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[14:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:51] <exec> 08└─I was down in Canberra over Christmas - the smoke was choking. To stand outside in the thick of it, it feels like the world is ending. It's worse than the Canberra fires in 2003. My husband's sister and her family came up north last night to escape from the smoke; her son has had a bad reaction to...
[14:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:53] <exec> 08└─According to the R's, there's no climate change and we don't have to do anything about it.
[14:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:55] <exec> 08└─That said, I suspect that the US will be far more likely to be willing to take in refugees from Australia than they are from Guatamala, Haiti, Syria, or anywhere in Africa.
[14:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:57] <exec> 08└─The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were among the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world. Almost 20,000 km2 (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burned, 71 people died, several towns were entirely obliterated and the Royal Commission that resulted...
[14:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:59] <exec> 08└─goodbyeworld.c
[14:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:02] <exec> 08└─After a burn, how long does it take for the Canberra brush to regrow? Outside Miami is the Everglades, and it will burn every few years, but it's just a bunch of sawgrass so it regrows almost fully within 12 months.
[14:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:04] <exec> 08└─The world IS ending. This is just the beginning, and human nature being what it is, we're not going to do anything anywhere near sufficient to fix it. Notice the shift from talk about stopping climate change to "building more resistant systems " because everyone knows deep down we won't do what is n...
[14:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:06] <exec> 08└─This is much, much worse already, and summer has just gotten started in the southern hemisphere.
[14:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:08] <exec> 08└─The rainforrest and alpine parts will likely never be the same. Otherwise will take a few years.
[14:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:10] <exec> 08└─Erm...Climate, weather, something, something? Bushfires happen in Australia, even big nasty ones that kill people. That being said these ones are a little freaky (those in eastern Victoria/New South Wales south coast and the Western Australian goldfields area) and I would be interested so see compar...
[14:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:18] <exec> 08└─The rich will still be able to afford them.
[14:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:20] <exec> 08└─Considering the total failure of the market, and the way that many drugs don't even work (about half should never have been approved because of gruff companies ghost writing the studies and massaging the data, or outright fraud, and burying negative results), as well as hugely deceptive marketing to...
[14:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:22] <exec> 08└─First paragraph I'm happy to agree with. Hell, I'll even show you more ways to fix things if you like. Second paragraph is both ignorant and idiotic. I won't say that head shrinkers use them properly (we're still barely better informed on the mind than the folks who thought phrenology was legitimate...
[14:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:24] <exec> 08└─America is ohe of them "shithole" countries Trump spoke of.
[14:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:27] <exec> 08└─The drug markets, both legal and illegal, are already heavily regulated beyond any need for regulation. It's time to look at what works and, most particularly, what doesn't.
[14:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:29] <exec> 08└─fixing the usa is simple. there are three plus one problems: 1) health care. the usa being the usa they should lead the world by example w/ universal health care. 2) education. it should be free. 3) world wide police. stop meddeling and cut military industrial complex spending to 10%. and number 4)...
[14:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:31] <exec> 08└─How is inflation anything like 5-10%? Best I could get was Cost of Living allowance of about 2%. Not a big fan of regulation, but these drug lords (big pharma) need to be corralled somehow.
[14:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:33] <exec> 08└─Hey Bernie. How's the campaign going?
[14:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:35] <exec> 08└─You really believe that? With all the lobbying, the research fraud, the deceptive marketing to doctors, the history of approval of drugs that harm patients because negative research trials aren't required to be reported, that we can use some effective regulation, starting with governments negotiatin...
[14:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:37] <exec> 08└─I think it's really N plus one, where the one is the key to fix first. How about this being campaign finance reform and term limits in Congress? The current circus could be called many things, but reasonable, common sense governance serving the people does not come to mind as one of them.
[14:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:40] <exec> 08└─Independent trials have shown time and again that antidepressants are no better long term than placebos, that they double the rate of future relapse, and that they cause damage to the patient. After 60 years, a study came out that claimed that there was finally proof that antidepressants worked. It...
[14:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:48] <exec> 08└─Government overreach, blah blah, how dare they tell vendors what they can and can't do, blah blah, freedom of speech, blah blah. Oh, and just for good measure: Trump, blah blah.
[14:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:50] <exec> 08└─I never really saw the point of vaping, or smoking, but still it seems somewhat odd to ban vaping cause it might cause lung damage but still keep smoking legal -- or even more odd that two flavors (if one can even call it that) are still allowed (menthol and tobacco). Those are not harmful to the lu...
[14:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:52] <exec> 08└─If it's meant to curb the usage among kids I once again have to wonder why smoking tobacco is still allowed then? Historical reasons? Cultural?
[14:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:55] <exec> 08└─It is just a logical following. There has been crazy stuff around e-cig in the US: free samples with incredibly high (67mg) of nicotine (JUUL brand) distributed freely to hook kids up. Harmful canabinoïds e-liquids. That is free market unleashed for you. E-cig was intended to be a cigarette substit...
[14:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:57] <exec> 08└─Possibly hipsters will start a new pipe smoking trend. The beard is back with all the tooling, maybe we'll see more "Captain Haddock" types then - including Rum or Whisk(e)y.
[14:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:59] <exec> 08└─If it was only a matter of taxes doesn't the vapes come with the same type, or similar, taxes to?
[14:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:01] <exec> 08└─My suspicion rather is that flavored e-cigarettes are bad for the regular cigarettes. Menthol and tobacco flavored only means vastly reduced competition. As to the other truly harmful stuff, well that is what regulation is for, right?
[14:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:03] <exec> 08└─shacking the crystal ball and gazing into it i see a hazy marriage of yule type devices and 3M mouth-nose masks. the combo adds a "active element" to otherwise passive filtration masks and should be brisk business in future polluted cities? also, one wonders why medicin can be applied to skin, pushe...
[14:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:06] <exec> 08└─The first rule of commerce used to be do not kill your customers, it is bad for business.
[14:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:08] <exec> 08└─No. https://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] The only problem is that as tobacco shipments decline, so do the payments. And sales of e-cigarettes, which now appear to be helping to...
[14:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Accused Of Crackdown On Jailbreaking - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:19] <exec> 08└─,,, your Crapple!
[14:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Accused Of Crackdown On Jailbreaking - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:21] <exec> 08└─Apple's business plan was to make good stuff that folks liked. That includes actual security, not the illusion of security. That's really hard, so it is good for Apple for folks to find their bugs. That's why there are bug bounty programs. This seems kind of a reverse bug bounty. As in don't do good...
[14:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:29] <exec> 08└─Less drag, better control over positioning, less prone to (physically) break, less area to heat. So long as the electronics are working, they're pretty much just better. The drawback is needing to mount the display somewhere - which is potentially a big drawback. Normally if you are looking in the m...
[14:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:31] <exec> 08└─When cameras fail, and they will, I want mirror backup. On the other hand, people used to camera image on the center console wouldn't know to use the mirrors. Oh well.
[14:56:32] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:33] <exec> 08└─Less drag, better control over positioning, less prone to (physically) break, less area to heat. So long as the electronics are working, they're pretty much just better. The drawback is needing to mount the display somewhere [...]
[14:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:35] <exec> 08└─VW made a concept car called the XL1 [wikipedia.org] meant to be able to travel 100km on 1 liter of (diesel) fuel. They had to do everything possible to make it as aerodynamic as possible. So the side mirrors had to go. The screens for the mirrors are placed in the doors, forward of the arm rests. T...
[14:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:37] <exec> 08└─for cars it may prove to be a theft opportunity
[14:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:40] <exec> 08└─Seriously, with every new car development, it's turning into another over-complicated piece of crap. I'd rather have a well-made, simple system that can be maintained with a roll of tools and a can of grease. Maintainability matters - just ask all those farmers getting nailed by Caterpillar and John...
[14:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:42] <exec> 08└─So what's the backup today when your mirror's fail, i.e. get's shattered for whatever reason, i.e. accidents, vandalism, etc.? Do you Ace Ventura it? Well why can't you use the same backup when your cameras fail? We should probably keep internal rear view mirrors, but side external ones should reall...
[14:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 2134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:44] <exec> 08└─Unless some, as yet unrevealed, advance in camera sensor tech. has occurred without anyone noticing, the dynamic range of cameras is still several orders of magnitude less than the eye's dynamic range. So at night, be prepared for no image to the rear from the camera setup when, with a mirror, you'd...
[14:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:46] <exec> 08└─Bets on how long it takes someone to port Doom to play on the extra displays?
[14:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:49] <exec> 08└─How well do in-car displays work at and below -40? I don't imagine the liquid crystals in the displays do too well. My dash-cam starts having problems even booting up when the temperature is in sub-minus-30 territory. I find it hard to believe the car makers, with their growing insistence on using t...
[14:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:51] <exec> 08└─So... what did you drink?
[14:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:53] <exec> 08└─Official part will be many hundreds, and protected with DRM, so replacing it with the $2.00 part will be a DMCA violation. I'm kinda surprised automakers haven't already gone full John Deer, and made things like alternators, starters and spark plugs have to perform a DRM handshake before working, bu...
[14:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:55] <exec> 08└─Mirrors break in exactly one way. Since that way would also break a camera and cameras can break in numerous other ways, cameras are objectively inferior in reliability. So, the question is, how often do you want to have to pay to have your car fixed?
[14:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:57] <exec> 08└─The parts where it is warm have their own problems. Humidity in TN makes backup cameras useless until well after noon. Dust from dirt roads in OK (extremely common) soon makes them worthless until you get out and clean them, which nobody who has to drive on dirt roads regularly ever does.
[14:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:59] <exec> 08└─the dynamic range of cameras is still several orders of magnitude less than the eye's dynamic range. So at night, be prepared for no image to the rear from the camera setup when, with a mirror, you'd have at least some visible image from your eyes.
[14:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:01] <exec> 08└─Less drag
[14:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:03] <exec> 08└─Last time I replaced my battery, the car bricked itself. I had to have a mechanic come out with a $1000 professional-level scan tool and a procedure he printed off of Alldata to completely reset the car's computer. I thought I ruined the computer or something with a short, but he said that the entir...
[14:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:06] <exec> 08└─True, but skewed. They'll "know", but they won't use it, because muscle memory, reflex, training, etc. True story: After having driven truck for a few years, I was given a truck with a half dozen "extra" mirrors on it. Those big stupid chrome things mounted on the leading edges of the front fenders,...
[14:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:08] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have a really reliable piece of overengineered crap that simply doesn't need to be maintained much. Yeah, I can't rebuild my VW's engine in my driveway the way I could my 1978 Marquis. But in 12 years and 200,000 miles, I've never NEEDED to, either. Hell, I've only had two things on it br...
[14:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03noelhenson [6184] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:10] <exec> 08└─Creating a more complicated, technical solution to a problem already solved has rarely worked out, ever.
[14:57:11] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:12] <exec> 08└─Another thing often missed is that with mirrors, you get a sense of depth perception. Many people don't notice because it is subconscious, but when they look in the rear view/side mirrors they do not keep their head fixed. They move their head about. This helps you get a 3D image with depth percepti...
[14:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:15] <exec> 08└─Why do you need to look out the side window if you have no blind spots any more? The end game is to have cameras all over the car, projected over the inside surface so that you can see through all of the car from the inside. You can theoretically provide strictly superior visibility. The question is...
[14:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:17] <exec> 08└─What would you go rather for? (1) Physical car mirrors + systemd-free Linux (2) Car cameras + systemd-free Linux (3) Physical car mirrors + systemd based Linux (4) Car cameras + systemd basedLinux (5) Wild mixture of back/side view options (physical, camera, neck-craining) + seperate start-up system...
[14:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:19] <exec> 08└─I understand that navigation would be by car movement. The gear would determine the weapon, but how to fire? And how to enter the cheat codes?
[14:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:21] <exec> 08└─Those little bitty windows in the doors, where the passenger's feet would go, if you have a passenger. Again, the only time it might provide any value, is in slow speed maneuvering, trying to back into a difficult dock. No The reason they are there is so you can be blamed for crushing shit-head cyc...
[14:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:23] <exec> 08└─how to fire? Why do you think there is a horn button in the middle of the steering wheel?
[14:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:26] <exec> 08└─The end game is to have cameras all over the car, projected over the inside surface so that you can see through all of the car from the inside
[14:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:28] <exec> 08└─The sensor and the lens cost just a few dollars to manufacture but hundreds or even thousands of dollars to replace
[14:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:30] <exec> 08└─Usually you get one mirror breaking: what happens when the entire camera system goes down?
[14:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:32] <exec> 08└─Seen any interesting hubcaps lately? The Seven has got to be lower than my '67 Elan. Simple yes, reliable no.
[14:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:34] <exec> 08└─Number [5] Alex. What is Windows 10?
[14:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Quicksilver [1821] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:37] <exec> 08└─How is your depth perception when you look at the camera's display? Have you ever moved your head to change your field of view in the mirror? How does moving your head work when you are looking at a display? A rear display works great for trailers where you can't look but you have about half a bil...
[14:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:44] <exec> 08└─If it's infinite with no winning conditions, how is it any better than An infinite scroll social media feed? At least with games like sim city, there were obvious fails, and it felt good to finally achieve the launching of the arcologies to go forth to colonize space at the end of sc2, or to achieve...
[14:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:46] <exec> 08└─First, you can loose, I've played dungeon ai and if you type something like: I take a swing at the goblin, miss and impale myself; chances are that the game will be over. But what you've missed about those games are that they are more like performance arts than gaming per se, the fun comes from the...
[14:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:48] <exec> 08└─But if it's infinite, you can't win. Pretty stupid game if all you're doing is infinite grinding of levels and scenarios.
[14:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:51] <exec> 08└─For some, gaming is about having fun, not about winning.
[14:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:53] <exec> 08└─Having fun while trying to beat the game is fun. Otherwise you might as well just do random coin tosses all day without regards to the outcome. Pointless.
[14:58:00] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:01] <exec> 08└─If more pirating went on, more works would be around! Like the pirated lost Dr Who episodes.
[14:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:03] <exec> 08└─Here is a decent list of the movies from 1924. https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[14:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014945/ [imdb.com]
[14:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015014/ [imdb.com] https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[14:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:09] <exec> 08└─But shouldn't it be "Works older than 1925" rather than "From 1924" Semantics?, but makes it clearer. FROM 1924 makes it seem like everything from 1924 on to today.
[14:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─The said loss of cultural artifacts is self-inflicted legal damage to Anglosphere culture by Anglosphere legal paradigm. Completely without an usual war effect on culture, it is really eye brows raising situation...
[14:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:14] <exec> 08└─So now Disney now has four more years to again lobby Congress to stop Steamboat Willie from entering the public domain. I wonder how well that's going so far.
[14:58:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 755 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:16] <exec> 08└─3-4 years ago I decided to encode all 2500 of my CDs (for the 3rd time, sigh, long story). Quickly found out that it's much quicker to look for a torrent and download it. Is that breaking the law? I have the CD. It may not be easy to get to (yeah, you try storing 2500 CDs after a divorce moves you f...
[14:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:18] <exec> 08└─Well, that and deep fakes of Mickey & Minnie Mouse
[14:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:20] <exec> 08└─If I can scan books with a copyright date of 1924 or prior I can upload and share them legally now? I'm ~10 miles from a 108 year old university library, so this is not a hypothetical question.
[14:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:23] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I've pirated all of Disney up to 2012, along with Looney Tunes and Pink Panther. By the time those Disney cartoons are liberated, none of the originals would've survived. Disney has no incentive to provide anything either. The pirated copies will survive though, and most likely still be...
[14:58:24] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:25] <exec> 08└─Enjoy it while it lasts, no works after 1927 will ever enter the public domain so there's at maximum three years of new PD stuff left. In case you don't recognise the significance of the date, 1928 was when Steamboat Willie [wikipedia.org] was released.
[14:58:26] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 1814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, though you should do it in coordination, or at least consultation, with Project Gutenberg or one of the other corresponding projects. They'll have a lot of advice about efficient methods. Realize that the "easiest" way completely destroys the book and the library might not be so keen on that h...
[14:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:29] <exec> 08└─For software you should be required to provide complete build instructions, copies of source code, copies of published binaries, all documentation, and a build process which will provide verifiable builds. This must be done for *ALL* software to have copyright protection, which will ensure every poi...
[14:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:31] <exec> 08└─Dear Gaaark, From {object}. Is pretty clear meaning in most languages. Even non human ones are explicit about GT etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The internet.
[14:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:33] <exec> 08└─If I can scan books with a copyright date of 1924 or prior I can upload and share them legally now?
[14:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Wyze Exposes User Data Via Unsecured ElasticSearch Cluster - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:41] <exec> 08└─"Cloud Service" = your data is going to leak, one day "Smart home" = unless configured by the user using open source hardware, software and/or advanced security knowledge, this is also known and 'voluntarily entering the panopticon' "Smart home company" = company selling your data, or collecting it...
[14:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wyze Exposes User Data Via Unsecured ElasticSearch Cluster - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:43] <exec> 08└─Of course, smart users who reflashed their WyzeCams with dafang-hacks firmware don't need to worry about Wyze's laughable security practices ("Hey, let's remove the passwords from the operations databases so marketing can mine them more easily").
[14:58:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:53] <exec> 08└─This is like a ghost detector. And I bet they're getting tax money for it. There is plenty of precedent. Back in the gulf war we were still paying 'remote sensors' aka clairvoyants, and there was that guy that got insanely rich selling explosive detectors that didn't work... You can't detect sin, bu...
[14:58:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:55] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as a technological solution to a moral problem. Besides which, who gets to program the AI as to what is and is not hate speech? What happens when the far right inevitably gets their hands on this through the big corps and the packed courts? Don't give yourself any power you do...
[14:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:57] <exec> 08└─This will fucking fail the second it flags a Big Leader as engaging in hate speech. Then pressure will get applied in delicate places until the app gets rewritten to do the exact opposite of what it was originally supposed to do. Hello fascism!
[14:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:00] <exec> 08└─Look at these Happy Nazis! How can they be the Bad Guys(R)? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:59:01] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:02] <exec> 08└─who gets to program the AI as to what is and is not hate speech?
[14:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:04] <exec> 08└─How, exactly, is Arik offtopic here? Mod abuse in action?
[14:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:06] <exec> 08└─When the good little sheep are brainwashed to want a government-sanctioned "AI" bleat-censor, do you really believe that censoring everything inconvenient for those in power was NOT the end goal since step one?
[14:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:08] <exec> 08└─Tomalin's proposal would use a sophisticated algorithm which would evaluate not just the content itself, but also all content posted by the user to determine if a post might be classifiable as "hate speech".
[14:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:10] <exec> 08└─“I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire (attr.)
[14:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:13] <exec> 08└─There's a reason why the criminal code definition of hate speech can't be applied without a judge or judge and jury. You have rules, then you have the interpretation of the rules in line with ethics and morals. At one time abortion was illegal. It wasn't legislators writing rules that made it legal...
[14:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:15] <exec> 08└─It ain't often I get to +1 Insightful you but you damned sure earned one this time.
[14:59:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:17] <exec> 08└─Someone testing their algorithm.
[14:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:19] <exec> 08└─... accomplish this goal without infringing on individual rights of free speech
[14:59:20] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 570 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:21] <exec> 08└─Never mind the use of AI, that's just a distraction, and it will not be any more effective than DRM is. Chatbots who kick participants for saying 4 letter words such as "porn" were nuisances that were never effective at censorship, ridiculously easy to defeat by such things as saying "pr0n" instead,...
[14:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:24] <exec> 08└─They should just ask Microsoft if they can watch the logfiles from Tay. Hate ahoy!
[14:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:26] <exec> 08└─" Their proposal involves software that uses an algorithm to identify 'hate speech' in much the same way an antivirus program detects malware. "
[14:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:28] <exec> 08└─Eventually they grow up and get angst ... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:30] <exec> 08└─When they get the algorithms tweaked to whatever they want, I wonder if they'll not only use it on current stuff being put up on social media, but also go back to things like Usenet posts. Twenty years ago no one had yet thought up the Newspeak term "hate speech", so people still spoke mostly freely...
[14:59:32] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:32] <exec> 08└─And I bet they're getting tax money for it.
[14:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:35] <exec> 08└─" And no, the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation doesn't take 'tax money' "
[14:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:37] <exec> 08└─Hate speech = criticism to the status quo. Might itself be propaganda. Any criticism can be turned into hate speech by conflating criticism of an action with the criticism of some aspect of the author of an action. There are entire organizations devoted to this fallacy, notably the anti defamation l...
[14:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:39] <exec> 08└─I always knew posting to alt.trump.grab-her-crotch-and-build-a-big-fucking-wall might be a bad idea.
[14:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:41] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of filtering, an “AI”. Should learn what you mean from context. But of course that “learning”. Will n the early years seem like misguided opinions.
[14:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:43] <exec> 08└─This will fucking fail the second it flags a Big Leader as engaging in hate speech.
[14:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:46] <exec> 08└─if all it did was add mod points/flag score/whatever and allowed the user to pick a threshold, it *could* work.. but anything that requires the user to *do* something (actively changing threshold/'playing' with settings) will fail - or FB, twitter and other "social media" comments-as-opportunity-to-...
[14:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:48] <exec> 08└─surely the opposite will occur - pro- LGBTQ1X+, disabled, black, yellow, polka-dots would surely be 'protected'/'promoted', while anything even *slightly* anti- anything would end up 'binned'... probably including anything anti-stupidity.
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:50] <exec> 08└─Eric Idle: Now say "Big floppy donkey dick" Cartman: No! Eric Idle: Success! The boy is cured, he doesn't want to swear.
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─Ok, just one question. Let's take a call on social media to immediatly kill all muslims. Or to kill, let's say, all white males older than 40. Would you consider these examples hate speech ?
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─Didn't we run all comments through a Google toxicity algorithm for April Fool's one year? I can't find the original story or when we did it.
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:56] <exec> 08└─who gets to program the AI as to what is and is not hate speech?
[14:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thesis [524] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:58] <exec> 08└─This is IMHO, nothing more than propaganda used to legitimize restricting speech and information. When it comes to puplished papers, I want to know if there is bias, and from where or whom. In this case, this paper is funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation. Who is this y...
[15:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:01] <exec> 08└─Be fun to try that with the comments in my journal. Lots of defence of hate speech, lots of hate.
[15:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:03] <exec> 08└─Voltaire never said whose death. Privileged people love using cannon fodder - after all, can't let them go to waste.
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:05] <exec> 08└─You don't have a constitutional right to unlimited unrestricted free speech anyway. Death threats, criminal and civil defamation, treason, publishing state secrets, all are speech with a high price.
[15:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─Nah, from Trump's beauty pageant pedo fund.
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─Anyone and everyone hears their share of insane rants daily. Not a soul went crazy from that sole cause. If you lump everyone into the loony bin by default, why are you excepting the self-assigned wardens of the world asylum then?
[15:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─He is too dumb to comprehend. He calls himself Bot so he doesn't feel so bad failing the Turing test.
[15:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─So they are not getting Tax money as in the government is not paying them directly. But they are getting Tax money as in the government is not taxing their operation while taxing EVERYTHING else....
[15:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:16] <exec> 08└─Well said. That's the problem in a nutshell. It's so robust that you could have framed it "What happens when $ZEALOT inevitably gets their hands on this?" and it would be equally true. Many now are forgetting the wisdom that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
[15:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, because muzzling the vast majority in favor of the fraction of one percent will work out so very well, and won't rebound on that minority and lead to horrible things at all. The people pushing garbage systems or even the illusions of systems like this will rue their work.
[15:00:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:20] <exec> 08└─So whose monies are they taking, then?
[15:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:22] <exec> 08└─I have said it before, and I say it again here: if we take away a man's ability to express himself with words, he will express himself with fists.
[15:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:24] <exec> 08└─JFC... African Americans use the N word more often than the KKK. Is it hate speech? But if a cracker says it, it's SJW fodder.
[15:00:25] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─So they are not getting Tax money as in the government is not paying them directly. But they are getting Tax money as in the government is not taxing their operation while taxing EVERYTHING else....
[15:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:28] <exec> 08└─Kind of a worthless reductio ad absurdum style of argument. A Polish, Soviet-era joke that sums up the left wing "speech has consequences" attitude: In Poland, there is freedom of speech. In America, there is freedom after speech.
[15:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:30] <exec> 08└─>Let's take a call on social media to immediatly kill all muslims. OK >Or to kill, let's say, all white males older than 40. one genocide at a time please. Free speech is not free from consequences speech. If somebody has reasons to kill muslims or old people, and the primary reason is that the syst...
[15:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:33] <exec> 08└─If you can stop words you can stop fists. Words are trickier.
[15:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:35] <exec> 08└─I doubt you will be hauled off to a gulag for your comments and viewpoints... But I am quite sure anything you leave online, anywhere, will be aggregated into personality profiling databases. These databases will be used by hiring managers. No one wants to be the guy who hires a problem maker. Espec...
[15:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:37] <exec> 08└─I'd still rather deal with a pressure relief valve than a boiler explosion. Hate speech, like a relief valve venting, are indications of underlying problems brewing. Unfortunately, it is a human condition we will always have differences of opinion. I prefer words to fists if possible. The next step...
[15:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:39] <exec> 08└─Unpaid weirdos engaging in cancel culture are a bigger threat than Google and web crawlers alone. They will bombard your employer with messages, get you fired, tarnish your name, drive you to suicide, and dance on your grave. All in the name of virtue signalling for likes and retweets.
[15:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:42] <exec> 08└─That kind of crap has been going on as far back as recorded history. Even the Bible has numerous instances of false witness to smear someone else. Along with many other things, technology has made even this disgusting aspect of life easier. But, on the flip side, it has also made identifying the mak...
[15:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:44] <exec> 08└─Who cares about the liberal left? They're liberal; they don't give a flying fuck what you say. The authoritarian left, on the other hand ...
[15:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:46] <exec> 08└─They're work is rooted in the premise that free speech is bad -- like it is actual physical violence -- and that it should be censored. The way things work though, is that when we don't protect the rights of the worst of us, they eventually get around to everyone else as well. Like how that case abo...
[15:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:48] <exec> 08└─It is high time the distinction between liberal left and authoritarian left be given attention. I'm with the liberal left but the authoritarian left has the exact same feel as the authoritarian evangelicals of the 80s and 90s to me. Both are wrong and dangerous.
[15:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:50] <exec> 08└─The difference today is that the neighborhood busy body doesn't have a reach limited to a couple hundred people at the high end -- they have worldwide capabilities. So while it has been going on for as long as people lived in groups, humans haven't experienced the type of damage those people could d...
[15:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:52] <exec> 08└─No.
[15:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:54] <exec> 08└─Same place most foundations get their money: from people and institutions who give it willingly.
[15:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:57] <exec> 08└─To expand, it depends on what you mean by "hate speech" -- I'm guessing some legal definition with prison in the consequences list. It is hateful speech to be sure, but let's be honest about this, by not censoring the speech you get to know exactly who the hell you need to watch out for. By censorin...
[15:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:59] <exec> 08└─Not that you should be using these frequently online mind you, but there are plenty of well known sources where; if you know the source; you know not to take it too seriously. Like quite a few posts on this site. I've seen an extraordinary amount of chilled speech creep into the Internet since it be...
[15:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:01] <exec> 08└─You missed a few there. You got Erck Rickmers (whoever that is, I assume some random conspiracy-theory target), a foreign government, and the Clintons, but you missed the obligatory anti-semitism (Soros), and there's no mention of the Deep State anywhere I can see.
[15:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:03] <exec> 08└─Careful. If you call yourself a classical liberal you'll get smeared as alt-right.
[15:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:05] <exec> 08└─You got Erck Rickmers (whoever that is, I assume some random conspiracy-theory target)
[15:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:07] <exec> 08└─Scuntorpes.
[15:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:09] <exec> 08└─It is a given that input from various anti-hate activist organizations would be leveraged. What your are referring to is known as the 'quiet part' and is not intended to be said out loud - that only those sources will be used which align politically with the social media companies' socio-politica...
[15:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:12] <exec> 08└─"And it was easy enough to check" If you're naïve. Governments know how to launder money, and if you think they don't do that routinely you need to take a look at how often they've gotten caught doing it in the past. I took a look at the foundation but that doesn't mean I was able to identify and v...
[15:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:14] <exec> 08└─These are some headlines from the NYTimes: - White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness - That White People Smell - Should I Give Up on White People? - Can My Children Be Friends With White People? - Why I Refuse to Avoid White People - Dear White America - Th...
[15:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:16] <exec> 08└─Just adjust the algorithm so it labels those headlines as stunning and brave.
[15:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:18] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say that. There was an infamous court ruling which asserted that "money is speech" and led to certain spending restrictions being lifted based on the premise that it wouldn't be acceptable for speech to be restricted in that manner. In the context of this story we see money being sp...
[15:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─alt-right is losing its sting as an epithet.
[15:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:22] <exec> 08└─Assuming this is not going to be looked up every time but saved in some kind of database of haters is this thing GDPR compliant?
[15:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:24] <exec> 08└─I'd much rather listen to you tell me that I'm going to hell, than to have both of us censored out of existence. -- #censureAltstarchus
[15:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:26] <exec> 08└─Careful attention to detail is necessary here. Censure and censor are not the same thing. Congress may censure the president and/or the Supreme Court. Congress may not censor either. There are plenty of dictionaries online, pick one, and learn the difference between the two words.
[15:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:29] <exec> 08└─Hate speech is free speech, some comments on your journal were targeted abuse. I modded 2 comments troll but perhaps the spam mod would be suitable? Clearly the same AC, adding nothing to the discussion.
[15:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:31] <exec> 08└─Hate speech isn't free speech in Canada, and that's where the killing took place. The people arguing the 1st amendment need to keep in mind it doesn't apply, same as in any of the states with hate speech laws. Same as the 1st amendment isn't absolute protection of speech in any state or at the feder...
[15:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:33] <exec> 08└─No, the Spam mod is not suitable for cases of obvious trolling.
[15:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:35] <exec> 08└─It never had a sting unless you're part of, or at least the bitch of, the ctrl-left.
[15:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:37] <exec> 08└─>The Humanities and Social Change International Foundation This is how a frontend for SPECTRE would be named in a 007 movie.
[15:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:39] <exec> 08└─Why are you using Christianity as an example? Why don't you use a real and present example that exists, such as the many Muslim theocracies? I guess it's essier to attack non-existent problems than real ones.
[15:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:41] <exec> 08└─If the authorities are in control of speech, they probably will use steel and concrete (jail).
[15:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:44] <exec> 08└─There was an infamous court ruling which asserted that "money is speech" and led to certain spending restrictions being lifted based on the premise that it wouldn't be acceptable for speech to be restricted in that manner.
[15:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:46] <exec> 08└─you can stop fists
[15:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:48] <exec> 08└─A cursory scan by me revealed nothing about the funding source or even how much funding there is. But I find it interesting how this thing sprung up three or so years ago and already has "centers" in several universities. Not that much of a feat, but probably means significant money is involved to g...
[15:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:50] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of filtering
[15:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:58] <exec> 08└─" USCG officials said they believe the point of entry was a malicious email sent to one of the maritime facility's employees. "
[15:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:00] <exec> 08└─It is the vendor's fault. The vendor has claimed that the software is fit for purpose and it isn't. The user has used the software as it was intended and it was the software which failed not the user. So blaming the individual who happened to get the payload is not appropriate. Despite that, as a d...
[15:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:02] <exec> 08└─Dumb of them to run Windoze.
[15:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:04] <exec> 08└─Back then there were several platforms, two were AFS and Novell Netware. The former faded away from active neglect.
[15:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:07] <exec> 08└─" USCG officials said they believe the point of entry was a malicious email sent to one of the maritime facility's employees. "
[15:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:09] <exec> 08└─There is also the lack of federated file sharing like we used to have in the 1990s.
[15:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:11] <exec> 08└─If I see a Onedrive or Gdrive link, I know it is probably phishing. That's almost a sure sign.
[15:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:13] <exec> 08└─Why-are-we-STILL-using-Windows? dept
[15:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:15] <exec> 08└─If I see Windows, I know it is garbage. Windows is a sure sign.
[15:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:17] <exec> 08└─Because cat food isn't advertised to the cats.
[15:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:20] <exec> 08└─Quit Mixing Code And Data!!!
[15:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:22] <exec> 08└─LISP programmer here. Erm????
[15:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:30] <exec> 08└─We need to send pamphlets encouraging the dirty mutts to stop playing with themselves and get with the program. Praying.
[15:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:32] <exec> 08└─i blame it on overzealous scrubbing of "disturbing" video media from the internet ... if people could actually SEE what a suicide bombing does when they go off, or what mayhem drunk driving can cause or in this case what a polio infection looks like then maybe would "wake up"? what we get to see on...
[15:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:35] <exec> 08└─In hindsight it appears obvious that a trivalent dead/synthetic vaccine is required to eradicate polio once and for all since a live once appear to act as a viral reservoir. I wonder why this was not obvious in 2016 ?
[15:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:37] <exec> 08└─Viruses evolve. Apparently we stopped doing that a few decades ago.
[15:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:39] <exec> 08└─All options except trying vitamin C.
[15:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:41] <exec> 08└─All options except trying vitamin C.
[15:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 2690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:43] <exec> 08└─"Most of today's outbreaks stem from mOPV2 responses to previous ones, and GPEI is burning through its emergency stockpile of mOPV2 faster than it can be replenished." So wait, am I understanding this correctly? We are responding to a problem and our response just keeps making the problem worse? I d...
[15:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:45] <exec> 08└─According to this [drugtargetreview.com], something like what you are referring to was being developed as of 2017. It is research funded by the WHO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and I imagine that had to have started years earlier for it to get to the stage of the article. Hopefully...
[15:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:47] <exec> 08└─Also it notes that the live version provides longer immunity. So perhaps repeat doses of the inactivated form after five or ten years. Again, more cost up front but less cost later down the line.
[15:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:49] <exec> 08└─In the vast majority of people polio is like the flu, in a few it causes paralysis and even death. Those few are the ones with lower vitamin c levels in important tissues. What needs to happen is getting massive numbers of electrons to the inflamed tissue before structural damage is caused by oxidat...
[15:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:52] <exec> 08└─Citation needed.
[15:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:54] <exec> 08└─Don't look too much into polio vaccinations if you do not want to be seriously disturbed. The same guy who started the anti smoking crusade publically injected his daughter and grandson (after being warned it was going to cause polio) to prove it was safe. One died and the other became paralyzed wit...
[15:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/199x/landwehr-r-j_orthomol_med-1991-v6-n2-p99.htm [seanet.com]
[15:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60900-4/fulltext [thelancet.com] On May 16, 2014, the White House announced that the CIA will no longer use vaccination programmes as a cover for espionage.
[15:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/05/archives/bulbar-polio-kills-doctors-grandson.html [nytimes.com]
[15:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, looks like since somebody is actually cracking down on their shiploads of cocaine and planeloads of Afghan heroin, they're left to invent diseases and then profit from the "cure" Sackler-style.
[15:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:05] <exec> 08└─In reality, things can happen even if you did not expect them to. And those things need be investigated, and the expectations adjusted. Hushing or shouting things down to keep sacred expectations intact leaves the reality totally unimpressed.
[15:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.infowars.com/warning-the-vaccines-are-a-trojan-horse/ [infowars.com]
[15:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.infowars.com/vaccine-fail-whooping-cough-outbreak-closes-texas-school-despite-100-percent-vaccination-rate-officials/ [infowars.com]
[15:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:11] <exec> 08└─Infowars? no. Get a better source.
[15:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:13] <exec> 08└─> How do we explain to the world that we have to go backward, not forward?” Sutter asks. Everyone understands that, universal to all cultures and languages
[15:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Over 100 Android Apps Used 'Soraka' Package to Perform Ad Fraud - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:21] <exec> 08└─Anyone who rips off the advertisers and other snoops is doing us all a favor.
[15:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 100 Android Apps Used 'Soraka' Package to Perform Ad Fraud - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:23] <exec> 08└─Because big corporate approved advertising is so much better. Be a good little consumertard and fuel up with a nutritious dickload of advertising every morning!
[15:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 100 Android Apps Used 'Soraka' Package to Perform Ad Fraud - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:25] <exec> 08└─I can't remember which movie it was, maybe a Jerry Lewis movie... A little old lady buys everything she sees on TV commercials. Today she would click on every ad on the Internet.
[15:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Over 100 Android Apps Used 'Soraka' Package to Perform Ad Fraud - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:27] <exec> 08└─This isn't just replacing one set of ads with another or changing the affiliate that gets credit. That wouldn't affect the user experience significantly, and you can make the case that there is benefit to destroying the ridiculously intrusive and disrespectful-of-our-time ad-serving ecosystem. T...
[15:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Over 100 Android Apps Used 'Soraka' Package to Perform Ad Fraud - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:30] <exec> 08└─... and thus it makes everyone pissed off at advertisement and lowers people acceptance for it, just like it should be. Seriously, the pervasiveness of ads is madness these days. Somehow, people have taken the perpetual beatings by ads as "just par for the course". This is not normal!
[15:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Over 100 Android Apps Used 'Soraka' Package to Perform Ad Fraud - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:32] <exec> 08└─Sure would have liked to see that list of suspected apps, version, file length. As a bonus, what to look for and how to clean up the mess it made. The silver lining in this is it gives a lot of incentive to many of us to adopt and embrace ad blocking and anti-digital wishlist enforcement technologie...
[15:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Precise New CRISPR Tool Could Tackle a Plethora of Genetic Diseases - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:41] <exec> 08└─It's early days, but the initial results look fantastic... You're going to see a lot of people using it.
[15:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super-Precise New CRISPR Tool Could Tackle a Plethora of Genetic Diseases - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:44] <exec> 08└─*sigh* damn! now robots are gonna get all fleshy, mushy and soft. it is obviously a lot cheaper to grow a robot in a petri dish and use some "cash starved" surrogate incubation oven to have the robot self-assemble itself inside. your robot clone army is 50'000 syringe injections away...
[15:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injecting the Flu Vaccine Into a Tumor Gets the Immune System to Attack It - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:52] <exec> 08└─Why use the flu vaccine? They should just modify the measles virus itself to cure cancer. Nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong with that.
[15:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Injecting the Flu Vaccine Into a Tumor Gets the Immune System to Attack It - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:54] <exec> 08└─So that's how we got Trump. I did wonder.
[15:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Injecting the Flu Vaccine Into a Tumor Gets the Immune System to Attack It - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:56] <exec> 08└─Mr Smith died after a long battle with cancer and a short bout of severe influenza.
[15:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injecting the Flu Vaccine Into a Tumor Gets the Immune System to Attack It - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:58] <exec> 08└─OMG vaccines cause CANCER! I need to order more probiotic prayer beads.
[15:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Injecting the Flu Vaccine Into a Tumor Gets the Immune System to Attack It - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:01] <exec> 08└─the ones that glow in the dark and stay warm for 30+ years are the best!
[15:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Injecting the Flu Vaccine Into a Tumor Gets the Immune System to Attack It - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:03] <exec> 08└─Just drink Radon Water, cures all ailments and makes you stronger
[15:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injecting the Flu Vaccine Into a Tumor Gets the Immune System to Attack It - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:05] <exec> 08└─There's been this implicit assumption the circulation is the best way to deliver drugs that target a localised problem like a single tumour. But localised approaches, like injecting stem cells directly into kidneys to assist regeneration, are better in many ways.
[15:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not familiar enough with the domain name system--can someone explain how MS could take control of 50 domains? And, is there anything that would keep the purported bad actors from just registering another 50?
[15:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:16] <exec> 08└─It could be they asserted some trademark thing, like that bad guys are basically trying to deceive people with "rnicrosoft.com" related domains... let us redirect those to our site because that is what people expect... plzz domaib people Happy new year!!!!
[15:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:18] <exec> 08└─Contact exaeta, he is coming up with a whole nother DNS system, which I am sure will solve all problems, and get him laid.
[15:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:20] <exec> 08└─IMpeach Micro$oft Now! They are a illegal operation! An illicit corporation! A vary bad actor!
[15:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:23] <exec> 08└─How is that excreta you talking about?
[15:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:25] <exec> 08└─Now that is just silly. Is it a false-false-flag post, or a false-false-false-flag post?
[15:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:27] <exec> 08└─probably a case of patent infringement where the patent tried to save energy and keyboard space by removing the letter "m" and forming it by using "r" and "n" and only patented rnicrosoft keyboards have that extra key "m" and the "driver" costs extra ...
[15:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Court Action Against Fourth Nation-State Cybercrime Group - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:29] <exec> 08└─Obviously this is a case of Microsoft fighting against competition...
[15:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:38] <exec> 08└─It's NYE/D and I appreciate jan and others sparing time to keep this site going. Happy new year to all you bastards, even fnord. I'm still gonna rag on fnord, though, and expose marty for the perv he is. Let's post more quality aristachu posts in 2020.
[15:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:41] <exec> 08└─Fuck systemd. Death is too good for poetternazi.
[15:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:43] <exec> 08└─It sounds like they have a good case: why should grant writers and direct salespeople not be treated as employees, but Uber/Lyft drivers should? Just because those other professions have historically been that way? I think the fundamental problem here is that employment law in this country is comple...
[15:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:45] <exec> 08└─My one associate (small engineering company) is a contract worker--he sets his own schedule, buys his own computers and works from his home. I pay him plenty enough to buy his own health insurance and put away for his own retirement. We're not the problem, I don't take advantage of any "power" that...
[15:04:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:47] <exec> 08└─one person doing okay is enough to show it works. Fuck the rest, it is their fault they didn't negotiate better, Right? </sarcasm>, but only because truth hurts..
[15:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:50] <exec> 08└─I apologize for off-topic comments. With that said, the worst programmers are: 1. Strousstrup Invented C++. Enough said. 2. Poettering Destroying Linux. 3. That guy that cooked up Java generics and Scala. Struousstup must have been his hero/mentor. "Honorable" mention goes to Gates, Jobs (not much o...
[15:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:52] <exec> 08└─4. You, the viewer at home.
[15:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:54] <exec> 08└─I appreciate jan and others sparing time to keep this site going.
[15:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:56] <exec> 08└─Best wishes, janrinok, I hope you have the best terminus possible. I have been through several myself, and I know how painful they can be. My condolences, and hopes for a suspension, to you, Editore Supreme.
[15:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:58] <exec> 08└─Let's post more quality aristachu posts in 2020. Oh! A treasure hunt! Well this could take all year...
[15:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:01] <exec> 08└─The problem is the laws we have written created this mess. Want health insurance? Oh you need to be full time. Well just work people 35 a week and you do not have to offer anything. Whole classes of employees are basically pulled out of the law that protects others. The imbalances in law has created...
[15:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:03] <exec> 08└─Apparently my point didn't get through? I agree that some companies are taking advantage of the independent contractor rules as written, and it is reasonable to try and close some loopholes. At the same time, many small companies operate very well using true independent contractors (both the spirit...
[15:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:05] <exec> 08└─If it shouldnt be tied to employment, do tell what it sgould be tied to without using such deseptive words as "free". Ill probably laugh my ass off.
[15:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:07] <exec> 08└─I called a Uber, the driver was on meth, and pregnant, and a Trump voter. We drove over private roads, and invalid ways, and I arrived damaged and mostly fucked over, since she insisted we have sex and added a fee to the Uber charge. Now I do not know whether or not I want to call an uber again, sin...
[15:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:09] <exec> 08└─Well, if you are going to call it insurance how about tying it to buying insurance. Car and house insurance don't give a shit where you work so long as you make the payments. Tying it to employment is just another way to make it difficult for employees to switch jobs: - For the socialists out there,...
[15:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:11] <exec> 08└─I live in a country which spends about half what the USA does per person, and has better outcomes, with 100% of the population covered by the healthcare system.
[15:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:13] <exec> 08└─one person doing okay is enough to show it works.
[15:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:16] <exec> 08└─If anyone wants to see some genuine post-capitalism empire dying, this is how you get it. What problem was here that this law needs to fix? It's an elevation of ideology over peoples' livelihoods. California is a big state, it can handle a lot of dysfunction, but eventually this sort of thing will k...
[15:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:18] <exec> 08└─I have had some chemistry lecturers point out an interesting parallel between chemistry and finance : The equations must balance. Every atom in a reactant that goes into a reaction comes out the other side in a product somewhere. 2H2 + O2 = 2H20 Every cent that is a cost in one place is revenue in a...
[15:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:20] <exec> 08└─Hi! and I arrived damaged and mostly fucked over, since she insisted we have sex and added a fee to the Uber charge. [...] Am I being screwed?
[15:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:22] <exec> 08└─A lot of independent contractors are just doing it for pocket money and anything that can be done to stop them for working for less than the cost of providing the service is a step in the right direction. I see the same sort of thing in tutoring, where you've got people who are charging just over mi...
[15:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:24] <exec> 08└─This law fixes the exploitation of drivers. If you total up all the expenses of driving for these companies and subtract that from what they're paying, you're talking about making only a few dollars an hour, at best. When they started out, they didn't even have insurance, meaning that if something h...
[15:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:26] <exec> 08└─What caused this is insufficient taxes on corporations and the wealthy. The main reason for the nickling and diming of employees is that the money they don't spend on the workers gets to go to the management and owners of the company. If there were a progressively higher tax rate on such people that...
[15:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:28] <exec> 08└─Essentially yes, but sometimes things are more complicated. I can pay you to perform a service for me that I would be very inefficient at. That might free up 10 hours of my time to do something that I'm much better at. The net result is that I've paid you, say, $100 for several hours of work, but I'...
[15:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:31] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. Anything that can be done to destroy the gig economy is great. These aren't people that are just looking for drinking money and these aren't businesses that only need the service for a few hours on a sporadic basis. These are people who don't necessarily have many other options to s...
[15:05:32] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:33] <exec> 08└─What does this law actually fix?
[15:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:35] <exec> 08└─And I hate to reply to a reply but this shitstorm originally came from AC asking why his hyper specialized skilled craftsman contractor should be categorized with essentially untrained unskilled manual laborer like taxi driver. I have no idea what AC's contractor dude does at home with a computer; I...
[15:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:37] <exec> 08└─This law fixes the exploitation of drivers.
[15:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:39] <exec> 08└─If it shouldnt (edited: shouldn't) be tied to employment, do tell what it sgould (edited: should) be tied to
[15:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:41] <exec> 08└─These aren't people that are just looking for drinking money and these aren't businesses that only need the service for a few hours on a sporadic basis.
[15:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:44] <exec> 08└─but "the system" is pretty F'd if any random moron can GTA3-style play taxi driver with no training or oversight.
[15:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:46] <exec> 08└─The obvious reason why your costs are 2x higher is that your cost is someone else's revenue.
[15:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:48] <exec> 08└─I live in a country which spends about half what the USA does per person, and has better outcomes, with 100% of the population covered by the healthcare system.
[15:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:50] <exec> 08└─If there were a progressively higher tax rate on such people that went up to 90% at some point, you'd magically see that the companies (which have now moved to other countries) don't go bankrupt when they pay their workers (who now work in other countries) for the work they're doing.
[15:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:52] <exec> 08└─" The reasons people will work for practically nothing and won't essentially unionize vary. "
[15:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:54] <exec> 08└─Well found one ^ I'm sure the measures to solve the problem of invsding nazi shitheads will be reasonable yet permanent. Do tell, how can we prevent more of you from showing up?
[15:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:57] <exec> 08└─Many thanks for your kind words, Ari. I'm not gone yet though, I hope to spend a few more weeks before I have to significantly ease back on my contribution and settle back into the community. I do appreciate your comments, both today and in the past, and I wish you all the very best for the coming y...
[15:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:59] <exec> 08└─All you are saying is that if you halve the patient costs then you halve the revenue of the entrenched parties. Businesses are usually opposed to halving their revenue, and are often willing to take unethical or even illegal actions to avoid it. Hence the media blitz against better systems. By defin...
[15:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:01] <exec> 08└─Did they really? They wanted money for providing a service, I doubt very much that they'd stop just because they were forced to accept more money for services rendered. The point of the observation, is that the money being paid to them is significantly below minimum wage even before providing riders...
[15:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:03] <exec> 08└─Australia actually. And we probably have a pretty similar immigrant/cultural mix to the USA. Costs are per person per year averaged over the whole population, roughly $4000 vs $9000 last time I looked. I would say that we have a smaller criminal underclass because we have better health and welfare s...
[15:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:05] <exec> 08└─When we tried it in the US it gave us the greatest economic expansion the country has ever seen and one of the largest economic expansions of all time. What do you think the tax rates were like during the '50s and '60s? Here's a hint, the top rate was that high. Secondly, I realize that you're retar...
[15:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:07] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate poor people so much? These lies really aren't helping anybody. While we're at it, why don't we just bring back slave labor as clearly the slaves were happier having the work than being beaten to death. Oh wait, it's only humane to starve people to death or die of exposure because the...
[15:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─So let's get rid of their jobs and make their lives worse.
[15:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:12] <exec> 08└─(in reply to khallow) You're an idiot.
[15:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:14] <exec> 08└─fuck you, you fucking authoritarian piece of shit. tax is theft.
[15:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:16] <exec> 08└─Property tax needs to be outlawed globally. A free person would own their property and be able to pass it down to their offspring without some parasite being involved.
[15:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:18] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point. (i) You have $100. The contractor has $0. (You do the work yourself ) You still have $100 and the contractor has $0 (ii) You have $100. The contractor has $0. (You pay the contractor $100.) You now have $0 and the contractor has $100 (iii) You have $0. Your employer has $2...
[15:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:20] <exec> 08└─> This is what double-entry book-keeping is all about. For every debit there is a matching credit. About 25 years ago my parents invited me to join the tiny engineering company that my father started when he retired. One of their issues was keeping up with the books (finances): invoicing, paying a f...
[15:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:22] <exec> 08└─> A free person would own their property... Why not go back to the American Indian model (shared with other hunter gatherers?)--no person owns any of mother earth... These days it makes about as much sense as your idea.
[15:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:24] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you a (somewhat simplified) story. Once upon a time, Microsoft treated its contractors fairly well. Not as well as its full time employees, but pretty well. The contractors started thinking, we're treated kind of like full time time employees, but we don't get the full benefits. We shoul...
[15:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:27] <exec> 08└─Did they really? They wanted money for providing a service, I doubt very much that they'd stop just because they were forced to accept more money for services rendered.
[15:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:29] <exec> 08└─That depends on how elastic the demand is for taxi drivers.
[15:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:31] <exec> 08└─All you are saying is that if you halve the patient costs then you halve the revenue of the entrenched parties.
[15:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:33] <exec> 08└─When we tried it in the US
[15:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:35] <exec> 08└─People like you are sick and need to be treated. Yes, there will be some job losses, but you'll also have an increased number of jobs that pay a decent wage, the taxi companies won't have to compete with what is barely better than slave labor and the economy will benefit from additional workers that...
[15:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:37] <exec> 08└─The problem is that he is a feudalist.
[15:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:39] <exec> 08└─Bearing in mind that if it's "work, welfare, crime, or starve" most people still choose work as well.
[15:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:42] <exec> 08└─Most people don't like using medical services, they do it when they have no choice. Dropping the costs by half will not make twice as many people run out and double their treatments. In fact dropping the price to zero would probably reduce the total expenditure by reducing expensive emergency room t...
[15:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:44] <exec> 08└─I was referring to VLM's 'criminal underclass' comment, but I wish I had thought to include that. You're right of course that it should be, in decreasing preference, [work|welfare|crime|starve]
[15:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:46] <exec> 08└─I agree with a property tax, but I think it should apply to all property not just real estate. How about 1% per year for a start, we can adjust it up or down later. Maybe have a tax-free thresh-hold of $500,000 and/or exempt the primary residence to cut the paperwork. You own a million dollars, you...
[15:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:48] <exec> 08└─Of course, and if I kill you and your offspring and seize the property, then it is mine by right of conquest. If you pay no taxes why should society protect you?
[15:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:50] <exec> 08└─You do have a genius for missing the point. Your feudalism is your craven bootlicking attitude towards the aristocracy, not the literal tying of a peasant to a plot of land.
[15:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:52] <exec> 08└─Your feudalism is your craven bootlicking attitude towards the aristocracy, not the literal tying of a peasant to a plot of land.
[15:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:54] <exec> 08└─Most people don't like using medical services, they do it when they have no choice. Dropping the costs by half will not make twice as many people run out and double their treatments.
[15:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CRISPR Scientist Who Made Gene-Edited Babies Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:02] <exec> 08└─Jiankui-lǎoshī flirted with Western scientists and media. Some of the scientists didn't know what was going on or at least pretended not to. But one of the media outlets ratted him out for clicks (MIT Technology News, IIRC). CCR5 was a dumb choice and the justification was too easily debunked. Tha...
[15:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Scientist Who Made Gene-Edited Babies Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:04] <exec> 08└─Punishment should be having to bring up the kids he modified, and see them up close in all their glory every single day.
[15:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Scientist Who Made Gene-Edited Babies Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:06] <exec> 08└─state actor fallout coming to a bar near you ... in about 20 years!
[15:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Scientist Who Made Gene-Edited Babies Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:09] <exec> 08└─Those kids are going to be hidden away from the world, at least until adulthood. Scientists will be studying them but I doubt He ever will. They also have two biological parents already.
[15:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:17] <exec> 08└─Well, it is, but not any time soon. It probably has a hundred thousand years or more left. Eta Carinae is much more likely, but even it probably has a couple thousand years to go.
[15:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:19] <exec> 08└─Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice ... oh merde!
[15:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:22] <exec> 08└─Fortunately for us, we're safely out of the 50 light-year 'kill zone' for receiving any inbound lethal radiation from Betelgeuse: A supernova would simply be a scientifically interesting event, and put on a good show. Ancient supernovae may have had a hand in the evolution of life on Earth, and a re...
[15:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:24] <exec> 08└─Put on a show for Giggarata the wicked!! https://youtu.be [youtu.be] OOps! wrong timestamp, that was Eva Habermann taking a shower...ah, sorry, um, ok, here we go.... https://youtu.be [youtu.be] And the Brunnen-G will be no more... Vaiyo A-O ...
[15:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:26] <exec> 08└─Nice Fuckin' Model! Honk Honk!
[15:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:28] <exec> 08└─That's how Big Z got his third head.
[15:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:30] <exec> 08└─Man, that sounds like a very long time. Certainly sounds much more hyperbolic than "in the last 20 years".
[15:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:33] <exec> 08└─Well, it is, but not any time soon. It probably has a hundred thousand years or more left.
[15:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:35] <exec> 08└─Think of all the science fiction works that use Betelgeuse, if it goes supernova they all get invalidated to some degree.
[15:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:37] <exec> 08└─A long time ago, near a star not so far away... Works of fiction could already be invalidated since it's a sure thing that Betelgeuse will explode within a relatively short amount of time (~100,000 years). I would doubt that it has habitable planets given its age and properties. In general, there ha...
[15:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:39] <exec> 08└─You'll see in about 642.5 years
[15:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:41] <exec> 08└─global warming gets you!
[15:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:43] <exec> 08└─it's a sure thing that Betelgeuse will explode within a relatively short amount of time (~100,000 years).
[15:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Life_phases [wikipedia.org] It's a star with a very short life span compared to the Sun, and nearing the end of that span. It has probably done a lotta damage to whatever protoplanets have been orbiting it.
[15:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is "we don't know". 100,000 years wouldn't be surprising, but neither would tomorrow morning. Now if you figure the odds, the odds of it blowing tomorrow are pretty low. But we don't know. So whenever it acts in an unexpected manner, which this is, the question come up "Is this what the...
[15:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:50] <exec> 08└─At least that. Just checked the Betelguese Herald and it's still being published. Haven't run into Zaphod for awhile but I'm pretty sure he's still around too.
[15:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:52] <exec> 08└─It's not going to go supernova
[15:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:54] <exec> 08└─So whenever it acts in an unexpected manner, which this is
[15:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:56] <exec> 08└─It has probably done a lotta damage to whatever protoplanets have been orbiting it.
[15:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:58] <exec> 08└─An astronomer I talked to called the current actions "quite unusual" and "unexpected". So I've got to question that palliative article you read. If you've got a source for it, I might take it more seriously, but "an article I read" could be on "Wired". OTOH, he might be an astronomer, but he's also...
[15:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:00] <exec> 08└─"an article I read" could be on "Wired".
[15:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:03] <exec> 08└─Earthsky.org looks like just a phenomenal site. I'd never found that before. Do you have any other links related to science/astronomy/cosmology? Search engines have become just so completely worthless. A google for 'astronomy and space' yields, of the 9 links: bbc, csiro.au, wikipedia, uppsala unive...
[15:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:05] <exec> 08└─Space Ars Technica - Eric Berger [arstechnica.com] NASASpaceFlight [nasaspaceflight.com] Space News [spacenews.com] Teslarati SpaceX News [teslarati.com] Universe Today [universetoday.com] Science Nature [nature.com] ScienceDaily [sciencedaily.com] (superior to Phys.org) Science Magazine [sciencemag...
[15:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:07] <exec> 08└─Awesome! Lots of stuff to check out there. And yeah, SpaceNews is my go-to for information on recent space related launches and events.
[15:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for Betelgeuse: What's Up With the Tempestuous Star? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:09] <exec> 08└─el reg is dead now, boss
[15:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Pants on Fire" Lawyer Suspended by Florida Supreme Court - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:17] <exec> 08└─He admitted to filing the false insurance claim. He's obviously going to "fall up" and run for office in 2020. Lots of lobbyists would love to have someone with such flexibility in ethics and morals, not to mention an accommodating view of the law.
[15:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Pants on Fire" Lawyer Suspended by Florida Supreme Court - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:19] <exec> 08└─How do you possibly get to be an adult in the US and not know that pants are the one flaming article of clothing you can absolutely never have if you want people to buy your line of bullshit?
[15:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06"Pants on Fire" Lawyer Suspended by Florida Supreme Court - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:21] <exec> 08└─Well, it was Florida, so.......
[15:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Pants on Fire" Lawyer Suspended by Florida Supreme Court - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:23] <exec> 08└─It was a stunt too low for even Law & Order.
[15:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Pants on Fire" Lawyer Suspended by Florida Supreme Court - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:26] <exec> 08└─The phrase "liar, liar, pants on fire", which is what you're referring to, is common knowledge among the English speaking adults in the U.S., sure. But how can you assume a lawyer in Miami with the name of Gutierrez has any familiarity with such an English idiom?
[15:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Pants on Fire" Lawyer Suspended by Florida Supreme Court - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:28] <exec> 08└─Because most of the people with hispanic names in the US grew up here or at least have been here long enough to have heard the idiom. Yes, even in Florida.
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[15:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:09] <exec> 08└─> we won't do what is needed Don’t blame the player blame the game.
[15:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, it must be a political thing since it actually doesn't fit the climate alarmists narrative. Frankly I'm not going to worry about this natural disaster any more than we've done over all the previous massive bushfires that hit Australia. Australia has a fire season just as places like California...
[15:55:12] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 618 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:13] <exec> 08└─Greta Thunberg said it best: People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy-tales of eternal economic growth. ... How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just 'business as usual' and some techn...
[15:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:15] <exec> 08└─"I would be interested so see comparisons with earlier years fires." This does seem to be missing. Just as it was when California was in the headlines. There are certainly more and less severe fire seasons, but I recall seeing "red sky" photos from Australia in previous years. Fires are so much a pa...
[15:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:17] <exec> 08└─Have to blame the players when it comes to failure to address global catastrophe - we make the rules, we played by them.
[15:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:35] <exec> 08└─"The United States, which leaves drug pricing to market competition..." This is the fakest news I have read in a long time.
[15:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:36] <exec> 08└─If you don't like antidepressants, don't take them. If you don't like abortion, don't have one. If you don't like gay marriage, don't marry. But don't tell me what I can do.
[15:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:38] <exec> 08└─I and most people feel that way, but nobody seems to be able to stop the tide. The argument is that any kind of economic control will "stifle innovation". So innovation is only driven by greed? My mind is awash in ideas; none are a solution. In other news, it's been shown that Tylenol reduces empath...
[15:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 2264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:40] <exec> 08└─If you think America is a bastion of free markets and capitalism, and the Nordic countries (and others) are state-directed socialist regimes, I urge you to read "The Great Reversal - How America Gave Up on Free Markets" by Thomas Philippon. To quote from the blurb: In this much-anticipated book, a l...
[15:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:43] <exec> 08└─Your last link redirected somewhere weird. I think you were trying to go here: https://mentalhealthdaily.com [mentalhealthdaily.com]
[15:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:45] <exec> 08└─Some links would be nice, since every argument you make here relies on someone else's authority. Specifically: 1. Where the study claiming antidepressants finally worked? 2. Where's the Norwegian review tore that study apart? 3. Where/when did "the UN" make a statement about depression, and which co...
[15:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:47] <exec> 08└─I stopped taking medicine because the cost went from $25 a month to over $1000 a month in just 10 years - this is for a simple inflammation issue National broadcast news will sometimes have stories about the high cost of medicine and then follow the report up with an expensive advertisement for medi...
[15:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:49] <exec> 08└─Are you crippled? I'm half blind, I'm not going to waste my time doing research you can more easily do yourself.
[15:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:51] <exec> 08└─I generally agree with you, but please be careful - I think sweeping generalizations are the bane of the "information age". Many new drugs are truly modern miracle cures. But many (most?) are becoming more chemically and bio-actively complex and work differently in different people, and in different...
[15:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, my dog mangled my post and submitted it - that's what I get for posting in bed. Sometime in the future, if and why my crap vision allows it, I'll do a journal entry on the evidence that antidepressants are a huge fraud by drug companies along with complicit researchers and universities. This...
[15:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:56] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely correct, and the TV commercials drive the doctors crazy (because patients are sure they need drug X...) Are there no alternate medications for your inflammation? Drug prices seem to have an inflammation issue.
[15:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:13] <exec> 08└─Its the solution to the wildfires. Don't put them out, just make them taste better.
[15:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:14] <exec> 08└─Guess the teens'll have to go back to Tide Pods instead.
[15:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Presses on, Announces Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:22] <exec> 08└─They'll use 2 descent parachutes next time.
[15:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:09] <exec> 08└─You have been lucky. In December, I had to replace my car's anti-lock brake actuator assembly at the dealership and it cost me over $2,000. This was after it failed in a panic stop when some asshole tried to turn left in front of me when he failed to look before he acted. Since it's a complicated hy...
[15:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:10] <exec> 08└─Mirrors don't have bugs. They don't have failed firmware updates. They work in the pouring rain, freezing cold, they don't get instantly and completely obscured by splashing mud or corroded and destroyed by road salts, they don't require electricity. Even broken, they still offer partial functionnal...
[15:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:12] <exec> 08└─If you shift your eye from the windshield to a mirror, your focal point is still at (approximately) infinity. If you shift your eye from the windshield to a video monitor, your focal point shifts from infinity to a meter or so. This is a significant matter, especially for our increasingly aging popu...
[15:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:14] <exec> 08└─Make and model?
[15:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:26] <exec> 08└─(after killing a bunch of mutants in the apocalyptic scenario) You decide to go out and explore the wasteland. You soon come across a group of mutants who are eating a large dog carcass. They don't seem hostile, so you approach them and ask if they want anything else to eat. > They say that humans a...
[15:57:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:43] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I've pirated all of Disney up to 2012, along with Looney Tunes and Pink Panther. By the time those Disney cartoons are liberated, none of the originals would've survived. Disney has no incentive to provide anything either. The pirated copies will survive though, and most likely still be...
[15:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:28] <exec> 08└─Serious question: Did Voltaire say anything about dealing with the consequences of said speech? Not all speech is free, and most countries define 'hate speech' pretty closely. It would be interesting to see if this tool can be adjusted for each locale.
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[16:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06How one Astronomer Hears the Universe - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:54] <exec> 08└─She may have been doing it for 15 years, but it was featured prominently as a plot element in Contact(1997), so "pioneered" seems a bit excessive.
[16:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How one Astronomer Hears the Universe - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:55] <exec> 08└─... just for this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How one Astronomer Hears the Universe - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:57] <exec> 08└─Dunno if it's the same person but about 15 years ago I bought a CD where a musician had taken radio astronomy, um, images?, downshifted the frequencies to the audible range, and recorded it. It was a pretty interesting CD, but boring as hell for music. I imagine it would work a lot better as a DVD,...
[16:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:19] <exec> 08└─Canberra is surrounded by fairly spare forest and scrub. It takes a couple of years to grow back, but the big eucalyptus will take a bit longer.
[16:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:21] <exec> 08└─There are various political factors (please don't demand citations) in the US that block wildfire prevention policies like prescribed burns, cleared buffer zones around habitations. Can you give us your take on why Australian wildfires are so out of control and destructive?
[16:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:23] <exec> 08└─They're in the middle of the worst most prolonged drought in history . Rivers and wells drying up, towns having to truck water in, the wells that still work becoming more saline because rain hasn't come to refresh the underground water table. And the stupid asshole in charge saying "it's okay, we've...
[16:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 3357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the abrupt reply. I only have limited time before my eyes make me stop using a computer. I'll do a journal entry on the subject when my eyes and schedule allow me to post my research on the topic. This is stuff people need to know. But you can start at this place [soylentnews.org]. Plenty...
[16:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:53] <exec> 08└─If it can be proven that antidepressants depressants don't work (it has been many times, even in drug trials from the manufacturers) and that they cause harm (just read the side effects) then they are defective products and need to be pulled from the market. Even more than lead paint and leaded gas,...
[16:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:55] <exec> 08└─Shh. The lobbyists are coming for your brainz. Unless you can sign off on a phoney drug study. For a wheelbarrow full of money.
[16:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:57] <exec> 08└─I'm attacking the manufacturers of antidepressants. Their own studies show they don't work, and you just have to read the side effects to see some of the harm. Part of the problem is researchers for hire, who bury negative outcomes, in the hope that if you repeat the study often enough , random cha...
[16:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:59] <exec> 08└─Antidepressants work, just not for everyone: Without antidepressants: About 20 to 40 out of 100 people who took a placebo noticed an improvement in their symptoms within six to eight weeks. With antidepressants: About 40 to 60 out of 100 people who took an antidepressant noticed an improvement in th...
[16:57:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:49] <exec> 08└─http://scantailor.org/ [scantailor.org] - using this to preprocess the page images, greatly reduces the OCR errors afterwards. Even using a free OCR tool such as Tesseract. For best OCR results, the page images should be at 600 DPI or thereabouts, and in any case, at no less than 300 DPI.
[16:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:51] <exec> 08└─Time will tell, and at this rate, they've got 2-3 years to make their move. Though, they could always get something shoved in at the last second.
[16:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:31] <exec> 08└─It makes sense though. Racism is /il peccato originale/ of the USA. The moment one form of it becomes unfashionable another becomes /de rigueur/. Kind of like a whack-a-mole, or herpes.
[16:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection at Maritime Facility - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:50] <exec> 08└─Because for your cat food your choices are store-generic-brand that may occasionally kill the cat, Fancy Feast which costs at least twice as much, and there are a whole bunch of field mice which are perfectly free to eat but that requires knowledge of how to hunt (in various degrees). There are also...
[17:00:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:07] <exec> 08└─In the vast majority of people polio is like the flu, in a few it causes paralysis and even death. Those few are the ones with lower vitamin c levels in important tissues. What needs to happen is getting massive numbers of electrons to the inflamed tissue before structural damage is caused by oxidat...
[17:00:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Over 100 Android Apps Used 'Soraka' Package to Perform Ad Fraud - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:25] <exec> 08└─Anyone who rips off the advertisers and other snoops is doing us all a favor.
[17:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Precise New CRISPR Tool Could Tackle a Plethora of Genetic Diseases - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that dystopian future is quite a ways in the future and relies on a lot of variables going horribly wrong in just the right way.
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[17:55:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 509 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:17] <exec> 08└─Erm...Climate, weather, something, something? Bushfires happen in Australia, even big nasty ones that kill people. That being said these ones are a little freaky (those in eastern Victoria/New South Wales south coast and the Western Australian goldfields area) and I would be interested so see compar...
[17:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:28] <exec> 08└─Total black at 9 am is hardly business as usual. And more places are reporting the same phenomenon. It's 9 am on a summer day and you can't even see across the street. You know how people keep saying "this time it's different " to justify irrational exuberance? Well, this time really is different. A...
[17:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:29] <exec> 08└─If they're brown, and/or they talk funny instead of speaking English, the bigots who control the US government will try to not let them in.
[17:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:31] <exec> 08└─Give this some more thought. Imagine if the United States of America took in all of those straight white people from Australia. The population will go down about 90% but what is left can be the wonderful society you want. You could then move to Australia and socially signal about how great it is to...
[17:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, she still came across as a pretentious teenager. People have been dying for a very long time. Entire ecosystems have collapsed many times before. What makes this time more special than the rest? Who's to say that this "crisis" is any worse than any of the previous crises? I've grown up having...
[17:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:36] <exec> 08└─That's where you went wrong in the first place. Of course the coders will have an apocalyptic world view when they're learning to code with C. Should have slowly introduced with something like Python. Much more can be focused on good coding style, as opposed to semantics, then.
[17:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:38] <exec> 08└─Or you talk funny
[17:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:40] <exec> 08└─Coding style? Your main() function is a one-liner. How much style would be useful in printf("%s/n", "goodbye world"); I'm not feeling it.
[17:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:42] <exec> 08└─Once everyone has died off there won't be much demand for coal or uranium. Not until our successors evolve, and by then all trace of us will be gone, so it's not like they will learn from our mistakes. Looks like one of the oldest answers to the Fermi Paradox was the right one - advanced civilizati...
[17:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:16] <exec> 08└─lead paint and leaded gas, which actually did what they were sold for.
[17:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:18] <exec> 08└─I tend to believe it in a general way, even if some of the specific details in the gp might be suspect. Yes, we all know it's bad. Patients absolutely are not first. Money is. Yet I think most don't understand the severity of the corruption and ubiquity of the warping. For instance, we still mostly...
[17:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Presses on, Announces Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:44] <exec> 08└─Speaking of moon crashes, wasn't Israel going to take another crack at it?
[17:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Accused Of Crackdown On Jailbreaking - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:53] <exec> 08└─She's throwing this whole "they have directly benefited from the jailbreak community in a number of ways" as if that is worth anything... Apple is a bit like Disney when it comes to their IP: they've always been clear that they don't like anyone even looking funnily at it. This company clearly does...
[17:57:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:13] <exec> 08└─Mirrors break in exactly one way. Since that way would also break a camera and cameras can break in numerous other ways, cameras are objectively inferior in reliability. So, the question is, how often do you want to have to pay to have your car fixed?
[17:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:37] <exec> 08└─less prone to (physically) break
[17:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:39] <exec> 08└─That's unlikely, you'd still want to have windows that you can look through in case the camera system breaks while driving. Even with AI control over the car, you'd still want to be able to see what's around you in case you need to operate manually. It's one of the reasons why jets still have pilot...
[17:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:41] <exec> 08└─Why would the camera also break? The camera wouldn't need to be sticking out as far as the camera and the camera wouldn't need to be repositionable the way that a mirror would because it would be feeding into a monitor, not reflecting back to a driver's eyes that may be positioned as much as a foot...
[17:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:43] <exec> 08└─Mirrors have a lot of issues, for example, positioning them can be a problem, if you're slouching down to be comfortable, versus sitting upright at attention, that can require the mirrors to be re-positioned. They're also susceptible to being broken by cars driving by on narrow lanes, something that...
[17:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:45] <exec> 08└─This is a common problem, the memory requires power to store anything. If you're going to do work like this, typically, you'll need a special tool to keep that circuitry powered while you do the replacement. I'm a bit skeptical that it outright bricked itself, but in some cars, they will make minor...
[17:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:58] <exec> 08└─Found the person who's never played Minecraft.
[17:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:59] <exec> 08└─It seems that something like this would be extremely dull. Sure, it may be an interesting exercise for writing. As far as a "game" is concerned, it just seems like it would be easy to note how dumb our "AIs" are. It has a whiff of sandbox / survival genre to it, but generally there's something more...
[17:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:01] <exec> 08└─Even open-ended games eventually have to add new features or die. This has been the trend since the turn of the century . New features or die.
[17:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:04] <exec> 08└─In such a scenario anyone who wants to kill and eat my dogs has a name - dog food. So nice of you to self select to feed them - saves me any moral qualms.
[17:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:06] <exec> 08└─which is why programming is my only 'game'.
[18:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:12] <exec> 08└─yeah sure i'm just gonna go ahead and click on this unlabelled zip file on a filesharing website. what could possibly go wrong?
[18:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:13] <exec> 08└─Hate speech isn't free speech in Canada
[18:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:16] <exec> 08└─Clitheroe. Brown Willy.
[18:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:18] <exec> 08└─Your thinking might apply in common law, but it doesn't when it comes to the criminal code. In Canada, unlike the USA, there's only one criminal code, and it applies to the entire country. Each province can enact their own civil laws, and those vary by province and territory (can't forget the territ...
[18:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:20] <exec> 08└─Let's think outside the box - it could also be set to not flag certain hate speech, making it easier for people t publish hate speech by saying "if it were hate speech it would have been flagged." Everyone has an agenda - this one appears to be a combo of money (charge social media providers for th...
[18:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds like something that fits right into China's agendas. Mass censorship and subversion of foreign universities by "normalizing " such behaviour.
[18:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:25] <exec> 08└─"Scunthorpe" springs to mind. Getting banned because you live there is pretty stupid.
[18:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:27] <exec> 08└─How about ctrl-alt-shift-left? After all, the moral majority could be labeled ctrl-alt-shift-right.
[18:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're missing a bit of the economics of what it takes to fight viruses. OPV is considerably cheaper per dose than IPV. That's the only thing OPV has going for it. It can still be used because all the math says that the number of vaccine-induced polio cases from OPV is far, far fewer than wh...
[18:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─Alex Jones ordered to cough up $100K in Sandy Hook defamation case [nydailynews.com] A Texas court ordered the fringe conspiracy theorist to fork over $100,000 in legal fees while refusing to dismiss a lawsuit that targets the media host for broadcasting falsehoods that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementar...
[18:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Eradication Program Faces Hard Choices as Endgame Strategy Fails - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:17] <exec> 08└─Um, no. Dumbass. It's known that OPV can induce polio at a rate of infection far far FAR less than wild versions. The rest of what you say is just bullshit.
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[18:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06How one Astronomer Hears the Universe - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:02] <exec> 08└─Sight seems to be, by many orders of magnitude, the highest bandwidth of our sensory mechanisms. Think about all the information you can parse from an image in a few second glance. You can express a practically infinite number of concepts that are nearly instantly absorbed. By contrast compare that...
[18:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How one Astronomer Hears the Universe - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:03] <exec> 08└─Watching static on TV screens was an overdramatized plot element... and they were listening to radiotelescope data, not "looking" at stars.
[18:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:38] <exec> 08└─Gotta love when a fucking RAINFOREST catches fire and the deniers are still running around claiming everything is fine.
[18:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:39] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, it's not just brushfires wreaking havoc. Couple of years back the town of Palm Coast Florida got their first real hurricane with storm surge in centuries- how do we know? Well, for one, because the centuries old oak trees got their roots soaked in salt water and died right back to the f...
[18:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:42] <exec> 08└─I like the spin that some docu-dramas are putting on it: the energy industry (and many others) started advertising campaigns back in the 1970s to shift responsibility from centralized industry to individual choice. 50 years of brainwashing the Buzzards of the world into thinking that big organizatio...
[18:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:44] <exec> 08└─Almost 20,000 km2 (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burned,
[18:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:46] <exec> 08└─What makes this time more special than the rest?
[18:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:48] <exec> 08└─our fuckwit politicians are useless Well, somebody must like them enough to put them where they are
[18:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:50] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a deep insight for someone with a shallow mind.
[18:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:52] <exec> 08└─oh shut the fuck up, you fucking zombie.
[18:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks and agreed. Everyone was pushing them 10-20 years ago, probably still do. Now we see TV commercials for law firms saying "did you take Zoloft (or whatever)? contact us if you did"
[18:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:30] <exec> 08└─First time I've heard of brain damage being a feature rather than a bug!
[18:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:32] <exec> 08└─The "competition" is along the lines of "think of a number..."
[18:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:34] <exec> 08└─"Considering the total failure of the market..." That's exactly what's wrong with health care in the money-worshiping US. Capitalism isn't the be-all and end-all hard core, money-worshiping capitalists think it is. Health care is something that can't have a free market. You can't choose to get your...
[18:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:37] <exec> 08└─In some more civilised parts of the world, advertising prescription-only drugs is prohibited. [www.gov.uk]
[18:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:39] <exec> 08└─We colonists still strive for civility. Joking aside, one of my many thoughts / observations is that many (most) who emigrated to the "New World" were kind of wild and/or desperate. So...
[18:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:58] <exec> 08└─Raising the smoking age to 21 and banning vaping flavors just seem like odd policies for the Republicans to suddenly take up. Makes me wonder why...
[18:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Presses on, Announces Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:07] <exec> 08└─burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one....
[18:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Accused Of Crackdown On Jailbreaking - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:18] <exec> 08└─When I got my first iphone, I immediately jailbreak it, so I could install feature that Apple didn't provide. However, over time I learned some very valuable things, the most important being how much I value stability in a mission critical device. The jailbreak ecosystem itself is horribly poorly th...
[18:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:07] <exec> 08└─And yet cars today are so much more reliable than they were 50 years ago. Not just that, but ABS and ESC have greatly reduced the risks associated with minor driving mistakes. Yes, they're more expensive to repair when they break, but they also break a lot less often and will frequently warn you whe...
[18:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:08] <exec> 08└─You don't get good depth perception like that, hence the warning that objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. That's because mirrors aren't flat, they distort the image in order to give more angle of view. In terms of perspective, I take it you haven't used one of those new cars with t...
[18:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:11] <exec> 08└─Mirrors don't have bugs.
[18:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:13] <exec> 08└─just another way for them to increase the cost of the cars, restrict servicing to the (paid) authorized dealers, and shorten the life of the car to the support period for the firmware.
[18:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:31] <exec> 08└─What is the point of life, there isn't any win condition. You might as well just do random coin tosses all day without regards to the outcome. Pointless.
[18:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, you can, and if you find any good science fiction from then let me know and I'll post it on my book site.
[18:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:58] <exec> 08└─Not likely at a university or a library, who are probably scanning it themselves, anyway. I found a copy of Only Yesterday, required reading in a college history class I had at SIU, at the University of Virginia's web site.
[19:00:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 1127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:06] <exec> 08└─They're work is rooted in the premise that free speech is bad -- like it is actual physical violence -- and that it should be censored. The way things work though, is that when we don't protect the rights of the worst of us, they eventually get around to everyone else as well. Like how that case abo...
[19:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:48] <exec> 08└─Or, unless, when someone submits articles about the alt-right, you fear they may be painting you with too broad a brush. Tu Quoque, Buteo?
[19:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 2602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:49] <exec> 08└─4th and 5th amendments are gone if you are on the list, see my journal and this: https://archive.is [archive.is] You have now been warned by someone who reports this first hand, if you have questions contact me. It is however apparent to me that the way you get on the list is by having 'ideas'...
[19:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:51] <exec> 08└─I think these belong here: https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.ph [archive.ph] https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.ph [archive.ph]
[19:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 3766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:53] <exec> 08└─I once thought something like this could work, that our debates and arguments could be somehow sent through the internet itself, and kept fair through algorithms and rules. Now I believe that moderation and mediation and facilitation are inherently human jobs, that humans should do for ourselves, an...
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:56] <exec> 08└─> something you wrote decades ago in a Usenet post. Look up "milkshake duck". It's one of the terms the Twitter mob uses for just that. Because when someone digs through a decade or so of your posting history in order to find one thing to get you pilloried over, that's YOUR fault.
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[19:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:52] <exec> 08└─my style would be quite different: printf("goodbye world\n"); I'm not gonna nag about your mistyped slash, but a compiler would mind.
[19:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:53] <exec> 08└─Lol, reality is finally making it theough your thick skulls! I forget all the steps of loss, but the first is denial if I recall. I'd have more sympathy for the loss of a happy world view if yours wasn't so very anti-human. Yes I am generalizing your stances based on being angry a climate denier com...
[19:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:56] <exec> 08└─Wow you're the pretentious asshole here. Maybe if there wasn't science backing up her claim, and maybe if your position wasn't just selfish short sighted greed.... maybe. As has been pointed out a million times before, what is the downside to reducing oil use? Cleaner air? Energy independence? New j...
[19:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:58] <exec> 08└─Think about that for a second... Dude had to go back to 1939 to cherry-pick a comparative fire. And the best he could come up with was only half as large!
[19:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:00] <exec> 08└─The Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept the state of Victoria, Australia, on 6 February 1851 [an estimated 5 million hectares were burnt]. Twelve human lives were lost, along with one million sheep, thousands of cattle and countless native animals. "The temperature...
[19:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:43] <exec> 08└─What is it with you and antidepressants? They work for some people but not everyone. You act as is if they makes up 90% of the drug market. How about insulin prices that have skyrocketed for no reason?
[19:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:44] <exec> 08└─The pharmaceutical industry spends more on advertising than Coke and Pepsi combined.
[19:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:47] <exec> 08└─Are you familiar with the Democrat presidential candidates?
[19:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:49] <exec> 08└─Insulin prices? Glad you asked. Countries that negotiate bulk buying deals pay way less - and by way less I'm talking about almost 90% less. Time for regulation.
[19:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:09] <exec> 08└─this is probably it. old cig industry using their politicians to put the squeeze on the new competition.
[19:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Presses on, Announces Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:19] <exec> 08└─this time India to leave the cow at home.
[19:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 6837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:22] <exec> 08└─> You don't get good depth perception like that, hence the warning that objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. That's because mirrors aren't flat, they distort the image in order to give more angle of view. Sorry, but I don't agree. For one, mirrors are by and large flat. In fact I ch...
[19:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:41] <exec> 08└─We weren't talking about making games, but playing them, Mr/Ms Goalpost Mover.
[19:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:43] <exec> 08└─Didn't move the goalposts. Even open ended games die if you don't keep adding new features because people get bored playing them
[19:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:45] <exec> 08└─You don't *need* to keep changing how games work in order to keep people playing them. The last change to the rules of chess was in 1862.
[20:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:55] <exec> 08└─Oh my, abolish the federal minimum wage so we can go back to company towns and unabashed wage slavery? You're such a fuckwit, you base your entire view of reality on baseless assumptions about some ideal version of capitalism. I pity you, though it is tempered by the damage your worldviews do unto o...
[20:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:57] <exec> 08└─Huh, finally you admit to being a little bitch for rich people. Didn't think you had the capacity for honest reflection.
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[20:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:02] <exec> 08└─Wibbly wobbly spacetimey-wimey stuff.
[20:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:03] <exec> 08└─In his theory of general relativity, Einstein predicted an effect called frame-dragging. As it spins, a rotating black hole's gravitational field is so intense that it essentially drags spacetime with it.
[20:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:05] <exec> 08└─One of the coolest stories of the year and so few comments. Guess people aren't into astrophysicist as much now that the original space program is gone, along with the excitement.
[20:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:08] <exec> 08└─Answer and Explanation: The amount of energy in a black hole is plausibly far greater than anything else in our universe, since a black hole's gravitational pull is so immense that light cannot escape it despite traveling millions of miles per hour. Science fiction writers have imagined scenarios wh...
[20:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:16] <exec> 08└─Haha, touche indeed! I guess this is what passes for an argument amongst the purposely ignorant.
[20:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:17] <exec> 08└─I mean "talk funny" as in primarily speaking and understanding Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Mandarin, or one of the other hundreds of languages that exist in the world. Because bigoted Americans believe that there's some sort of inherent superiority to English (a.k.a. bastardized Old Norse mixed wi...
[20:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:19] <exec> 08└─Don't laugh - I know people who said that if the King James English was good enough for Jesus ...
[20:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:21] <exec> 08└─Not meaning, just the one liner program, because I assume they'll be learning more than that. C/C++ is a lot more daunting/unforgiving than Python.
[20:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:24] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the hysteria surrounding fires in the Amazon last year, which in the end turned out to be not that unusual or dire. It's hard to get any sort of rational, logical or truthful information about an issue when so-called journalism has to rely on clicks in order to survive financially...
[20:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:26] <exec> 08└─You don't understand Australian bushfires. The Australian ecosystem has evolved to be reliant upon bushfires; Australian rainforests are no exception to this. The problem is that humans insist on living within bushfire zones and then are politically forbidden to manage bushfire fuel around the homes...
[20:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:28] <exec> 08└─That's likely because Florida is sinking though, due to pumping all that water out. If the sea rises a couple of inches and the land falls a couple of yards it's not the sea that is causing higher floodlines.
[20:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:30] <exec> 08└─Australia has evolved to thrive through bushfires. Bushfires are an essential part of the Australian ecosystem. The problem is that people insist on building homes in bushfire areas and are politically forbidden to manage the bush fire fuel that surrounds the houses. The political reason for this is...
[20:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:32] <exec> 08└─That map is not showing all of the fires. I know of fires in Bundoora (suburban Melbourne) and near Naracoorte, SA that are not shown on it. It's possibly because they are now out and it is updating in real time, but they were burning within the last day or two.
[20:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:34] <exec> 08└─This explains it pretty well. https://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] The so-called fuel loads in the mostly Eucalyptus forests in the South East part of the country after years of drought are through the roof. Add to tha...
[20:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:21] <exec> 08└─Psychiatrists still prescribe them. It's going to take the current generation dying off to change practice. Same as we did with lgbt being mentally ill back in 1987, and transsexuality in 2012. The public still hasn't gotten the message, more of them will have to die off as well.
[20:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:42] <exec> 08└─You're assuming that the method of vaping is healthier than smoking. That remains to be seen, and there has not been nearly enough data to reach a conclusion. This is not convection vaping either, but the burning of oils (substances), perfumes, additives, etc. Sounds like the damage from vaping is e...
[20:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Presses on, Announces Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:54] <exec> 08└─Israel Will Build Another Lunar Lander [soylentnews.org] Israel's SpaceIL Says It Won't Try Second Moonshot [soylentnews.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Beresheet 2 is a planned private space mission originally intended to land a spacecraft on the Moon. The mission was...
[20:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:58] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. Yes, side mirrors often times are curved so that they can show more than what you'd see with flat mirrors. Bobbing your head works to an extent, but bobbing your head distracts from actually operating the vehicle. Yours may not be, but that doesn't mean that they all are. As far as...
[20:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:21] <exec> 08└─That's ancillary to my point. Life is hard enough, I don't want games to be as bad.
[20:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:22] <exec> 08└─And chess is far less popular today among the general population. I have a few chess boards and chess books, but haven't played in years. People would rather play Risk or even Monopoly.
[20:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:24] <exec> 08└─Also, the number of possible games of chess isn't infinite. Really really big, but not infinite. At every stage of the game, it's possible to see all the small number of possibilities for the next move.
[21:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:38] <exec> 08└─I think it is more of a snipe hunt.
[21:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues California to Block Gig-Worker Law Going Into Effect This Week - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:39] <exec> 08└─> Apparently, Uber and company are showing that taxi service isn't as expensive to provide as you claim. From what I've read, Uber has poured (is still pouring?) their huge pile of venture capital into unsustainable fares. This is a traditional monopolist play--kill the competition by undercutting i...
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[21:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:07] <exec> 08└─For myself, i am leery of any 'new discoveries' because of the lack of science behind them. Of course, i'll get roundly whopped by mentioning 'dark matter'. Dark matter has so little 'real science' behind it and when i read "This galaxy has no dark matter which PROVES dark matter exists", but then t...
[21:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:08] <exec> 08└─The one that gets my goat isi "photo of black hole". Light can't escape from a black hole, so that's not what you're seeing. You're either seeing the effects of the black hole on material near the event horizon, an artifact of the imaging process, or it's evaporating because it's not quite massive e...
[21:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:10] <exec> 08└─It is a cool story. I have nothing useful to comment. (not that it would stop me...) Maybe others are likewise. Hoping to read something posted here that is brilliant, insightful, enlightening, etc. As to the A/C you replied to, not all competing theories have equal value. Although the flat earthers...
[21:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:12] <exec> 08└─i'll get roundly whopped by mentioning 'dark matter'. Dark matter has so little 'real science' behind it
[21:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:15] <exec> 08└─Not "effect." Affect.
[21:55:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:45] <exec> 08└─The world IS ending. This is just the beginning, and human nature being what it is, we're not going to do anything anywhere near sufficient to fix it. Notice the shift from talk about stopping climate change to "building more resistant systems " because everyone knows deep down we won't do what is n...
[21:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:32] <exec> 08└─"The consequence is that people are politically forbidden to manage the fuel by burning it before it becomes a threat to houses" This is simply not true. We live in Gippsland. The fires are nearby. There has been extensive back burning here over the last few years.
[21:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:34] <exec> 08└─OK, here's a question for you. What sort of disaster would constitute a new event for you? What is the scale of such a disaster? Or is it the case that any disaster, no matter how intense or unusual has to be described as 'natural' and 'regular'?
[21:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:36] <exec> 08└─I prefer them specifically because they aren't so "forgiving." Means I need to be more accurate in writing what I want to happen. Brings a certain rigour to the practice, while keeping it an art. I've used python, and it's okay, but why can't people just use tabs? If you're worried about excessive...
[21:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:38] <exec> 08└─Ya, fuckwits like Murdoch who indoctrinate people with lies, assholes like Republicans who actively subvert democracy. It is pretty fucking clear, the problem is from fascists using money to erode the protections we had on democracy. Blaming the voters has just enough truth to it to make people glos...
[21:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:40] <exec> 08└─1851 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 1898 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 1983 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 2009 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] or jus...
[21:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's not journalism, it's prole-feed to get people to see ads and hopefully click on them.
[21:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:44] <exec> 08└─I think the mistyped thing is the "/" instead of a "\". Or has C changed since I used it last?
[21:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:46] <exec> 08└─There is literally no evidence that would be sufficient to change his opinion.
[21:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:49] <exec> 08└─A newline is not indicated by a forward slash! And one should not use a formatter whereunnecessary - simple fputs("goodbye world\n", stdout) is better.
[21:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:36] <exec> 08└─I really hate commenting in minefield discussions like this... but I certainly agree with you. I think the public's attitude is like so many things, they just want things dealt with and to just go away and disappear. The prisons are full of great people who for whatever reason ended up in some kind...
[21:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:38] <exec> 08└─When someone says "I have a plan to save $100 billion on healthcare" what the healthcare industry hears is "I have a plan to pay the healthcare industry $100 billion less". That is why they fight it.
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[21:58:01] <exec> 08└─That remains to be seen, and there has not been nearly enough data to reach a conclusion.
[21:59:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:03] <exec> 08└─If you shift your eye from the windshield to a mirror, your focal point is still at (approximately) infinity. If you shift your eye from the windshield to a video monitor, your focal point shifts from infinity to a meter or so. This is a significant matter, especially for our increasingly aging popu...
[21:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:17] <exec> 08└─The camera itself is one area of failure. The related systems to the camera can fail rendering the camera as good as broken. Anywhere along the line, the electrical system is an area of failure. The camera output display would be another area of failure. There is also the possibility of software fai...
[21:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:18] <exec> 08└─Cameras don't need to stick out at the doors becoming a spot that's easier to hit. If you're going to break a camera by smashing into it with your car, you're also going to break the rest of the car.
[21:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:20] <exec> 08└─Virgins are over-rated. Just saying. 😊 -- I wouldn't do anything for a Klondyke bar, but I'd do some sketchy stuff for pizza.
[21:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Make a Game when your PC Can Make One for You? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:45] <exec> 08└─The last change to the rules of chess was in 1862.
[22:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:13] <exec> 08└─That depends on the state of the book. Scanning it the wrong way may break it. You probably don't have expensive non-destructive book scanner.
[22:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:09] <exec> 08└─And it is now readily apparent you don't know what common law is. Canada is a common law system, even within the criminal sphere. The sole exception is Quebec's use of a Napoleonic system for their provincial laws.
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[22:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:11] <exec> 08└─That's like complaining about someone claiming to have seen someone on TV, because you can't see a person on TV, all you can see is a pattern of bright pixels that causes a somewhat similar illumination pattern on the retina.
[22:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:13] <exec> 08└─Like complaining about a photo of a missing bunny rabbit. All I can see in the photo is the empty cage. No rabbit. So is it actually a photo of a missing bunny rabbit? Or actually a photo of a black hole?
[22:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:15] <exec> 08└─Not really. In the case of a black hole, there is no light leaving it. Whereas with the picture of a person on tv, there was light leaving the person.
[22:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:17] <exec> 08└─The stories that generate the most comments are the ones with political shitpost potential. But since SN doesn't get paid more for getting people to click through a dozen comments of clickbait bullshit with ad revenue on it, we can actually post these informative articles. This one is just "cool" an...
[22:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:19] <exec> 08└─Except they're spending MILLIONS looking for this stuff and can't find it. Instead, they should be spending the money on things that are more scientifically based than black matter magic. One i'm keeping an eye on is this guy's QI: DARPA gave him a million(ish) to further HIS theory which has more s...
[22:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How one Astronomer Hears the Universe - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:37] <exec> 08└─I'm often surprised by the audible information from a dropped object. We can usually tell if it shattered or stayed intact. If it ended up on something soft or hard. If it skittered and bounced against the wall or not, and the general direction of it's path. Bandwidth isn't everything. Gravitational...
[22:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:47] <exec> 08└─Or you can use an IDE like PyCharm that converts the tab into 4 spaces for you. Best of both worlds, single key press using tabs, but also appeases the 4 space crowd.
[22:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:49] <exec> 08└─According to the Bureau of Meteorology (@BOM_au), 2019 was both the hottest and driest year ever measured in Australia. [twitter.com]
[22:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, Australia has always had bushfires: but 2019 is like nothing we've seen before [theguardian.com]
[22:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:53] <exec> 08└─Er, no. some parts that are burning haven't burnt in thousands of years. And the hazard reduction activities don't prevent fires, and aren't being stopped by politics [theguardian.com]
[22:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:43] <exec> 08└─is there any way to publicly shame broadcast networks for advertising prescription drugs to try to get them to stop participating in driving up the costs to patients? (in my opinion, while we are at it, the local broadcast networks need to be shamed for advertising title pawn businesses)
[22:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:44] <exec> 08└─If it can be proven that antidepressants depressants don't work (it has been many times, even in drug trials from the manufacturers)
[22:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:46] <exec> 08└─Major depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, period. Even the UN realized that back in 2017. Please try to keep up. That's why there's increasing calls even from psychiatrists and psychologists to abandon chemical treatments, deep brain stimulation, and electroshock. They do...
[22:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: -1) 02 - 06India Presses on, Announces Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:21] <exec> 08└─'space' is the distance between physical objects, not a second law of thermodynamics violation that special men travel to. There is no gas pressure without a container: all gases need to be contained, or they disperse. "disperse" into all available SPACE. Get it?
[22:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:29] <exec> 08└─How is your depth perception when you look at the camera's display?
[23:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:23] <exec> 08└─no works after 1927 will ever enter the public domain so there's at maximum three years of new PD stuff left.
[23:00:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tokolosh [585] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:49] <exec> 08└─“I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire (attr.)
[23:01:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:22] <exec> 08└─I have said it before, and I say it again here: if we take away a man's ability to express himself with words, he will express himself with fists.
[23:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hate O'Meter for Online Speech - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:20] <exec> 08└─And I'm in Quebec. I'm quite aware of the differences between common law and the cilil code - but neither applies to Canada's criminal code. Do YOU know the difference between common law and criminal law?
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[23:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Membrane Inspired by Bone and Cartilage Efficiently Produces Electricity From Saltwater - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:02] <exec> 08└─This depends on fresh water supplies, something that is becoming a scarce commodity. Turning 1 gallon of fresh water and one gallon of salty water into two gallons of brackish water leaves you with 2 gallons of waste water. Sure, you could use the energy extracted to do reverse osmosis, but you'll n...
[23:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Membrane Inspired by Bone and Cartilage Efficiently Produces Electricity From Saltwater - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:03] <exec> 08└─There are quite a few places where freshwater rivers feed into saltwater seas. at the moment that energy is wasted anyway. If this technology pans out we should be able to extract energy out of the difference, just like we do with tidal water farms.
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[23:55:29] <exec> 08└─The stories that generate the most comments are the ones with political shitpost potential. But since SN doesn't get paid more for getting people to click through a dozen comments of clickbait bullshit with ad revenue on it, we can actually post these informative articles. This one is just "cool" an...
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[23:55:31] <exec> 08└─(Twilight Zone music playing in background...)
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[23:55:50] <exec> 08└─This is a fucking awesome, but hardly revolutionary idea. Most laymen can better interpret confusing data through good visualization, but as others have pointed out, audio-ization has long been a fixture in sci-fi movies. For people who have both good auditory and visual ability, visualization is pr...
[23:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:05] <exec> 08└─Yes it is. Perhaps you need to work on your reading comprehension before blaming other people. printf("%s/n", "goodbye world");
[23:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:07] <exec> 08└─It brings rigor to your practice? You mean like using the right type of slashes in your escape sequences?
[23:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:09] <exec> 08└─You mean hazard reduction burns? Back burns are used to contain an active fire.
[23:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't the current suspicion that 50% of these fires were started by arson? [7news.com.au]
[23:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:14] <exec> 08└─I've lived in Australia almost 50 years and have never seen anything remotely like the current season, the air quality has been shocking on so many days over so many months and we haven't even yet reached mid-summer. If you actually want some factual data (rather than simply whinging about the journ...
[23:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:16] <exec> 08└─Hey, it's been a decade since I wrote code ... and it's been a decade since my eyes screwed up. But good catch - I'm not even going to check what I actually wrote. ' This may change in the near future - I managed to partially rehab my vision using Aisleriot on a large screen under Linux. Took months...
[23:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:18] <exec> 08└─That map is not showing all of the fires...
[23:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:10] <exec> 08└─That would be lack of brain damage as a feature. Have you seen the sitting Republican choice?
[23:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:11] <exec> 08└─Another clueless fool railing against common sense. Fiscal responsibility indeed. A sucker and a fool voting for Rs.
[23:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:14] <exec> 08└─Communism the best fascist government a gun can buy. Capitalism the best feudal politicians a stack o cash can buy.
[23:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Expected to Ban Most Flavored E-Cigarette Pods - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:37] <exec> 08└─You can refill a Juul pod, and they make replacement pods that are made to be refilled easily. So you just get the flavored liquid and refill the pod. They have them right next to each other in the gas station. Half the people already started doing that after they got rid of the good flavors. It won...