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:06] <exec> 08└─Nah, the upgrade from 95 was to 98SE, just about everything worked better. We still have a large format scanner-copier (and fax) that is connected to a Win98SE Thinkpad. Not used too often, but works great when needed. It's not connected to the internet, sneakernet only for transferring the 11"x17"...
[21:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:04] <exec> 08└─I have experience with solar cells. They are much cheaper to transport than solar panels. By a facor of around 3 to 5. E.g. the cost of importing 100 solar cells is around the same as a 24-cell panel. The cells stack and can be transported easily, the panels are much less dense and heavier. If you h...
[21:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─>The robot could cut the leg joints... Finally, a job I like! >...off of a grasshopper THAT'S NOT IN A SKYNET BOT'S JOB DESCRIPTION, HONEY.
[21:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:29] <exec> 08└─You are already eating insects, and worse, you just don't realize it. http://mentalfloss.com [mentalfloss.com] I've tried crickets, the ranch flavoring on them was enough that if they had been added to a "party mix" I wouldn't have even noticed. Ev...
[21:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:31] <exec> 08└─No need to, the color gives it away.
[21:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hydrogel That Can Stop Bleeding from an Artery - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:06] <exec> 08└─> just because it will take a 290 BP doesn't mean it would put up with the shock of restoring circulation after being cut. But it might) Just like water hammer in plumbing when flow is stopped or started suddenly, it makes sense to remove the tourniquet or clamp very slowly, to avoid pressure spikes...
[21:15:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:22] <exec> 08└─Unless something major has changed in our society, both the man and woman decide when/whether they're going to get married and when/whether they're going to procreate. One person can insist all they want; the other person still has the option of refusing to participate.
[21:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:49] <exec> 08└─Uh, the Jews had already used the 6 million number in previous "stories" prior to ww2. They are full of shit. The Jews that died in the prison camps died of starvation and disease due to the allies bombing supply lines, not some BS psyop about ovens and gas chambers.
[21:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:51] <exec> 08└─What's the problem with whites not being a majority?
[21:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:53] <exec> 08└─You probably don't see the problem, but that is because you take the whole world's advances for granted. These were not realized by some gods or aliens. These were imagined and built by white men.
[21:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:55] <exec> 08└─They're doing great in South Africa.
[21:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites: Postponed 1 Day Due to Upper Altitude Winds [UPDATE 2] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:16] <exec> 08└─take your time. please don't "Challenger" my future ISP sats.
[21:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Warning of Legal Problems for Users of Old Versions of Creative Cloud - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:55] <exec> 08└─act like a slave, get treated like a slave. you support the enemy of your grandchildren for some perceived short term benefit? you deserve to get screwed.
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[22:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Design Helps Power Supply's Film Capacitors Live Longer - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:01] <exec> 08└─"control method runs on a microprocessor" Seriously? Let's add hundreds of thousands of transistors, hopefully with something other than flash memory for the program, which rots over time to replace a 10 cent part that will die after the warranty expires on the device.
[22:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Design Helps Power Supply's Film Capacitors Live Longer - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:03] <exec> 08└─Electrolytic capacitors do not have "errors". Power supply faults caused by defective capacitors (of all types) are common. Typical electrolytic capacitor usable lifetimes are not usually nearly as good as typical film capacitors, although physical construction quality plays a huge role in both. The...
[22:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Design Helps Power Supply's Film Capacitors Live Longer - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:05] <exec> 08└─Not only does the writer lack a basic understanding of the English language, but they also have no clue what they are talking about. Capacitors do not have errors, they are passive components. Complicating power supplies with more silicon based solutions is not a way to make them more efficient and...
[22:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Design Helps Power Supply's Film Capacitors Live Longer - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:07] <exec> 08└─phys.org strikes out again
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shelves of Shame: Recycling Offenders in UK Supermarkets - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─Once again, in order : reduce, reuse, recycle. I do need to point out that the title made me really wonder what they were doing to former convicts in supermarkets ...
[22:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shelves of Shame: Recycling Offenders in UK Supermarkets - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:25] <exec> 08└─The best way to dispose of plastic is incineration, for energy. If you incinerate plastic, that saves natural gas which would have otherwise been needed to provide the energy that the burning plastic provided. That natural gas can instead go to making more plastic. It's almost zero sum - except that...
[22:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:17] <exec> 08└─Background: Chevy Volt owner for 3 years in MA. Keeping the car in the garage won't help in cold weather (maybe unless your garage is heated). After 5 mins in the cold, the ICE will start until the batteries are warm enough. I can commute all on batteries in the summer, but have to put gas in the wi...
[22:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─> ... Natural gas is just too cheap for coal to compete. Just wait -- TFA discusses reorganization - Chapter 11. After stiffing their creditors, this coal mining company will be back to try again, relatively debt free. Might be a trend we will see repeated by other big coal producers?
[22:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:18] <exec> 08└─Well, so far they are releasing only two things: A Windows shortcut key popup (useless), and an option on hovering on a maximize button to have the program open in a new virtual environment (might have corner cases, but for me as a user seems pretty useless). Some of the other things they have idea...
[22:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:30] <exec> 08└─>If you disagree then I humbly suggest you hunt, prepare and eat your food in a fair fight with your bare hands. Only when the boar, who incidentally ruins your whole vegetarian meal, fights the same way.
[22:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:31] <exec> 08└─Big bug macs for two. D'you want systemd with that?
[22:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:34] <exec> 08└─Because nobody needs to chop onions, tomatoes, potatoes, celery, carrots, turnips, or any other vegetable before cooking?
[22:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Fully Blocks All Versions of Wikipedia - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:56] <exec> 08└─> maybe a notarized admission of guilt, done on live TV by Obama, signed with his own blood? That would totally be welcomed by the same people who rejected his notarized birth certificate.
[22:14:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─With carrot-top in the White House, optimism for the fate of future offspring hits an all-time low.
[22:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 426 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─Moral integrity? Leftist? This is from your link: About the Author Arthur Goldberg is Co-Director of the American based Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), former Co-Director of JONAH, Inc. JIFGA sponsors www.fundingmorality.com, a crowd-funding site for those committed to Biblical values...
[22:14:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─Don't even bother, just mod the NPC idiots down. "Sadly" for them their bullshit is pretty quickly outed, "fren" is code for "I'm a racist twat." Most amusing is the idea that "fren" is supposed to indicate someone who only repeats a scripted narrative. So because the majority of the world doesn't a...
[22:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 1735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:56] <exec> 08└─This sort of story is raw meat to the white nationalist folks among the WASPs. They see the world as an extremely competitive place, and they are very, very afraid. In their worldview, groups of people exist out of a necessity to band together for protection from rival peoples. All fight endlessly f...
[22:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Media Sold After Facing Imminent Bankruptcy and Liquidation - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:37] <exec> 08└─You owe that man damn near the entire Free Software movement.
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[23:09:11] <exec> 08└─PFC is basically a switched bank of different capacitors, selected depending on the applied load. Some supplies will 'click' if they use mechanical switching, and the load changes. PFC is used to cancel the reactance of inductors (like motors and transformers), to increase efficiency and reduce refl...
[23:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Design Helps Power Supply's Film Capacitors Live Longer - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:12] <exec> 08└─A capacitance multiplier can be as simple as a single bipolar transistor or mosfet However, they are typically rather inefficient.
[23:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Design Helps Power Supply's Film Capacitors Live Longer - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─electrolyte capacitors, new from Brawndo
[23:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real World Battery EV Usage -- Loss of Range in Cold Temps Quantified - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:23] <exec> 08└─Your wife is a car that put your open marriage in perspective
[23:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Coal Producer in the US Files for Bankruptcy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:51] <exec> 08└─After stiffing their creditors...
[23:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Solar Factory is Exporting Most of its Solar Cells - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:12] <exec> 08└─Well, the story also says tesla buys cells from panasonic. Seems odd a company would make cells then buy them. I just assumed the first part was a typo and they meant the final panel.
[23:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─Yup! I usually say"Oprah could come out on stage, fart, and walk off and the 'audience' would clap like fiends". Audiences like those are just filled with brain dead idiots.
[23:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:44] <exec> 08└─I grew mealworms for a while: baked some and ate some alive. Baked, it's like popcorn. Alive, it is chew, chew, chew, chew, chew........it never seems to end, lol. Growing mealworms takes more time than I have, though. Never got a large farm going. :(
[23:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:46] <exec> 08└─Huh? What does a "fair fight" have to do with disgust? I have no problem slaughtering or butchering an animal. I'm not disgusted by it, and I actually agree with you that people who are need to understand where their food comes from. There are no "fingers" on chickens for example, nor does meat gene...
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[23:13:48] <exec> 08└─Depends on the type of bug [wikipedia.org]. Certain varieties of locusts/grasshoppers are kosher, and they're becoming a very popular snack food in Israel.
[23:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:50] <exec> 08└─Why don't people gather their own dandelions? I don't know -- maybe because police will potentially taser you for it, even if you're a harmless old lady [cnn.com].
[23:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Predicts Future in which Humans Subsist on Bugs - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─As a fellow obligate carnivore, I think we should support these misguided millennial ecotards. The more of them that eat bugs, the less demand there is for rib steaks. Economics says this results in lower priced rib steaks. So win-win... we get cheaper real food, and the ecotards get to feel virtuou...
[23:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births in 32 Years, Report Finds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:14] <exec> 08└─Got NPC's hanging off my truck hitch. He don' need 'em, ever since he took an arrow to the 'nads.
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