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[00:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SK Hynix Announces HBM2E Memory for 2020 Release - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:32] <exec> 08└─I've heard Japan started trade war with s. korea to cripple their chip industry. Japan's getting punked, eh?
[00:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:54] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a lot of hard work. Why not just wait until after you've lost the election, and legislate to remove the powers of the people who won? [politico.com] I mean, it's not like the voters know what they want, is it? [vox.com]
[00:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:22] <exec> 08└─Every time I read about your "Department of Homeland Security" I have a mental picture of men in shiny boots stopping a bus and calling out "Papers please"!
[00:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:08] <exec> 08└─I LOVED my "space egg" iMac! That thing looked absolutely fantastic with all the components in once place. Just plug in power, the keyboard, and the phone jack, and I was on the internet! So neat, so clean! . . . for about a month. Over the next two years, I added: 1. A better keyboard, which meant...
[00:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:10] <exec> 08└─Touch screens are FANTASTIC where they make options visible and available. Touch screens are AWFUL when they replace physical controls that worked better. Car stereo examples: Touch screen radio station selection? Can be done very well. You no longer need to remember which button maps to which stati...
[00:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:45] <exec> 08└─Besides copper, you also have to take into account the lithium used in the batteries. If electric cars really start to become popular, it's going to drive the price of lithium way up, probably must faster than the price of copper is going to increase. Of course, the amount of lithium in Bluetooth ea...
[00:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:46] <exec> 08└─I recently sold my iPhone 8 and bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 (about $120). Newer phones didn't add much for me, and I wanted a headphone jack for a big family trip. It was definitely worth it! I wonder if there's going to be a trend of people migrating to older tech as the new stuff gets less and less...
[00:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:48] <exec> 08└─Rechargeable devices need integrated batteries. That usually means fancy metals like Nickel Cadmium or Lithium. It's going to be tough for those to get cheaper than copper.
[00:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected by These Methods - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:34] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it's "not an issue". If the purpose of incognito mode is to allow me to visit a website without others knowing, I don't see how having my browser broadcasting "Hey! I'm in incognito mode!!!" to websites is a thing that should be ignored. Yes, it's true that the website knows who is c...
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[01:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:34] <exec> 08└─Live by insecticide, you get fucked by the poison. Or sum shit like that.
[01:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:36] <exec> 08└─just another reason...
[01:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SK Hynix Announces HBM2E Memory for 2020 Release - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:45] <exec> 08└─Japan okays one shipment of material Samsung needs for its most advanced chips [phonearena.com] South Korea Retaliates Against Japan in Trade and Diplomatic Rift [nytimes.com]
[01:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Key To Targeting The Spread Of Pancreatic Cancer - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:56] <exec> 08└─Pancreatic cancer vs lung cancer? Lung cancer takes you out pretty quick, but the medical folks tell me that nothing is worse than pancreatic cancer.
[01:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Key To Targeting The Spread Of Pancreatic Cancer - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:59] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk OWNS many geniuses
[01:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:12] <exec> 08└─No, not a new problem. That was my point. Someone will almost always try to corrupt the count (Don't believe in absolutes...) Voting machine security when we can't secure much of anything else is a joke, though... I mean think about it: Equifax's breach. Who can we trust more than the folks entruste...
[01:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gadgets Can Be Hacked To Produce 'Dangerous' Sounds, Says Researcher - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:27] <exec> 08└─Don't make the speakers as loud as possible, make the sounds nearly imperceptible: "They're all laughing at you...", "They must die...". If the device can manage it, throw in some infrasound.
[01:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:31] <exec> 08└─$5000 hammer
[01:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:32] <exec> 08└─Don't be surprised when changing out the controls requires an extensive, and expensive, refit.
[01:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:34] <exec> 08└─What is good for one person may not be good for an entire team that need to work together and transfer the configuration in real-time.
[01:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:12] <exec> 08└─If you've got lag variance between multiple channels, that's a nasty one to fix... the one that bugged me the most recently was trying to watch a video on the tablet using a bluetooth speaker for "better" sound - maybe with all the right software I could manually tune the two to be in sync, but that...
[01:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:14] <exec> 08└─True enough (battery cost > wire cost... for the most part), but I suppose my real point was that the cost of batteries + bluetooth electronics is pretty much hitting the floor where marketing, packaging, etc. is more a driver of cost than the goodies inside. If the wireless solution has a BOM cost...
[01:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:16] <exec> 08└─Check BangGood.com - all kinds of good phones, cheap, with features galore. For a US carrier that works with them, we like mint mobile.
[01:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:18] <exec> 08└─What about the Square app, or Paypal? I use them for credit card swipes in my weekend gift shop. I've seen a lot of people use the Paypal thing at garage sales too. The little thing you swipe the card through plugs into the headphone jack. Without the jack, I'm unable to use cards or have to buy a d...
[01:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:12] <exec> 08└─D&D also had the occasional character who referred to themselves exclusively in the third person - not pretty. Hilarious, but not pretty.
[01:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:13] <exec> 08└─By civilization you mean something "apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health"?
[01:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:16] <exec> 08└─The people who insist that you call them They and call themselves They in the first person, and have an X on their passport for sex, seem to be doing that all the time. Maybe someone should do a study on how that improves or degrades thinking. Maybe they can do the opposite to get more in touch with...
[01:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected by These Methods - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:07] <exec> 08└─Except it is not up to you or anyone else but them to decide that the method you suggest is satisfactory and sufficient for their needs. Like it or not, the content is theirs.
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[02:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:41] <exec> 08└─Live by insecticide, you get fucked by the poison. Or sum shit like that.
[02:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:42] <exec> 08└─For a problem of this magnitude, I'm kind of surprised it's taking so long to take action, both in the US and elsewhere. Presumably the wheels of politics are being gummed up liberally by a bunch of lobbying money and influence. Now that there is pretty solid public evidence of the size and scale of...
[02:50:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 1739 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:12] <exec> 08└─What is 'cutting edge' about something that could be done securely with 1970's technology (and crypto algorithms developed in the 1990's)? Oh that's right, we have to hack up totally insecure readily available 'computer systems' that offers no real benefits and major drawbacks. So all the 'cutting e...
[02:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:17] <exec> 08└─It was busy doing the automatic Windows 10 upgrade.
[02:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:19] <exec> 08└─The people who run elections, at least in the United States, aren't trying to have secure elections. If they were, they'd be demanding paper ballots, massive transparency, international observers, and a wide variety of checks and balances and limits on the power of elected officials and partisan hac...
[02:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gadgets Can Be Hacked To Produce 'Dangerous' Sounds, Says Researcher - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:33] <exec> 08└─Surprise audio is just one reason that I leave cheap headphones plugged in to my ThinkPad, nearly all the time. Pretty sure (but not positive) that the plug switches off the speakers mechanically.
[02:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:41] <exec> 08└─Is that NTSB? Or NHTSA? They are quite different, National Highway Traffic Safety Admin. is part of the Department of Transportation and can make rules and regulations. Per https://www.ntsb.gov [ntsb.gov] NTSB investigates accidents and makes recommendations. They do...
[02:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:42] <exec> 08└─Hah! We even got that P38 in Sweden! The short lever action made it a bit of a pain on the more solid cans, but overall it's a very elegant tool. Damn near unbreakable too.
[02:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:44] <exec> 08└─which is also known as the P38 can opener
[02:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SELECT Code_execution FROM * USING SQLite: Eggheads Lift the Lid on DB Security Hi-jinks - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:37] <exec> 08└─KODI
[02:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:24] <exec> 08└─Nah, it was more drawn from personal experience in software dev. Clever solutions can be neat and efficient, but over time they rarely turn out to have been worth it because of increased maintenance headache. K.I.S.S. Clever hacks certainly have their place, but they also have their cost. But yeah,...
[02:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:25] <exec> 08└─Everybody needs a bit of escapism.
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[03:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Effective Treatments for Ebola Announced - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:34] <exec> 08└─Well, ZMapp was always total BS so this does not mean that the other drugs actually help the patient: The trial is monitored by an independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) that meets periodically to review interim safety and efficacy data and to make recommendations to the study team and...
[03:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:45] <exec> 08└─For a problem of this magnitude, I'm kind of surprised it's taking so long to take action, both in the US and elsewhere.
[03:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:47] <exec> 08└─anyone who knowingly produces and distributes a substance that is likely to lead to a complete collapse of our food chain should be rounded up and shot
[03:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:49] <exec> 08└─Pollination.
[03:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:51] <exec> 08└─We won't starve if bees die off in sufficient numbers, but we'll be down to a diet of corn and wheat. List of foods that need bees: https://honeylove.org [honeylove.org] Take special note of at least one: coffee
[03:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:53] <exec> 08└─Approximately 80 percent of our crops require pollinators.
[03:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:29] <exec> 08└─I'll trust a boxful of paper ballots and a gaggle of mutually-hostile poll watchers over the invisible guts of an electronic voting machine.
[03:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:54] <exec> 08└─Fighting a cold. I tip my hat to you for the rebound though.
[03:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:55] <exec> 08└─Here's another reason: in a damp environment (which the ocean sorta is) electronic controls fail a lot sooner and less predictably than do mechanical controls, because dampness plus microcircuits equals corrosion in progress.
[03:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:57] <exec> 08└─A tale of two pickup trucks, both with power steering: Mine has hydraulic assist. You can feel every bloody thing it does, almost like having a hand on the road. The other has electrical assist. You can't feel a damn thing from the road (well, unless you fall in a hole, at which point it's a little...
[03:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:00] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the passage from Neal Stephenson's well-known work: Obviously you cannot sell a complicated technological system to people without some sort of interface that enables them to use it. The internal combustion engine was a technological marvel in its day, but useless as a consumer good un...
[03:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SELECT Code_execution FROM * USING SQLite: Eggheads Lift the Lid on DB Security Hi-jinks - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:54] <exec> 08└─It's also a great example of an airtight hatchway problem [microsoft.com], someone who can essentially add an interception proxy to SQLite can hack SQLite. It's a neat party trick, but not an actual security problem.
[03:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:43] <exec> 08└─To me, 'smart' is associated with hackery (taking advantage of problem peculiarities for a quick shortcut), 'clever' is taking an ingenious yet sound conceptualization of the problem when solving it - thus the capacity for future extensions is preserved.
[03:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:45] <exec> 08└─I blame Romulus and Remus myself. If they hadn't founded Rome in the first place then it never would've fallen. Same with that asshole George Washington being directly responsible for Trump.
[03:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:47] <exec> 08└─Interesting. The nuances of language is fascinating. It also makes me wonder how the hell any form of successful communication is possible, much like everything else in the world actually working... =)
[03:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting. The nuances of language is fascinating.
[03:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected by These Methods - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:43] <exec> 08└─Indeed it most certainly is now up to us to decide for them what methods they are allowed to utilize.
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[04:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:55] <exec> 08└─In previous years, there were days when the only way we could enjoy dinner out on the deck was with a mosquito net over the entire umbrella/table setup, otherwise the bugs, and not just mosquitos, either, would drive us indoors within about a minute. This year? We eat out there all the time. Most ni...
[04:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe not a good time to send all the illegal immigrants.. Hand pollination [globalcitizen.org] may be the only option..
[04:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:58] <exec> 08└─Snooze. Wake me up when there is a drop in fruit production.
[04:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:00] <exec> 08└─How are you going to avoid the poison? Cows eat plants, chickens eat plants, pigs eat plants, sheep eat plants, goats eat plants. If you plan on only eating insects, what do you think they eat? Maybe you think you can only eat seafood? All this toxic runoff goes straight into the rivers, lakes and o...
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[04:50:21] <exec> 08└─The medical folk Apple fanbois are just pissed that Steve Jobs is no longer at the helm, and blame that dastardly pancreative cancer for taking him away. Meanwhile all the the fandroids wanted Steve Jobs to die a most painful death, and see pancreative cancer as their saviour. So, really pancreative...
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[04:52:50] <exec> 08└─Lithium has a hard price ceiling. At about double today's price it becomes economical to extract it from seawater and that supply is basically unlimited. Given some lag in the price/demand/build-new-plant system I think in the short term the price will go higher, but in the long term that is the max...
[04:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:51] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the antenna for the radio, which is usually the headphone cord.
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[04:55:19] <exec> 08└─The difference is that this costs $15 per person to view with the promise to be an entertaining and enrapturing experience, not a groundbreaking technology showcase. A tech demo is uploaded for free to YouTube or some other host, with the promise to be a groundbreaking technology showcase, not an en...
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[05:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:31] <exec> 08└─Who's gonna stop 'em? Congress?? HA! The courts? HA HA!
[05:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:33] <exec> 08└─Much of the credit for our booming economy comes from cutting regulations. It's usually a quiet activity that attracts little notice, but it has a huge effect on business viability. We can't save every species. We shouldn't try, for multiple reasons. Some species are doomed anyway, some must be doom...
[05:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:35] <exec> 08└─https://i.imgur.com/x6AwhHW.png [imgur.com]
[05:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:00] <exec> 08└─Neonics are particularly bad. If you wanted to custom-engineer something to genocide bees you couldn't get much better than neonics. I'm astounded that they're still allowed to be used.
[05:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:02] <exec> 08└─They have extremely good lobbyists, namely most of the agricultural sector. "Our yields will go down if we can't coat our seeds/plants in bee-genocide". On top of that there's the bizarre fetish most governments have with protecting their farming sector above all else. Blut und boden [wikipedia.org]...
[05:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:04] <exec> 08└─I think what you are calling "bees" are actually Yellow Jackets. They go after meat and sugar and are active after sunset. Honey Bees are after flower pollen and are back in the hive after sunset. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wik...
[05:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:06] <exec> 08└─Haven't you noticed how much fruit and vegetables are costing in the markets these days? Maybe not if your wallet is stuffed with Googily Bucks.
[05:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:08] <exec> 08└─The plural of anecdote is not data. At least cranberry [usda.gov] and blueberry [usda.gov] production are up, as is citrus production [usda.gov]. Meanwhile fresh berries are more available than ever [usda.gov]. Besides, you can rent honeybees [usda.gov] if you need pollination.
[05:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:45] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/2030/ [xkcd.com] Voting Software
[05:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:47] <exec> 08└─Ah...but can't be hacked. Sounds like a feature, not a bug.
[05:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gadgets Can Be Hacked To Produce 'Dangerous' Sounds, Says Researcher - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:03] <exec> 08└─At first glance I thought they were talking about motorcycles. You can always unplug a speaker.
[05:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:19] <exec> 08└─That's ICE, one division of the department of homeland security.
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[05:56:00] <exec> 08└─we made it that way for good reasons
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[06:49:33] <exec> 08└─That they are calling the guy a murderer is a reflection of our society. 911 wasn't going to help his or her situation. It would have helped to have more end-of-life choices, rather than being told to hang on while you lose every last shred of dignity.
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[06:49:35] <exec> 08└─Yep, do everything the government says. Pay your insurance, pay your social security, pay your taxes for medicare, save money in the bank. Then in the end when you need it you find your savings inflated away and come up against a burecratic wall meant to just keep the Ponzi scheme going just another...
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[06:49:45] <exec> 08└─Can it be stopped? It may just be delaying the inevitable. There are science articles saying the chance of all insects disappearing by the end of the century is possible. In terms of species, we are in a mass die off as we speak: Today, many scientists think the evidence indicates a sixth mass extin...
[06:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:48] <exec> 08└─Right! Totally! And I should be compensated for the laws that stop me from shitting (human waste) all over my property boundary, and which disallow me from putting whatever gasses I want into the atmosphere. The right to use my air - you take that from me (even if I mostly want to pump out nitrous a...
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[06:49:50] <exec> 08└─By the year 2100, human activities such as pollution, land clearing, and overfishing may drive more than half of the world's marine and land species to extinction.
[06:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Effective Treatments for Ebola Announced - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks for those. But a 90% survival rate beats untreated, for this outbreak, I thought? So doesn't that figure alone mean that something here is working?
[06:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:03] <exec> 08└─hear, hear
[06:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SELECT Code_execution FROM * USING SQLite: Eggheads Lift the Lid on DB Security Hi-jinks - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:31] <exec> 08└─Hmmm... there are a few things out of place here: 1) SQLite databases shouldn't be shared beween applications, it seems that developers are actually doing this. SQLite can't be blamed for being misused. 2) SQLite database file permissions should restrict only to readonly access or write access only...
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[07:49:32] <exec> 08└─We must continue to steal from the youngest generations to make sure the oldest generation scan continue their standard of living that will be higher than their children shall ever achieve. Who care that these old folks are already older than the expected lifespan of millennials and gen z, its impor...
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[07:49:33] <exec> 08└─Brian Jones shot his wife Patricia Whitney-Jones once before turning the semi-automatic handgun on himself three times, including once in the head
[07:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:35] <exec> 08└─The sheriff says, "We can't solve all their healthcare needs, but we can help them until a better day comes." That day will not arrive in time for people this this situation. We have decades of proof that the insurance companies are exactly the problem with health care access in the US. Tragedy afte...
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[07:49:37] <exec> 08└─Looks like I accidentally a word. It should have read, "in this situation." :P
[07:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:39] <exec> 08└─It isn't hard. Don't pay for insurance... Not only will you save your money, you'll get access to lower prices for the sake services and are less likely to expose yourself to iatrogenic harm.
[07:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:42] <exec> 08└─Theu mark you flamebait, and when this generation shows up with torches, it will be on them.
[07:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:44] <exec> 08└─I think there must be a large overlap between the people who throw their money away to insurance companies and those who keep voting democrat/republican. The outcomes are well known and you need to be either insane or foolish to expect different.
[07:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:23] <exec> 08└─GOG did this when they introduced regional pricing, quietly deleting their previous "short" deriding regional pricing.
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[07:53:39] <exec> 08└─You can share SQLite files between instances of different applications just fine. In fact, it is the preferred format for archiving databases and other relational data. In addition, it has widespread usage as various application file formats as an alternative to rolling your own or using a zip file...
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[07:56:28] <exec> 08└─The analogy is flawed. To correct it: 0. Alice, Bob and Charlie, most of them in academia, build their small village and some ivory towers sprinkled around (sunsite.unc.edu and ftp.funet.fi were two places I used in early '90-ies to download linux from) 1. then (Al Gore opened the internet to commer...
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[08:49:49] <exec> 08└─old folks are already older than the expected lifespan of millennials and gen z,
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[08:49:50] <exec> 08└─You are stoopid, indeed. It is not the small fry players that are responsible for this, eliminating them won't make any difference to you. Go after the sharks, they are the top of the food chain and they are gonna eat you too in the end. If not, they'll incite the younger piranha coming after you to...
[08:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:52] <exec> 08└─Probably an exaggeration of the fact that lifespans in the USA are trending down. The drop isn't that sharp (yet), but it is a noticeable reversal of past trends towards longer lives.
[08:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:54] <exec> 08└─An acquaintance of mine called some hotline after falling behind on his bills, losing just about everything, and getting super depressed. Their solution was to have him committed until he was "better." They gave him some pills he couldn't afford, suggested therapy he couldn't afford, and then they s...
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[08:49:56] <exec> 08└─That's just due to Obamacare. You can see it started in 2014 when that kicked in. More people got put on drugs, and are then over/underdosing on painkiller, blood pressure, psych, etc meds and dying earlier. The rise in deaths is concentrated in poisoning and suicide.
[08:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:59] <exec> 08└─MAGA baby. The shining city on the hill. You sick people shut the fuck up.
[08:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:01] <exec> 08└─According to the horoscope of demonic sunscripts, yes.
[08:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:13] <exec> 08└─Same AC here. I put /s in it to make clear that it was sarcasm. Is sarcasm = troll? I am happy to in future phrase without double negatives, if that would be simpler. I guess I was deliberately inciting (not insightful!) for using the North American centric first nations example, but that really is...
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[08:50:14] <exec> 08└─If you want Nature Reserve Earth, you HAVE to move humans somewhere else. And humans will object if your solution is to extinct them instead.
[08:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Effective Treatments for Ebola Announced - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:24] <exec> 08└─There is no real control group in this study. Survival is heavily influenced by whatever supportive care is available so unless that 90% number comes from a population receiving similar care it is not comparable. Where is the source for the 90% value?
[08:50:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:34] <exec> 08└─For a problem of this magnitude, I'm kind of surprised it's taking so long to take action, both in the US and elsewhere.
[08:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:58] <exec> 08└─In this context, it's not called "rebound", it's called "splashback" or "backsplatter".
[08:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:00] <exec> 08└─> Obligatory: If I told you what it did, I would have to kill you. Automated flush in the portaloos?
[08:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:45] <exec> 08└─... well, mostly. I've had a Galaxy Note 10(.1) since 2014 - it was their 10" tablet [gsmarena.com] with pen. User-replaceable battery, headphone jack, microSD card slot... and still going strong. Of course, it's not that useful as a mobile phone, but even that works (with the 3G/LTE version).
[08:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Lets Biggest Stars Off the Hook for Breaking Rules, Moderators Say - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:53] <exec> 08└─And what exactly did he do? Yes, I don't honestly know! Just would seem relevant to this story. Having said that I don't really care either. If you use (or rather volunteer to be used by) such platforms, you're a fool. Just say no.
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[09:49:58] <exec> 08└─How can you blame Trump? He tried to repeal the laws that caused this but was stopped by the "other team" and Mccain. Unless you are saying it is all just theatre?
[09:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:59] <exec> 08└─So you say if that man had not had an insurance in the first place, he would have been able to afford the health cost? I don't think so.
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[09:50:14] <exec> 08└─Therefore the vote of humans has precedence. Learn to live with it.
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[09:53:00] <exec> 08└─> Yes, I am attacking the design philosophy of tools like emacs: Disagree - what is sensible for one use case may not be for another. Just as a simple example, if I am working on a code that has tab indentation then I need to be able to do tab indentation well. Another code, which uses space indenta...
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[09:53:02] <exec> 08└─I will soak up the loss in nerd points - but which book is that?
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[10:50:17] <exec> 08└─Leave it to Cheeto Jesus to take a notion that has some merit and push it so that it's worse than what you currently have. I absolutely agree that economic factors should be on the table but how they're weighted needs to be spelled out ahead of time. I mean, you don't want the state of California ge...
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[10:50:51] <exec> 08└─For a problem of this magnitude, I'm kind of surprised it's taking so long to take action, both in the US and elsewhere.
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[10:56:19] <exec> 08└─It's like going to see the recent live action remake of Aladdin expecting the vibe pizzazz and pop of the original only to find yourself stuck in the latest attempt at mobile female empowerment in cinematography.
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[11:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:35] <exec> 08└─Translated: Our free-market and deregulation approach failed. We will not admit that we failed or fix the system. We'll treat the symptoms instead. Lets raid our neighbor because their system works better.
[11:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:36] <exec> 08└─Supply and demand affect pricing. So if Canada's drug prices are kept low by the government the extra US demand will drive up those prices. I'm all for lowering drug and healthcare costs in the US. But this is admitting that US drug companies screw the US population and the best we can do is buy dru...
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[11:49:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is definitely not the US's patent laws being abused to make up for price fixing by foreign governments causing the Government-charted Corporations to recuperate their "lost profits". Definitely the failure of the Free Market.
[11:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:41] <exec> 08└─But this is admitting that US drug companies screw the US population
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[11:49:43] <exec> 08└─The people thinking free healthcare will magically fix it?
[11:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:45] <exec> 08└─And use the money to build a wall. A glorious, beautiful, long and high wall. To keep those dirty, ill-mannered, uneducated, diseased, thieving and raping eh, #insert Canadian derogatory term for US citizens#, south the border.
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[11:50:03] <exec> 08└─That they are calling the guy a murderer is a reflection of our society. 911 wasn't going to help his or her situation. It would have helped to have more end-of-life choices, rather than being told to hang on while you lose every last shred of dignity.
[11:50:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 1190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:07] <exec> 08└─The sheriff says, "We can't solve all their healthcare needs, but we can help them until a better day comes." That day will not arrive in time for people this this situation. We have decades of proof that the insurance companies are exactly the problem with health care access in the US. Tragedy afte...
[11:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:21] <exec> 08└─>Implying health cost isn't artificially inflated by insurance since everyone that mattered has it anyway
[11:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:39] <exec> 08└─Therefore the vote of humans has precedence. Learn to live with it.
[11:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:40] <exec> 08└─It would probably help if your reply actually addressed the arguments made in the original post. I agree you didn't deserve a troll mod, but none of your sarcasm addressed the facts of what the OP stated. You made a moral argument agaisnt a legal claim and a factual statement. It is definitely easie...
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[11:52:13] <exec> 08└─3.5 mm jack? I remember those days!
[11:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:32] <exec> 08└─In the beginning was the command line
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[12:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:32] <exec> 08└─A music relevant to political situation... It's all over but the crying And nobody's crying but me Friends all over know I'm trying To forget about how much I care for you It's all over but the dreaming Poor little dreams that keep trying to come true It's all over but the crying And I can't get ove...
[12:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:45] <exec> 08└─How surprising that there are drug shortages in a country with government determined prices. You can't make this up.
[12:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:46] <exec> 08└─This is just taking down another barrier to the free market. Do you think they will still overcharge once a cheaper source of drugs enters the market. I don't see how this is failure.
[12:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:48] <exec> 08└─Really high. High enough to keep those roving polar vortices penned up, I tell you what.
[12:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:51] <exec> 08└─Regulated markets with free/subsidised health care works in several other countries.
[12:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:53] <exec> 08└─We should fix our own mess. Here's an interesting tool on the books which might bypass Congressional lobbying. https://papers.ssrn.com [ssrn.com] Basically a way for the govt to bypass drug patents for the general good. Was used to keep things from getting out of...
[12:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:55] <exec> 08└─I had no idea the problem was already so advanced: https://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca]
[12:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:57] <exec> 08└─The UK? The Netherlands? Australia? None of these have shortages. Are you saying the US has prices set by the government?
[12:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:59] <exec> 08└─#insert Canadian derogatory term for US citizens#
[12:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:01] <exec> 08└─UK is having shortages: https://inews.co.uk [inews.co.uk] NL is having drug shortages: https://www.dutchnews.nl [dutchnews.nl] AU is having drug shortages: https://www.nps.org.au
[12:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:03] <exec> 08└─And yes, the US government also meddles in drug prices.
[12:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:05] <exec> 08└─If you think pharma is a free market, executives [wikipedia.org] have an $800 Epi-Pen to sell you.
[12:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:07] <exec> 08└─Big Pharma wants its tens of billions in profits and they'll do whatever they can to squeeze it out of the US consumers.
[12:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:10] <exec> 08└─Great comment! Came here to say something similar but doubt it would have been as succinct. As an American, I feel my country could benefit from your juxtaposition.
[12:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA's Mars Rover has a Bummer of a Parachute Problem - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:22] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming this rover is going to spread a DNA edited form of life on mars? Will this be the first terraforming mission?
[12:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:49] <exec> 08└─I had an elderly neighbor who was in the hospital for many, many months while the doctors hemmed an hawed about what was even wrong, and milked her for a reported bill of a quarter of a million dollars before she finally died. The bill fell on her family. I don't know how they handled it, but I'd im...
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[12:50:50] <exec> 08└─Debates spent a good amount of time on it https://www.vox.com [vox.com]
[12:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:52] <exec> 08└─Yea, I love it. Let's take a system that really sucks and put it in the hands of people who fuck up everything they touch. Let's force everyone to partake even if they don't want it too. The government couldn't even keep Epstein alive for a couple months... No one is being held responsible. You want...
[12:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:54] <exec> 08└─Given their age, you do realize their primary "insurance" would be Medicare, right?
[12:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:13] <exec> 08└─...is no protection at all.
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[13:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:42] <exec> 08└─'Nuff said.
[13:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:43] <exec> 08└─You always have Macau ... China will respect the Portuguese treaty for sure!
[13:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:45] <exec> 08└─Nah, the British will uphold the heck out of that treaty. 🙃
[13:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:47] <exec> 08└─So far the mechanics of Civilization V Brave New World have mapped really well into the real world strategy. One of the mechanisms that guaranteed almost immediate denouncements of the other players was breaking a treaty or declaration of friendship. I think this maps well into the modern/western un...
[13:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:49] <exec> 08└─I don't recognize it.
[13:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:15] <exec> 08└─And use the money to build a wall.
[13:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:17] <exec> 08└─... for several specifically defined instances of "works"
[13:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:19] <exec> 08└─Why was this modded Troll? The United States does not have drug shortages. Why do they? Don't manufacturers make the amount that is ordered, like manufacturers do in the United States?
[13:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/food-and-drug-administration-safety-and-innovation-act-fdasia/fact-sheet-drug-products-shortage-united-states [fda.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.drugs.com [drugs.com]
[13:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:23] <exec> 08└─See comment above, and https://www.drugs.com [drugs.com]
[13:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:25] <exec> 08└─Isn't there a minor trade dispute going on between the US and Canada concerning tariffs on Canadian steel and iron? Why would the Canadian government cooperate instead of using drug imports as leverage in the dispute?
[13:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:27] <exec> 08└─Bingo. Monopolies are the most harmful thing there is to a free market and patents are government granted monopolies. Now there's a good reason for them to exist despite that but in their current state they do as much harm as good.
[13:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:29] <exec> 08└─Your point is?
[13:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:32] <exec> 08└─These are all artificial problems... drugs cost what they cost, and are supplied at the quantities they are supplied, in the various markets because of the existing regulations - change the regulations and "the market" will find a new equilibrium. I wonder: are addictive pain meds cheaper in Canada?...
[13:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:34] <exec> 08└─Get sick, get treatment, not be in debt when discharged from hospital?
[13:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:36] <exec> 08└─You're missing the reason Cheeto Jesus is doing this in the first place. It's not to get cheaper drugs from Canada. It's to make it impossible for pharmaceutical companies to sell domestically at jacked way the fuck up prices, because there's a cheaper avenue. If they can't sell anything at the infl...
[13:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:38] <exec> 08└─the extra US demand will drive up those prices.
[13:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:40] <exec> 08└─Was used to keep things from getting out of hand until the 70's. (Or depending on your view to prevent drug innovation until the 70's.)
[13:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:42] <exec> 08└─What cheaper source? The drugs are still going to be coming from the same company, they're just going to be making a stop in Canada along the way. So the result will depend - would it be more profitable for them to overcharge in Canada and possibly lose sales, or lower their prices in the U.S? Keep...
[13:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:44] <exec> 08└─Neat. That means I can wear a sombrero fishing and take afternoon naps and nobody can bitch at me for cultural appropriation.
[13:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:46] <exec> 08└─But who's rolling in the cash? Hugely flawed system.
[13:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:48] <exec> 08└─You mean the same drug companies that are selling the exact same drugs in Canada for 10% of the price? Canadian drugs aren't cheaper because they're coming from a different source, they're cheaper because their medical system is able to negotiate a more reasonable price. However, given the choice be...
[13:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:51] <exec> 08└─"treatment"
[13:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:53] <exec> 08└─"Our drugs are not for you, period."
[13:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:34] <exec> 08└─The government couldn't even keep Epstein alive for a couple months...
[13:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:36] <exec> 08└─The government won't want to keep you alive either once you start costing more than what you are paying in. You'll get the exact same "it was no ones fault" negligent treatment.
[13:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:38] <exec> 08└─Right! We need to pass Medicare For All, NOW! oh, wait... they were on Medicare. Never mind, move along.
[13:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:40] <exec> 08└─Why would the family, outside of a spouse, be on the hook? Was this healthcare by AOL?
[13:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:42] <exec> 08└─There are an average of 123 suicides per day in the US alone. Murder-suicide is a common pattern among family members, particularly those who feel hopeless and unable to care for their loved ones. Just because one note mentions the high cost of healthcare doesn't really mean anything. He's not wrong...
[13:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:44] <exec> 08└─This usually results in a reversion of the estate to the hospital. Instead of the kids inheriting the house and land, the hospital gets it. -------- Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
[13:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:46] <exec> 08└─we - as a country - haven't done much of anything positive toward improving the cost of healthcare since then.
[13:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:48] <exec> 08└─You're right, Medicare is not the answer. True universal health care is, but people won't go for it yet. What we've got right now, at best, an average health care system that we pay twice as much for compared to just about any other country.
[13:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:08] <exec> 08└─To allow humans to live in space requires MORE resources than living on earth, exponentially more. Captcha: MalthusWASright
[13:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:44] <exec> 08└─Spontaneous generation of fully grown cattle, yeah we all know that, Mr. enlighted food chain master.
[13:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:49] <exec> 08└─Kogan's Android clone is okay, works as well as a Samsung, and is a lot cheaper.
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[14:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:34] <exec> 08└─You can't have a climate without change, there is no "added influence". This is ridiculous. These people do not care how retarded it sounds anymore, this is a total power and money grab.
[14:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:35] <exec> 08└─Global production of steel is still increasing, by a double every 10 years in average. So, I do not believe in any possible decrease of coal, this is just pure propaganda nonsense.
[14:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:38] <exec> 08└─If it ever becomes possible to prove harm is directly linked to coal, the liability could be enormous. Obviously they don't want to be providing liability insurance to a company that gets sued for trillions.
[14:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:40] <exec> 08└─How much coal is needed to make steel? I haven't played Runescape in a while.
[14:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:42] <exec> 08└─Why are insurers abandoning coal? By the nature of their business, insurers cannot afford to indulge the denialist fantasies still popular in some sectors of industry. Damage caused by climate disasters is one of their biggest expenses, and insurers are fully aware that that damage is set to rise ov...
[14:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:44] <exec> 08└─Nationally, indemnify coal plants that are in operation in states which do not allow production/expansion of further coal facilities.
[14:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:46] <exec> 08└─The real news behind the fake news is, SJW's, incels, and various other creatures are beginning to take over from their aging superiors.
[14:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:48] <exec> 08└─You know that you can have coal for coke without needing it for the fucking smelting, right?
[14:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Green New Deal, or whatever the squat club calls it. O'Crazio Cortez is promoting this stupidity, along with her fellow squatters. There's really nothing wrong with women in politics, but WTF do lefties have to elect longhaired big-teated bubble-headed girls, some of whom are not even big-...
[14:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:03] <exec> 08└─You have an airport, get out now. And transfer your saving to banks outside of China's grasp.
[14:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:05] <exec> 08└─If everyone followed your advice, that airport would become a giant onion.
[14:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:07] <exec> 08└─Onion? With layers like an ogre? I actually don't know what you mean. Of course the rich people would get out first so they don't care.
[14:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:09] <exec> 08└─Too late. Flights canceled: https://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[14:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:11] <exec> 08└─I made an order in Aliexpress a few days ago and it seems the shipment just barely made it out of Hong Kong (got an EMS tracking number) since by the following day the seller's shop was no longer listed. I guess Alibaba's escrow department is going to be rather busy in the coming months.
[14:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:13] <exec> 08└─Filled with tear gas.
[14:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:15] <exec> 08└─But what will the US do? Trump needs a war if he is to get a second term, OTOH China is a bit of a big fish...
[14:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:01] <exec> 08└─Hahahahahahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Government tries to intervene to take drugs from an outside marketplace in bound and you call that a free market. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
[14:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:02] <exec> 08└─But this is admitting that deregulated markets with patent protections US drug companies screw the US any population for items that are necessities and not luxuries.
[14:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:05] <exec> 08└─Don't confuse the paid-by-the-number-they-grant USPTO with a functioning patent office. Patents are absolutely necessary in order to prevent the abuse of the small by the huge - i.e. to protect against monopolistic (oligopolistic) practices.
[14:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:07] <exec> 08└─"Isn't there a minor trade dispute going on between the US and Canada concerning tariffs on Canadian steel and iron? Why would the Canadian government cooperate instead of using drug imports as leverage in the dispute?" Because Americans are poor losers who go out of there way to punish all who have...
[14:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:09] <exec> 08└─stuff invented in the USA
[14:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:11] <exec> 08└─From the viewpoint of the US pharma companies, there is no extra demand. Each additional US citizen wanting to get drugs via Canada will be one lost US citizen wanting to get drugs internally. However no principles of free market economics should apply to this scenario, as there's no elasticity.
[14:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:01] <exec> 08└─Yes I do. Clearly that is also not doing enough. Universal health care is what needs to happen, but I'm not sure we'll see that in the next 40 years. Though, we might be lucky if people wake up to how much we pay for how little we get. People bitch and moan about $12 per pill aspirin and all that li...
[14:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 2034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:03] <exec> 08└─I'm curious about what you expected to occur? People are not involuntarily committed for being, "super depressed." They are committed for being suicidal (or self-harming) or homicidal (or assaultive). While Major Depressive Disorder is often aligned with suicidal ideation, they aren't the same thing...
[14:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:24] <exec> 08└─The two goals are not compatible; those who pay lip service to both at once, are endeavouring to reallocate other people's resources to their own pockets. Which is not nice. Poor people look after their own selves and families, not wildlife and environment; any mutants that do otherwise, earn themse...
[14:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:00] <exec> 08└─Bayer. The same Bayer that bought out Monsanto. Bayer has pretty much led the fight FOR neonics, single-handedly. A company that could buy Monsanto, has a budget larger than a dozen small nations, combined. I think we need to campaign to find out which elected and which non-elected officials have be...
[14:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:01] <exec> 08└─And they're old — as is most of congress and the top-end judiciary — for the most part they don't give a damn what's going to happen after they're dead.
[14:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:04] <exec> 08└─It's all toxic to humans. I challenge you to find any manufactured insecticide without warning labels. Things like "Keep away from children" and "Do not use if you are pregnant or lactating." "Always wear protective gear, including gloves, safety glasses," and possibly a respirator. Go pick up a bul...
[14:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:06] <exec> 08└─MSDA should be MSDA for "Material Safety Data Sheet"
[14:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:21] <exec> 08└─Editors can - and should - change configuration based on what they are editing. Most code editors these days will detect the indentation mode of the open file and adjust to fit, and/or have different indentation settings depending on file extension. But there's a reason that every project past a cer...
[14:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:09] <exec> 08└─Lag between L and R channels is not an an issue I have ever heard of. Probably because the data is interleaved. The audio video sync issue is a real problem with no quick fix, unless VLC has some setting for audio latency. But it comes back to what I said about having a reference signal to measure...
[14:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:10] <exec> 08└─VLC has some setting for audio latency
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[15:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:34] <exec> 08└─"interference in its sovereign affairs" and "hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia".
[15:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:35] <exec> 08└─Political Protests are "Illegal Events" ? Demanding Free Elections is an "Illegal Event" ? I suppose a same sex commitment ceremony would be an "Illegal Event" ? Most definitely interfering with its sovereign rights to oppress its people. I suppose these kinds of illegal events are why Russia is wor...
[15:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:37] <exec> 08└─Political Protests are "Illegal Events" ? Demanding Free Elections is an "Illegal Event" ?
[15:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:53] <exec> 08└─The "Green New Deal" and the "Modern Monetary Theory" used to justify it are literally Nazi economics. Just read some of this: https://mises.org [mises.org]
[15:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:54] <exec> 08└─It's not just coal. It's all hydrocarbons (coal, oil, natural gas, etc.). Our current economy is dependent on them. Period. If you want proof, do a correlation between world economic growth and the usage of hydrocarbons over the last 50 years. It's a linear relationship. To get economic increases, y...
[15:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:56] <exec> 08└─We know what to do with SJWs and incels. Throw them in the navy. That'll straighten them out.
[15:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:58] <exec> 08└─Can't insurance companies be compelled to retroactively provide insurance once liability is established? This is the USA after all!
[15:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:01] <exec> 08└─5) make fossil fuels so expensive that it forces the alternative - which has shown to be economically disastrous, but could be done gradually to allow the economics to balance (ever so slowly...)
[15:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:03] <exec> 08└─So much for civilization. It was nice while it lasted. I'm glad I got to be in the tail-end of it, at least.
[15:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:23] <exec> 08└─Nahhh, Trump don't need no war to win again. All he need do, is sit back, and watch the left talk stupider than he does. See my sig, LOL!!
[15:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:25] <exec> 08└─Put your glasses on, you cross-eyed little fuck. You can't even recognize your mother without them.
[15:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:27] <exec> 08└─So this is more of that "playing the long game" right? Will be interesting to see what sort of long term blowback comes from this.
[15:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:29] <exec> 08└─So far the mechanics of Civilization V Brave New World have mapped really well into the real world strategy. One of the mechanisms that guaranteed almost immediate denouncements of the other players was breaking a treaty or declaration of friendship.
[15:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:31] <exec> 08└─Long term blowback? None. There will be some short term wailing and gnashing of teeth, which will be eclipsed by the wailing and gnashing of teeth when the dems lose the next election. Annexing, or repossessing, Hong Kong and China's other possessions was the long term goal, after all. They are reun...
[15:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:33] <exec> 08└─Right. So what were the British thinking, giving away Hong Kong? Massive mistake.
[15:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:36] <exec> 08└─They're Brits. They aren't required to think. Keep a stiff upper lip, and don't be late for tea, Mate. And, don't show up in that tired old stable jacket like last time!
[15:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:38] <exec> 08└─Abiding by international treaties? They didn't "give away" Hong Kong; they had it on a 99-year lease.
[15:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:40] <exec> 08└─Full meltdown mode, please just don't shoot or otherwise hurt anyone ok?
[15:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:42] <exec> 08└─Hmm, okay apparently that only covers *part* of the territory, but they decided it would be too much trouble to separate it and keep the rest. The original core parts of HK they had acquired via treaties. Despite the finite nature of the New Territories lease, this portion of the colony was develope...
[15:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:44] <exec> 08└─I think he ate your sister. Does that count?
[15:50:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:53] <exec> 08└─Translated: Our free-market and deregulation approach failed. We will not admit that we failed or fix the system. We'll treat the symptoms instead. Lets raid our neighbor because their system works better.
[15:51:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:18] <exec> 08└─Bingo. Monopolies are the most harmful thing there is to a free market and patents are government granted monopolies. Now there's a good reason for them to exist despite that but in their current state they do as much harm as good.
[15:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:37] <exec> 08└─Our free-market and deregulation approach failed.
[15:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know the whole landscape, but a great many Pharma companies are multi-national. They have no problem charging 10x and more for certain drugs in US and European markets as compared to "developing nations" like India and China. There's a thin veneer of "the Western market drugs are held to hig...
[15:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:40] <exec> 08└─Was there anybody that did not already know this?
[15:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:43] <exec> 08└─The whole point of a free market is such that the vendors can charge as much as they can get away with for their goods and services, so it's unsurprising that they would behave this way.
[15:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:45] <exec> 08└─"It's not an either/or situation. It's a balancing act of both." Agreed, but balancing a political pendulum is a hard thing to do. Things tend to flip-flop between being stuck in two extremes. At this point the system appears stuck in the support IP even to the state of extortion. We need to figure...
[15:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:47] <exec> 08└─and stop crossing the border to use our health care system. Many Canadians cross into the use to use our health care facilities for many reasons. One of the reasons is... wait for it... rationing! They aren't allowed the care they want by their government run system. https://www.usnews.com
[15:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:49] <exec> 08└─For the good of American people, let's hope what the Big Pharma can do will be very little.
[15:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:51] <exec> 08└─But remember kids, just because our neighbor's system worked better than ours is no reason to adopt it. Anybody proposing that the United States adopt some sort of publicly run health care system for everybody is a radical who is simply using health care as a the wedge to turn the USA into Stalin's...
[15:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:53] <exec> 08└─it's unsurprising that they would behave this way.
[15:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:55] <exec> 08└─So I can eat some Taco Bellyache without feeling guilty.
[15:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:58] <exec> 08└─Ideally, patents protect inventors and developers, encouraging them to bring valuable inventions to market. In practice, patents more often create a barrier to entry for "little guys" who can't compete with the patent muscle of bigger corporations that play in their space. Threat, and actuality, of...
[15:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:00] <exec> 08└─Ummm, ya? Fascism is the end game of capitalism when government doesn't keep firm control over corporations. The corporations have bought the gov, not the other way round genius.
[15:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:02] <exec> 08└─VLM is a racist jackass, pay no mind.
[15:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler Ships out First Electric Freightliner Semi Truck in the US - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:10] <exec> 08└─90 minutes of downtime, or hot-swappable. One makes more sense than the other to me. I know some companies were looking into this, what happened to those? If you have to recharge, then I will admit that I do like the idea of a battery that lasts exactly as long as a driving shift, and then takes exa...
[15:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler Ships out First Electric Freightliner Semi Truck in the US - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:12] <exec> 08└─Drivers also need to recharge. Discharge. Refuel themselves. So maybe it is not so horrible. This might not be ideal for long haul. But Elon Musk had said that a lot of trucking is short haul. Or so I seem to remember.
[15:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:59] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Lower demand comes from lower demand. And there is not lower demand. Cutting out middle people is nice. But there will be rationing in any method you use. Therefore you need rationers. I agree that moving to straight up single payer would cut out all the profits that insurance takes. You woul...
[15:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:00] <exec> 08└─Yep. Throw out your television. Your computer. Your car and all mass transit systems. If your USian, we'll take away clean water protections and clean air protections (Trump's on his way, but that's a different rant). Make your own clothing, and construct your own home (I'm interested if you can do...
[15:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:02] <exec> 08└─Ok. You pay 100% of your care, and you get no care if you can't afford it. Happy?
[15:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:04] <exec> 08└─>Implying health expenses are all just artificial inflation without having the slightest idea how much actual care collectively costs in actual dollars, nor any real knowledge of what such care would cost a person without an expense mediator.
[15:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:06] <exec> 08└─Yes! Exactly. I want to avoid contact with the healthcare industry as much as is possible. Others want to be pumped full of every new drug fad that comes out. The only thing I would love is a really high deductible low premium insurance plan. Like pay $100 per year with $100k deductible.
[15:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it wasn't just health insurance then. Of course, the above situation will happen every time the state fails to come up with the money to pay for such care.
[15:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:11] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to pretend like there's some magic free market for health care. You can't just decide not to get sick, or get cancer, or get hit by a drunk driver, or any other number of things outside your own personal control.
[15:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:13] <exec> 08└─>Implying expense mediators work for free
[15:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:15] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of nonsense in here
[15:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:37] <exec> 08└─To allow humans to live in space requires MORE resources than living on earth, exponentially more.
[15:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:38] <exec> 08└─Yet, mosquitoes seem to be as abundant or more abundant than ever. Sure, some species will be killed off, but that's bound to happen. Some species only exist in prime real-estate areas. Surely, you don't suggest that we not build the next subdivision there?
[15:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:40] <exec> 08└─Heh, you accuse people of being shills and then get surprised by a troll mod? More like confirmation mod! Yes, there are shills and/or morons spamming anti-human pro-greed screeds! For a long time now
[15:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Weakens Endangered Species Act Protections - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:42] <exec> 08└─What else do you expect from a troll? Now turn that reflecting gaze inward.
[15:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:22] <exec> 08└─The people who make these pesticides are dangerously, willfully oblivious to their danger. True story: We had some people come into the office to talk about how new planting technology worked with their seeds. They handed out sample seeds as examples. 20 minutes later, after everyone had handled the...
[15:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gadgets Can Be Hacked To Produce 'Dangerous' Sounds, Says Researcher - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:22] <exec> 08└─Two points to note. First, that noise can be generated at a time when concentration is crucial - such as driving a car in heavy traffic or in the middle of gall bladder surgery. Second, the light tap from a hammer can disable thousands of dollars in electronics.
[15:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gadgets Can Be Hacked To Produce 'Dangerous' Sounds, Says Researcher - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:23] <exec> 08└─Would anti-Trump messages be a "dangerous" sound ?
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[16:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:45] <exec> 08└─Political Protests are "Illegal Events" ?
[16:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:47] <exec> 08└─Who is "Russia" in your post?
[16:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─If it ever becomes possible to prove harm is directly linked to coal
[16:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:42] <exec> 08└─"Of course the rich people would get out first so they don't care." The rich people got out first, and moved to the US and Canadian West Coast
[16:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:43] <exec> 08└─I'll guess when it comes to that point, the Mainland government will give their HK lackeys clear orders on when to put down the demonstrations with violence. For Mainland forces to get involved would be destroying too much political capital, and would be relied on only as a last resort. No comment f...
[16:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:48] <exec> 08└─I think you misspelled covfefe.
[16:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:50] <exec> 08└─Fascism is the end game of capitalism when government doesn't keep firm control over corporations.
[16:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:52] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the FDA helpfully blocking competitors.
[16:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:54] <exec> 08└─What are you proposing to prevent that? Remember a government is a far more effective thief than a market of corporations is.
[16:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:56] <exec> 08└─I quite doubt that Big Pharma wants "their" drugs REALLY start coming from a different source.
[16:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:58] <exec> 08└─Hasn't this been the plan every few years? Hey Canada, make us some LSD please.
[16:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:02] <exec> 08└─Good. We'll just let you die on the hospital steps when you run out of cash.
[16:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is lower demand because I don't want any of these chemicals they are pushing based on flimsy pseudoscientific reasoning. The more people who realize the reality of the situation (that the healthcare industry is overrun by scammers and useful idiots from top to bottom), the less demand the...
[16:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:05] <exec> 08└─This will not improve until universal single payer healthcare is implemented. This will not happen until the GOP is voted out of office in sufficient numbers that the Democrats have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. This will not happen until people use their fucking brains and stop listeni...
[16:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:08] <exec> 08└─Well, that would be retarded because it would drive away the other patients with money. It makes more sense to stabilize the person, stitch them up if needed, and send them home. Taxes already pay for this basic emergency care around me. But yea, just like they kick you out of the restaurant when yo...
[16:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:13] <exec> 08└─I think there are multiple factors contributing to this problem. I confess, until about eight years ago I was part of what I call, "the pesticide trap". Inexpensive chemicals from foreign suppliers (China, et al) and cheap immigrant labor have contributed to making pesticide treatments far more affo...
[16:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy to Replace Touchscreens on Destroyers with Mechanical Controls - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:34] <exec> 08└─You can open any modern can using only a sturdy knife, which comes as a standard equipment in any country's military.
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[17:49:36] <exec> 08└─Valve probably ignored it because privilege escalation is nothing new on Windows. How many people run as administrator? Nearly everyone, because Windows doesn’t work without it. UAC is a thin bandaid, and hurts more than it helps. Meanwhile, on my Debian gaming computer, I installed Steam without...
[17:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:48] <exec> 08└─Remember, what you are hearing in the US about events in Russia is coming through propaganda channels.
[17:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:50] <exec> 08└─It's their country, so? The CIA, Sorosites, or whoever is behind the global MSM have a knack for picking up on nutcases and publicising their "story", as long as they can construct an angle about the "diabolical Russian state". Take this idiot: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia...
[17:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:52] <exec> 08└─Well we keep you around sooooooo yes?
[17:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:54] <exec> 08└─In contrast to previous protests, the authorities had approved this rally.
[17:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:17] <exec> 08└─Your rhetoric is traitorous and racist. You are letting the MSM dictate your emotions you fool.
[17:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:18] <exec> 08└─Runaway came out kinda twisted, though, to the extreme right.
[17:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:20] <exec> 08└─Just read some of this:
[17:51:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:06] <exec> 08└─And use the money to build a wall. A glorious, beautiful, long and high wall. To keep those dirty, ill-mannered, uneducated, diseased, thieving and raping eh, #insert Canadian derogatory term for US citizens#, south the border.
[17:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler Ships out First Electric Freightliner Semi Truck in the US - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:13] <exec> 08└─Wonder what it's maximum freight hauling capability is (and presumably that would be up to current legal limits)?
[17:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler Ships out First Electric Freightliner Semi Truck in the US - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:14] <exec> 08└─Drivers are also known for stretching it to the very edge limits of what is legal... and beyond. (Hence the pushback on having e-logbooks which would unalterably show hours driven). "If you're not turning you're not earning", and a 2+ hour downtime every 3.8 hours (presumably the 250 mile range is a...
[17:52:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 311 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:30] <exec> 08└─Yep, do everything the government says. Pay your insurance, pay your social security, pay your taxes for medicare, save money in the bank. Then in the end when you need it you find your savings inflated away and come up against a burecratic wall meant to just keep the Ponzi scheme going just another...
[17:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:15] <exec> 08└─Absolutely right. The entire health care system is a mess, and the regulations are definitely no small part of it. It's a complex beast of a problem, so it's going to take a lot of work to fix it all. I'll probably be dead before then. C'est la vie...
[17:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:17] <exec> 08└─And you voted for the shiny con men with the right stories. Let us keep in mind who's a big part of the problem.
[17:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:19] <exec> 08└─It's a standard effect. With a near constant life expectancy, some people will live longer than life expectancy and their life expectancy will increase as they survive more years.
[17:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:21] <exec> 08└─Cost of health care is an issue, but that isn't the only one. The other part of the issue that no one seems to talk about is the lack of familial support. The next generations should be there to support their family in old age and provide the comfort, dignity and care that many need as they reach ol...
[17:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:27] <exec> 08└─I think you mean MSDS.
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[18:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Announces Spectacles 3, With More Than Doubled Price - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:36] <exec> 08└─Whatever the (glasshole) market will bear.
[18:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snap Announces Spectacles 3, With More Than Doubled Price - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:38] <exec> 08└─This is why they can't sell this shit. It's always some half-assed design. We want the ass, whole!
[18:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steam Security Vulnerability Fixed, Researchers Don't Agree - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:47] <exec> 08└─I am happy that this does not affect me. I run steam constantly... but under Linux. The researcher's complaints about other vulnerabilities tied to the USERS group and dll hijacking do not apply to me as well. Of course, I worry now due to Valves reluctance to fix this type of error and wondering if...
[18:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:02] <exec> 08└─The most illegal things on the Internet: - 8chan - Julian Assange/ Wikileaks bank accounts - Venezualan government messages - Tulsi Gabbard - Project Dragonfly Western tech companies censor these things and more, in peacetime, without legal threat, often with political motives or backing. So why sho...
[18:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:03] <exec> 08└─You have to remember that Putin probably didn't even witness these events, as he was - leather clad - at a bike rally in Crimea, totally not some other country's sovereign territory at all.
[18:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:05] <exec> 08└─Multiple YouTube channels broadcast the event live.
[18:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:08] <exec> 08└─Western tech companies censor these things and more, in peacetime, without legal threat, often with political motives or backing.
[18:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:33] <exec> 08└─Our current economy is dependent on them. Period. If you want proof, do a correlation between world economic growth and the usage of hydrocarbons over the last 50 years.
[18:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but the current design of nuclear plants used in the US is not suitable for massive expansion. Solar + batteries would be better. OTOH, some of the advanced designs that have started showing up *do* show tremendous promise. E.g. the molten salt reactors, which can be based on the Thorium cycl...
[18:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:09] <exec> 08└─The Sino-British Joint Declaration [wikipedia.org] states: In accordance with the "one country, two systems" principle agreed between the UK and the PRC, the socialist system of PRC would not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and Hong Kong's previous capitalist sys...
[18:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:20] <exec> 08└─For all of their failings, government has given me police which are 98% non-corrupt, at least a semblance of education for most of my neighbors, an overgrown military which at least hasn't drafted anyone in my family in the last 60 years (or any family for the last 45), roads, somewhat safe food and...
[18:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:22] <exec> 08└─You're right, I should have specified corporate fascism. Basically any system that allows power to be concentrated into the hands of a few goes fascist. End game capitalism is characterized by monopolizing corporations and that massive power imbalance allows those same corporations to buy out politi...
[18:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daimler Ships out First Electric Freightliner Semi Truck in the US - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:33] <exec> 08└─What about local distribution from a depot? You know, actually drop off a bunch of stuff to retail locations and have others handle each item being put into and taken out of the truck? I recall those stops taking more than 30 min when I worked retail, so hook up during that time and extend the range...
[18:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:38] <exec> 08└─Had a small group plan once, got rate hiked into oblivion after first child was born (premiums jumped over $1000 per month...) went "self insured" instead, banked the $1K per month for two years before having the next kid. Actually managed to get big company health insurance for the 2nd birth, but.....
[18:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:39] <exec> 08└─As DINKs age, that formula is falling apart for them. As SITKs (single-income, two kids) with double autism in the current generation age, that formula is blown to tiny pieces before age 50. Not everyone could depend on their children to care for them, even in the past, but much moreso in the future...
[18:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:42] <exec> 08└─Lookit this guy pushing for Sanity 2020, what a shill! Must be a Soros puppet!
[18:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry, in this particular case there probably was no good answer. There are lots of diseases of the elderly for which there is no cure, only a treatment. And the treatment may be expensive (actually rather than just manipulated cost), and therefore limited. People *WILL* die, eventually, even if we...
[18:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:46] <exec> 08└─The Republicans will not do it. But it's not at all clear that the Democrats will do anything that cuts out the insurance companies. BOTH of the major parties are the slaves of their big donors, because the cost of campaigning means that you need to big donors to get elected. Even Teddy Roosevelt an...
[18:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:48] <exec> 08└─For two years at the start of Obamies first term the demoncraps had a filibuster proof majority in both houses and they stuffed around and delayed until they lost it in the midterms. They don't want single-payer any more than the ruthuglicans do.
[18:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:50] <exec> 08└─Clinton wouldn't have needed three shots. One would have all that was needed.
[18:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:52] <exec> 08└─So, how exactly does one go about making "Anonymous Coward" the executive of their estate? Asking for a friend of course...
[18:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 2193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:54] <exec> 08└─Trump has been promising to fix healthcare since before he was elected. So far all he's proposed is Hey, lets go ahead and jump out of this airplane, we can invent a parachute on the way down. Obamacare is actually an improvement over what we had before, it's just a woefully inadequate band-aid that...
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[19:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Announces Spectacles 3, With More Than Doubled Price - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:40] <exec> 08└─I'll stick with FlatPack or AppImage. Cameras good. Not so interested in the VR just yet. But augmented reality might be interesting. Just looking at a person brings up their entire life history. Google could get into this.
[19:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Announces Spectacles 3, With More Than Doubled Price - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:42] <exec> 08└─Having one and only one style makes these instantly recognizable. They need to come in multiple styles, colors, lens shapes, etc.
[19:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Announces Spectacles 3, With More Than Doubled Price - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks, but the glasshole fad has passed.
[19:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Security Vulnerability Fixed, Researchers Don't Agree - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:54] <exec> 08└─Indeed, on Linux steam works so well it'll delete your whole home directory if you uninstall it.
[19:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:14] <exec> 08└─If the company does not take measures to prevent events from being promoted on its platforms, Russia reserves the right to respond accordingly, Roscomnadzor said in its statement, without giving details.
[19:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:16] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with Putin on this one, this is straight up meddling and escalationism. I'm not saying they are not engaging in their own demoralization of USA with all the Commie shit, but it's up to us to call that out and stop it.
[19:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:18] <exec> 08└─It said Russia would consider a failure by Google to respond to the request as "interference in its sovereign affairs" and "hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia".
[19:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:20] <exec> 08└─Let us note that those threats against Google/YouTube came from the Russian government propaganda channel.
[19:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:22] <exec> 08└─There are multiple countries, nay continents, that must be laughing at how pathetic the British have become. It really does look rather hopeless for them - China don't give a fuck, whatcha gonna do? Europe will be happy to watch this humiliation right before they hand out the next humiliation of ref...
[19:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:36] <exec> 08└─You doubt I agree the US is 95% there, and we *now* have a president acting like a dictator? Just now? It is like you took 1/3 of the red pill and haven't figured out what is going on yet. It is better to take no red pill at all than do that, because you are going to end up begging the same fascists...
[19:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:37] <exec> 08└─Evil incarnate? I don't think it's that sophisticated. More like, they're the other team and we've got to support our team no matter what.
[19:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:39] <exec> 08└─Well done intentionally misrepresenting the entire concept in order to make a strawman argument. It's not "free" healthcare. It's paid for in taxes. But it's regulated by a central gov't agency that works to prevent the different vendors from taking advantage of a captive market.
[19:53:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 421 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:24] <exec> 08└─I had an elderly neighbor who was in the hospital for many, many months while the doctors hemmed an hawed about what was even wrong, and milked her for a reported bill of a quarter of a million dollars before she finally died. The bill fell on her family. I don't know how they handled it, but I'd im...
[19:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:04] <exec> 08└─MDs who will accept $50 for a procedure from your copay + insurance coverage will cheerfully present you with a bill for $700 for the same service. Don't want to be sent to collections? Ask for a self-insured discount they'll happily knock 10% off that $700 for you.
[19:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:05] <exec> 08└─You think chemicals are bad for you? I've got to tell you about Dihydrogen Monoxide [dhmo.org]. Inhaling just a little bit of it could kill you.
[19:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:08] <exec> 08└─Sadly many don't. That's why Sanders had to be sandbagged.
[19:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:10] <exec> 08└─Except now the 2018 midterms and current POTUS campaigns are realizing that pandering to the corporate interests is no longer a viable political platform. Careers will be made following the will of the people, and we already have a few politicians showing us the way. Sadly so many US citizens are te...
[19:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:12] <exec> 08└─Or the SITKs were boomers that basically ensured their kids would be just barely above water their entire lives, leaving no money to take care of their parents. Or the kids were forced to wait until their mid 30s to have kids, resulting in them having young children to take care of as the retiring b...
[19:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, you will get the bare minimum treatment, and in exchange you will be left homeless and with a debt that exceeds most people's lifetime earnings. Nobody expects anything else to happen in the current system, that's why so many feel that the currenmt system is broken.
[19:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:16] <exec> 08└─He didn't try to repeat the laws because he thought they were bad. He doesn't give a shit how effective healthcare was pre or post ACA. He tried to repeal the ACA for no other reason than Obama did it. That's been literally his ONLY tactic for his entire presidency. He's spent orders of magnitude mo...
[19:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:18] <exec> 08└─It blows my mind that people like you actually consider suicide and/or life-destroying debt to be preferable to universal health care. UC may not be perfect, but it's still a hell of a lot better than what the US has now. The collective narcissism of American society is truly something to behold. No...
[19:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:20] <exec> 08└─Or we could figure out that not letting the super wealthy steal from everyone isn't theft.
[19:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons) - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:10] <exec> 08└─Well, can't be hacked because it preemptively DoS's itself is something a little different...
[19:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:40] <exec> 08└─Kinda hopeless for now. In the interest of furthering the engineering: i think that using the mic on the phone to measure the latency of the whole audio loop would be better, a long as it isn't too loud.
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[20:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:14] <exec> 08└─It's khallow, he has a point like an unripe watermelon. Blunt, bitter, with lots of annoying seeds that won't grow.
[20:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:43] <exec> 08└─Home-owners policies exclude things like earthquakes and floods. Why can't the insurance companies write policies that exclude climate impact? Even if they couldn't, policies have some kind of payout limit, right? So how can a plant be "Completely Uninsurable". It doesn't pass the smell test. I thin...
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[20:50:44] <exec> 08└─i dont think insurance works like that. unless we assume everybody needs insurance for some thing or another. so the person wanting a coal burner for electricity calls insurance, they say "yes" AFTER calling the actual engineering and building company and giving them a stern "talking too" and remind...
[20:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:46] <exec> 08└─> If you want proof, do a correlation ... It's a linear relationship LOL. LOL LOL LOL! Correlation is definitely causation! And in the direction you claim! It's definitely coal driving progress, not progress consuming more generic energy. Would you like to know which starlet's film career correlates...
[20:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:22] <exec> 08└─hmmm ... methinks starting a demonstration is much easier then stopping one. it's "diode" like. assuming this true, just stir the pot until boils over and then "in the name of law and order" pave the roads with flatend demonstrators capturer by cctv cameras made in china and deepfaked? anyways, just...
[20:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:39] <exec> 08└─I was being generous and not trying to rock your worldview, but seems we're mostly on the same page. No other president has been nearly as dictatorial as Trump, though Bush/Cheney ramped it up and Obama really pushed the limits with droning US citizens. Bush and Obama were bad enough to make Hitler...
[20:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Not everyone could rely on support from their children for various reasons, but far more could before than is the case now. The problem comes from DINKs that don't plan sufficiently to cover their support needs in old age and the condition of broken families being the norm. If there's a rare...
[20:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:15] <exec> 08└─The point I was trying to make, and wasn't obvious with, was that the system is great at fixing immediate crises but sucks for fixing long-term problems. A nobody who wants to kill himself gets treatment because it is an immediate emergency that everyone notices. The second he is "stable" and no lon...
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[20:54:17] <exec> 08└─you prefer a top down government based solution that socializes the costs of the care for the elderly. The problem with that is that it subsidizes the same poor preparedness and lack of social responsibility that caused the problem in the first place.
[20:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:26] <exec> 08└─MSDA (Material Safety Data Argot) is a specialized language (ie, jargon) used to discuss MSDS information.
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[20:55:27] <exec> 08└─How much to rent dead honeybees?
[20:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:46] <exec> 08└─Oh. Well, that's OK then.
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[21:49:32] <exec> 08└─"information can be stored, transmitted and processed via magnetic oscillations without generating heat" Because the Patent Office stopped accepting perpetual motion patents 100+ years ago.
[21:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:34] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean it won't experience energy loss through some other method (EM radiation comes to mind, perhaps photons (light)).
[21:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:36] <exec> 08└─A standing wave is really a steady state condition in which you excite the line or rope at an integer multiple of a half wavelength of its overall length. It’s a superposition of the incident waves coming from the shaken end with the reflected waves coming from the far end. Before you establish th...
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[21:49:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was my thought too. Spectacles are personal and when I go to buy some new ones the shop has hundreds of styles, only a few of which appeal to me. I don't particularly like either colour on offer here and I'm not sure the shape would suit my face. Having said that, as they don't include...
[21:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Announces Spectacles 3, With More Than Doubled Price - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:55] <exec> 08└─My point was to have enough styles so the glasses are not instantly recognizable. I'm just thinking of the trouble with Google Glass back in ancient times. People getting randomly attacked for using a tech product. I do understand that there are irresponsible ways to use these products. But people c...
[21:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Security Vulnerability Fixed, Researchers Don't Agree - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:07] <exec> 08└─If you're so inclined, you could check that non of the files it installed are writable and the steam binaries aren't setuid root.
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[21:50:08] <exec> 08└─if you intend to enter your credit/debit card information on a keyboard connected to a computer running windows be sure that you dont use the card for anything else xor have a low credit limit or only a lil cash on that connected account. it is miserable that software companies making games and dema...
[21:50:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:19] <exec> 08└─Political Protests are "Illegal Events" ?
[21:50:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:47] <exec> 08└─You know that you can have coal for coke without needing it for the fucking smelting, right?
[21:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:41] <exec> 08└─This is a game. War is supposed to be fun.
[21:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:59] <exec> 08└─Um. "Increasingly" going from a miniscule amount to a slightly larger miniscule amount, and overwhelmingly for elective surgeries which aren't covered in Canada (pay for your own silicone, thanks) is not truly a meaningful datapoint unless you're a US plastic surgeon.
[21:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:00] <exec> 08└─If you think Trump is any worse than the last 5 you are delusional.
[21:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:02] <exec> 08└─Your correct, he's not worse than the last 5, he's worse than the last 44.
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[21:53:04] <exec> 08└─As opposed to get sick, get treatment, go bankrupt or alternately, get sick, can't afford treatment, die?
[21:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:06] <exec> 08└─No, he isnt. If anything things have proceeded slightly slower under him. The biggest deal under his admin so far has been fasab 56, which is really just a formalization of the status quo. Go back to begging for the fascist government your supposedly fear to take over responsibility for your health.
[21:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:43] <exec> 08└─Have AC buy you lunch while you are out begging on Wednesdays for about a month and a half and then discover he is a probate lawyer. Then you write your will, name said AC as your executor, and then file it with the state will registry. Be sure to be identifiable when you die, so that way the approp...
[21:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:45] <exec> 08└─Well, considering almost all of them are shitty con men with the right stories, and you don't know until after the fact which is which, it is pretty hard not to vote for one. Not to mention that even if they weren't going in, the power and money involved can tempt and corrupt even the most angelic o...
[21:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:47] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer a world that works that way. Unfortunately, that's not the world I live in. No matter how much you incentivize, promote, educate, encourage, what have you, there's a huge slice of the population that ends up on skid row - and once there it's little help to point out how they got there. Mo...
[21:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:49] <exec> 08└─No, it is for the same age. Just check the 2014 and 2016 actuarial life table here: https://www.ssa.gov [ssa.gov] https://www.ssa.gov [ssa.gov]
[21:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:51] <exec> 08└─You don't understand, the police would have helped shoot the old man and woman to death instead of them having to tragically take matters into their own hands.
[21:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:53] <exec> 08└─Not me. I tend to do opposite of what the government reccomends and its worked out pretty great so far.
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[22:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:36] <exec> 08└─Apparently this [uni-due.de] is the video. More information here [idw-online.de].
[22:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:37] <exec> 08└─There is a video link at the bottom of TFA to here [udue.de]. Basically, the wave looks like a kind of superposition of two different waves with different wavelengths -- a long-wavelength component with stationary nodes and antinodes, and a shorter wavelength component that is "travelling," i.e., ph...
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[22:49:39] <exec> 08└─OK, thanks for those links. To my eye, it looks like two waves superimposed— a high frequency and low frequency component— both moving from left to right at different speeds. There’s some relationship between the two speeds and frequencies that keeps parts of the overall waveform in contact wi...
[22:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:41] <exec> 08└─ARGGGGH! Why must you science illiterates always chime in?? Ever heard of a superconductor? Maybe wait for claims of free energy or perpetual motion before you pop off?
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[22:50:01] <exec> 08└─I had a situation where I was being stalked for some time. I needed to be able to quickly capture what was going on around me in public with a preference to my stalker not knowing he was being recorded. They won't convict without evidence. They won't start a case of stalking by a male without eviden...
[22:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:36] <exec> 08└─The problem I have is that the summary says protesters defied a crackdown on protests for free elections. Then later states that russia said it was legal for protesters to attend the protest. So what did russia crackdown on? How was this defying a crackdown when russia allowed the protest?
[22:51:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:02] <exec> 08└─Our current economy is dependent on them. Period. If you want proof, do a correlation between world economic growth and the usage of hydrocarbons over the last 50 years.
[22:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:08] <exec> 08└─Why can't the insurance companies write policies that exclude climate impact? Even if they couldn't, policies have some kind of payout limit, right? So how can a plant be "Completely Uninsurable".
[22:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:10] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but the current design of nuclear plants used in the US is not suitable for massive expansion...
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[22:51:12] <exec> 08└─(Important qualification: At the beginning of my post, when I said "huge losses," I meant unexpected losses in certain geographical areas. I don't know how many insurance companies are actually losing money overall. But they are making lots of unexpected payouts, which impacts their expected returns...
[22:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, if the suit is based on something that occurred while the insurance policy was in place, the insurers would likely have to pay. However, not renewing the policies would mean that there would eventually be no exposure for the firms as there would no longer be any ability to file suit.
[22:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:16] <exec> 08└─Spoken like somebody that doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. They found talc literally in the middle of those tumors and the manufacturer was aware of the problem ages ago. J&J didn't even need to sell it as they had plenty of other sources of revenue.
[22:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:18] <exec> 08└─3 to 7x depending on skill, equipment and other variables but don't forget that a RND (20) GBR coral cluster needs to be scarified per 1 tonne of coal processed
[22:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:56] <exec> 08└─Okay good that explains how you were conceived.
[22:52:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 511 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:37] <exec> 08└─What cheaper source? The drugs are still going to be coming from the same company, they're just going to be making a stop in Canada along the way. So the result will depend - would it be more profitable for them to overcharge in Canada and possibly lose sales, or lower their prices in the U.S? Keep...
[22:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:19] <exec> 08└─Well, a fool's hope then.
[22:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:21] <exec> 08└─Ah, a MAGA idiot it seems. Or maybe just a regular idiot? Matters not if you're that deluded by cynicism and whatever else.
[22:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, the "stalwarts" : https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[22:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:25] <exec> 08└─Threat, and actuality, of litigation between entities mismatched 100:1 or worse in financial capacity only ends one way: the way the big player wants.
[22:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is a long known chemical with well understood dangers and benefits. Now take this ssri...
[22:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:09] <exec> 08└─They are that special class of jackass who form their opinions before experiencing life, or that do experience life and just expect that anyone experiencing something different must have done something wrong.
[22:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:11] <exec> 08└─As far as I've read, it was a murder, not a case where the wife wanted to die. That's part of the problem with assisted suicide laws; they too quickly result in people leaping from "this person has serious health issues that aren't fully treated (whether that means a cure or better pain medication)...
[22:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:22] <exec> 08└─Says the old bigot... mock an aging nazi to his face? ICBM coords plz
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[23:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Key Phosphorus-Based Molecule For Life On Earth May Have Come From Space - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:41] <exec> 08└─A meteorite containing phosphorus strikes Earth and 4 billion years later we have Elon Musk.... proof that Darwin was right about evolution tending towards perfection.
[23:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Key Phosphorus-Based Molecule For Life On Earth May Have Come From Space - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:42] <exec> 08└─Where did they come from? France?
[23:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:56] <exec> 08└─but trust me, from a purely mathematical point of view there’s nothing unusual that wave action.
[23:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:58] <exec> 08└─It's an animation, not a real video... by that standard, I could use Blender to "prove" that dark matter exists.
[23:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:00] <exec> 08└─If you look at it one way you see a standing wave with traveling properties. But look again and you see a chipmunk chasing a squirrel. Remarkable!
[23:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:02] <exec> 08└─but I’m not seeing any standing wave components
[23:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video of a Phenomenon: Standing Waves That Won’t Stand Still - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:04] <exec> 08└─I think there is a lot of semantic confusion in the article that leaves room for a lot of hype. That second composite wave has no nodes that I can see, neither traveling or stationary. It just adheres in parts to the white template from left to right as it travels. To have a traveling node, there sh...
[23:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:35] <exec> 08└─Number 5 should be easy enough. Remove all the subsidies fossil fuels get and make them pay their own cleanup costs.
[23:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:37] <exec> 08└─So socialise the costs? Great thanks.
[23:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:39] <exec> 08└─What? Common sense? That's a thing the fiction writers use, right? We don't allow that sort of thing here. Harrumph.
[23:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coal is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:41] <exec> 08└─They likely just won't insure power plants in those states then. There are no insurance companies that just insure power plants, they have other areas that they insure and the cost of providing insurance in those cases is going up due to climate change. The lost revenue from not insuring those plant...
[23:52:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 816 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:15] <exec> 08└─The Sino-British Joint Declaration [wikipedia.org] states: In accordance with the "one country, two systems" principle agreed between the UK and the PRC, the socialist system of PRC would not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and Hong Kong's previous capitalist sys...
[23:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:20] <exec> 08└─or else end up like Fan Bingbing
[23:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:22] <exec> 08└─Black people occupied French airports and other locations demanding citizenship papers or else they would become violent. The French dealt with it without bloodshed. Probably by caving in to their demands.
[23:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:24] <exec> 08└─So that's where China learned this BS from. They love getting '99 year' treaties of ports and the like. For all the good it will do for them in the long run. In some places they need 24/7 security for their people just for day to day business.
[23:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration On Hong Kong No Longer Binding - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:26] <exec> 08└─are you thinking this will turn into a protracted guerilla warfare? at what point will another country step in? when tanks are crushing people in the streets? if the SBJD [wikipedia.org] holds any water at all in an international court then china could be held to account for its actions in the mediu...
[23:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:53] <exec> 08└─More like, they're the other team and we've got to support our team no matter what.
[23:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:54] <exec> 08└─We did: the Beach Boys called it "Northern Girls".
[23:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:56] <exec> 08└─The big boys miscalculate sometimes, or, maybe they figured it was worth a $400M risk for the sales advantage... More often, they'll just stonewall the patent holder until his rights expire, then introduce his feature the following year. I've been told an anecdotal tale how the invention of hydrauli...
[23:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:58] <exec> 08└─Ah someone who didnt even know what fasab 56 is until now.
[23:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Wants to Import Drugs From Canada. Canadians Are Furious - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:00] <exec> 08└─I guess the point is, you need someone spelling things out for you!
[23:54:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 966 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:38] <exec> 08└─An acquaintance of mine called some hotline after falling behind on his bills, losing just about everything, and getting super depressed. Their solution was to have him committed until he was "better." They gave him some pills he couldn't afford, suggested therapy he couldn't afford, and then they s...
[23:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, the major difference between the two parties: R can corral their members better.
[23:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:48] <exec> 08└─US Government likes death panels...
[23:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elderly Husband Kills Wife, then Himself, in Desperation Over Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:50] <exec> 08└─Anyone paying for health insurance in the US at this point is a fool.
[23:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:00] <exec> 08└─Your ignorance is also noted.
[23:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, thank you. Can't believe I made the same mistake twice, but there it is.
[23:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50X Increase in Toxic Pesticides: Study - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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