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[00:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:16] <exec> 08└─The Berkeley ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit radiation and that "if you carry or use your phone in a pants or shirt pocket or tucked into a bra when the phone is ON and connected to a wireless network, you may exceed the federal guidelines for exposure to RF ra...
[00:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:18] <exec> 08└─1W of what?
[00:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:20] <exec> 08└─Didn't you learn from Maurice Moss? DON'T keep it in your shirt pocket!
[00:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:22] <exec> 08└─Living in California may cause you to become a wingnut... this article provides further proof. When's that earthquake coming?
[00:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Suggest Apple May be Using Privacy 'as a Shield for Anti-Competitive Behavior’ - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:30] <exec> 08└─Using Privacy 'as a Shield for Anti-Competitive Behavior'
[00:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:30] <exec> 08└─This is a place to start. [fee.org] The short answer is: It's complicated.
[00:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:31] <exec> 08└─Well, funny how this study suggests that the invisible hand of the markets isn't rational, since the study specifically states that it doesn't affect a company's performance, only whether investors liked them. It's almost like the perfectly rational self-interested homo economicus is more fiction th...
[00:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:33] <exec> 08└─The beauty of markets is that they're not driven by what they're told, but by self interest.
[00:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 2613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:35] <exec> 08└─Ah, the patriarchy strikes again. You make claims without providing cites, and yet I have to. Ain't goon happen. "every explanation" is just that - an explanation without providing any hard data, because "everyone knows." Also, hours worked has nothing to do with productivity. Why not re-read the...
[00:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:37] <exec> 08└─The economy IS doing well. The 99% don't count, since the "new economy" means trading bits of data that represent pieces of paper that represent ownership in something that owns something else that owns something else. We don't count.
[00:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:30] <exec> 08└─I'd say you could see this effect by comparing nations where this has not played as large a role in society...
[00:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:31] <exec> 08└─We could take action on the high-class part of society. We could make them have kids. With exponential population growth, they would soon outnumber the crummy people. The low-intensity solution involves simple changes in tax law. We provide high-class fathers with a universal income, to be funded by...
[00:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dambusting, R/C Style - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:16] <exec> 08└─What was a war crime here?
[00:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:46] <exec> 08└─no, they asked for the best printer in the market and they got this... now they will be printing some porn, dick pics (to send to other party guys?! or maybe not!?) and of course, the main use for the printer, print tweets and facebook posts, as computers are complex, it s always better to read it i...
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[01:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:23] <exec> 08└─Future updates of the Berkeley ordinance will require retailers to inform consumers that cell phones carried in a pants or shirt pocket may signal to aliens that you accept their offer of anal probing and cattle mutilation.
[01:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:24] <exec> 08└─Showing that your cell phones do not exceed these limits should absolve you of having to notify customers that it does exceed them. But it should have to be properly and independently tested.
[01:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. The dummy heads are to see how well both the speaker and the microphone works under various conditions. Then again, a day or two ago someone called me a 20 year Qualcomm fanboi, so I guess my experience counts less than common tropes. / in 20 years there was 1 requirement I really wanted t...
[01:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:29] <exec> 08└─All the women I know who tuck their cellphones into their bras are bigger girls with fat tits. You won't see any skinny girls with a measly B-cup or below holding their phones that way for aesthetic reasons. There's probably a more safe level of attenuation with a fat-titted chick in an animal-print...
[01:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:31] <exec> 08└─If the non-ionizing radiation from cellphones gave cancer, even in rare cases, it would be evident by now! The number of people that have phone constantly with them, near their hands, faces and genitals are in the billions and was a sudden change from almost 0 to what is today in just about 20 years...
[01:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:33] <exec> 08└─WTF is "free speech right of the businesses"?
[01:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:35] <exec> 08└─You are wrong, wrong, wrong. Or perhaps we're discussing different vendors and applications. Besides, if shit it the fan and comms had to be disabled hypothetically in the game of minecraft, people trying to take it out wouldn't use shotguns, they'd use rifles and attack the antennae rather than the...
[01:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:46] <exec> 08└─Found the pdf [iup.edu].
[01:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:48] <exec> 08└─AMDs stock price has been doing great and I think their CEO, Lisa Su, has done an excellent job managing the company so far. I guess CEO != Board of directors but still.
[01:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:50] <exec> 08└─2.3% over a period of 2 years is not that much, even with a pretty high number of companies, almost 2k, this could be well within the margin of error. Now this makes me wonder who is more biased, if it is with the margin of error the result could be 2.3% in favor of more females and still mean the s...
[01:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:52] <exec> 08└─What skill set is needed to fill a chair on the board of directors?
[01:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:54] <exec> 08└─“Broke men are hurting women’s marriage prospects,” ... "1- it's a million times better to be single than have a husband who is trash" Because if a male isn't rich then he's trash?
[01:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:49] <exec> 08└─Nope, look at the figures - it started with Bush. And Obama, in true "Change" style, kept everything going in exactly the same direction.
[01:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dambusting, R/C Style - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:34] <exec> 08└─A/C might be saying that bombing the Ruhr dams was a war crime, because civilians were killed, which there might be an argument for, but not from me. My mother's partner flew as a gunner in Hudson and Wellington bombers from 1942 to 1945 and was on a couple of the raids that fire bombed Dresden, wh...
[01:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:05] <exec> 08└─The important thing is that it'll keep them busy discussing what colour to paint the shed instead of passing bad laws.
[01:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:06] <exec> 08└─Actually they can't as they're on the Euro. Might have to raise the tax on Apple by 0.01% which will ruin their economy when Apple moves to a lower tax rate nation.
[01:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:31] <exec> 08└─Not just flavour, but having variations on the traditional book-wielding wizard type also introduces new storytelling and worldbuilding options for people that like to make custom campaign settings. It can be fun to think about what a setting might be like with certain races or classes missing, or c...
[01:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:44] <exec> 08└─Depopulating the earth?!? You've only managed a small village with enough infrastructure to survive, or a couple of cities if the infrastructure's already set up, and there's suitable remote resources (a big if). Better add a bunch more orders of magnitude to get the whole earth rescued from whateve...
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[02:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protecting Smart Machines From Smart Attacks - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:14] <exec> 08└─> the team altered a driving robot's perception of a road sign from a speed limit to a "Stop" sign, That sounds hard, have to get into the training set somehow(?) Easy way--make a cardboard "Stop" sign and tape it to the speed limit sign.
[02:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:35] <exec> 08└─But that would be imppossible. Why? Because rats don't have shirt pockets or bras.
[02:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:37] <exec> 08└─Um. You're aware of studies showing lower bone density in hips on the side matching cell carry? And of "Non-Thermal Effects and Mechanisms of Interaction Between Electromagnetic Fields and Living Matter" (ssummarized: http://www.icems.eu) [icems.eu] ?
[02:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:39] <exec> 08└─For starters, not forcing the business to put stuff on its cell phones just because some politician wants to generate some theater.
[02:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:41] <exec> 08└─What's the reproducibility of those studies?
[02:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:43] <exec> 08└─You are confusing correlation with causation... the fact is that people naturally prefer to carry their cell phones on the side with lower hip bone density to balance themselves out.
[02:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:45] <exec> 08└─That is not a right, nor a political matter. Sorry I asked.
[02:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:48] <exec> 08└─It is in that the business is being forced to say/print things that don't have a compelling societal or legal reason.
[02:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:50] <exec> 08└─Suppose that Berkeley mandates that cell phone users verbally warn bystanders of this particular caution. Something like "if you stand near me, you 'may exceed the federal guidelines for exposure to RF radiation'." Doesn't forcing people to say things abridge their freedom of speech?
[02:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raccoon Was Once a Thanksgiving Feast Fit for a President - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:09] <exec> 08└─Road kill chili...
[02:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:09] <exec> 08└─I have a FICO score of 900,<sarcasm> I count </sarcasm>! But my wife is recovering from cancer and my car was recently totaled by an Amazon delivery man car and the airbag hit me hard. So I guess that the score doesn't count as much as my banker told me.
[02:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:11] <exec> 08└─You're welcome. I am doing well this Thanksgiving. I hope you are as well.
[02:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:13] <exec> 08└─""" The "true" value being the cheapest value possible that an apple can be sold for while still providing a profit to its seller. The price of an apple has nothing to do with what 'the market's controllers tell it to value' - it has everything to do with how cheap you can produce an apple and sell...
[02:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:15] <exec> 08└─... have the first clue who is on the board? Most buy stocks through a broker or a 401k and never pay any attention to who runs the company. I'd hazard most aren't aware at ALL if a female is or is not on the board, and couldn't name a single CEO or board member. If stock prices fall when more women...
[02:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:17] <exec> 08└─Every other president since, and including, Woodrow Wilson, definitely. The bullshit began in 1913.
[02:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:13] <exec> 08└─1. God. 2. The highest-ranking group, i.e. white males 3. Clearly not the pink-hair SJW posing the questions! 4. Correct, most of the groups do not matter except when you need cheap labor.
[02:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:14] <exec> 08└─Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance.
[02:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:16] <exec> 08└─You don't mean X, you mean Y! And you're wrong anyway, because the truth is X, not Y!
[02:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:33] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're talking about the 4 colour Komori you're meaning here, although your point about the space is a good one. The IT department is not going to be giving people access to an offset press, and training is usually an 8,000 apprenticeship.
[02:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:35] <exec> 08└─oh. I have just finished a comment detailing how it couldn't possibly be on of those, because it seemed a bit mad. Nobody is training to use that either, printing is a skilled trade, not something some office person picks up.
[02:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. I worked for the agents for Komori in my country many years ago, and if the cheapest A2 machine we sold cost $5,000,000 new, without any of the extras they have detailed there. Also, nobody buys a 4-colour machine, and haven't for more than 25 years. Everyone buys 5-colour machines, due...
[02:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:26] <exec> 08└─JMH, I like you, but your logic is like, super weak. I do not support eliminating inheritance, I don't know where you got that.
[02:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:15] <exec> 08└─You've only managed a small village with enough infrastructure to survive, or a couple of cities if the infrastructure's already set up, and there's suitable remote resources (a big if).
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