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[00:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:54] <exec> 08└─THAT ISN'T NEARLY ENOUGH!!! Then, I realized that Purdue isn't part of this agreement. While those companies named were perhaps bad actors, Purdue was the primary mover and shaker in this grand scheme. I don't have the time or the energy to dig in, and analyze whether this settlement is "just". All...
[00:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:55] <exec> 08└─But I seriously want to see Purdue destroyed, and the Sackler family made destitute.
[00:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:06] <exec> 08└─Does the ability to do that drop when people are blindfolded? Do visually impaired people have a reduction in such abilities? I would think that picking out the sounds that sync reasonably with the lips would be part of how it works. If not, that's interesting in and of itself.
[00:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:08] <exec> 08└─I find that is me with my autism/spectrum shit: you can't hear the tree for the forest. I hear EVERYTHING and can't pick out the individual: my brain just doesn't block out the forest. I think that's one reason severely autistic people (like my son) have behaviour problems in noisy environments: too...
[00:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promises to Beef Up "Election Integrity" Efforts Heading into 2020 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:05] <exec> 08└─Given the vegetablive** status you describe, seems like a dangerous thing to beef up anything. True, neither porking down is less dangerous, but at least is more tast... err, profitable. ** yes, that's an actual word. True, I invented it on the spot, but it is a word; look, it uses non-whitespace ch...
[00:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promises to Beef Up "Election Integrity" Efforts Heading into 2020 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:06] <exec> 08└─Only rightthink will be allowed. Delete everyone else and call them a bot.
[00:20:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:17] <exec> 08└─I can picture it now! Fusty, pushing his gondola around with that long pole. Singing his song about how both parties are equally to blame for the climate change induced flooding.
[00:20:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 995 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:25] <exec> 08└─The fun thing is they will be. Because while the rise of the peak tides is one of the slowest, steadiest, and least variable elements of climate change, there will be a singular event where it breaks over the dykes and dams in Manhattan and you can be damn sure the local government will be blamed fo...
[00:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:58] <exec> 08└─Better get a bulk rate on your wedding cake, then, you'll have four dozen husbands. 'cause. like, everyone knows earth has access to unlimited supply of frozen water, thus in another 2 million years or so, Earth will be an ocean planet.
[00:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:59] <exec> 08└─Do you know how logical fallacies work?
[00:21:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Stretching Before or After a Workout: Only One of Them is Right - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:51] <exec> 08└─She isn't even qualified to evaluate the research she cites. Her bio SHORT BIO: Caroline Roberts writes articles and notifications for CNET. She studies English at Cal Poly, and loves philosophy, Karl the Fog, and a strong cup of black coffee. She hopes to one day call herself a published author. T...
[00:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stretching Before or After a Workout: Only One of Them is Right - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:05] <exec> 08└─but but but but they're the real news and everything else is fake news... I'm sure if she was writing about politics it would be gospel.
[00:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stretching Before or After a Workout: Only One of Them is Right - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:05] <exec> 08└─since stretching itself can become a kind of exercise
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Expensive Broadband is Pricing Millions Out of Accessing the Internet - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─Good for you. This is posted from a location where there is no LTE coverage from any provider and only 2 of the big 4 provide spotty 3G. Also, I have the choice of 1 ADSL provider of up to 6 down 1 up, which almost never gets that close, for $60. Or I can get 25/3 with a 20 GB cap for $90. Or I can...
[00:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Accessibility, the Future, and Why Domino's v Robles Matters - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:33] <exec> 08└─This is actually an interesting point. Why would one have such strictures? And what might the limits be? The controlling concern is a stable, flourishing society. That is the goal of good public policy. The concern is that of exclusion, or driving people to desparation. This is bad public policy, by...
[00:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Accessibility, the Future, and Why Domino's v Robles Matters - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:33] <exec> 08└─And what if you are in a place where you can't just yak on the phone? The fact of the matter is that it is really easy to make websites accessible. Just label what things are and proper tags instead of divs everywhere with automatically generated names and ids. Just use descriptive links ("order piz...
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[01:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:52] <exec> 08└─I realize you love your trolling, and usually, it's pretty funny. But, that's pretty far out there. All the rest of the companies involved share however much responsibility, but the Sacklers were the real pushers behind the opioid crisis. They can't be made to pay enough. The company needs to die a...
[01:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:52] <exec> 08└─If all that wealth were distributed to the "victims", wouldn't they just use it to score some heroin from the local Mexican cartel franchise? It would be better to take the Sackler money and give it to Bill Gates... Sacklers would be poor, as you want, and Gates can use the money to improve the worl...
[01:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:52] <exec> 08└─I didn't specify that addicts each recieve a thousand dollars in cash. The "victims" include local governments such as Cuyahoga County, which have had to deal with addicts doing stupid shit to get their fix. Victims also include people who have had to bury their loved ones. I'm not even part of the...
[01:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:53] <exec> 08└─Your reflex arc is still firing - you continue to refuse thinking - and there is nothing funny about it. Providing money may or may not solve the problem - money will be a mean, but it won't be enough no matter how much money you throw in. Driving the Purdues into destitution just of the sake of "ju...
[01:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:07] <exec> 08└─It isn't volume the brain "dials up" but gain. Look up the difference.
[01:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:22] <exec> 08└─The problem with television is that morons like you think The Flintstones was a documentary. Dinosaurs and cavemen did not coexist, so if you took one down there would be no village to feed. The only reason you see pictures of Jesus riding a dinosaur is that his father gave him a time machine for Ch...
[01:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:23] <exec> 08└─Ostrich is pretty gamey. Kangaroo is nice enough, it's sold here as kat fud, cheaper than most of the alternatives.
[01:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, everyone knows that cavemen rode around on mammoths, and on Sunday, mastodons [youtube.com]. They also cooked meals in volcanoes.
[01:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:48] <exec> 08└─In describing the actions of an emperor, they actually used "undemocratic". HINT: An emperor is not elected. He either takes his empire from others, with violence, or he inherits the position. The very concept of empire has virtually no relationship to "democracy". That despite the fact that a coupl...
[01:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:49] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that, much like the UK, their parliament is elected, which would I think qualify as a (type of) democracy. But I guess you see the world differently.
[01:21:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fliptop [1666] 02 - 06Stretching Before or After a Workout: Only One of Them is Right - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:35] <exec> 08└─The writer of this article has no qualifications or work experience that would make her an expert
[01:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:33] <exec> 08└─The importance of savings can't be overstated. It's the first step in really being able to take control of your financial life.
[01:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:34] <exec> 08└─+1 for Dave Ramsey and the debt snowball. Living dirt cheap while on the debt snowball sucked, but it has been worth it. My wife helps the rest of our family do their taxes every year, so I get to peek over the wall at their finances. The difference between our no-debt-except-house life and their li...
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Accessibility, the Future, and Why Domino's v Robles Matters - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:31] <exec> 08└─There is a reason why all the thought underlying most of Western Democracy is firmly rooted in the concept of the Veil of Ignorance. However, it is good to know that if you end up disabled or impaired when you are older, you won't blame a business for not having enough parking spots or a ramp so you...
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[01:26:52] <exec> 08└─Right this way Mr. Coolidge. :)
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[02:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:54] <exec> 08└─Use an empty password, said Richard Stallman. We don't need security, said Richard Stallman. Total surveillance will promote good behavior, said Richard Stallman. Pedophilia isn't a real thing, said Richard Stallman.
[02:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:54] <exec> 08└─> Use an empty password, said Richard Stallman. This "quote" (above) I believe is true, and made perfect sense on the shared computers at the AI Lab. Their ITS OS also had a convenient "kill system" command which did a great job of taking all the fun out of bringing down the system--gently nudging n...
[02:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:07] <exec> 08└─Driving the Purdues into destitution just of the sake of "justice" surely doesn't solve the problem they created in the first place.
[02:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder the same thing, as I have the same problem. It's funny, because when my hearing is tested, it's fine, or even a little better than fine. In a quiet environment, I can pick out sounds from a long way away. Put me in a crowded room, though, and I find myself wishing I had telepathy and tellin...
[02:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:36] <exec> 08└─You must be fun at parties. The only reason you see pictures of Jesus riding a dinosaur...
[02:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:03] <exec> 08└─I think it's a great philosophical statement: "We have a new emperor, that matters more than your parking ticket, it is a new day in the empire and as a demonstration of the emperor's power we are forgiving these petty offences." One would also assume that if you manage to piss the emperor off, you...
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[02:23:55] <exec> 08└─£30 per month? Yikes. My current phone cost around £40-ish grand total. I'm a luddite tho and refuse to use a "smart" phone. I'm also doing better than most except on the mental health front. (I have competent professional help....) Make of that what you will.
[02:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─What is property?
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[03:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:57] <exec> 08└─niggers I've sucked off.
[03:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:06] <exec> 08└─Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. On the systems that permit it I use the “empty password”, and on systems where that isn't allowed, or where that means you can't log in at all from other...
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[03:19:08] <exec> 08└─Show us Buzzard's cock!
[03:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:10] <exec> 08└─Regardless of your pearl clutching, censorship and its advocates are always evil and far more offensive than any content you will find anywhere. Besides, he's right. Pedophilia is a cultural thing. If you want real pedophilia, go to one of Kissinger's dinner parties!
[03:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:12] <exec> 08└─Just be careful what you wish for, will ye? Buzzard's cock may want to be free (or maybe not), but even if so this doesn't make "information" from it.
[03:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:15] <exec> 08└─The information is CCleaner can't clean Buzzard's cock.
[03:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:17] <exec> 08└─You have nothing to say of advocacy for total surveillance? A spying society is a responsible society. It worked for Communist East Germany, and it worked for Communist Richard Stallman.
[03:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:31] <exec> 08└─"Driving the Purdues into destitution just of the sake of "justice" surely doesn't solve the problem they created in the first place." No...they should go to jail, too. That's what happens with drug pushers on the street. It won't solve the problem but it would be a start. Far too many rich people g...
[03:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:32] <exec> 08└─Less rich drug pushers aren't let go just because sending them to jail won't help addicts. By your logic there is no reason for prison at all, as sending a criminal there never helps the victims.
[03:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:34] <exec> 08└─Ok, now you start to show traces of a.proper thinking process in motion. I know it must be hard for you, but don't give up, you still have chances. (grin)
[03:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:36] <exec> 08└─No...they should go to jail, too
[03:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:38] <exec> 08└─Should've been a bountiful season for straws Not plastic, I hope You are right, putting them to work is much better than putting them in jail. Prison is for dangerous people. The only real deterrent is the fear of getting caught.
[03:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:08] <exec> 08└─Chances are it will happen again before too long. What is too long? Before we solve the issue.
[03:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:52] <exec> 08└─Affirmative on both counts. 10.30 pm and its down to 80F, cool at last ....
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[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─I think I see what you're saying, and you're right. If your goal is as stated in the article, "correctly squat 500, press 275, and deadlift 600 pounds", then you need to be much more careful. The statistics listed in your article are striking, and show that lifters certainly know how to keep themsel...
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[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─Second that. Short version - you should warm up before and stretch after.
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[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─Yep. Click bait style is everywhere nowadays. It does not mean we should follow.
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Expensive Broadband is Pricing Millions Out of Accessing the Internet - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:15] <exec> 08└─I normally use DelTaco internet, or at WalMart . I use caching for offline use. So I snag things of interest when I am in proximity of high speed access. I am not quite poor enough to qualify for something I can afford...that is to say I am not yet head over heels in debt. But no way am I paying wha...
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[03:24:32] <exec> 08└─That would impact the number of loans and on-time payments, which are separate factors in a credit score. I'm at the top of the category on both of those things . . .
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[03:24:33] <exec> 08└─Of course it can be overstated. You will starve *much* more quickly at a 100% savings rate than at 0%.
[03:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:35] <exec> 08└─Easy way to save something, even when you're broke -- every time you come in the door, put all the change from your pockets into your personal tip jar. If you're ambitious, add the $1 and $5 bills. Adds up, and at that level the brain counts it as 'already spent' so it's painless.
[03:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Vox's Netflix Documentary: "Cult-Like-Sites" include Reddit, 4chan, Gab and Bodybuilding.Com - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:53] <exec> 08└─I've got a shitload of pro and against moderation for my comment, but let me do it again. Bodybuilding.com does more for the humanity than all the liberal places combined.
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[03:27:54] <exec> 08└─Hol up lets not dance around this. Recent bans have been for communities like r/frenworld, r/niggers, r/coontown and the like which were legit neonazi breeding grounds, and r/incels which is about as toxic as you can get. Having said that r/ChapoTrapHouse was quarantined for advocating violence (as...
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[04:18:56] <exec> 08└─Keep looking for dos fects.
[04:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:11] <exec> 08└─They don't say the origin of the attack for fear of reprisal attacks? Real life attacks on the company staff is nothing foreign to these tribe of forever-foreigners. Just say it! The attacks originated from the khazar jewish satanist racist apartheid state of israel (may her days be numbered!)
[04:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:31] <exec> 08└─No, I'm an egalitarian.* Nobody takes the time to make low-level drug-pushers into social workers. We toss them into prison. You are arguing that the rich should have special treatment, just by virtue of being rich. I'm not saying that doesn't happen, because it obviously does, but I don't have to a...
[04:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:32] <exec> 08└─(((Teva Pharmaceutical))) was involved in getting people hooked on opioids and they got everyone to agree to a settlement otherwise their families could get hurt. They are not afraid of murdering Court Judges even. They danced as the towers came down.
[04:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:47] <exec> 08└─"though I strongly suspect that the technology is a long while away yet" That technology is actively being used by spying agencies to spy on us. It is not yet approved for public use, whose money funded the research and whom it belongs to for no additional rent.
[04:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:49] <exec> 08└─A ~10x increase in rate from ~3 mm/yr would not surprise me.
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[05:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:39] <exec> 08└─Is there anything "wrong" with wanting to see the guilty punished? How likely is it, that morally corrupt people who made their wealth by getting people addicted are going to contribute significantly to the recovery of those addicts? Removing the power, wealth, and influence of the Sackler family...
[05:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:56] <exec> 08└─which bit of the which presumed conclusion do you claim I have made an assumption?
[05:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:37] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you're not out of date? I'm in Canada, so perhaps it's just more expensive but it has been decades since $2/meal was a fortune and even when I was really poor about 1980, I was eating pretty crappy (basically no greens and meat a rare luxury) on a dollar a day. Now a 10KG sack of potato...
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[06:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:10] <exec> 08└─The attacker was well documented as coming from British network M247, https://m247.com [m247.com] at least that's what BIS and Police officially said and all Czech mainstream media parroted.
[06:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:11] <exec> 08└─<pedantic hat="on">That's data, not information</pedantic>
[06:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:33] <exec> 08└─... expecting the Sacklers to become addiction specialists.
[06:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:35] <exec> 08└─Is there anything "wrong" with wanting to see the guilty punished?
[06:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:37] <exec> 08└─You are arguing that the rich should have special treatment, just by virtue of being rich.
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[07:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:52] <exec> 08└─The chain is as strong as its weakest link. (simpl. Chinese: 链条与其最薄弱的环节一样牢固)
[07:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:59] <exec> 08└─I welcome the henchmen of our robot overlords.. (hey, they were probably programmed by MVP types, so they will likely fall over and explode before doing too much damage)
[07:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:01] <exec> 08└─(hey, they were probably programmed by MVP types, so they will likely fall over and explode before doing too much damage)
[07:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:26] <exec> 08└─It sure doesn't look like he's advocating for total surveillance of all of society to me.
[07:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:28] <exec> 08└─If everyone's cards are on the table then it's easy to run an honest game. That is why so many games, including real life have paths to cheat or 'oversights' built into the rules. Information asymmetry is how the informed become stronger and the uninformed become weaker.
[07:20:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:03] <exec> 08└─I find that is me with my autism/spectrum shit: you can't hear the tree for the forest. I hear EVERYTHING and can't pick out the individual: my brain just doesn't block out the forest. I think that's one reason severely autistic people (like my son) have behaviour problems in noisy environments: too...
[07:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:07] <exec> 08└─I'm mildly autistic, and have the same problems. Also, I cannot ever understand people on speakerphone.
[07:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:10] <exec> 08└─Put me in a crowded room, though, and I find myself wishing I had telepathy and telling myself for the nth time that I really should learn how to read lips.
[07:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:11] <exec> 08└─It is still worth planning for. Double or quadruple it and plan for that i say... because even if that disastrous situation does not manifest our planning will still help for many other difficult scenarios.
[07:23:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Stretching Before or After a Workout: Only One of Them is Right - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:02] <exec> 08└─quit trying to force us to visit the whore ass site you linked to find out what the story ends up saying. put that shit in the summary. you should only have to visit the site if you want more details. not to get the TLDR; version. many of these sites don't deserve any clicks. if we wanted to go to t...
[07:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stretching Before or After a Workout: Only One of Them is Right - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:20] <exec> 08└─Now I never wanted to jump in freezing water, but assuming that one day I should, for whatever reason, want to do that, I don't see why I should first tell someone they don't need to stretch. ;-)
[07:25:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Boeing's 737 Max Troubles Deepen, Taking Airlines, Suppliers With It - 613 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:05] <exec> 08└─I watch a Vlog from an airline pilot with knowledge of the topic. He said the messages don't refer to MCAS, but do refer to a problems with the auto-trim system as the preliminary testing was underway. Apparently the information that should have been shared with the test pilots wasn't, especially ab...
[07:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vox's Netflix Documentary: "Cult-Like-Sites" include Reddit, 4chan, Gab and Bodybuilding.Com - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:14] <exec> 08└─You are aware any such writings would need to be bound in human skin and written down by the hand of a mad Arab, no? And you may as well say doctors are obsessed with viruses and keep going around telling people how bad viruses are and sticking needles in them because they don't want people getting...
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[07:28:15] <exec> 08└─That's what *everyone* goes to Church (and mosque, and synagogue...) for. They just don't have the self-awareness or the knowledge of their own religion(s) to admit it. The Abrahamic corpus may be the single worst set of ideas the human race has ever come up with...
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[08:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:49] <exec> 08└─How exactly is this water 'used'? Sure, Coal is horrible, dirty, radioactive, etc.. and some water is I believe used in the scrubbing of the smoke. However 10,000 gallons per megawatt 'consumed'? I assume they actually mean 'used', and most of that water is returned almost immediately to the area, p...
[08:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, this isn't the prototype .. that was MAGIC2010 [wikipedia.org]
[08:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:57] <exec> 08└─In that initial post, there seems to have been a tacit approval of the agreement under discussion. It would seem that the assumption of responsibility, and funding of existing solutions, satisfies his sense of justice, for these companies. Purdue is to be held to a higher standard, due to his percep...
[08:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:15] <exec> 08└─Redundant, but for what statistically it's worth, I am also autistic / asperger and have notches in my sound perception. I am of the strong belief I got these notches as a result of a noisy church. I noticed a lot of ringing in my ears after the musicians run the sound way too loud for me. I tried t...
[08:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:33] <exec> 08└─Chickens are tiny, ugly and mean spirited dinosaurs.
[08:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:02] <exec> 08└─If anything, I would think that people on the left would be more inclined to be okay with pardoning people for petty crimes in general. What the hell are you talking about?
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[09:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:48] <exec> 08└─However 10,000 gallons per megawatt 'consumed'?
[09:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:50] <exec> 08└─every day person A needs N gallons of water. some of it for the coal, some of it for the cows, some of it to water the crops. it doesn't matter when A can recover the water from the coal or cows or crops, A needs all N gallons today. this study says that by moving away from coal the N gets smaller....
[09:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:52] <exec> 08└─It's used. It's still here, as water vapor, which becomes rain, aka water. I didn't actually track down the original paper and read it. But just from the abstract this reeks of buzzwords for grants academia.
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[09:19:01] <exec> 08└─There should also be prison time for all these fucktarded business people that want to outsource everything to "save money" instead of just trusting a reliable inside source. Sadly in the business world, it's the person on the bottom that pays for the idiocy of the decision instead of the real perpe...
[09:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:03] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm don't have telepathic abilities and English is not my primary language. Too many "seems" and too much "reading between the lines" for me, so I do what I can and I don't infer implicit meanings when not explicitly stated.
[09:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:07] <exec> 08└─>I would think that people on the left would be more inclined to be okay with pardoning people for petty crimes in general. so you did find lefties applauding the emperors' move?
[09:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:10] <exec> 08└─It's not wrong to point out that having children you can't comfortably afford is a bad idea. It's just another type of bad financial decision.
[09:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:11] <exec> 08└─You might want to talk to your congress critters about that: I didn't write the tax code, and I'm not about to turn Uncle Sam down when he offers to hand me back some of my own money.
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[10:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:59] <exec> 08└─Listen, I hate Google as much as the next person, but it's ironic IBM takes offence over use of "supremacy." https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:10] <exec> 08└─Right. By that logic, I could solve the world's water problems with a single litre of water. I give it to a thirsty person to drink, but it's "still there" as urine, which will eventually make its way back into the hydro cycle to be cleansed and then drunk by the next person, and the next, and the n...
[10:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:12] <exec> 08└─I assume they actually mean 'used', and most of that water is returned almost immediately to the area
[10:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:14] <exec> 08└─"OK, it might become available for use elsewhere much later, but it's needed *here* and *now*." Doesn't take all that long. But yes, if this is being done in an area where water is scarce, /that/ could be a problem.
[10:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:16] <exec> 08└─It's used. It's still here, as water vapor, which becomes rain, aka water.
[10:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:18] <exec> 08└─I've read many thousands of abstracts. It is exceedingly rare for an abstract that reads like buzzword nonsense to be associated with a paper worth an hour or more of my time find a 'pirate' link for.
[10:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:20] <exec> 08└─I'm also wondering how converting all the coal plants would result in more water savings than the total amount that is even being used to begin with.
[10:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:22] <exec> 08└─You're welcome.
[10:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:24] <exec> 08└─I'd consider water used in processing coal ash and other polluting activities to be "used". All "used water," even sewage sent directly into the ocean, is recycled. Once it has been withdrawn from a usable drinking aquifer and not directly returned to that same aquifer (as does happen with some ther...
[10:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:27] <exec> 08└─Less than 1% of water on Earth is "accessible" to use as fresh liquid water, when we suck on that resource we tip the balance toward the other 99%
[10:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:29] <exec> 08└─There are still places (Switzerland, for example) where fresh drinkable water is available in overabundance. People do tend to congregate in those kind of places. With 8 billion people sucking on the straw, those places are becoming quite rare. India, for example, made a real mess of trying to acces...
[10:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:31] <exec> 08└─the total amount that is even being used to begin with.
[10:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:40] <exec> 08└─This is hilarious but it also shows those criminals coulds learn from legit businesses. Everyone in the chain shouldn't have negociated the outsourcing in person. What's the point of outsourcing if you don't secure a way to make someone else take the fall? Might as well just do the hit in person the...
[10:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:43] <exec> 08└─Actually there are many times where it is reasonable to outsource. For example, I regularly outsource the task of finding producers of groceries and collecting their products to the local grocery shop, which in turn further outsources most of those tasks to other companies. The only part I do myself...
[10:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:54] <exec> 08└─Can SoylentNews please implement something that automatically removes the .m part from Wikipedia links? It is really annoying.
[10:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Afty [8588] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:06] <exec> 08└─You might have APD (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/auditory-processing-disorder/) - while I'm not officially diagnosed (yet) I've had this all my life and it results in the symptoms you described. My hearing is fine - strong even - in low-noise conditions. I can converse in very gentle whispers with...
[10:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:26] <exec> 08└─We do have scientific evidence that dinosaurs existed. Jesus... not so much.
[10:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Expensive Broadband is Pricing Millions Out of Accessing the Internet - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:37] <exec> 08└─Is it possible to cache RedTube?
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[11:18:57] <exec> 08└─By a country mile, it's factoring (or other order-finding problem). Most problems improve by just having their classical algorithm's complexity square rooted, but factoring is almost logged (from sub-exponential to polynomial). So if you want to claim quantum supremacy, the easiest field for them to...
[11:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:20] <exec> 08└─India has a tremendous amount of water. Also a tremendous problem with pollution. I hope they sort that out.
[11:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:21] <exec> 08└─You don't support 1300 million people without abundant water. The real problem with the groundwater was that they irrigated croplands with it and the contaminants quickly built up in the topsoil to toxic levels. So, croplands that used to be useless due to lack of water became useless within a decad...
[11:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Sounds about right.
[11:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:25] <exec> 08└─Doesn't take all that long. But yes, if this is being done in an area where water is scarce, /that/ could be a problem.
[11:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:27] <exec> 08└─..] If all coal-fired power plants are converted to natural gas, the annual water savings will reach 12,250 billion gallons—that's 260% of current annual U.S. industrial water use.
[11:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:30] <exec> 08└─Indeed, consumed means consumed, and it's not been consumed.
[11:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:32] <exec> 08└─I've read many thousands of abstracts.
[11:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:42] <exec> 08└─I've long noticed that Chinese manufacturers offering their goods on online platforms always include photos of their factories, from outside, clearly showing the company name, and the shop floor. If they have a factory, that is. I assumed this is to tell the customers "hey, we are the real manufactu...
[11:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:44] <exec> 08└─I'm bored of the dross that's in the cinemas at the moment, I think this could be done well either as a straight thriller (Stone?) or as a comedy one (Coen bros?). Preferably without any CGI.
[11:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:55] <exec> 08└─Dun dun dun da dun Dun dun dun da dun ... You hear the Terminator theme song in your head right now and just did that out loud.
[11:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:04] <exec> 08└─Is this now a good way to short-cut the costs of clinical trials? Cut them off just after the data turns toward significant "to protect the subjects" and then, when the remaining data comes in declare efficacy? While I applaud the decision to keep a useful drug in development, I don't think the earl...
[11:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Afty [8588] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:13] <exec> 08└─You might have APD (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/auditory-processing-disorder/) - while I'm not officially diagnosed (yet) I've had this all my life and it results in the symptoms you described. My hearing is fine - strong even - in low-noise conditions. I can converse in very gentle whispers with...
[11:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:18] <exec> 08└─a) See my explanation to Ikantread, as you also kant read. b) That's not even a predicate that is being both presumed and concluded, so it's not the logical fallacy you claimed. You don't understand English, and you don't understand logic. Is there anything you do understand?
[11:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:20] <exec> 08└─*and* c) it's not necessary for it to be a global maximum for my original point to hold, only a local one, anyway. Again, that's you not understanding deductive logic. So your argument is utterly contentless.
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[12:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Prime Editing" Technique Could Overcome Some Limitations of CRISPR - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:54] <exec> 08└─See title.
[12:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Prime Editing" Technique Could Overcome Some Limitations of CRISPR - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:55] <exec> 08└─Blame martyb.
[12:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Prime Editing" Technique Could Overcome Some Limitations of CRISPR - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:57] <exec> 08└─We can better correct wronged people, think of the applications!
[12:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Prime Editing" Technique Could Overcome Some Limitations of CRISPR - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:59] <exec> 08└─People, maybe. Politicians? Too corrupt already to be called people.
[12:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:09] <exec> 08└─There must be a reason for those challenges been retracted 12 years ago. The RSA challenge officially ended in 2007 but people are still attempting to find the factorizations. According to RSA Laboratories, "Now that the industry has a considerably more advanced understanding of the cryptanalytic st...
[12:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 3135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:11] <exec> 08└─A Short List of Problems: 1) The latency of the clickbait ecosystem is long enough that I'm not entirely certain if this is actual new news or the academic discussion among CS and crypto people from the recent thing has finally percolated downhill. 2) "quantum supremacy" much like the term "incel" h...
[12:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:40] <exec> 08└─I'm also wondering how converting all the coal plants would result in more water savings than the total amount that is even being used to begin with.
[12:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:42] <exec> 08└─Much later? Hours/days later, more like. Not 'much later' like months or years. In most cases, it will fall and end up in water/ground table. Sometimes, the ocean. But ocean water is *constantly* picked up via evaporation, then dropped as rainwater on the continents. It's why BC is so rainy, why it'...
[12:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:06] <exec> 08└─Please read the book. It out lines the next 2000 years!
[12:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:22] <exec> 08└─So... less of the 'Our', please.
[12:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:11] <exec> 08└─Well those good subjects now know that the Emperor giveth, but of course cower in fear lest the Emperor later taketh away. Let's just hope they ascribe no unseemly intentions to the Emperor. It's almost as if they're reading from the same script as this lot were millennia ago: https://www.biblegatew...
[12:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Offers Possibility of Rehabilitation for People in Minimally Conscious or Vegetative State - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:02] <exec> 08└─This story cries out for the newly political term "NPC" NPC Daily is a hilarious parody site because its indistinguishable from propaganda sites like the NYT or the post or the entire internet clickbait ecosystem. "Kurds endorse Joe Biden for President" LOL that site's like a modern version of "The...
[12:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Accessibility, the Future, and Why Domino's v Robles Matters - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:19] <exec> 08└─That joke was fricking awesome. So stealing it the next time someone brings up WCAG :P
[12:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Accessibility, the Future, and Why Domino's v Robles Matters - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:20] <exec> 08└─Probably cheaper just to have two sites with a redirect if screen reader or similar is detected. I have no idea how this is going to help someone fill in a form while blind but I am open to learning new things.
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[13:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Led Industry Team Will Work on Lunar Lander - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:53] <exec> 08└─The partnership will serve to pursue NASA's stated mission of getting the first American woman and next American man to the surface of the Moon by 2024.
[13:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Led Industry Team Will Work on Lunar Lander - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:54] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I see. *strokes beard*
[13:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:15] <exec> 08└─So, google, put up or shut up - what are the factors of the RSA-1024 challenge number?
[13:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:16] <exec> 08└─Nice work telling those Google Supremacists where to get off. Sorry you had to waste your time on this ridiculous calculation.
[13:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:18] <exec> 08└─Aaronson did not endorse any claims that quantum supremacy had been reached. He just argued that it would be a big deal.
[13:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:49] <exec> 08└─World Bank was behind the borehole initiative,
[13:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:50] <exec> 08└─I didn't actually track down the original paper and read it.
[13:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:52] <exec> 08└─The authors of the paper are such gloomy guses. Look, the more CO2 that gets pumped into the atmosphere, the more of the sun's energy the atmosphere retains. The more energy the atmosphere retains, the warmer it will get. The warmer it gets, the more water evaporates from the world's oceans, and tha...
[13:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:55] <exec> 08└─The warmer it gets, the more water evaporates from the world's oceans, and that water forms clouds and falls back to the earth in the form of rain.
[13:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 2197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:57] <exec> 08└─Good points, and I'll augment: I'm much in favor of renewables, but it will be many years until there's enough implementation to eliminate coal, gas, nuclear, etc. I'm not sure of the costs for nuclear vs. equivalent size renewables. One of many problems for nuclear is the very long construction tim...
[13:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:59] <exec> 08└─But notice how fucking and $ always seem to be interconnected.
[13:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:12] <exec> 08└─Heh - and I frequently outsource the final quality control as well - "Alexa - order more oats"
[13:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:13] <exec> 08└─Yo Dawg, we heard you like liked outsourcing, so we outsourced your outsourcing, so you can outsource your source out.
[13:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:15] <exec> 08└─I don't suppose it's possible to outsource serving time in prison?
[13:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:17] <exec> 08└─My vote goes for the Coen brothers. I'm definitely getting a Fargo-esque incompetence meets black-humour vibe from this. I'm sure it would do well in China too, since they would probably love the idea of having some down party-line-toeing cop methodically working his/her way back up the chain from L...
[13:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:39] <exec> 08└─If it didn't pass FDA muster before, what makes them so certain it will pass this time? It couldn't be that they made sure certain people could profit from the approval even if the drug doesn't work, could it?
[13:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 2069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:58] <exec> 08└─"ATA stands for Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics, an on-premise network parsing engine and traffic analysis system that Microsoft sells to enterprises in order to protect internal networks from malicious attacks triggered from inside." I like how microshaft leaves out their own name from the acro...
[13:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─As long as the Emperor keeps his business around the level of parking tickets, and otherwise is fair and just, I think it's all good. If he strays into adverse eminent domain property seizures without adequate compensation, or baseless imprisonments, well... assassination is a time honored tradition...
[13:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promises to Beef Up "Election Integrity" Efforts Heading into 2020 - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─Shut it down. Facegag is not just a threat to election security, it is a threat to our species. There is no reforming something like facegag, it must be eliminated. I refuse and boycott any social media that is owned by anyone who might even be slightly linked to the country of Israel, much less som...
[13:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:00] <exec> 08└─There's a whole bunch of stuff to plan for. Climate change is not the only problem in the world when you have over 7 billion people.
[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─why wasn't the hottest decade ever, the 1930s, full of monster El Ninos?
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[14:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:15] <exec> 08└─We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity. This is in fact a conservative, worst-case estimate, and we expect that with additional refinements the classical cost of the simulation can be further reduced.
[14:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:16] <exec> 08└─It's not just factoring that benefits from quantum computing. Molecular dynamics simulations also get a substantial speed-up from quantum computers, and this was in fact the original problem that motivated quantum computing to begin with. There seems to be an exponential explosion in complexity when...
[14:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:54] <exec> 08└─I wanted to say woosh but then I saw GP's username. I think you're speaking to deaf ears here.
[14:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:11] <exec> 08└─> I don't suppose it's possible to outsource serving time in prison? It is in the USA. Although my google-fu has failed, many years ago one of the car rental agencies paid some people to sit in prison instead of paying parking tickets (there were a LOT of tickets). It may have been an urban legend b...
[14:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:22] <exec> 08└─There is less "tacit approval" in my post, than there is "tacit acceptance". I don't really like it, so I'm not in approval. But, I do recognize that the settlement approaches something like justice, and I'll have to accept that it's the best we're going to get.
[14:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies Reach $260 Million Settlement, Averting First Federal Opioid Trial - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:23] <exec> 08└─That's alright c0lo - we can't all be lucky enough to grow up in an English speaking country.
[14:22:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:17] <exec> 08└─Soon in this thread: people OK with illegal migrants, NGO helping the mafia cartels, the cultural impact of importing with a red carpet people considering us infidels, but not OK with forgetting about a traffic ticket, because un-elected emperor. As if aristocracy weren't a better barrier than democ...
[14:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stretching Before or After a Workout: Only One of Them is Right - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─You can splint the wrist but you can't do much of anything about any muscles involved in your grip except stretch them out again.
[14:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:49] <exec> 08└─Stuff.
[14:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:50] <exec> 08└─What makes you think I'm not living comfortably? Didn't I just say that I weathered extended unemployment with no change to quality of life? Perhaps your idea of comfort and mine are different, and that's a value judgement on both of our parts. Assuming, however, that I couldn't possibly be properly...
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[15:18:55] <exec> 08└─this was old news in 2017
[15:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:56] <exec> 08└─They got to ignore the RMS articles somehow. (RMS did nothing wrong btw)
[15:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─Subject says it all, just take a hacksaw to a common-and-garden variety DB-25 and voilà, a DB-19. It isn't called a *hack*saw for nothing.
[15:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe try a search engine. Google came back with plenty available
[15:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─Sure, they were bulky as hell, but they never wore out like a lightning connector.
[15:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Led Industry Team Will Work on Lunar Lander - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:13] <exec> 08└─This doesn't involve Musk in any way. Get ready for the hate in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
[15:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:34] <exec> 08└─HITMAN #2: What’s this stuff? HITMAN #1: Some money. Supposed to be for a hit. HITMAN #2: Did you do the job? HITMAN #1: I'm not gonna do the job. You do the job! HITMAN #1 Slides money and gun toward HITMAN #2. HITMAN #2: I’m not gonna do the job. HITMAN #2 Slides money and gun towards HITMAN #...
[15:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:47] <exec> 08└─Imma level with you, BOLO kind of sucked. There's a few short stories by a few authors where they managed to find something clever to do, but mostly it was a real trashy set of books.
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─If you refudiate that fact that Jesus even existed at all, you've not done much research or are sticking your fingers in your ears while screaming. Like here: 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of...
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─My 4 yr old chases chickens and catches them. They are slow, dumb, and only some of them are mean. You're probably thinking about the roosters. There's at least one rooster on my parent's property that got deep sixed, because he was mean.
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Say This is the Minimum Amount of Money Low-Income Households Need in an Emergency Fund - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:29] <exec> 08└─You should talk to your congress critters about that too, if you have any principles. Government discrimination based on the number of children someone has is not acceptable.
[15:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing's 737 Max Troubles Deepen, Taking Airlines, Suppliers With It - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah but the big key on the 737 was that to mount those engines they had to set those bigger engines further ahead, which changed the aerodynamics, specifically which led to the issues at hand.... But for Airbus... yeah it seems weird. Then you see the Trent XWB's on the 350 are 16,640 lbs (33,280#...
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[16:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:06] <exec> 08└─I have an Apple II+, which uses a ribbon cable with an insulation piercing connector (IPC) as they were sometimes called, that connects to a double row of pins on the floppy disk expansion card. The cable passes through one of the openings in the back of the case. There is no DB-19 connector. As I r...
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:07] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware of Lightning connectors having a wearout problem. But I'm not surprised. I think many connectors are too small and fragile for many human hands. I'm stunned that micro-USB connectors last as long as they have. Other than size / fragility I like the Lightning connector, especially that...
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[16:19:09] <exec> 08└─Awesome idea. Maybe not as rugged, nor would you want to sell them to the public that way, but maybe the shell could be rejoined... some are solderable, so you could solder a little copper strap linkage. I'm embarrassed- having soldered probably hundreds of DB connectors in my life, but I've never h...
[16:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grayson [5696] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─I don't remember the DB-19 becoming standard till the Apple //e which would have been post Apple ][+. My Apple //e (post IIGS upgrade kit) used DB-19 to connect a DuoDisk. The thing was a real screamer for someone who couldn't afford a Mac.
[16:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:13] <exec> 08└─Here's something to keep in mind, if you're looking at it and going, I want me one. I’m calling attention to a hardware issue with the third-party “softSP” card that can damage your Floppy Emu when the two are used with a Disk II controller card in an Apple II+ or Apple IIe. This issue creates...
[16:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, often called IDC- Insulation Displacement Connector. Often flaky. I fixed many computers by pressing the 40 and 80 pin IDE hard disk connectors (and SCSI). Often with brand new cables you could see a gap between the connector body and the ribbon cable. Was never properly pressed at factory- rus...
[16:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:17] <exec> 08└─Might want to read the whole article, it was addressed there. Seems that these places all *advertised* they had them, but when they were contacted, did not actually have any in stock.
[16:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:19] <exec> 08└─The keyboard was built in, but the floppy drive was external.
[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:22] <exec> 08└─Don't they have crimp versions? I've wired too many looms with itt cannon [ittcannon.com] connectors. I prefer soldered joints if the cable is going to be abused but for something like a db series, I'd have thought crimped connectors would be fine.
[16:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grayson [5696] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Blue Origin Led Industry Team Will Work on Lunar Lander - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─This is the rest of the industry's response to SpaceX. I, for one, am excited to see who wins the race.
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Led Industry Team Will Work on Lunar Lander - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:33] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson somewhat remind me of another great entrepreneur, Phineas Taylor Barnum.
[16:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Led Industry Team Will Work on Lunar Lander - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:35] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk is absolutely dominating the launch industry, and Jeff Bezos is selling rocket engines to ULA. It remains to be seen if Virgin Galactic will do anything worthwhile, but the similarly tourist-oriented Bigelow Aerospace is producing inflatable modules for the ISS.
[16:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─Right. By that logic, I could solve the world's water problems with a single litre of water. I give it to a thirsty person to drink, but it's "still there" as urine, which will eventually make its way back into the hydro cycle to be cleansed and then drunk by the next person, and the next, and the n...
[16:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:57] <exec> 08└─You realize the article is about something that happened in China and China's court system dealt with it?
[16:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:11] <exec> 08└─It's been so long since I've seen a terminator film and the score was quite forgettable. Thus, no I didn't do the terminator theme song in my head.
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:12] <exec> 08└─If you think someone can predict the next 2000 years, I've got a nice piece of swamp land in Arizona to sell you.
[16:21:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:22] <exec> 08└─Is this now a good way to short-cut the costs of clinical trials? Cut them off just after the data turns toward significant "to protect the subjects" and then, when the remaining data comes in declare efficacy? While I applaud the decision to keep a useful drug in development, I don't think the earl...
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─However a Hail Mary pass is consistent with "maximizing shareholders value" as long as "conscience" is a quaint word with inconceivable meaning.
[16:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:52] <exec> 08└─Still haven't quite grasped adult conversation have we oh mighty butthurt?
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[17:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gimme Six! Researchers Discover Aye-Aye's Extra Finger - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:47] <exec> 08└─Ok, I guess we have to eat bugs in the future, but personally I'm going to wait until I grow the matching 6th finger.
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Get the lawyers on the phone, STAT! We have somebody to SUE!
[17:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:49] <exec> 08└─Are those quantum computation or quantum annealing? The two are quite different (see past D-Wave discussions). However, if the latter, it is a problem type that is quite suited to the quantum domain, hence the existence of D-Wave.
[17:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:50] <exec> 08└─He seems to be using a different definition of the term from the guy who coined the term. I remain in superposition about whether it would be a big deal or not.
[17:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:15] <exec> 08└─No it's not some new economy--not everything has to validate your economic beliefs--it's just that you don't understand the reasoning for cutting off trials. The principle of the idea is sound. Whether or not it was done appropriately here, I don't know (I think the drug will ultimately fail but tha...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─Nor will we of you in say, 200 years, let alone 2000. There is pretty much 0 scientific evidence that any of the rulers of any of the great civilizations of the world ever existed. Now I'm not saying Jesus did or did not exist just that expecting scientific proof of a ripple on a pond thousands of y...
[17:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:20] <exec> 08└─The Emperor moves in mysterious ways...
[17:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─A an official card carrying lefty I approve this move.
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promises to Beef Up "Election Integrity" Efforts Heading into 2020 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─Translation: Facebook will attempt to comply with the laws around foreign election spending that they've been ignoring all this time.
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promises to Beef Up "Election Integrity" Efforts Heading into 2020 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if those false ads were negative towards Facebook they's sure as shit take 'em down.
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[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─A grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't.
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:51] <exec> 08└─That's amusing, but if you have bubbles, gaps, voids, you'll need a filler first. :-}
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─I learned using a mig welder and doing Auto body work (full frame and unibody) . it really comes down to where and what your welding. Now as far as inspecting welds yes they have to be destroyed or Xrayed to tell if its really a good fuse with no contamination. Anyone who is looking at the external...
[18:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─If it is structural, don't you dare! Just knock off the slag. And use a smaller tip so you're not popping all over the place!
[18:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─I am the first to admit I'm garbage at welding. If I can lay a bead that looks good, I want to leave it as a badge of honour. However, that almost never happens, so grinding and another pass is typically required.
[18:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─Stop worrying and use duct tape, fools.
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:02] <exec> 08└─I only grind welds if the application requires it. For instance on some food processing equipment, sanitation requires smooth surfaces to reduce places for bacteria (and other agents) to hide. For some uses when butt welding stainless tubing with TIG, if the inside of the tube is purged, and a good...
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─I've never gotten into welding or even soldering. I think it'd be a nice skill to learn, but I've never had steady hands. Woodworking is much more forgiving.
[18:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03backsplatter [3394] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:06] <exec> 08└─Most of the welding I do is for autobody work. Mainly stitch type welding on sheetmetal. I usually grind my welds so it looks better painted. If it isn't visible or it's structural, no grinding.
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:08] <exec> 08└─If I want something to be pretty, I want to see smooth metal not a bead. If it doesn't need to be pretty, I don't give a shit how the bead looks as long as it's at least as strong as the material around it. I'm entirely functional in my weld criticism. As to where I stand ability-wise? Professional...
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:11] <exec> 08└─Duct tape will not stop thieves from getting into the basement, you wise Cromagnon. A solid welded grate will.
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─I weld badly). I have a cheap wire feed MIG (*) welder that I use every now and then to fix something not worth an expert's expense, or to make something where beauty and great structural integrity are not required but commercial options are either non-existent or very expensive. I know I'm a crappy...
[18:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─Unless they have one of those new-fangled cordless angle grinders. :)
[18:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:17] <exec> 08└─J-B Weld -- that's welding right?
[18:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:19] <exec> 08└─My son has all the aerospace welding certs. He welds stuff that's as thin as soda cans and it has to pass x-ray and pressure leakdown tests. Anyone Remember SolidOx welders from the 1970s?
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gimme Six! Researchers Discover Aye-Aye's Extra Finger - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─How will we flip the bird?
[18:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:49] <exec> 08└─Don't they have crimp versions? I've wired too many looms with itt cannon [ittcannon.com] connectors. I prefer soldered joints if the cable is going to be abused but for something like a db series, I'd have thought crimped connectors would be fine.
[18:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:51] <exec> 08└─Apple can't as they are cozy with China. Maybe now they would not jump on the Twapple][ makers? 30 years too late. NOTE please: these had to be ordered from China as nobody in the USA could even start making them today. Contrast to when Apple started and these parts were 100% USA. Slowly rewind thro...
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[18:19:53] <exec> 08└─OTOH... while the USA advances to making new tech, someone picks up re-making all the old tech (and their own new tech). Example: the Hindustan Ambassador was a copy of the Morris Oxford, little changed during the production years 1958-2014. Article: https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:55] <exec> 08└─Properly crimped wire connections are almost always more rugged and less prone to failure than soldered joints, when subject to mechanical stress on the wire.
[18:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:12] <exec> 08└─How exactly is this water 'used'?
[18:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─They're just recycling an armchair complaint that doesn't apply to this case. Wastewater from the oil and gas industry is primarily disposed of through wastewater injection. They take the polluted water and inject it down the borehole to displace additional gas. The gas is below a layer of impermeab...
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:34] <exec> 08└─So true! You really can't beat the service of a brick-and-mortar hitman!
[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─The emperor has become obsolete exactly for this reason. You have a clear chain of command. You know whom to point your pitchfork against. Of course, in practice you have to fear the guys between you and the emperor quite a lot more. But, the point I am going to make is: you are probably enslaved by...
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Warming Promises More Frequent Extreme El Niño Events - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─Weak. Sauce.
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[19:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─...and I wouldn't miss it one bit. If your website uses AMP, I leave because it is fundamentally broken. Want your page to load faster? Stop loading it up with obnoxious ads, horrendous JS, 5 different frameworks, and 8 different tracking systems.
[19:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:56] <exec> 08└─And next you'll tell I shouldn't make an HTTP GET URL a thin wrapper around a JSON request for the actual content. Or worse that the URL should actually represent the content you're looking at!
[19:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:19] <exec> 08└─Tell them to bring hot pockets.
[19:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:20] <exec> 08└─That depends on what is being welded and how it is loaded. Finishing a weld flush on thin structures can reduce the effects of geometric stress concentrations at the toe of the weld bead, thereby increasing the fatigue capability of the joint. Although, even when done properly, that can reduce the s...
[19:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:22] <exec> 08└─I weld badly). I have a cheap wire feed MIG (*) welder that I use every now and then to fix something not worth an expert's expense, or to make something where beauty and great structural integrity are not required but commercial options are either non-existent or very expensive. I know I'm a crappy...
[19:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, god yes. Pulling out the burning pellet to break it at the burn line to save the stub for later, using it as a cutting torch, but I was most successful with using it for brazing. All back before I could drive. Hadn't thought about that in a long, long time.
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─^ this A penetration weld on steam pipe is structural and doesn't need to be cleaned. For a TIG welded UHV vessel, the internal welds will be acid pickled and external welds dressed and pickled. I'm pretty fair for an amateur.
[19:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:29] <exec> 08└─S'true. Flux-core ain't the same as MIG. Now plenty of welders can do both but if you check down at the bottom you see that this isn't one of them.
[19:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─I didn't say good, just pretty fair. I figure good for an amateur would be able to pass for a pro at one specific type of welding, say stick on 1/16-3/8" mild steel, and have lesser abilities in other areas. I couldn't pass for a pro to anyone who knows what they're looking at.
[19:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:33] <exec> 08└─It depends on what the project is. I am a bicycle fabricator, all chromoly TIG, and I never grind welds on frames. Aside form being completely impractical, there isn't enough stock tube to really grind in the first place. On bigger fabrication projects, like automotive stuff, I have been known to gr...
[19:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:35] <exec> 08└─plenty of welders can do both
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[19:19:37] <exec> 08└─Pulse welding can part-disguise the unsightly buildups I guess?
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are DB-25's that use crimped pins. Hated using them because (for consumer-quality connectors) the pins and sockets moved around in the housings, making it difficult to get all 25 aligned so you could mate the connector. Solder-cup DB-25's had the pins/sockets molded into place so they nev...
[19:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:31] <exec> 08└─I ain't heard slick talk like that since I left Houston... you got oil money in yer family or what?
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─Wait, a "security firm" had to be alerted about their lack of security by Microsoft's ATA? And the problem was Microsoft's Active Directory? I think we have found the real problem. And, we could have had a nice aristarchus submission instead of this non-news.
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[20:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:00] <exec> 08└─But that would be a disaster. Information that can be retrieved in one step and rendered immediately? That is a mistake. /s I miss the web 0.99 (not the blink-tag, though).
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─Stand by the Syrian Kurds. Do the right thing. If America can't do the right thing, who can?
[20:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:04] <exec> 08└─Uh, Google?
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─What about google?
[20:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:08] <exec> 08└─...functionality if it was intended to benefit people other than advertisers and content restrictors. But the point at which it was utilitarian rather than baroque was back when websockets were still in beta and marketing and management hadn't wrapped their heads around it yet. Everything since has...
[20:19:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spook brat [775] 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:16] <exec> 08└─A grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't.
[20:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:41] <exec> 08└─This sure beats the usual liberal political crap posted here.
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:42] <exec> 08└─The only welding I've done has been entirely accidental.
[20:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:18] <exec> 08└─SN-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Story
[20:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:19] <exec> 08└─Have at least three cases in the household of the lightning socket either becoming unreliable, or losing the plating on the contacts of the cable. Maybe it's an Apple quality problem rather than a design problem, I don't know. It seems like a really simple design compared to micro-USB which has been...
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[20:20:22] <exec> 08└─I did it like that, i cut a DB-25 (or whatever the actual name is) and i cut the shell so, that it had extra to wrap around the plastic part and i soldered the shell together. Doesn't look like straight out of a factory, but it's still ok.
[20:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─This question may be wildly inappropriate, and is not intended to critique QC-- I'm truly trying to get a better grasp of how it works: How would a quantum computer go about calculating 2 + 2? I have this vague notion in my head that the output would consist of a large set of possible answers, most...
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─I do environmental compliance work for the oil and gas industry.
[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:46] <exec> 08└─Water consumption—the amount of water used by a power plant and never returned to the environment—drops by 260 gallons per megawatt-hour, he said.
[20:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we knew a Pelican washer when we lived in Clear Lake... so, when you say you "do it for the industry" who signs the paychecks?
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:09] <exec> 08└─When you put out a contract on somebody, it might make sense to include a 'no subcontracting' clause. You spend time finding a suitable contractor, you want to make sure they are the ones who do the work.
[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─IIUC, the original idea of a BOLO was a cyborg. Anyone planning to volunteer?
[20:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/23/the-return-of-aducanumab [sciencemag.org]
[20:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─the interesting part I’m going to ignore all the data on those slides about amyloid level in the brain via PET scans and suchlike. I honestly do not care; what’s important are the measures of dementia. And while the new larger EMERGE data do look like there’s a dose-responsive effect in the pr...
[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Really was the Asteroid--New Study: Sudden Impact Killed off Dinosaurs and Much of Other Life - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:15] <exec> 08└─There is pretty much 0 scientific evidence that any of the rulers of any of the great civilizations of the world ever existed.
[20:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─>The problem arises from the fact that every nation is in debt Not exactly, but good guess.
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[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─Have any of the soylentils here noticed shorter yellow lights at intersections after red light cameras have been installed?
[21:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:03] <exec> 08└─We knew these restrictions were unconstitutional. But the government got away with it anyway because of shit judges and incompetent lawyers. Glad to see we made some progress enforcing the pre-existing constitutional laws with obvious outcomes... Promote these judges.
[21:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:06] <exec> 08└─yellow?
[21:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─Towns involved claimed that they were not shortened but "corrected to standards". Normal people pointed out that if they were shorter than they used to be, they were shortened. And the question of "why are you giving tickets to someone standing still waiting in the intersection to make a left turn,...
[21:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:10] <exec> 08└─i think he meant 'stale green'
[21:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:12] <exec> 08└─I am surprised by the initial outcome. I went to school for engineering and work as an applications engineer. I have never claimed to be a Professional Engineer, which in some industries (Civil Engineering in particular) is critical for practicing. My understanding is that you can be an engineer, bu...
[21:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:14] <exec> 08└─yellow?
[21:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:16] <exec> 08└─The guy wasn't signing any multi million dollar contracts or selling any bridges. The whole argument is a bogus distraction from the corrupt business deals made for those cameras.
[21:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:18] <exec> 08└─Same here. But... When you live in the boonies all your red lights, per se, are blinking red or yellow. Truly one of the benefits of living in the country, none of this red light camera bullshit. On the other hand, if I'm traveling outside my area I forget that such things are possible/common.
[21:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─It's called "taxi green" where I live.
[21:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:34] <exec> 08└─Not all Kurds are the same. Rojava seems to actually stand for everything America publicly claims to be. We all know privately it's quite different.
[21:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't this anticompetitive behavior? Goog wanted third parties to adopt their cockamamie idea so they just fudged search results to favor the team players? Or were users given notice that the search results had been adulterated for the sake of promoting AMP, and an option to exclude that factor and...
[21:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:11] <exec> 08└─I was a little worried that Grind Your Welds was some kind of pornography term I am not familiar with but all that happened was a nice, manly debate about the pros and cons of various welding techniques. Carry on boys.
[21:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─I used flux core to make my engine and trans mounting brackets, build exhaust systems, patch various holes in the floor, and so on and so forth. Rarely did I have to weld anything on the outside of car where someone could see it. In that case I would grind. Or otherwise if there was a hideous blob t...
[21:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:15] <exec> 08└─Having grown up with a metal shop in the home, I would consider metal more forgiving than wood. Difference of opinion and experience, but when I work with wood something always seems to split at the worst time. With metals, I can hit much tighter tolerances and the grain structure of the material is...
[21:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:17] <exec> 08└─I suspected as much -- as I said -- LOW SKILLED. Low knowledge even. ;-)
[21:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:22] <exec> 08└─For every megawatt of electricity produced using natural gas instead of coal, the amount of water withdrawn from local rivers and groundwater is reduced by 10,500 gallons
[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─[...] "For every megawatt of electricity produced using natural gas instead of coal, the amount of water withdrawn from local rivers and groundwater is reduced by 10,500 gallons, the equivalent of a 100-day water supply for a typical American household"
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─Why pay extra? This is a great idea. Buying from China manufacturers cuts out the middlemen and saves tons of money!
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[22:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:00] <exec> 08└─"I feel like we're protecting the last tree, in a way."
[22:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:17] <exec> 08└─In this neck of the woods, as long as you enter the intersection before the light turns red you're all good. Doesn't matter if the light is red when you're in the intersection, as long as it wasn't red when you enter it. This is not an engineering problem, it is a common sense problem. Fucking prope...
[22:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:18] <exec> 08└─You don't want some crazy Swedish dude [reddit.com] seeing red.
[22:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:20] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't do that [motorists.org]. Actually, I've seen some accuse cities like that of shortening the yellow times, but keeping the time between reds the same so that they can claim they aren't endangering anyone. In that case, after a yellow changes to red, there is an amount of time where all...
[22:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:22] <exec> 08└─In the last state where I bothered to check the law was that your car had to be fully within the intersection (i.e. rear bumper having cleared the perpendicular-to-travel line of the curb corners) by the time the light turned red, not just having entered the intersection. I would think that the came...
[22:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:24] <exec> 08└─Me too. Makes much more sense to be able to enter the intersection on an amber/yellow light, and safely complete your transition / turn / whatever. Let me get this right - if you enter the intersection at the start of the light sequence, and traffic prevents you from being able to turn until after t...
[22:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:27] <exec> 08└─Of course, they are still endangering people by encouraging people to make unsafe abrupt attempts to stop when the light changes to yellow when it would be safer for all concerned to go through.
[22:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:29] <exec> 08└─Once upon a traffic school, I had an instructor "explain the law" to the class regarding red light timing and intersections. The instructor explained thusly: First, define intersection: Draw an extension of the borders of the intersecting roadways, where they overlap is the intersection, often consi...
[22:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:31] <exec> 08└─It's a lot like privatization of the prisons. The cameras cost money, the city/county/whatever signs a contract with a private business who pay all the up front costs in exchange for a healthy cut of the revenues. The city does collections for the company and takes the rest of the revenue. The compa...
[22:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:33] <exec> 08└─I'm a registered P.E. in my state. Other people can say they are "engineers", but they can't legally represent themselves as licensed professional engineers unless they actually hold a license. That strikes me as fair. The law varies by state. Järlström's work on the traffic light problem is proba...
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─Weld beads are beautiful, usually. Well, some people make beautiful tig beads. I am a passable welder most of the time and will have fleeting moments of skilled bead laying
[22:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:27] <exec> 08└─Hardwoods are much less forgiving than softwoods and I tend to like to work with softwoods. A little sanding, a couple extra screws or what have you and you're all set. Have a rough patch, no problem, just get you some putty to cover that up. Generally, I've just done hobby kinds of things, definite...
[22:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:29] <exec> 08└─I used to light the SolidOx pellets just for the smell they gave off.
[22:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:31] <exec> 08└─I was a little worried that Grind Your Welds was some kind of pornography term I am not familiar with
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[22:21:32] <exec> 08└─A bullet between the ears will correct em fine...
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[23:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─What's the point of streetlights everywhere? Along every highway, every street. If there's pedestrian traffic that's fine, but vehicles all have headlights so why not just use them. It's a waste, it's light pollution, and it's annoying. I'm not normally very "green", but in this respect I suppose I...
[23:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─Or at least that is the argument to have street lights everywhere..even though there is no pedestrian traffic at night. The perception is that a lit area attract less thieves !
[23:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─Feel free to try to steal from my car at 70mph. If it's a dense area, I understand but there are TONS of highways in the middle of nowhere with lighting and it always bothers me as it's an incredible waste of money.
[23:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:15] <exec> 08└─Around my area they changed all the streetlights to those god-awful white LED ones. The old Yellow low pressure sodium were so easy on the eyes at night. While a bit monochromatic I actually found them less glaring while driving. However, the big issue with the white LEDs I have is that they disrupt...
[23:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─The "reasoning" is similar to anti-gridlock laws: if you can't get out of the intersection, do not enter the intersection. Doesn't make the reasoning right, but it does make the fines easier to collect.
[23:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the whole thing was an attempt to make him shut up. Oregon claimed that simply by applying the term engineer to himself in any form was an infraction even though he never claimed to be licensed in any capacity. What he actually claimed was that he had an engineering degree (he does) and had be...
[23:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:43] <exec> 08└─Line 1: a federal judge in January this year ruled Oregon's rules prohibiting people from representing themselves as engineers without a professional license from the state are unconstitutional.
[23:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:44] <exec> 08└─Falls into the old "worth a try, maybe he'll give up" school of legal defense.
[23:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:46] <exec> 08└─What's the ratio of "practicing engineers" to "licensed professional engineers" in your field? In mine (electrical, software, medical devices, mechanical design of cases and small machines) it's about 1000:1. Yes, I've worked with a couple of LPEs, sat for the EIT like everyone else at school, 30+ y...
[23:20:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:19] <exec> 08└─If I want something to be pretty, I want to see smooth metal not a bead. If it doesn't need to be pretty, I don't give a shit how the bead looks as long as it's at least as strong as the material around it. I'm entirely functional in my weld criticism. As to where I stand ability-wise? Professional...
[23:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 1887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, the DB-19 was introduced with the Duodisk (and also used on the Unidisk that followed shortly after). The later //gs drives used the same connector, as did many early Macs. The 5.25" drives all used basically the same electronics. The only difference was the connector and the appearance. The Du...
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─Desalinization + nearshore wind farm, anyone? The idea is blindingly, stonkingly obvious. And it may make some projects that wouldn't be economically feasible on their own as simple power-generation concerns suddenly a lot more economically attractive.
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